Wonder Woman: Season 1

series ever made, but it is one of the best one with a female lead! Linda Carter does great as WW, and Lyle Waggoner is very good as Steve Trevor! And I especially like the first season's setting of the early 40s! Fun set to watch! RP

In many respects, Wonder Woman needs no introduction - as soon as it debuted in 1975, the show exploded into popular consciousness. We of a certain age will fondly remember the lunch boxes, Halloween costumes, Colorform books... and quite possibly our first crush. But similar to The Batman Show, overexposure and increasingly indifferent writing killed the show after three short seasons. Even so, it never really went away, showing up as repeats on various cable and local TV stations ever since.For the uninitiated, the show began as a series of TV movies on ABC. A previous, disastrous special starring Kathy Lee Crosby that had nothing to do with the comic book had recently aired, and producer Douglas Cramer decided to start from scratch, basing his new movie more directly on the DC Comics heroine. This accounts for its somewhat bizarre title, The New, Original Wonder Woman. It was a ratings hit, which prompted two more movies before ABC picked it up as a series in 1976. Two things made the show unique. First, it was set during the height of WWII. Second, it played clear homage to its comic book origins, particularly in the opening credits and its use of handwritten "narration blocks" with each change of scene ("Meanwhile, at a top secret Nazi base in Germany..."). Although it was successful, ABC declined to renew the series, and CBS swooped in and bought the rights. CBS revamped the show, setting in the 1970s and removing the comic book "feel" to it. It survived as an enjoyable, if somewhat lightweight, 70s action series for two years.Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season includes the 2-hour pilot, the first 2 "specials," and the rest of the 11 episodes from its ABC years, all set in WWII. These episodes have tended to be the most popular, and "wonderfully" illustrate the show's weaknesses and considerable strengths. On the negative side, it is clear, particularly in the first few episodes, that everyone was making everything up they went along. Special effects are somewhat haphazard, acting can be uneven, and characters aren't fully developed. Fortunately, all these improve as the season goes on. On the positive side, Lynda Carter is perfect in the role. She pulls off an extremely difficult trick, to run around in an outrageous costume and be both natural and believable. You do not doubt her for a second. Its also interesting to note that many big stars fought for bit parts in the series, giving various spies, senators, and saboteurs an extra degree of heft (or deliciously hammy acting!). Most importantly, the show has, even after all these years, a considerable charm. You can't help but smile when the great theme song with its chorus of "Wonder Wo-MAN!" comes in at climatic moments. Its has the right amount of camp, adding fun without overpowering everything else.The DVD set has few, but worthy extras. Lynda and producer Douglas Cramer provide commentary for the pilot, and there is a short retrospective with Carter, Cramer, Alex Ross, and other notables. The transfers are crisp, and the 70s sound is fine. Best of all, we can finally watch these episodes in their unedited glory. Sit back and enjoy!

If each decade of television had a 'defining' super-hero series (George Reeves' 'Superman' in the '50s, Adam West's 'Batman' in the '60s), Lynda Carter's 'Wonder Woman' was certainly the '70s series, and, in many ways, "Wonder Woman - The Complete First Season" is one of the best comic book adaptations to ever appear on the small screen. Taking a major risk by setting the action in WWII (when the character was first introduced in print), after a campy few episodes (aired on television as one-hour 'specials'), the level of silliness was reduced, and a sophistication introduced that makes the season still entertaining, over thirty years later.Much of the credit for the series' success must go to the extraordinary Ms. Carter; buxom and statuesque, she 'filled' the bullet-bra costume astonishingly well, yet more importantly, she possessed innocence as well as beauty, and her dazzling smile succeeded in keeping the character 'family-friendly', despite the provocative garb. Add to this her impressive acting skills, and you had an ideal spokesperson for feminists, sincere but non-threatening. As with Reeves and West, in her 'alter ego', Navy Yeoman Diana Prince, she displayed little difference in characterization from her 'Wonder Woman' persona, relying on glasses and hairstyle to 'fool' her co-workers; while this strains credibility, it was actually done for the audience's benefit, to simplify things for viewers unfamiliar with the comics.Carter's co-star, Lyle Waggoner, as boss and friend, Major Steve Trevor, is also remarkably good in his role, if a bit stereotyped in the 'heroic' mold. Wisely, the producers gradually eliminated the romantic subtext of their relationship (saying it was difficult to sustain, in a weekly series); scenes of her dreamily gushing on about how "wonderful" he was never rang true, and seemed awkward, at best. In able (if superficial) support, Richard Eastham (as Trevor's War Department boss), and Beatrice Colen (as Prince's 'Plain Jane', romantically frustrated co-worker), provided stability, and additional 'grounding' for the WWII era.While the wartime setting would ultimately prove too limiting (with the Nazis over-used as the weekly villains...weren't we fighting the Japanese and Italians, as well?), and subsequent seasons would move the action to present-day, first-season writers did attempt to come up with unique 'spins' on standard comic book plots (a "Day the Earth Stood Still" alien visit, machines to create earthquakes, Pavlovian experiments to create a gorilla 'hit' man, etc.), and the time period did provide some novel scenarios (a plot to steal cattle intended for the army...guest-starring legendary Roy Rogers...and another episode involving a jet plane prototype). Certainly, the most talked-about episodes featured young Debra Winger, at the start of her career, as Wonder Girl, Diana's baby sister (with the wonderful Carolyn "Addams Family" Jones as the Amazon Queen).As a whole, "Wonder Woman - The Complete First Season" is a lot of fun, at a really terrific price, and a great introduction to the series and it's irreplaceable star!

やっぱりリンダ・カーターのワンダーウーマンはいい‼︎とにかく綺麗‼︎それだけで星５つなのですが、この輸入品の紙パッケージの仕様が悪いのか外箱が潰れて送られてきました。すぐに返品交換手続きをしましたが交換品も少し潰れぎみでした。面倒くさいからもうそのままにしましたが残念です。コレクション２と３も別で購入しましたが、同じ仕様なのに全く美品で問題ありませんでした。字幕があったらもっといいのですが映像のみでもじゅうぶんに楽しめました。国内メーカーからも出ると嬉しいです。

pour ce qui est de l'envoi, le produit m'est bien parvenu en son temps dan,s les délais prévus. et en parfait état.pour le contenu du produitbien que kitch la réputation de Wonder woman n’est plus à faire pour les amateurs de fiction des années 50... c'est toujours aussi plaisant, et même à présent beaucoup de passages sont drôles malgré eux du fait du décalage avec les progrès actuels en effet spéciaux... le scénario est sympa, mais lui aussi à un peu vieilli, mais reste valable bien qu'un peu simpliste... en résumé je suis satisfait et pense me procurer les 2 autres saisons.

Fan de la série étant petite, je voulais vraiment la faire découvrir à mes enfants qui ont adorés. C'est sûr que les effets spéciaux ne sont pas aussi surprenant que dans mes souvenir mais j'ai eu autant de plaisir à visionner les épisodes qu'à l'époque car en plus il y avait mes enfants.

Cela me rappelle mon enfance. A trés vite pour les 2 autres saisons!J'adore cette serie, bien filmée et l'actrice est magnifique!

Rien a dire ci ce n'est qu'il y a bien longtemps que je n'avais pas revu la série. Encore merci