The 1966 Batmobile gets an atomic charge

The Batmobile gets a charge from the Atomic Reactor and a bit of radiation is siphoned/vacuumed off to make a radioactive spray!

[@richintalent]

Love how Batman puts gloves on over his gloves... 60s camp at its best

[@Need_RnR]

Batman was layering, *BEFORE* it was cool!! xD

[@chipchopbarbershop8426]

Before Robin went crazy

[@quigley6643]

There’s another scene where he has headphones placed on his “bat-ears” and not on his real ears.

[@nb2008nc]

That's where Spock got the idea for nuking himself in Wrath of Khan.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Well we’re dealing with radioactive material here, better to be safe than sorry!

[@DougZbikowski]

I like how Robin is filling the Batmobile with some kind of gas with a plastic tube...that leaks...

[@christopherbacon1077]

And since it's from the atomic reactor, presumably it's radioactive

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

@@christopherbacon1077 "That can't be good!"

[@jacobhargiss3839]

Holy unsafe working conditions batman!

[@joekurtz8303]

Gotham city doesn't have an occupation safety program.

[@chipchopbarbershop8426]

This and both the filmation and the TTG Batman are my favorites

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

Alfred is probably the most intelligent character in the entire Batman series

[@Denzo_Gaming]

the way they just casualy jog everywhere always gets me

[@mando074]

Here is some history about this from a Vox article: "Back in the 1960s, jogging was something only athletes and boxers really did. Normal people mostly didn't do it - and when they did, it was cause for concern. The New York Times ran an amused trend piece in 1968 on the handful of unusual freaks who chose to run in their free time." Aug 9, 2015

[@michaelvaladez3012]

Love the way the Batmobile has it's spinning circle to turn it around and face the exit after Batman parks it.

[@allanbard6048]

Still cannot figure out how. Heard it took more than a couple guys to do it, tho.

[@leftcoaster67]

Only Batman puts gloves on his gloves. :)

[@dennisjump8655]

Safety first, old chum..

[@TheGary108]

Bat Gloves-Gloves for his Bat Gloves.

[@drobson8004]

​@@dennisjump8655Well played!

[@drobson8004]

Actually, given the radiation issue, it makes sense.😅

[@williamhaynes4800]

The Batmobile was truly ahead of its time. Atomic batteries, turbines, push button start, tv monitors, car phone, driverless mode and on-board computer.

[@bowl1820]

It also had a automatic self inflating tire system, anti theft system and rear facing camera. The 1960s tv batmobile was quite ahead of its time!

[@rogerfry4645]

That tube was the first usb cable

[@smadaf]

Car-phones had been around for more than ten years when this series started.

[@Chr1st0ph]

And the license plate shows Batman's affection for the law: not like the latest anarchistic bats...

[@kevin-jg5nq]

Meanwhile, Alfred starts glowing from shoddy radiation safety......

[@DiggitySlice]

You don't protect Alfred from radiation. You protect radiation from Alfred.

[@davidrousso6440]

My lord. My high school friends and I (45 years ago) have taught our children that when we get in the car I say "Batteries to power", they say "Turbines to speed".

[@wurly164]

Roger, ready to move out

[@kebarosUK]

Parenting done right

[@hyjinxjustforfun]

Me and my brother in law now fly turbine powered jet RC aircraft (scale ). Guess what the start up mantra sounds like LOL

[@anastasi7551]

Marty McFly, " Are you telling me this sucker is nuclear?!"

[@fedarik9484]

"Hey hey! keep rolling there! No no no no, this sucker is electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need" It's noteworthy that this line is a bit of a tautology. Using the word "need" twice on one sentence. Great scene though :-)

[@thesailormercury2]

​@@fedarik9484 Marty McFly : did you rip it off doc brown: I stole it from Libyan terrorists .

[@Keven19741]

Actually they're giving the Batmobile it's emission test!

[@axelwulf6220]

The Batcave is powered by an Atomic Reactor and no one notices Yet whenever I download an app, I get asked if it'll drain my battery

[@allanbard6048]

"...got 500 horses in the Batmobile."😁

[@robharding4028]

I never tire of this bat-tastic show ! I'm a kid all over again,in every episode,

[@thudthud5423]

Alfred: "Hey! Batdude! What do I do with the radioactive gloves?"

