My grandfather was Ceaser Romero's superior in the Coast Guard for a brief time until he was moved up through the ranks during WWII. He also said Ceaser asked for no special treatment and would work twice as hard to earn the respect of all his peers.
The impact of the first run Batman series can't be under estimated. I was working in a grocery store in January 1966 when the program began. Our store manager stopped all work and gathered us together to watch the program. It was quite a treat, none of us had ever seen anything like it. I have never forgotten that experience.
Adam West was great and had that great quality of not taking himself seriously which which is an appealing quality to people that become famous, later grabbing a whole new audience again with an almost parody of himself as Mayor West on Family guy! great bloke.
West originally felt typecast in the role and initially felt it held him back. Later, he embraced it, saying *Better to be remembered for one role than none at all". He is now well known for two roles.
Thank you, I enjoyed this! My parents and I loved this TV show. Born in 1961, my first crushes were Adam West and Batman. I made Batman and Robin costumes for my sons Halloween of 1989. My 4 year old was Batman and 6 month old was Robin. We got a lot of nice smiles and comments from people who remembered the show fondly.
I loved Adam West!!! What a versatile actor!!! With many voice overs under his belt. The Batman Movie was hysterical. So funny, I was in tears in the bomb scene. I hadn't heard about the 2003, Return to the Batcave!!! I'll have to look for that one. He was iconic.
The Batman movie had its premiere in Austin, TX, since the Batboat was built there by Glastron. The premiere was part of the Austin Aqua Festival (1962-1998). I watched the Batman series in the '70s on the Lively Ones, KTVT Channel 11 Fort Worth-Dallas, scheduled between "The Flintstones" and "Gilligan's Island."
I was in 2nd grade. Age 6-7. Batman, Get Smart, and Lost in Space all debuted that year (no research, relying on memory). I don't remember, but two of the three aired at the same time so Batman must've been one of them because of the tw0-part format so there must've been a replay. We, as kids of the era, were in utter heaven between the three.
I remember meeting Adam West signing autographs at IGA Groceries, and Burt Ward visiting our school in costume, in '77 and '78 when they were doing the Saturday Morning cartoon. The roles went far longer than this video indicates. Icons!
According to Burt Ward he said Holy a total of 370 times. Burt was the 1st choice for the Dustin Hoffman role in the graduate. He didn't get it because the producers wouldn't release him from his contract. Another person that was up for the part of Batman was Ty Hardin.
Can you imagine the level of hate there would be if anyone tried to do a campy Batman show, people freak out if there’s even an animated superhero show done for fun
Talk about being typecast, Adam West was Batman. But the real star of the show was "that car," The Batmobile. Coolest car ever on TV. Special nod to the Munster Mobile, but the Batmobile wins. It's atomic powered.
Keaton is my fave. Clooney comes in at number 2. But even he couldn't save that _Batman and Robin_ movie crime. Between the ridiculous movie physics and the annoying puns, I've never watched it more than once. Even Clooney felt the need to personally apologize for it!
Did you know that johnny green 'surfs up' episode one of the beach bums with his greenmen bandmates in the episode who said 'look its the joker' wrote the batman theme and played the bass guitar in the theme song? Johnny-rip-also taught gene simmons the fire breathing trick.
I used to see Batman chapter by chapter in the mid 69'a in black and white in Venezuela then I went to live in England where Batman was a cartoon and nobody believed me that I had got in and taken a picture in the Batmovil, it was true, the Batmovil came to Caracas and was in an exposition and you took a picture as you did when Christmas came and you took a photo with Father Christmas. I wonder what would my classmates in England say when the real Batman with Adam West was shown in the UK?
During the late late 1980s when my now late father and I asked video stores why arent particular tv shows, cartoons, etc on released on video. They said its not the public, they have inquired videos about the same thing. Its those who own the original and distribution rights. Remember each decade comes a new form of entertainment format, "theaters, "television", "vhs", " dvd", now "streaming". Upon those developments or should I say before the formats were developed, the companies that owned those rights themselves didnt see a market for release based on the existing formats. Since theaters showed multiple times, television once but then can re-runs (aka syndication).
