To The Batpoles! Batman 1966
By Tim and Paul
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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.
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#216 Putting a Finger on the Clock King script
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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#214 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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#213 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 1
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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#212 That’s no bat, boy, that’s Captain Nice!
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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#211 Holy overbooking! The Late Show’s Batman reunion
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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#210 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 2)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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#209 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 1)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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#208 The Pilot Audience Report: Why did Batman seem “kind of stupid”?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Next episode topic, and vote for new Patreon podcast topic
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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#207 The Bat-bible, and Buck Henry’s rejection of camp
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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#206 Neil Hamilton: From silent film star to Gotham’s top cop
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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#205 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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#204 “Rembrandt III”: Watching paint dry
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May 25, 2023 |
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#203 “Has TV gone batty?” Snarky press coverage from 1966
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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#202 British Batmania: A Slow Burn
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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#201 Chip Kidd’s Book of Bat-Merch
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#200 “Batman: The Movie”: The Novel
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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#199 "Nora Clavicle" scripts and writing in season three
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Holy Casting Crossover! Actors who appeared on both BATMAN and STAR TREK TOS
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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BONUS! DCU King Tut in "Batman Confidential"
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Going away, but we'll be back
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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#198 Women in Season 2, pt 3: You’ve Come a Long Way, Bat-Moll
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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#197 Adam and Frank’s… semi-big show
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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#196 "The Joker's Big Show"
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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#195 SCRIPT: "A Piece of the Action"
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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#194 Susan Silo: Mousey and much more!
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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#193 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 1
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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#192 Mercy alive! It’s Madge Blake!
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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#191 Women in Season 2, pt 2: Deluded Girls and Second Bananas
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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#190 Batman refs: “Mighty Mouse” & “The Simpsons”
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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#189 The Evolution of “False Face”
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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#188 iPhone? Try “snow cone”: “Batman ’66” #10
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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SCRIPT: True or False Face
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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#187 "Superman" musical: It's not a bird, but is it camp?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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#186 Why "The Joker Jury" was out
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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#185 Zelda without Shame
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May 26, 2022 |
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#184 “Hizzoner”: A Good Script? It’s debatable
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May 12, 2022 |
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#183 Bat-Costumes' Dynamic Duo: Chuck and Lynne Williams
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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#182 Eartha and LBJ
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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#181 Who was Reuben Watt?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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#180 “The Thirteenth Hat” Scripts: Kidnap the Jurors Already!
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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#179 “Star Trek vs Batman”: The Director Speaks!
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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#178 “Batman & Bill”: The Creatorship Controversy
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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#177 Stanford Sherman’s Marsha: “Rewriting the fool thing”
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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#176 "Marsha", first draft: Too much chat, not enough Bat
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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#175 Harlan Ellison’s "Two-Face"
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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"Movin' with Nancy" review SPECIAL
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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#174 Women in Season 2, pt 1: From the Childish to the Badass
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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#173 Batman ’65: Developing the Idea
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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#172 “Mr Zero”: A Dozier/Semple dead end
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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#171 "Adam West Naked": Back to "Back to the Batcave"
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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#170 Power Bat-Records
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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#169 “Instant Freeze” script: We don’t love a parade
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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#168 “Dick Tracy” and “Wonder Woman”: The Dozierverse Stumbles
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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#167 Tom Peyer talks “Batman 66” and “The Wrong Earth”
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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#166 "Batman and Robin": Hot and "Kalt"
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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#165 Mr. Freeze(s)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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#164 "The Curse of Tut" scripts: Rondeau and Buono improve on Dennis and Barret
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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#163 "Phantom Pharaoh" Reveals Semplian Batman
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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#162 Lego Batman is Every Batman
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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#161 A Joker for All Seasons
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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#160 Bat-rankings
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May 27, 2021 |
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#159 The Joker Laughs on Two-Face's Behalf
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May 13, 2021 |
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#158 Peter Rabe’s “Two-Face”
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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#157 Adam West as Catman; False Face; and a Camp Question
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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#156 Adam and Burt "Return to the Batcave"
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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#155 The Entrancing Dr. Cabala
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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#154 Bat-Based Cartoons: "Batfink" and Waldo Kitty's "Catman"
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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#153 Greg Patterson tries on the Penguin's "quack"
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Help us snag a JOHN ASTIN interview
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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#152 Defining the Riddler w/Wally Wingert
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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#151 “Bat-motography” and “The Conqueror Bookworm”
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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#150 “The Astrologer”: The Proto-“Zodiac” Script
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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#149 Alan Napier: "Not Just Batman's Butler"
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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#148 Washburn II: Meet the Stars!
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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#147 Stanford Sherman’s letters and Batman ’66 #5
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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#146 An Early Batman '66 Fan Film, Revealed!
