There is a theory that the "Pink" Riddler was pink and only appeared in the opening because Hanna Barbara had the rights to the character for Challenge of the SuperFriends, like Scarecrow. The opening had already been drawn, so instead of replacing him and redrawing a portion of the opening, they changed the colors to blur the lines as to him not actually being the Riddler. He could have been "Captain Questionmark."
I wonder if Filmation founder Hal Sutherland's infamous colorblindness was also a factor. I know it was responsible for strange uses of pink in at least two other Filmation projects, Star Trek: The Animated Series and He-Man.
Filmation did the impossible in 1968 - creating Saturday morning cartoons with very little money. The production shortcuts that kept costs down were paced in a way that kept the action moving. Filmation used an old children's television trick that always works with low-budget shows - a musical score that adds to the action and keeps viewer interest high. Filmation had a knack for great music that held up well when compared to all other cartoons on television in 1968.
You're absolutely right. At 8 years old I thought the show was shoddy- no kid could be fooled by seeing the same shot of Robin throw his Batarang over and over. But Filmation's music and frantic pacing are oddly entertaining when seen through a nostalgic lens.
@@tomchris60 Saturday mornings in the 1960's was tough competition for viewers. Three networks with three offerings for each time slot. Which cartoon you watched was a vote against the other two you didn't watch. Once I picked my favorites I rarely crossed-watched the other shows. CBS and Filmation were a big hit with my school friends too. NBC threw all their support behind DePatie-Freleng's, "The Pink Panther Show", but that felt more like a show for the kindergarten crowd, lol.
@@davidlafleche1142 What made you a critic you wouldn't know what a great cartoon was if you were in it... Hanna and Barbera always had some great shows Filmation are great we got He-man and She-Ra,Bravestarr and the Christmas special A Snow White Christmas 🌲 and the movie Happily Ever After
Lou Schiemer in his book Creating the Filmation Generation said, they only got paid enough to break even on the shows. They had to sell the shows to none US markets to turn a profit, which included the cost of redubbing the shows for non English speaking markets.
The original show was on when I was just a baby I saw this show later in the 70s and then he was on Saturday morning in 1977 I Saw the live action show in reruns
As a kid growing up with my little brother in the 60s,we watched the batman live show, we loved it. Adam west is and always will be my batman, but when they made a cartoon we were excited. Sure their were alot of imperfections, we didn't care we had batman. We felt the same way about star trek when it came out with a cartoon
Around the same time as New Adventures, Filmation produced a Tarzan show. They reused a lot of Tarzan's animation a few years later on He-Man. They never let anything go to waste.
The List of Filmation are as follows: Batman 🦇 Tarzan He-man She-Ra Lone Ranger Flash Gordon Justice league Green 💚 Lantern AQUAMAN....Atom Hawkman..... Flash Superman Superboy.....Web Woman Young/Space Sentinels Super Stretch and Microwoman Super Seven
@@OhBear-j8l Bat-Mite was a pain in the backside but he was helpful like the Wonder Twins and Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog and Gleek there's only 3 episodes of the Teen Titans,JLA, Hawkman,Atom, Flash and Green Lantern the rest like Aquaman, Batman 🦇 Superman and Superboy had lots of episodes and the cartoon series of Captain Marvel (SHAZAM) was great even with CM JR and Mary Marvel ISIS was a part of the Super 7
Loved this show, best music ever and super cool sound effects for the bat mobile. Personally I dislike the way modern commentators criticise the shows from my childhood. They were awesome for me.
It was aimed at kids, who didn’t care about re-use. I remember just thinking how fun it was to have my favorite live action superhero made into a cartoon. I suppose it’s not that fun through the eyes of adults. Kind of like the parents in the Polar Exoress
I absolutely loved these cartoons growing up and didn't care about any of the recycled stuff. The Spiderman cartoons were the same. I remember it as the Batman / Tarzan hour later in the 70s
I’ve heard of the new adventures of Batman and Robin recently and it’s surprisingly fun, due to me not caring for the silver age era and the mentioned scrappy doo version of Batmite.
After Batgirl was introduced in the live-action show, one of the most nonsensical ongoing gags in TV history was how the Dynamic Duo never found out her true identity (nor she theirs), but Alfred knew -- and he kept all their secrets! If the second Filmation cartoon was a continuation (at least in spirit), it was never explained at what point they all found out because it was obvious from several episodes that they all now knew.
I saw repeats of these as a kid in the 70s and barely remember it. I do remember that this was the first time I saw Clayface. Oh and I forgot about Batmite
Honestly I did rather like the two animated specials that came out a few years back…especially Batman Vs. Two-Face! Interesting to think that Two-Face never made it into any of the classic Adam West series’s, so to see that entire era essentially wrap with Two-Face’s introduction…and voiced by William Shatner to boot…EPIC! 😍😅😁
A lot of the corner cutting was necessary for the show to exist. As a commercial animator, I understand budgets. I actually enjoy limited animation. Probably because I grew up with it. Filmation was a great places for animators to get work experienced and build careers, like Glen Keane. The consistency of good drawings in the Filmation shows was better that a lot of Hanna Barbera shows. Thank for sharing!!
