The Messed Up Things In Batman No One Talks About
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It was Burt wards first acting job. Adam west was a seasoned actor so that might made the difference in the pay disparity.
And the show was called Batman
In his tell all book, Burt Ward complained constantly about having to do all his own stunts while Adam West had a stand in.
@@AstroXeno Hehad every right to complain! After all, it was his life in danger & stunts were handled differently back then.
@@mischiefmakerstudios9900 It's mentioned in the movie "Back to the Batcave". Every time Burt's stunt double is needed he's on his coffee break and Burt has to do the stunt. It does it in a comedic way but still makes the point that he was put in danger and frequently injured.
It's a good movie, Adam and Burt play themselves looking back on the series while searching for the Batmobile which has been stolen from an LA Cars of the Stars museum.
I'm sure West being the superior actor along with the name of the show being Batman. So, there was no way Ward was gonna be paid the same. 😆
1. It's very rare, even today, that all actors on a show get paid the same. That's not a "Batman" thing. Thats a society and the media deciding your worth thing.
Now when I watch the Batman shows, I'm amazed how talented the villain guest stars really were. You don't see talent like that on TV anymore.
You sure don't, And we will NEVER see the likes of them again. RIH
Some of the greatest actors of all time were on that show.
Even some of the villains female henchmen were famous big time stars
I always found the scene in the movie where Batman is frantically trying to find a safe place to dispose of a bomb he'd found on a pier hilarious. He looks over the edge about to throw it into the water but sees a mother duck and her ducklings in tow and doesn't throw it! LOL The campiness of this show was it's charm. A childhood memory of mine was watching these at 5:30 in the morning as reruns on our local station laying on the couch with my Dad laughing.
"They may be alcoholics and drunkards old chum, but they are people too!" - and that was from the MOVIE, not the TV show....
"Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!" 😂😂😂
I actually just recently saw that scene for the first time since I was a kid and I noticed that it appears to have been filmed on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara.
Loved it but the funniest thing about it was it’s producer going STRAIGHT with GREEN HORNET 🐝
I remember that
Being a villain on Batman or the killer on Columbo were great honors during the time periods.
"Columbo" was an honor. "Batman" was desperation.
@@garryberman894 Col Klink wasn't desperate.
Truth Indeed
Watching Batman as a kid was very exciting. Watching Batman as an adult is hilarious.
One of the most hilarious moments was Commissioner Gordon was on the phone with Bruce Wayne and immediately had a conversation with Batman on the phone also. Yet he couldn't figure out it was the same voice.
Just saw one the other day where Batman had the Commissioners Batphone in hand telling Alfred to take the phone call and fake his voice through a computer keyboard. Commissioner even said he often thought they sounded the same when he finished the fake phone call. 🤣
I loved the fact that the Commissioner didn't know that Batgirl was his daughter!
@@Octoberfurst yes, here is your offspring, someone you've watched grow up. Yet you can't tell it's her in costume. 😂😂😂
That one had me rolling. The jokes about how obvious it is that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are actually Batman and Robin are even more hilarious now that covid has proven a mask doesn't begin to disguise who someone actually is.
@@gregorybush3224 You're right. Halloween growing up must have been a riot every year when Gordon would lose her among the other kids at parties. 🤣🤣
Batman and Robin scaling the side of buildings was always my favorite part of the show.
Yep! Me and my brothers used to try to copycat the scaling in our basement...🤣🤣🤣
For some reason, I always wanted Batman to slap the smart alecks who popped out of those windows.
@@michaelsherron5750 - My little brother and I destroyed my mother’s dryer while playing Mercury astronaut.
@@picklerix6162ouch!
I met both of them at Dallas Fan Days about 3 months before Adam West died. So very glad I did that. Told them both that I ran home from school to watch the show everyday (it was already in syndication in the late 60s) and that they were the reason I went into nursing school. Couldn't do the crime fighting but I could nurse them back to health lol. They both seemed pleased. Bert especially
I met them at the show in DC 2016. Had met Adam before and he autographed the cover of life magazine from the 60s a while ago.
No regrets doing nursing ?
@@mvnorsel6354 not really. It was a good career choice fortune favored me and I was able to retire when Covid hit. I worked as a special needs home health care pediatric nurse. Most of my kiddos were vent dependent. It would have been a nightmare
BURT WARD
@@gregorybush3224
Prior to doing Batman, Adam starred with the Three Stooges in their final film, "The Outlaws Is Coming!".
