Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman in the popular 1970s TV show Wonder Woman or The New Adventures of Wonder Woman which ran from 1976 to 1979 and told the story of an amazonian princess, Diana, who left her home on Paradise Island to fight for justice in the world of man. Wonder Woman also featured Lyle Waggoner as Major Steve Trevor, Beatrice Colen as Private Etta Candy, Richard Eastham as General Philip Blankenship, and Norman Burton as Joe Atkins. Although the first season was set in World War II, the show was updated at the beginning of the second season to modern times. There had been several previous attempts to bring Wonder Woman to the small screen including a 1974 made-for-television movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby as a blonde Wonder Woman and a 1960's pilot which never aired.