Topic: 1960's Batman
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Fri 09/10/10 10:22 AM
Any fans here of the 1960's Batman with Adam West?

How could you not love a series where:

1) A major metropolitan police force can't solve a parking ticket?

2) Hilariously bizarre villains concoct outrageous plots and leave our heroes in easily escapable deathtraps most of the time

3) The most wooden acting this side of quilted maple

4) A hilariously over-the-top narrator

5) The fight-words of course 9BIFF, ZOK, WAP etc)

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Fri 09/10/10 10:54 AM
It's a great series. Camp at its best. And I love the 60's Batman movie. I wouldn't say any of the acting was wooden, especially from the great cast of actors who played the villains. They all looked like they were having a great time.

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Fri 09/10/10 10:55 AM
loooooved it....smooched

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Fri 09/10/10 11:04 AM

It's a great series. Camp at its best. And I love the 60's Batman movie. I wouldn't say any of the acting was wooden, especially from the great cast of actors who played the villains. They all looked like they were having a great time.


I guess I should clarify on the "wooden" part, it was Adam West's acting that was pretty wooden, but everyone else was just insanely hilarious, brilliant or all of the above.

My favorite of the regular villains were The Penguin (LOVED Burgess Meredith) and Cesar Romero as The Joker! Of the semi-regulars, King Tut played by Victor Buono was hilariously brilliant!

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Fri 09/10/10 11:05 AM
Before the series was released DC had killed off Alfred, but when the series aired DC brought Alfred back and designed him to look like the Alfred from the series.

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Fri 09/10/10 11:07 AM


It's a great series. Camp at its best. And I love the 60's Batman movie. I wouldn't say any of the acting was wooden, especially from the great cast of actors who played the villains. They all looked like they were having a great time.


I guess I should clarify on the "wooden" part, it was Adam West's acting that was pretty wooden, but everyone else was just insanely hilarious, brilliant or all of the above.

My favorite of the regular villains were The Penguin (LOVED Burgess Meredith) and Cesar Romero as The Joker! Of the semi-regulars, King Tut played by Victor Buono was hilariously brilliant!


Yeah, but that all just added to the charm. Also love Frank Gorshin as The Riddler.

Another great touch to the show was how everything was labeled in the Batcave.

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Fri 09/10/10 11:18 AM
Edited by mightymoe on Fri 09/10/10 11:24 AM
i only liked the episodes where batman is running around with a bomb...



notice how the women just keep walking, like it's everyday when a man in a batsuit is running around with a bomb....

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Fri 09/10/10 11:33 AM

i only liked the episodes where batman is running around with a bomb...



notice how the women just keep walking, like it's everyday when a man in a batsuit is running around with a bomb....


That was in the Batman movie, made after the first season with the TV show cast, my FAVORITE scene in the movie, along with that hilarious fight on the Penguin's submarine.

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Fri 09/10/10 11:38 AM


i only liked the episodes where batman is running around with a bomb...



notice how the women just keep walking, like it's everyday when a man in a batsuit is running around with a bomb....


That was in the Batman movie, made after the first season with the TV show cast, my FAVORITE scene in the movie, along with that hilarious fight on the Penguin's submarine.

ah cool...i had no idea...i found it on the net, i was pretty sure it was batman...

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Fri 09/10/10 11:43 AM

Any fans here of the 1960's Batman with Adam West?

How could you not love a series where:

1) A major metropolitan police force can't solve a parking ticket?

2) Hilariously bizarre villains concoct outrageous plots and leave our heroes in easily escapable deathtraps most of the time

3) The most wooden acting this side of quilted maple

4) A hilariously over-the-top narrator

5) The fight-words of course 9BIFF, ZOK, WAP etc)

Chime in----------


The Sexual Ambiguity

The Campy Attitudes

The Pantaloons who dared to call themselves criminals

The Tights the boy Wonder wore

and a car SO GAY (the Batmobile) it should have lead a Gay Pride Parade?

and all those Psychedelic colors!

That was just a fun version of Batman and not to be taken seriously.

It was fun to watch!

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Fri 09/10/10 11:50 AM


Any fans here of the 1960's Batman with Adam West?

How could you not love a series where:

1) A major metropolitan police force can't solve a parking ticket?

2) Hilariously bizarre villains concoct outrageous plots and leave our heroes in easily escapable deathtraps most of the time

3) The most wooden acting this side of quilted maple

4) A hilariously over-the-top narrator

5) The fight-words of course 9BIFF, ZOK, WAP etc)

Chime in----------


The Sexual Ambiguity

The Campy Attitudes

The Pantaloons who dared to call themselves criminals

The Tights the boy Wonder wore

and a car SO GAY (the Batmobile) it should have lead a Gay Pride Parade?

and all those Psychedelic colors!

