Batman (tV Series)
In the early 1960s, Ed Graham Productions optioned the television rights to the comic book Batman and planned a straightforward juvenile adventure show, much like Adventures of Superman and The Lone Ranger, to air on CBS on Saturday mornings. When negotiations between CBS and Graham stalled, DC Comics quickly reobtained rights and made the deal with ABC, which farmed the rights out to 20th Century Fox to produce the series. East Coast ABC executive Yale Udoff, a Batman fan in his childhood, contacted ABC executives Harve Bennett and Edgar J. Scherick, 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.
3 of Batman ’66 introduced the Red Hood and Dr. Holly Quinn into the series continuity. 7, Batman used a new vehicle, the Bat-Jet, to follow False-Face to Mount Rushmore. The series was to have introduced Killer Croc into the continuity, as well as a new villainess named Cleopatra. 28 were mainly dedicated to introducing villains from the comics that either were not used, such as Solomon Grundy, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow, or did not exist at the time, such as Ra’s al Ghul, Bane, the Harlequin (Dr. Quinn’s criminal persona) and Killer Croc (who was introduced earlier as one of King Tut’s henchmen, but gained a focus story).
They are segued from the TV film episode to the live stage again inside the Batmobile. They are introduced by Ricardo Montalban. It was a parody of the 1966 Batman TV series with Animaniacs character Chicken Boo replacing Robin the Boy Wonder. It was the fourth segment of episode 93 (season 5) of Animaniacs produced by Warner Bros. In 1997, West returned to the role of the Batman for the first time in 12 years voicing the Caped Crusader/Spruce Wayne in the animated short Boo Wonder.
In season 2, episode 11 of Kim Possible, Kim Possible’s sidekick Ron Stoppable performs volunteer work at the home of recluse Timothy North (voiced by Adam West). Ron (voiced by Will Friedle), assumes North’s mission ‘to ferret out evil’ until Ron and Kim discover that North is a gently delusional actor misremembering his time on a vintage TV show. He accidentally discovers a button concealed in a bust, leading to the Ferret Hole of (supposed) retired crime-fighter ‘The Fearless Ferret’.
