<Li> CBS (seasons 2--3) </Li> <Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> November 7, 1975 (1975 - 11 - 07)--September 11, 1979 (1979 - 09 - 11) </Td> </Tr> <P> Wonder Woman, known from seasons 2 - 3 as The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name . The show stars Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr. & Jr . It originally aired for three seasons from 1975 to 1979 . The show's first season aired on ABC and is set in the 1940s during World War II . The second and third seasons aired on CBS and are set in the 1970s, with the title changed to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, and a complete change of cast other than Carter and Waggoner . Waggoner's character was changed to Steve Trevor Jr., the son of his original character . </P> <P> Wonder Woman refers to both a 1974 television film and a 1975 - 1979 television series based on the DC Comics character of the same name . The 1974 television film called Wonder Woman directed by Vincent McEveety and starring Cathy Lee Crosby, was a pilot for an intended television series being considered by ABC . Ratings were described as "respectable but not exactly wondrous," and ABC did not pick up the pilot . Instead, Warner Brothers and ABC developed the 1975 television series, Wonder Woman that fit the more traditional presentation of the character as created by William Moulton Marston, turning away from the 1968--72 era that had influenced the pilot . Wonder Woman, which premiered in 1975, starred Lynda Carter and eventually led to the full series . Crosby would later claim that she was offered the chance to reprise the role in that series . </P>

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