Fun Fact: William Dozier, "Batman"'s producer, was also the narrator on the show.
wow thank you for that😁
He didn't want to pay a voice actor. His voice was great!
He also produced and narrated The Green Hornet.
With Dozier's voice you never dozed off.
He also appeared in the episode with Minerva. He was the 1st man to go under her her "hair dryer.
None of this was "messed up." It was just some semi interesting trivia
The scene in the movie where Batman is been lowered into the sea from the Batcopter and comes up with a rubber shark on his leg has me crying with laughter, then he asks Robin to pass him down the shark repellent bat spray, the camera pans to a range of oceanic sprays for sharks, whales, manta rays and barracudas.
I love this style of making something so over the top that everyone involved knows that its awfulness is what makes it so brilliant, not easy to do.
I showed the shark clip to my grandsons recently, aged 11, 10 and 5, they were howling with laughter.
The bomb scene on the docks, is one of my favorite from that movie.
I also loved that scene where the batcopter was crashing and there was a convenient pile of foam-rubber due to a foam-rubber convention. They even acknowledged it on screen!
Holy sardines!
Probably coz they call back to it in lego batman!
You incorrectly stated BATMAN was cancelled in 1969. Actually, its 3rd (and final) season was the 1967-68 season. BATMAN was a mid season replacement premiering on Jan. 12, 1966. Its final episode aired in March 1968. It was cancelled in 1968. Also, a lot of the villains were stars in the 1930's and 1940's (including Romero). Some of them came out of retirement (!) to play villains on the show.
Don’t need to take a victory lap on the dude
@@spittinvenom9843 You're right. It's just that sometimes a little fact checking is all that's required. Also, he's been getting hammered enough in the comments.
*Its* final episode…
@@allemander Right. Corrected it. Thanks.
+ Ray Lehtinen And boy did they shine.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Joker's mustache. Cesar Romero, an established "Latin lover" of cinema, wore a dashing mustache throughout his career. You can see him spoofed in the famous Warner Brothers cartoon, "Hollywood Steps Out". Romero accepted the role of The Joker but refused to shave his mustache. So they buried it beneath layers of makeup and dye. It was hard to see the mustache on 1960s analog TVs, but it's plainly visible in the stills shown in this video.
I was going to mention that. Thank you. I wonder how many people didn't know about that nice nugget of trivia?
He has mentioned that in some of his other videos.
He also like to have young men throw oranges at his bare a$$ Gilbert Gottfried use to tell the story. Hilarious
@@seansturgill4869 wait, what?
In many of his appearances, Romero can be seen wearing a watch with a brown leather strap. Adam West revealed that Romero received the watch as a gift from the president of Mexico and, like his mustache, refused to remove it.
Poor ratings? I thought it got cancelled because the productions costs were getting out of control
True. In fact.. they did the surfing scenes w/ Joker & Batman to save money. Only needed a back drop of ocean waves they added in.
Not sure how they were getting out of control since budget for each year was SMALLER than the year before
rip johnny green who did the base guitar in the batman theme and appeared in the 'surfs up' episode. 'look its the joker'. Saw johnny green and his band the greenmen perform many times and knew johnny personally. a great guy who would do anything for you. rip johnny.
I also found it funny that batman carried a bat-shield around every now and then even though it wasn't exactly portable.
He also had shark repellent in his helicopter.
Batman could fold that BatShield 50 times to fit in his trusty uti;ity belt.
That utility belt was a TARDIS.
@@khathaway414 I actually think Batman would make an awesome Doctor Who companion. Too bad we'll probably get Morbius instead.
@@khathaway414 Right, he was forever pulling things out of that belt on both the show and the comic that there is no way he would have with him every time he put on the costume.
Julie Newmar. My oh my! That's a litter box I'd clean.
Sorry, but you are wrong... The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) and the Joker (Cesar Romero) each appeared in 19 half hour episodes and the movie. Thus, they tied for appearing in the most episodes of the series. The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) appeared in the most first season half hour episodes (8), and Catwoman (Julie Newmar) appeared the most times in the second season (11).
Was not just Batman, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Julie Newmar and Roddy Mc Dowall,(The Bookworm)each had one of appearances in Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century. As well as a cameo of Buster Crab the original Buck Rodgers
@@dragonson72 Ya, I know the actors/actresses all appeared in other roles on other TV shows and movies. My comment was about the # of episodes of "Batman" that each of those actors appeared in. The video was wrong about the # of episodes the Joker (Cesar Romero) was actually in...😉
@@jasonbriggs2559 It's too bad they didn't have Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) around for all three seasons.
