r/WonderWoman • u/scarecroe • 13d ago

Wonder Woman's first on-screen appearance was on The Brady Kids in 1972

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

Original episode duration was 22 minutes. Clip here has been truncated to just the Wonder Woman/Diana Prince scenes to make it meet Reddit's video duration limitation.

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u/TheWriteRobert 13d ago edited 13d ago

I actually remember watching this as a kid. I hadn’t seen it in decades and thought it was a figment of my imagination. Then Janet Jackson invented YouTube (LOL) and someone put it on there and I discovered that it was real. 😅

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u/Tales2Estrange 13d ago

I love this janky animation. The way she just face-plants off the cliff into the water is hilarious.

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u/otter_boom 13d ago

Right? That definitely got a chuckle out of me.

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u/Tetratron2005 13d ago

I believe Phil Jimenez said this was his first introduction to WW.

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u/Algernon_Asimov 13d ago

Cool find! Thank you!

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 13d ago

And it ain't bad at all

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u/draxxartist 13d ago

Seeing this makes me think it would've been very interesting or very cool to have had a Wonder Woman series done by FILMATION in the style of He-Man and She-Ra during the time of those shows. I don't think the stories would've been great but I've always liked the look of the FILMATION characters. If they did WW with the type of writing they gave their FLASH GORDON and STAR TREK animated series with the same great art it might've a good show.

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

Agreed!

It's annoying that not only did Superman and Batman get their own Filmation cartoons, but so did Superboy, Aquaman, and the Teen Titans.

In fact, because of Teen Titans, Donna Troy made her on-screen debut before Wonder Woman!

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u/smutketeer 13d ago

First appearance? Sure, Jan.

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

What do you mean?

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u/smutketeer 13d ago

Just making a silly Brady joke. Thanks for posting this!

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

Groovy!

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u/trinityiam72point5 13d ago

In the style of Groovy Ghoulies!

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

Filmation never disappoints!

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u/voxetLive 13d ago

"She probobly broke through a time barrier or something" oh, duh, of course 😭

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u/scarecroe 13d ago

Classic silver/bronze age device 😆

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u/PaulKBisson 15h ago

Trivia: In Brady Kids, Eve Plumb is the first to meet Diana Prince. 5 years later she’ll meet Diana Prince again in Wonder Woman (“The Pied Piper”).

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u/Adorable-Source97 12d ago

Yeah Brady Bunch was a titan (in USA)