[@Sherlock-py2hh]

Seventeen triple-o KW. One of so many classic Batman lines.

[@loginregional]

17000 KiloWatts -- delivered with an ill-fitting plexiglass cylinder into the atomic exhaust of the Batmobile. So advanced.

[@chrisbailey1966]

The Batmobile is a work of wonder, as in I wonder how it was supposed to work.

[@TheTheo58]

I recall from the pilot for Batman "Robin says to Batman "Atomic Batteries to power, turbines to speed" Roger ready to move out" They head to the Bat cave to charge up the Batmobile.

[@craigroberts6439]

Wonder how putting that stuff in and empty fish tank improved the process.

[@cthulian4942]

Is it me or does he leave it behind as well?

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

I also wonder how the "high pressure can" was doing anything at all.

[@georgemaragos2378]

Well if it kills the fish its not good ( yeah i knwo there are no fish ) I guess a small fish takn looks scientific The high pressure can with a tiny flexy plastic tube that can almost zero pressure filling the batmobile from the exhaust with "yellowcake"

[@AWriterWandering]

Well you see its no ordinary fish tank. Its a bat fish tank!

[@SmartassX1]

It was obviously a container of some kind of heavier than air transparent gas that they used for a chemical reaction.

[@rsprockets7846]

Wow Batman was eco friendly in 1966

[@geraldeh7291]

0:30 I hope Robin didn't inhale all that leaking atomic power. lmao

[@LordZontar]

Well, he didn't really want kids one day.

[@ivan23caravantes44]

Why do you think his outfit is lime green and yellow and red mostly? He can't see colors anymore and never grows taller... only sideways.

[@johnnycash4034]

They must've had a blast filming this 😂

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

Apparently Adam Weat hated making this show because he wanted to do more serious stuff. Everyone else (especially the villains actors) told him to lighten up and have fun with the role.

[@johnwow2646]

They were all stoned !

[@meropemerope6096]

@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Did you read it into "Return to the batcave" ? Cause I was trying to find it, lol

[@Ricky_Spanishh]

He put on gloves over his gloves

[@subaruthug]

Why not? He puts on underpants over his pants

[@bobpeters61]

Let's not forget: "Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed."

[@jimmypatterson3998]

"Roger, ready to move out."

[@awnneo1721]

00:50 Smart idea, gloves over gloves.

[@merky6004]

Radioactive material to trace stollen loot. Didn’t they try that in the second Nolan Batman movie? The whole “move it to Hong Kong” thing. I’m sure this is where Nolan got his ideas. Like the ADAM West Batman series movie with Batman running around a pier trying to toss a classic, big black sphere, fuse burning, type bomb into the ocean before it goes off and blows people up. Now remember the end of third Batman film w Batman fly out to the ocean with big black sphere atomic bomb about to go off? Hmmm....

[@knytrydr73]

LMAO! Never thought of that!

[@j.m.w.5064]

The old film was a lot more interesting and entertaining.

[@boramsey5122]

Yeppers.. Pure theft.

[@NeilJames1982]

Same bat channel, same bat time.

[@brianrogers7360]

Same Bat guano

[@hyjinxjustforfun]

@@brianrogers7360 crazy

[@woyame1]

This show was so beautifully priceless.

[@nathanduke5323]

That's impressive how the Batmobile squeals tires on loose gravel.

[@NoName-ge6wc]

My dad up with Alfred. A great actor and better person. He was kind and generous. RIP

[@chesterlane3032]

Fun Fact 1: The Batmobile was a 1950's car a Lincoln Ford Futura with a ford Galaxie Motor in the front of the car itself and of course the double bubble windshields on the front of the car and the back of the car itself it was red or black at the time and cost them a $1.00 I think and now they actually sold a similar car itself to a guy in for 1.4 million dollars back in the day

[@APennyW]

Yes, the tv 1966 Batmobile was modified from the one off concept car the 1955 Lincoln Futura. It was sold to George Barris for $1 after it appeared in "It Started With A Kiss" and was parked on his property. He converted it into the Batmobile for the TV show. Not sure what car you mean that sold for $1.4M ??? This car, the Futura-Batmobile was sold at Barrett-Jackson in 2013 for $4.6 Million and has been resold again to a private collector.