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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#145 “Batman: The Movie”: What is “the director’s input”?
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#144 Leslie Martinson: He’s Tha Bomb
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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SCRIPT: Batman: The Movie
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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#143 Jeff Bond talking Bat-movie music? Oh buoy!
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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#142 Fine-tuning “The Penguin Goes Straight”
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#141 The Red Hood and a Couple of Top Hats
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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SCRIPT: The Penguin Goes Straight
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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#140 Julie and Eartha: Two Cat-egories of Catwoman
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#139 "Batman Meets Godzilla" #2 and the Battle Over the Batmobile
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#138 Batman Forever: “Holey Plot, Batman!”
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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#137 Yvonne Craig: We get a kick out of this memoir
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#136 Freeze/Penguin teamup and Dozier's ten rules
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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#135 Batman ’66 Comics, the Gray Ghost, and Nostalgia
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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#134 What’s My Crime? Bob Dozier’s Joker Drafts
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May 28, 2020 |
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#133 Scott Sebring is here! Holy Bat-cyclopedia!
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May 14, 2020 |
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#132 Women of Season One: Not Just "Poor, Deluded Girls"
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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#131 1970: Batman goes solo and gets spooky
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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#130 Reading Fan Letters in the Wayne Living Room
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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#129 The Show's Ratings, and Rating "Godzilla"
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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BAT-ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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#128 Roast Godzilla
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#127 It’s a “Challenge” Just to Sit Through “Legends”
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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#126 Season Three Wrapup: The Problem with Batgirl
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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#125 Minerva: Holy self-parody!
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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#124 Penguinalysis: How would '60s comics fans have seen Meredith?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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#123 Dr. Cassandra makes the show disappear
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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#122 Parade of Bat-Parodies
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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#121 Send Off the Clown (with Ken Holtzhouser!)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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#120 Can Superman solve "Batman's Great Mystery"?
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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#119 Eureka! Is “Mummy’s Uncle” our favorite Season Three episode?
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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#118 "Flash Gordon": Lorenzo Goes to Space Camp
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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#117 Ross' Final Shame
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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#116 Victor Buono: Holy Ad-Libbed Comedy!
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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#115 Two Batman Parodies
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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#114 Putting "Clean Sweep" under the microscope
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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#113 Tying Ourselves in Knots: Nora Clavicle Reconsidered (with “Twof”!)
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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#112 Court BAT-tles: The Law on the '66 Show
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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#111 "The Wrong Earth" and "The Batman Radio Show"
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May 30, 2019 |
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#110 "The Impossible Crimes": Semple holds Stadd’s Feet to the Fire
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May 16, 2019 |
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#109 Louie the Lilac baffles, Bat-conference informs
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May 02, 2019 |
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#108 The William Dozier Fanboy
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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#107 Archie meets Batman, We Meet A Listener
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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#106 The Funny Script Felonies (w/John S. Drew!)
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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#105 Fifty Ways to Wreck the Joker
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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#104 Batman Returns... and Kyle appears
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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#103 Pop vs Camp: Which is Batman ’66?
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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#102 Egghead & Olga: A Strange Way to Run a Three-Parter
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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#101 Egghead and Olga are back… Or did they just get here?
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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AN APPEAL
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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#100 Adam West’s Signature Role
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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#099 The Kitt-y Cat Shows her Claws
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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#098 “Three Villains of Doom”: A “Novel” bit of Bat-Merch
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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#097 The Riddler’s cutting room floor: “The Silent Film Capers”
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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#096 As the “Ffogg” clears, we ask “Where's the Beef?”
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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#095 Mego Action Figures Emerge from the Fog
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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#094 “The Londinium Larcenies” and a legacy layout in Los Angeles
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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#093 The Tale of “The Cat’s Tale”
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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#092 BATMANIA pt 2: Is nothing impossible?
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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#091 BATMANIA pt 1: Comics Fans Connect
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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#090 Surf’s Up, Joker’s Under, and Al’s On!
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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#089 “Fashions in Crime”: Hard-Boiled Batman '66
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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#088 Holy hyperbole! It's Burt Ward's book!
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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#087 An Eggsasperating Eggsercise
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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#086 “Louie, The Lilac”: Please Omit Important Scenes
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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#085 "Batman '89" Turns our Heads
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May 24, 2018 |
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#084 Pies at the Penguin’s Nest; Goofs to which Semple Fessed (w/ Ben Bentley!)
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May 10, 2018 |
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#083 Fitting Batman '66 into "The Caped Crusade"
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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#082 Buono, How We Love Ya
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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#081 Donna Loren takes us to School
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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#080 The ’66 Batman comic strip: Having it both ways
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Programming update - Our return is days away!
