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BAT BITS #32 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "Battyman" parody in CRACKED

BAT BITS #31 NOW LIVE on Patreon: REVIEW: "Batman Meets Godzilla" #3

BAT BITS #30 NOW LIVE:: Women in S3, pt 2: Cringe

BAT BITS #29 NOW LIVE: Rewriting Recaps

BAT BITS #28 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "A Riddle a Day" script pt 4

BAT BITS #27 NOW LIVE: "A Riddle a Day" script pt 3

BAT BITS #26 NOW LIVE: "A Riddle a Day" script pt 2

BAT BITS #25 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "A Riddle a Day" script pt 1

#222 Semple's Batnotes: Seven Surprising Points

BAT BITS #24 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Advice to Bat-writers in 1965, pt 5

BAT BITS #23 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Advice to Bat-writers in 1965, pt 3

BAT BITS #22 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Advice to Bat-writers in 1965, pt 3

BAT BITS #21 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Advice to Bat-writers in 1965, pt 2

BAT BITS #20 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Advice to Bat-writers in 1965, pt 1

BAT BITS #19 NOW LIVE on Patreon: TV GUIDE's take on Yvonne

BAT BITS #18 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Semple sets the Bat-template

BAT BITS #17 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "Fine Finny Fiends" final script pt 2: In tune on the Neptune

BAT BITS #16 NOW LIVE on Patreon: "Fine Finny Fiends" final script pt 1: Something Fishy

BAT BITS #15 now LIVE on Patreon: Letters from Bruce Lee

BAT BITS #14 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Bookworm final script: The Bullets Don't Fly

BAT BITS #13 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Bookworm script pt 4: Why was fake Gordon fake-shot?

BAT BITS #12 NOW LIVE on PATREON: Bookworm Script pt 3: Bat-Magnetism

BAT BITS #11 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Bookworm script part 2 - how NOT to write a deathtrap

BAT BITS #10 NOW LIVE on Patreon: The EARLY Bookworm script, part one!

BAT BITS #09 NOW LIVE on Patreon: Begorra! Mercy Alive! We got AMAZING YouTube comments!

#221 "The Joker Trumps an Ace" scripts: How Joker got deflated

BAT BITS #08 now LIVE on Patreon: What does BATMAN '66 #12 tell us about the TV show?

#220 "The New Adventures of Batman" (1977): The one with Adam, Burt, and…. BAT MITE! W/J. B. Anderton!

BAT BITS #07 now LIVE on Patreon: How to make a "Holy" pt 2

BAT BITS #06 now LIVE on Patreon: How to make a "Holy" pt 1

BAT BITS #05 now LIVE on Patreon! "The 'Batman' Movie Premiere"

Bat Bits #04 now LIVE on Patreon: "Batman comics suck, but the TV show is WORSE!"

BAT BITS #03 now LIVE on Patreon! Batman: Inspirational for kids, or anti-police indoctrination??

BAT BITS #02 now LIVE on Patreon: Wondering where the tigers are?

BAT BITS #01 now LIVE on Patreon!

#219 Who was Stafford Repp?

Schedule Note

#218 "The Adventures of Batman" (1968): A (relatively) objective look

#217 A well-planned bat-reunion: The Wil Shriner Show, 1988

#216 Putting a Finger on the Clock King script

#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity

#214 "Mr. Terrific": A tough pill to swallow? Pt 2

#213 "Mr. Terrific": A tough pill to swallow? Pt 1

#212 That's no bat, boy, that's Captain Nice!

#211 Holy overbooking! The Late Show's Batman reunion

#210 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 2)

#209 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 1)

#208 The Pilot Audience Report: Why did Batman seem "kind of stupid"?

