I believe GH & Kato also made an appearance in one of the building climbs.
Batman: '60s TV Series
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No, GH only appeared on Batman.
GH also did a cameo during one of the 'wall walk' scenes. In these scenes B&R would be walking up a building, and someone would pop a head out of a window and interact with them.
Many times it was a celebrity of the day, other times it would be characters from other television programs. One example of this was Werner Klemperer in costume as Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes.
I am sure the rights in this character were limited, and would have to be re-negotiated in order to appear on the DVD.
This show is a minefield of rights that need to be straightened out before a DVD will ever be released.
No doubt because "A piece of the action" was commonplace gangster lingo (or believed to be by TV writers, at least), meaning a cut of the profits from a crime. IMDb lists ten shows in all that have used the phrase as an episode title (not counting the Murphy Brown episode "A Piece of the Auction").
Yup. Despite the Batman crossover, The Green Hornet was a very different show from Batman, more serious, dark, and realistic. There's no way characters like the Adam West Batman could've existed in TGH's world as anything but TV characters.
If they ever do release the show, I hope they don't end up butchering it and leaving stuff out because of the rights issues.
Re: Batman: '60s TV Series Blu-ray
'Batman' 1966-68 live-action TV series wish for Blu-ray/DVD
Yes. I've had a thread on this with 52 replies.
'Batman' 1966-68 live-action TV series wish for Blu-ray/DVD
If they had to butcher it because of rights, there wouldn't be much left, like 10 minutes.
Same here! I would buy these in a instant. I check every now and then to see if they are being released but alas nothing yet.
I think that's just a fannish conspiracy theory. There's no evidence that anyone is deliberately trying to bury the series.
Legal issues, involving Fox, Warner, and the various other parties involved, seems a much more plausible explanation. Plus, the fact that they would have to deal with all the celebrity cameos and their estates.
This is about money and lawyers, not protecting Batman's reputation.
As to buying it, I wouldn't mind a "Best-Of" collection, just for nostalgia's sake, but I suspect the novelty value would wear out quickly. I can't see watching all three seasons again.
(I'm reminded of a friend, who in moment of giddy nostalgia, bought the entire run of ELECTRA-WOMAN AND DYNA-GIRL, only to discover, once she actually sat down to watch it, that the show wasn't nearly as fun as she remembered . . . especially now that she wasn't eight years old anymore!)
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I'm having flashbacks to WKRP in Cincinnati, which really lost all magic with the original, 70s music replaced with generic rockish soundalike muzak.
I fear we may never get a WKRP as it was, and we may never get Batman...
Well, look at it this way. If you treat the 1966 Batman show as a spoof of Batman, it retains it's sense of fun. At least it does for me. I see the Adam West series the same way as I do Spaceballs, which is a spoof of Star Wars.
Indeed. Heck, it's currently airing every weeknight at 11:30 PM and 5:30 AM on the Hub network, as well as early mornings Saturday and Sunday. It was the first show I programmed into the DVR I just got. Not exactly in prime time, but hardly buried.
I'm horribly bummed I don't get the Hub. GR. Batman is just one reason. GI Joe and Transformers are the other reasons.
Re: Batman: '60s TV Series Blu-ray
A thread made two years ago and not posted in for over a year. So forgive me for not seeing it.
A thread made two years ago and not posted in for over a year. So forgive me for not seeing it.
Last summer Adam West was a guest at the Toronto FanCon. On Friday night the Batman movie starring West played at a downtown rep cinema, and West came to do a q/a after the show.
The cinema was packed with basicly people like us: comic fans, most intending to go the con the next day, rep movie fans. We'd all seen the film as kids and had the same feelings about the cheesiness. But once the movie started playing, something magical happened.
We all laughed.
We laughed at proper cues for the movie, which was intended as a comedy. We were a fairly homogenous group of comic fans who regularly dissed this movie, but we laughed our heads off and enjoyed the hell out of it for the full length. It was one of the best viewing experiences I'd had in years.
I think the movie is sort of underrated, it is increadibly enjoyable if you watch it without the cynical expectation of it being "bad" and just watch it and enjoy. Being stoned probably also helps.
Anyway, Adam West was a great speaker and while I saw him the next day at the con, I had a genuine thrill seeing walk down the aisle to the stage, my actual childhood hero along with William Shatner and Robert Conrad, one of the icons that really struck me as a young kid.
He talked a lot about is work in animated tv the past years and his future project, but there was question about the release on dvd of the Batman series.
Adam replied that there was nothing he liked better than money, and that he was looking forward to the release of the dvd's more than anyone. He said that there WERE talks in progress and his understanding was that we would see the dvd's released sooner rather than later, but that there was nothing finalized and he couldn't say a timeframe. That was all he could say.
And all I can say is that a man who got to be in a Siamese Human Knot with Yvonne Craig in latex AND GOT PAID FOR IT will ALWAYS be my greatest hero!
The cinema was packed with basicly people like us: comic fans, most intending to go the con the next day, rep movie fans. We'd all seen the film as kids and had the same feelings about the cheesiness. But once the movie started playing, something magical happened.
We all laughed.
We laughed at proper cues for the movie, which was intended as a comedy. We were a fairly homogenous group of comic fans who regularly dissed this movie, but we laughed our heads off and enjoyed the hell out of it for the full length. It was one of the best viewing experiences I'd had in years.
I think the movie is sort of underrated, it is increadibly enjoyable if you watch it without the cynical expectation of it being "bad" and just watch it and enjoy. Being stoned probably also helps.
Anyway, Adam West was a great speaker and while I saw him the next day at the con, I had a genuine thrill seeing walk down the aisle to the stage, my actual childhood hero along with William Shatner and Robert Conrad, one of the icons that really struck me as a young kid.
He talked a lot about is work in animated tv the past years and his future project, but there was question about the release on dvd of the Batman series.
Adam replied that there was nothing he liked better than money, and that he was looking forward to the release of the dvd's more than anyone. He said that there WERE talks in progress and his understanding was that we would see the dvd's released sooner rather than later, but that there was nothing finalized and he couldn't say a timeframe. That was all he could say.
And all I can say is that a man who got to be in a Siamese Human Knot with Yvonne Craig in latex AND GOT PAID FOR IT will ALWAYS be my greatest hero!
I'd buy it in a Gotham minute. One of my childhood favorites. I used to have the Viewmaster reel. I studied certain frames very carefully.
One of the first crushes I had as a young lad. Would love to see her again.
I had that reel, too!
