Classic TV - Batman Pt. 1

[@aaronfrick-ob9rh]

I waited so long for the series to come out on video and couldn't believe it when it did. I bought the series on DVD and the limited blu-ray release of the series. At some point I came across the 40s serials, interesting and cool to have. I wasn't aware of it. I grew up with 66, therefore I live for it. 🦇

[@bartman898]

This is the best video on Batman I have seen

[@steverakes6182]

Years ago my sister and I met Adam West who was giving a lecture for the students at Utah State University in Logan Utah. We sneaked behind the curtain before his lntroduction and found him lightly tapping a ball point pen on a Kettle drum that was being stored. He was a bit surprised to see us back there but was a total gentleman. He autographed an old Bat Man book that I had brought along. Great memory!

[@HollywoodVideos-ku1fd]

Hey Johnny great work finding all this old footage that I never knew exist I'm a old Batman fan so man you brought back some amazing memories with doing this work and showed some stuff I had never seen before cool man keep on doing what you doing R.L Swing

[@patricklipski1662]

Best darn tv show after school to watch in late 60s early 70s

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Interestingly, this tv show's version of Batman is the closest to the original Batman in the comics when he first came out, with the distinction that the original Batman carried a handgun for dispatching mooks.

[@MrBlockice22]

Born in 1980.. My goodness, when I saw this. So refreshing, despite being before me. One love to ALL of the casting. BTW is Price aka Mr.Egghead related to me? We got the same last name, LMAO!! RIP West and to those that left us!! Love you FR FR!!

[@secularZoo]

Also born 1980 here! We used to watch the 1966 Batman movie on tape as kids and I only recently started watching the shows on the Free Channel Apps. Probably my favorite show of all time. So hilarious!!

[@MrBlockice22]

@@secularZoo I got that on my xbox 1 now. That will NEVER go away from me, LOL

[@chrislong3938]

Great videos, you've done here! Thanks! Everyone knew where I and my friends were every Monday and Tuesday evenings!!! I lived in Trinidad and Tobago back then and color TV hadn't made it there yet so we watched in B&W. ... then the movie came out and you better believe we were all there for opening night! The color of the show in the theatre was stunning for this little 8-year-old!!! Not to mention all the extra gadgets that you rarely, if ever saw on TV! Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!!! God that was awesome and funny!

[@iconicshrubbery]

From the first second of music till the last dastardly tight- spots,the whole production, the music, art and sets, fun script, colourful comic aethetic were a tour-de-force and the actors were all up for it. Pure 60s pop-art. My childhood was complete!

[@iconicshrubbery]

@@chrissteele1362 Yes, I wanna play too!

[@GVSolo]

I don't care how old I get and how many versions of Batman I get to see. The truth is whenever I hear the word Batman the only person I think about is Adam West. To me he will always be the original Batman.

[@chrissteele1362]

So right. Best and only Batman!

[@iconicshrubbery]

Adam West-> Batman as Christopher Reeve-> Superman. Unsurpassable, charming, wiity, talented actors

[@givehonestanswer5508]

Sorry to Burst your bubble but Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft as Batman and Robin 1943 .....in 1949 Robert lowery as Batman, Johnny Dunkin as Robin. In 1966 came Adam West, Burt Ward. with all this being said Adam West was Not!! the First Batman.

[@GVSolo]

@@givehonestanswer5508 , to each their own.

[@johnmulder2325]

at 61 I still enjoy seeing the series. in I have the program on DVD.

[@BigHosMan]

Ceaser Romero was the perfect Joker.

[@Stephanie54515]

Adam West.. :( I love you - even though this was a spoof - it was very serious to me the 4 year old everyday tuning in. A brilliant show. This and Underdog was what I lived for.

[@DoubleMrE]

I was 7 when Batman originally aired and I had no idea at the time that it was a satire. 😁

[@susanscott8653]

​@@DoubleMrE I'm pleased to see I wasn't the only one who felt this way. 😂

[@secularZoo]

​@DoubleMrE same here when I watched it on tape as a kid in the 90s. My wife still thinks it's supposed to be serious although I keep telling her it was a comedy lol

[@louisborselio8608]

With all the Batman stuff that's out there, the Serials, the TV series, the cartoons from the 60's and 70's All the Movies, Newer Animated series, made for video movies and so much more there truly can be a BAT Channel.

