TVparty!: Failed Wonder Woman TV Show Pilots

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Failed Wonder Woman TV Show Pilots

Wonder Woman on TV

by Billy Ingram

Batman TV Show

Batman TV Show

The hottest TV show in the nation in 1966 was Batman. Taken completely by surprise (it was so way-out everyone thought it would tank) the networks scrambled to find another established comic book character to capitalize on the craze.

In 1967, Batman's producer William Dozier put writer Stanley Ralph Ross on the spec pilot - it was his job to come up with a format to bring Wonder Woman to the home screen. A brilliant and prolific TV writer/producer/actor, Dozier also served as Batman's narrator who intoned, "Same Bat-time... same Bat-channel" at the end of each episode.

Stanley Ralph Ross was quoted as saying, "Professionally what happened was that, after writing for Batman, I became more or less known as a person who knew how to write adaptation of comic books for television."

This resulted in a dreadful five-minute film for Warner Bros., a domestic sitcom entitled Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? It was the story of a typical American super-powered housewife. Think Bewitched with a tiara. Wonder Woman was played by two different people - a homely gal in the role of Diana Prince (Ellie Wood Walker of The New Interns) and a beautiful woman (Linda Harrison) after she morphed into Wonder Woman.

Read more about WONDER WOMAN ON TV at TVparty!
and watch scenes from the 2011 Wonder Woman pilot!

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Billy Ingram launched TVparty.com in 1997 and it quickly became one of the internet’s hottest spots for entertainment and information, attracting millions of users a month. TVparty! was the first to broadcast clips of TV shows online.

In 2002 he released the best-selling book 'TVparty: Television’s Untold Tales' to rave reviews from around the world. He wrote and starred in a series for VH1, 'Super Secret TV Formulas', and two series on Bravo along with 'The Christmas Special Christmas Special'.

Billy Ingram produced, art directed, and conducted and transcribed hundreds of interviews to craft the storyline for 'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams', an oral history of Las Vegas in the 1970s. He produced the Eisner Award nominated book 'Dear John: The Alex Toth Book' and authored the 2013 memoir 'Punk' about his experience in 1980 covering the Punk music scene in East LA.

He was a designer on some of the most successful Academy Award campaigns, film trailers, and movie posters of all time, for stars like Harrison Ford, Barbra Streisand, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and many others.

An internationally acclaimed actor, internet pioneer, artist, and writer, Billy Ingram starred in the 2011 indie motion picture 'Swimming in a Lake of Fire'.