Batman On A&E Biography

[VOXMAN41]

Wanted to let all know that A&E's Biography is doing a killer episode on the Adam West/ Burt Ward Batman series. It will air again tonight @ 11pm CST. Check it out. Then discuss! Gotta go! Time for the second half.:p

[VOXMAN41]

Just finished watching the A&E special on Batman. Was great! Gonna watch it again tonight at 11pmCST. Did anyone else catch it?

[Batman'sCOUSIN]

OMG ITS ALMOST TIME FOR IT TO START AROUND MY WAY. GOTTA GO!!!!!!!!

[Frostbite]

11 Central is 12 Eastern, right?

[kryptonite785]

I saw it. Even though the 1960s TV show was the WORST thing to ever happen to the Batman legend, I watched it anyway. I hate that show with a passion.

[Frostbite]

11 Central is 12 Eastern, right? Why didn't you answer????

[AshDinaRachLvr]

Awwwwwww gonna cry? LOL

[Frostbite]

Why didn't anyone answer? I missed it now!

[Lady Ribena]

i love the old batman show!!!!!!!!!!!! i used to watch saved by the bell and then batman on a saturday morning in bed when i was little

its rocked!!!!!!!!!

[VOXMAN41]

Hey Frostbite. Sorry youy missed it. AOL on my comp is always disconnecting me at least 12 times per session. Didn't get logged on again till today. But for future reference, any time in CST is 1 hour later in EST. Just out of cuiousity kryptonite 785, how old were you when you saw the series? I was born in 62 and trust me, at the time, BATMAN was cutting edge TV. Maybe not now of course, but it was in it's time. I loved the screen test footage. Especially with Lyle Waggnor. Taped "Return to the Batcave" a few months back and was suprised at how accurate it was to the A&E Bio. Also loved how they purposely made the Batcave special as campy as the series was. Did anyone else see the program?

[kryptonite785]

I'm not complaining about the style and technics, just that it makes a mockery of the Batman legacy. I know it was supposed to be a kids show, but don't lie and try to make the legacy happy and bright, because it's not.

[Lady Ribena]

but it was so fu for me when i was little, all the kids used to watch it, batman can be turned into somthing camp and somthing dark it just shows how flexiable it can be and how it can suit all audiences

[kryptonite785]

True it can, but it's lieing.

[Frostbite]

But back in the fifties and sixties, Batman was all cheery and bright and campy and such. He didn't start on the path to the Dark Knight he is today until the mid-seventies.

[kryptonite785]

True, but even for its time, it was overdone and exaggerated.

[jaguarin]

That show was a sucessfull in the 60's the people was most light and they didn't have pictures with great effects as we have now...
The children were most innocents, the last invetigations said that the angry in childrens is growing.

In the 60's and 70's you never listened about a children of 7 or 9 killing another of 2 years old (like in englad in 1998), or a young of 16 killing with a knife to her mom, or a 2 guys with ifles killing his friends in school as today...

The shows are a mirrow of the times... Batman with Adam West is a mirrow of the years of strawberry songs of The Beatles, the love and peace thing, and big movement of a world that was changing on another most violent.

[Frostbite]

Well put. Very well put indeed. Such colorful language, too.

[Batman'sCOUSIN]

I saw half of it. I fell asleep by the middle. DA**IT!!!!!! The same thing happened to me when the "Return to the Batcave" special came out.:fume:
But for the parts that i saw were fantastic. I'm only 17 and was'nt born in the 60's but still I love that show. I used to watch it all the time on TV land before they put it at 4:30 in the morning.:tear:

[DOCMIDNITE]

Hey Vox, I believe this was the same A&E program that was on last year. If it was it was great. i saw it then. I too grew up on Batman in the 60's mid 70's. Remember coming home from school and watching it too. Those werre the days...most of todays youth could never appreciate the show..For the time it was great. Gave kids a hero to look up to, who always did the right thing.
We live now in an ultraviolent world. where TV, Games, Movies thrive on it. I asked my 5th grade DARE students recently about their hobbies, most of them said TV or Video Games. I almost had a heart attack....What happened to playing cops and robbers?, Batman and Robin?, BaseBall?, Sports?, ManHunt?
Oh well just showing my age.

Oh andKryp785, Adam West and Burt Ward were far from the worst thing ever to happen to Batman franchise. I met them both personally and they are probably the most friendly and genuine people you ever want to meet...If I had my pick I'd say one word. "CLOONEY".

[Batman'sCOUSIN]

I'M tellin ya'll, Cloony did'nt do THAT bad. If I had to pick one word it would be "BEYOND". As for batman beyond. I personally think that show ruined the Batman legacy. I liked the show and all but come on. Nobody wants to see our hero OLD, WRINKLED, & basiclly half DEAD. Because of that show, now when me and my friends argue about whos the best superhero I sometimes cant win anymore because they always have that anoyying come back that i'm tired of hearing.
" Thats why batmans old now. He cant even fight anymore"

[DOCMIDNITE]

I agree to disagree...In Millers original Return of the Dark Night saga. Bats was older than dirt and still kicked @$$. Batman has always been more of the brains over braun anyway.

[Batman'sCOUSIN]

I still cant say that to my friends. I always have to say," he's not officially old yet. Cartoon network just fast forward the legacy to when Bruce was old and there was a new Batman. The Batman now is only about 35 to 50 years old. So shut up! Mommy there making fun of me, waaaaa!!!!!!!!"

OK, skratch that last part but the rest I always say to defined Batman when that subject comes up.

[VOXMAN41]

Hey kryptonite 785. Perhaps you'd like the Bat spin-off The Green Hornet. It was a more serious show. Doesn't show anywhere around here though. It was colorful like Batman, but the stories were more earthy and realistic. As far as a superhero could be anyway.

[VOXMAN41]

Is the Green Hornet available on vid, dvd or on TV somewhere?

[DOCMIDNITE]

Originally posted by VOXMAN41
Hey kryptonite 785. Perhaps you'd like the Bat spin-off The Green Hornet. It was a more serious show. Doesn't show anywhere around here though. It was colorful like Batman, but the stories were more earthy and realistic. As far as a superhero could be anyway.

WOW, You just took me back.....Green Hornet was my brothers favorite. With Bruce Lee as Kato. And the car Black Beauty...We would fight all the time he was Green Hornet and I'd be Batman. Ah the simpler times........I miss last week......LOL...Just kidding...

[VOXMAN41]

:eek: Hey Doc...I agree with you. Today's entertainment is nothing but reality TV(bad), violence(bad),and all the other S**T that kids watch today. I think it's cool that you got to meet West & Ward. I saw West at a car show in Des Moines a few years ago. He was in costume and when a lady went to get his autograph, she grabbed his crocth. Thus popping off his utility belt. His face turned so red. And what a smile he had. He was so gracious and casual about the whole thing. Also got to see both Batmobiles. The 60's one and Keaton's. I wish someone could write another killer Bat movie like the 1st one. And Keaton should be the Bat. He was my favorite and the most convincing. Kilmer was a good Batman also. His Wayne was ok.:rolleyes:

[VOXMAN41]

That was a sign of the times. If not to personal...how old are you? I'm just curious.