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by Mr. Glee
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #214: “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2
Replies: 2
Views: 741

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #214: “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2

The trade magazine Broadcasting rounded up the critic's comments on both "Mr. Terrific" and "Captain Nice" -
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by Mr. Glee
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #214: “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2
Replies: 2
Views: 741

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #214: “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2

"Mr. Terrific" was definitely, as you suggested, a moderate success in the ratings. The cancellation was apparently due to the show's demographics (contrary to popular belief, networks and advertisers were starting to pay attention to demographics by 1967.) Here are a couple of newspaper i...
by Mr. Glee
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Fun photo for theatrical showing of the movie serial “Batman and Robin”
Replies: 11
Views: 1194

Re: Fun photo for theatrical showing of the movie serial “Batman and Robin”

There was an article in the April 16 '65 edition of The Boston Globe about the Brattle's successful revival of the original Batman serial, "Cool It, Baby - Batman's Back," by William J. Fripp. According to Fripp, the theater was actually running one chapter at a time, in support of their r...
by Mr. Glee
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:28 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Fun photo for theatrical showing of the movie serial “Batman and Robin”
Replies: 11
Views: 1194

Re: Fun photo for theatrical showing of the movie serial “Batman and Robin”

"The revival itself was thought to have begun in Chicago at the Playboy mansion when Hugh Hefner screened prints for his members, but the reality was it played at the Playboy Theater which was open to the public." The Playboy Theater showings in Chicago seem to have begun in July of 1965....
by Mr. Glee
Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #203: “Has TV gone batty?” Snarky press coverage from 1966
Replies: 7
Views: 2724

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #203: “Has TV gone batty?” Snarky press coverage from 1966

I haven't had a chance to listen to the show yet, but the subject made me think of this Hal Humphrey column in which Buck Henry weighed in on BATMAN:
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by Mr. Glee
Tue Apr 18, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Batman Vs Godzilla Full Treatment?
Replies: 9
Views: 5704

Re: Batman Vs Godzilla Full Treatment?

Based on the clipping below, I think it's likely that the undated "Batman Meets Godzilla" treatment in the Dozier files was drafted in or around October of '66. (Keep in mind that when Dozier was putting together his "Dick Tracy" pilot over the summer, he would very likely have b...
by Mr. Glee
Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:53 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Was the "Joker's Wild" prison escape from the comics?
Replies: 14
Views: 4022

Re: Was the "Joker's Wild" prison escape from the comics?

... aside from comics issued in 1965 or 1966, including the all-reprint issue Batman #176 that featured The Joker's Utility Belt and other stories Greenway adapted into scripts, I don't think there's much to suggest the TV brain trust dug into the annals of bat comics for inspiration. The Garcia/De...
by Mr. Glee
Tue Nov 15, 2022 6:29 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #197: Adam and Frank’s… semi-big show
Replies: 9
Views: 1846

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #197: Adam and Frank’s… semi-big show

This photo ran in the December 17 '66 edition of The Louisiana Weekly - no mention of Gorshin or City Park Stadium, though:
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by Mr. Glee
Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:11 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Clint Eastwood as Two-Face?
Replies: 14
Views: 7378

Re: Clint Eastwood as Two-Face?

In a January '66 interview, Charles FitzSimons mentioned an exploding TV tube as the cause of Two-Face's disfigurement. Don't both of the known existing Two-Face treatments (Ellison & Marcus/Rabe) just stick closely to the Two-Face of the comics? FitzSimon's comment makes me wonder if there migh...
by Mr. Glee
Sat May 21, 2022 7:57 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #184: "Hizzoner": A Good Script? It's Debatable
Replies: 8
Views: 2865

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #184: "Hizzoner": A Good Script? It's Debatable

Here's a little more info on Scotty McKay's "Here Comes Batman" - it was actually released in January, 1966 (or at least it was reviewed in the Jan 29 '66 issue of Cash Box magazine - see below.) So the record had already been out for more than a year when McKay filmed his "Creature o...
by Mr. Glee
Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:54 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Post a quote from the movie or TV show that you always enjoy hearing
Replies: 28
Views: 8048

Re: Post a quote from the movie or TV show that you always enjoy hearing

"The longer we tarry, the greater the peril!"

"I'm certain this is merely the first stitch in a large tapestry of crime."
by Mr. Glee
Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:11 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes
Replies: 18
Views: 6477

Re: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes

...[any] other filmed oddities that fell outside the actual TV show? There's a letter, dated May 10 '66, from Dozier (probably, but it's unsigned) to Adam West and Burt Ward stating that the Batman footage for the ABC Fall Preview special was scheduled to be filmed on Saturday, May 21st '66. Accord...
by Mr. Glee
Sat Feb 12, 2022 6:15 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Did anyone find The First Season of Batman to be not so camp
Replies: 41
Views: 15891

Re: Did anyone find The First Season of Batman to be not so camp

As I've noted, this Jan. 27, 1966 memo from Dozier to Horwitz is a turning point. https://www.dropbox.com/s/smghrcl8phmv1aq/DOZIERtoHORWITZ27jan66.pdf?dl=0 From item #5 on that memo: "I would say our overall content should approximate 70 to 75 per cent action, suspense and excitement, and 25 t...
by Mr. Glee
Sat Feb 12, 2022 6:05 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes
Replies: 18
Views: 6477

Re: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes

And here's the "winning Bat-scene" as seen in the October 28 '66 edition of the the same paper: 661028_winning_bat_scene.jpg So it looks like the winnings scenes would be the ones that depicted the final scene of the prior evening's episode. For the record, these details come from full-pag...
by Mr. Glee
Sat Feb 12, 2022 6:01 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes
Replies: 18
Views: 6477

Re: Batman’s TV Sweepstakes

Here's the "winning Bat-scene" as announced in the October 21 '66 edition of The Daily Oklahoman:
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