I'm currently rewatching Batman '66

ABC celebrated its 25th anniversary with a TV special in the 1970s, and for it they brought back many of the famous actors who had played the villains to sit together at a tabel, and they just laughed their asses off when the clips of themselves in costume on the show appeared.

Tallulah Bankhead, drunk off her ass.

Who did Anne Baxter play? Vicki Vale?

r3 - Evil Eve

Ethel Merman did an episode or two. Pure camp!

I loved that show when I was a kid and it ran in syndication.

Anne played Zelda the Great.

Didn't get it until I was almost 40, but after seeing it digitally cleaned up I fell in love - particularly season 1 - it is a perfect snapshot of 1966 color tv - the colors and details are canon and it screams NEW! COLOR! TV! The guest villains are mostly fun and I was born three weeks after it premiered so I've been subjected to it my whole life.

AND, R7, she played Olga, Queen of the Cossacks!

There was Carolyn Jones as Marsha Queen of Diamonds.

One time the ending predicament was the wedding of Batman and Marsha.

Talk about a trap.

Lola Lasagna!

Joan Collins was a villain, but it sadly turned into typecasting for her.

Camp? Never!

The celebrity cameos when the dynamic duo are scaling the sides of buildings are great.

Robin was so hot/good looking

He always looked like he was ready to FUCK and had a constant HARD ON.

In my rewatch I have totally picked up on how hot Burt Ward was. Totally went over my 12-year-old head when I first watched this in syndicated reruns in the 80s. Ward is strikingly good looking. Adam West was no slouch either.

I'm sure there's a sequence in which Robin is prone and tied up, which is...evocative. Others may be less lazy than me and search.

I mean, Robin being tied up I believe contributed to a lot of people with bondage kinks.

I think we must also mention Miss Shelly Winters as Ma Parker.

In Gotham City, she’s a very skinny lady.

How fascinating, OP.

It's on Saturday and Sunday mornings on Heroes & Icons network......and of course on late Saturday nights after the awful SVENGOOLIE on METv.

“I also just realized that the show borrowed heavily from the old movie serials from the 30s and 40s”

Op rode in the special bus all the way through elementary school…

Fuck you R21. I wasn't a movie buff growing up, didn't discover those movie serials until YouTube.

Now you sound even worse…

[quote]Aunt Harriet was added so that people wouldn't think that Bruce and Dick were up to shenanigans.

Nope. She was created in the comics in 1964. Back on that special bus, you ignorant slut.

I know someone mentioned Miss Anne Baxter as Olga, Queen of the Bessarovian Cossacks, who was teamed with Egghead.

Twas ever there a gayer combo than Vincent Price and Eve Harrington?

Burt Ward came to speak to my elementary school class about some topic that I can't remember. I asked the teacher afterwards if that was really Robin from Batman? He didn't look like Robin at all. Burt was older, short, chunky, uncharismatic and looked like he was wearing a toupee.

There wasn’t anything dark, badass and brooding about this. So, why did you even like watch?

Burton was very sexy. He was so well endowed that they could bearly conceal it so they almost chemically castrated him with meditation they prescribed and made him take. There's this fun 2001 movie Return to the batcave: Adam and Burt. The story of them being cast, plus the recreated scenes, are really cool.

I watch Wonder Woman on H&I channel every weekend and sometimes Batman too. Loved both. Batman I saw in reruns as a small child. I remember Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter when I was 5 yrs old when it first aired in prime time in the late 70s.

Link to the movie from r28.

I did not like Cesar Romero in his role as "Joker."

What is this about Burt Ward being well hung?

Did ya’ll like Yvonne Craig as Batgirl?? I was fascinated by her gorgeous costume- sparkly purple and yellow.She was given her own theme within Batman. It kind of sucked though.

Neil Hamilton was a very cruel prick on the set to his elderly co-stars from what I’ve read. Pretty uppity attitude for a 1920s underwear model.

[quote]Did ya’ll like Yvonne Craig as Batgirl?? I was fascinated by her gorgeous costume- sparkly purple and yellow.She was given her own theme within Batman. It kind of sucked though.

I was always so fascinated by her revolving wall vanity and the entire process of transforming herself into Batgirl, it's a wonder I didn't become a drag queen.

They wouldn't let her punch when she fought, so Yvonne Craig leaned into past as a professional ballerina. She's basically dancing, and it's glorious. She did her own stunts and motorcycle riding, and a few years after the show ended, got back into the costume for a PSA about equal pay for women, which involved her refusing to save Batman from a trap unless he agreed to pay her the same as Robin.

Totally groovy chick.

Our Lucy and our Vivian should have appeared as guest villains 🦹‍♀️ on a special two part episode of Batman.