I also found out, in another video, that we almost had a crossover film with Toho. Batman vs. Godzilla. How crazy would that have been. I am guessing that interest might have dropped when the ratings for the show took a nosedive.
Mom and I watched the syndicated series in the 80s. I was in high school and it came on after I got home. We had such a good time watching it. Mom’s favourite lines were Batman saying, “I smell pink.” and “A message was left in the alphabet soup”. I can still hear her laughing. Mom and I never really bonded so it was these moments I cherish.
loved this show when I was a kid, have the DVDs now and love all the pretty women that guest starred and especially Sherry Jackson, and also Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Lee Meriweather, Eartha Kitt (who sung "Santa Baby"). the original Joker, Riddler,and Penguin were the best. oh, and the car, loved the car. the best Bat Mobile ever.
In "Return To The Batcave" Frank Gorshin looks very gaunt and pale and limited by what he could do. It made sense a few months later when he died from cancer, and you can see the effects on screen.
In 1966, I was 11 years old. So yeah, I saw pretty much the entire 1st season. Kinda lost interest the next season, though. Stop me if you've heard that story before, As a musician, I had a chance to back up Davy Jones at Six Flags New England. Good guy, I thought, and he had his act absolutely down at that point. Again, I was 11 years old in 1966, so of course I was a huge fan, and of course that was a true thrill. Fans of Adam West should look into a guy named Ralph Garman, who really championed Adam in his later years, and was instrumental in getting Adam his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Julie Newmar was the Catwoman !!! I wish she would have been in the 1966 movie but she had a schedule conflict making the movie McKenna's gold. Lee Meriwether fell far short of Julie Newmar.
It was Dean Jeffries and Bill Cushenberry that DESIGNED and BUILT "THEE" Batmobile!! The only and I mean "ONLY" involvement of him was where it was where it was built and who bought it from the studio, NOTHING MORE!!
For reasons I do not know, Adam West slipped into doing an "adult" film based on the D H Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover called Young Lady Chatterley. Set in 1970s USA it involves a young woman discovering she is related to Lady Chatterley & her "exploits" with various men. Adam appears as an archaeologist who is given a lift in Young Lady Chatterley's limo. He sits up front talking history with the chauffeur as, behind a screen, Lady Chatterley "entertains" a younger, hunky hitchhiker. Adam is NOT involved in any of the adult scenes & remains clothed the whole time.
Most of this information 8 already knew through my own research I have done trying to find ways to watch the series when is wasn’t running in syndication now I don’t have that problem cause I got the blue-ray set that was released in 2014 I found the series when I was 5 years old during the second wave of batmania in 1989 when the first Tim Burton movie was released when family channel now known as Freeform had it on the channel and I pretty much instantly fell in love with it and Adam became my hero that lasted until his death in 2017
@@rockywatchesmovies I agree cause despite the campy tone of series and it’s feature length movie it was the best depiction of Batman’s intelligence we have ever gotten in live action and it has done things for Batman that are still felt today like Mr zero’s name change to Mr freeze showing the first depiction of Barbra Gordon as batgirl actually bringing Alfred back from the dead for example
《Holy Birds of a Feather, Batman!!!》 ..."Little Peacock" called "Robin" a "Chicken"??? 《Holy Hawaiian Heroics, Batman!!!》 ...& (Adam) WEST used a Lounge Chair to (Burt) WARD off An Assailant??? 🐔🦇🐓
I would not have minded them firing Romero for his stupid painted moustache insistance, and getting someone who was more menacing instead of that damn 5 minutes of cackling.
The Superman tv series was SERIOUS? excuse me? episodes like a bib overalled hillbilly calling himself Superman delievering a strawberry pie to an Airman stationed in Alaska and keeping it away from a crook who wants to win a bet with a fellow gangster was SERIOUS? this was the just the tip of the iceberg of juvenile silliness with the Superman tv series. George Reeves was so embarrassed playing Superman in it he burned his costume at the end of every season. I'll never forget the one where some scientist invents a time machine that sends them all back to prehistoric times, or how about the one where there were swashbuckling pirates found living on an island. The Superman tv series was not at all serious.
