This version is also the one shown on reruns. This pilot is available in its original length on the first season DVD, instead of the re-edited version of it which runs 60 mins and was featured as the pilot when the series debuted a year later. Keen to distinguish their work from Black's pilot, Cramer and Baumes gave their pilot the rather paradoxical title "The New Original Wonder Woman". Cramer and Wilford Lloyd Baumes were given the assignment to produce it. Though not successful at the first attempt, ABC still felt a Wonder Woman series had potential, and within a year another pilot was in production.
Beautiful she certainly was, and created by nature to have all the physical attributes that Wonder Woman required, but it is her decision to play it straight and give the series its believability and a unique feel all its own that has helped the series endure in the memories of people around the world.In 1974, John Black had written and produced a TV movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby, which described the character as essentially a contemporary version of the female spy Modesty Blaise. Just as Christopher Reeve made Superman an almost impossible mountain for any other actor to climb, so Lynda Carter gave a performance that 30 years later still makes it impossible to imagine any other actress in the role. Guest actors didn't give camp or exaggerated performances, as Lynda Carter made this role very much her own. Writers and directors rapidly responded, and an unexpectedly credible series emerges. And that belief made it all seem very real to audiences, in particular the generation of children who watched each episode. Both Wonder Woman, and Diana Prince, had to believe in what they were doing. What made Wonder Woman so special, and Lynda Carter's portrayal so memorable, was that when the first script in which she featured (a pilot set in the 1940s)contained many influences that could be traced back to Batman, and some very over-the-top performances, Lynda Carter played it straight.
When Lynda Carter first graced TV screens around the globe, most viewers, when thinking about comic book adaptations of a super-hero, would probably think of Batman, the larger than life, tongue-in-cheek series of the 1960s.
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