9:22 This character is "The Judge" who, like Simon the Pieman, was an original character. He caused the escape of twelve criminals so that they could be his "jury." Basically he was a "revenge" type character who went after law-abiding citizens who prevented his crimes from being successful. This illustration has Robin being tortured because Bruce Wayne is "on trial" and Batman "couldn't be found."
I have seen some of these back they aired in the late 70’s, and I watched a playlist of these episodes on UA-cam not that long ago, and I did watch the late 60’s cartoon in reruns once too💁🏻♂.
When I was a boy, I used to love this show, Superman, Aquaman, Superboy, and I loved Spider-Man from those years, too. I never saw the other 60s Filmation superhero shows until I was much older. By then I had grown out of my love for cartoons. It's still fun to watch these once in a while.
@@timfurnier7061 When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s I saw all of them in reruns but I didn't know that at the time the 70s and 80s had great shows but most of them were old and new and now that I have this phone 🤳 I get to see them again after all this time
Remember, it was different days.we had imagination and tv was special. We looked forward to this as there was just a few channels. Scooby doo,banana splits,Tom jerry etc all did short cuts to save money. Great show and be careful. No cgi or ai in these days from script to animation
I spotted a few moments where Batman's chest symbol changes colours. 1:31 it's yellow with a black bat, 1:33 when he's pulled back it's black with a yellow bat. 1:34 when he's throwing the batarang it changes between the same two colours withing frames.
I remember getting a video of this when I was seven years old. One thing that really stood out for me was the Riddler's voice, the way he always awkwardly paused. Multiple times. In just. One sentence. Before letting out the weirdest evil laugh I've ever heard in anything.
As a child during the initial broadcast of the 1966 Batman tv series, I loved the Filmation series, exactly because it was a continuation of the live action show's continuity. I liked the Julie Newmar inspired cartoon Catwoman costume, if not the green color. You mention that her outfit has no connection to a cat theme, so it's too bad they didn't bother to include the tv series' cat ears headpiece, especially as she's already depicted wearing the expected (for the time) domino mask. And since animation has a lot more freedom design wise, it's too bad they didn't add a cat tail. If you've ever seen original storyboards for the 1966 tv series or film, the artist always depicted Catwoman's sleek black costume as including a slinky cat's tail. That might come off as goofy for the live action show, if it was a droopy cloth attachment, just hanging down all the time. However, the cartoon could have given it a little style, perhaps moving slightly (but nothing to imply the character actually HAD a tail, ha ha). Anyway, this is a great review, & I'm now open to giving the New Adventures series another chance. I'd actually outgrown Saturday morning cartoons by that point, & stopped watching after just a few episodes, because I couldn't stand Bat-Mite. Your assessment is persuading me to check it out again, especially since it's on Blu-ray. One of your earlier Batman themed reviews had footage from the then-new 1968 Cartoon Blu-ray, which is how I found out the old Filmation show had finally been released, so I'll always be grateful for that. Keep up the excellent work!
This is my favorite Batman cartoon because, unlike Batman The Animated Series, they looked like the way they did in the comics. On Batman TAS they looked like stick figures. And now the new show is drawn the same way. Even to the point of Batman's cape covering the whole suit so they can save time and money on drawing the symbol on his chest. When I heard about TAS I was excited, I thought it was going to be based on the 2 movies . I would have preferred X-Men style of animation with Batman wearing the black suit like he wore in Batman and Batman Returns.
As Return of the caped crusaders , Batman Vs Two face and The brave and Bold animated series showed there is still a place for a batman with a lighter more fun approach in this world
Loved these series’. Used to watch it in the early morning during the week before school. They had the Batman/Superman/Aqua Man show. Most of the episodes were Batman or Superman. Rare to see Aqua Man. Super Friends was awesome on Saturday Morning.
I would catch the show on video tape. The German version even had the same voice actors as the dubbed Adam West show. Later I got to see Star Trek TAS and immediately, even at like 9-10, made the connection, as they were using the same music, the same sound effects, and even the animation was very similar. Hey, they even had the many Color and animation errors. The Color errors were rooted in the fact that animation director Hal Sutherland was actually Color blind. True story.
I didn’t know that the “Radioactive” Cat at 9:16 was permanently imprinted into my childhood brain til the picture popped up and triggered a flood of memories of this show!
With the odd physical appearance of Commissioner Gordon in the first series -- I think he has been drawn after the appearance at the time of the DC comic book editor Julius Schwartz. Likely an inside joke.
