to Santa Claus (as portrayed by old time actor Andy Divine) all had a moment of Batman and Robin's time. Those that couldn't be villains turned up in cameos, from Dick Clark to Sammy Davis Jr. All sorts of acting greats wanted their chance to challenge the Dynamic Duo, and unlikely villains played by Liberace, Van Johnson, Art Carney and Zsa Zsa Gabor all appeared, in addition to the semi-regular performers, Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Julie Newmar and the aforementioned Gorshin. Meanwhile, the show became the hottest thing happening, nearly overnight. Not that that's bad, unless you feel this tarnished the legend of The Caped Crusader. Of course, what happened was that with the wild Rogue's Gallery of villains, the over-the-top costuming, the dutch angle camera setups, with the straight-laced line reads of the two heroes, and the bugle like narration of "Desmond Doomsday" (the alias for Producer William Dozier) Batman was destined to be seen as nothing but pure camp.
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I would compare these first two episodes with any adventure series and say that they hold their own. In fact, in looking at the first two episodes, which featured Frank Gorshin as the first "Special Guest Villain," The Riddler, the program was quite hard-nosed, pretty straight and sinister (considering the costuming of the lead players), and actually somewhat poignant with the performance of Jill St.
But I'm not at all certain that it had to be. Looking back at this program from its completion through all of the episodes, it's easy to characterize it as being a campy version of Bob Kane's Dark Knight legend.
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