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Post by novastar6 on Jun 18, 2017 3:08:18 GMT
First of all, RIP Adam West, it's surprising and a relief to see how many people even today refer to him as THE best/only Batman.
What did you think of it? What are your favorite episodes? Who are your favorite villains?
Always love the Joker episodes, favorite 2 parter, The Joker goes to School, it was the first episode I saw, and it seemed like a great way to introduce the Joker to the audience, and that's about the only time that the only way Batman and Robin escaped the trap was by pure luck of chance, not their own means.
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 18, 2017 17:55:35 GMT
Two of my favorite exchanges:
Robin: "We're late. Aunt Harriet is going to kill us." Batman: "One shouldn't bandy about the word 'kill' haphazardly, Robin."
Robin, looking at Batgirl: "You know something, Batman?" Batman: "What's that, Robin?" Robin: "She looks very pretty when she's asleep." Batman: "I thought you might eventually notice that. That single statement indicates to me the first oncoming thrust of manhood, old chum."
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Post by snsurone on Jun 18, 2017 19:15:39 GMT
This was one of the funniest shows in TV history. Especially the animated POW! BAM!, etc. during the fight scenes. One of the best episodes revolved around a villain called Egghead, where the titles referred to different ways of preparing eggs. Hilarious!
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Post by geezer on Jun 19, 2017 17:33:17 GMT
Two of my favorite exchanges: Robin: "We're late. Aunt Harriet is going to kill us." Batman: "One shouldn't bandy about the word 'kill' haphazardly, Robin." Robin, looking at Batgirl: "You know something, Batman?" Batman: "What's that, Robin?" Robin: "She looks very pretty when she's asleep." Batman: "I thought you might eventually notice that. That single statement indicates to me the first oncoming thrust of manhood, old chum." My favorite episodes featured Cat Woman and later Batgirl. I felt my first oncoming thrusts of manhood, although I was less than 10 years old and didn't realize it at the time!
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Post by novastar6 on Jun 23, 2017 5:36:22 GMT
I forgot, another one of my favorites is where the Penguin plans to marry a woman, and Batman and Robin fake their deaths, then they screw with the controls of the Batmobile so while the Penguin's driving it, his henchmen get ejected from the car, that was funny as hell. And so was the end:
Commissioner Gordon: "This woman loves you, Penguin, she's STILL willing to marry you!" Penguin: "Who me, the Penguin, trapped in a bathtub? Great quivering icebergs, TAKE ME TO PRISON!"
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Post by geezer on Jun 25, 2017 21:30:10 GMT
Just saw the episode last night where King Tut tunnels into the Batcave. Victor Buono was so hilarious and over the top! I LMAO!!
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 4, 2017 23:46:14 GMT
Some of the TV series that are most warmly remembered from the past only lasted 2 to 4 seasons, e.g. The Munsters (2 seasons), Gilligan’s Island (3), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (4). “Batman” only lasted 3 seasons on ABC and was a hit for only the first.
The show premiered in January 1966 and was an immediate cultural phenomenon. Merchandising went crazy – millions were made – and pundits and sociologists weighed in on the show’s significance. It played two episodes per week – part 1 and 2 of a single story.
The second season ran in the fall of 1966 but viewing figures were already falling precipitously. By the start of season three in the fall of 1967, “Batman” was cut back to once a week and Batgirl was added to try to get audiences back. It didn’t work. The show was quietly canceled in the middle of its third season. A really amazing and astonishing rise and fall. What were the reasons for such a quick demise? Such a vast abandonment of its huge number of viewers at the start? Was it because one episode was not so different as another? Did people just quickly tire of the sameness? I don’t know.
The other broadcast networks attempted to duplicate the Batman phenomenon with super hero spoofs of their own – which failed miserably right from the start. “Captain Nice” played 15 episodes early in 1967 on NBC. “Mr. Terrific” on CBS was exactly contemporary with “Captain Nice” but won with 17 episodes broadcast. In two years, the caped crime fighter comedy trend was dead and gone. Only “Batman” remains fresh in the memory and only Adam West is loved and revered.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 16, 2017 6:09:04 GMT
My favorite episodes featured Cat Woman and later Batgirl.
