CBS Wonder Woman preview 1977

A 1977 network promo for "The New Adventures of Wonder Woman", starring the gorgeous Lynda Carter; followed by a station ID for Knoxville's WBIR.

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[deckard97]

Lynda Carter a babe then and a babe now-Was there a more beautiful woman aside from Charlie's Angels?

[MattTheSaiyan]

Cool footage, glad it was preserved.

[wmbrown6]

The V/O of the "Wonder Woman" promo was Norm Stevens. It also sounds, from this, that he also handled V/O for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" for a few months in 1972 between the end of Harry Kramer's reign and the beginning of Bob Hite's as opening and closing announcer.

[landrykkb]

@LMNFanNTVadBuff Lynda Carter won't be replaced as Wonder Woman,and she was my introduction to that character,after all.

[landrykkb]

@deckard97 In this particular era,definitely not.Catherine Bach and the Dukes Of Hazzard came along very shortly after this,mind you.

[LMNFanNTVadBuff]

I have all three season, on dvd. I actually watched her, when I was young, and, Lynda Carter was the best WW in my book.

[MONGOOSE1ful]

With plans underway,for a new WONDER WOMAN series from David E Kelly,NBC

and Warner Bros-the original series is still the best and Finest version to date! this

rare CBS promo of the 1977-78 season,is also proof,that the original series was so

special,that,,after ABC aired the series(begining with THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN in late 1975)plus the hour long episodes-CBS included the

series in it's Fall 77 line-up,when ABC chose not to renew it. but still,the WW II

era was better!

[pnyc1969]

Interesting that none of the clips were from the CBS seasons.

[fromthesidelines]

When ABC dropped the series from its schedule in the spring of 1977, CBS was only too happy to pick it up for the fall on Friday nights [at 8pm(et)], where it stayed for two seasons: Lynda stayed with the network for several more, in variety specials and TV movies.

By the way, the scenes in this promo are from the original ABC series [Donfeld's redesigned WW costume for Lynda, making it look more like a spandex swimsuit, was introduced on CBS that fall], as no new footage was available.