Datalounge people what would their names have been?

Love your reply and video link r35

I too was fascinated by her Barbara Gordon to Batgirl transformation. Her secret batgirl room with the wig on a dressing table and the opening in the brick wall that led her to her batcycle. I used to emulate her ballerina kicks in my front yard as the neighbor kids and I played Batman. The mean old man who lived across the street got an eyeful of a burgeoning gayling fake kick fighting other boys and girls. He also saw me do Wonder Woman spins and play Kelly and Tiffany as one of Charlie’s Angels countless times He died of a heart attack. I probably contributed to it in some small way by being so unconventional with my childhood playtime.

[quote] The mean old man who lived across the street got an eyeful of a burgeoning gayling fake kick fighting other boys and girls. He also saw me do Wonder Woman spins and play Kelly and Tiffany as one of Charlie’s Angels countless times He died of a heart attack

I would have happily dialed the phone with a pencil with you any day. Especially for being Tiffany when you played Charlie’s Angels.

R34 sad to hear Neil Hamilton was a prick-was in “what price Hollywood” 1932 very hansome-great movie!

Spring Byington played the very rich J. Pauline Spaghetti.

Of all the Charlie's Angels you chose Tiffany? I love you.

R34 What elderly costars did Neil Hamilton have scenes with?

My fave Batman series villains were

Catwoman played by Julie Newmar. She was attractive and in my eyes was much better in the role over Ertha Kitt and Lee Merriwether (she sucked as Catwoman) that skintight black sparkly jumpsuit was like gay catnip for me. Oh and the hip belt!!

Siren - Joan Collins. She just had to look like a pretty Greek goddess and open her mouth to let out her siren.

I liked Penguin played by Burgess Meredith

I love/hated King Tut played by Victor Bueno (from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane)

Egghead played by Vincent Price

The Riddler played by Gorshin.

Didn’t like The Joker that much because Cesar Romero wasn’t an actor I enjoyed watching.

R41 oh yes. Shelley Hack troll I am.

Imagine, forced meditation!

To this day Burt Ward as Robin is one of the cutest guys I've ever seen. After Batman he seemed to go on the Super Size Me diet. Odd for someone from when he was very young was so into fitness. Very depressed because there was no life after Robin?

I’m rewatching the entire series now. Starting season 1 ep 1

Without Batman and Robin we wouldn't have had these guys.

Burt Ward was married to the daughter of the band leader who played for Judy Garland (and Merv Griffin).....although he divorced her as fame caught up with him.

And lest we forget two of DL's faves: Van Johnson as Minstrel and Roddy McDowall as Bookworm.

I loved there Batman series, saw it when it originally aired because I am very old. Some of the best:

- Burgess Meredith as The Penguin

- Art Carney as The Archer

- Frank Gorshin as The Riddler

- David Wayne as The Mad Hatter

And uber over-the-top performances from Milton Berle and Liberace.

Did you know Dina Merrill played a villainess?

I have a special love for gay as a goose Victor Buono as King Tut.

I didn’t know Liberace appeared on the show.

I love the 60’s swinger, go-go dancer and 60s GQ looks for Adam as Bruce and Burt as Dick.

Batman & Robin leave very little to the imagination in their closeted relationship.

[quote]I didn’t know Liberace appeared on the show.

He played Chandell (basically himself) and his twin brother Harry.

Aunt Harriet was a big Chandell fan.

Frank Gorshin's skintight Riddler outfit turned me on.

Cesar Romero refused to shave his mustache so they just slapped makeup over it. 😂

They put a really detailed Joker action figure a few years ago which even had the white mustache.

I believe they even had a mode where you could recreate the classic episode "Surf's Up! Joker's Under!"

R37- He was fuming with Jealousy over your

FABULOUSNESS ☺️

R18 I can confirm Batman is responsible for my bondage fettish. I used to try to get kids to tie me up when were playing.

Batgirl was a tart!

[quote]Frank Gorshin's skintight Riddler outfit turned me on.

The scene with Batman running all over the city with the bomb over his head may be one of the greatest in cinematic history.

As is this one, R61. Particularly for the array of oceanic repellent bat sprays.

[quote]The scene with Batman running all over the city with the bomb over his head may be one of the greatest in cinematic history.

Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Also there was something dirty about The Riddler's laugh. The way Frank Gorshin delivered his lines when he was telling of a plan, building to a crescendo and the giggle laugh was the orgasmic relief.

I tried dressing up as Frank Gorshin as the Riddler a few years ago. It was hard to make the costume tight and loose exactly where it needed to be. I wore a green jock underneath. That's all I needed as the night progressed.