Same. I vaguely recall watching the show when I was quite young, and I don't think the 'cheese' factor really occurred to me back then when I was watching. I always liked the scenes with Batman and Robin walking 'up' the walls of buildings, I thought the Batmobile looked 'cool', and Catwoman may have been my very first TV show character crush (though I can't really recall which actress was my favourite in the role). I also really liked and looked forward to whenever Batgirl appeared (another early TV character crush, I think).
Sadly, I don't really remember much of the show now...though I did happen to catch a bit of Batman: The Movie (1966) on TV a week or two ago.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jul 16, 2017 16:53:14 GMT
I find the Batman TV series to be good, clean fun, which is hard to come by nowadays. My favorite episodes are any featuring Catwoman, who is my favorite villain on the show.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 16, 2017 19:37:45 GMT
One of the greatest and most influential shows ever. It had a huge impact on TV in the 1960's.
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Post by gspdude on Jul 23, 2017 13:57:40 GMT
The Riddler was my favorite villain. He really could get psyched up over his evil brilliance. That's the Frank Gorshin Riddler of course. John Astin was a great Gomez Addams, but never quite measured up as The Riddler.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 8, 2018 3:51:12 GMT
I’m watching “Death in Slow Motion/The Riddler’s False Notion” right now, and it’s excellent—it’d probably make my favorite episode-list. Gorshin is, as usual, amazing, and the opening is so beautifully surreal as to compete with anything Steed and Mrs. Peel would lived through in The Avengers. (The highly illegal interrogation sequence is also a highlight, as is the climax.) It’s reminding me of something that I’ve long thought, that Batman is not only a so-bad-it’s-good show, as is often claimed, but that it’s a genuinely good show, with intelligent plotting (the Riddler’s original plan is extraordinarily clever), solid, if purposely hammy, acting, and a real beautiful sense of ‘60s surrealism. Great stuff. Oh, and speaking of The Avengers—note this episode’s surprisingly close parallels with “Epic.”
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 8, 2018 3:52:09 GMT
Tells ya what I know: we do have a thread on this! I just moved my post above.
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Post by geezer on Feb 22, 2018 2:09:53 GMT
My favorite episodes featured Cat Woman and later Batgirl.Same. I vaguely recall watching the show when I was quite young, and I don't think the 'cheese' factor really occurred to me back then when I was watching. I always liked the scenes with Batman and Robin walking 'up' the walls of buildings, I thought the Batmobile looked 'cool', and Catwoman may have been my very first TV show character crush (though I can't really recall which actress was my favourite in the role). I also really liked and looked forward to whenever Batgirl appeared (another early TV character crush, I think). Sadly, I don't really remember much of the show now...though I did happen to catch a bit of Batman: The Movie (1966) on TV a week or two ago. Julie Newmar was always the hottest Catwoman, and always will be!
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Post by geezer on Feb 22, 2018 2:12:59 GMT
The Riddler was my favorite villain. He really could get psyched up over his evil brilliance. That's the Frank Gorshin Riddler of course. John Astin was a great Gomez Addams, but never quite measured up as The Riddler. Gorshin's maniacal Riddler giggle was pure genious!
