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Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is a 1966 American superhero comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. Based on the television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character of the same name, the film stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.
With Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton. Follows the adventures of wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne, also known as the Caped Crusade Batman and his young ward Dick Grayson also known as Batman's sidekick Robin the boy wonder as they battle evildoers in Gotham City.
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Batman '66 is an American superhero comic book series published by DC Comics featuring Batman as a continuation of the 1966–1968 television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. The series was written primarily by Jeff Parker and Tom Peyer, with cover art by Mike Allred.
- Batman Wasn’t ABC’s First Choice. The ABC television network considered developing shows based on several other comic characters before settling on Batman.
- The Producer Took the Job Without Knowing Anything About Batman. ABC entrusted the development of their Batman television show to veteran producer William Dozier and his production company Greenway Productions.
- ABC Planned on Releasing a Movie First. Because of Batman’s ambitious style and content, it was going to be a far more complex and expensive program to produce than an average half-hour TV show.
- The Network Worried the Show Would be an Epic Failure. Batman was a smash from the first moment it hit the airwaves. ABC of course was thrilled by the show’s meteoric success, but they also had ample reason to feel relieved—because when the network showed the first episodes to test audiences before the premiere, they scored as poorly as any program they had ever produced.
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The series focuses on Batman and Robin as they defend Gotham City from its various criminals. Although the lives of their alter-egos, millionaire Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Graysonare frequently shown, it is usually only briefly, in the context of their being called away on superhero business or in circumstances where they need to employ their p...
Regular cast
1. Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman: A multi-millionaire industrialist whose parents were murdered when he was a child and who now secretly uses his vast fortune to fight crime as the masked vigilante Batman. With the exception of two episodes, the series refrains from mentioning his origins as a "crime orphan". Producer William Dozier cast Adam West in the role after seeing him perform as the James Bond-like spy Captain Q in a Nestlé Quik television advertisement. Lyle Waggoner had screen-tes...
Recurring villains
1. Cesar Romero as The Joker: A clown-themed, prank-loving villain and Batman's archenemy, who leaves behind jokes as clues to his next crime. 2. Burgess Meredith as The Penguin: A penguin-themed gentleman thief who commits crimes using multipurpose umbrellas. 3. The Riddler played by: 3.1. Frank Gorshin (Seasons 1 and 3 and the movie) 3.2. John Astin (Season 2): A criminal who leaves behind riddles as clues to his crimes. 4. The Catwoman played by: 4.1. Julie Newmar(Seasons 1 and 2) 4.2. Lee...
Origin
In the early 1960s, Ed Graham Productions optioned the television rights to the comic book Batman and planned a straightforward juvenile adventure show, much like Adventures of Superman and The Lone Ranger, to air on CBSon Saturday mornings. East Coast ABC executive Yale Udoff, a Batman fan in his childhood, contacted ABC executives Harve Bennett and Edgar J. Scherick, who were already considering developing a television series based on a comic-strip action hero, to suggest a prime-time Batma...
Season 1
Lorenzo Semple Jr. had signed on as head scriptwriter. He wrote the pilot script, and generally wrote in a pop-art adventure style. Stanley Ralph Ross, Stanford Sherman, and Charles Hoffman were script writers who generally leaned more toward campy comedy, and in Ross's case, sometimes outright slapstick and satire. It was originally intended as a one-hour show, but ABC changed the premiere date from Fall 1966 to January of that year. With the network having only two early-evening half-hour t...
Season 2
Semple's participation in the series decreased in the second season. In his autobiography Back to the Batcave Adam West explained to Jeff Rovin, to whom he dictated the autobiography after rejecting an offer to contribute to The Official "Batman" Batbookwritten by Joel Eisner, that when work on the second season commenced following the completion of the feature film, Dozier, his immediate deputy Howie Horwitz, and the rest of the cast and crew rushed their preparation. Thus, they failed to gi...
Home media
In January 2014, Conan O'Brienposted on his Twitter account, and Warner Bros. later confirmed, that Warner Bros. would release an official DVD and Blu-ray boxed set of the complete series sometime in 2014. On April 10, 2014, the website tvshowsondvd.com quoted Burt Ward in saying that Warner Bros. would release the complete series on November 11, 2014, in time for the holiday season under license from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainmentand that Adam West and he were doing special features for...
Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Batman as the 82nd greatest American television show of all time in their 2016 book titled TV (The Book), stating that "West's performance, the brilliance of which has required decades to be properly recognized, played as if series creator William Dozier and chief developer Lorenzo Semp...
