Debra Winger as Wonder Girl

Debra Winger received endless ridicule from the kids at my grade school for her inability to do the Wonder Woman twirl properly.

Did she fart in Lynda’s face though

[quote]Debra Winger received endless ridicule from the kids at my grade school for her inability to do the Wonder Woman twirl properly.

Spin properly? She can't RUN properly. What is with her arms while she's running.

Isn't running like walking - something that everyone can do?

She was not even remotely athletic

She was quite wably

Give my daughter her shot. GIVE HER THE SHOT!

Too bad she didn't become a regular in the series.

She was a real cunt to Lynda Carter. But isn’t she a cunt to everyone she works with?

Did Lyle Waggoner have her?

No but Peter Knight did.

Winger has complained about her time on this show.

It was the first role to give her large exposure to the masses and she bitches about it. Go figure.

Didn’t she get caught stuffing the Wonderbra?

How, when her halter practically showed her tits already??

[quote] Winger has complained about her time on this show.

Hasn't she complained about every thing she's done?

As for her lack of athleticism...well, as far as I know the only athletic ability she ever showed was in "Urban Cowboy", where she athletically humped a mechanical bull.

True r15

Drusilla is an ugly name

She discussed the show on Letterman 30 years ago. At least she had a sense of humour about it. It begins at 5:30.

She couldn't pass for Lynda Carter's sister.

Lynda is beautiful.

Debra isn’t.

Lynda Carter was stunning.

I agree, R22. That clip at OP! How'd they get her tits to stay firmly planted int that "Busty YAY!"

Lynda Carter was an example of a part being perfectly cast.

I can’t imagine any other actress that could have pulled off like Lynda Carter

It looks like she would barely be hired to organize Wonder Woman’s closet.

[quote] Winger has complained about her time on this show.

Winger has complained about every single minute spent on God's green Earth.

I can't stand Debra Winger. She's talented but she is such an endless complainer she's like Livia Soprano.

I would guess she has some sort of personality disorder because she cannot control it.

R14 stuffing from underneath, to give that full lift

That clip at r18 is ridiculous. Winger [italic]actually complains[/italic] that they made it so that Wonder Woman ran faster than she did.

Did she not understand that Wonder Woman was the actual star of the show, and so of course would have to run faster than Wonder Girl who was just a sidekick?

another clip...

The Nazis invaded Paradise Island to mine Feminum, the metal used to make bullet-deflecting bracelets. Queen Hippolyta, Wonder Woman & Wonder Girl's mother, has instructed her daughters and subjects to give in to the Nazi's demands and assist in Feminum mining. Carolyn Jones (Morticia Adams) plays Queen Hippolyta.

When a small group of Nazis first invade Paradise Island.

Here is a treat...

A clip from the TV movie - The New Original Wonder Woman. It served as the pilot for the series. Lyle Waggoner as Major Steve Trevor. Fannie Flagg as Amazon Doctor and Cloris Leachman as Queen Hippolyta.

Almost forgot that Super Bitch also had a glass plane.

As a 4 yr old gayling the invisible jet was right up my alley!

The invisible airplane was so stupid since you could see Wonder Woman in it, squatting in her seat like she was on the toilet.

However, it goes all the way back to the 1940s when the character was first invented.

Lyle Wagonner still looked great as an older guy.

Here's the incredibly hokey invisible jet. Lynda Carter said it looked so bad they only used it a few times.

Then we see Wonder Woman stop a plane from taking off. Love how she brushes her hair out of her face without missing a beat.

Apparently, Lynda and Debra knew each other prior to Wonder Woman. Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira) wrote in her book that she attended Lieux Dressler's acting classes (held on Lieux patio!) with Lynda and Debra. Cassandra seemed to think Lynda somehow helped Debra get the part. Typical of Debra to trash talk someone after they helped her out, I guess.

R37 I rewatched them Feminum Mystique episodes for the first time in many years on HBO Max the other day. The part where she brushes the hair out of her face while she’s trying to stop a jet plane stood out to me as I laughed.

I loved it when Lynda wore the skirt and the cape as part of the WW costume.

I've always preferred the Season 1 (WWII) costume.

The costumes from Seasons 2 and 3, when the show was updated to the 1970s

That episode of "the feminun mystique" was totally suggestive, because YOU KNOW DAMN WELL those Nazis were going to impregnate all of the women and the honor of knocking up THEE wonder woman (her first time) was going to be the honor of the head Nazi played by virile handsome (no doubt horny) John Saxon!