Also, a couple of times the Joker and the Penguin were in the same episode.
"The Messed Up Things In Batman No One Talks About" Apparently someone is talking about Batman TV trivia. (I think these people are called geeks...) Just kidding, kids. See you all in Mom's basement for D&D.
I swear if they had Gorshin's Riddler every episode I'd watch! He was THE VERY BEST!
He was my Sister's Favorite Villian on Batman.
I felt that burgess Meredith was the best actor on that show.
Robin: Batman! Catwoman is about to drop us into a vat of molten butter! Holy oleo!
Catwoman: Boy Wonder, I didn’t know you could yodel!
a few days ago, my boss quoted this routine. ¡holy coincidence!
This doesn't sound appropriate for family viewing hours!
another public service announcement was one where batman and robin are tied up with a bomb about to go off and batgirl comes upon them, and talks about equal pay for women. it ends with robin saying "holy act of congress"
that WASN'T Adam West playing batman though
Batman was great, because nearly every big name actor on TV was on the show, and they had so many villains! Zsa Zsa Gabor and Joan Collins for Pete's sake. Vincent Price, Milton Bearle, and of course the big 4 of Ceasar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin and Julie Newmar. They must have had a blast as every character was over the top.
and Eartha Kitt. Purrrrrrr
King Tut, Victor Buono was one of my favorites.
You know, if you're going to make a video, stick to pictures from the show you're making the video about.
Agreed. Also, he didn't seem to do any real research for this.
@@raylehtinen6245 They never do! (Sigh)
@@colinmoore7460 It's a shame.
Damn y’all toxic
Right On!
Art Carney (aka/ Ed Norton, Honeymooners) played in one episode of Batman as “The Archer” !!!!
Real name, Earl Huntington
a play on Robin Hood being the Earl of Huntington.
I saw these back in the day when I was a kid. We had to wait a whole week for the next episode. Now when I see these as an adult after thirty or so years, I see seasoned, well trained actors having a blast with all the campiness and cartooning.
Lee Meriwether in season two played Lisa Carson, not Carter. Also, when you mentioned Meriwether, you showed a still of Julie Newmar.
Daughter of John E. Carson
* On premiere episode with Riddler (Frank Gorshin) he captured Robin and manically laughing said he'd now discover Batman's true identity. So he disguised Molly (Jill St. John) as Robin to travel to Batcave with Batman. Uhh, why didn't Riddler just remove Robin's mask to discover his true identity? Holy stupidity! 😃
We used to jump off our two story apartment complex holding a large towel in both hands (like a cape) onto a pile of old, ratty mattresses we'd found. It was a solid 25 feet and we were all around 8 years old. It actually worked if you hit the mark...I remember one kid getting hurt when he bounced off and landed wrong. One day we came to jump and the mattresses were gone. This was 1971 in Oxnard, California.
we used to jump off our deck, second floor but all we had was the lawn but more importantly we used to pretend to be superman......even at 6 we knew batman couldnt fly
Frank Gorshin IS the Riddler. No one will ever do it better
Jim Carrey ruined his portrayal it was HORRIBLE compared to Gorshin!!!
@@TheSpritz0 that whole movie was Riddler and Two Face trying to out Joker each other.
@@erikseidler7983 I PREFERRED False-Face played by Malachi Throne... awesome episode!!
@@TheSpritz0 It was said(and Malachi Throne confirmed it in an interview at a convention)that the character of False Face was too scary for children and he only played the character in two episodes, if my memory serves. Malachi Throne was a very effective character actor.
@@erikseidler7983 Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones didn’t get along well during the filming of Batman Forever. Tommy couldn’t work with Jim’s comedic style of acting. But, being actors, they had to work together with their characters.
Cesar Romero was a fellow U.S. Coast Guard veteran!
I don't think Spencer Tracy was ever interested in being on the show. Or any other TV Show. He was 67 years old and died the year the show first aired.
I have heard of everything in this video but in my 55 years of being a fan of the show I have never heard that.
Frank Gorshin played a villain in 1993 superhero movie Metoerman.
Mr. Byers.
Can you imagine Frank Sinatra as the joker? Lol I can't
The joker from this show should of done something to his hair, he always looked like someone’s grandmother
Me either
Frank Sinatra's forte is singing. But he might have made a good Joker.
