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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 13, 2024 0:30:25 GMT -5
Missed it by a few minutes, but the '66 TV series debuted on this (er...yesterday) day Jan 12, 1966, 57 years ago.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 4, 2024 15:24:29 GMT -5
What an iconic presents Adam West was and is in the legacy of Batman. Not just the classic Batman and Robin '66' movie and series, but Super Friends long run, Scooby Doo, and the Batman cartoon shows 1968 & 1978. I might even be missing one.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 9, 2024 0:53:07 GMT -5
What an iconic presents Adam West was and is in the legacy of Batman. Not just the classic Batman and Robin '66' movie and series, but Super Friends long run, Scooby Doo, and the Batman cartoon shows 1968 & 1978. I might even be missing one. Well, West didn't do the bulk of the Super Friends run, or the 1968 Adventures of Batman (technically, the Batman/Superman Hour, before his segment was ran on its own). Olan Soule voiced Batman in the 1968 Filmation series and in The New Scooby Doo Movies, the Super Friends on and the Sesame Street segments, produced by Filmation. West first voiced the character on The New Adventures of Batman, in 1977, with Burt Ward voicing Robin. Soule and Casey Kasem were voicing them on the Super Friends, at the same time. West then was brought in to voice Batman on the last season of Super Friends shows, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, with Kasem still voicing Robin. West & Ward did portray the characters in the Hanna-Barbera-produced Legends of the Super-Heroes specials. West also voiced The Grey Ghost (or, rather, the actor who portrayed him) on Batman, The Animated series, who was one of young Bruce's heroes andone of his inspirations for fighting crime. It was a nice tribute to West and his role in bringing Batman to life. I never got the hate for the West series, in the 80s and 90s, as I enjoyed it as an adventure show, as a kid and as a satire, as an adult. To me, it was comic book fans who carried a chip on their shoulder about outsiders thinking comics were kid material or something for campy laughs. In most hands, yes, it was bad stuff; but, the first season of the show, the movie and about half to 2/3 of the second season, it was well done. By the third, it was played out and went off the rails, though Batgirl made it palatable as something different (and sexy). West was hardly going to win acting awards; but, he was pretty good with comedy and was often way better than the material he got, after the series was over. I sat through some bad material that he was in, but he was always the best part of it.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 9, 2024 11:51:18 GMT -5
What an iconic presents Adam West was and is in the legacy of Batman. Not just the classic Batman and Robin '66' movie and series, but Super Friends long run, Scooby Doo, and the Batman cartoon shows 1968 & 1978. I might even be missing one. Well, West didn't do the bulk of the Super Friends run, or the 1968 Adventures of Batman (technically, the Batman/Superman Hour, before his segment was ran on its own). Olan Soule voiced Batman in the 1968 Filmation series and in The New Scooby Doo Movies, the Super Friends on and the Sesame Street segments, produced by Filmation. West first voiced the character on The New Adventures of Batman, in 1977, with Burt Ward voicing Robin. Soule and Casey Kasem were voicing them on the Super Friends, at the same time. West then was brought in to voice Batman on the last season of Super Friends shows, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, with Kasem still voicing Robin. West & Ward did portray the characters in the Hanna-Barbera-produced Legends of the Super-Heroes specials. West also voiced The Grey Ghost (or, rather, the actor who portrayed him) on Batman, The Animated series, who was one of young Bruce's heroes andone of his inspirations for fighting crime. It was a nice tribute to West and his role in bringing Batman to life. I never got the hate for the West series, in the 80s and 90s, as I enjoyed it as an adventure show, as a kid and as a satire, as an adult. To me, it was comic book fans who carried a chip on their shoulder about outsiders thinking comics were kid material or something for campy laughs. In most hands, yes, it was bad stuff; but, the first season of the show, the movie and about half to 2/3 of the second season, it was well done. By the third, it was played out and went off the rails, though Batgirl made it palatable as something different (and sexy). West was hardly going to win acting awards; but, he was pretty good with comedy and was often way better than the material he got, after the series was over. I sat through some bad material that he was in, but he was always the best part of it. Well, you got a better memory than I, . . . My mistake. I was sure West did the bulk of the Superfriends and Scoobie Doo and so on with West voicing it with Ward or Casey Kasem sometimes. I always loved the old '66' series and remember it quite fondly. Same with how it was looked on in culture at the time. Funny how everyone has such different perspectives.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 9, 2024 23:00:52 GMT -5
This s Olan Soule, who also appeared on the Andy Griffith Show, as John Masters, the choir director (who suffered through Barney's attempts to sing)......
and his Batman voice.....
Here is West,for the opening titles of The New Adventures of Batman (and Burt Ward, and Lou Scheimer, as Batmite, and Jane Webb, as Batgirl)......
Soule and Kasem, in the New Scooby Doo Movies.....
West on Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians ("The Fear," featuring the first cinematic retelling of his origin)...
Olan Soule, on Sesame Street....
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