Wasn't the last big screen Batman suit modeled almost exactly after the Dark Knight Returns batsuit? Even the bat-armor design was straight out of the comics. Batman's looked hundreds of different ways in the comics.
@@porko882 When you can't turn your head from side to side and you have to see through eyeslits, you're dead in a heartbeat. Don't even get me started on Black Canary's high heels.
When George Clooney played Batman a few years ago he claimed that his costume weighed so much that a group of children could probably take him down in a fight.
Not impractical. The Batman Begins showed how come all the pieces have a purpose. The reason in TAS he got a larger belt, was most likely similar to no man's land when the Batman decided he needed to carry more contents.
I was a teenager in the 60's and Batman was THE show to watch..it was new, fresh and absolutely cool. To this day when someone mentions Batman I instantly think of the tv show....Burgess Meredith was and remains the best Penguin ever!
All the actors were better than the ones in the movies. Michael Keaton is a pretty good actor but was poorly cast in the first movie. Kinda set the tone.
@Bob Sebring I feel bad for the kids today too...I have many older programs on dvd that my kids and grandkids all watched...they love them too...plus it gets them away from video games for a little while.
Unfortunately for me, they were in paired episodes. The first episode of each pair would always end in a cliff-hanger, with Batman and Robin in all sorts of trouble. Then at the start of the second episode, you would see how they managed to extricate themselves. My prob was that there was always a show on another channel that my parents liked to watch at the same time as the second Batman episode, so I would never get to see how the "Dynamic Duo" would get out of their predicament... And that sucked big-time, let me tell you 😁
When I was a kid, I tried making a super hero mask for myself. I kept having to enlarge the eye holes until the mask failed to do what masks are supposed to do. Mask or no mask, when you're a kid, people still recognize you.
I used to like when Alfred had to be Batman and show up to an event where Bruce Wayne was to throw people off the scent. Alan Napier was so perfect in that role.
Adam West was my favorite Batman (followed by Christian Bale). The way he dealt with the challenges of his costume without me noticing and managing to maintain his debonair composure demonstrates what a talented actor he was.
Holy Horse Blinders Batman! Don't let the Joker know about your costume flaws or he'll come at you with a side punch to the cowl! 🥊 Biff! Zap! Pow! Lol. All kidding aside Rick, your research skills are amazing! Great work. :)
David Davenport Heh, this puts me in mind of that fight panel in Alan Moore’s graphic novel ‘The Killing Joke’ in which Batman and the Joker are fighting each other and Joker is pretty much able to blind Batman by sticking his two fingers into Batman’s eyeholes on his cowl; pulling his entire mask down and pretty much temporarily blinding him as a result.
It must have been difficult for Adam West to adjust to the limited facial mobility under his mask but he managed to pull it off. It also added to his aloofness and created mystery to his character. Thank you Rick for the informative video. I hope you have a Happy New Year.
As compared to what? Other low budget shows from the 60's? His little comedic quips and alternate body gestures more than make up for the ill-fitting costume. Besides, little kids didn't care about all that back then.
I love to see about Burt Ward's costume. Did Yvonne Craig' s costume had a problem too? Would you do a video on her costume too? Thanks Rick for your help.
I'd like to see Ward's costume too. Craig couldn't sit down in her leather costume (it would stretch out of shape) and she had a "leaning" board. to rest upon
Yvonne Craig's cowl was originally just like the comic book version with a mask that was pointed under the eyes. They had to change the mask with bigger holes for her eyes
Well , as Batman he had to act different as Bruce Wayne. Different body language. So, Adam West used all the movements to make the costume work the right way. All the hand gestures , to make Batman, and Bruce seem like two different people.
Very interesting Rick. Never thought of the problems and discomfort with the costume. Remember this is also filmed in L.A. where the weather is hot 1/2 the year making it doubly or triply stifling in his get-up. So the final product we watch seems great but to make it comes with plenty of problems! Reminds me of your video on Herman Munster's problems and the almost deadly consequences of silver body paint for the original Tin Man Buddy Ebsen(Jed Clampett of Beverly Hillbillies fame) in the 1939 Wizard of Oz.
I think Adam West conveyed his expressions through the mask/cowl very well. Look at the movie when he finds out Catwoman and Miss Kitka are one and the same. The heartbreak he displays comes through without body movement or hand gestures.