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 you think? I dunno.. I can't see it myself but who knows lol
Holy inaccuracy's Batman!
What is it old chum?
This video is full of inaccuracy's Batman!
Adam West made this show great! Especially upon review. They age "well". LOL Its all in Adam West's delivery in pretty much every scene.
When Otto Peminger played Mr Freeze he got angry on the set at Adam West because He couldn't remember His lines and had to read a teleprompter sorry Adam I love you where ever you are I hope theres a Batman tv series in heaven.
Raymond Burr had the same problem.. It worked out well for him .
Oh wow, I didn't know that was OttoP.
Not exactly revelatory. And the pictures don't match the commentary. Lazy.
Agreed. They couldn't even get the year the show was cancelled correct.
I wish we had a King Tut and Joker team up... That would have been a ham feast for the ages.
how can you have a Ham fest with Egghead? Everyone know ham and eggs go together!
simply delicious indeed🤣
At 5:10, the narrator says that Halle Berry based her role of the catwoman on “Nichelle’s” role. Ertha Kitt played catwoman, not Nichelle Nichols. *That* mistake was messed up.
Alan Napier was the best Alfred.. Cesar Romero the best joker.. Burgess Meredith the best Penguin and Frank Gorshin the best riddler but that's just my option being a child of the 60s
No I concur - Frank Gorshin was the best Riddler actor, Cesar Romero was the best Joker actor, Burgess Meredith was the best Penguin actor and (even though she only played her in the 1966 feature movie) Lee Meriwether was the best Catwoman actress (in addition to Adam West was the best Batman / Bruce Wayne actor, and Burt Ward was the best Robin / Dick Grayson actor) [in that, fortunately, it’s not just your opinion].
you are so right😁
I have an Autographed pic of Cesar Romero as the Joker on the wall :) signed in 1960s..got it from my uncle who met him when returning from Korea
priceless😁
No mention of the King Tut villain, always liked him. And don't forget batman had a dance, the Batusi. You showed the pictures of him doing it but didn't mention it.
slipknot-King Tut was the only villain who figured out who Batman 🦇 and Robin really were. In a season three episode, he's in the Batcave, and finally figures out that Batman/Bruce, and Robin/Dick were one and the same. But before he can spill the beans, he gets knocked out, and when he comes to, he's reverted back to his alter ego, a Yale University 🎓 professor, who realizes he's late for class.
@Kevin Miller ... wow, ok thanks. I remember he had some sort of amnesia but didn't remember all that. Sounds familiar now. Appreciate it!
A very funny scene was when King Tut was about to announce Batman's secret identity and a rock fell on his head. ROFL.
@@kevinmiller6380 Egghead also figured out who Batman was. He kidnapped three millionaires and deduced it was Bruce Wayne. One was left handed, the other spoke with an accent. Egghead told Bruce Wayne you're the only of three that can be Batman.
Frank Gorshin was my 3rd cousin on my Slovenian Mother’s side. Great bragging rights when I was young.🙂👍🏾
Robert Wagner was also sounded out for role of James Bond. Like Adam West, he felt a British actor would be better.
Lyle Waggoner is not Robert Wagner.
Nevermine the well-known fact that West and Ward sexed thousands of bat groupies during the shows short run 🏃♀️
My favorite Batman moment is when there's a diseased fly on his nose and he asks Robin to hand him his Bat Tweezers and Bat Flyswatter
Where does Batman take a bath? In the bat tub.
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 ba-dum 🥁
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 you made me laugh so now it's my turn. Look up a song called I Wupped Batman's A**
Why TF would Halle Berry base her performance of Catwoman on Nichelle Nichol's performance of Uhura on Star Trek??? And why would ABC cancel the show and "hope that" another network would pick it up?
Is it just me or did Alfred and Harriet have a cutesy G rated romance? They definately seemed taken with eachother to me
it's just you.....
Everything in this video is common knowledge and all ready been documented
Yeah, but the annoying manic music is new. So he’s got that goin’ for him.
Already.
Let me tell you something, not too many kids cared or even knew Eartha Kit was black
I can’t say I ever noticed, but I couldn’t stand her voice! It was like Carol Channing, another actress who’s fame eludes me. And I thought Julie Newmar was so hot, she was hard to replace.
