The world of the 1966 Batman TV show; where everything from a getaway rocket, to phones, and the bat-poles are labeled (including explanation of where the poles lead). Where archers shoot with crooked arrows, Batman and Penguin run against each other in a Mayoral race, and Egghead is running around. It was a fun times of BAMS! And POWS! when the dynamic duo were fully deputized agents of the law rather than the vigilantes we know now.
This isn’t the first time that the 1966 Batman TV series has been released. Just last year, Warner Bros released a complete series box set of the show, but since then they’ve been releasing seasons separately, with Batman: The First Season already available, and this being Part 1 of the Season 2 release.
The set itself includes the following 30 episodes:
Shoot A Crooked Arrow Walk The Straight And Narrow Hot Off The Griddle The Cat And The Fiddle The Minstrel’s Shakedown Barbecued Batman? The Spell of Tut Tut’s Case Is Shut The Greatest Mother Of Them All Ma Parker The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes The Clock King Gets Crowned An Egg Grows In Gotham The Yegg Foes In Gotham The Devil’s Fingers The Dead Ringers Hizzonner The Penguin Dizzonner The Penguin Green Ice Deep Freeze The Impractical Joker The Joker’s Provokers Marsha, Queen of Diamonds Marsha’s Scheme of Diamonds Come Back, Shame It’s How You Play The Game The Penguin’s Nest The Bird’s Last Jest The Cat’s Meow The Bat’s Kow Tow
The typical DVD Standard Features of:
§ 4 DVD-9s
§ Audio: English (1.0 DD)
§ Subtitles: English SDH, Latin Spanish, French
§ Aspect Ratio: 4×3 Full Screen
Sitting back and watching these episodes took me back to a time when I’d watch the reruns after school at my Granny’s. It brought me back to the excitement I had seeing these villains on screen, or when they teamed up. Its pure, joyous nostalgia in all the right ways, and the show truly looks great and vibrant on these discs. That was one of the first things I looked at, and yes, I was impressed with how the episodes themselves look. Yes it’s campy, with the labels, and the acting. It was, what it was supposed to be. When you can embrace that, you’re in for a gosh darn swell time.
BonusCheck out the 1966 Batman Intro, in LEGOs
