It’s the show’s 50th ANNIVERSARY! — UPDATED 11/7/25: The Wonder Woman pilot first aired Nov. 7, 1975 — 50 years ago! This piece first ran in April 2021 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the program’s first season, which technically began in April 1976. Perfect time to reprint it! Dig it. — Dan — Y’know what I’ve been doing lately? Watching the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show. Notice I didn’t say “rewatch” because, believe it or not, until recently I never bothered to view more than a handful of episodes here and there. (We all have our gaps, man.) Anyway, it turns out that cartoonist and 13th Dimension contributor Karl Heitmueller Jr. just completed a bona fide rewatch, so I’ve enlisted him to give us 13 GREAT REASONS TO WATCH THE 1970s WONDER WOMAN SHOW — RANKED. So why today? Well, it happens to be the show’s unofficial anniversary. Follow me here: The original Cathy Lee Crosby TV movie aired in 1974 on ABC as a pilot. The network passed but the idea didn’t die: Instead, another pilot starring Lynda Carter that was more faithful to the comics ran in November 1975 with the unwieldy name The New Original Wonder Woman. That version, set during World War II, hit the mark and led to a series, simply called Wonder Woman, which debuted April 21, 1976 — 45 years ago. (The show later moved to CBS, was updated to the ’70s and renamed again: The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.) Anyway, given the show’s convoluted history, this day is a good as any to mark its anniversary, so here’s Karl. Groovy. By KARL HEITMUELLER I recently finished a re-watch of the 1975-79 Wonder Woman TV series, which I purchased on DVD in 2004 because that was just what we did back then! But as with so many of my Blu-rays and DVDs, the three season box sets mostly sat on my shelves gathering dust, until COVID quarantine made all this hard media again seem like a great idea. After just over two months of (mostly) nightly viewings, I finished all 60 episodes (counting the TV movie pilot) and have some notes. Is the show perfect? Of course not — it was a 1970s TV superhero show! But there are many reasons to watch, some snarky, some not. Here are 13...