Wonder Woman

Name: Wonder Woman
Genre: Sci-Fi

1975–1979ABCCBSSci-Fi

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An animated comic-book opening with a disco theme that names the character and tells her what to do, repeatedly.

Wonder Woman kept one opening title sequence, 101 seconds long, across season 2.

At 101 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on ABC in 1975, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.

1 sequence60th most looked up of 151 in the 1970sIMDb ↗

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The opening titles

Season 2

101s

The second season's opening, with Lyle Waggoner's name card in it. The copy rejected before ran the closing credits on the end.

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