Awesome job as always Rick, thanks! I always noted his stiff awkward body movements and now it makes total sense. I agreed with you and the others who say his aloofness and not looking at who he was speaking to added a lot to his character. All the best for 2020!
This is really interesting to find out about Rick. Never knew there were problems with Batman’s costume. Also sounds like he had to do what later Batman’s would do since they were limited with head movement when it comes to the cowl portion of the costume.
As a kid I thought his costume was so cool. It makes sense he would have difficulty with his mask. I would like to hear about Robin’s costume. Thank you
Robin is red to distract the bad guys from The Batman. It made the little fella a target but the boy was just so fast no villain could catch him, just like the C.P.S. never could catch the Batman.
I may be remembering incorrectly but I think I also heard that the Batman and Robin costumes from the TV series were made out of some type of wool which made them hot as well as heavy.
In '91, my college professor took our tv prod class to see Adam West and Butch Patrick at WBZ Boston, an NBC affiliate. Tom Bergeron had a talk show at the time. Al Lewis was brought in by telephone over the studio speakers. It was a very funny half hour. Really learned a lot about what it was like on the Batman and Munsters sets. Adam West signed autographs outside the studio, very gracious. I never saw Butch Patrick after the show. I assume his car got there before we got outside. Would have been cool to get his autograph.
@@rsine100 Bring me up to date: I'm not familiar with what they've done with the character since I tapered off DC comcs in the early 70s. He didn't have body armor in the 50s-60s and no one bitched about it when Adam West played him without any. For all I know he's switched to body armor since those years. I did check Dark Knight out of the local library a few years ago and I don't recall him wearing it then. These days I'm also out of the loop with Marvel - is Spiderman now body-armored too? Whatever the case, realism isn't a factor; this is a comic book superhero we're talking about. Batman got me through gradeschool, highschool and college with nothing but fabric between him and the bad guys.
I was still a kid when this came out plus a fan of the show each week. I remember watching the opening credits and wishing for a Batman cartoon which did happen once this show became a hit.
My favorite show. I was in 1st grade when it came out in 1966. That's all we talked about. The first part came on Wednesday night and we had to wait a week until the following Tuesday night to find out what happened. That's all we talked about. How in the world was Batman gonna get out of that one? There's no way! Best show ever. Gorshin's Riddler scared me; I thought he was really crazy.
I was also in 1st grade when the show began. Your memory is a little bit off, though. For the first two seasons, all Batman episodes aired part 1 on Wednesday and part 2 on Thursday, one day later. (In the third season, when Batgirl was added, it only aired one day a week.)
Looking into the distance gave Batman a look of doing some profound mental processing. It was a great decision on West's part and turned a negative into a positive IMO.
Almost 60 thousand subs! 🤯. Wasn’t to long ago you were talking about hitting 40,000. Great content like this I see how it’s growing so fast Rick. Thanks for posting. Hope you have a happy New Year!
Agreed the costumes in the 2 Batman movie serials make the Adam West suit look perfect. But even those actors deserve credit for bring Batman to the silver screen, and they didn't even have a batmoble. LOL
@@robertgordon7187 Technically, they did, but it looked like a normal car and doubled as the car that Bruce used for his public persona. The first comic book Batmobile also looked like a normal car.
Wow, I knew even as a kid that cowl was doofy, but I had no idea what a struggle it was to wear, especially for an action star who had to move around in it AND emote, too. Thank you for pointing out the problem it was for Adam West and how he compensated for it. I love the new insights you bring to things that we all think we know inside and out.
Maybe that was taken heavily into consideration when they later developed Batgirl Yvonne Craig's costume mask, because the eye holes in it were much larger!
On another similar topic! For the same reasons, when you watch episodes of CHiPs, notice how in scenes where Ponch and John are on their motorcycles out in a street or on a highway! Since they obviously can't have any dialogue in these situations while wearing helmets they will often just look back and forth to each other and nod! The funny part to me is that they remind me of "The Blockheads" from Gumby!😜
Yeah. All those rubber stuff, loosing body weight every day, body can't breathe, can barely move, almost can't hear, overheating, soaking wet from a sweat. But you know what's really, really tough? Spandex!
