Thanks for the clip, Ben. Maybe the July '67 IMDB link I found was for a rerun, because the female guest Merv and our heroes are bantering with is indeed Gwen Verdon. She must've been plugging her appearance in Sweet Charity, since the "Charlie" tattoo the heroine sports in that play is o...

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https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/65262/Susan-Silo.jpg You know her as Mousey in A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away , but did you know that Susan Silo has been a sought-after character voice actor for cartoons since the ‘70s? Or that she had a hit single in 1956 ("Dear Diary") and ...

Ben, thanks! Gwen Verdon is not a name I'm familiar with... I did need to fire up my VPN.

Don't know what's going on with IMDB's listing for that date... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11152670/?ref_=ttep_ep172

On TO THE BATPOLES I recently started including bits of the time Adam and Burt appeared on the Merv Griffin Show together. It's clearly just before the start of season two, because of the mention of Walter Slezak, Shelley Winters, etc coming up on the show. Various sources on the web show that the d...

Our current plan is to record this episode on the evening of Saturday, October 1 US time. Be sure to post your comments before then!

Ben, interesting. Susan told us (as you'll hear next week) that Batman HAD premiered by the time RIDDLE was shot. Of course, as we know, memories of things that happened nearly 60 years ago are not always pristine; I'd be willing to accept hard evidence to the contrary.

Thanks Jim!

The next TO THE BATPOLES episode will (barring any last-minute schedule changes) feature an interview with Susan Silo! Do you have any questions for her? Please post them here by 7 pm Monday night Sept 19!

https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/65262/Batman-StarTrekACTOFF01.jpg Two of the most iconic American TV shows of the 1960s are BATMAN and STAR TREK. A surprising number of actors appeared on both shows, either as regulars, recurring characters, or one-shot roles. This sounds like an interesting ...

https://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/apieceoftheaction.jpg Here's the draft script of "A Piece of the Action". We'll talk about it on TO THE BATPOLES episode 195, to be recorded sometime in early October (will let you know later of the exact date). Read the script and post your comme...

Bat-Aunt!

Thanks Hornet! Yes, it does seem like Aunt Harriet came to be seen as unnecessary. I imagine most kids found her the least interesting character on the show; I don't think we paid all that much attention to her as kids, and for that matter we'd been doing this show for years before the idea of this ...

https://ssl-static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/d/b/4/bdb491b0e3d9c2f8bafc7308ab683e82/auntharriet-tea.jpg When talking about Batman , discussion tends to focus on Adam West, Burt Ward, and those who played villains who the Dynamic Duo brought to justice. But here we’ve done nearly 200 episodes and mostly...