The 1966 Batman Message Board

A quote from Robin in part two (Deep Freeze) of the Otto Preminger eps:

"I'm not gonna be young all my life, Batman, and besides beauty contests are practically an American institution."

A few minor observations on the Lord Chancellor and Jester characters (Lloyd Haynes and Tim O'Kelly): I never could quite figure out if they were suffering the same malady as King Tut throughout the episode, or if they came to their senses and tried to take advantage of the situation (they were cer...

Gordon mentioned his "wife" in the second part (halfway through) of the Marsha appearance in November 1966. It came in a conversation in his office with O'Hara (who had been freed from Marsha's cages) and Alfred. "Well, being a wife, I'm sure she wonders about my temporary absence, both from the off...

Not that any of us can afford this place, but it's described as having "Batcave-like security." No indication if any Nilanium lies underneath. ;) Interestingly, the home was once owned by producer Richard Zanuck. In 1966, his girlfriend (and later wife) Linda Harrison, played one of the cheerleaders...

Its odd that a series that set out to have Batman be so "up" on just about every law known to mankind would eventually be portrayed as being legally inept in certain episodes. I'm nut sure If that was done for humor (not that average audience member would be able to identify holes in Batman's appli...

I would have been shocked if it was anyone but Julie. The other two were fine, but most people's perception of each is, "Oh yeah, she replaced Julie."

I think you guys are just doing everything you can to avoid reviewing the Nora Clavicle episode.

Dept. of Too Much Time on My Hands: I was curious about some of the background material on the wall of Joker's hideout in his robot/bank caper, which upon closer inspection has quite an eclectic bent. The first photo (in the upper right corner) references Charles Morgan's short 1941 novel, "The Empt...

I had to have the DVD to notice this one, because I had to freeze the picture and then advance it a frame at a time to make it out: In "Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin," the front of the Gotham City Times that contains Penguin's engagement announcement is barely visible for a split second, but the head...

Today (5/16) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Liberace. RIP, Chandell!

Eisner has suggested that his appearances were due partly to burning off an ABC contract. I don't know if there exists any documentation for that. In any event, I suspect the filler had to do with the fact they wanted to limit Berle's screen time because he was known to blow takes and the schedules...

*In the first Mad Hatter, the source of his animus toward Batman was because the Caped Crusader had testified against him. *In the Joker robot/bank ep, (presumed) legal steps are taken to commit Bruce to a mental hospital because he appointed Joker bank president. *In the Catwoman college episode, C...

Great detective work by Dr. Shimel and epaddon. Again, it's interesting to see how Gorshin was approaching the role. Despite his amount of guest-star appearances by then, he still had the reputation of being an impressionist before anything else. Note how, in this memo that Oscar Lilley passed alon...

Interesting article about how Gorshin got on Dozier's radar and how Frank saw the character and the financial impact connected to his taking the role:

BATWINGED HORNET wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 20, 2019 4:49 am

the papers cite Adam West as being a rather serious problem for the production with his behavior/demands (e.g. back massages).

interesting, especially considering that the series finale had Adam getting a eggplant jelly(?) massage--with Dozier and Horwitz making cameos.