Problem; Adam likes a beer. Result; Calorie Belly. Remedy; Uses Bat Corset. Robin; "Holy Pisshead Batman"! Batman; "I''ll drink to that". Police Inspector; "As long as he pays me Bat- Graft he's free to drive the Batmobile". Robin; "Holy corruption Kids, flee Gotham City while you can ... ... ...
very interesting topic and in thinking about it I remember hearing about those sorts of challenges in the modern Batman films because the Batman costumes have been made of heavy rubber
When “ twins are not” by Microsoft came out. The first thing i tried was giving it pictures of Clark Kent and Superman for example. Microsoft wasn’t fooled. However Microsoft couldn’t match batman and Bruce!! You know. In the adventures of Superman there are at least two episodes where Clark does not wear glasses in front of the other characters and they didn’t recognize Superman
The real reason the Batman costume was a complete disaster, was that it did not allow the actor to actually fly. All of the flying scenes were accomplished through camera tricks, and by the third season, they abandoned them altogether. To this day, many people, including comic book writers and producers, portray Batman as not having the ability to fly, despite the fact that he does wear a cape, and in comic books, having a cape denotes the ability to fly. Also, the Robin costume was designed to pinch the gonads in such a way as to lend a high pitch to the scenes where he used his famous "Robin's Song" to intimidate criminals. Dick Sargent, who played the boy wonder, suffered terribly in the costume, and was eventually unable to have children of normal height because of it. This has been _made up facts from the Encyclopedia Brianticca._ Thanks for watching.
Adam west will always be BATMAN!! I saw him in an old WW 2 movie.He played a Nazi officer that was trying to stop the underground resistance. He was always getting chewed out by his superiors. His part was an excellent one, better than the head of the resistance that is known for playing the part. It is a shame that Adam West was "labeled" so. He really was a great actor, he just wasn't given the chance. But a lot of children looked up to him over the years.👍👍👍👍
This exactly is not unique to West. All of the actors had a hard time wearing the suits. His was only fabric. Imagine trying to act in a more complex suit like the rubber versions.
There was absolutely NOTHING disastrous about this suit at all! This suit was the best! None of that Hollywood rubber bullshit! This is all just your opinion. There are thousands of fans who will disagree with you.
I've recently been watching these on my 4k television and I never realized on the 1st season cowl Batmans ears look as though they were attached lower and pulled off and raised. But by doing so left a permanent outline where they used to be. I just put the movie on and there's no line like that so it definitely wasn't meant to look that way. Great video
Even when I was little and I watched Batman on TV........I always wondered why he was so stiff. It was like he had a body cast on. I think it did help with the Batman character though, because he needed to differentiate Batman from Bruce Wayne, and it actually helped him do that.
The fanboy in me always thinks how amazing it would be to get to wear the Batsuit. But when I look at every single one, I know that it would absolutely be the single most uncomfortable thing that I would ever wear.
That was not all. Every example of the shiny hood West wore in costume was stitched around a plastic bowl-type cap that had no give. He told Jeff Rovin that every time he pulled any of them on, he was convinced that they were all hastening male pattern hair loss!
The only interesting tidbit I know about Burt Wards costume is that the censors objected to a certain part of his anatomy that could be seen and they had to take steps to keep it hidden.
As a kid when the series premiered the disaster was the fact that it was a campy show and not the cool, serious series we were expecting. I recall a lot of disappointed discussions on the recess playground the day after.
Wow so even he couldn't move his head. I never noticed that. Course I never noticed Batman couldn't turn his head in the Burton films and up until someone jokingly pointed it out to me, (obviously before TDK made this a topic, which IMO it shouldn't have).
Thanks Rick. That was interesting. I like these little tid bits. When I used to watch the show as a child I noticed his eyes, and how you could barely see them.
My Batman '66 autographs : West sgd US poster/austrian small poster/trade ad/trash can Ward Robin puppet/trade ad/trash can/austrian poster Meriwether trash can/trade ad/austrian poster Newmar 7x9s (seen them go for 200$ alone) Sanders cut Blake ss card Napier/Hamilton sgd Alfred/Gordon photos McDowall sgd BW photo Wayne sgd MH photo Pretty decent collection ;)
Interesting details you brought up. I distinctly remember the " stiff neck" movements and thought it was supposed to be his demeanor not a costume malfunction! Very bizarre Hollywood couldn't do better for him
@@3dartistguy All I can say it's all interesting TV history now. I don't have a solution and I'm not being critical. I'm just surprised the costumers couldn't make adjustments for him that would eliminate the inability to turn his head very well.