Would have loved to have heard some erotic pervy dialogue discussing this, but I guess for a "family show" this would have been too much...If only they had shown Saxon's nazi character taking off his shirt and strutting around wonder woman....

I will also say that the various characters who chloroformed wonder girl (winger) seem to enjoy it very much in those scenes, practically groping winger's bust as they did so....wonder how many of the male actors who did this got boners?! laugh!...

[quote]Would have loved to have heard some erotic pervy dialogue discussing this, but I guess for a "family show" this would have been too much.

Correct. They couldn't go there on Network TV in the 70s because of all the censorship.

r43 the nazi commander talked about rounding up the women and taking them back to berlin for breeding in episode 2 of the feminum mystique.

She twirls like a drunk. 🍸

[quote]She was quite wably

Huh? Did you mean wobbly?

[quote]How'd they get her tits to stay firmly planted int that "Busty YAY!"

There is a 2-sided tape made specifically for costuming. It's how JLo keeps her hoochie dresses from sliding off.

Debra’s outfit looks like a quickly designed cheap ass knock off

True r48 it looks like they threw it together in the costume department the night before because they were running out of time.

The comic book Wonder Girl costume at that time wasn't much better.

[quote] I've always preferred the Season 1 (WWII) costume.

I prefer everything about Season 1 (WW2 era) to Seasons 2/3 (70s). The costume, the occasional visits to Paradise Island, Etta Candy, and a version of Steve Trevor that played a major role on the show. And while Debra Winger was a bit clunky as Wonder Girl, the episodes in which she guest starred were a lot of fun.

It's too bad the show couldn't have had a couple more seasons. It was doing decently enough in the ratings but the network decided to cancel it anyway.

The point of Winger’s Wonder Girl was to be an awkward teenage girl.

You can even see that in her transformation (spins) into WG.

Agreed r50

R50... agree with season 1 being the best, although in season 2 it did look like wonder woman was more stronger and more powerful with various powers...season 2 in the present day should have had more episodes with male eye candy in bikini's and what not..... perhaps wonder woman goes undercover as diana price at the chippendales to solve a crime! or a bodybuilding show!...laugh!...

The 2 part The Feminum Mystique is on Heroes & Icons channel right now. My favorite of WW season 1. Wonder Woman vs the Nazis was a great concept

The only person I ever wanted to see on "Wonder Woman" was Lyle Waggoner as Major Steve Trevor. Seeing him like this made me realize that not only was I gay, but I had a kinky streak, too! 😂

But Debra had the most ridiculous hairdo on the show. Like a frau dressing up as Wonder Woman for Halloween!

Wonder Girl has never had a decent costume, in any incarnation.

Her spin and definitely her running was so awkward and uncoordinated looking. When they show her running it action sequences it’s like she’s trying to run like she’s at the special Olympics

She was supposed to look clumsy and unsophisticated along side the beautiful and graceful WW.

Loved that Lynda did a cameo at the end of the Gal Gadot Wonder Woman.

Since they're doing a DC multiverse with Keaton's Batman as the centerpiece, if they don't bring back Lynda, it would be a crime against humanity.

When she was doing publicity for TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, she talked about her stint on WW. She said that Lynda was basically a mannequin who couldn’t act. Poor Linda.

Lynda has been confirmed for WW 3.

R64...yet, Lynda played wonder woman far better that Debra played wonder girl...."Angst" acting isn't always great or better acting....

Debra’s cynicism about the role shows in her performance, r66.

She didn’t display any angst during her WW episodes. The best of the 3 she appeared on is on now on Heroes & Icons channel.

I liked Dalma and Magda on the feminum episodes.

Did any of you bitches like Dalma?

Live vie in the feminum mystique Drusilla flashed back to their mother the Queen teaching Diana how to spin.

Yup Mortitia Adams taught WW how to spin.

WTHades with Amazons named Drusilla and Dalma?

Lazy, pillow princess Yenta. Rumor is the only time she was “athletic” was on the casting couch. And even the. She was usually bent over it.

Lol

Dalma and Magda were very nice, friendly Amazons. They tried to be friends with the Nazis but they only wanted to enslave them do D&M had to toss those boys into the paradise island pond.

