There hasn’t been another live-action TV show or film about the superheroine since Wonder Woman went off the air in 1979. Lynda Carter as wonder woman Photo: Everett Collection Ratings were terrible, but interest in the character helped green-light the development of the Carter series the following year. Then came a mediocre made-for-TV movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby as a government worker with supernatural abilities. In 1967 producer William Dozier (who was behind the Batman series starring Adam West) filmed a pilot for a show called Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince? but it was never picked up. But there were several other iterations of Wonder Woman that tried and failed to make it onto the small screen before Carter came along. Lynda Carter, in her gold tiara and hot pants, did her part in popularizing Wonder Woman after starring in the hit ’70s TV series. magazine, along with the headline: “Wonder Woman for President.” Wonder Woman’s legacy as a feminist icon took off once again, but it would still be several decades before she could jump from cover star to Hollywood fame. Steinem was so bothered by the regression that she decided to put the original comic book heroine on the cover of her very first issue of Ms. By the early 1960s, her costume and godly abilities were gone and she was now referred to by her alter ego, Diana Prince. Wonder woman 2001 SNOWBOUND, ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDĪfter Marston died, other writers took over the Wonder Woman series, and her progressive powers began to fade.
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