Who would have known that Ms. Tallulah Bankhead was dying during this performance? Adam West as Batman will always be my favorite hero. But I have to give the 'hero taunt' award to Black Widow! "You may be caped, and you may be dynamic. But to me, you're a crashing bore."
Uh, as much as I respect Miss Bankhead's talents and penchant to live for the moment...who would have NOT known that she was dying during this performance? She's 66 and looks and sounds like she could be 86.
The Divine Diva Ms. Tallulah Bankhead was 65 years old when she played Black Widow-it was her penultimate appearance after a career of almost 300 roles in stage, film, TV, and radio. Despite her age and a long history of drinking and smoking (she, by her own admission, could light up about 120 cigarettes *per day*), her trademark wit (she was a member of legendary Algonquin Round Table), unmatched stage presence, and genius talent are all on full display as the evil Black Widow. What an actress! :D
Some of the finest actors and comedians of cinema and stage showed up to guest on this. For the same reason they showed up on Betwitched. Once in awhile its just plain fun to camp it up, ham it up and play a tooth fairie, or Egghead, or a leprechaun or the Black Widow, etc. They did not need the money or the cred. They needed to have fun with the character!
If I remember correctly, in the episode with Art Carney playing the Archer, the cliffhanger was that the Archer and his band of merry men (LOL!) tried to skewer Batman and Robin with their lances.
The two best parts of the Tallulah episodes: the crashing bore line and Batman politely correcting Robin before being scared for his life. Okay, props to the Robin impersonation.
It never gets old seeing the helpless heroes caught in the villains trap. Black widow should have unmasked them at that point as she was caressing their bulges.
I do not believe that years of smoking made Tallulah's voice the way it sounded. Her voice always had that "unique" sound. She was knows for it. Yes, she smoked, lots. As Estelle Winwood said: "...all the lies that have been told about her I really would like to write a book to tell people how stupid they were about Tallulah"
Estelle Winwood lived to 101. She was 95 or 96 when she told Merv Griffin she smoked 3 packs of cigs a day, but I find that hard to believe. th-cam.com/video/ZoJ0s8ogK00/w-d-xo.html
@@chrissteele1362 Batman and robin to be cocooned by black widows giant spiders? The dynamic duo to end up devourer before our very eyes? Can batman escape the spiders deadly Webb before it can sink its teeth ito the caped crusader? Are we truly witnessing the demise of Batman and Robin?
@Ted Baxter IMDb is wrong. Tallulah’s last American TV appearance was on a 1968 broadcast of The Tonight Show with Joe Garagiola substituting for Johnny Carson. Tallulah treated her fellow guests Lennon and McCartney as if she admired them.
iwasanangryyoungman heard this was tallulah bankheads last on screen appearance, dying of whatever disease it was. Fabulous last show, fantastic acting
Hi! Have you ever tried - BEST DVD ENTERTAINMENT 1966 BATMAN? (search on google)? It is the complete series on a nice DVD box set. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my cousin said great things about it as well.
I find the lesser known villians much more fascinating exiting. Lime black widow clock king book worm. Than the four core. Cat women riddler joker pinguin. Bore me
I love that slight "vodka over rocks" twinge to her voice!
Do some research about tallulah bankhead. She was pretty much drenched in vodka lol
I know that...I just wanted to keep it classy! :-D
iflyTony haha miss bankhead would be proud ;-)
+iflyTony Slight? Really?
OKAY!! Over the rocks vodka voice. Better??
It should come as a major relief to some of you that no spider was harmed during the making of this episode.
Tallulah was, and always will be, an icon.
Love her sexy voice
icon...Replace the i with an L and the C with an O.
@Joseph Carl Breil Tallulah Bankhead was an excellent actress. The word icon is meaningless.
@@kathrynfauble9053 Don't lecture me on the etymology of icon? Your riposte is meaningless!
Resemble Betty davis
Who would have known that Ms. Tallulah Bankhead was dying during this performance? Adam West as Batman will always be my favorite hero. But I have to give the 'hero taunt' award to Black Widow! "You may be caped, and you may be dynamic. But to me, you're a crashing bore."
Uh, as much as I respect Miss Bankhead's talents and penchant to live for the moment...who would have NOT known that she was dying during this performance? She's 66 and looks and sounds like she could be 86.
@@pronkb000sad to say her cigarette habit had done her in
Batman (to Robin): "Ol' chum, that is why SMOKING kills!"
Tallulah is fantastic. Batman needs more inebriated villains.
