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BAT BITS #07 now LIVE on Patreon: How to make a "Holy" pt 2
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
11/17/24 • 0 min
Holy continuation! In the latest edition of Bat Bits, we attempt to come up with some guidelines for what makes a good “holy”. Also: Just because a holy was used on Batman 66, does that make it a “good” one? Join us on Patron for at least $2 a month to hear Bat Bits, as well as ad-free versions of future TO THE BATPOLES episodes! Go to Patreon dot com slash decon comics!
Also in this promo, an announcement concerning TO THE BATPOLES!
#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
03/14/24 • 89 min
One of the most striking things — in a good way, for once! — about Batman’s third season is the number of villains who are women. Also, of course, this is the season of Batgirl, who is more aggressively “feminized” than any other woman on the show, perhaps because she’s doing “a man’s job.” This time we begin a look at how the show presents women in season three by looking at the season's first five episodes, and we’re joined again by novelist Nancy Northcott.
PLUS: What if King Crimson performed the Batman theme? A Batman writer turns out to be a war hero! And, Bat Audio from another Batman reunion in 1989.
Read the Clock King scripts we’ll discuss next month:
Panel discussions on Nancy's ConTinual channel
If King Crimson performed the Batman theme (from JB Anderton!)
A Marine's-eye View of the Battle of Iwo Jima (yes, it's bat-relevant!)
More about the Iwo Jima video project, including our Bat-writer bravery medal recipient
Next episode topic, and vote for new Patreon podcast topic
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
09/23/23 • 2 min
What will we cover in our next episode? Also, what will be the topic of the next patrons-only podcast? Listen to hear how you can help to decide the answer to the latter question, and to hear the answer to the former!
#193 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 1
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
09/15/22 • 76 min
Two of the most iconic American TV shows of the 1960s are Batman and Star Trek. A surprising number of actors pulled double duty, appearing on both shows, either as regulars, recurring characters, or one-shot roles.
This crossover of actors sounds like an interesting topic, but how do we get it into our show? What we settled on was to put these actors in March Madness-type brackets and pit them against each other. On which show did a given actor give the better performance? And how does their performance stack up against one of the other actors’?
For part one of this exercise, we compare Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones on Trek, Captain Courageous on Batman) to Julie Newmar (Eleen on Trek, Catwoman on Batman), and Joan Collins (Edith Keeler on Trek, the Siren on Batman) to Yvonne Craig (Marta on Trek, Batgirl on Batman). We’re joined in this exercise by our childhood friend Kyle, who grew up a Trek fan.
PLUS: the Chuck Cirino version of the theme, Adam and Burt on the Merv Griffin Show in 1966, and we read your mail!
In four weeks, we'll talk about the draft script of "A Piece of the Action"!
"Movin' with Nancy" review SPECIAL
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
12/23/21 • 123 min
These Batpoles were made for slidin’! This time, we enjoy the holidays and take a break from the Batpoles to present our special look at the 1967 Nancy Sinatra TV special Movin’ With Nancy! It’s a detailed, admiring, but sometimes irreverent look at a program we love.
#174 Women in Season 2, pt 1: From the Childish to the Badass
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
12/09/21 • 91 min
While Batman season one seemed to have a consistent view of women - incapable of being hardened criminals, attracted to luxury items (and Batman), etc. - season two (as is true in many respects) tends to be less consistent. While some molls are ditzy and childish, others not only have agency, but seem more intelligent than the villain. Ma Parker and Marsha appear as the first two truly villainous women (aside from Catwoman) of the series. Even Aunt Harriet shows herself to be smarter and tougher than we'd previously seen. In this episode, we're once again joined by novelist Nancy Northcott to talk about women on Batman, this time in the first half of season two.
PLUS: a MIDI version of the Batman theme, more from Adam West and Burt Ward about the movie and the series, Holy Deja Vu focuses on a particular season two moll, and we read your mail about our episode on Adam West Naked.
#168 “Dick Tracy” and “Wonder Woman”: The Dozierverse Stumbles
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
09/16/21 • 112 min
In 1966, William Dozier’s Greenway Productions was riding high, seemingly on the verge of building a TV empire built on superheroes: first Batman, then the Green Hornet. Why not keep going in that direction? An entire pilot episode of Dick Tracy was made, starring Ray MacDonnell, and all signs point to Dozier having confidence that the show would be bought by NBC - but it wasn’t. Meanwhile, Greenway also made a test film for Wonder Woman, starring Ellie Wood Walker, with a script that would have been more more appropriate for a MAD parody.
While Dozier’s Wonder Woman experiment was NOT a success, the question lingers: Why wasn’t Dick Tracy picked up? We suggest some answers as we discuss both films in this episode.
Also, we head down to the Bat Research Lab to try to figure out what Lorenzo Semple Jr.’s Mr. Zero idea was all about; Burt Ward talks about “holys” and ad libs, a dog sings the Batman theme, and we read your mail about our “Mr. Freeze(s)” episode.
Jaime Weinman discuss the pilot in Maclean's
TV Obscurities on the Tracy pilot
Lon Chaney Jr. made up as Pruneface by makeup legend John Chambers (scroll down a bit)
The Dick Tracy TV-tie-in pinball machine
Wonder Woman test scene script
Hollywood Reporter on the WW pilot
TV Obscurities on the WW pilot
Rebeat magazine on the Dozierverse
Thanks to Mr. Glee for the following articles (click to enlarge):
July 17, 1966: Signs of a budding Dozierverse, by Dean Gysel
June 9, 1965: NBC already looking into Dick Tracy (Variety)
November 17, 1965: NBC ready with Dick Tracy, whether Batman succeeds or not (Variety)
#157 Adam West as Catman; False Face; and a Camp Question
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
04/15/21 • 94 min
Part of Adam West’s renaissance as a performer, once his fans were old enough to cast him in stuff, was voicing various versions of himself in cartoons. One of these was in Nickelodeon show The Fairly OddParents, in which “TV’s Adam West” was the famous actor who had played the hero “Catman” — but thought he really was Catman! This time we take a look at Adam’s appearances on the show.
Also:
- The 7th issue of the Batman ’66 comic book, featuring False Face! Art by past Deconstructing Comics interviewee Christopher Jones.
- One of the weirdest Batman theme versions we’ve found yet: Celio Balona's "Tema de Batman".
- Get your tent and your Coleman stove; we’re going on another camping trip, this time exploring why the implausibilities of Batman ’66, and other shows of its time, may not fly with today's young-adult TV viewers;
- We read your reaction to episode 154’s discussion of Batfink and Waldo Kitty;
- And a few tidbits gleaned so far from our listener survey, which you can still submit here!
Help us snag a JOHN ASTIN interview
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
02/09/21 • 1 min
We need help procuring an interview with John Astin - we have some questions about his "substitution" as Riddler that we'd like to ask him! But he doesn't do interviews for free, and we're not exactly a major media outlet. Listen for details and, if you've got a few bucks for the cause, donate them here by THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021, at 7 a.m. Eastern Time.
#221 "The Joker Trumps an Ace" scripts: How Joker got deflated
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
02/12/25 • 76 min
We’re back for a look at the first two draft scripts for The Joker Trumps an Ace/Batman Sets the Pace. As usual, scripts bring to light connections that the filmed episode didn’t quite make, lines we never heard clearly, abandoned bat-turns and wardrobe business, an absent moll, and much more.
PLUS: we experience one of the better “surf rock” versions of the theme, read mail from listeners, and hear Adam West in 2014 discussing the newly-released Batman DVDs and BluRays!
Read the scripts here
Batman shooting dates! Scott Sebring and Ben Bentley have pieced together the best info available
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