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In the early 1960s, Ed Graham Productions optioned the television rights to the comic strip Batman and planned a straightforward juvenile adventure show,
much like Adventures of Superman and The Lone Ranger, to air on CBS on Saturday mornings. Former American football linebacker and actor Mike Henry was set
to star as Batman.
Rumor has it that DC Comics commissioned publicity photos of Henry in a Batman costume. Around this same time, the Playboy Club in Chicago was screening the
Batman serials, 1943's Batman and 1949's Batman and Robin,
on Saturday nights.
East coast ABC executive Yale Udoff, a Batman fan in his childhood, attended one of these parties at the Playboy Club
and was impressed with the reaction the serials were eliciting. He contacted ABC executives who were already considering
developing a television series based on a comic strip action hero, to suggest a prime time Batman series in the hip and fun style of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
DC Comics quickly reobtained rights and made the deal with ABC, who farmed the rights out to 20th Century Fox to produce the series.
ABC and Fox were expecting a hip and fun—yet still serious—adventure show. Batman comic books had recently experienced a change in editorship which marked a
return to serious detective stories after decades of tales with aliens, dimensional travel, magical imps and talking animals.
Eventually, two sets of screen tests were filmed, one with Adam West and Burt Ward and the other with Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell,
with West and Ward winning the roles.
Below is a partial list of cast of characters
Adam West as Batman/Bruce Wayne, a caped crusader whose parents were murdered when he was a child and has devoted his life to fighting crime.
Burt Ward as Robin/Dick Grayson, Batman's faithful partner and "boy wonder",
Alan Napier as Alfred, Batman's loyal butler.
Neil Hamilton as Commissioner James Gordon, Gotham City's Commissioner of Police.
Stafford Repp as Chief Miles O'Hara, Gotham City's Chief of Police.
Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet Cooper, Dick Grayson's maternal aunt.
The Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, the Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, and the Mad Hatter, all of whom are regular Bat-Villains, appear in the series,
which was deliberately villain-driven as well as action-comedy-heavy. There had been plans for Two-Face to appear, depicted as a news anchor who was
disfigured when a camera blew up in his face. Though Clint Eastwood was discussed for the role of Two-Face, the show was cancelled before any appearance
by this character was made.
In Season 1, Batman and Robin are super crime-fighting heroes, contending with the villains of Gotham City. It begins with the two-parter, "Hi Diddle Riddle" and "Smack in the Middle", featuring Frank Gorshin as The Riddler.
Season 2, the show suffered from repetition of its characters and formula. In addition, critics noted that the series' delicate balance of drama and humor
that the first season maintained was lost as the stories became increasingly farcical. This, combined with Lorenzo Semple, Jr. contributing fewer scripts
and having less of an influence on the series, caused viewers and critics to tire of the repetitive structure of the show.
After the third season the show was cancelled. NBC offered to pick the show up for a fourth season and even restore it to its original twice-a-week format, if the sets were still available for use. However,
Fox had already demolished the sets a week before. NBC had no interest in paying the $800,000 for the rebuild, so the offer was withdrawn.
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Batman was one of the few superhero characters to be continuously published as interest in the genre waned during the 1950s.
In the story "The Mightiest Team in the World" in Superman #76, Batman teams up with Superman for the first time and the pair discovers
each other's secret identity. Following the success of this story, World's Finest Comics was revamped so it featured stories starring both heroes together,
instead of the separate Batman and Superman features that had been running before. The team-up of the characters was "a financial success in an era when
those were few and far between"; this series of stories ran until the book's cancellation in 1986.
Batman comics were among those criticized when the comic book industry came under scrutiny with the publication of psychologist
Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent in 1954. Wertham's thesis was that children imitated crimes committed in comic books, and that these works
corrupt the morals of the youth. Wertham criticized Batman comics for their supposed homosexual overtones and argued that Batman and Robin were portrayed as lovers.
Wertham's criticisms raised a public outcry during the 1950s, eventually leading to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority. The tendency towards a "sunnier
Batman" in the postwar years intensified after the introduction of the Comics Code.[35] It has also been suggested by scholars that the characters of Batwoman
(in 1956) and the pre-Barbara Gordon Bat-Girl (in 1961) were introduced in part to refute the allegation that Batman and Robin were gay, and the stories took on
a campier, lighter feel.
In the late 1950s, Batman stories gradually became more science fiction-oriented, an attempt at mimicking the success of other
DC characters that had dabbled in the genre.[37] New characters such as Batwoman, Ace the Bat-Hound, and Bat-Mite were introduced. Batman's
adventures often involved odd transformations or bizarre space aliens. In 1960, Batman debuted as a member of the Justice League of America
in The Brave and the Bold #28, and went on to appear in several Justice League comic series starting later that same year.
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to star as Batman.
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