I don't think audiences of that era weren't ready for a serious Batman tv show,that's problably why the Green Hornet lasted only one season. Sitcoms with silly premises were the order of the day back then and they were less expensive than super-hero tv shows also.
My grandfather was Ceaser Romero's superior in the Coast Guard for a brief time until he was moved up through the ranks during WWII. He also said Ceaser asked for no special treatment and would work twice as hard to earn the respect of all his peers.
Great to hear...Cheers to your grandfather and 'The Joker' ...
Now thats a man of good character.
Is very interesting
My first favourite TV show as a pre-schooler. And I could still enjoy it today, fifty years later.
The impact of the first run Batman series can't be under estimated. I was working in a grocery store in January 1966 when the program began. Our store manager stopped all work and gathered us together to watch the program. It was quite a treat, none of us had ever seen anything like it. I have never forgotten that experience.
For the theme song: I always thought it was an actual chorus of singers singing "Batman!" when in actuality it's just trumpets.
Actually it is a chorus. They’re singing in harmony with the trumpets.
Adam West was great and had that great quality of not taking himself seriously which which is an appealing quality to people that become famous, later grabbing a whole new audience again with an almost parody of himself as Mayor West on Family guy! great bloke.
West originally felt typecast in the role and initially felt it held him back.
Later, he embraced it, saying *Better to be remembered for one role than none at all".
He is now well known for two roles.
@@dhenderson1810 Don't forget his voice as "Catman" on the cartoon show "The Fairly Odd Parents."
Thank you, I enjoyed this! My parents and I loved this TV show. Born in 1961, my first crushes were Adam West and Batman. I made Batman and Robin costumes for my sons Halloween of 1989. My 4 year old was Batman and 6 month old was Robin. We got a lot of nice smiles and comments from people who remembered the show fondly.
My first crush was Yvonne Craig.
I loved Adam West!!! What a versatile actor!!! With many voice overs under his belt. The Batman Movie was hysterical. So funny, I was in tears in the bomb scene. I hadn't heard about the 2003, Return to the Batcave!!! I'll have to look for that one. He was iconic.
Some days, you just cant get rid of a bomb!
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cs 🤣🤣
The Batman movie had its premiere in Austin, TX, since the Batboat was built there by Glastron. The premiere was part of the Austin Aqua Festival (1962-1998). I watched the Batman series in the '70s on the Lively Ones, KTVT Channel 11 Fort Worth-Dallas, scheduled between "The Flintstones" and "Gilligan's Island."
I was in 2nd grade. Age 6-7. Batman, Get Smart, and Lost in Space all debuted that year (no research, relying on memory). I don't remember, but two of the three aired at the same time so Batman must've been one of them because of the tw0-part format so there must've been a replay. We, as kids of the era, were in utter heaven between the three.
@jeffsiegel4879 lost in space and get smart debuted September 65 Batman mid season replacement January 66
Cesar Romero as the Joker was the best !!!
He had the best facial expressions. How he could go so quickly from one to another was terrific!
He was one of my favorite Hollywood republicans.
Outside of the four main criminals my favorite was the Madhatter.
I remember meeting Adam West signing autographs at IGA Groceries, and Burt Ward visiting our school in costume, in '77 and '78 when they were doing the Saturday Morning cartoon. The roles went far longer than this video indicates. Icons!
According to Burt Ward he said Holy a total of 370 times. Burt was the 1st choice for the Dustin Hoffman role in the graduate. He didn't get it because the producers wouldn't release him from his contract. Another person that was up for the part of Batman was Ty Hardin.
Can you imagine the level of hate there would be if anyone tried to do a campy Batman show, people freak out if there’s even an animated superhero show done for fun
In the Batman serial Batman was played by Lewis Wilson who was the father of Michael G. Wilson one of the head honchos of the James Bond franchise.
I saw them first run. Could not wait for the solution to the next day's Cliffhanger.
In regards to Lost in Space, ironically, it, as The Man From U. N. C. L. E. went the camp routine in order to compete with Adam West's Batman.