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#207 The Bat-bible, and Buck Henry's rejection of camp

#206 Neil Hamilton: From silent film star to Gotham's top cop

#205 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2

#204 "Rembrandt III": Watching paint dry

#203 "Has TV gone batty?" Snarky press coverage from 1966

#202 British Batmania: A Slow Burn

#201 Chip Kidd's Book of Bat-Merch

#200 "Batman: The Movie": The Novel

#199 "Nora Clavicle" scripts and writing in season three

Holy Casting Crossover! Actors who appeared on both BATMAN and STAR TREK TOS

BONUS! DCU King Tut in "Batman Confidential"

Going away, but we'll be back

#198 Women in Season 2, pt 3: You've Come a Long Way, Bat-Moll

#197 Adam and Frank's… semi-big show

#196 "The Joker's Big Show"

#195 SCRIPT: "A Piece of the Action"

#194 Susan Silo: Mousey and much more!

#193 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 1

#192 Mercy alive! It's Madge Blake!

#191 Women in Season 2, pt 2: Deluded Girls and Second Bananas

#190 Batman refs: "Mighty Mouse" & "The Simpsons"

#189 The Evolution of "False Face"

#188 iPhone? Try "snow cone": "Batman '66" #10

#187 "Superman" musical: It's not a bird, but is it camp?

#186 Why "The Joker Jury" was out

#185 Zelda without Shame

#184 "Hizzoner": A Good Script? It's debatable

#183 Bat-Costumes' Dynamic Duo: Chuck and Lynne Williams

#182 Eartha and LBJ

#181 Who was Reuben Watt?

#180 "The Thirteenth Hat" Scripts: Kidnap the Jurors Already!

#179 "Star Trek vs Batman": The Director Speaks!

#178 "Batman & Bill": The Creatorship Controversy

#177 Stanford Sherman's Marsha: "Rewriting the fool thing"

#176 "Marsha", first draft: Too much chat, not enough Bat

#175 Harlan Ellison's "Two-Face"

"Movin' with Nancy" review SPECIAL

#174 Women in Season 2, pt 1: From the Childish to the Badass

#173 Batman '65: Developing the Idea

#172 "Mr Zero": A Dozier/Semple dead end

#171 "Adam West Naked": Back to "Back to the Batcave"

#170 Power Bat-Records

#169 "Instant Freeze" script: We don't love a parade

#168 "Dick Tracy" and "Wonder Woman": The Dozierverse Stumbles

#167 Tom Peyer talks "Batman 66" and "The Wrong Earth"

#166 "Batman and Robin": Hot and "Kalt"

#165 Mr. Freeze(s)

#164 "The Curse of Tut" scripts: Rondeau and Buono improve on Dennis and Barret

#163 "Phantom Pharaoh" Reveals Semplian Batman

#162 Lego Batman is Every Batman

#161 A Joker for All Seasons

#160 Bat-rankings

#159 The Joker Laughs on Two-Face's Behalf

#158 Peter Rabe's "Two-Face"

#157 Adam West as Catman; False Face; and a Camp Question

#156 Adam and Burt "Return to the Batcave"

#155 The Entrancing Dr. Cabala

#154 Bat-Based Cartoons: "Batfink" and Waldo Kitty's "Catman"

#153 Greg Patterson tries on the Penguin's "quack"

Help us snag a JOHN ASTIN interview

#152 Defining the Riddler w/Wally Wingert

#151 "Bat-motography" and "The Conqueror Bookworm"

#150 "The Astrologer": The Proto-"Zodiac" Script

#149 Alan Napier: "Not Just Batman's Butler"

#148 Washburn II: Meet the Stars!

#147 Stanford Sherman's letters and Batman '66 #5

#146 An Early Batman '66 Fan Film, Revealed!

#145 "Batman: The Movie": What is "the director's input"?

#144 Leslie Martinson: He's Tha Bomb

#143 Jeff Bond talking Bat-movie music? Oh buoy!

#142 Fine-tuning "The Penguin Goes Straight"

#141 The Red Hood and a Couple of Top Hats

#140 Julie and Eartha: Two Cat-egories of Catwoman

#139 "Batman Meets Godzilla" #2 and the Battle Over the Batmobile

#138 Batman Forever: "Holey Plot, Batman!"