The Divine Diva Ms. Tallulah Bankhead was 65 years old when she played Black Widow-it was her penultimate appearance after a career of almost 300 roles in stage, film, TV, and radio. Despite her age and a long history of drinking and smoking (she, by her own admission, could light up about 120 cigarettes *per day*), her trademark wit (she was a member of legendary Algonquin Round Table), unmatched stage presence, and genius talent are all on full display as the evil Black Widow. What an actress! :D
Some of the finest actors and comedians of cinema and stage showed up to guest on this. For the same reason they showed up on Betwitched. Once in awhile its just plain fun to camp it up, ham it up and play a tooth fairie, or Egghead, or a leprechaun or the Black Widow, etc. They did not need the money or the cred. They needed to have fun with the character!
I found out Willie Mays was a warlock!!
Her career goes back to that classic Hollywood royalty Era she also had that smokers Voice that so many actresses & actors had from her time
To be fair she also suffered from regular bronchitis and other things that contributed to her raspy sultry voice
this is television at its best
What an entrance AND delivery. That voice should be bottled and sold!
Black Widow was so effective in trapping our heroes in such powerful spiderweb.
anyone ever notice how none of the villains stick around to watch Batman and robin die
If I remember correctly, in the episode with Art Carney playing the Archer, the cliffhanger was that the Archer and his band of merry men (LOL!) tried to skewer Batman and Robin with their lances.
@@chrissteele1362 I know which one you're talking about, lol!
There were some villains who watched Batman and Robin about to be killed.
@@dariusbixby7970 Yeah like the Joker in Impractical Joker
And I can only recall one time they tried to unmask the captive crusaders, at the end of the Joker's first episode.
Scary! Those spiders look so realistic!
this was one of the scarrier eps even now. would be easy to believe that poisoned spiders can kill crimeifighters
Bat caught in a web! Whoever heard of it!
@@chrissteele1362, the Riddler.
It not Dr no Sean Connery had real.spider climb on his body
The two best parts of the Tallulah episodes: the crashing bore line and Batman politely correcting Robin before being scared for his life.
Okay, props to the Robin impersonation.
Love that Tallulah Bankhead is wearing black leather gloves 🧤. This was a good episode of batman.
That's the best Burgess Meredith imitation I ever saw.
Tallulah Bankhead is just too fabulous
Tallulah Bankhead. Adam West. What more do you need? Seriously.
Filmed in early 1967 this was one of Tallulah Bankheads last appearances on film
Watch Lifeboat. she’s great in that movie.
lol was she drunk/high throughout the entire shooting? She certainly looks/sounds like it. Love, Tallu!
Tallulah Bankhead was a great actress, kind of look like Bette Davis. She died just few weeks later after recording this episides in 1968.
Holy what a way to go Batman!!!
@robertino yanzanny Wrong. Tallulah’s two episodes were filmed in early 1967. She passed in December 1968.
I like that as soon as Batman presses the button clealy labled on his utility belt, it's gone after he presses it!
that scared the bijesus out of me when i was younger!!
After viewing this as a kid , I'll bet half of you out there never wanted never wanted to see another spider again .
Just finished watching this episode on Decades Channel and comparing her to when she was on I Love Lucy.
I been caught in alot female spider webs before..and I'm still alive
Human or arachnid?
What about Snakes ??🐍🐉😄😁😀😃💃
Lol…Dan I hear you.
Cause I'm the one who's caught in Charlottes' web :)
It never gets old seeing the helpless heroes caught in the villains trap. Black widow should have unmasked them at that point as she was caressing their bulges.
What else do you think she should do with Batman?
@@jt9455 What would you do with a man wearing purple tights??? Lol 😊
So bad yet so good.
Love this show
Thanks you have excellent taste as well!
Batman television show is everything the film versions are NOT-
The acting and plots are entertaining !!!
There was NOTHING common about Tallulah!
Tallulah was fascinating! ❤
I was honestly hoping for tarantulas. (And yes, I know they don't weave webs.)
hot legs! if the spiders were looking for the purest blood source they should have stopped at their crotches. the blood flow there was immense.
@Danny D bizarre metaphor
I bet cat women and bat girl were more afraid of her than any of the men
Forget the spiders.Remove Batmans cowl while they are tied up in her web.
I do not believe that years of smoking made Tallulah's voice the way it sounded. Her voice always had that "unique" sound. She was knows for it. Yes, she smoked, lots.
As Estelle Winwood said: "...all the lies that have been told about her I really would like to write a book to tell people how stupid they were about Tallulah"
She died of pneumonia complicated by emphysema. I'm sure smoking had nothing to do with it. :-(
@@tbec3011 I’m certain that smoking had something to do with her death
She was a very heavy smoker .
Estelle Winwood lived to 101. She was 95 or 96 when she told Merv Griffin she smoked 3 packs of cigs a day, but I find that hard to believe. th-cam.com/video/ZoJ0s8ogK00/w-d-xo.html
I read that a doctor nicked her vocal chords by accident when she was young.