[@stevencochran4959]

Was always told the Batmobile was built on an Oldsmobile chassis

[@justina249]

I heard in real life it could only go 45 mph any truth to that?

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@APennyW probably means one of the drive able replicas that other people have done over the decades. Barris did several replicas for exhibition and one for drag racing.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@stevencochran4959 one of the licensed by Barris replicas that was built by someone else was built on a 1958 Ford Thunderbird

[@Cnumbers]

I like the way they run everywhere. They never walk lol😂.

[@ivan23caravantes44]

Wow nice to really see all the details at 60fps the leaky tube/ hose the gloves over gloves. The same one liners for Alfred, Batman giving stuff to him while only Batman has protection. The jumps they both do when jogging away to do something like if they really have to use the restroom.

[@rangerjones5531]

' jogging away to do something like if they really have to use the restroom.' well described!

[@blehkelekwet9642]

It's called the Batroom.

[@josh021588]

Glad your posting these awesome clips And thanks for showing comments! Thanks 🙏🏽

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

17,000 KW is 17 MW which is a pretty significant power level. As well, a radioactive tracer that can be detected at 50 miles would probably be immediately fatal to anything around it. It would probably set off alarms of any nuclear power plants in the region. If such radiation could be neutralized with the liquid Batman prepared, would revolutionize the use of nuclear power.How did Batman get a license from the Atomic Energy commission?

[@al.n.darodda6183]

Batmobile passed its smog test

[@jasonw7476]

"Will she EVER learn?" Well, if you count "Batman 66 Meets Wonder Woman 77" as a sequel to the show, she eventually DOES switch sides.

[@superluminal89]

Wait...Catwoman was on Wonder Woman?

[@JTDK1981]

@@superluminal89 No, it was in a comic book called "Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 ". The comic book has three stories in it. One set mostly in World War 2(Catwoman in the present steals something and we get a flashback for most of the story), with Bruce as a little kid helping Wonder Woman , one set in the 60s Batman tv series (Batman, Robin and Catwoman travel to Wonder Woman's island to warn her about Ra's plot. Catwoman has to go with em cuz the island won't allow males without a female chaperone). The 3rd is set in the 70's when Wonder Woman has returned to America (the time of the later seasons from the tv series.). Catwoman is in the story and she's reformed.

[@knytrydr73]

A shame they didn't animate that with Lynda Carter when Adam West was still alive.

[@JTDK1981]

@@knytrydr73 Yeah, woulda been fun to watch. Maybe they could get the guys who played young Adam and Burt in "Return to the Batcave" to do the voices.

[@knytrydr73]

@@JTDK1981 - That was Adam and Burt in Return to the Batcave

[@LongIslandP8ntball]

Yeah batman dont worry about breathing in those radioactive fumes...naaa you will be ok

[@dennisjump8655]

Hope Robin was wearing his Radiation Proof Bat Underwear. Definitely saw some of that yellow gas leak out.

[@loginregional]

Robin doesn't wear Radiation Proof Bat Underwear. *BATMAN* wears it. Boy Wonder goes commando.

[@5r248]

Are the radiation-proof bat underwear supposed to keep gas out or in?

[@loginregional]

@@5r248 Both actually

[@simplywonderful449]

Robin was later found to be impotent anyway, so the point was moot!

[@touchm3]

He wears gloves over his gloves. Batman doesn't like to get dirty

[@raymathews1474]

That yellow gas is leaking out of the filler.....

[@jimmypatterson3998]

I hope no harm comes to Robin and Alfred, they were standing very close to that leak.

[@captainjohn7833]

Meanwhile, back at the Cat House... 😸... 🚬👓...

[@msnyder6200]

Hmm millionair,e physicist, crime fighter, a man for all seasons.

[@DukeFavre]

Look at the props. They had the greatest ideas. Soo funny, intringuin. What a thrill.