At least Adam West Batman costume was accurate to the comic books. Which is pretty rare nowadays for Batman still.
Wasn't the last big screen Batman suit modeled almost exactly after the Dark Knight Returns batsuit? Even the bat-armor design was straight out of the comics. Batman's looked hundreds of different ways in the comics.
@@jamesoblivion 90% accurate, with one thing missing.
The underpants.
@@SleepingGroke Right! Costume was close to the comics! Color television was new and everything thing on the show had bright colors!
There has never been a Batman actor who liked his costume. Highly impractical, and useless to a real crime fighter. But it looks cool!
The cape would get in the way but I don't think they were impractical.
@@porko882 When you can't turn your head from side to side and you have to see through eyeslits, you're dead in a heartbeat. Don't even get me started on Black Canary's high heels.
When George Clooney played Batman a few years ago he claimed that his costume weighed so much that a group of children could probably take him down in a fight.
Right! It was cool! He pulled it off!
Not impractical. The Batman Begins showed how come all the pieces have a purpose. The reason in TAS he got a larger belt, was most likely similar to no man's land when the Batman decided he needed to carry more contents.
I was a teenager in the 60's and Batman was THE show to watch..it was new, fresh and absolutely cool. To this day when someone mentions Batman I instantly think of the tv show....Burgess Meredith was and remains the best Penguin ever!
I agree! A huge part of my childhood!
All the actors were better than the ones in the movies. Michael Keaton is a pretty good actor but was poorly cast in the first movie. Kinda set the tone.
@Bob Sebring I feel bad for the kids today too...I have many older programs on dvd that my kids and grandkids all watched...they love them too...plus it gets them away from video games for a little while.
Unfortunately for me, they were in paired episodes. The first episode of each pair would always end in a cliff-hanger, with Batman and Robin in all sorts of trouble. Then at the start of the second episode, you would see how they managed to extricate themselves. My prob was that there was always a show on another channel that my parents liked to watch at the same time as the second Batman episode, so I would never get to see how the "Dynamic Duo" would get out of their predicament... And that sucked big-time, let me tell you 😁
Exactly! Riddler and catwoman are great too!
When I was a kid, I tried making a super hero mask for myself. I kept having to enlarge the eye holes until the mask failed to do what masks are supposed to do. Mask or no mask, when you're a kid, people still recognize you.
Hilarious! Thanks for sharing, Jerry Mills!
I used to like when Alfred had to be Batman and show up to an event where Bruce Wayne was to throw people off the scent. Alan Napier was so perfect in that role.
Rudolph Guarnacci Those were fun especially because of the gray mustache.
@@richardvinsen2385
That's right. Freakin' hilarious
lol Jerry, that's funny 😁
I watch Batman when it on tv still. Good times when I wasn’t responsible for the rent and bills.
I know, I hate being a grown up bc payment of such bills is impossible especially alone.
All of Adam W's gestures worked well for him and his character.
Adam West was my favorite Batman (followed by Christian Bale). The way he dealt with the challenges of his costume without me noticing and managing to maintain his debonair composure demonstrates what a talented actor he was.
Very interesting facts about Adam West's costume. I think that he was a very talented actor, his tongue in cheek humor was great! Thanks for sharing 🙂
This takes me all the way back to 5th grade.
Same here
Not only was the show a big hit with kids, along with Lost in Space, it probably helped to sell a lot of color tvs.
I grew up watching both of those shows, and I'm only 37!
My brothers and I loved the show! And yes, it was a very colorful production!
Holy Horse Blinders Batman! Don't let the Joker know about your costume flaws or he'll come at you with a side punch to the cowl! 🥊 Biff! Zap! Pow! Lol. All kidding aside Rick, your research skills are amazing! Great work. :)
David Davenport Heh, this puts me in mind of that fight panel in Alan Moore’s graphic novel ‘The Killing Joke’ in which Batman and the Joker are fighting each other and Joker is pretty much able to blind Batman by sticking his two fingers into Batman’s eyeholes on his cowl; pulling his entire mask down and pretty much temporarily blinding him as a result.