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Post by telegonus on Feb 25, 2018 7:26:18 GMT
Some of the TV series that are most warmly remembered from the past only lasted 2 to 4 seasons, e.g. The Munsters (2 seasons), Gilligan’s Island (3), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (4). “Batman” only lasted 3 seasons on ABC and was a hit for only the first. The show premiered in January 1966 and was an immediate cultural phenomenon. Merchandising went crazy – millions were made – and pundits and sociologists weighed in on the show’s significance. It played two episodes per week – part 1 and 2 of a single story. The second season ran in the fall of 1966 but viewing figures were already falling precipitously. By the start of season three in the fall of 1967, “Batman” was cut back to once a week and Batgirl was added to try to get audiences back. It didn’t work. The show was quietly canceled in the middle of its third season. A really amazing and astonishing rise and fall. What were the reasons for such a quick demise? Such a vast abandonment of its huge number of viewers at the start? Was it because one episode was not so different as another? Did people just quickly tire of the sameness? I don’t know. The other broadcast networks attempted to duplicate the Batman phenomenon with super hero spoofs of their own – which failed miserably right from the start. “Captain Nice” played 15 episodes early in 1967 on NBC. “Mr. Terrific” on CBS was exactly contemporary with “Captain Nice” but won with 17 episodes broadcast. In two years, the caped crime fighter comedy trend was dead and gone. Only “Batman” remains fresh in the memory and only Adam West is loved and revered. Mike, I think it was the changing times. Batman represented the Fun City Sixties, was in its heyday when New York Mayor John Linseed,--er Lindsay--was riding high, and everyone was talkin' Andy Warhol. I don't know your age, but I remember those times well, and the times often seemed to move, to change, like lightning. Think of the music: the "tough girl" groups of the early Sixties, followed by the Beach Boys, then Motown, then the Beatles and the British invasion, the Bob Dylan "revolution", from which came folk rock, followed by acid rock. Compared to the ever changing music scene, fueled by kids, television moved at a relatively stately pace, but it did move. It's good to keep in mind that TV series like Perry Mason and Gunsmoke ran longer in the Sixties than in the previous decade (which spawned them). Same, btw,--and very telling--for Donna Reed's wholesome family sitcom. In the fall of 1964, nearing the one year anniversary of JFK's assassination, the contemporary scene, especially the humor, began to turn up on prime time, whether in the forms of the Addams and Munster clans or secret agents from UNCLE, channeling the James Bond craze. The Fugitive may be the missing link here, as it began when Kennedy was still alive and well and in the White House, was becoming a hit even before he was shot. That downbeat Existential cum Noir mood of that show provides a kind of bridge,--for those of us who think "a certain way"-- between the early Sixties As A Stylistic Extension Of The Fifties and one might call the Deep Sixties (the Counterculture and all that), which began to emerge in mid-decade, inspired by young people protesting the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement. To get back to the (sort of) OT: why didn't Batman have a long run? Simple answer, and close to the truth: it channeled a too rapidly changing time, Andy Warhol and Marshall McLuhan inspired, that, considering all the fads and fancies of the period, had a rather short time at the circus. The growing seriousness of the political scene, hippie culture aside, made the Summer Of Love and Peace, Love & Understanding pass by in the wink of a proverbial eye (or is it "in the proverbial wink of an eye?",--whatever). Didn't last long. To paraphrase Ethan Mordden, from his book on American movies of the Sixties, in which he wrote, correctly, IMHO, that the movie Barbarella was dated before it hit the 'nabes (neighborhood theaters), the Batmobile was running out of gas in the third season. I think that a presidential election year had dawned and that some people, college students, especially, were getting heavily into mainstream politics in 1968 was the Next Big Thing as early as that winter. I remember: Otis Redding had died late the previous year, and Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay was a number one hit in January, 1968. Sad, elegiac song, it almost anticipated the King and Kennedy assassinations of a few months later. Camp had had its day, and yet another New Era was dawning; and there was no place for Batman and Robin at Woodstock.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 27, 2018 17:33:42 GMT
