Holy Rumour Mill, Batman!

[LP_Quagmire]

I hestitated before posting this, but...

Could Adam West's classic BATMAN tv series finally be coming home?   

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/14/what-do-have-planned-for-the-66-batman-show-at-comic-con/


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[Count_Zirock]

I'd say it's a good bet, considering all the merch that's about to be released. The DVD/BRD release would only make sense. It's like Kenner picking back up the "Star Wars" license two years before the release of the "Special Editions" and four years before the release of "Episode I." They knew enough to generate interest in advance of the SE's and the Prequel Trilogy.

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[marsattacks666]

Finally! 

[general gruesome]

That'd be so cool

[Phantom Stranger]

Let's hope

[Mord]

I don't know...I feel about the sixties Batman the same way I feel about Lost in Space. Both were made on such a juvenile level that it's hard to watch/enjoy them as adults.

[LP_Quagmire]

I don't know...I feel about the sixties Batman the same way I feel about Lost in Space. Both were made on such a juvenile level that it's hard to watch/enjoy them as adults.

I agree with you about LOST IN SPACE, but BATMAN was a very sophisticated show; kids enjoyed the action, while adults appreciated the satire.  In essence, Adam West was Leslie Nielsen before Leslie Nielsen was.   

[Haunted hearse]

Actually Jonathin Harris's over the top "Dr. Smith" was tour de force of camp, that makes the show funny to this day.  What I find unwatchable in the big budget film based on the TV series.

[Count_Zirock]

Dr. Smith was originally played as a straightforward villain, if you watch the first season. Interestingly enough, Irwin Allen originally cast Carroll O'Connor as Dr. Smith.

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[Mord]

The first half of the first season is about all I can take of Lost in Space. I used to love as a kid, though.

[Count_Zirock]

It really did degenerate into something less than what Irwin Allen originally planned, that's for sure! But, it has its own peculiar charms and merits, I feel.

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[LP_Quagmire]

Irwin Allen originally cast Carroll O'Connor as Dr. Smith.

[Monster Bob]

William Dozier's daughter (aka Greenway Productions) is the hang up with the series/DVD thing. The only way it will happen is if she comes around, and at least as of a couple of years ago, she wasn't coming around. I guess we'll see.

[LP_Quagmire]

William Dozier's daughter (aka Greenway Productions) is the hang up with the series/DVD thing. The only way it will happen is if she comes around, and at least as of a couple of years ago, she wasn't coming around. I guess we'll see.

The main "hang up" has always been that 20th Century Fox owns the tv series but Warner Bros. owns the BATMAN character.  They appear to have gotten around this by giving Warner the rights to merchandise the series while leaving dvd profits to Fox.  Let's just hope there's a simultaneous blu-ray release so double-dipping doesn't come into play.   

[zombiehorror]

Let's just hope there's a simultaneous blu-ray release so double-dipping doesn't come into play.   

As long as the prints are cleaned up/restored and there are some great bonus features I'll be happy with a dvd set; but if they release a dvd set with crappy prints and no bonus features then turn around a year or so later and release restored prints with bonus features on a Blu-ray set then I'll be pissed!