It must have been difficult for Adam West to adjust to the limited facial mobility under his mask but he managed to pull it off. It also added to his aloofness and created mystery to his character. Thank you Rick for the informative video. I hope you have a Happy New Year.
None of this points to the outfit being a "Complete and Total Disaster!"
closeharlan I agree. I was looking for "Jim Carrey/Grinch level" difficulties, cutting his vision down is hardly a disaster!
my thought exactly!
As compared to what? Other low budget shows from the 60's? His little comedic quips and alternate body gestures more than make up for the ill-fitting costume. Besides, little kids didn't care about all that back then.
Well, if you were Adam West and had to wear it and do the stuff he did and also act - you might think the suit was a complete and total disaster.
Yes it does. It’s in the title.
I love to see about Burt Ward's costume. Did Yvonne Craig' s costume had a problem too? Would you do a video on her costume too? Thanks Rick for your help.
Go to the 1966 batman message board to learn all you want about these great costumes. There are members there who had access to the originals
I'd like to see Ward's costume too. Craig couldn't sit down in her leather costume (it would stretch out of shape) and she had a "leaning" board. to rest upon
@@mrlionel1965 Thank you for your information.
@@moviesignsol I hope that Rick does Burt Ward's costume video someday soon.
Yvonne Craig's cowl was originally just like the comic book version with a mask that was pointed under the eyes. They had to change the mask with bigger holes for her eyes
This series had many of the famous stars on it and is a classic!
Well , as Batman he had to act different as Bruce Wayne. Different body language. So, Adam West used all the movements to make the costume work the right way. All the hand gestures , to make Batman, and Bruce seem like two different people.
I miss toying with the phone cord.
This is sad and true.
Or TRYING to untangle the dang thing. You could have a 20 foot cord and still be stuck 3 feet from the receiver😂
Back in the days when the phone weighed five pounds and you could use it as a hand-to-hand weapon
This reminds me of my childhood back when the show first aired. Yes, I'd like to know about Robin's costume problems.
Add the mishaps that Burt had in the first season.
Very interesting Rick. Never thought of the problems and discomfort with the costume. Remember this is also filmed in L.A. where the weather is hot 1/2 the year making it doubly or triply stifling in his get-up. So the final product we watch seems great but to make it comes with plenty of problems!
Reminds me of your video on Herman Munster's problems and the almost deadly consequences of silver body paint for the original Tin Man Buddy Ebsen(Jed Clampett of Beverly Hillbillies fame) in the 1939 Wizard of Oz.
What these people sacrifice to entertain us!
@@melodysledgister2468: Many people for example think The Three Stooges had fun doing their shorts. Far from it. They were on money deadlines!
I think Adam West conveyed his expressions through the mask/cowl very well. Look at the movie when he finds out Catwoman and Miss Kitka are one and the same. The heartbreak he displays comes through without body movement or hand gestures.
Exactly! His eyes did the acting! And the tights and cape made him look more like a bat!
Awesome job as always Rick, thanks! I always noted his stiff awkward body movements and now it makes total sense. I agreed with you and the others who say his aloofness and not looking at who he was speaking to added a lot to his character. All the best for 2020!
This is really interesting to find out about Rick. Never knew there were problems with Batman’s costume. Also sounds like he had to do what later Batman’s would do since they were limited with head movement when it comes to the cowl portion of the costume.
As a kid I thought his costume was so cool. It makes sense he would have difficulty with his mask. I would like to hear about Robin’s costume. Thank you
Robin is red to distract the bad guys from The Batman. It made the little fella a target but the boy was just so fast no villain could catch him, just like the C.P.S. never could catch the Batman.
Hey what an insight to the problems that Adam West had with his costume. Would never had imagined that he had those problems!
loved Batman as a kidin the 60's, just for the entertainment value...and even when i see a rerun on now, i get a kick out of it....👍
Right! I do too! Love watching this Batman!
I may be remembering incorrectly but I think I also heard that the Batman and Robin costumes from the TV series were made out of some type of wool which made them hot as well as heavy.
I loved Burt Ward's Robin costume, it enhanced him in all the right places 😉
Gross
Much to the chagrin of the moral majority 😲
Thanks Rick this was interesting. Keep well !
The costume did it's job of looking great.
