--- title: Before Batman v Superman: Weird Wonder Woman of the 1960s description: Before Gal Gadot's fierce turn in 'Batman v Superman' there was...this canonical: https://time.com/4259474/1960s-tv-wonder-woman/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:55:09.386Z article:section: History og:title: Before Batman v Superman: Weird Wonder Woman of the 1960s og:description: Before Gal Gadot's fierce turn in 'Batman v Superman' there was...this og:url: https://time.com/4259474/1960s-tv-wonder-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5679b475411d84d/69888b0ecd1bba5d9b6ffda0/wonder-woman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: BATMAN V SUPERMAN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Before Batman v Superman: Weird Wonder Woman of the 1960s twitter:description: Before Gal Gadot's fierce turn in 'Batman v Superman' there was...this twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5679b475411d84d/69888b0ecd1bba5d9b6ffda0/wonder-woman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Casually Sexist Wonder Woman TV Pilot from the 1960s > Sponsored content. 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Gadot has even [said](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/03/15/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-the-ellen-degeneres-show/81804078/ "undefined") that one of the reasons she was interested in the role was to provide her daughter with a role model who does more than get rescued by a prince. That’s a vision that meshes well with the [original version](https://books.google.com/books?id=M%5F3kNDKhxIcC&pg=PA1348&dq=wonder+woman+1967+pilot&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiim628kcPLAhUFbD4KHdcRA3kQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=wonder%20woman%201967%20pilot&f=false "undefined") of the character, as first [introduced](http://www.comicbookbin.com/artman2/uploads/12/ww%5Fas8.png "undefined") to comics fans in 1941: Wonder Woman’s origin story tells of the immortal Amazon princess Diana, who accompanies the lost U.S. Army pilot Steve Trevor back to the U.S. and ends up staying there, in disguise, to fight for American ideals that include “[equal rights for woman](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/last-amazon "undefined").” But not every incarnation of Wonder Woman has been quite so feminist-friendly. In 1967, amid the success of the campy Adam West _Batman_ TV series, that show’s producer William Dozier took a crack at a comedy version of the Wonder Woman story. The bizarre and casually sexist test footage has been circulating online for a few years now, but watching it as Wonder Woman makes her way to the big screen is a reminder of how much the character has been through over the course of her 75 years: \[archiveorg WonderWoman1967ScreenTestTVPilot width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true\] The five-minute sample, starring Ellie Wood Walker as Diana Prince and Linda Harrison as her alter-ego Wonder Woman, never became a proper TV show—but about a decade later, in 1975, Wonder Woman would finally find TV success with the Lynda Carter-starring series with which she is still strongly identified today. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4259474/1960s-tv-wonder-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4259474/1960s-tv-wonder-woman/"},"headline":"Watch the Casually Sexist Wonder Woman TV Pilot from the 1960s","datePublished":"2016-03-22T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:55:09.386Z","description":"'How do you expect to get a husband flying around all the time?'","url":"https://time.com/4259474/1960s-tv-wonder-woman/","keywords":["movies","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5679b475411d84d/69888b0ecd1bba5d9b6ffda0/wonder-woman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5679b475411d84d/69888b0ecd1bba5d9b6ffda0/wonder-woman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BATMAN V SUPERMAN","caption":"BATMAN V SUPERMAN","creditText":"Warner Bros. 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