There was a beautiful period in television history where producers would come up with an idea so aggressively stupid that instead of getting rejected in a boardroom, somebody would say, “Perfect, film it immediately.”
Which brings us to this absolutely incredible resurfaced clip from the 1970s Wonder Woman series starring the legendary Lynda Carter.
And when I say legendary, I mean she somehow managed to make the following sentence work with complete sincerity:
Wonder Woman puts on a red helmet and elbow pads, hops on a skateboard, and chases villains in a moving car through parking lots and city streets.
That’s the scene. That’s the entire concept. No irony. No self-awareness. No Marvel-level CGI budget trying to explain quantum timelines through twelve connected spin-offs. Just pure 1970s television confidence.
The clip starts with the classic Wonder Woman transformation sequence, which already rules because old TV understood one important thing modern entertainment forgot: spinning around magically is objectively cool. Then suddenly we’re in full action mode as Carter straps on protective skate gear like somebody’s suburban mom heading to an X Games qualifier.
And from there it somehow gets even better.
She starts weaving through traffic and parking lots on a skateboard while pursuing bad guys in a car, and every single second feels like the production team came up with the idea five minutes before shooting. The stunt work is incredible specifically because it’s not incredible at all. You can practically see the network budget running out in real time as random street corners become “high-speed pursuit locations.”
That’s what made 70s television special though. Shows back then weren’t obsessed with realism. Nobody cared whether the physics made sense or whether audiences would “buy into the universe.” They just wanted entertaining nonsense that looked cool enough to keep your dad from changing the channel.