Considering Adam West’s cowl, it was a lot more forgiving than Michael Keaton’s cowl, at least West can turn his head.
What I found interesting is you never saw them take their masks off like in the batcave. The Riddler would lift his mask up, catwoman, same thing.
In '91, my college professor took our tv prod class to see Adam West and Butch Patrick at WBZ Boston, an NBC affiliate. Tom Bergeron had a talk show at the time. Al Lewis was brought in by telephone over the studio speakers. It was a very funny half hour. Really learned a lot about what it was like on the Batman and Munsters sets. Adam West signed autographs outside the studio, very gracious. I never saw Butch Patrick after the show. I assume his car got there before we got outside. Would have been cool to get his autograph.
To my taste the real costume disaster is in the later movies. They've got Batman wearing body armor and that's just wrong.
You expect Batman to face off against villains armed with guns and knives wearing only spandex?
@@rsine100 Bring me up to date: I'm not familiar with what they've done with the character since I tapered off DC comcs in the early 70s. He didn't have body armor in the 50s-60s and no one bitched about it when Adam West played him without any. For all I know he's switched to body armor since those years. I did check Dark Knight out of the local library a few years ago and I don't recall him wearing it then. These days I'm also out of the loop with Marvel - is Spiderman now body-armored too?
Whatever the case, realism isn't a factor; this is a comic book superhero we're talking about. Batman got me through gradeschool, highschool and college with nothing but fabric between him and the bad guys.
Your video gave me a greater appreciation for Adam West's acting talents.
I’m glad to hear. He is a legend
Did you ever have Batman Banana Split Ice Cream? It was pretty darn good!
"Nobody messes with Adam We!"
Oh yes I’d like to know about Burt Ward’s issues too. Great video. I loved Batman. ❤️
I was still a kid when this came out plus a fan of the show each week. I remember watching the opening credits and wishing for a Batman cartoon which did happen once this show became a hit.
My man you have got to be the greatest antidote for insomnia.
No paddings! The costume was Pure Adam West
My favorite show. I was in 1st grade when it came out in 1966. That's all we talked about. The first part came on Wednesday night and we had to wait a week until the following Tuesday night to find out what happened. That's all we talked about. How in the world was Batman gonna get out of that one? There's no way! Best show ever. Gorshin's Riddler scared me; I thought he was really crazy.
I was also in 1st grade when the show began. Your memory is a little bit off, though. For the first two seasons, all Batman episodes aired part 1 on Wednesday and part 2 on Thursday, one day later. (In the third season, when Batgirl was added, it only aired one day a week.)
@@bobbuethe1477
I was in New York City at the time. Where were you located at the time?
Rudolph Guarnacci Part one always ended with “Tune in tomorrow.”
Looking into the distance gave Batman a look of doing some profound mental processing. It was a great decision on West's part and turned a negative into a positive IMO.
Almost 60 thousand subs! 🤯. Wasn’t to long ago you were talking about hitting 40,000. Great content like this I see how it’s growing so fast Rick. Thanks for posting. Hope you have a happy New Year!
Rick Nineg: "Adam West's costume was a complete and total disaster."
Lewis Wilson: "Hold my beer."
Robert Lowery: "Hold my pony keg."
Agreed the costumes in the 2 Batman movie serials make the Adam West suit look perfect. But even those actors deserve credit for bring Batman to the silver screen, and they didn't even have a batmoble. LOL
@@robertgordon7187 Technically, they did, but it looked like a normal car and doubled as the car that Bruce used for his public persona. The first comic book Batmobile also looked like a normal car.
The Batman costume was awesome - I remember getting my Batman Cowl in 1965-6? ... those were the days
Just shows the actual genius of an actor Adam was.
Wow, I knew even as a kid that cowl was doofy, but I had no idea what a struggle it was to wear, especially for an action star who had to move around in it AND emote, too. Thank you for pointing out the problem it was for Adam West and how he compensated for it. I love the new insights you bring to things that we all think we know inside and out.
Yes, I noticed Batman always looks at the person he is talking too, i chalked it up to respect of the other
I enjoy hearing about Batman's Costume.
Very cool, I had no idea.
Whatever problems he had with the costume, he pulled it off! And he didn't need special armour! The tights made him look more like a bat!
