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:

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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.

interesting that another noted character actor, Alex Rocco, was also a Gumm henchman. Possibly the most prolific duo from the series.

Seymour Cassell, who played "Cancelled"--one of Col. Gumm's henchmen in the GH crossover--has died. He had a long career as a character actor: https://www.showbiz411.com/2019/04/08/famed-character-actor-seymour-cassel-dies-at-84-in-los-angeles-oscar-nominated-for-john-cassavetess-faces-appeared-in-r...

Not that it really mattered, but it appears that Burgess Meredith wasn't planning on returning had there been a fourth season. He was too busy elsewhere, with his range of projects involving playing Elvis' Navajo father in Stay Away, Joe. :lol: , while also directing one play, producing another and ...

An amusing item about the production from November 1967:

An article published the week before the first Catwoman/Joker episode:

With a snide viewpoint:

She played Lila, the floral shop owner:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... 82-1190950