“I couldn’t believe they wanted me to play my own son,” Waggoner said in an interview with the website SciFiAndTvTalk in 2011. intelligence organization that turns to Diana for help.
But CBS liked the program enough to pick it up, and later that year an updated take on the show, set in the 1970s and called “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman,” made its debut.Ĭarter once again played Diana, and Waggoner played his original character’s son, Steve Trevor Jr., an agent of a U.S.
Princess Diana, as Wonder Woman is known at home, brings him back to Washington, and they work together to foil Nazi plots, with Wonder Woman doing most of the foiling.Īfter the show’s first season ended in the winter of 1977, ABC decided not to renew it, in part because a series set in the 1940s was expensive to produce. Waggoner originally played Steve Trevor, an Army officer who crashes his plane on the secret island of the Amazons in the 1940s. He parted ways with “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1974 and appeared the next year on “Wonder Woman,” which began as an ABC television movie before becoming a regular series. In 1973 he was the centerfold model for the first issue of Playgirl magazine. Waggoner’s good looks led to other employment as well. He was hired on the spot, and we started using him in sketches.” He was funny and didn’t take himself seriously.
“Lyle walked in, and it was practically no contest. “It was Carl Reiner’s suggestion that we get a hunk of an announcer,” Burnett told The Los Angeles Times in 2015, when a collection of the show’s early episodes was released on DVD. Waggoner started on “The Carol Burnett Show” when it began in 1967 and stayed with the program for seven seasons, going from eye-candy announcer to important player in an ensemble cast that also included Harvey Korman, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence, in addition to Burnett. But his most recognizable parts were in support of others - Burnett on her hit comedy-variety show, and Carter, who played Wonder Woman on ABC and then CBS in the 1970s. Waggoner’s dulcet voice, square jaw and muscular physique made him seem cut out to be a leading man. The cause was complications of cancer, his agent, Robert Malcolm, said. Lyle Waggoner, the sable-haired heartthrob best remembered as the announcer and a comic performer in the early years of “The Carol Burnett Show” and for playing opposite Lynda Carter on the 1970s television versions of “Wonder Woman,” died Tuesday at his home in Westlake Village, California.
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