The difference in pay made perfect sense. One was playing the main character. The other was the sidekick. Just because they work the same hours, doesn't make them of equal standing.
Plus, Adam was an established actor, Burt was a rookie.
@@brianew Exactly, why everyone thinks just because you're working the same hours, you're entitled to the same pay is ridiculous. Batman without Robin, works, its been proven. He was little more than another Batgadget in the belt. None of that takes away from his ability, he was good in the role. He was talented, but he wasn't integral/irreplaceable to the story.
The music sounds like a knockoff of the Doctor Who theme.
A former coworker (now deceased) who was in high school when the show premiered said that the buzz for the show was high, but that after the first episode aired, they were all saying, "What a piece of shit!"
The first episode of Batman I ever saw was the one with John Astin. I remember putting a mustache on the riddler in a Batman coloring book because of the episode. I actually didn't realize it was John Astin until I saw it another time. I guess I had learned more about classic TV in the interim. I don't remember seeing the Gorshin's Riddler wear a suit and tie as has become popularized in more recent years. That doesn't mean I didn't see it. I also don't remember ever seeing Mr. Freeze on the show and was surprised to learn he was on it. Another thing I didn't realize, perhaps because the TV wasn't clear enough, that Cesar Romero never shaved his mustache to play the Joker.
Alfred's last name at the time of the TV series was Beagle. The Pennyworth surname debuted in 1981, or about that time. I'm up to 1944 in the comics, and he hasn't been given a last name thus far, although some speculate that it might be Jarvis because he says that his father was Jarvis, but doesn't explictly say that that was his first name. Alfred was originally fat, but when they cast a thin actor in the role in the 1943 serial, they had him go to a health resort where he lost weight and hair, and a grew a mustache to resemble him. He looks so different that Batman and Robin don't recognize him. This was in Detective Comics #83 (January 1944) by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, which appears in The Batman Chronicles Volume Nine and Batman: The Golden Age volume 6. The character hadn't been around that long when the change was made.
The Pennyworth surname was established by the mid 1970s, as they introduced Alfred's niece Julia Pennyworth, as well as his brother Wilfred (I think that was his name, he was an actor). Eventually they said that the father Alfred Beagle was on Earth-2, and the thin Pennyworth on Earth-1 (pre-Crisis), as they gave Alfred new backstories of working with the French underground during WW2, and he was thin, and no mention of acting or the Cockney accent.
"HOLY SHIT!" Robin was seen as a joke in the eyes of the League Of Decency - they made him take medicine to make his junk shrink. Burt Ward told the story of this in his book about his time on the T.V. show. The real joke of the show was the name plates on everything as if Batman didn't know what all his gadgets were!
Burt Ward was up for the Dustin Hoffman role in the Graduate but Fox wouldn't let him out his contract
Seriously? Can you imagine Burt Ward shouting Elaine! Elaine!!
@@sureshmukhi2316 Nope.
That would have skyrocketed Burt's career
We used to live in a trailer park in the late 70s and one time my Dad brought home a couple of the toy Batman utility belts for my brother and me. We threw the bat-arang over the curtain rod and tried to climb up the wall. PSYCH! That wasn't going to happen! We fell and brought the whole curtain down. Boy did we get in trouble! 😂😂😂😂
The most mess up thing about the show is that the first actor who play mr. freeze committed suicide in a hotel room.
In the suicide note he explained that he offed himself because he was bored. . . . Well, at least he had a good reason.
What? I never knew this. I'm sorry to hear this
If this video is only about the TV Batman, then why all the pics and clips of other Bat franchises?
Bill Dozier got the idea to do a Batman show when the Playboy Mansion had shown the campy 1940s Batman serials for some kind of viewing night they’d have. The camp of the show reflected perceived camp that the Batman comics had circa 1965 (Dozier bought several comic books from a local newsstand, and the first episode adapted the Riddler story from Batman 171, 1965).
That timeline doesn't make sense. Hugh Hefner didn't move into what became his "Playboy" mansion in Holmby Hills until 1971, well after the series had been off the air.
My grandmother was good friends with Cesar Romero since they had gone to school together. She was a painter, so I don’t imagine it was a common interest thing since he was an actor. But they were friends. I met him on several occasions and even attended a live production he was in when it was on tour. Unfortunately, after more than 50 years, I don’t remember what it was called.
I love the fact that Cesar refused to shave.
Producers: Mr. Romero, we want you to play the Joker.
Cesar Romero: That's great. I'll do it.
