{"id":129461,"date":"2016-01-12T10:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/holy-golden-anniversary-batman.html"},"modified":"2016-01-12T10:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:31:57","slug":"holy-golden-anniversary-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/holy-golden-anniversary-batman.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Golden Anniversary, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey &#8212; the &quot;Batman&quot; TV show premiered 50 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a show I&#39;ve had a long love\/hate relationship with. I loved the puns, and the zany plots, and the guest actors, and the campy earnestness. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, that campy style dominated public perception of comic book characters for decades, and it&#39;s still a rare mainstream media article about comics that doesn&#39;t include (often in its headline) &quot;Biff! Pow!&quot; (etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the current Golden Era of Comic Book TV and Movies will finally put paid to that, and we can just enjoy the zaniness of the show for what it was in its moment of history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/12\/entertainment\/batman-50-anniversary-burt-ward-feat\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hfrsH510E5CS5k-QTob2ak8UOMBar-zEHqQypwGVZfe90o463NeoskmvsZQ3Cbr2x6L08azjCAwVVxei0VrJjdV2RZ11e4uUwU5SizSj3ozJwatIrvxJE8bEpNeRP_e1s2M=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/12\/entertainment\/batman-50-anniversary-burt-ward-feat\/'>&#8216;Batman&#8217; TV show marks its 50th anniversary &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOn January 12, 1966, ABC premiered the TV series &#8220;Batman,&#8221; a very campy take on the comic book character. It was, almost literally, an overnight success.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/dfMnHentXWg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey &#8212; the &quot;Batman&quot; TV show premiered 50 years ago today. It&#39;s a show I&#39;ve had a long love\/hate relationship with. I loved the puns, and the zany plots, and the guest actors, and the campy earnestness. On the other hand, that campy style dominated public perception of comic book characters for decades, and it&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/holy-golden-anniversary-batman.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy Golden Anniversary, Batman!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/rip-yvonne-craig.html","url_meta":{"origin":129461,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Yvonne Craig","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Aug-15 7:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The actress was best known for her hip, liberated role as Batgirl in the final season of the Batman TV series -- though she also played a crazy green Orion girl on an episode of Star Trek She did a ton of TV and some movies all through the 60s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134398,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":129461,"position":1},"title":"Ranking DC&#8217;s Animated TV Series","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Aug-17 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily agree with this force-ranking (who ever does?), but it's a great reminder of some fantastic (and a few not-so-fantastic) animated series of decades past, and it's worth it just for that. 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