[@ELCADAROSA]

1960s - 17,000 kilowatts (kW) 1980s - 1.21 Gigawatts (GW) Seems cars were more energy efficient in the ‘60s! 🤪

[@patrickmcdonald3427]

Alfred, please attach the "high pressure can" to the outlet valve...ROLMFAO.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

So 1950s....ordering a butler to do something you could have done yourself with virtually no effort

[@bluediver2]

Great show what authority Batman demonstrated

[@danclark1348]

Robin, Alfred no gloves during Batmobile charging, Batman uses gloves for lesser radioactive solution.

[@rajhussain9108]

Love the way Batman puts gloves on top of his gloves 😂

[@APennyW]

Comments now turned on! Sorry about that.

[@josh021588]

@APennyW 👍🏽

[@chipchopbarbershop8426]

RIP Lewis Wilson Adam West and Olan Soule

[@davidlopanful]

Radiation leak from the car

[@stretmediq]

My best friend and I got to sit in that car way back in the 70s

[@jameretief8327]

Is that a Dyson vacuum cleaner?

[@JohnG6]

17MW. Doc Brown had 1.21GW

[@pierrelevasseur2701]

Yeah but that 1.21 GW was for the time circuit, not powering the car itself.

[@everything-yd4xm]

Back those days when batman doesn't yet know about protein shake and steroids.

[@ijustgottahotdog]

R.I.P. Adam West & Alan Napier.

[@beeking1792]

Holy Radiation poisoning Batman!

[@stevereid9913]

Alfred is the OG Starbucks Barista.

[@conradfung5537]

Batman's bat pyjamas and mask protects him from the radioactivity. lol

[@87togabito]

Even in a live action, American Batman still refuses to acknowledge the metric system. No kilowatts for me Alfred, it’s a K-W

[@TheFlyingHeart]

Wears Bat-radiation gloves to handle tongs. Then just hands the tongs and gloves to Alfred with no protection. After he filled the Batmobile with radioactive gas. I’m beginning to think Alfred wasn’t old. He just looked that way from Radiation poisoning. I mean, he did LIVE ABOVE a nuclear reactor.

[@johanreyesisahero]

Robin: Holy Crime-Fighter, Batman!

[@superluminal89]

17,000Kw = 17 Megawatts....The Batmobile got serious torque.

[@knytrydr73]

In this case, I think it's electrical output

[@patrickmcdonald3427]

The Tesla Model 90 uses 375 kW to each of it's 2 induction motors to generate 502 hp each to achirve a 0-60 mph time of 3 seconds.

[@patrickmcdonald3427]

That's the equivalent of 150 5,000 watt generators, or 3/4 of a mW.

[@robvilla622]

Not near as much as 1.21 gigawatts of Doc Brown's DeLorean though! When that baby hit 88 mph, we saw some serious shit!

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

@@patrickmcdonald3427 And sounds boring as hell while doing it

[@Alfahippie]

Well, this explains a lot of the early nuclear accidents..

[@nb2008nc]

Did Batman get the plutonium from the Libyans?

[@randywiggins1248]

Nice. First thing i thought is if it can be detected from 50 Miles away everyone Would be irradiated.

[@ocsugar]

The overdramatic genius of Adam West

[@thewordlove4316]

"one can never be too well prepared!" sage advice, indeed ...

[@REXX399]

"The Catwoman has unsheeved her claws again" ......

[@Ian_Thomson]

Alfred handling “atomic fuel” with his bare hands 😼😼😼

[@wheelie642]

A Penny Worth u rock!

[@afterburnerboyz]

Stainless steel Metaframe type fish tank. I’ve got one just like it.

[@LanceABoyle]

My grandmother had one.

[@justina249]

Batman puts gloves on over gloves. Well same with protective sex i guess if unsure double wrap to be safe

[@loginregional]

Waaddaya expect? Beijing Biden wears a triple face rag.

[@szymonbober2280]

back when Catwoman was a "powerful criminal element"

[@masonbricke4568]

Probably the world's first hybrid vehicle...

[@masonbricke4568]

I sometimes wonder if Alfred didn't feel like the babysitter of two big kids or the warden of a small, subterranean insane asylum.

[@MRBACKHAND]

seventeen triple 000 KW !!!!!! no batman NOOOOOOOO

[@bowl1820]

Nothing Batman did there would have placed anything in that beaker into the spray can. Also the hose attached the can was a Victor Siphon pump. You squeezed the bulb to make it pump liquids.

