Batman (60's TV Series) | Batmania Born: Full Documentary | Warner Classics

Bam! Pow! Oof! Join us in celebrating the 85th Anniversary of Batman with Batmania Born, an exclusive look at the show that rocketed Batman as a character into the Zeitgeist and made Adam West an all-time face of the franchise. This full documentary features Adam West, Julie Newmar (Catwoman), Paul Levitz (DC Comics President) and more from the the world of comics.
"He (Batman) has become... mythological" - Adam West
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About Batman (1966-1968):
The long-awaited 1960s TV series featuring Adam West (as Batman) and Burt Ward (as The Boy Wonder Robin) has finally arrived in Digital HD with all 120 episodes! With perfectly pitched scripts and the iconic high-camp cleverness of its “Pow!” “Thwack!” “Zap!” graphics, Batman leaped from the comic books to our living rooms as one of TV’s most beloved hits.​
Original Pilot Debut: January 12, 1966
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[@DavidKSmith-w9m]

Yep...he's right. For me, the true Batman is Adam West. He's the first one to whom I was introduced, just like Sean Connery is the true James Bond.

[@kennedyrose6766]

I'm a twin (I'm the girl, he's the boy..born 1962) When Batman came out, it was the ONLY show we could agree on..Quick, grab the batphone! (Our dad was a telephone man..lol)✌️

[@mikecane]

If you didn't live through it, you can't imagine what you missed. Batman, 1966. Landing on the Moon just 3 years later! Holy decade, Batman!

[@matthewpaul6904]

That's what I've been saying for a long time; the Batman series was representative of the comic's silver age. It was colorful and wasn't afraid to be goofy. That's why the Tim Burton movies were so gothic and serious; they were influenced by the Alan Moore and Frank Miller takes in the 80's.

[@AP-nl4gs]

Thanks for posting this. Today, people cannot grasp that not everyone had a TV back then. We were among the few, and my "Batfriends" would come from all over, to watch this show. One day, I took some of our finest towels and other clothing items, to make capes and masks for me (Batman) and my cousin (Robin). Bad idea.... And on the first episode that Catwoman (Julie Newmar) appeared, I instantly said to the TV screen, "I finally found the woman I am going to marry". Great memories.

[@TXRBL]

I was in grade school and I remember the merch being so necessary as part of my belongings. Batman bubble gum cards were hot! We already had bubble gum cards, but Batman cards were traded, collected, and my 6 year old mind was enthralled!

[@timmy-the-ute2725]

Batman at 8-10 was the best Batman age to watch.

[@GeneKing-lz8xg]

Batman was the bomb, period!!!!!

[@joshuawingerd5346]

Adam west rest in peace our bright knight

[@Jeff98177]

Has anyone seen the meme floating around that says "Have all the confidence of a 4 year old wearing a Batman shirt"? I have a picture of 4 year old me in a Batman shirt, Christmas 1966! I've been a fan all my life!

[@mikesilva3868]

❤❤❤❤❤❤great huge fan of the 60s batman tv series

[@January.]

Robin was so cute.

[@Alsatiagent-zu1rx]

I am shocked and appalled at the tear (or worse, a stain ?) that appears on Batman's uniform @7:30. What has he been up to? Holy innuendo Robin!

[@JB95Official]

Hey Warner Classics, can you need Best of All Traps & Escapes from "Batman" (1966 TV Series)?

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Frank Miller didn't start the"darker" Batman. Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams and Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers did that in the '70s.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Batman was the first TV show to take on the superhero genre? Uh... The Adventures of Superman", with that George Reeves guy?

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Batman: Hang On!

[@bradridge5644]

This is the real Batman

[@Alsatiagent-zu1rx]

It's interesting that this American lady has such a similar accent to Margaret Atwood, who grew up in rural Ontario and then in her university years, Toronto. They sound identical.

[@CosmicSponge2004]

Is this from that old Blu-Ray set?

[@TheEman590]

I own that set and can verify it is. It was interesting to watch this show with my dad who remembered when it was originally on ABC and my nephew who was just getting into superheroes. Then there's me who watched reruns on TV Land. It's a great show

[@robgrear1142]

As a kid, I was not happy they made the show so sappy and stupid at times. Batman was real to me, and he was portrayed as a clown.

[@MichelleUS66]

I love the Batman series, but think it became too repetitive during the second season, then lost the plot in the third as budget cuts meant the “sets” would mostly be just a few props on a dark soundstage. If they could have kept the originality of the first season going forward, I bet the series could have run a few more years at least.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Just think... Lyle Waggoner almost got the part...

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Michael Uslan is wrong. My was introduced to Batman as 9 year old kid by the TV show, and the silly "sci-fi" Batman comics in the barbershop, but the O'Neil/Adams and Englehart/Rogers books became "my" Batman in college in the '70s. I HATED what Joel Schumacher did to the movie franchise. I did get the chance to personally thank Yvonne Craig and Julie Newmar at a con for activating my hormones, and I did tell Ms. Newmar that she alone was MY Catwoman (and we flirted outragiously)... ;-)

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Created "appointment viewing? Uh... Ed Sullivan... Milton Berle... Sid Caesar... The Honeymooners? Some of these people are coming up with crap in their statements (and should know better)...

[@MichelleUS66]

Michael Uslan is 100%, completely WRONG with his take on the TV series in regards to the comic book character at 24:45. The dark, brooding Batman character of the comic books was LONG GONE by the time the series started in the mid-sixties. He started dark in 1939, but got toned way down after the introduction of Robin in 1940. By the early fifties, the villains had become totally buffoonish, and after the comics code went into effect, we saw the addition of the Bathound, Bat-Mite, and Batman began to mix with bizarre space aliens almost every month. Every attribute Mr. Uslan ticks off wouldn’t begin to creep back into the comic books until many years after the TV series ended. (It’s his revisionist history I find questionable. The comic book Batman most certainly DID have “cartoonish, over-the-top villains”, and they had been in place for at least 20 years by that point.)