McBragg indeed. He takes credit for everything related to TV except the invention of the antenna. Not only is he responsible for Sally Struthers getting hired on All in the Family, he also determined Archie's name and prevailed on Norman Lear to have Mike ("Meathead") be Polish. I'd be int...

"Wrote the bulk of Batman"? Quite a claim. I guess his claim in the video interview of writing more than anyone else is accurate, but that's not the same as "the bulk". He wrote or rewrote 27 out of 120, per IMDB; hardly "the bulk." But he clearly had a tendency to exag...

Ben Bentley wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:46 am
BINGO! You're the first person to spot my deep-cut reference to the Emmy interview that SRR did. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it!

Helped that it was fresh in my mind, haha!

Our episode just went up! See separate thread for episode 77!

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/ballpointbaxter.jpg We're back with a discussion of a Stanley Ralph Ross video interview from 1998. Many of us get exasperated with Ross's scripts, but he and Lee Orgel also turned in one of the best arcs of the series, "The Purrfect Crime/Better Luck N...

Season Three of the TV show and it's lack of cliffhanger endings has often been a topic of discussion here on our board over the years. Having been inspired by someone's initial attempt over on Facebook to create a cliffhanger for "Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin", I decided to produce my own...

One could argue Burr, Denver, Landon and Klugman were just as recognized in roles as iconic to TV audiences as Batman, but they effortlessly moved into (what would become) other famous characters in less than the two year rule of thumb West referred to. I think the one and only barrier to West movi...

We're planning to record our discussion of this script on Dec 11, so any comments you make here by then could get brought up in that episode!

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/siren.jpg The message board's own High C joins us to talk about his favorite Batman episode, "The Wail of the Siren"! He's done a lot of research on many aspects of the episode, and he shares some of his findings with us, including several versions...

I don't recall Eenie interacting with anyone but Catwoman.

Riddle's score after Catwoman falls into the water was re-used from season one's "Better Luck Next Time" , following the scene of Catwoman falling into the bottomless pit. Aha! I did wonder if it was recycled, since by this point in season two, most of the music is. I guess we could call ...

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/thatdarnedcatwoman.jpg It's time to dig into another draft script, and another by Stanley Ralph Ross: That Darned Catwoman! We find many things that were left out of the broadcast version—some to our regret, others to our relief! http://tothebatpoles.libsyn....

I think RETURN TO THE BATCAVE played more like a live action Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy storyline than anything to do with Batman. Interesting view. It seems nearly every attempt to produce anything based on the '66 series (even with RTTBC's half flashback format) misses the heart and intent behi...

No pleasing some people, I suppose. Anyone who sought a new Batman ‘66 episode with no change in presentation or tone from the TV series seems to be missing the point. It’s 50 years later and Bill Dozier & Lorenzo Semple Jr. are dead. It’s a new century, a new creative team, a new medium. I’m t...

To quote Alfred in "Scat! Darn Catwoman!", "Good show, sir!"

Seems to me, though, that the clouds in the Batfilm background don't look the same as the ones in the Gotham Queen shots. We could just be getting a different section of the backdrop...

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/popgoesthejoker.jpg The next of the scripts I got in Laramie that we're going to discuss on TO THE BATPOLES podcast will be Stanford Sherman's first draft of Pop Goes the Joker! http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/POPGOESTHEJOKERfirstdraft.pdf Go ahead ...