Pow!! Right to the gut. RIP, Batman. Your dry humor was classic.
Batman is dead? Say it ain’t so. For many of my baby-boomer generation Adam West was Batman just as Burt Ward was Robin and Neil Hamilton Commissioner Gordon. Every week at that period in the 60s I would make sure to be before my TV as that theme thundered out, Batman! da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Batman!. Pure heaven for us lovers of Bob Kane’s creation.
It still breaks me up to see Batman and Robin inching up that clearly horizontal wall punning like crazy. Batman!
Gotta be.
My thoughts on Adam’s Batman character. Even though it was very much a product of its times, as well as that of producer Bill Dozier and the writers, it took Adam West to bring it all to brilliant life.
West embodied all that was great and wondrous about Batman. He was referred to as the “Bright Knight” in contrast to later depictions of Batman as the “Dark Knight.” West’s Batman believed in justice, but not vengeance. He believed that all people had good in them and that even the most hardened criminals could somehow be rehabilitated into becoming honest and productive citizens. As Bruce Wayne, he also did good works outside of the cowl through his Wayne Foundation. He was Gotham City’s leading philanthropist.
I watched the 60s batman but I liked Adam west best for his work in Family guy and a pilot that never got picked up called Lookwell! (created by Conan o’Brien and Robert Smigel).
If you haven’t seen Lookwell yet, it was great. That would’ve been a wonderful movie.
So far I don’t see a program change on TCM like they sometimes do after an actor dies, showing a bunch of their films.
Searching around I see that last year’s TCM classic film festival had Adam West as a guest and one of the films was his Batman. Classic.
I was just six years old when the show first aired. Sure seemed deadly serious to me, too!
What, they left out his appearance in the final Three Stooges film, The Outlaws Is Coming?
Same here. My mother would later tell the story that I was on the floor watching the show on TV. My parents were on the sofa behind me. At one point they laughed out load at something in the show and I turned around and gave them a “how dare you” dirty look…
I met him about 10 years ago at a trade show. He was a classy guy who was friendly and cordial to everyone in line to meet him. He even laughed when I told him how many scrapes and bruises I got as a kid pretending to be him.
I also saw a meme (Tom Hanks shared it on Instagram) that showed pictures of pages from a phone book that had the entries:
West, Adam … See Wayne, Bruce
Wayne, Bruce… Please consult Crime Fighters in the Yellow Pages
Crime Fighters… See Batman in the White Pages
Batman… See West, Adam
Bumping this to post some good news. Adam West had completed recording his lines for Batman vs. Two-Face before his passing, and the movie will be released as planned. Along with Burt Ward as Robin, the film stars William Shatner as Harvey Dent/Two-Face, and Julie Newmar returns as Catwoman.
An interesting bit of news: supposedly a third film was planned with Lynda Carter appearing as Wonder Woman. That would have been magnificent.
I looked for the clip from “The Purr-fect Crime” where she comes in dominatrix-style, cracking her whip and asking if her pussy willows have been brushed today, but I can’t find it anywhere. 
Holy crap! This scene was way over my head when I was 11, but I watch it now and marvel that they ever got it on the air, especially in prime-time and in a show targeted for my age group! :eek:
Holy derriere! :eek: Carmel actually swatted her ass!!!
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Whatever that means…
I promise I’m not threadshitting, but I always thought Adam West was always popping up on those “Celebrities who are huge assholes in real life” kind of stories. However, with the ourcrying of emotion over him, I think I’m wrong. Am I just getting him confused with someone else? I know Burt Ward’s autobiography didn’t paint a good picture of him, but I’ve heard nothing about Ward the guy, so I don’t think I’m confusing the two.
Or am I just super off-base?
Bat-signal will be seen in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
I think you’re just super off-base.
I’d be surprised if you can find even 3 accounts of Mr. West having been a jerk to work with or to a fan.
Good. Glad to hear it. He seemed like a great, self aware guy on TV and it makes me happy to see that wasn’t an act
With an asterisk - it will be projected onto the side of City Hall, as opposed to in the sky. Then again, spotlights in the sky don’t work as intended unless they’re shined off of clouds, and the forecast for pretty much all of California is for sunny and warmer than usual temperatures.
Alfred (clears throat): Mawster Wayne, a word, please. It’s the Bat-Signal, Sir.
Bruce: Ah, yes. Thank you, Alfred. Aunt Harriet, if you’ll excuse us, I promised Dick I’d help him with his Shakespeare essay in the study. Coming, Dick?
Dick: Gosh, yes, Bruce! Let’s go!
Aunt Harriet: My! No wonder that boy is a straight-A student.
aceplace57, with or without the cape, I think that he took a large part of Batman with him.
I think Adam West was meant to be a B or C List “supporting actor.” However, destiny interceded and he was given the role that ONLY he could pull off. After the role was over, he didn’t seem to be trapped and bitter about it. Instead, he embraced it and publicly became “(character) Adam West, star of Batman” as much as he was “Batman.”
Except for his portrayal in Ward’s autobiography, I’ve never heard anything negative about him. He always seemed thankful about what he accomplished instead of going “if only…”
In the late 70’s(my early teens), I watched reruns Batman and recognized how silly it was. I also knew it was entertaining as heck*.
Now, I watch Family Guy reruns and realize that Mayor Adam West episodes are silly as heck*. I also know they are as entertaining as heck*.
R.I.P. Mr. West
*I find I cannot use anything stronger then"Heck" in a post about Mr. Werst