#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity
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
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
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#214 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2
Mr. Terrific was cancelled after half a season, but... was it really a terrible show? Is star Stephen Strimpell partly to blame? This time, we push back on Thirteen Week Theatre’s take on Strimpell, consider why pill popping was such a common way to get superpowers in the Sixties, and the show’s .... agressive ... laugh track. Also, were the network execs commissioning superhero sitcoms really trying to imitate Batman, or just cash in?
Plus, The Music Within’s bass guitar cover of the Batman theme, more from Adam and Burt on Hour Magazine, and e-mail from our listeners!
Excerpt from Outré magazine's Stephen Strimpell interview (ilovegetsmart.com)
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#216 Putting a Finger on the Clock King script
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 versed in the rules of Hollywood, such as that an actor who says one word on screen is more expensive than one in a non-speaking role. This time we look at the first draft, final, and revised final scripts of the Clock King story, finding bits that changed significantly as shot, and answer some of our questions about odd parts of the story.
ALSO: The London Music Works version of the Batman theme, Burgess Meredith on the origin of the Penguin’s quack, and your mail!
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