Those 2 False Face episodes are possibly the best episodes of the series and I'd say that 90% of the episodes are fantastic so that's really saying something!
In the more recent continuations of this Batman from 66 they unmasked False Face as having been Basil Karlo the whole time, aka usually Clayface. Which makes sense since False Face was supposed to be Clayface but the restrictions of 60s TV special effects in mind led them to adapt him as a slightly different criminal
@@JacobNintendoNerd99interestingly enough, False-Face was an actual Batman villain in the comics. So it works well to put him in the show without creating a new villain for the series.
I think there was a rational I read somewhere where the producers wanted the audience to keep guessing who it was so deliberately didn't reveal his face,even some of the credits simply had a question mark ? for who it was..at the time ❤ ..
According to the official Batman book, the character didn’t catch on as younger viewers found his masks frightening Malachi Throne himself said “Malachi Throne “Originally False-Face was to be done with make up, but due to production problems or decisions a plastic mask was used instead. It was a good character , but the problem was that the mask came out rather ugly and uncomical when photographed. The mask was bad, and it prevented the character from repeating because there was no response to the character. Although I felt my work was good , it would have been better had they stuck to the original concept- different facial disguises. Also the concept of False Face not being headlined was my idea. The question mark in the credits was the producers choice, but during a contractual argument I insisted that my name be withdrawn from the credits since there was going to be no face on it and no real acting. I was irate enough to say, Anyone could have played that part behind that kind of mask, so please withdraw my name from the credits. In the meantime a huge amount of publicity arose from that with regard to what had leaked out not with regard to me but with regard to whether Frank Sinatra was playing the part or Sammy Davis was playing the part, or Cary Grant, because everything was so celebrity conscious during the early days of Batman. So everybody in town was having a good time guessing who was playing False Face. Director Billy Graham cast me in it even though I was not on the same name level as some of the other people. That was like a coup, but they pulled the rug out from under me with that stupid mask.”
False Face is a separate character from Two-Face, in fact a Two-Face episode would've happened with Clint Eastwood playing the villain, but it never made that far
@@nicholasfarrell5981they made 2 one-shots of it, as part of the Batman 66 comic run "The Lost Episode", was based on a script for the planned 2-parter "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face" which would’ve been a 2-parter as the script was for "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 1" and "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 2"
Love th einconsistencies 😆. 0:50 They pull away in a black van that is supposed to look like a police vehicle - close up shot shows exterior is a white color before they pulled the lever to change the vans color. When he pulls the lever, the van isn't moving and then FINALLY the van is white when it pulls to a stop.
From what I've heard, he was furious about the mask he had to wear (he'd been under the impression that False Face would be created via makeup) and refused to return or even be credited.
Watch "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", he has several background cameos, and in S2 E5: "The Golden Age Of Justice!" he actually gets out and stretches his legs a bit... for two minutes before the opening credit sequence. He's caught by Detective Chimp.
@michaelmohrle1773 keep in mind there were many ridder episodes so lots of excitement, false face only had one two part episodes. Just my take , false face episode was non stop.
The animated version is pretty cool. Voiced by Burt Ward and Adam West just before he died. Two Face is voiced by William Shatner. Adam West's last time playing Batman.
Malachi Throne did a good job at making this character genuinely off-putting and ominous. Much like Hugo Weaving and Willem Dafoe, he was effective at acting through a mask, which ain't easy. Throne was great as The Judge (a character with no face) on The New Batman Adventures and Fingers on Batman Beyond, too.
The interesting thing about this villain is that he was an actual Batman villain in the 1950s comic books, so they didn’t need to create a brand new villain just for the show.
False face is just 66 version of clay face and yes, I know in Batman beyond basically false face is technically terry’s clay face but still this is a version of clay face for the 60s since clay face didn’t exist in the 60s
That's where you're wrong... the original Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film. The Adam West Show could have used the Basil Karlo Origin story as a former actor turned criminal who went insane when he heard that a remake of the classic horror film he had starred in, would be shot.