[@chrissteele1362]

Great idea!

[@1burnman]

Cesar Romaro was a great actor and the best joker

[@richardremaly2988]

That was because Ceasar Romario was such a great actor that he set the true tone of what the Joker should be. He was able to bring the Laughter to the part. Even though he was a serious actor. And he set the bar at a very high level as far as I'm concerned.

[@kellyhiggins2867]

Oh yes! Remember Victor Bueno who played King Tut? The only thing I remember him also from was as a piano player/voice coach in the very dark movie, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, with Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. I always thought it was a mistake to make him King Tut because he could have been Emporer Nero instead. Playing a lyre while he plans to burn Gotham City to the ground. Same flamboyant personality and the priceless opportunity for Robin to say "Holy Roman Empire Batman".

[@saifonlawrence2044]

I agree 100%

[@1burnman]

@@saifonlawrence2044 thank you fabulous choice for the joker

[@secularZoo]

Jack Nicholson probably a close 2nd imo but you gotta love the 60s Batman, such a great show

[@juliemcarthur3004]

Loved the tv show

[@deborahdesanto2313]

What a fun SHOW to watch.

[@vikingfan_8469]

Rip Adam West 😭😭😭

[@thatonedeadmeme2206]

AdamWayneone thats freakin creepy brah

[@antomartinez2216]

The SC Hub. Yes R.I.P. Adam West, you were one of the best Batman 😭😭😭😢😢😢

[@thatonedeadmeme2206]

Anto Martinez hes turning in his grave right now

[@SMPandanic]

@AdamWayneone that.... is .... unusually creepy the day he died was the day the show was bought

[@BRBMrSoul]

Funny to think how many generations watched this on weekends as kids. Re-runs of show, on “prime time” kid time ran well into late 90s

[@luiz.aleixo]

I'm sorry if someone wrote before. I was just watching and at minute 20:10 Lee Meriweather appears back to back with ..... Grace Lee Whitney ( Yeoman Janice Rand from Star Trek )???

[@jimb9454]

The logo at 00:27 is the same they used for the sixties TV opening credit.

[@Patriot1776Theoneandonly]

Love it, just love, thank you!

[@eds1994fatboy]

When I was 8 in 1966 Batman looked like it was like totally real.Now at 59.....it is so hokey to watch....but I still love the reruns and think back.....wow.......that seemed so real to a kid.RIP to all the stars who are not with us.But I do have Adam and Burts autograph twice.And I must add....back in about 02....I chatted with a woman on yahoo messenger who claimed she was Stafford Repp's daughter.I wanted to meet her but she was in New York....and me in Indiana.

[@SciFiFan2012]

Harley Man I missed getting Adam's and I need to write Ward or his rep to try to get one! You got both twice, lucky guy!

[@dalethelander3781]

Harley Man I was 7 when the series premiered in January 66, turned 8 that October. I watched Batman on WBKB-TV 7 Chicago (later WLS-TV).

[@SciFiFan2012]

Kane did not create Batman in the sense that he just sat down and drew him as he is. Bill Finger redesigned Kane's designs and came up with several of the characters and places in the books. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Finger Kane kept his name attached to Batman, even going so far as to his family putting the bat symbol on his gravestone! Kane was a credit stealing a**. There's a really good documentary about Bill Finger and what he did for the character, how he fared after comics and later life. Very sad how he was treated.

[@dalethelander3781]

Hell, Bill did the modifications and pulled the fiberglass molds off of the Futura so Barris could produce more Batmobiles. Things like the roll bar with the Bat Parachute lever, the afterburner, the rocket tubes on the rear deck, and the chain slicer (which was never used) were installed by the special effects department at Fox.

[@dalethelander3781]

Maybe it's the Bat Ram I'm thinking of.

[@charlesaguilar1708]

I always thought that Ceaser Romero was the " best" actor to play the " Joker" God Bless You Ceaser Romero!! I miss you!

