Do we know all the BATMAN shooting dates?

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Do we know all the BATMAN shooting dates?

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Although I was sure this topic must have been discussed at length on the board before, a search turned up nothing about the dates when each episode was shot. Just wondering if anyone has researched this and compiled a list of dates.
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Saddly, the short answer is no. But, Ben and I have been trying to compile as much as we can as we sort through the pieces of papers, production notes and stuff. Hopefully, we can get a comprehensive and fairly complete list together in the future.

On the subject of shooting dates, we did share this video a little while back in one of our "Deep Dives":

Ben Bentley wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 3:56 pm This is a fun thread!

Here's the graphic I mentioned in our Deep Dive video which shows the production numbers against the episodes in the aired order we are familiar with.

Big thanks to Troy for throwing the spreadsheet together!

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I am sure that Ben, Scott, and/or others have been through these records, but there are the Greenway Productions records contained in the Syracuse library. They have the scripts (which are dated) for sure. While they don’t appear to have shooting schedules for every episode, there are at least a few there, but I’m guessing the moderators have already curated this somewhere.

https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/gu ... y_prod.htm
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Had this saved in a file, not much but
Here are some dates as seen on the pages of the William Dozier archive papers

"Shoot a Crooked Arrow" airdate 9/7/66, shooting dates 7/6/66
"The Unkindest Tut of All" airdate 10/19/67, shooting dates 9/9/67
"The Funny Feline Felonies" airdate 12/28/67, shooting date 10/19-26/67
"Catwoman's Dressed to Kill" airdate 12/14/67, shooting dates 10/27-31/67

And I have these written down

Hi Diddle Riddle 10/20- 11/5/1965
Fine Feather Finks 11/22-11/28/1965
The Joker is Wild 12/22-12/27 1965
Instant Freeze 12/10-12-15/1965
The Thirteenth Hat 2/1/1966
The Curse of Tut 3/23 1966
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I just want to thank all those nailing this info down. It has been invaluable in the documentation of the costumes and cowls in particular.
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Like Scott said, this topic has been adjacent to stuff he and I have researched over the years.

Since I read Tim's post this morning, i've ended up spending about five hours of my Saturday (and counting...) pulling together shoot dates for all 120 episodes and the Movie based on paperwork in my collection.

There were a handful of Season One episodes that I (and those I have reached out to) have zero documents from, but due diligence and detective work based on what we do know has filled in those in, barring LITERALLY one episode. I'm going to continue with this tonight and hopefully have a full spreadsheet to share with the shooting dates versus production numbers, versus air dates ready by tomorrow.

Stay tuned...
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Excellent!

Very interesting video, too.

Thanks!
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Well here goes...

The Magnum-Shooting-Schedulus is complete, but it definitely needs prefacing with another Deep Dive on the methodology and some additional context:

Easier to read if you click on the FULL SCREEN icon in the corner of the player.

Click below to view/download the Complete Shooting Schedule PDF with dates for all 120 episodes and the feature film.
https://www.66batman.com/video/Shooting ... Series.pdf
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Ben...

I think we killed this thread...
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FANTASTIC!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.
It goes such a long way in helping to understand the process of creating, and maintaining, the show.

Yep, I'm game for any talk show you two want to make!!!
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That's great! I'm still in search of time to watch the video, but I will!
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Another outstanding bit of detective work by both of you. Very informative.Thanks for putting in the time and effort on this topic!
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It's much appreciated!
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Amazing work, guys! Thanks so much!
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Your research has already facilitated a couple of audio footnotes in the latest TO THE BATPOLES!
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