Cool! It's also Minerva Matthews' house in "The Cat and the Fiddle".

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/ringaroundtheriddler.jpg Frank Gorshin returns for one more round as the Riddler. Is he as good as ever, or down for the count? Does Joan Collins' appearance as Siren steal Gorshin's screen time? Is Riddler's alias Mushi Nebuchadnezzar meant as a Muhammad Al...

Yeah, it's hard to identify much that went right with this one, from writing to directing to casting! I'm not sure we're trying to avoid season three as much as we're trying to stretch out how long our podcast continues! And there are a lot of other Bat-things we want to talk about that have been on...

Thanks everyone! Keep 'em coming!

Hey, all, Recently when we do "Bat Research Lab" on our podcast, I've been introducing the segment with a clip of the Duo doing sciency stuff in the Batcave (The Purrrfect Crime) or with the Mobile Bat Lab (at the reservoir in The Penguin Declines). Can you suggest other "lab" sc...

So am I! I'm respecting the American Heritage Center's wishes and not putting up a big archive of all the scripts. They were concerned about copyright issues. But they're fine with me putting up a script at a time in connection with specific podcast episodes. So we'll be dribbling these out over tim...

OK, here it is -- possibly the most requested draft script: THAT DARNED CATWOMAN! http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/THATDARNEDCATWOMANfirstdraft.pdf We're probably going to be recording our episode on this around Halloween, and we'll try to incorporate some comments from this thread in that e...

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/archerscript.jpg At last, here's our discussion of the first draft script of "Shoot a Crooked Arrow"! It gave us a lot of insight into what went wrong with this one, besides the atrocious casting of Art Carney as the Archer. Why is the filmed versi...

Interesting show all around! Thank you x1000 (and then some) for making the effort of accessing the Dozier archives. By the way, Hornet, we'd still love to get more info on the Batman comics fan reaction to the show when it was in production, as you mentioned in the post we read in this episode. Di...

As far as the sitcom/comedy angle, it was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1966, losing out to the last year of The Dick Van Dyke Show FWIW, Frank Gorshin was the only actor to ever get a nomination from the show, while it was also nominated for Outstanding Sound Editing that first year a...

Girdle, OK, there we go. That's where the "ripped pectorals" came from! Thanks.

I think the term "sitcom" gets used a lot because, not only did the balance get tipped toward humor and away from adventure (especially when Ross was writing), the TYPE of humor changed. Like we discussed in an early episode, Semple, in the interview on emmytvlegends.com, talks about how h...

Well, we haven't recorded the episode yet. It hadn't been scheduled when I gave that deadline, but now we're planning to record on the 25th. So feel free to drop us comments!

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/batman1949.jpg TO THE BATPOLES podcast: We watch the 1949 "Batman and Robin" movie serial. While many questions asked about events in this serial begin with "Why....?!", another question to discuss is: To what extent did this serial influ...

Thanks Ben!