In 1977, Adam West and Burt Ward returned as voice actors for the second Filmation-produced animated series, The New Adventures of Batman.In 1979, West, Ward, and Frank Gorshin reunited and reprised their respective roles on NBC for Hanna-Barbera's two Legends of the Superheroestelevision specials.In the 1980s, several cast members teamed up for a series of celebrity editions of Family Feud.The participants were Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig, Lee Meriwether, and Vincent Price.In 1984, West would once again reprise his role as Batman in animated form when he succeeded Olan Soule in the final two seasons of Super Friends.Batman
A film based on the television show, Batman, was released in 1966. The film was originally intended to be produced before the series as a way to introduce the series to the public. However, the series' premiere was moved up and the film was forced to wait until the summer hiatus after the first season. The film was produced quickly to get into theatres prior to the start of season two of the television series. The film did not initially perform well in theaters. Originally, the movie had been...
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
West and Ward announced at the Mad Monster Party that one or two Batmananimated movies would be released in 2016 with the two doing voiced roles as their characters for the show's 50th anniversary along with Julie Newmar returning. The trailer for Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders made its debut on August 17, 2016.The film was released on Digital HD and Digital Media on October 11, 2016 and on DVD and Blu-ray November 1, 2016.
Batman vs. Two-Face
A sequel to Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders called Batman vs. Two-Face was released on October 10, 2017. The film starred William Shatner voicing Two-Face as the main antagonist. Adam West died before it was released; however, he did complete his voiceover work before his passing. This was one of Adam West's final performances before he died from leukemia.
The Green Hornet
Van Williams and Bruce Lee made a cameo appearance as the Green Hornet and Kato in "window cameos" while the Batman and Robin were climbing a building. This was in part one of a two-part second-season episode of the BatmanTV series, "The Spell of Tut", which aired on September 28, 1966. Later that same season, the Green Hornet and Kato appeared in the two-part second-season episodes A Piece of the Action and Batman's Satisfaction, which aired on March 1–2, 1967. In the two episodes, the Green...
Arrowverse
The Arrowverse crossover event "Crisis on Infinite Earths" features a cameo appearance from Burt Ward as an older Dick Grayson/Robin, wearing a red sweater with a yellow and green trim while walking a dog. Upon seeing the skies turn red, the former Boy Wonder shouts "Holy crimson skies of death!" The event also reveals that the events of this series are set on Earth-66, which is one of the worlds destroyed by the Anti-Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) during the Crisis.
Commercials
1. Lava Soap Grime Fighters - In this 1966 commercial Batman and Robin had just wrapped up the latest crime when Commissioner Gordon notices Chief O'Hara's dirty hands and asks Batman to pass the chief a bar of Lava Soap. 2. Fact Toothpaste - Alan Napierstars as the faithful Alfred Pennyworth as he explains how to get Batman and Robin posters through Fact toothpaste.
Public service announcements
The Batman character appeared in four public service announcements. 1. U.S. Savings Bonds - In 1966, West, as Batman, encouraged schoolchildren to heed then-President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for them to buy U.S. savings stamps, a children's version of U.S. Savings bonds, to support the Vietnam War. 2. British road safety - In 1967, a one-minute public information film (PIF) was created for the Central Office of Information in the United Kingdom.The PIF was filmed in Kennington, London and sh...
Batman Live!
During the summer/fall of 1966 Adam West and Frank Gorshin went on a tour as Batman and the Riddler to promote the new Batman movie and, of course, the series. They were usually accompanied by several bands before the featured event that saw Batman and the Riddler exchange corny jokes as well as a song performed by West. The tour most famously stopped at Shea Stadium in New York on June 25, 1966and City Park in New Orleans on November 26, 1966.
The series' stars, Adam West and Burt Ward, were typecast for decades afterwards, with West especially finding himself unable to escape the reputation of a hammy, camp actor. However, years after the series' impact faded, an episode of Batman: The Animated Series paid tribute to West with an episode titled "Beware The Gray Ghost". In this episode, ...
Jul 27, 2017 · After season one wrapped in 1966, a feature film of Batman was produced by Dozier and Semple Jr. It was originally intended to sell the TV series, but ABC bought the series sooner than...
Batman was a thirty-minute prime time, live action television series broadcast by the ABC Network between 1966 and 1968. Premiering on January 12th, the series featured actor Adam West as the perennial character of Batman, while Burt Ward donned nylon stockings and fairy boots for his portrayal...
