https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/jokerslastlaugh.jpg Although I made scripts available in our show notes over a week ago, I just realized that I never set up a thread to discuss them! These two scripts are going to be discussed in SEPARATE EPISODES -- for reasons I refer to (in next week's...

https://ssl-static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/e/e/c/2eecc858828feb80/returntothebatcave.jpg In 2003, CBS broadcast the special Return to the Batcave , featuring Adam West and Burt Ward walking through a search for the stolen Batmobile as they reminisced about their time making Batman. The reminiscence w...

https://ssl-static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/a/d/6/4ad614aaa8f183d5/entrancingdrcabala-white.jpg When Stanley Ralph Ross sat down to write what would be his final Batman script, which he titled Batman Meets his Match , he built it around a magical character who could turn invisible: Dr. Cabala. It was ...

Since Ross said it was Eartha Kitt Catwoman, we speculated that it must have been in her teamup with Joker. But, as we discussed in TO THE BATPOLES #106, the early drafts of the script contain no such scene. Clearly, no such scene was ever filmed or broadcast, so we have no idea what Ross was talkin...

Therin of Andor wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:54 pm Oh, these are exciting! Lafcadio Cabala. While not making it to the final draft, we have a first name for Cabala!

Missed that! What page is it on?

Thanks! OK, so general knowledge of this clearly predates the Batbook!

A TO THE BATPOLES listener emailed us, asking when and how it was revealed that Dozier's narrator "character" was called Desmond Doomsday. How do fans know this? Haven't seen it in any of the original scripts. In the current, Author House-published edition of Eisner's Batbook, it is mentio...

Thanks!

I'm an admin of one of the many Batman '66 Facebook pages. A member sent a DM (but wrote it as if it were a public post!) asking which episodes the bat-ram was used in. I want to post his question publicly on the FB page, but I want to include a still of the ram, but I can't remember which episodes ...

HELLOLARRY, yes, that's the song I was thinking of! Thanks

We almost included the "Fairly Oddparents" Catman in this episode, but with 100 Batfinks to watch, we decided that was biting off too much for one episode. Batwinged Hornet is the second person to respond to this episode by mentioning Kane's CC&MM. Had not thought of that, but again, i...

We're currently scheduled to record our episode on these scripts on the morning of March 11!

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/Batfink-Catman.jpg 1966 Batmania didn’t just put a lot of Batman toys on the shelves; it inspired twists and parodies on the show itself. One of these was Hal Seeger’s “Batfink”, which was not exactly a parody but appropriated a fair number of elements of t...

https://ssl-static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/3/3/e/b33e82fbe5231f06/thepenguin.png Burgess Meredith put glee and humor into his portrayal of the Penguin. Who knew it could be just as fun to play Meredith playing the Penguin? Greg Patterson, and attorney by trade, has also acted in some one-man shows at...

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/purplecassandra.jpg The next scripts we'll discuss on TO THE BATPOLES! podcast are two versions of DR. CASSANDRA: The first draft of "Batman Meets his Match", which includes only Dr. Cabala(!), and then (allegedly) final script for "The Entra...