Malachi Throne was a great actor and put in a charismatic performance here Sadly as he observed himself, it was difficult to act under the mask they gave him, and he felt that this was one reason the character never returned to the 60s series Certainly the mask does look cheap at best and ridiculous at worse
Yeah it was revealed in the comics that he was Clayface in disguise and he actually becomes Clayface too by jumping into a pool of radioactive protoplasym
Love this episode. I love Blaze's redemption at the end. I find it very touching. Dick's slight nod of the head as the scene fades is a lovely touch...
i laughed so hard at false face when he gets caught at 4:18. What is it possible. Batman not only possible but true. False Face Please...Not that word.
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After 55 years I realize False Face was The great Malachi Throne. Respect.
Is he still alive
@@kevinkruse7992 Unfortunately he's not. I've just checked, he died in 2013 at 84. RIP Noah.
How could you tell?
He was the ghost in STAR TREK.
@@kevinkruse7992 I think he passed away a few years ago.
Did anyone besides me find false face creepy as hell
A lot of people it appears as apparantly the reason he only had one appearance is they got complaints about how he scared children
@@TheDarkVampire666 his laugh alone freaked me out
Easily the one villian who befuddled the Duo at each step. Scared me as a kid, but now one of my favorite villians. (Green Hornet & Kato-worthy, IMO)
@@TheDarkVampire666 Huh I thought it was because his gimmick could only be utilised in one episode
It's uncanny valley...
Knowing how incompetent Chief O'Hara and the Gotham City Police Force were it's amazing that False Face didn't escape on his way to prison
When I was a kid, False Face used to freak me out.
Those 2 False Face episodes are possibly the best episodes of the series and I'd say that 90% of the episodes are fantastic so that's really saying something!
The part of the series I didn't like was when they didn't unmask FALSE FACE at the end so we could see his TRUE FACE.
In the more recent continuations of this Batman from 66 they unmasked False Face as having been Basil Karlo the whole time, aka usually Clayface. Which makes sense since False Face was supposed to be Clayface but the restrictions of 60s TV special effects in mind led them to adapt him as a slightly different criminal
@@JacobNintendoNerd99interestingly enough, False-Face was an actual Batman villain in the comics. So it works well to put him in the show without creating a new villain for the series.
I think there was a rational I read somewhere where the producers wanted the audience to keep guessing who it was so deliberately didn't reveal his face,even some of the credits simply had a question mark ? for who it was..at the time ❤
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Too bad False Face never returned. He was a good villain.
According to the official Batman book, the character didn’t catch on as younger viewers found his masks frightening
Malachi Throne himself said
“Malachi Throne
“Originally False-Face was to be done with make up, but due to production problems or decisions a plastic mask was used instead. It was a good character , but the problem was that the mask came out rather ugly and uncomical when photographed.
The mask was bad, and it prevented the character from repeating because there was no response to the character.
Although I felt my work was good , it would have been better had they stuck to the original concept- different facial disguises.
Also the concept of False Face not being headlined was my idea. The question mark in the credits was the producers choice, but during a contractual argument I insisted that my name be withdrawn from the credits since there was going to be no face on it and no real acting.
I was irate enough to say, Anyone could have played that part behind that kind of mask, so please withdraw my name from the credits.
In the meantime a huge amount of publicity arose from that with regard to what had leaked out not with regard to me but with regard to whether Frank Sinatra was playing the part or Sammy Davis was playing the part, or Cary Grant, because everything was so celebrity conscious during the early days of Batman.
So everybody in town was having a good time guessing who was playing False Face. Director Billy Graham cast me in it even though I was not on the same name level as some of the other people. That was like a coup, but they pulled the rug out from under me with that stupid mask.”
Unique villain.
Of all the villains, FF freaked me out the most as a kid.
Batman realized the Commissioner holding the handkerchief in his left hand,it didn't take long for him to realize it's False Face.
Was Batman filmed on 35mm? The episodes always looked very clear and crisp.
They look amazing on blu ray.
Malachi Throne would later go on to voice Two Face's superego the Judge on in the New Batman Adventures and Fingers the Gorilla in Batman Beyond.
False Face was kind of creepy. I always thought that he was disfigured behind his mask. Even though it was just normal looking Malachi Throne.