#137 Yvonne Craig: We get a kick out of this memoir

#136 Freeze/Penguin teamup and Dozier's ten rules

#135 Batman '66 Comics, the Gray Ghost, and Nostalgia

#134 What's My Crime? Bob Dozier's Joker Drafts

#133 Scott Sebring is here! Holy Bat-cyclopedia!

#132 Women of Season One: Not Just "Poor, Deluded Girls"

#131 1970: Batman goes solo and gets spooky

#130 Reading Fan Letters in the Wayne Living Room

#129 The Show's Ratings, and Rating "Godzilla"

BAT-ANNOUNCEMENTS

#128 Roast Godzilla

#127 It's a "Challenge" Just to Sit Through "Legends"

#126 Season Three Wrapup: The Problem with Batgirl

#125 Minerva: Holy self-parody!

#124 Penguinalysis: How would '60s comics fans have seen Meredith?

#123 Dr. Cassandra makes the show disappear

#122 Parade of Bat-Parodies

#121 Send Off the Clown (with Ken Holtzhouser!)

#120 Can Superman solve "Batman's Great Mystery"?

#119 Eureka! Is "Mummy's Uncle" our favorite Season Three episode?

#118 "Flash Gordon": Lorenzo Goes to Space Camp

#117 Ross' Final Shame

#116 Victor Buono: Holy Ad-Libbed Comedy!

#115 Two Batman Parodies

#114 Putting "Clean Sweep" under the microscope

#113 Tying Ourselves in Knots: Nora Clavicle Reconsidered (with "Twof"!)

#112 Court BAT-tles: The Law on the '66 Show

#111 "The Wrong Earth" and "The Batman Radio Show"

#110 "The Impossible Crimes": Semple holds Stadd's Feet to the Fire

#109 Louie the Lilac baffles, Bat-conference informs

#108 The William Dozier Fanboy

#107 Archie meets Batman, We Meet A Listener

#106 The Funny Script Felonies (w/John S. Drew!)

#105 Fifty Ways to Wreck the Joker

#104 Batman Returns... and Kyle appears

#103 Pop vs Camp: Which is Batman '66?

#102 Egghead & Olga: A Strange Way to Run a Three-Parter

#101 Egghead and Olga are back… Or did they just get here?

AN APPEAL

#100 Adam West's Signature Role

#099 The Kitt-y Cat Shows her Claws

#098 "Three Villains of Doom": A "Novel" bit of Bat-Merch

#097 The Riddler's cutting room floor: "The Silent Film Capers"

#096 As the "Ffogg" clears, we ask "Where's the Beef?"

#095 Mego Action Figures Emerge from the Fog

#094 "The Londinium Larcenies" and a legacy layout in Los Angeles

#093 The Tale of "The Cat's Tale"

#092 BATMANIA pt 2: Is nothing impossible?

#091 BATMANIA pt 1: Comics Fans Connect

#090 Surf's Up, Joker's Under, and Al's On!

#089 "Fashions in Crime": Hard-Boiled Batman '66

#088 Holy hyperbole! It's Burt Ward's book!

#087 An Eggsasperating Eggsercise

#086 "Louie, The Lilac": Please Omit Important Scenes

#085 "Batman '89" Turns our Heads

#084 Pies at the Penguin's Nest; Goofs to which Semple Fessed (w/ Ben Bentley!)

#083 Fitting Batman '66 into "The Caped Crusade"

#082 Buono, How We Love Ya

#081 Donna Loren takes us to School

#080 The '66 Batman comic strip: Having it both ways

Programming update - Our return is days away!

NOTICE -- podcast delay

#079 There's no business like horse business

#078 "Pop Goes the Joker" script: The Batpole signs aren't missing, and the monkey is

#077 Stanley Ralph Ross: Love 'im, Hate 'im

#076 A "Wail" of a time with Siren and High C!

