Satin tights and women’s rights!
There’s a lot to love about Wonder Woman. She’s iconic, she’s all about independence, and she’s souped up with all kinds of powers: she can fly planes, talk to animals, use her tiara as a boomerang, deflect bullets with metahuman reflexes, leap tall buildings with a single bound, bend metal bars, pick up cars, and lasso helicopters. Anything men could do, she could do better. And in heels.
I think I bought the complete series at Big Lots for six dollars, and I’m pretty sure it was the best six dollars I have ever spent. You can find the second and the third seasons of the classic 70s awesomeness on Hulu for cheap as free. Tragically, they’re not running the first season, but you can relive the glory of Season One by checking out it’s best feature: the theme song! (I love the way they make Lyle Waggoner’s teeth gleam!) The Pilot Movie is absolutely worth your while; it’s campy as hell, and features an incredibly drunk-seeming Chloris Leachman as Diana’s mom. And you get Lynda Carter, the physical embodiment of kind, human, wholesomely sexy decency, in her strapless swimsuit and kicky boots. (She’s such a good sport, seriously. All that jogging around in a bustier and satin tights!)
Seasons Two and Three have their delights: Diana lookin’ hot in the huge tinted glasses of the era, and scenes of driving trucks off of cliffs that… knock into cars that have been driven off cliffs in earlier episodes. Lynda Carter fights crime on her own as Diana Prince, secret agent, and backs herself up as Wonder Woman! Talk about multi-tasking. And Lynda Carter never fails to be charming as heck, whether punching bad guys in the face or giving sleazy would-be studs the classiest of brush-offs.
Some favorite episodes feature Wonder Woman hanging out with psychics (and Wolfman Jack) at a disco, and the episode with Judge Reinhold and crime solving MIMES. (The mimes were really a band called Anti-Matter, whose high-spirited hijinx led to the discovery of a missing headline singing star, and featured Rick Springfield wearing a cowboy jumpsuit.) Also, Lynda Carter sang a bitchin’ song about rowboats, and a touching ballad about a dog. Also plus, you should know the episode was called AMAZON HOT WAX.
1976, 1977 and 1978, you are the best at television!
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Oh yeah! The best part of my parents’ divorce was that my mom moved to the city and we got to watch real TV while visiting her. Wonder Woman was even more important to me than the Hardy Boys. Love love love.
She’s glorious, tru fax.