#171 "Adam West Naked": Back to "Back to the Batcave"
In 2009, Batman wasn’t yet available on home video, with the rights issue still unresolved, and there was no certainty that would ever change. Adam W...
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
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Like many who grew up in the '60s and '70s (and perhaps even '80s and later), Tim and Paul had the course of their lives changed by the 1966 Batman TV show, from the types of play they did growing up to their present-day interests. In this series, they discuss the show's allure and its failures, the arc of the show from satire to sitcom, its influences (the '40s serials and the comic books themselves) and the things it, in turn, influenced. SUPPORT "To the Batpoles!" and DeconstructingComics.com via Patreon!
#170 Power Bat-Records
In the mid-1970s, Power Records (a division of Peter Pan records) released audio stories of a number of popular properties, including Batman. Two vol...
# 169 “Instant Freeze” script: We don’t love a parade
Mr. Zero? Dr. Schimmel? No, Mr. Freeze! In Max Hodge’s first draft of Instant Freeze, the comics villain Mr. Zero, for reasons we discussed last epis...
#168 “Dick Tracy” and “Wonder Woman”: The Dozierverse Stumbles
In 1966, William Dozier’s Greenway Productions was riding high, seemingly on the verge of building a TV empire built on superheroes: first Batman, th...
#167 Tom Peyer talks “Batman 66” and “The Wrong Earth”
The Wrong Earth, written by Tom Peyer, is a comics series in which the super-square Dragonflyman and grim & gritty Dragonfly find themselves on each ...
#166 "Batman and Robin": Hot and "Kalt"
Batman and Robin (1997) is notorious as one of the worst Batman films, panned by both audiences and critics. But wait a minute. All four of the Tim B...
#165 Mr. Freeze(s)
As any Batman ’66 fan knows, three different actors played the villain Mr. Freeze on the show: George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach. Any d...
#164 "The Curse of Tut" scripts: Rondeau and Buono improve on Dennis and Barret
Lorenzo Semple, Jr. having made his changes to Robert C. Dennis and Earl Barret's first King Tut script, next it was the turn of director Charles R. ...
#164 "The Curse of Tut" scripts: Rondeau and Buono improve on Dennis and Barret
Lorenzo Semple, Jr. having made his changes to Robert C. Dennis and Earl Barret's first King Tut script, next it was the turn of director Charles R. ...
#163 "Phantom Pharaoh" Reveals Semplian Batman
As the early episodes of Batman were being produced, and broadcasts had not yet begun, Executive Script Consultant Lorenzo Semple, Jr., was editing s...