Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

Description	Photo of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.
Date	14 October 1975
Source	http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Author	ABC Television
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Permission	Public Domain
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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

Description	Photo of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman from the television series of the same name.
Date	17 August 1976
Source	http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Author	ABC Television
Camera location	.
Permission	Public Domain
Licensing	This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation.

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Heroes: Rating TV’s Wonder Woman costumes

Heroes: Rating TV’s Wonder Woman costumes

How does the 2011 TV pilot look stack up?

Move over, Helen of Troy. The lovely and talented Adrianne Palicki’s is the face that launched a thousand comments:

Or perhaps it was her costume that did it?

The collective Internet response to the new TV Wonder Woman pilot costume looks to be spread evenly between an indifferent “meh” and outrage, with fan-made costume retouches cropping up online almost immediately – just like what happened with the Wonder Woman costume redesign that debuted in August 2010.

But how does this latest attempt at Wonder Woman’s outfit compare to previous attempts at capturing the comic amazon’s look on the small screen?

Cathy Lee Crosby in the 1974 made-for-TV Wonder Woman movie.

Contender 1: Cathy Lee Crosby starred in a made-for-TV Wonder Woman movie that was the first attempt at adapting the character to TV… by changing everything about her, omitting her ability for superhuman feats, secret identity, and of course: the costume.

Lynda Carter in the 1976-1979 Wonder Woman TV series

Contender 2: Lynda Carter in the well-known 1976 series that aired on ABC and CBS, which was actually a fair adaptation and compromise of the original World War II-era Wonder Woman costume and the later iconic look. It’s also an acceptable look when compared to the Christopher Reeves look in the 1978 Superman movie, though it is admittedly cheaper looking.

Erica Durance, Smallville‘s Lois Lane dressed up as a Wonder Woman lookalike in the episode “Warrior”

Contender 3: Smallville’s Erica Durance, who plays Lois Lane, went for the Amazon look in the Smallville episode “Warrior,” which involves a comic book convention and Zatanna and a bunch of other things. Regardless of that show’s convolutions, this costume is a more realistic take of Wonder Woman’s look that wouldn’t look too out of place in a The Dark Knight-esque take on the character – or a crossover romp in the Xena: Warrior Princess universe. Too bad it was wasted on a “wink-wink, nudge-nudge” type scenario on Smallville.

So, does the 2011 costume really look worse than a one-episode outfit from the notoriously low-budget Smallville, or does the shiny really work you?

Rating TV’s Wonder Woman costumes

Heroes: Wonder Woman

Heroes: Wonder Woman

Lynda Carter in the 1976-1979 Wonder Woman TV series