Talk about being typecast, Adam West was Batman. But the real star of the show was "that car," The Batmobile. Coolest car ever on TV. Special nod to the Munster Mobile, but the Batmobile wins. It's atomic powered.
give credit to George Barris.not just the batmobile.the munsters coach and grandpas Dragula.too many yo list them all
Yvonne Craig was so pretty!
I saw a survey asking people "Who, to you, is Batman?" The two most chosen? Adam West and Michael Keaton, who were also my choices.
Keaton is my fave. Clooney comes in at number 2. But even he couldn't save that _Batman and Robin_ movie crime. Between the ridiculous movie physics and the annoying puns, I've never watched it more than once. Even Clooney felt the need to personally apologize for it!
@@Driven2BeersKevin Contoy.
Christian Bale
As a kid, I loved it ! I had no idea it was written as a comedy.
One thing to also note was that Burt Ward and Bruce Lee were friends in real life.
King tut was my favourite , it was a brilliant fantastic series
Victor Buono was perfect as king tut
The movie The Ten Commandments had 3 players from Batman in it.
Did you know that johnny green 'surfs up' episode one of the beach bums with his greenmen bandmates in the episode who said 'look its the joker' wrote the batman theme and played the bass guitar in the theme song? Johnny-rip-also taught gene simmons the fire breathing trick.
I used to see Batman chapter by chapter in the mid 69'a in black and white in Venezuela then I went to live in England where Batman was a cartoon and nobody believed me that I had got in and taken a picture in the Batmovil, it was true, the Batmovil came to Caracas and was in an exposition and you took a picture as you did when Christmas came and you took a photo with Father Christmas. I wonder what would my classmates in England say when the real Batman with Adam West was shown in the UK?
During the late late 1980s when my now late father and I asked video stores why arent particular tv shows, cartoons, etc on released on video. They said its not the public, they have inquired videos about the same thing. Its those who own the original and distribution rights. Remember each decade comes a new form of entertainment format, "theaters, "television", "vhs", " dvd", now "streaming". Upon those developments or should I say before the formats were developed, the companies that owned those rights themselves didnt see a market for release based on the existing formats. Since theaters showed multiple times, television once but then can re-runs (aka syndication).
thank you !
You're welcome!
It's not Hanna-Barbara. It's Hanna-Barbera. LOL
My paladin in D2r is named
“ holy rusted metal “
Love this show!!
In 2016 & 17 Ward & West also returned to Batman by voicing 2 animated features "Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders" and "Batman vs Two Face! "
I also found out, in another video, that we almost had a crossover film with Toho. Batman vs. Godzilla. How crazy would that have been. I am guessing that interest might have dropped when the ratings for the show took a nosedive.
Thank you for the great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@rockywatchesmovies How did the idea come with the slanted scenes with the villians????
Cesar Romero was apparently the uncle of Charlie Harper, singer with the UK Subs
Was he gay?
8 year old me loved this show!
Mom and I watched the syndicated series in the 80s. I was in high school and it came on after I got home. We had such a good time watching it. Mom’s favourite lines were Batman saying, “I smell pink.” and “A message was left in the alphabet soup”. I can still hear her laughing. Mom and I never really bonded so it was these moments I cherish.
Those lines were in the Green Hornet crossover episodes mentioned in this video.
loved this show when I was a kid, have the DVDs now and love all the pretty women that guest starred and especially Sherry Jackson, and also Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Lee Meriweather, Eartha Kitt (who sung "Santa Baby"). the original Joker, Riddler,and Penguin were the best. oh, and the car, loved the car. the best Bat Mobile ever.
The true batman.
Saw it on uk channel again i think talking pictures a few days ago
I have the blu-ray copy of the entire series.
The weren't really walking up the side of a building.
Of course they were, next you'll say the batarang didnt work.
Of course, Adam West starred in that godawful movie, "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". And again on Family Guy as Mayor Adam West.
Robin was my first crush as a little girl❤
In "Return To The Batcave" Frank Gorshin looks very gaunt and pale and limited by what he could do.
It made sense a few months later when he died from cancer, and you can see the effects on screen.
❤
I love this series same as you do ! You will find the oldest movie of Batman from 1943 in my World.
