Nitpick to your nitpick: The spelling was Jaime Sommers.
Of course, Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Masters (a.k.a. Charles Moulton) had a none-too-subtle bondage fetish himself.
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My wife has decided that I am the perfect gift giver (I’ve no idea why, honest), and I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to figure out what to give her for Xmas that will maintain my (completely undeserved) reputation as Gift Man.
I’ve placed my order with Amazon (hey - too funny!) and it will be here in time for Xmas.
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I recall reading something on a fansite that it was supposed to be “Jamie” but it got misspelled at some point and they decided to keep it. No idea how true that is.
Here’s your thread, Otto! All The World Is Waiting For You! 
Not only did he have that bondage fetish, but he was also a polygamist too. He lived with his wife, his female lover, and all of their children.
Buncha amateurs. Of course a fan has to have the bracelets, lasso of truth and WonderWoman underoos…but a true fan also has a pair of oversized sunglasses and convinces her mother to call her “Diana” rather than her given name. Because she’s icognito, playin’ down those superpowers…
…and, no, I won’t admit how long that nonsense went on for…
Some comments and memories of the first season …
*Lynda Carter was my first celebrity crush, hands down. I was 8 years old when the show debuted & remember being in Cub Scouts, sitting around a fire and while they debated who the cutest “Charlie’s Angel” was, I kept making my case for Lynda Carter. The asst. Scoutmaster concurred.
*After seeing Cathy Lee Crosby in a jumpsuit as Wonder Woman in a tv movie, maybe a year or so before, I was pleasantly surprised how much more faithful to the comic as this was.
*Is Henry Gibson typecast playing Nazis (the pilot episode, the Blues Brothers movie)?
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As a kid, I kinda cringed seeing a post- Mike Brady/Robert Reed playing a villain called the “Falcon” in “The Pluto File” episode. Uh, back then, I suppose he could be described as “debonair,” but he comes off quite flaming (now viewing this as an adult), speaking with an accent that I can’t pin down, and wearing a hat and having a moustache.
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Damn, Debra Winger was sure ENDOWED for a 20 year old when she played Drusilla/Wonder Girl. I’ve heard Charlene Tilton also auditioned for the part, but I can’t cite.
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Along the lines of costumes, does anyone think they got away with a LOT of gratutious cleavage shots? (loaded question, yes) Do you think they would get away with it if the series aired today? Sure, it’s the age of cable, HBO and “Desperate Housewives,” but I still wonder if they could, much less, if an actress would actually wear the costume without some balking and insisting on some cover-up alterations.
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Cloris Leachman as the Queen Mother calling Paradise Island “Paradise” because there were no men there.
*I thought that little skirt she wore in the pilot and “Land of the $2 Bills” and “Invasion from Outer Space” was just as hot as the shorts.
*I snicker at the guest stars from season 1: Bobby Van, Dick Van Patten, Anne Francis, Robert Reed, Robert Hays, etc.
*I snicker at the references too: gas coupons, mentioning of pre-Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
*I can’t cite, but I read that Roy Rogers kinda insisted that Ms. Carter have some sort of covering horse-riding outfit for “The Bushwackers” episode. Speaking of chloroform, I read Wonder Woman was supposed to get chloroformed in this episode, but instead, was scared off her horse, has her magic belt yanked off and puts up little by way of a fight if you notice; presumably another Rogers’ request.
- If I ever met Ms. Carter, I’d ask if she was in Memphis on the 4th of July in 1976. I SWEAR I saw her then.
*My favorite episodes: “Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman,” “Feminum Mystique pts. 1 & 2,” “Formula 407.”
Least favs, “Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua,” “The Pluto Files.”
*I like the spirit and smile Lynda has in the commentary. I thought she sorta resisted anything “Wonder Woman” in the '80s and '90s, but she seems to have embraced it.
*Of ALL the DVDs I bought this year, this was THE one I mostly anticipated. My worn-out videotapes now get a rest.
- I’ll buy the season 2 and 3 DVDs when they come out, though IMO I didn’t enjoy them as much as the first season. Andy Mangels called the CBS years “contrived, bland, and silly” in a '80s issue of “Amazing Heroes.” This was more of “Diana Prince, Super-Spy” for me. Only Lynda Carter can make me sit through a Leif Garrett episode titled “One of Our Teen Idols Is Missing.”
I don’t think there was any more gratitous cleavage than in, say “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Or take a look at what Jennifer Garner is(n’t) wearing in many episodes of “Alias.” There are enough actresses out there willing to show cleavage that I don’t think a producer would have too much toruble casting.
WW started off in a skirt in the comics but traded it for the shorts, deeming the skirt “impractical.” Personally I liked the cape.
As compared to, say, Sarah Purcell, Rick Springfield, the already-mentioned Lief Garrett and the wretchedly awful James Bond III in later seasons?
IMDB claims that Rogers insisted she wear something more modest as he thought it was inappropriate for her to be traipsing around in a “bathing suit” for the whole show, but for a goodly portion of the beginning she’s in her regular costume. Don’t know about the second part of it.
I always think it’s good when iconic people come to terms with the fact that they will be identified forever with that role. Susan Sarandon’s another one who, for the longest time, was publicly very resentful of being known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think since she won her Oscar she’s come to grips with it because she knows that her obit may mention RHPS in the lead sentence but the first four words will be “Academy Award-winning actress.”
There were some solid eps in the last two seasons. An early one dealing with a Japanese survivor of an American internment camp, for example. Or the one where she and two teams of Commie spies are going after the guy who sets off volcanoes. But the percentage of stinkers was quite high unfortunately. WW meets a leprecaun? Disco mind control? Eep.
Hey, that was a Buck Rogers’ episode, too! Although it was futuristic disco mind control. (The episode guest-starred pre-Dirty Dancing and Law & Order star, Jerry Orbach, as Lars Mangros–a musical mongol of a villain. All I gotta say is, “No one puts Buck in a corner!”)
*It also starred Richard Moll–of Night Court fame–as Yarat, Lars’ bad buddy. I don’t know what he did in the corner.