That was just a fun version of Batman and not to be taken seriously.

It was fun to watch!


Ha ha Burt Ward called the tights Python Pants on the DVD Commentary because they were so tight.


GAOwl's photo
Sat 09/11/10 09:53 PM



Any fans here of the 1960's Batman with Adam West?

How could you not love a series where:

1) A major metropolitan police force can't solve a parking ticket?

2) Hilariously bizarre villains concoct outrageous plots and leave our heroes in easily escapable deathtraps most of the time

3) The most wooden acting this side of quilted maple

4) A hilariously over-the-top narrator

5) The fight-words of course 9BIFF, ZOK, WAP etc)

Chime in----------


The Sexual Ambiguity

The Campy Attitudes

The Pantaloons who dared to call themselves criminals

The Tights the boy Wonder wore

and a car SO GAY (the Batmobile) it should have lead a Gay Pride Parade?

and all those Psychedelic colors!

That was just a fun version of Batman and not to be taken seriously.

It was fun to watch!


Ha ha Burt Ward called the tights Python Pants on the DVD Commentary because they were so tight.




Worse yet, 'ol Burt wrote an utterly worthless book called "My Life In Tights" where he just boasted about himself ad-nauseum.

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Sat 09/11/10 09:57 PM



It's a great series. Camp at its best. And I love the 60's Batman movie. I wouldn't say any of the acting was wooden, especially from the great cast of actors who played the villains. They all looked like they were having a great time.


I guess I should clarify on the "wooden" part, it was Adam West's acting that was pretty wooden, but everyone else was just insanely hilarious, brilliant or all of the above.

My favorite of the regular villains were The Penguin (LOVED Burgess Meredith) and Cesar Romero as The Joker! Of the semi-regulars, King Tut played by Victor Buono was hilariously brilliant!


Yeah, but that all just added to the charm. Also love Frank Gorshin as The Riddler.

Another great touch to the show was how everything was labeled in the Batcave.


Ditto on the labeling! Also LOVED the impossible devices and gadgets like the Instant Clothes Changer when they slid down the Bat-poles, the Instant Tire repair Device on the Batmobile and best of all, the special attachment on the Bat-Computer where Batman would insert the entire Gotham City phone book into a phone-book sized slot and in 10 seconds, it told Batman where The Joker's apartment was! Bill Gates ain't got nothing on these guys rofl bigsmile

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Mon 09/13/10 07:51 AM




Any fans here of the 1960's Batman with Adam West?

How could you not love a series where:

1) A major metropolitan police force can't solve a parking ticket?

2) Hilariously bizarre villains concoct outrageous plots and leave our heroes in easily escapable deathtraps most of the time

3) The most wooden acting this side of quilted maple

4) A hilariously over-the-top narrator

5) The fight-words of course 9BIFF, ZOK, WAP etc)

Chime in----------


The Sexual Ambiguity

The Campy Attitudes

The Pantaloons who dared to call themselves criminals

The Tights the boy Wonder wore

and a car SO GAY (the Batmobile) it should have lead a Gay Pride Parade?

and all those Psychedelic colors!

That was just a fun version of Batman and not to be taken seriously.

It was fun to watch!


Ha ha Burt Ward called the tights Python Pants on the DVD Commentary because they were so tight.




Worse yet, 'ol Burt wrote an utterly worthless book called "My Life In Tights" where he just boasted about himself ad-nauseum.


Yeah, you have to be careful with some of these autobiographies- Frank Bank(who played Lumpy on Leave It To Beaver wrote a book where he basically talked about all the women he got while working on the show.

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Mon 09/13/10 07:52 AM




It's a great series. Camp at its best. And I love the 60's Batman movie. I wouldn't say any of the acting was wooden, especially from the great cast of actors who played the villains. They all looked like they were having a great time.


I guess I should clarify on the "wooden" part, it was Adam West's acting that was pretty wooden, but everyone else was just insanely hilarious, brilliant or all of the above.

My favorite of the regular villains were The Penguin (LOVED Burgess Meredith) and Cesar Romero as The Joker! Of the semi-regulars, King Tut played by Victor Buono was hilariously brilliant!


Yeah, but that all just added to the charm. Also love Frank Gorshin as The Riddler.

Another great touch to the show was how everything was labeled in the Batcave.


Ditto on the labeling! Also LOVED the impossible devices and gadgets like the Instant Clothes Changer when they slid down the Bat-poles, the Instant Tire repair Device on the Batmobile and best of all, the special attachment on the Bat-Computer where Batman would insert the entire Gotham City phone book into a phone-book sized slot and in 10 seconds, it told Batman where The Joker's apartment was! Bill Gates ain't got nothing on these guys rofl bigsmile


Or how Batman always has the right thing to use in his belt, like in the movie where he just happened to have shark repellent.happy