The best cinematic Amazon after Diana was this fierce bitch from Wonder Woman 1974!

I believe her name was spelled “Ahnjelique”

Clearly some queens worked on that script!

R75 that was an entirely different Wonder Woman project than the one that ran on ABC then CBS in the mid-late 70s.

R76.. loved this 1974 Tv wonder woman movie! i have it on dvd actually...

The 1974 Cathy Lee Crosby TV movie of Wonder Woman was dreary and lifeless.

R80.. i thought it was 70's cool and entertaining...

I’m r81 you’re the minority.

R31- Would be a GAY Paradise Island?

Where everyone who's 90 could pass for twenty

Where everyone had a 8 inch cock

Where there were ONE HUNDRED WELL HUNG MASCULINE TOPS for every bottom

R80-What about THIS Wonder Woman?

R83 - gay paradise would involve John Saxon, Charles Frank and Lyle Waggoner taking turns penetrating my Magic Sphere!

Drusilla surprises Diana by showing up at her apartment.

Ahnjela’s hair is what an Amazon’s should be. Not Cathy Crosbys Carol Brady ‘do.

R82... R81 here.. I enjoyed it and I don't Need to be in the majority of thinking.. To each their own right?...I also enjoy the 1975 lynda carter TV movie that started the series..

You were gearing up to plead your case for the Cathy Lee Crosby crap as being good. I had to nip it.

R89.. All i stated was that I enjoyed it and still do, nothing more...Aren't we all entitled to our opinions?

Lynda Carter ABC WW > Lynda Carter CBS WW > Cathy Lee Crosby WW

R90 why like something shitty like CLC as WW in that turd of a TV movie?? It was so bad I had difficulty even finishing watching it. Bad as “not fun”.

I always preferred the first season (WWII) costume over the later costume because it looked more authentic to the comic books.

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Second season WW’s costume made her look like a total whore!

Were Lynda and Lyle ever considered for "An Officer and a Gentleman"?

Deb will bad mouth any and all costars. I don't know how anyone agrees to work with her.

[quote] Were Lynda and Lyle ever considered for "An Officer and a Gentleman"?

Yes... for the Jupiter Dinner Theatre stage production directed by none other than Mr. Burt Reynolds!

R79, I have the Cathy Lee Crosby WW movie on DVD too! It is awful but a guilty pleasure to watch! Even as a gayling, I thought baddie Andrew Prine was sexy (and coincidentally or not he was the first nude celebrity I ever saw, in the pages of Viva magazine). I also liked his two mod looking sidekicks who looked like they stepped off the pages of the WW comic book during the era where she lost her super powers.

Aluminum foil tits

I was in pre-school when this aired and it sewed a seed in me!

Debra is built like a brick shithouse

Was winger a cunt to Lynda Carter? Carter has a rep for being one of the nicest people in the industry.

R1- YOU also received endless ridicule at your grade school for YOUR inability to do the Wonder Woman twirl properly.

^ Not so true in 1976.

[quote] As the show became more popular tensions between series stars Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner grew. It got so bad that the two stars appeared in fewer and fewer scenes together. Carter said the animosity was exaggerated but Waggoner said it was due to Carter's ambition. "Just say," he told TV Guide with a slight smile, "the spotlight is not willing to be shared."

[quote] So that Waggoner's character would have more activity on the show, producers brought in S. Pearl Sharp to play fellow IADC agent Eve. There were plans to completely write Waggoner out of the show with Diana's move to Los Angeles. But the show was canceled before that happened.

Lynda Carter was the star of the show in the title role. Lyle was and would always be second banana in his role.

R106... if anything, waggoner had his time for fame, with being a regular on the carol burnett show and elsewhere, he was always suppose to be a 2nd banana!...

is this why he posed for playgirl for the spotlight? And this was going to make him have more success how?

My mom used to make comments to me. Mind you, I was 4-5 years old at the time… “It’s a wonder her tits don’t flop out of that top”.

When an episode of Wonder Woman was on ca. 1977 my very hetero brother would say-

Linda Carter is a REAL woman.

It’s Lynda Carter. And that’s cute,

Lynda Carter is one of just a few women who can boast having such big breasts with such slender arms - a beautiful combination. Raquel Welch had it way, wsy back in the day as did 80s porn star Christy Canyon.

Lynda is a tall statuesque woman

Debra is a short impish woman