Maybe that was taken heavily into consideration when they later developed Batgirl Yvonne Craig's costume mask, because the eye holes in it were much larger!
On another similar topic! For the same reasons, when you watch episodes of CHiPs, notice how in scenes where Ponch and John are on their motorcycles out in a street or on a highway! Since they obviously can't have any dialogue in these situations while wearing helmets they will often just look back and forth to each other and nod! The funny part to me is that they remind me of "The Blockheads" from Gumby!😜
@@jons.6216
Gumby! Ha! Loved Gumby and his pony. The toys were great.
There were two other things other than the eye holes that were much larger on Yvonne Craig's costume. Did I really say that?
@@rudolphguarnacci197 She had such a nice camel toe!😜👍
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Ahh, you're referring to her boot heels. Good eye!
It added to his character of a bat, cool.
Exactly! The tights and cape and mask made him look more like a bat!
Super cool vid takes me back to my childhood thanks for sharing
imagine having to wear all that tight restriction under hot lights and having to act at the same time.....I hope he got paid well
Yeah. All those rubber stuff, loosing body weight every day, body can't breathe, can barely move, almost can't hear, overheating, soaking wet from a sweat.
But you know what's really, really tough?
Spandex!
Problem; Adam likes a beer. Result; Calorie Belly. Remedy; Uses Bat Corset.
Robin; "Holy Pisshead Batman"!
Batman; "I''ll drink to that".
Police Inspector; "As long as he pays me Bat- Graft he's free to drive the Batmobile".
Robin; "Holy corruption Kids, flee Gotham City while you can ... ... ...
very interesting topic and in thinking about it I remember hearing about those sorts of challenges in the modern Batman films because the Batman costumes have been made of heavy rubber
What ever happened to these costumes from this series. Are they on display in someone's private collection.
My childhood was made extra special due to this show.
When “ twins are not” by Microsoft came out. The first thing i tried was giving it pictures of Clark Kent and Superman for example. Microsoft wasn’t fooled. However Microsoft couldn’t match batman and Bruce!!
You know. In the adventures of Superman there are at least two episodes where Clark does not wear glasses in front of the other characters and they didn’t recognize Superman
The real reason the Batman costume was a complete disaster, was that it did not allow the actor to actually fly. All of the flying scenes were accomplished through camera tricks, and by the third season, they abandoned them altogether. To this day, many people, including comic book writers and producers, portray Batman as not having the ability to fly, despite the fact that he does wear a cape, and in comic books, having a cape denotes the ability to fly. Also, the Robin costume was designed to pinch the gonads in such a way as to lend a high pitch to the scenes where he used his famous "Robin's Song" to intimidate criminals. Dick Sargent, who played the boy wonder, suffered terribly in the costume, and was eventually unable to have children of normal height because of it.
This has been _made up facts from the Encyclopedia Brianticca._ Thanks for watching.
Adam west will always be
BATMAN!!
I saw him in an old WW 2 movie.He played a Nazi officer that was trying to stop the underground resistance. He was always getting chewed out by his superiors. His part was an excellent one, better than the head of the resistance that is known for playing the part. It is a shame that Adam West was "labeled" so. He really was a great actor, he just wasn't given the chance. But a lot of children looked up to him over the years.👍👍👍👍
Rick, I’ll see you same Bat Time on your same Bat Channel! 😂🤣🙄🤦🏻♀️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This exactly is not unique to West. All of the actors had a hard time wearing the suits. His was only fabric. Imagine trying to act in a more complex suit like the rubber versions.
I was 11 at the time. My reason for watching was the Batmobile. Have a nice replica of it.
There was absolutely NOTHING disastrous about this suit at all! This suit was the best! None of that Hollywood rubber bullshit! This is all just your opinion. There are thousands of fans who will disagree with you.
I've recently been watching these on my 4k television and I never realized on the 1st season cowl Batmans ears look as though they were attached lower and pulled off and raised. But by doing so left a permanent outline where they used to be. I just put the movie on and there's no line like that so it definitely wasn't meant to look that way. Great video
Even when I was little and I watched Batman on TV........I always wondered why he was so stiff. It was like he had a body cast on. I think it did help with the Batman character though, because he needed to differentiate Batman from Bruce Wayne, and it actually helped him do that.
