Stanley Kubrick's excellent heist caper, The Killing (1956), pairs Marie Windsor and Elisha Cook Jr. as an ill-matched married couple. The first time I saw it, in the early 2000s, I knew both Windsor and Cook were film noir veterans, but watching their first scene together, I still kept thinking abo...

Conreid would've made an excellent bat-villain. And a heist of the Shakespeare bust is a great idea. For those who like the idea of Shakespeare-themed villains (aside from the Puzzler), and for fans of Vincent Price (aren't we all?), I recommend "Theatre of Blood," a campily gruesome 1973 ...

I didn't mean to sound like I'm arguing the bikini pic is from a different shoot. I did hypothesize that it might be, but the evidence I found when comparing the pics quickly convinced me otherwise. I only mentioned my wrong hunch because it was while poring over the pics for clues that I noticed th...

What's the source of the bikini photo? Matching hairstyle notwithstanding, it occurred to me that the bikini shot might not be from the Batman set. I didn't find any telling details that support that possibility, but in my quest for clues I noticed something I'd never picked up on before: Barbara's ...

The 2001 shot-on-digital feature "Seance," starring Corey Feldman and featured Adam West, was never released in any format until this YouTube upload. Background story and YouTube links are here: http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/35qtl1/fifteen_years_ago_my_friends_dad_spent_a_million...

Good job on the podcast, Ben. Your knowledge of backlot geography is particularly impressive!

I finished listening on my way to work this morning, and then learned on Facebook that today (4/28) is Carolyn Jones's birthday. Most fitting!

Cheers,

QQ

I just rewatched the Bookworm episodes, and I think they have a good shot (excuse the pun) as contenders for most dramatic two-parter. Besides Batman's vow to avenge Commissioner Gordon's "assassination" (discussed by many in this thread), there's a moment in part two when Batman realizes ...

There's always room for more when it comes to opinions and episode reviews. I think this is the site Progress Pigment refers to above, with the two reviewers who swap comments on each episode. The ratio of snark to appreciation is high, but the writing is generally entertaining. http://tothebatpoles...

I agree that some suspension of disbelief is in order. Reversing the polarity can't always be the solution. And for what it's worth, those impossibilities are totally in keeping with the ludicrous "science fiction" elements of the comic books that inspired the Batman TV series. The DC Comi...

Except for Alfred, How is it so easy to get a batman costume in Gotham? At least in Catwoman Goes to College, Cornell's batsuit was patterned from a life-size statue of Batman, stolen for purposes of counterfeiting the costume. Come to think of it, maybe Cornell's inverted utility belt was the scul...

Any idea why the nicknamed henchmen in "Penguin's Clean Sweep," Dustbag (Charles Dierkop) and Pushbroom (Newell Oestreich), aren't in the closing credits, while blink-and-you'll-miss-them "Goon 1" and "Goon 2" are included? Might a title card have been forgotten in post...

As a kid, FF and Mad Hatter (and the Super Instant Mesmeriser) definitely scared me. Sanders' Mr. Freeze, too. And I was totally freaked out when the mummy opened its eyes in The Curse of Tut.

The "Natasha" comparison is most apt. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a direct inspiration there. The Bat-producers costumed and wigged Olga as an over-the-top cartoon character, and Baxter played her that way to the hilt. I'm in no way qualified to judge the accuracy of her ...

I turned 4 in March of '66, and watching the first season of Batman is one of my earliest memories. I couldn't figure out why my folks were laughing at the dire events onscreen. :) I was Robin to an older, more worldly kid down the street (he was in kindergarten) who used to play Batman. The girl wh...

There's much to loathe about the Olga/Egghead episodes, perhaps chiefly the way they turned Egghead from diabolical genius to henpecked ninny. And their plots make no sense, with that special incoherence only season three episodes seemed to manage. But... Anne Baxter is really fun to watch doing her...