#075 Reading Ross' Draft Script "That Darned Catwoman"

#074 "Batman vs. Two-Face"

#073 Frank Gorshin returns - Don't blink or you'll miss him!

#072 Archer, first draft: Why the Arrow Flew Crooked

#071 Batman '49: So bad, it….. might not be bad?

#070 Batgirl comes to Gotham, Tim goes to Laramie

#069 Remembering Adam West: Our Lives With Batman

#068 Season Two vs. Season One: Was the slide inevitable?

#067 "Ice Spy": Frozen turkey

#066 This Joker Really Pops!

#065 The Black Widow Goes Camping .... DAAAAH-ling

#064 Bat-manga!

#063 Goodbye, Adam West; Hello, King Tut

#062 Batman vs. Green Hornet: Blue, Green, and Pink

#061 Who is the Green Hornet?

#060 Catwoman goes for her M.R.S. degree

#059 Semple's Last Laugh

#058 The Impurrrrfect Script

#057 Batman's Anniversary… and our own!

#056 "Batman" Jumps the Lizard

#055 The Bat-Coffee Table Book

#054 That Darn Lesley Gore

#053 Batman '43: Holy WW II Propaganda!

#052 We can't clam up about The Zodiac Crimes

#051 Mad Hatter and the Death of Camp

#050 Turning Time Backward: "The Impractical Joker" 1st Draft

#049 Doctor.... Somnambula. (with Joe Dator!)

#048 The Puzzler: A Riddler Script from the Files

#047 Bat-scripts: Semple Sets the Batman '66 Mythos (w/John S. Drew!)

#046 "Return of the Caped Crusaders"!!

#045 Catwoman, Chad, Jeremy — and Wally Wingert

#044 Penguin outwits Penguin, Semple outwits Batman

#043 Shame: Blazing Guns and Hot Rods

#042 Marsha, Queen of Diamonds: Lots of filler? Not so fast!

#041 Where's the "key" to this Joker script?

#040 Adam West goes "Back to the Batcave"

#039 Preminger's Freeze: The "Wild" and the Mild

#038 Vote Pengy!

#037 Pat Evans follows "The Beat of the Bat"

#036 I Wish My Brother Harry Was Here

#035 Egghead and a Scramble of Cameos

#034 Cause and effect: The Batman TV show and the comics

#033 Clock King Gets Clocked

#032 Pop Goes the Clock King!

#031 Ma Parker: Gotham Invader, Resident, and Invalid

#030 King Tut Can't Resist a Pretty Queen

#029 The Minstrel Hits the Airwaves!

#028 Top Bat-records of '66! Tim and Paul are countin' 'em down

#027 Catwoman goes camping!

#026 Arch Talk about the Archer

#025 Batman: THE Movie (There are others?!)

#024 Surveying Season One and Sampling Semple

#023 Finny, not Feathered

#022 The Riddler is a Tramp

#021 Bookworm and the Bat-eared Boobs

#020 King Tut and two dummies

#019 The Joker's Hoe-down

#018 Riddler waxes literary, Riddle illustrates musically

#017 Batman's Crime Spree

#016 Mark Racop and the Secrets of the Batmobile

#015 Purrrrrfect!

#014 False Face: Best arc, or "a bomb"?

#013 Joker & the "gorgeous, dumb hunk of cheerleader"

#012 Batman Goes Camping!

#011 "Oh, you pixie!"

#010 The Prince of Puzzlers!

#009 "A woman! What's this world coming to?"

#008 It's Mr. Freeze! Sanders Fan Left Cold

#007 Comedians Hall of Fame

#006 Bat-chat

#005 That Cagey Bird!

#004: Wally Wingert's Wild Wild "West" Wonderfulness

#003: Shall we dance?

#002: Riddle me this!

#001: Bat-memories