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Back to Search"The Astrologer": The Proto-"Zodiac" Script
Episode 150
One of our favorite Batman arcs growing up was the three-parter "The Zodiac Crimes" featuring the mind-blowing combination of Joker and Penguin! But…
5 years, 8 months ago
Alan Napier: "Not Just Batman's Butler"
Episode 149
Alan Napier was the third-billed star of Batman, and is, somewhat remarkably, the only series regular who has a memoir currently in print. The book,…
5 years, 8 months ago
Washburn II: Meet the Stars!
Episode 148
You know about the 1966 Batman at Washburn fan film, made by students at Minneapolis' Washburn High School. (If you missed it, listen to episode 146…
5 years, 9 months ago
Stanford Sherman's letters and Batman '66 #5
Episode 147
Most TV writers don't become stars. If we're fans of a show they wrote for, we probably know their names, but nowhere online can we find most writer…
5 years, 9 months ago
An Early Batman '66 Fan Film, Revealed!
Episode 146
Breaking bat-news! The earliest-known Batman '66 fan film has been revealed! It was made by students at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, Minneso…
5 years, 10 months ago
"Batman: The Movie": What is "the director's input"?
Episode 145
Director Leslie Martinson, in his TV Academy interview that we explored last time, kept coming back to the question "What is the director's input" i…
5 years, 10 months ago
Leslie Martinson: He's Tha Bomb
Episode 144
Leslie Martinson was the director of "The Penguin Goes Straight"/"Not Yet He Ain't" and "Batman: The Movie." He was a good friend of Adam West's (bu…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jeff Bond talking Bat-movie music? Oh buoy!
Episode 143
Nelson Riddle's score for Batman, including the 1966 film Batman: The Motion Picture, features energetic, swing-influenced cues that adhere to the a…
5 years, 11 months ago
Fine-tuning "The Penguin Goes Straight"
Episode 142
When you see a script marked "FINAL," you probably assume that it's word-for-word the same as what was shot. In the case of "The Penguin Goes Straig…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Red Hood and a Couple of Top Hats
Episode 141
This time we resume reviewing the Batman '66 comic book series, with issues 3 and 4, featuring Joker, the Red Hood (huh? Isn't that Joker?), Egghead…
6 years ago