116: In Your Satin Tights

116. "Wonder Woman Theme" by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel, and the Ron Hicklin Singers [iTunes? I don't think anything I see there is the original version.] {Video: Wonder Woman (Season 1), or, if you like your Wonder Woman theme to be less cartoony and more Lynda Carter-y: Wonder Woman (Season 2).}

"In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the old red, white and blue."
"Make a hawk a dove. Stop a war with love. Make a liar tell the truth."

Now here's a song that brings back childhood memories. Good childhood memories! And if you think I'm going to list the theme from Wonder Woman without posting a picture of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, well, you don't know me very well!

Ah, those satin tights!

Those stars be spangled!

Seriously, I don't know how Lyle Waggoner was able to take his eyes off of her long enough to read his cue cards!

They don't make tv theme songs like they used to. Some shows barely have theme songs at all. (The theme from The Good Wife consists of three notes! And they aren't very dynamic or memorable notes at that!) Sure, there are a few holdovers with good theme songs, like The Big Bang Theory and Psych, but they are now the outliers.

Of course, they don't make Wonder Women like they used to, either. I realize it would be difficult for anyone to live up to the complete and total Wonder Womaniness of Lynda Carter, but from what little I've seen, Gal Gadot is seriously lacking.

Oh well, we'll always have Lynda!

COMING UP NEXT: Where there's a Wilbury, there's a way.