![]() ![]() The brief island scene acts as a kind of pointer to the character’s origins and also sets up a character called Ahnjayla (played by Anitra Ford), who is obviously going to be the heroine’s equally un-superpowered but combat skilled nemesis in the outside world. just gadgets and it makes you wonder why the world of men needed this blonde version of Wonder Woman at all. This pilot seems to be a compromise in that, apart from a special introduction to the character on Paradise Island, where she goes out into the world of men because mankind needs her, she also has no special powers. By the time this aired in the US, DC had cottoned on to how badly they’d treated their character and reinstated all her powers and original mythology. Okay, so this was produced at a time when, in the comics, Wonder Woman had been revamped and had all her powers taken away so she was just an espionage agent. Which makes it even more of a shame that it’s really not very good. it kind of feels like an outstanding box has been ticked. So I’m glad to be finally catching up with what I missed all those years ago. Home video recorders weren’t available on the commercial market as yet and certainly we’d never heard of them (and wouldn’t know about them for over another decade). Also, it’s not like I could’ve videotaped it then either. ![]() I was very annoyed I’d missed it because we hadn’t bought the TV papers that week since, heck, we were away on holiday. In the UK, however, it just happened to air one Saturday afternoon when I, the writer of this blog was, alas, a six year old on holiday somewhere like Eastbourne or Bournemouth and, when we got to the flat we were staying in that week, we caught about ten minutes of it on the television there. This was, however, the first time Warner Brothers had attempted to translate their newly acquired DC comics to the screen and, in the US, it aired as one of many weekly mystery movies on ABC television under the umbrella collective of The Wide World Of Mystery (I believe The Night Strangler, the second of the Carl Kolchak TV movies was ushered in on the same weekly show and was also part of this three year run. The general public never saw that attempt though, until it surfaced more than a couple of decades ago on YouTube but, this 1974 version starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the titular character was seen by the public, who largely ignored it, I think and, having now finally seen it for myself, I can fully understand why. Around the time of the hit 1960s Batman TV show, a short pilot had been made for executives to consider green lighting it, very much in the campy, comedy mode of the Adam West show. Wonder Woman, the 1974 TV movie (yeah, unsold pilot in sheep’s clothing), was not the first attempt at trying to put William Moulton Marston's iconic character on screen. ![]()
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