[@nelsoncruz8191]

Charles Aguilar - I agree. Without a doubt, Cesar Romero played the best Joker ever! He said in an interview that he enjoyed playing the Joker so much and that it was the easiest role he ever did. Burt Ward (Robin) said that Cesar Romero was so professional that he never once messed up a line or forgot a line. I've always loved the show and all of the villains.

[@SciFiFan2012]

Curt Christensen you are aware that people have these things called opinions, right? I liked Romero's Joker as well, he was the living, breathing embodiment of the Joker in the comics at the time. I liked all of the villians in the '66 show, except the made for the show ones, minus King Tut.

[@SciFiFan2012]

Curt Christensen ok, I'll call it an opinion because yours is no more correct than mine, and I never said he was the best, I said I liked Romero's portrayal as he was THE Joker for that generation just as others feel Ledger was THE Joker for the current generation.

[@SciFiFan2012]

Curt Christensen looking back from 2018 you may say that, but the 60s were anything but "childish". MJK assinated JFK assinated RFK assinated Vietnam war www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/12/reddit-remembers-the-1960s-we-probably-dont-have-to-kill-all-of-them-just-the-agitators/ www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/timeline_text.html

[@jackgrattan1447]

Curt, those words are going to come back and bite you one of these days.

[@williamschlegel2242]

Frank Gorshin baby!

[@Dan-nt2yb]

He was my 3rd cousin on my Slovenian Mother’s side. Great bragging rights when I was a kid.🙂👍🏾

[@diyapia]

Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb....

[@shedjammer87]

Hilarious!!

[@secularZoo]

Quickly Robin, hand me down the Shark Repellant Bat Spray!

[@robertfourhell2746]

Don't forget Bill Finger ! He created Batman too

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

For those of you who want more Batman 1966, check out the following movies Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, and Batman vs. Two-Face.

[@secularZoo]

Thanks! All the original Batman episodes are on one of the various free channels. If you search online you will find "which one... which one's"!!

[@kellyhiggins2867]

A couple of really interesting things they left out were: 1. ABC did not in any way feel they were "Taking a chance." on Batman. They went all in in the pre-production phase and had an intensive national advertising campaign with vague teaser pictures and the line "Batman is coming." months before the premiere. In fact, they were so confident that they would have a big hit on their hands that before the show even aired its first episode it was slated for 2-seasons (unheard of at the time, when many many shows were premiered and quickly killed off after one season if audience response wasn't as hoped.). In fact, the Batman movie was not something inspired by the success of the first season but actually part of the production plan all along. It was made and released between seasons 1 and 2. The producers also were smart enough to know that the 2-part formula where it looks like "curtains for the dynamic duo" at the end of episode one and then they escape certain death and defeat the villain in part II would wear very thin after two seasons so they played it by ear on success at the end of season two to decide if a third season would be made. They were exactly right and while there was still an appetite for batman, the 2-part was too much and they limped through season 3 with so so ratings and a greatly reduced production costs with the half-hour production change. 2. It was the first, and I believe only, U.S. TV show to be on in 2 time slots simultaneously each week. Both episodes aired in the same week ABC didn't have a full 1-hour slot available in prime time for the show but they did have 2 1/2 hour slots open and the gimmick played perfectly.

[@dalethelander3781]

Kelly Higgins ABC had done two-a-week episodes before with prime time soap Peyton Place.

[@gerrydooley951]

good info. I've begun re-watching the series and what I've noticed is that the first season is great but with the second season it went quickly downhill and I've been trying to figure out why. I think the show got the "cutes" and became somewhat self-conscious. I don't think they had a strong grasp of what made the show good. It was as if no one was doing quality control. I know Lorenzo Semple was doing script consulting but you have to wonder how much input he had. They just seemed to go for the cheap and easy laugh.

[@kellyhiggins2867]

@@dalethelander3781 wow, you're right, I had completely forgotten about that. But Payton place was kind of the pioneer of the primetime soap opera, to where it wasn't even on anymore when I was a kid (born in 1966) but any seemy romantic intrigue in real life was still referred to as Payton Place.

