The 1966 Batman Message Board

Dear Bat-Fans: In April there was a "Batman in Popular Culture Conference" at Bowling Green State University, there was some talk about it here. But in the time since, has anybody found out if any of the talks are available via podcast or any other means on the internet. I know some lectures were ca...

There was something special about the sixties. Television was fun, and while it could be super silly, almost to the shows detriment (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the latter seasons of Lost in Space, and of course, Batman). I do prefer those programs to what's it out now.

--jthree

Can you tell us who the Bat Villain is?


James

Ehhhh. Where did the Bat-Guitar come from?

--jthee

Those are some of the best commercials since the spanish department store chain did the Catwoman/Wonder Woman/Batgirl ones. Really those are fun. It' a shame they did that much work for commercials that are so short. They should have been a full minute. Wonder if the people who produced those ads ha...

I would have liked to have seen how it existed on script. Or even in SRR's head. Wouldn't that have been interesting?

--jthree

[/quote] This is from a Stanley Ralph Ross interview in the late 1990s. Go to the 18:50 mark in 'chapter 2' and he claims he wrote a script in which Batman and Eartha Kitt's CW were 'married' on the ferry. Of course, the problem is this scene never aired, even though he claimed it did. But despite t...

sive, hard-to-shoot scenes for his own enjoyment, knowing they'd be excised. In a similar vein, he has a line in the treatment in which Catwoman says, 'the only way I'll ever kill Batman is with love and kindness.' It's as if he also was trying to rebel against the new edict of 'ixnay on the romanc...

Anybody else notice any significant differences between the scripts and the filmed versions?

--jthree

That's one little lucky Bat-Boy.

Wish I had one of those parties.

--jthree

Always wish Stanley Ralph Ross was still alive, so that we could clarify some rumors about these Earth Kitt Catwoman episodes. And I wish even more that I could remember where I first heard some stories. Wonder what the first drafts were like before the networks forced any changes?

--=jthree

Is the weblink to purchase it still up?

==jthree

Any other opinions on some of these scripts? Strengths? Weaknesses?

---jthree

Just got the first issue. Loved the sixties setup and characters. Can't say I liked the shift of town when things turned dark and gritty. Didn't expect the corrupt cops at the end.

Hope there are brighter moments ahead.

--jthree

Someone said this was an attempt contrasting the light world of Adam West's Batman and the dark world of the Dark Knight version, but than I thought didn't Mad Magazine do a two page parody of that several years ago. Mad Magazine did a pretty good (though short) job.

==jthree