Many enjoy it for its sheer farce and surrealism - or for its nostalgia value - but at the same time, many modern Batman fans consider this Batman to be the opposite of the Batman they know and love. The series tends to be polarizing for modern viewers. Among other things, the movie's larger budget provided the Dynamic Duo with some additional vehicles that stuck around for the remainder of the TV series (by recycling footage from the film): the Bat-Boat, the Bat-Copter, and the Bat-Cycle. The episodes were two-parters a Cliff Hanger punctuated the end of the first episode and the narrator iconically told the audience to "tune in tomorrow - same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!" The series switched to airing once a week in the final season.īatman: The Movie, an original theatrical feature film based on the series, was released in 1966. The series managed to become something of a cultural icon, but it is also partly responsible for the general public's dim view of comic book writing and comics in general today (though, at the time, it was a pretty faithful adaptation of the comics).įor most of its run, Batman aired twice a week, on successive weeknights (which was unusual at the time). With its patently absurd writing (particularly Batman's array of gadgets, which seemed large enough to cater for any given situation - the legendary Shark-Repellent Batspray comes to mind) and shonky production values, this was more like a televised Pantomime than anything resembling portrayals of superheroes in modern day media. This is the campy, colorful adaptation of the titular comic book character, produced for ABC from 1966 to 1968 it featured Batman (played by Adam West) and Robin (played by Burt Ward) foiling daffy and innocuous criminals via detective work and slow fist-fights which were punctuated by large comic-style POW!s, BAFF!s and ZONK!s.
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