BAT BITS #13 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Bookworm script pt 4: Why was fake Gordon fake-shot?
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
A lingering question from the Bookworm arc of Batman, as broadcast, is: Why was a Commissioner Gordon impersonator seemingly shot at the opening of the bridge? As we conclude our look at the draft version of the script, we finally get an answer! Listen to Bat Bits and follow along with a PDF of the script by for at least $2 a month! For $4 a month, you ALSO get our monthly discussion of silver age Batman comics as Paul or another in our stable of co-hosts joins me to examine individual Batman stories from the 1950s and 60s! Come on over to patreon dot com slash decon comics to join the fun!
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BAT BITS #12 NOW LIVE on PATREON: Bookworm Script pt 3: Bat-Magnetism
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
On the latest episode of Bat Bits, Paul and I move into the second half of the early draft of Rik Vollaerts’ script “The Bookworm Turns”! We can see the vague outlines of this script in the broadcast version, including the use of the Bat Magnet! But does it make sense for Bookworm to steal “industrial diamonds”? And, if an implement is called a Bat Cutting Torch, wouldn’t it be better for us to actually see it cutting? We also notice how this version of the script keeps repeating the same themes! Listen to Bat Bits and follow along with a PDF of the script by subscribing to our...
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BAT BITS #11 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Bookworm script part 2 - how NOT to write a deathtrap
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
Now live on Patreon - part two of our look at the draft Bookworm script, featuring an overlong, over-complicated deathtrap scene! to hear our discussion and follow along with the script!
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BAT BITS #10 NOW LIVE on Patreon: The EARLY Bookworm script, part one!
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
On the latest Bat Bits, we begin a multi-part look at an early draft of The Bookworm Turns! It contains some concepts seen in the broadcast version that may ring a bell, but there’s no Big Benjamin bell in this script! Join us on Patreon to hear about Rik Vollearts’ early shot at Bookworm and follow along with a PDF of the script at patreon dot com slash decon comics. Part one is available now!
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BAT BITS #09 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Begorra! Mercy Alive! We got AMAZING YouTube comments!
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
At last, we're back! This time we talk about a couple fantastic YouTube comments we received from people with close connections to two Bat-regulars, Stafford Repp and Madge Blake! to hear their revelations!
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#221 "The Joker Trumps an Ace" scripts: How Joker got deflated
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
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
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BAT BITS #08 now LIVE on Patreon: What does BATMAN '66 #12 tell us about the TV show?
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
For our final BAT BITS of the year, we return, after a two-year hiatus, to the BATMAN ’66 comics series, digging into issue 12. It’s certainly not the greatest issue of the series, but in its faults, it helps us identify aspects of how the TV show works. Listen for a clip from the show!
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#220 “The New Adventures of Batman” (1977): The one with Adam, Burt, and…. BAT MITE! W/J. B. Anderton!
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
The New Adventures of Batman, Filmation’s second Batman cartoon series, premiered February 12, 1977 on CBS. Tim and Paul, then 11 and 8 respectively, were thrilled at the idea of Adam West and Burt Ward voicing the Duo, but not so thrilled at the addition of Bat Mite to the cast. But… were we wrong about Bat Mite? This time we discuss this question, and the whole 16-episode series, with host J.B. Anderton! Plus, Burt Ward as Robin in 1976, the Japanese theme for this cartoon, and we read your comments on episodes and !
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BAT BITS #07 now LIVE on Patreon: How to make a "Holy" pt 2
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
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!
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BAT BITS #06 now LIVE on Patreon: How to make a "Holy" pt 1
To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
Holy exclamation! On Batman 66, Robin used a lot of Holys. We have a sense of what formulations of holys work best, but can we put those formulations into words? Why do some holys from other sources, such as the 1966 album Jan and Dean meet Batman make us say “holy wrong note”? In this first installment of a two-part edition of “Bat Bits”, we analyze some of the holys from that record. Which ones work, and which don’t? Holy idiomatic expression!
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We all have our favorite characters and actors from Batman, but how many of us are fanboys for Executive Producer William Dozier? Well, for one, there's Oscar Lilley, proxy researcher at the American Heritage Center in Laramie, Wyoming. In the process of working with Dozier's papers, Oscar has grown intrigued with Dozier's backstory and impressed by how he did his job. In this episode, he tells us about his selflessness, his business sense, and how the trajectory of Dozier's 1965 series The Loner tracks with that of Batman. Also, more circumstantial evidence that seem to disprove the Fourth Season Myth!
Plus, the Amosdoll Music version of the theme, and your response to our discussion of the Funny Feline Felonies!
Semple to Dozier - Hi Diddle Riddle
Dozier to Adam West about Lyle Waggoner screen test
Semple to Dozier - Frank Gorshin etc
ABC's notes on Hi Diddle Riddle - caviar etc.
Semple notes Max Hodge's Mr. Freeze script
Semple to Dozier -- "Doom Trap" (which became "Zelda the Great")
More Semple reaction to Hodge script: "Worse than I thought"
Bob Kane writes to Dozier with suggestions
Docket from Dozier's 1943 trial
Dozier pardoned by Harry Truman
Dozier's "Glossary" of Hollywood stars