3:50 O'Hara took quite a dusting. Bet that stung.
Fun fact: this is clayface just with a different name
This was the ONLY episode that scared me as a child.
False Face really should come back, he’s fantastic.
Nobody better at making it impossible to be recognized by other people than False-Face. His mask would make a great Halloween costume.
So what this supposed be 2 face but somehow couldn’t get permission and created false face
No, false face is a character of his owm
Two-Face was too creepy for 1966 TV. Kiddies would have freaked out.
False Face is a separate character from Two-Face, in fact a Two-Face episode would've happened with Clint Eastwood playing the villain, but it never made that far
@@superplushtiman7ti075that would've been interesting to see.
@@nicholasfarrell5981they made 2 one-shots of it, as part of the Batman 66 comic run
"The Lost Episode", was based on a script for the planned 2-parter "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face" which would’ve been a 2-parter as the script was for "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 1" and "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 2"
That is Malachi Throne!
Love th einconsistencies 😆. 0:50 They pull away in a black van that is supposed to look like a police vehicle - close up shot shows exterior is a white color before they pulled the lever to change the vans color. When he pulls the lever, the van isn't moving and then FINALLY the van is white when it pulls to a stop.
I would definitely like to see this character brought back
I hate to be the one to reference College Humor here, but “False Face! What have you done with Harvey-Face Two Face and Scary-Face?!”
@2:31 That's Malachi Throne without the mask.
You diabolical demon!
They missed the best part. Where batman had him cornered and he busts out his van on a motorcycle
oh boy
Better villain new two-face clayface sawface puppet
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The only Batman villain who truly scared me when I was a kid. Too bad Malachi Throne wasn't available for a rematch. What a voice!
From what I've heard, he was furious about the mask he had to wear (he'd been under the impression that False Face would be created via makeup) and refused to return or even be credited.
@@nicholasfarrell5981yeah exactly correct. The poor physical design/appearance made it impossible to bring the character back
“Three cheers for F.F !!!
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!”
“Thanks men, I know you didn’t mean it!” 🤡
Dude beside him looked offended that F.F. said that.
56 years…False Face is really biding his time for a comeback…
Watch "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", he has several background cameos, and in S2 E5: "The Golden Age Of Justice!" he actually gets out and stretches his legs a bit... for two minutes before the opening credit sequence. He's caught by Detective Chimp.
Maybe he has , as the Riddler or Joker !
The Batman '66 comic actually did bring him back, in the process revealing him to be Basil Karlo and turning him into Clayface.
Never park in front of a fire hydrant. Gives away your identity everytime. 😂😂
Always felt this Batman episode of false face was the best of the whole series. Truly exciting. Non stop fun.
If you look quickly, you would see malachi 's real face as one of the 2 guards in the armored car scene. He is the farthest of the 2.
No way, Frank Gorshin as the Riddler tops them all !
@michaelmohrle1773 keep in mind there were many ridder episodes so lots of excitement, false face only had one two part episodes. Just my take , false face episode was non stop.
Funny how the 1960's Batman had a "False Face" but no "Two Face."
A "Two Face" script was written by Harlan Ellison, but it went unshot.
@@allanbard6048 And they have cast Clint Eastwood for the role.
Interesting!!
The animated version is pretty cool. Voiced by Burt Ward and Adam West just before he died. Two Face is voiced by William Shatner. Adam West's last time playing Batman.
There was a story planned but they thought Two Face was to scary for the kids yet false face scared the shit out of me 😂
@2:40 “it’s already too late……FALSE FACE!”
So is there a modern False Face nowadays or would we consider Hush a MODERN false face
Malachi Throne. One of my favorite actors
Mine too. I think I've seen every show he ever appeared in on TV.
@@Rick-mx5kh Look Al, I'm not asking you to spy. Just asking you to steal.
By that freaky mask malarkey I was thrown.
1:18 Singlehandedly the funniest moment in the whole T.V show (for me at least)
For me it's both cringey and funny at the same time
Brilliant! Quite an era of great 📺
Could you do one for Chandell , Clock King, Mad Hatter and Minstrel?
