"Holy Amazon!": The Unseen "Wonder Woman" Pilot

[ACK!]

I was watching the delightfully cheesy Ultimate Super Vixens on Bravo last night. It was one of those "countdown" shows where they rank Super Heroines and villainesses.

When they got to Wonder Woman, they showed a brief clip of an unaired 1967 Wonder Woman pilot from Batman producer William Dozier, who narrated it in the same overdramatic fashion as he did on the caped crusader's show. From the brief clip I saw, they did it in the same campy fashion as Batman. Makes you wonder what else is lurking in Hollywood studio vaults. :rolleyes:

I researched this on imdb and the pilot is only four minutes long and is titled Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?. Too bad they didn't tack this on the Wonder Woman DVDs as an extra. Would have been fun... :D

[tangentman]

OMG! I saw that pilot in a compilation video rented out by my local comic book shop. Oh, the agony, the embarassing agony! It's not my failed project, but I couldn't help but feel mortified for the people involved in that scene :eek: We're talking Uber-Badness on the level of "Makes The Challenge of The Superheroes Roast Look Like Spider-Man 2"!

[The Joker]

Yeah, I saw the same thing on Bravo's "Comic Book Vixens", but remember seeing it before on something else.

Still, it was pretty bad. Nothing really justifys the pilot ever being made, and thank god it was never turned into a television show.
If it was, I'm fairly sure it wouldnt have lasted long.

Makes me appreciate the gorgeous Lynda Carter even more than I already had.

[DoubleWide]

If anyone is interested, there is a clip posted on http://www.tvobscurities.com, as well as a promotional clip intruducing Batgirl to TV executives. What were they thinking?

[ElectraAlan]

Yeah, I saw it too, and I was amazed at that costume, which seemed to include some incredibly unsexy blue and white granny panties. And the voiceover was something like: "She knows she's stronger than Hercules. She thinks she's more beautiful than Aphrodite."

This seems to cross the line from camp into parody, which is what killed shows like Captain Nice. It seems like they would have the formula down by now, having perfected it on the Batman TV show. It would be like having the voiceover on Batman saying, "And here comes our spandexed goober trying to save the day, but you know this is just the first episode so he's got to get beaten up and tied down first."

Also, why did they seem to want to avoid having Wonder Woman be sexy? They should know by now how sexy a woman in a superheroine costume can be ( Batgirl, anyone? ).

Maybe this attempt was before they ever did Batman?

[ElectraAlan]

From the same site, another superheroine that didn't make it:

http://www.tvobscurities.com/pages/gaheroine.php