The 1966 Batman Message Board

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QQ

Had I just forgotten them, or did syndicators commonly cut Gordon's instructions to the machine gunners planted in the concert hall for Chandell's performance? They cracked me up when I rewatched "The Devil's Fingers" last night.

Cheers,

QQ

Just watched "Hizzonner the Penguin/Dizzoner the Penguin". Besides the previously mentioned spoof names for newscasters Chumley, Dooley and Klondike, at least two of the pollsters' names are plays on actual survey companies (and the men who founded them): "Gallus" plays off Gallup, and "Rooper" off ...

I've always thought that Shame was purely a take-off on the Alan Ladd western Shane , which features a memorable end scene of a boy pleading "Come back, Shane!" as the heroic gunslinger rides into the sunset. I just discovered, while perusing this compilation of intros to all the ABC shows that prem...

Interesting. I'm not a collector, so I haven't followed this closely. I'd seen the Mattel "Surf's Up" figure, but not his surfboard. After making the effort to do a reasonably accurate sculpt of Cesar for the figure, it was an odd choice to use a comicbook illustration on the board, when that's so o...

Just caught "Hot Off The Griddle." Aunt Harriet does the Catusi to a record by Benedict Arnold and the Traitors, a spoof of (future bat guest-stars) Paul Revere and the Raiders.

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QQ

I've noticed the utility belt pouches, too. And the batmobile batphone looks remarkably shabby in "The Joker Goes to School." On the other hand, the gadgets in the batcave look even cooler than I remember, and all the Egyptian bric-a-brac and costume details in "The Curse of Tut" are gorgeous. I que...

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's last name sounds like a New Yorker's pronunciation (think Archie Bunker) of "sternum." Bat-scriptwriter Stanford Sherman used a different human bone as the surname of his woman's-libber villain, Nora Clavicle.

Cheers,

QQ

Welcome, Bill! I got the series for Christmas, too, and watched The Purr-fect Crime last night. Given that there were two tigers beneath Robin on that lethal see-saw, my guess is that Catwoman cheated and placed a cat behind each of the doors. Of course, that assumes tiger Tinker Bell recovered from...

In an effort to turn up clues to the mystery, I thought to google the plate numbers. I didn't get anything useful, but I uncovered a coincidence that's kind of cool: As I typed the most common plate number, 2F-3567, it occurred to me that the characters work as a hexadecimal color code, like you mig...

Nothing definitive, but perhaps another piece in the puzzle: I found a gallery of programs for Shipstad & Johnson's Ice Follies from the 1940s-70s , with cover thumbnails and summaries of the respective shows. The collection reflects all the years Batman was on the air. The absence of Batman on a pr...

"He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul" continues the thought of "The Joker Goes to School," so "He" is the Joker. That pair of titles actually makes more sense to me than many others, including the Cat's Meow/Bat's Kowtow one mentioned above and The Thirteenth Hat/Batman Stands Pat. In both of those...

Fantastic!

Lisa, in the first Mad Hatter outing. She handled several undercover assignments with aplomb, and clearly enjoyed Tetch's companionship. She even gets extremely excited over the idea of processing our heroes in the Hatter's hat factory.

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QQ

Concerning the opening narration over the World's Fair stock footage at the opening of "Hi Diddle Riddle," my recollection is that it was not part of the original broadcast. Greenway added it for test screenings, to try to boost the audience response, but it didn't make any difference, so they bagge...