To The Batpoles! Batman 1966

Author: Tim and Paul

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!
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Genres: TV & Film, TV Reviews

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BAT BITS #41 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "Doom-Trap": The Charles Hoffman Treatment
Episode 41
Thursday, 10 September, 2026

While we had previously thought there was no existing early version of Lorenzo Semple's script for "Zelda the Great"/"A Death Worse than Fate", an alert listener has sent us a… well, related treatment. It's by Charles Hoffman and is based on "Batman's Inescapable Doom-Trap" from Detective Comics 346, retaining Carnado as the magician, rather than Zelda. The treatment varies from the comics story, but in different ways from "Zelda". This time, we examine the treatment and compare it to the comics story and the TV version. Subscribe to our Patreon for $2 a month to hear our discussion of the treatment in our bi-weekly examination of Batman 66 on BAT BITS! Or, for $4 a month, get that AND our monthly show Silver Age Batman, in which Paul or another in our stable of co-hosts joins Tim to examine individual Batman stories from the 1950s and '60s. In the latest episode, Tim and Kumar discuss "The Double Crimes of Two-Face" from Detective Comics 187. And coming on September 19, Patrick joins Tim to discuss another Harvey Dent story, "Two-Face Strikes Again" from Batman 81! Sign up today!