[@kellyhiggins2867]

@@gerrydooley951 Yes, they were so concerned with making it, the forgot to figure out why it was so popular. Adam west was really what made that show so great. He was an up and coming actor and was actually approached about replacing Sean Connery as James Bond but didn't think he could pull off the accent and he thought it was just wrong for an American to play Bond. Though over the years Bond has been played by a Scotsman (Connery), Englishman (Roger Moore), Australian (George Lazenby, for only one movie) and Irishman (Pierce Brosnan). Then Adam West did a series of funny commercials for either an aftershave or maybe a cologne where he played this suave, almost secret agent type but he played it tongue in cheek and that's why they recruited him for Batman. Ruined his career because he was so typecast after three years as the caped crusader. I was very happy that in his 80s Seth MacFarlane tapped him to play himself on Family Guy as Mayor of their town and voice work is both lucrative and very easy so Adam West lived out the remainder of his life financially comfortable and still relevant. Both Seth MacFarlane and Seth Green do that a lot in their respective shows (Family Guy and Robot Chicken) recruit people whose star has faded and give them work again.

[@dalethelander3781]

@@kellyhiggins2867 The suave character was what got William Dozier's attention in casting Adam West. The product West was pitching was Nestlé Quick. The commercial is included in the Blu-ray extras.

[@danclark1348]

The batmobile is why I watched it.

[@donaldduncan7095]

Holy Time Machine Batman ! Is that a smart-phone @ 8:04 ? Really great stuff. :-)

[@SuperColtra]

Good work. R.I.P. Bob Kane.

[@agentblackacid]

Jeffrey Johnson Fuck Bob Kane. He completely ripped off Bill Finger.

[@awesomegirl5190]

AGENT BLACK I didn't know that

[@agentblackacid]

awesomegirl5 Bob Kane came up with the name 'Batman' but his design looked more like Robin with bat wings. Bill finger designed the look, invented the batmobile, Gotham city, and pretty much 99% of the world and Kane took all the credit. Sadly, Stan Lee is also allegedly guilty of similar behaviour, although I doubt the extent will be known until way after his death. www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1700-5-ways-batmans-true-creator-got-screwed-out-his-legacy.html

[@troyf.9050]

In the TV series - Episode #33 was really interesting.

[@ononoma]

Please update creators of the comic book and include Bill Finger

[@edwinreid8355]

Think I actually remember the old black & white Batman. It was reruned inbetween repeats of the Adam West series. That was the early 90's on channel 4.

[@dwlopez57]

As of January 2020 5 arch villains are still with us from the TV show-Joan Collins (Siren), Julie Newmar (Catwoman), Barbara Rush (Nora Clavicle), Glynis Johns( Lady Penelope Peasoup), and John Astin (Riddler).

[@mysticx0]

amazing stuff! great work!

[@straak]

@06:00 Bob Kane *and* Bill Finger

[@bmasters1981]

3:54-- DC did make the deal with ABC, but that's the wrong ABC logo; it's supposed to be our American ABC logo there.

[@moviesgalore9947]

Madge Blake played Larry Mondello's mother in Leave it to Beaver she was so funny in that always getting angry at Larry and always telling him "when your father gets back from his business trip you're going to be in big trouble young man" but we never saw Larry's father he was always out of town in every episode.

[@deeyarbles6565]

Not enough research: you missed the fact that Two-Face WAS on the series. Played by famous TV character actor Malachi Throne. How could you have missed that?!

[@deeyarbles6565]

Damn! My memory is going on me....I have to watch the episodes again....I think the character Malachi Throne played was called 'False Face'??? So this might be an entirely different character after all....oh boy, back to the archives....

[@dalethelander3781]

That was master of disguise False Face in the 1st season episodes "True or False Face" and "Holy Rat Race."

[@captainspaulding6647]

ddc300 Artras you are thinking of false face

[@dwlopez57]

Two face was never on the series. I believe the exec's thought he was too grotesque looking

[@tonycrewes1947]

No Black Widow (Tallulah Bankhead)?

[@bobbymoore3436]

What about my boy King Tut

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

The two versions of Batman I like the most is this one, and Batman the Animated Series of the 90's. An honorable mention would be the Batman Begins trilogy.

[@saifonlawrence2044]

I really dug this far out documentary,except for the dullsville narration man.

[@philstrachan]

audio needs boosting. mix to -db always. great work otherwise!

