Starring: Lynda Carter
The Feminum Mystique: Part 1 - S1-E5
Revealing mistake: When Wonder Woman goes to flip the guy out of the Jeep, he jumps out of the Jeep and right into her hands just before she flips him. The problem is that when she grabs him, just before she flips him, you can see his shirt all puffed out in the back with the distinct outline of a big pad or cushion of some kind to cushion him after he's flipped.
The Feminum Mystique: Part 2 - S1-E6
Visible crew/equipment: After the Nazis are defeated on Paradise Island, Queen Hippolyta tells her daughters that she has plans for those Nazis, and at the start of the next shot the set equipment's c-stand is visible at the left side of the screen (widescreen version).
Trivia: When Wonder Woman jumps over the fence, if you pause it for a split second, one can see the tip of a crew member's head. In the widescreen version, one can see the crew member and the lever he is pushing to allow for her jump.
Question: Why did they have three actresses playing Hippolyta? Scheduling conflicts with each one?
Answer: It is typical to recast non-regular cast members in a TV series, usually because they are no longer available or another actor was better suited for the part. Non-regular actors move on to other acting jobs during a series' run. Cloris Leachman, Carolyn Jones, and Beatrice Straight, who played Hippolyta, were well-known character actresses who were billed as "Guest Stars." Cloris Leachman was only in the show's pilot episode and was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Carolyn Jones played Hippolyta during Season 2, then was cast in the TV mini-series "Roots." Beatrice Straight played Hippolyta in the final season.
Answer: The first actress, Cloris Leachman appeared in the TV movie which ended up being the pilot for the series. At the time, Leachman was already starring in her own TV series "Phyllis" (a spin off her role in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"). This was actually the 2nd TV movie meant to be a pilot and the first one wasn't picked up. It's likely she thought the show would be picked up. After season 1, in which Carolyn Jones played the role, ABC was slow to make a decision to pick up the series for season 2 and CBS picked up the series. When CBS picked up the series, they changed the time setting of the show and replaced all the actors, with the exception of Carter and Waggoner (with Waggoner playing a different role technically), resulting in Beatrice Straight being cast.
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