Producers: The Joker is clean shaven.
Cesar: I'm not shaving my mustache.
Producers: We'll just cover it with makeup.
One best villains was the Mad Hatter. He and his gang were sharp dressers. The character overly dramatic even on a show that was camp. Spoke with a stereotypical gay lisp. All those qualities made him unique.
Batman teamed up with The Green Hornet.
How do you like that, MCU
Robin (strapped down to a giant grill), "Holy Oleo!" Catwoman, "I didn't know you could yodel."
Burgess Meredith h came up the the “Quack”. Since they wanted him to start smoking again, he created the noise to cover coughing.
You left out my favorite PSA. Batman and Robin are tired up with a bomb about to explode when Batgirl comes to save the day. Instead of getting rid of the bomb like Batman is telling her to do she tells him about how unfair it is that a woman doing the same job makes way less than a man. That she doesn't even make as much as Robin!
Great memories
that wasn't Adam West though
Burt Ward got paid less because he was an unknown at the time. That's how it goes.
That and it is Batman and Robin. Second fiddle doesn't get what the first seat is paid.
Remember the scene where Batman puts change in the parking meter? I guess even Batman has to pay for parking
There is absolutely nothing messed up about Batman in this video.
Not mentioned here: Cesar Romero had one condition for playing the Joker - he refused to shave his mustache. To they simply put makeup over it and pretended it wasn't there (but it is extremely obvious in an close shot).
No the studio said that Burt Word had a big Robin. So to fix this they gave him pills that would reduce the the size of his Robin! True story
This show was before my time but I remember watching the re-runs and loving it. I don't think that joker gets enough credit.
Best batmobile ever!!!
George Barris made all the cool TV cars.
Mickey Rooney might have been a good Penguin.
Mickey Rooney might have been a good Batman
@@1pcfred - Well, he would have been one funny Batman. Can you imagine the one liners that would have come out of Rooney’s mouth?
@@picklerix6162 some days my imagination works better than other days.
Evaporating the U.N and mixing them up when unevaporating them was pretty messed up.
Batgirl never punched anyone in the series. It was always kicks or something as a club
I also watched Batman as a child & loved the campiness of it was what kept drawing me back. I loved watching it after school when it went into reruns.
"The Messed Up Things In Batman No One Talks About" Apparently none.
There was nothing messed up about Batman.
I always found it funny how aunt harriet never could see through the batman and robin costumes and see that it was Bruce and Dick and still couldn't put 2 and 2 together. Also I found it funny that Bruce had to make up a story to tell Harriet so they could go out and try to catch the bad guys!
I found it funny how Bruce and Dick would always tell Aunt Harriet that they were going fishing, then lock themselves in the study and not come out for hours.
Also, the Commissioner or Chief O'Hara couldn't figure out that Batman and Robin and Bruce and Dick sounded the same. They also couldn't figure out the "voice on the Batphone" and Alfred are the same. Alfred doesn't disguise his voice.
Also, the Commissioner couldn't figure out his daughter was Batgirl.
There was a commercial where Batman showed kids in England how to cross a road.
what i thought was funny was the controls to the batpoles were hidden in the statue, but the batphone was in plain sight
It was like Superman in the 50’s Clark Kent the only difference was Clark Kent wore Black glasses.Great Ceaser Ghost lol
@@johnsensebe3153 I found it funny that no one put two-and-two together and realized that the Hulk and David Banner were one and the same, seeing as how the Hulk changed back into Banner in front of certain people, but people never questioned Banner about it, nor did they turn him into the police. In one episode, Terror In Times Square, Banner has to be at a certain address by 5:00, and flags a taxi. He changes into the Hulk in the back of the cab, and the cabbie has a look of horror on his face when he sees the Hulk, but he couldn't hear Banner's clothes ripping, nor hear the Hulk's growls.
Alan Napier who played Alfred, was the once removed cousin of Neville Chamberlain...
Prove It! 😁
he was also on the Beverly hillbillies
William Dozier was at the Playboy Mansion when Hugh Hefner was screening the Batman serial from the 1940s. That's how it began.
There was no laugh track. They may have been other back ground sounds but no laugh track.
Batgirl was my favourite even as alittle boy.
I was so intrigued how Batgirl was so hot while Barbara was just ordinary
Astin only played the Riddler because Gorshin was not available at the time he was needed
I heard Gorshin thought so highly of himself he demanded more money and you know that wouldn't fly. The producer just called up Astin who was glad to work after Addams Family was gone and Gorshin quickly changed his tune and got back to work.