Some of the TV series that are most warmly remembered from the past only lasted 2 to 4 seasons, e.g. The Munsters (2 seasons), Gilligan’s Island (3), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (4). “Batman” only lasted 3 seasons on ABC and was a hit for only the first. The show premiered in January 1966 and was an immediate cultural phenomenon. Merchandising went crazy – millions were made – and pundits and sociologists weighed in on the show’s significance. It played two episodes per week – part 1 and 2 of a single story. The second season ran in the fall of 1966 but viewing figures were already falling precipitously. By the start of season three in the fall of 1967, “Batman” was cut back to once a week and Batgirl was added to try to get audiences back. It didn’t work. The show was quietly canceled in the middle of its third season. A really amazing and astonishing rise and fall. What were the reasons for such a quick demise? Such a vast abandonment of its huge number of viewers at the start? Was it because one episode was not so different as another? Did people just quickly tire of the sameness? I don’t know. The other broadcast networks attempted to duplicate the Batman phenomenon with super hero spoofs of their own – which failed miserably right from the start. “Captain Nice” played 15 episodes early in 1967 on NBC. “Mr. Terrific” on CBS was exactly contemporary with “Captain Nice” but won with 17 episodes broadcast. In two years, the caped crime fighter comedy trend was dead and gone. Only “Batman” remains fresh in the memory and only Adam West is loved and revered. Mike, I think it was the changing times. Batman represented the Fun City Sixties, was in its heyday when New York Mayor John Linseed,--er Lindsay--was riding high, and everyone was talkin' Andy Warhol. I don't know your age, but I remember those times well, and the times often seemed to move, to change, like lightning. Think of the music: the "tough girl" groups of the early Sixties, followed by the Beach Boys, then Motown, then the Beatles and the British invasion, the Bob Dylan "revolution", from which came folk rock, followed by acid rock. Compared to the ever changing music scene, fueled by kids, television moved at a relatively stately pace, but it did move. It's good to keep in mind that TV series like Perry Mason and Gunsmoke ran longer in the Sixties than in the previous decade (which spawned them). Same, btw,--and very telling--for Donna Reed's wholesome family sitcom. In the fall of 1964, nearing the one year anniversary of JFK's assassination, the contemporary scene, especially the humor, began to turn up on prime time, whether in the forms of the Addams and Munster clans or secret agents from UNCLE, channeling the James Bond craze. The Fugitive may be the missing link here, as it began when Kennedy was still alive and well and in the White House, was becoming a hit even before he was shot. That downbeat Existential cum Noir mood of that show provides a kind of bridge,--for those of us who think "a certain way"-- between the early Sixties As A Stylistic Extension Of The Fifties and one might call the Deep Sixties (the Counterculture and all that), which began to emerge in mid-decade, inspired by young people protesting the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement. To get back to the (sort of) OT: why didn't Batman have a long run? Simple answer, and close to the truth: it channeled a too rapidly changing time, Andy Warhol and Marshall McLuhan inspired, that, considering all the fads and fancies of the period, had a rather short time at the circus. The growing seriousness of the political scene, hippie culture aside, made the Summer Of Love and Peace, Love & Understanding pass by in the wink of a proverbial eye (or is it "in the proverbial wink of an eye?",--whatever). Didn't last long. To paraphrase Ethan Mordden, from his book on American movies of the Sixties, in which he wrote, correctly, IMHO, that the movie Barbarella was dated before it hit the 'nabes (neighborhood theaters), the Batmobile was running out of gas in the third season. I think that a presidential election year had dawned and that some people, college students, especially, were getting heavily into mainstream politics in 1968 was the Next Big Thing as early as that winter. I remember: Otis Redding had died late the previous year, and Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay was a number one hit in January, 1968. Sad, elegiac song, it almost anticipated the King and Kennedy assassinations of a few months later. Camp had had its day, and yet another New Era was dawning; and there was no place for Batman and Robin at Woodstock. Thanks for that detailed analysis of the time. I do remember it well. I was in the second semester of my junior year of college (3rd year for those not familiar with the U.S. higher ed. system) when "Batman" landed, so was experiencing that rapid change. I was a bit sheltered because I attended a "religious" university for undergrad, yet new theological issues were also becoming popular topics of discussion. The book "Radical Theology and the Death of God" by Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton (1966, the same year of Batman) made the cover of Time and was especially discussed on campus and denounced from pulpits. Although "Death of God Theology" may not be a well-remembered movement, its influence remains from those Swingin' Sixties.
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Post by louise on Mar 4, 2018 16:31:31 GMT
I remember enjoying it very much as a child, I found the Joker quite scary. I have never been able to get up any interest in the modern more somber versions, though I am aware they are more in the spirit of the original comics.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 23, 2018 15:19:14 GMT
I remember loving the Green Hornet crossover. It was so wild to see two teams of heroes fighting against each other.
Though, as an adult, the thought of Burt Ward even standing a chance against Bruce Lee is hilarious.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Apr 7, 2018 19:28:06 GMT
wow, in 1966 when Batman came on TV, I was 10 and such a fan! I went to Catholic school and it was denounced as evil trash by the nuns, and we were forbidden to watch it! But I did! And just didn't talk about it.
My favorite was the Julie Newmar Catwoman, I identified with her. I was Catwoman for Hallowe'en in 1966. A lot of kids were Batman characters.
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