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The "Batman" 1960s TV Show.
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Posted on 12/14/2022 3:50:01 PM PST by DallasBiff

Regardless of how silly it can be, I find much to enjoy about this Batman show with Adam West and Burt Ward. Julie Newmar is still the best Catwoman. After years of ownership disputes, the fans can watch these classics once again!

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KEYWORDS: 50s; 60s; batman; julienewmar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
The Batman TV show was so popular (I could not stand it) that they made a movie out of it. Before it could get to the theaters some movie company recut an old B&W Batman serial from the 1940s and released it as a motion picture. Lots of people went to the theater thinking it was the TV version and got took.

Holy bait-and-switch, Batman!

Traveling from Germany to our home in Southern California we got stranded in Dallas during the Great Airplane Strike. While waiting for a flight to LA, we saw Batman at a local theater on August 15, 1966. It was the real McCoy--"Pow!" "Biff!" and "Bang!" flashed on the screen during the fight scenes.

By the way, we got a flight home the next day on Delta Airlines, then a regional carrier serving mostly the South.

21 posted on 12/14/2022 4:11:15 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Bullish

Camp aesthetics are wasted on most 8-year olds.


22 posted on 12/14/2022 4:12:44 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DallasBiff

That is pretty tame compared to what is posted around here now.


23 posted on 12/14/2022 4:15:02 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: DallasBiff

While I am pretty sure there were some that suspected it to be true; yet, I wonder how popular the show would have been (in the 60’s) that the main characters were in real life—fudge packers.


24 posted on 12/14/2022 4:15:45 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: gibsonguy

Yes, for instance one time Robin was unable to come to Batman’s rescue with the batmobile because he didn’t have a driver’s license.


25 posted on 12/14/2022 4:16:22 PM PST by ClaytonForester
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To: DallasBiff

Madge Blake, who played Aunt Harriet, usually played frumpy, befuddled middle aged women. However, during World War Two, she and her husband held Top Secret clearances and worked on the Manhattan Project. She helped develop the detonator for the atomic bomb.


26 posted on 12/14/2022 4:17:38 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: DallasBiff

Lee Meriwether was the best Catwoman, IMO.


27 posted on 12/14/2022 4:18:27 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DallasBiff

I met Burt Ward once.

One of the funniest people I’ve ever met.

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28 posted on 12/14/2022 4:18:33 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: OttawaFreeper

I know Colonel Klink appeared in 1 episode like that.


29 posted on 12/14/2022 4:19:58 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Ah, Miss Kitka.


30 posted on 12/14/2022 4:20:23 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Bullish

How can you say that? The series was awesome! Some of the best actors going were doing long term villain’s ...Ceasar Romero/Frank Gorshin/ Burgess Meredith. Campy and entertaining . Are you one of those greys anatomy types ?


31 posted on 12/14/2022 4:20:54 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: Rastus

A Ginger-or-MaryAnn? dilemma for sure.


32 posted on 12/14/2022 4:25:09 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Erik Latranyi
I loved the series, but the debauchery that took place on the set was not something to admire.

You know, something I have always wondered about was Yvonne Craig, William Shatner, and Adam West. As you know, 1) Yvonne Craig was both Batgirl and Marta (the green Orion slave girl on Star Trek "Whom Gods Destroy"), and 2) William Shatner and Adam West were both the 'hot' men at the time. I've always wondered if there was some competition between them about which of them got to nail Yvonne, and whether either of them succeeded.

33 posted on 12/14/2022 4:28:19 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Lee Meriwether was the best Catwoman, IMO

Lee Meriweather was best as Barnaby Jones secretary, she was sexy and wholesome at the same time.

34 posted on 12/14/2022 4:31:56 PM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff
Let's not (I won't) forget Julie Newmar as Stupefyin' Jones in Li'l Abner.


35 posted on 12/14/2022 4:32:13 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: GreenHornet

I think I have this right. Madge Blake was also Larry Mondello’s mother on Leave It To Beaver. She of “Larry, when your father gets home from Cincinnati...” fame.


36 posted on 12/14/2022 4:32:29 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: DallasBiff

Lee Meriweather was best as Barnaby Jones secretary, she was sexy and wholesome at the same time.


So, she would excel at making sausage sammiches?


37 posted on 12/14/2022 4:34:45 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: GreenHornet
Case in point: Cliff Robertson as Shame and his wife Dina Merrill as Calamity Jane:


38 posted on 12/14/2022 4:35:03 PM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: DallasBiff

That was a good role too. I just looked on Wikipedia, and she’s still alive at 87. She was Miss America the year I was born.


39 posted on 12/14/2022 4:35:44 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Gay State Conservative

Bing Crosby production. He carried weight back in the day.


40 posted on 12/14/2022 4:39:33 PM PST by mware
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