[@givehonestanswer5508]

I used to love Batman back in the day, Now I hate him. simple fact WB turn a simple ordinary man with a bat suit with Nooooooooo Super powers into a unbeatable man. a person carry around the weaknesses of the Justice League. Superman and The Flash should be able to hand Bruce Wayne his butt badly, fast as they are but not able. what a pity for us viewers never will see Batman get his backside whipped. WB use him as a unbeatable god instead of ordinary man with weaknesses.

[@CDubya.82]

Narrator is painfully struggling to read his script.

[@geraldjohnson6109]

I like batman

[@geraldjohnson6109]

Batman and robin are great duo

[@geraldjohnson6109]

Adam west was great as batman. Burt Ward was great as robin

[@markcross1214]

all i here is the batman

[@moviesgalore9947]

They should have paid Sinatra a lot to play himself in an episode he could have been abducted by Penguin or just an open window cameo would have been funny and Frank would have done it.

[@bryanwatt3943]

If I had the money that Bruce Wayne had well I would build a massive house with a cave just as a man cave get some cool toys and a pole so I could get into the cave !!!!!

[@frankkolton1780]

With the pole you can also have guests entertain you.

[@chrissteele1362]

Cool idea! I wish to do the same! Do reenactments in the same costumes. Catwoman can lure into a trap! Tie me up! Use her whip!

[@joebutera1406]

The fuck is a cereal in relation to movies?!

[@GigTube]

why is the voiceover sound so terrible? Sounds like you're in another room.

[@JonnyBaak]

I had crappy microphone back when I did this video

[@trevorrandom]

I'm Batman 🦇

[@BudMcCluskie]

"Oh, OH, HOLY not, NOT A BAD documentary, NOT BAD, allow me to introduce myself my name is; Tristan, Tristan mccluskie I was born ; ;Tuesday November .05th.1991' I was for,one and I'm still a, A,batman-fan I, I give it two- thumbs -up and, AND I did, AND DO KNOW THAT 'Bruce Wayne For-one AND; BATMAN' was created by; Bob Kane, real name Was and IS; ''robert kahn' oh p.s. f, IF you ask how, HOW I knew, know For-one and sed ; I good-memory' sincerely; TRISTAN MCCLUSKIE'

[@Hogiewheels]

Bill Finger

[@DerBarenJude]

John Cena

[@AlTerego816]

At 3:54 isn't that an altered ATV ident repurposed as ABC? (This, for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iofJoHqDZZJ3d7s )

[@FreshRose-z3s]

Two hot-looking men!

[@kingtit5006]

the outfit is dreadful looking, your telling me a major movie studio couldn't design something more sleeker or cooler than that crap, it's like a costume you would buy at the store, and i was just watching the dark knight, that cawl is not too great either, look at the first scene with batman talking to the commissioner inside the vault, the cawl is blotchy and deformed

[@danclark1348]

To the Batgrave!

[@thomaspryor557]

Dan Clark not funny at all

[@canaltoligado26]

Muito legal saber tudo isso!

[@JonnyBaak]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3eraGWqgaxggdU

[@salliewagenblatt5188]

Would you consider doing a history of two of the greatest man on the run tv shows of the 1960s the fugitive which of course had an excellent movie version and a pretty good short lived tv remake series in 2000 and the invaders that had a bad tv movie continuation in 1995 which had no resemblance to the tv show at all

[@JonnyBaak]

Sallie Wagenblatt Come to think of it I had The Invaders cross my mind, I'm actually a huge fan of The Invaders. I enjoyed the Fugitive as well I will keep you posted. Thanks for your suggestions much appreciated 😃

[@DEKMAN99]

As a six year old , the show got too silly and campy , I stop watching , by the year of 1967 .

[@pr0jectcc]

Im enjoying the facts but the reading is awful, you pause mid-sentence and everything. Yikes, had to stop listening

[@matwashington2784]

Great content, terrible narration

[@shawnlafrance4294]

Don't watch this is part one of them talking through the whole thing just talkin no movie Just talkin don't watch

[@stinkfinga4918]

What made you think this was the movie you dope lmao

[@hobbyshopofelyria8923]

Bill Finger