[@REXX399]

I like how Batman is putting on his bat bat over his gloves regular bat gloves 🦇 🧤..... (Adam Weat voice) "When dealing with criminal Feline cosplay fem fatals such as the Catwoman,one can never have too much protection ......."

[@balalunga1]

Holy moly. Batman has a methlab in his batcave.

[@timmckenny4181]

I love how Batman calls for the power to be increased to 1,700 KW, and Robin increases it to *17,000* KW.

[@simplywonderful449]

Batman called for "Seventeen triple-zero", and Robin replied with the same. That's 17,000 KW.

[@Eddy-iv3qv]

Notice how it never rained on that show.....

[@em23]

Geez Batman, how many hazardous waste laws are we breaking today?

[@lllpatricklll1]

When your dealing with powerful government agencies you can never break enough.

[@SmartassX1]

The yellow gas leaked when Robin turned it on.

[@jimmypatterson3998]

Hopefully, Robin wasn't exposed.

[@ncwordman]

Atomic batteries to power! :)

[@24ktgoldenboy]

Did he just put gloves on gloves? Holy nonsense Batman

[@eyefreely9682]

I don't know much, but I'm pretty sure that the Local, State, and Federal Governments would have something negative to say about the unlicensed secret Nuclear Reactor he has in his cave.

[@MagicAl5F4781]

This version of Batman probably has a license.

[@simplywonderful449]

Except "nobody" knew where the BatCave really was, right? Another example of those with "power" skating around the rules! ;-)

[@allanbard6048]

Love to see Walter Peck get his just desserts. BUT he'd not even been born yet.😉

[@allanbard6048]

Old as I am...still can't figure out how the Batmobile rotates around so smoothly.

[@flashkellam7395]

The engineering is not all that difficult. It is simply a matter of precision balancing of the turntable. Then, only a small amount of power is needed to rotate it. Four years earlier, Seattle's Space Needle was constructed with a revolving restaurant. So precisely balanced is the restaurant, that the motor that causes the restaurant to rotate once every hour is rated at only 1.5 horsepower!

[@cassidystarchild7907]

Gonna spray Catwoman with some radioactive goop..whoa Batman is totally sadistic. 😄

[@JuanGonzalez-dg3sp]

El Alfred que tuvo el dúo dinámico,fue un amigo y hermano pro justicia, inteligente y sagaz,que hasta hay un capítulo que tomo el lugar de Batman para cubrir le las espaldas, todos queremos tener uno como el Alfred de la mejor serie de todos los tiempos como el Batman y Robin de la era de los 1960's...........

[@proofbox]

This bothered me a a young age when watching the two part stories, and what bugged me was why do these well equipped well financed super criminals simply get guns , if you can afford a MR Freeze suit you should actually have the ability to purchase a tank and equip your guys with AK 47's . Better yet why cannot the Gothlam City Police not handle unarmed criminals

[@realazduffman]

Is it just me or does this kind of remind you of something Walter White would come up with? And Robin looks like Jesse here.

[@meansangma9258]

Dudes already wearing gloves 😂

[@michaelweiss6536]

17000kw, the external gas powered generator for my home generates 20000kw

[@lucaharbison367]

Batman out here with the renewable energy!!!!

[@me3333]

Short pause.. Hold your breath for the dynamic duo!!!

[@F0re5tMan]

Atomic batteries? To power. Turbines? To speed. Hotel? Trivago.

[@vinceschenden7349]

Roger, ready to move out.

[@HailAnts]

For some reason, 17,000 KW sounds about right..

[@jasondomingo5313]

What is surprising is that someone in the former KGB saw this segment of Batman and suggested to his superiors to use some type of radioactive spray to surveillance American diplomatic personnel based in Moscow during the 1980s.

[@carlos-fv1rc]

Batman says ‘increase the power to 17,000 kW’ which is around 23,000 hp. Not bad for a car …

[@kjeldlarsen912]

That's Batman!

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

I haven’t seen that part before

[@johnbockelie3899]

I've never seen this part of this episode before , probably cut for commercials. Note Batman wears latex gloves over his costume gloves. Once in costume the dynamic duo never take any thing off for anything, like shown here with Batman.