In the 60s when I was a snot-nose, other snot-noses and I used to watch Batman on TV every week, usually in Black and white because we couldnt afford a colour telly.
When the title "Batman! (In Color)" came on the telly, we often wondered what colour Batman and his faithful, yet wierd sidekick Robin actually was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjXAAS3VpeY

Then the cigarette card things came along with a little pink postage stamp sized piece of chewing gum that tasted of the chemicals that the cards were printed in and we had an idea of the colours of the goodies and baddies from those.

I remember getting "Land of the giants" cards too, and being dissapointed because my threppeny bits worth bought me two packs, of all the pics on the packs, only one was a pic that I didnt already have.
Id go to school and try to swap them for other pics, but... and this is a bit odd, Id find that half the school must have bought the same pack with the exact same pics in it.

Anyway, Im off my own topic...

I was walking my 5 year old from school today and she was running around the footpath in front of me with her coat attached to her head with its hood, the rest of the coat flapping out behind her, arms out to the sides and she was singling loudly "BATMAN!! DINNER DINNER DINNER DINNER, BATMAN!!!"
Just like we did when we were kids back in the 60s.

I asked her what she was doing and ALL the kids at school were playing batman in this mornings break...

This is no longer the 1960s, batman of the 21st century is a brooding soul, not the comic hero of back then, yet the kids were singing the 60s theme...

The original (And best) batman is on cable in the evenings, I havent watched one yet but tonight, I think my little one and I are going to sit and watch an episode...

original batman is nipple-tastic, are you sure you want to subject your young-un to that?

Are the makers of Coronation St. on SF. On tonights edition someone at the bar actually said 'DINNER DINNER DINNER BATMAN'. I wasn't paying much attention at the time but gather it was a punchline to a joke.:cool:

The buggers are nicking our ideas! They ought to pay us royalties!

Didn't you think the 60s Batman was a bit er, camp? :rolleyes:

Not that there's owt wrong with that of course.

When I watched it in the 60s, Batman was a hero, and the idea of camp went straight over my sweet little 6 year old flaxen head.
Now Im an adult (In body at least) I see the campness and understand the humour and now I know what my sister, who was 16 back then, and my parents were roaring with laughter about.

I was watching Family Guy the other night and Adam West- the bloke who played Batman in the 60s is a regular character on there and I was laughing just at the sound of his mad voice.

It was a bit spoiled because I had to spend 15 minutes explaining to my other half who Adam West was, then I had to explain to her about Batman and Robin in the 60s.

She wasnt born until 1977 so she missed out in it all.

Hey Jabberwocky - why not try explaining who Burt Ward was playing the role of Dick Grayson alias Robin - "The Boy Wonder" - good luck mate !

THATS HIM!

Burt Ward, Its been driving me crackers trying to remember his bloody name!

Thanks for that!

But Jabbers youv'e no excuse for not knowing their names, the 60s Batman series is being shown on BBC 4 on Tuesday and Wednesday every week at 7.35.

I know, I know.
I should remember because Ward was on telly a few weeks ago too and I mentioned to the OH who he was.

Im getting old n senile.