WARNING: this short feature, made to test the waters for another camp comic book show in the wake of Batman's success in the 1960s (with the same narrator) is played broadly for laughs.
So rid your head any visions of Linda Carter or choirs singing "Wonder Woman!" This Wonder Woman, millions of years old, lives in an ordinary suburban house with her mother, Hyppolita (Maudie Prickett doing the demanding mother shtick and who is the best thing in this short feature).
A few things would have to be ironed out had this made it to a series: knowing her amazing beauty Wonder Woman is incredibly self-admiring (one very funny thing I trust was intentional is when she's admiring herself in the mirror her reflection turns the wrong way and uses the wrong hand).
Potential as a series: it might have been good in a "Batman" sort of way. Remember, this isn't any sort of finalized version of a potential series. It's a short feature to entice network executives (not known for their humor or their ability to grasp subtlety) to get a hint of possibilities. Nothing here is set in stone. It's a lot of hints thrown at random against the proverbial wall to see what sticks and wasn't made for public consumption. Once a series was contracted it would have been different (though, I hope, as funny or more so).
Taken for what it is, it's hilarious. I wish it had been longer.
The plot is about Wonder Woman rescuing Steve from an airplane in stormy weather, but don't mind that: they don't get that far. Don't look for any flying effects.
I read tons of comic books as a kid but I never read superhero comics, so I never developed any particular hero worship for these ridiculous figures with superhuman powers. Poking gentle fun at them doesn't bother me. I liked "Batman" (the series) when I was a kid though I knew no more about Batman than the series presented. Later, I liked the show "Wonder Wonan" because I was a post-adolescent high school boy when it aired. 'Nuff said. So I'm open to nonsense like this. I advise anyone watching this to be the same or you'll get in a snit. If you're overprotective of Wonder Woman you'll be foaming at the mouth.