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Mar 11, 2018 |
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NOTICE -- podcast delay
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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#079 There’s no business like horse business
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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#078 "Pop Goes the Joker" script: The Batpole signs aren’t missing, and the monkey is
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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#077 Stanley Ralph Ross: Love 'im, Hate 'im
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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#076 A “Wail” of a time with Siren and High C!
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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#075 Reading Ross’ Draft Script “That Darned Catwoman”
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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#074 "Batman vs. Two-Face"
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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#073 Frank Gorshin returns - Don’t blink or you’ll miss him!
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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#072 Archer, first draft: Why the Arrow Flew Crooked
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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#071 Batman ’49: So bad, it….. might not be bad?
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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#070 Batgirl comes to Gotham, Tim goes to Laramie
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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#069 Remembering Adam West: Our Lives With Batman
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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#068 Season Two vs. Season One: Was the slide inevitable?
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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#067 “Ice Spy”: Frozen turkey
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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#066 This Joker Really Pops!
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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#065 The Black Widow Goes Camping .... DAAAAH-ling
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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#064 Bat-manga!
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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#063 Goodbye, Adam West; Hello, King Tut
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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#062 Batman vs. Green Hornet: Blue, Green, and Pink
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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#061 Who is the Green Hornet?
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May 18, 2017 |
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#060 Catwoman goes for her M.R.S. degree
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May 04, 2017 |
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#059 Semple’s Last Laugh
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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#058 The Impurrrrfect Script
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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#057 Batman’s Anniversary… and our own!
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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#056 "Batman" Jumps the Lizard
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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#055 The Bat-Coffee Table Book
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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#054 That Darn Lesley Gore
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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#053 Batman ’43: Holy WW II Propaganda!
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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#052 We can't clam up about The Zodiac Crimes
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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#051 Mad Hatter and the Death of Camp
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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#050 Turning Time Backward: "The Impractical Joker" 1st Draft
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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#049 Doctor.... Somnambula. (with Joe Dator!)
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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#048 The Puzzler: A Riddler Script from the Files
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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#047 Bat-scripts: Semple Sets the Batman '66 Mythos (w/John S. Drew!)
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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#046 "Return of the Caped Crusaders"!!
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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#045 Catwoman, Chad, Jeremy — and Wally Wingert
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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#044 Penguin outwits Penguin, Semple outwits Batman
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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#043 Shame: Blazing Guns and Hot Rods
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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#042 Marsha, Queen of Diamonds: Lots of filler? Not so fast!
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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#041 Where’s the “key” to this Joker script?
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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#040 Adam West goes "Back to the Batcave"
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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#039 Preminger's Freeze: The "Wild" and the Mild
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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#038 Vote Pengy!
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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#037 Pat Evans follows "The Beat of the Bat"
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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#036 I Wish My Brother Harry Was Here
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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#035 Egghead and a Scramble of Cameos
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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#034 Cause and effect: The Batman TV show and the comics
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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#033 Clock King Gets Clocked
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May 19, 2016 |
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#032 Pop Goes the Clock King!
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May 05, 2016 |
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#031 Ma Parker: Gotham Invader, Resident, and Invalid
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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#030 King Tut Can't Resist a Pretty Queen
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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#029 The Minstrel Hits the Airwaves!
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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#028 Top Bat-records of '66! Tim and Paul are countin' 'em down
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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#027 Catwoman goes camping!
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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#026 Arch Talk about the Archer
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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#025 Batman: THE Movie (There are others?!)
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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#024 Surveying Season One and Sampling Semple
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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#023 Finny, not Feathered
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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#022 The Riddler is a Tramp
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Dec 31, 2015 |
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#021 Bookworm and the Bat-eared Boobs
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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#020 King Tut and two dummies
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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#019 The Joker's Hoe-down
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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#018 Riddler waxes literary, Riddle illustrates musically
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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#017 Batman's Crime Spree
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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#016 Mark Racop and the Secrets of the Batmobile
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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#015 Purrrrrfect!
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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#014 False Face: Best arc, or "a bomb"?
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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#013 Joker & the "gorgeous, dumb hunk of cheerleader"
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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#012 Batman Goes Camping!
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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#011 "Oh, you pixie!"
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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#010 The Prince of Puzzlers!
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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#009 "A woman! What's this world coming to?"
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Jul 16, 2015 |
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#008 It's Mr. Freeze! Sanders Fan Left Cold
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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#007 Comedians Hall of Fame
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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#006 Bat-chat
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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#005 That Cagey Bird!
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May 21, 2015 |
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#004: Wally Wingert's Wild Wild "West" Wonderfulness
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May 07, 2015 |
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#003: Shall we dance?
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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#002: Riddle me this!
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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#001: Bat-memories
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Mar 26, 2015 |