Maybe Shame as well
False Face looks like Tommy Lee Jones
One of his henchmen I recognize as being the dwarf in High Plains Drifter.
The creepiest, most scary of them all.
The Scarecrow and Manbat scared the crap out of me on the Power records series.
😆 at Hooray Hooray: "Thanks men. I know you didn't mean it!" 🤡
Game and set to you caped crusader, but wait, you may yet meet your match!
TRUTH! "Nnn-oooo! Please. Don't say that word. 😂😂😂
Apenas os verdadeiros fãns de batman lembram desse vilão!
Only the real batman fans remember this villain!
Malachi throne....one of the greatest tv character actors
"It's False Face!"
"In disguised person!"
*Pulls out lighter*
"Now, nobody grab me while I'm doing this, or it will be a really short episode."
Love the little wobble his head gives as he says that 😂
Malachi Throne did a good job at making this character genuinely off-putting and ominous. Much like Hugo Weaving and Willem Dafoe, he was effective at acting through a mask, which ain't easy. Throne was great as The Judge (a character with no face) on The New Batman Adventures and Fingers on Batman Beyond, too.
False-Face is super interesting and has a cool look. I wish DC gave him a push like Hush
Before Two face, there was False face
Campy as hell, but so entertaining!
Blaze was always a favorite of mine
The interesting thing about this villain is that he was an actual Batman villain in the 1950s comic books, so they didn’t need to create a brand new villain just for the show.
Blaze was wearing some pretty hot boots.
False face is just 66 version of clay face and yes, I know in Batman beyond basically false face is technically terry’s clay face but still this is a version of clay face for the 60s since clay face didn’t exist in the 60s
That's where you're wrong... the original Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film. The Adam West Show could have used the Basil Karlo Origin story as a former actor turned criminal who went insane when he heard that a remake of the classic horror film he had starred in, would be shot.
Hey Guys,
Can some of you rattle off some of Chief O'Hara's classic expressions of surprise?
I love his classic
"Saints alive!"
Mother MacCree!
Malachi Throne was a great actor and put in a charismatic performance here
Sadly as he observed himself, it was difficult to act under the mask they gave him, and he felt that this was one reason the character never returned to the 60s series
Certainly the mask does look cheap at best and ridiculous at worse
Malachi's son lives in Las Vegas and is a great musician. Zach Throne.
False face,cat woman and false face were my fa characters and my fav actors too...even if character played by good malachi throne was creeptly
I liked Mad Hatter, Joker and Mad Hatter.
Joker too
Since directors and producers decided to not reveal his complexion, I believe F.F. is the most intriguing bat criminal.
False face is an additional dc villain version of dan rather and Ronald regan
I can't understand why they did not do more episodes with false face
Is False Face, Clayface?
According to the Batman 66' comics which is dubiously canon... yes.
@@weiwenntwo7972 Touche' (smile)
No, I thought he was pretty creepy…
His real name is apparently Basil Karlo
Yeah it was revealed in the comics that he was Clayface in disguise and he actually becomes Clayface too by jumping into a pool of radioactive protoplasym
And that's also Clayface's real name
Love this episode. I love Blaze's redemption at the end. I find it very touching. Dick's slight nod of the head as the scene fades is a lovely touch...
4:03
False Face loved his knockout gas. Love 03:53 and OMG i so thought that was genuine Commissioner Gordon.
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i laughed so hard at false face when he gets caught at 4:18. What is it possible. Batman not only possible but true. False Face Please...Not that word.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! :-)
Callously park in front of a fire hydrant.
I like where they're on the train tracks.
That false face was a real 2 faced S. O. B
When I was about 7 or 8 years old kid, I was watching Batman on TV. The FF episodes would give me nightmares for nearly a week!
It was only 3 days, and you know it!
He was also the prosecutor in STAR TREK against Captain Pike.
He invented burnt sienna crayons and also the underwire bra.
I wonder what a mondern falues face would be like...other then hush
In the comics, Harvey Dent's real name was Mondern Falues,
Worst villain name in batman & robin 1966 failed batman villain boot face