My god, I love her
Tallulah Bankhead's voice is equal to Kathleen Turner
She got that voice from smoking, on average, 7.5 packs of cigarettes a day. On her death bed, her last words were "codeine... Bourbon".
She sounds like she can barely breathe here.
mickeeteeze she died not long after she did this episode.
@@killW1266 Poor, Tallulah. All that smoking finally caught up with her.
Sounds liike she was pretty close to death when she made this
Drunk out of her mind
gosh! they're so lifelike!
@sandinyourshoes I agree.The look or their faces is priceless.
So true!
One word. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Funny!
I wish part one ending with the spiders beggining to cocoon Batman and robin.
me too!
@@willg4802 Same here man.
Great idea! No way to get untied!
@@chrissteele1362 Batman and robin to be cocooned by black widows giant spiders?
The dynamic duo to end up devourer before our very eyes?
Can batman escape the spiders deadly Webb before it can sink its teeth ito the caped crusader?
Are we truly witnessing the demise of Batman and Robin?
@@scooter167 You could be writer on the show! Always loved this show!
love robin
R.I.P Adam West Aka The Batman
Agree 100% with you! Love the voice if the next Batman movie includes the "Black Widow" Marj Dusay would be a great choice!
Too bad that Marj Dusay passed away.
i think she's drunk!
and batman doesnt have the volt box thing on his belt before he decided to electrocute the spiders.
They look more like tarantulas to me...black widows don't grow to these ridiculously large sizes
IMDB says this was Bankhead's last onscreen appearance.
Really, legendary last acting job, legendary actress,sexy voice
@Ted Baxter IMDb is wrong. Tallulah’s last American TV appearance was on a 1968 broadcast of The Tonight Show with Joe Garagiola substituting for Johnny Carson. Tallulah treated her fellow guests Lennon and McCartney as if she admired them.
Dang, she's kinda old....but that delivery's unmistakable!!
iwasanangryyoungman heard this was tallulah bankheads last on screen appearance, dying of whatever disease it was. Fabulous last show, fantastic acting
Clement Ng , it was indeed her final performance.
Here because of Alice Randall's book Black Bottom Saints about Detroit.
DYNAMIC DOLL!
She sounds drunk or on something but that was the way back in the good old days
That red hour glass symbol looks the same as in the Marvel's Black Widow poster?! 😶
love robib
Hi! Have you ever tried - BEST DVD ENTERTAINMENT 1966 BATMAN? (search on google)? It is the complete series on a nice DVD box set. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my cousin said great things about it as well.
I think the spiders MIGHT not be real...lol
Still better than the "African death bee" from "The Bloody Tower", which looked like it was made from pipe cleaners and googly eyes.
dem special effects
What's with the 400 year-old villian?
I owuld hate to see television at its worst then
I came here thinking marvels black widow is going to be in this episode LOL
Is that Tallulah Bankhead?
You can so easily tell that those spiders are fake. Still, a great episode as are the whole TV series
I love Robin, his voice is so sexy 😂💙❤️💚
whats her name tallulah whats her name tallulah bankhead darlin
LOL
How did the Black Widow go from being a DC character to a Marvel character?
That's what I was thinking!
2 different characters.
Black widow used to look a bit rough... lucky she swapped comic companies and ended up looking like a sex doll.
I wish they didn't escape some of the traps
That means they would be dead. Are you that sadistic?
When Black Widow captured Batman and Robin in a Spider web, shouldnt Batman have contacted Spiderman?
I'm surprised Marvel Comics did not sue DC Comics
It wasn't DC that they would have had to sue. They would have had to sue ABC, since they aired the show.
wtf black widow is a term that was used way before romanov was created. Its like thor lol. Besides marvel has cheated a lot more lol
In fact, there were several DC Black Widows before Marvel's.
Personally, I like this Black Widow the most.
I find the lesser known villians much more fascinating exiting. Lime black widow clock king book worm. Than the four core. Cat women riddler joker pinguin. Bore me
She sounds like Nancy Pelosi!
Don't underestimate the female species
I would have rather have seen the spiders cocoon Batman and Robin.
I agree scooter167. I like that idea a lot.
Great idea! No way to escape!
She is in her 60s here and her speech appears slurred. Drunk or old age?
those spiders look like fleas
Unfortunately, she died the next year.(1968).
Really, so sad, love truly legendary actress sexy voice
Dont mess with women villains because they are dangerous to men's health
Right!
I would've loved to have tangled with Cat Woman 😍🤩❤ though lol...
LO FUCKIN' L
too ridiculous and fake looking, this one was a dud
I love this episode of batman, dr. No James bond movie they use real spider on James bond but their was glass between spider and james bond
I'd be very submissive for her ,OK I surrender x