@Charles Philip Adams he was actually doing a show and wasn't available. But I forget the show. I read that many times. I will try to find it foe you
@@kevind1931 Right he was doing his show in Vegas and making good money so the Batman people felt he wasn't dedicated to their show and maybe they were right. If you are under contract to a producer then as long as you have a contract that should be your first interest. But Gorshin was a hUGE draw in Vegas in those days so I can see him saying I want to go and make a crap load of money doing my act and to hell with Batman. They can't get along without me. They will wait until I'm ready to come back. But after they used Astin and he did a good job Gorshin changed his tune real fast and got back to work.
@Charles Philip Adams back in the day when I watched the show
, I thought Girshi riddler and Romero Joker were great. It wasn't till about 5 or 6 years later watching an episode of Charlie's Angels and Gorshin was on it. He was a nut job and I saw all his impressions. He was fantastic. So when the age of the internet came about 1997 when I got a poster.. The first twonthing I did was download the Suoer bowl stadium plan and searched Frank Gorshin. Lol. Batman was so popular all the celebs from the 60s Easter to play a bad guy. That how you got Zza Zza Gaabor. Liberate. Tabula Bankhead as villains. So the put in the celebs looking out the windies when Batman and aRobin did the wall clmbs. Even Julie Newmar as Cat Woman was not in the 3rd season. It was Eartha Kitt. And Lee Meriweather on the movie. But Julie was the best.
I liked John Astin’s portrayal of The Riddler. However,Frank Gorshin WAS THE RIDDLER!!!!!! Of all the Batman villains in the show, he was the scariest to me. Different kind of crazy than the rest. And Eartha Kitt was, to me, the best Catwoman. All of the Batman villains were scene stealers.
One actor made more than another?!? That's SO MESSED UP!! AND YET NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT THAT!! 😂😂😂
5:10 Hally based her performance on Eartha's not Nichelle's! Nichelle Nichols never played Catwoman.
Frank Gorshin was good as the Riddler and did become a fan favorite, but I think Richard Widmark could have been even better playing the Riddler. Widmark played some crazy characters in some of his early movies that displayed that craziness. 😂 I forget the name of that one movie where plays a crazy gangsta type character that's a murderer with a maniacal laugh.
Halle Berry was The Catwoman in 2014?? I wonder who does the fact checking in Viral Nater?
5:12 Halle Berry did not land the role of Catwoman in 2014. Catwoman came out in 2004.
The original batmobile is still my favourite bat car.. Based on a 55 Lincoln Futura concept car
They padded the costumes only AFTER trying to chemically castrate burt ward, and him tearfully refusing
Now crazed physicians routinely do it to teenage boys. The world sure has changed, huh?
Cesar Romero would not shave off his mustache for the Joker role. You can still detect it under the makeup.
I don't blame him, he looks great with that mustache, it was a part of who he was. He was a Hollywood heartthrob that women in that era was crazy about and loved him. A regular Latin Rudolph Valentino!😆
@@tubucoco Was Cesar Romero right not to shave off his moustache?
He looked like someone’s grandma with his hair
The first African American woman to star in a tv show was, to the best of my knowledge, Hattie McDaniel, who starred in the sitcom Beulah. This was in the 1950s. Before that, she had a radio show, and before that Beulah was the maid for The Great Gildersleeve.
And like Amos and Andy the naacp helped get both shows canceled they also killed off blaxiplotation films from the 70s.
Commissioner Gordon wasn't too bright, He can't figure out that Batgirl is his daughter. Also, whenever Batgirl would make one of her quick exits Barbarba Gordon would show up, but no one ever put 2 & 2 together and figured out that Batgirl was Barbarba Gordon. 🤣🤣
Maybe because nobody can change outfits so quickly and put the unworn ones somewhere safe.
The campy style was do to the 1943 serial of Batman!😅
Oh for the days when TV shows were designed to entertain rather than lecture their audiences.
I loved this show as a kid. My Dad and I would watch every episode and laugh! What a great series!
Their was a Batman series in the early 1940s also.
"Same Bat time, same Bat channel!":)
Holle Berry based her role on Nichelle ?
Does anyone on TH-cam ever proofread their own work ?
Interesting that NBC wanted the show after the sets were destroyed. Guess they took a very long time to make that decision and then it was too late.