To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
Like many who grew up in the '60s and '70s (and perhaps even '80s and later), Tim and Paul had the course of their lives changed by the 1966 Batman TV show, from the types of play they did growing up to their present-day interests. In this series, they discuss the show's allure and its failures, the arc of the show from satire to sitcom, its influences (the '40s serials and the comic books themselves) and the things it, in turn, influenced. SUPPORT "To the Batpoles!" and DeconstructingComics.com via Patreon!
- Website
- http://tothebatpoles.libsyn.com/podcast
- Description
- An ongoing group research project into Batman '66!
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-10-18 06:08
- last episode published
- 2024-10-17 12:00
- publication frequency
- 28.28 days
- Contributors
- Tim and Paul
- Author
- Tim Young
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 236
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Visual Arts TV & Film History Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-10-17 |
BAT BITS #05 now LIVE on Patreon! "The 'Batman' Movie Premiere" JOIN US ON PATREON to hear BAT BITS, morsels we find as we research the show for our book! Why was the world premiere of Batman, the Movie held in Austin, Texas? And just what went on at (and around) this July 30, 1966, event? This time, a deep dive o... |
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| 2024-10-06 |
Bat Bits #04 now LIVE on Patreon: "Batman comics suck, but the TV show is WORSE!" On the latest BAT BITS podcast, we discuss another anti-Batman article from 1966! Is it possible to hate Batman comics, but think they're great compared to the TV show?? |
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| 2024-09-19 |
BAT BITS #03 now LIVE on Patreon! Batman: Inspirational for kids, or anti-police indoctrination?? A 1966 article by journalist Paul Molloy takes down NY Congressman Frank Horton for praising "Batman" for its heroes "heroic power for good", saying it was inspirational and a good message for kids. Molloy, on the other hand, sees the GCPD's reliance ... |
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| 2024-09-05 |
BAT BITS #02 now LIVE on Patreon: Wondering where the tigers are? Famously, Burt Ward has said that, in the episode BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, he was placed above a pit of tigers, with meat hanging above him that encouraged the tigers to jump. Meanwhile, in THE OFFICIAL BATMAN BATBOOK, Joel Eisner says there were no liv... |
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| 2024-08-22 | The first episode of our book-writing-hiatus Patreon podcast is now live! We discuss memos among the Greenway and Fox teams about Adam West's chronic lateness on the set, and answer the question: How is Bill Clinton separated by three degrees from Bat... | |
| 2024-07-18 | All the supporting players on Batman had many years of acting experience — considerably more than the stars of the show did! That also goes for Stafford Repp, playing stereotypical Irish cop Chief O’Hara. But what was his background? When did he get i... | |
| 2024-06-20 | Sorry! We're going to have to delay the next episode by a week or two. | |
| 2024-06-06 |
“The Adventures of Batman” (1968): A (relatively) objective look Six months after Batman’s final broadcast on ABC, CBS premiered The Adventures of Batman, the character’s first animated show, produced by Filmation. While the look of the show is totally divorced from the Adam West version, relying mainly on the comi... |
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| 2024-05-09 | There have been many Batman cast reunions on talk shows over the years, particularly as the 1989 Batman movie’s release approached. Previously we talked about the 1988 reunion on The Late Show with Ross Shafer, an overbooked, poorly stage-managed affa... | |
| 2024-04-11 | The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes/The Clock King Gets Crowned is the one Batman ’66 arc written by Bill Finger, now credited as a co-creator of the character, and Charles Sinclair. Unsurprisingly, the first draft of the script reveals a writer not well ve... |