In 1966, I was 11 years old. So yeah, I saw pretty much the entire 1st season. Kinda lost interest the next season, though. Stop me if you've heard that story before,
As a musician, I had a chance to back up Davy Jones at Six Flags New England. Good guy, I thought, and he had his act absolutely down at that point. Again, I was 11 years old in 1966, so of course I was a huge fan, and of course that was a true thrill.
Fans of Adam West should look into a guy named Ralph Garman, who really championed Adam in his later years, and was instrumental in getting Adam his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Julie Newmar was the Catwoman !!! I wish she would have been in the 1966 movie but she had a schedule conflict making the movie McKenna's gold. Lee Meriwether fell far short of Julie Newmar.
It was Dean Jeffries and Bill Cushenberry that DESIGNED and BUILT "THEE" Batmobile!! The only and I mean "ONLY" involvement of him was where it was where it was built and who bought it from the studio, NOTHING MORE!!
Can anyone guess the female actress who played a villain in the series, 1967/68 and who also featured with an electro pop 3 piece in 1989?
For reasons I do not know, Adam West slipped into doing an "adult" film based on the D H Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover called Young Lady Chatterley. Set in 1970s USA it involves a young woman discovering she is related to Lady Chatterley & her "exploits" with various men. Adam appears as an archaeologist who is given a lift in Young Lady Chatterley's limo. He sits up front talking history with the chauffeur as, behind a screen, Lady Chatterley "entertains" a younger, hunky hitchhiker. Adam is NOT involved in any of the adult scenes & remains clothed the whole time.
He also starred in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars".
Most of this information 8 already knew through my own research I have done trying to find ways to watch the series when is wasn’t running in syndication now I don’t have that problem cause I got the blue-ray set that was released in 2014 I found the series when I was 5 years old during the second wave of batmania in 1989 when the first Tim Burton movie was released when family channel now known as Freeform had it on the channel and I pretty much instantly fell in love with it and Adam became my hero that lasted until his death in 2017
It's amazing how a show from the sixties was still so popular over 20 years later. I think Batman and Friends are in a league of their own.
@@rockywatchesmovies I agree cause despite the campy tone of series and it’s feature length movie it was the best depiction of Batman’s intelligence we have ever gotten in live action and it has done things for Batman that are still felt today like Mr zero’s name change to Mr freeze showing the first depiction of Barbra Gordon as batgirl actually bringing Alfred back from the dead for example
《Holy Birds of a Feather, Batman!!!》
..."Little Peacock" called "Robin" a "Chicken"???
《Holy Hawaiian Heroics, Batman!!!》
...& (Adam) WEST used a Lounge Chair to (Burt) WARD off An Assailant???
🐔🦇🐓
interesting fact At one stage was the worlds fastest speed reader
Who.
I loved it then…it’s incredible cheesiness is a bit hard to watch now
I would not have minded them firing Romero for his stupid painted moustache insistance, and getting someone who was more menacing instead of that damn 5 minutes of cackling.
Oh you said bat suit. I thought you said fst suit...
My bad
The Superman tv series was SERIOUS? excuse me? episodes like a bib overalled hillbilly calling himself Superman delievering a strawberry pie to an Airman stationed in Alaska and keeping it away from a crook who wants to win a bet with a fellow gangster was SERIOUS? this was the just the tip of the iceberg of juvenile silliness with the Superman tv series. George Reeves was so embarrassed playing Superman in it he burned his costume at the end of every season. I'll never forget the one where some scientist invents a time machine that sends them all back to prehistoric times, or how about the one where there were swashbuckling pirates found living on an island. The Superman tv series was not at all serious.
20? Challenge accepted
As a Batman comics fan in 1960s I was totally disappointed by this incredibly silly show.
I don't think audiences of that era weren't ready for a serious Batman tv show,that's problably why the Green Hornet lasted only one season. Sitcoms with silly premises were the order of the day back then and they were less expensive than super-hero tv shows also.
In reality Bruce Lee would seriously hurt burt ward in a real scrap
Not really - Burt was a black belt in Karate & he lived in the same Apartment complex with Bruce & became friends with Bruce & his wife.
@@mlk27743my money would still be on Lee
Deffo
Forgot to mention that Batman killed the Munsters!