To The Batpoles! Batman 1966

#216 Putting a Finger on the Clock King script

The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes/The Clock King Gets Crowned is the one Batman ’66 arc written by...

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#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity

One of the most striking things — in a good way, for once! — about Batman’s third season is...

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#214 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2

Mr. Terrific was cancelled after half a season, but… was it really a terrible show? Is star...

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#213 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 1

This time we look at the other sitcom that tried to cash in on Batman, CBS’s Mr. Terrific....

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#212 That’s no bat, boy, that’s Captain Nice!

When Batman hit in early 1966, it set a trend of superheroes in pop culture that many rushed...

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#211 Holy overbooking! The Late Show’s Batman reunion

On April 28, 1988, the then-fledgling Fox Network’s The Late Show with Ross Shafer hosted a...

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#210 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 2)

We conclude our look at Ellis St. Joseph’s original Sandman script with the sleepwalker-filled...

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#209 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 1)

Midway through Season Two, Julie Newmar appeared along with Michael Rennie as guest villains...

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#208 The Pilot Audience Report: Why did Batman seem “kind of stupid”?

Even after Batman made ABC’s “second season” schedule, to start in January 1966, there was...

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Next episode topic, and vote for new Patreon podcast topic

What will we cover in our next episode? Also, what will be the topic of the next patrons-only...

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#207 The Bat-bible, and Buck Henry’s rejection of camp

In television, a show’s “bible” is a collection of the rules for the world of a particular...

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#206 Neil Hamilton: From silent film star to Gotham’s top cop

He’s best remembered as the Gotham City Police Department’s Commissioner Gordon, the Dynamic...

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#205 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2

We’re joined again by our childhood friend Kyle for the second installment of our comparison...

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#204 “Rembrandt III”: Watching paint dry

As the broadcast of Batman season one drew to a close, a treatment called Rembrandt the Third...

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#203 “Has TV gone batty?” Snarky press coverage from 1966

At the height of Batmania in the first half of 1966, nearly every press outlet found it...

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#202 British Batmania: A Slow Burn

We Americans know that Batman was also popular in the United Kingdom (and many other...

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#201 Chip Kidd’s Book of Bat-Merch

When the Batman TV show set off Batmania in 1966, a wide variety of toys and other tie-in...

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#200 “Batman: The Movie”: The Novel

Former Batman comics writer Winston Lyon, fresh off his novel Batman vs. Three Villains of Doom,...

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#199 "Nora Clavicle" scripts and writing in season three

The three versions of the script for Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club raise some...

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Holy Casting Crossover! Actors who appeared on both BATMAN and STAR TREK TOS

It's here! The Internet's most complete list of actors who appeared on both Batman and Star...

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