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by bat-rss
Wed Nov 05, 2025 1:25 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Early Halloween - What if Batman wore a Ben Cooper costume instead?
Replies: 10
Views: 5909

Re: Early Halloween - What if Batman wore a Ben Cooper costume instead?

Of course the front of the costume has to have the name of the character written on. Always drove me crazy as a kid because these people don't wear nametags. But I assume they did that so that adults would know who you were dressed as.
by bat-rss
Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:33 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Catwoman's theme
Replies: 11
Views: 1145

Re: Catwoman's theme

There are several possible candidate instruments from that era, other than the venerable theremin. Look up other such early eerie-sounding devices as the novachord, the ondes martenot, and the trautonium. Gadgets like these, alongside the theremin, were popular in classic sci-fi and horror films, p...
by bat-rss
Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:32 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Catwoman's theme
Replies: 11
Views: 1145

Re: Catwoman's theme

Thanks, Simon. Good to know a soprano was actually used. Restores my faith and love fully now for the original series theme making it feel like an outer-space mermaid is really singing a siren song from somewhere deep out in the stars. If they would have used a theremin it would have been akin to t...
by bat-rss
Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:41 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Catwoman's theme
Replies: 11
Views: 1145

Re: Catwoman's theme

BiffPow wrote: Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:33 am Is it a theremin?
Hadn't considered that. It could be. What does everyone else think?

by bat-rss
Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:59 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Catwoman's theme
Replies: 11
Views: 1145

Re: Catwoman's theme

A. Pennyworth wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 5:37 pm This background music? (this link to video good 7 days)

https://limewire.com/d/zfxwb#O7VJcqJ0Sl
Yes, exactly. Obviously I get the brass accompaniment, but the main melody seems to be played on some kind of keyboard I can't identify.
by bat-rss
Tue Oct 21, 2025 4:43 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Catwoman's theme
Replies: 11
Views: 1145

Catwoman's theme

OK, here's a question that's always been in the back of my mind when watching a Catwoman episode. That mysterious, somewhat-meow-like theme: What instrument is it being played on? Sounds like some kind of electronic keyboard instrument.
by bat-rss
Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:38 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Bat Locations and Google Maps Streetview
Replies: 20
Views: 7647

Re: Bat Locations and Google Maps Streetview

Just for the sake of being completist, here it is as Minerva Matthews' house....

It's funny how seeing it at a different angle makes it feel like a different location from its other appearances!
by bat-rss
Sat Oct 11, 2025 4:37 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Dates of screen tests?
Replies: 3
Views: 648

Re: Dates of screen tests?

Mr. Glee wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:00 pm The source for the info may have been a letter that William Dozier sent Adam West, dated Sep. 13 '65 (Monday), in which he discusses the screen tests, which he indicates were made on the just-passed "Friday."
Thanks. I'll have to see if I can find that in my unorganized mess of PDFs!
by bat-rss
Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:47 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Dates of screen tests?
Replies: 3
Views: 648

Re: Dates of screen tests?

Aha! I found the answer. "Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series" by Bob Garcia and Joe Desris pinpoints it as September 10, 1965. I regard this book as the best and most nearly error-free book on the series. I don't know how Garcia and Desris got this info, but it makes sense sinc...
by bat-rss
Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:21 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Bat Locations and Google Maps Streetview
Replies: 20
Views: 7647

Re: Bat Locations and Google Maps Streetview

The house is also seen in "The Cat and the Fiddle"!
by bat-rss
Fri Oct 10, 2025 6:54 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Batman singing
Replies: 3
Views: 1274

Re: Batman singing

I saw the subject line and this was the first thing that came to mind...

by bat-rss
Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:25 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Dates of screen tests?
Replies: 3
Views: 648

Dates of screen tests?

Does anyone know the dates of the West/Ward and Waggoner/Deyell screen tests? Someone asked me, and I realized I don't seem to have any info on that. I could only guess late summer of '65...
by bat-rss
Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:00 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025
Replies: 5
Views: 23375

Re: TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025

BiffPow wrote: Sun Jun 01, 2025 1:29 pm 😃👊🏼💥

Always great to get acknowledgment for your hard work! It’s rewarding.
Absolutely!
Kamdan wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:51 am Hopefully he’s not wanting you to confirm the Cesar Romero and orange wedges story Gottfried always liked to retell. 😬
Not familiar with that one!
by bat-rss
Fri May 30, 2025 11:52 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025
Replies: 5
Views: 23375

Re: TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025

How nice!

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by bat-rss
Sat May 24, 2025 5:13 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025
Replies: 5
Views: 23375

TO THE BATPOLES update - May 2025

Hey Batfans, Just wanted to give you an update. The book (which will cover Season One) is coming along, but not as quickly as we’d like. I don’t anticipate another Batpoles episode anytime soon, but, after an unplanned hiatus, we have resumed bi-weekly BAT BITS episodes on Patreon at https://www.pat...