Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?

This 'pilot' for a series that never eventuated is only four minutes long, but every minute of it is a blast... as long as you're already a Wonder Woman fan. The series would never had survived simply because the idea works best as a spoof, and most people at the time wouldn't have had much to do with Wonder Woman. Now that there has been at least one 'straight' television series about her, the spoof works a lot better. It's also a lot of fun for those of us know WW from the comics, but the less you know about the character the less it is likely to tickle your funny bone.

This was REALLY ahead of it's time. I think it would definitely have made a great series today, with the right handling.

Now I've never read a comic book in my life, but I still found it hilarious. I know enough about Wonder Woman to understand the basic storyline, as most people do. She's 27 or so million years old, single, and a super-hero.

That's all you need to know! If you google it, you can find the original 5 minute pilot. It's well worth the 5 minutes!

It's very reminiscent of Bewitched in it's style of humor, and any fans of that series will like this just as much.

Just watched this short pilot of a potential Wonder Woman TV series on YouTube twice. In this version, produced by the '60s campy "Batman" producer William Dozier, Diana Prince (Ellie Wood Walker) and her mother are in an apartment when Diana "hears" a possible help from Steve about his plane. Despite the rain, she needs to go to save him but not before her nagging mom tells her to eat. When she changes to the iconic costume, she then looks in the mirror (where her reflection is played by the more beautiful Linda Harrison) and begins to make preening gestures all over herself! Okay, I think I've described enough to just say how awful this pilot was and it's just as well it wasn't sold to series as would we eventually have the stunning Lynda Carter playing WW as she was meant to be otherwise? Only if you're curious enough would I recommend Wonder Woman: Who's Afriad of Diana Prince?. By the way, one of the writers was one Stanley Ralph Ross who would eventually be the one to properly develop the Carter series during the '70s.

Four minute short that is in fact the first time Wonder Woman appeared on film.

This is a little confusing. Due to the comical acting and the sound of the 1966 Batman narrator, when I watched this I thought it was trying to follow in the footsteps of the campy Adam West Batman series? Instead of being a campy superhero series it was going for the all out sit-com format seen in I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched.

Now I get it - but I don't like it.

I personally wish they tried for the less obvious Batman-style of comedy as, when this was made in 1967, there were a few silly fantasy sitcoms doing the rounds, and this probably seemed rather routine.

Others seem to find 1967 Wonder Woman rather amusing but not me. At the time of this review this short can only be found on Youtube, and if it has been taken down, you have not missed much. Basically, it looks like it was thrown together on a Sunday afternoon and the only things of interest are the Batman narrator and the sound of some known 20th Century Fox music cues. Forget it.

The Batman series creator must have been overworked to have created this schlock! I suspect that he was either misogynist or he really did not want to make this series and wanted to show the studio gate-keepers a lousy pilot, on purpose. The Diana Prince actress and her overbearing earth mother's acting was cheesy enough to rate a lifetime achievement award on the Razzies. The prancing in front of the mirror was awful really awful. Cheesy music, Cheesy set & Cheesy SFX,,what fun!!! DP's Wonder Woman costume as ill-fitting and looks like a cheap wonder woman costume. The actress playing a good looking Wonder Woman, in the mirror reflection (apparently how DP sees herself) was a complete bimbo...the awkward flying out the window was a gasser..don't get me wrong, I dug these affectations. A 5 year old youtube fanboy could create a better pilot..ya gotta see it, man!..Wow, it's awful! As a lover of bad movies (The Room, Troll 2, Grindhouse, Frankenpimp)I gave this short flick a 10...then again..maybe I should get my head examined.