The existence of the Washburn film makes me wonder if anyone else (in the 60s) attempted to produce their own. I'm sure there was plenty of interest in doing so at the time, but getting ahold of the equipment to do it wasn't the easiest thing in the world. Imagine how many bat-videos there would be...

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/napier.jpg Alan Napier was the third-billed star of Batman , and is, somewhat remarkably, the only series regular who has a memoir currently in print. The book, Not Just Batman’s Butler , was written by Napier around 1970, and writer James Bigwood has edite...

After the show went up, Ross sent us one more historic document - his handwritten plan for the narration and music cues!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsw5tlrdj3d25 ... g.pdf?dl=0

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/washburn2.jpg You know about the 1966 Batman at Washburn fan film, made by students at Minneapolis' Washburn High School . (If you missed it, listen to episode 146!) But questions remained unanswered. How did the students get the school to let them shoot th...

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/shermanletters-comicseartha.jpg Most TV writers don’t become stars. If we’re fans of a show they wrote for, we probably know their names, but nowhere online can we find most writers’ photos or dates of birth, let alone anything about their inner thoughts. E...

Could you ask if there's any connection between the movie and the Millwheels show sketch? Who were "Landin, Fogel & Co."? Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "Millwheels show sketch". And, where in the film did you see "Landin, Fogel, & co."? I didn't notice i...

I have these questions: 1--What was it about the show that motivated them to do all this? What did they enjoy so much about it? 2--Did they 'get it,' the vibe of the show, right away? I mean, was the idea for their own film there pretty soon after the premiere or was it a gradual momentum after the...

Could you ask if there's any connection between the movie and the Millwheels show sketch? Who were "Landin, Fogel & Co."? Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "Millwheels show sketch". And, where in the film did you see "Landin, Fogel, & co."? I didn't notice it.

We're going to be recording with the actors who played Batman and Professor Sin this coming Sunday night, the 22nd. Please submit your questions before then!

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By the way, here's where you can see John in the film!

Wow, Chris, how on earth did you find this??

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/batmanatwashburn.jpg Breaking bat-news! The earliest-known Batman ’66 fan film has been revealed! It was made by students at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the spring of 1966. As Batmania raged nationally, these kids decided to celebrate...

We mentioned the cut scene in our podcast, but we'd forgotten about the evidence that it WAS actually filmed.

Ben, Thanks for all the bat-facts - makin' us feel like rank Bat-amateurs :) - Tim mentioned Einser's remark about the movie being written before the series, that I believe features both in his book and in his TTBP blog entry - it's a tidbit that gets regurgiatated regularly over time. From what I c...