The fanboy in me always thinks how amazing it would be to get to wear the Batsuit. But when I look at every single one, I know that it would absolutely be the single most uncomfortable thing that I would ever wear.
That was not all.
Every example of the shiny hood West wore in costume was stitched around a plastic bowl-type cap that had no give. He told Jeff Rovin that every time he pulled any of them on, he was convinced that they were all hastening male pattern hair loss!
I would love to learn about Robin's costume as well.🤘
The only interesting tidbit I know about Burt Wards costume is that the censors objected to a certain part of his anatomy that could be seen and they had to take steps to keep it hidden.
@@kennethlee494 And NOT Batman's?🤘
@@forevermetal2464 Nope, Burt Ward was the only one other than Frank Gorshin with that issue, I guess because of the tighter fit of their costumes.
@@kennethlee494 I guess the saying "big things come in small packages" FITS.
Thank you Kenneth 🤘
1966 Batman message board. There are members there who had access to the original outfits. They can tell you anything you want to know.
Crashes* OH SHI- WHY DIDNT THEY GIVE ME PROPPER VISION THROUGH THE MASK - AYO ROBIN ARE YOU OK?! WE NEED A HOSTPITAL.
I also thought, that the bat symbol on his chest, was too low! It should have been placed higher on his chest!
It was in the first Joker episode.
great channel, Rick. or great Rick, channel as my dystopian brain is wont to utter. interesting minutia on vintage pop culture
Struggled under the weight of his costume? It’s a fucking leotard and a silk cape for Christ’s sake!
It's an overrated halloween costume. Then again, everything about that show is overrated.
so from the very begin i guess, every actor who has played batman has complained about the costume lol.
Forget the cowl, poor Burt Ward had to take pills to shrink his manhood so Robin wouldn't have a bulge.
The only Batman!
For me.
Yeah, I was in kindergarten, when series ran. Blanket as a cape and all.
As a kid when the series premiered the disaster was the fact that it was a campy show and not the cool, serious series we were expecting. I recall a lot of disappointed discussions on the recess playground the day after.
This can be said for any actor playing a superhero role. Ask Tom Holland
Robin's Costume
That video will be coming soon! Stay tuned
Wow so even he couldn't move his head. I never noticed that. Course I never noticed Batman couldn't turn his head in the Burton films and up until someone jokingly pointed it out to me, (obviously before TDK made this a topic, which IMO it shouldn't have).
How can you encourage people to stay here Patrice when you overtly condemn an icon from my childhood?
Thanks Rick. That was interesting. I like these little tid bits.
When I used to watch the show as a child I noticed his eyes, and how you could barely see them.
What a great way to show off your new expensive color TV in 1966.
I didn't know Batman had his own show. But i found the story about his mask interestering
There was an even earlier one, a 15-part serial (for cinemas) made way back in 1943.
He also had trouble hearing well with the headpiece
Have you done, or would you consider doing, a video about the Monkees?
like all good character actors who must suffer with costumes
Adam West as Batman...My hero since childhood
Only reason I watched Batman as a kid was to cheer on the villains...
I’m sorry but Batman’s ears are way to FUCKIN small.
My Batman '66 autographs :
West sgd US poster/austrian small poster/trade ad/trash can
Ward Robin puppet/trade ad/trash can/austrian poster
Meriwether trash can/trade ad/austrian poster
Newmar 7x9s (seen them go for 200$ alone)
Sanders cut
Blake ss card
Napier/Hamilton sgd Alfred/Gordon photos
McDowall sgd BW photo
Wayne sgd MH photo
Pretty decent collection ;)
All original from back then , no repros !
Why didn't they just make the eyeholes bigger?
What we do for show biz!
You didn't mention the obvious 2 tone coloration
Very interesting! I'd be interested in Burt Ward's costume too.
Interesting details you brought up. I distinctly remember the " stiff neck" movements and thought it was supposed to be his demeanor not a costume malfunction! Very bizarre Hollywood couldn't do better for him
Rick Daystar so what’s your solution?
@@3dartistguy All I can say it's all interesting TV history now. I don't have a solution and I'm not being critical. I'm just surprised the costumers couldn't make adjustments for him that would eliminate the inability to turn his head very well.
Jan Kemp did the best he could with the materials of the day.
Commissioner Gordon was born in 1899.