This Batman and Robin definitely are the voices I would *hear* when I would read the comics, despite Adam West having been such a cool Batman to me as a little kid. I loved this and all the Filmation DC shows back when they were new (didnt even mind the animation shortcuts). I can see why they did the blend between '66 live show and comics, but I really wish they'd have stuck closer to the '66 looks so it could've been more of a "next season" just animated, like how so many of us say Star Trek TAS each week. And on a side note: this is the creepiest Scarecrow version I've ever seen, even since then. Brrr.
Myth Busters proved that those "realistic face masks" actually exist. The difficulty is getting them to move realisticly, and that if the voice isn't disguised, too, the illusion falls apart easily. All in all, AI deepfakes are easier to make.
The series witn Bat-Mite was my Satua morning treasure! I fondly remember Chameleon, Catwoman/Clayface team up, garbage turned to clothes, and the team up of all 4 villains win the trans dimensional trip was fun for kids and comics lovers (genre was not so serious back then). Catwoman’s costume was more like Kraven the Hunter.
Filmation made a lot of real slop but they have funny moments. LIke watching 70's Spiderman to the 90's version. I think its a valid criticism, the reruns were aired at the same time.
Sweet-Tooth went on to be the main villain of the fan musical HOly Musical B@man, tho I believe that was a coincidence and they originally did not realize Sweet-Tooth was already a Batman villain.
Huh, was this the debut of Batgirl in what would become her more familiar colors? approximately "Batman but lighter blue and gray" ? instead of the TV show's purple.. I guess it would have to be, unless in between these series, the comics added her in that outfit. Also this version has the yellow parts that ... I associate with TNBA. weird. I wonder if that was a direct inspiration. It's also confusing how the second series follows from the first and uses the animation, but super friends and the other hanna-barbera stuff took the VOICES from the first series. Wow, they made Barbara the DA way before the terrible most recent show did. or am I remembering that wrong.. There is actually a weird logic to "put a mask on a guy, people will think he's Robin" since we're to believe that mask hides Dick's face from the general public.
Judging by the tone in your voice 'Vee Infuso' I detect that you must be younger than forty years old, perhaps less than thirty. It's important that when you judge, you judge within the context of the time of the subject under scrutiny. Most animated companies such as Universal, Warner Brothers and MGM shut down their studios by the mid 1960's because animation was simply too costly. From the 1late 1960s to the early 1980's The United States was subject to stagflation; EVERYTHING had to do with COST. As a product of the 1960's and 1970's, I assuredly tell you that the 1990's to the present hasn't experienced anything nearly as dismal. Hanna-Barbera perfected the use of limited animation which was subsequently used by Filmation studios who also implemented rotoscoping. DC Comics, then known as National Periodical Publications approached Filmation to do a Superman animation series. Thus was born 'The NEW Adventures of Superman' the addition of the prefix 'NEW' to distinguish it from the live action 'Adventures of Superman' in the 1950's starring George Reeves. The first two seasons of Filmation Superman were crude to say the least but the quality improved over time, especially during the debut of Aquaman and Batman produced LATER. Hanna-Barbera produced The Fantastic Four cartoon in the 1960's that, while possessing much greater detail and fidelity to comic book source material, lacked the 'fluidity' of character movement seen in Filmation. The Spiderman cartoon produced by Gantry-Lawrence in the first season had perhaps the BEST stories for a superhero of that decade, but reused many shots of Spiderman swinging. The latter two seasons of Spiderman's cartoons were produced by Krantz, at only _a fraction_ of the budget given to Gantry-Lawrence. Perhaps the best animation superhero was Space Ghost, created and performed by the legendary Alex Toth. _It was THAT Alex Toth_ who, before passing away, had very little to say about modern comic books and cartoons when it came to storytelling. (From Wikipedia); In a 2001 interview he (Toth) criticized the trend of fully painted comics, saying _"It could be comics if those who know how to paint also knew how to tell a story! Who knew what pacing was, and didn't just jam a lot of pretty pictures together into a page, pages, and call it a story, continuity! It ain't!"_ Toth lamented what he saw as a lack of awareness on the part of younger artists of their predecessors, as well as a feeling that the innocent fun of comics' past was being lost in the pursuit of pointless nihilism and mature content. By the time The Superfriends made their appearance in 1973, animation techniques had improved considerably. The stories however, remained a product of their time as Wonder Woman was constantly depicted as 'a damsel in distress', due to rampant Male Chauvinism of the 1970's, something that would not be tolerated today. I remember my father, a computer expert since the 1960's telling me in the 1970's when I was only thirteen years old, that computer animation would soon be possible but at that time was prohibitively expensive. That's why when the movie 'TRON' was produced in 1982 it became revolutionary and took the country by storm. _It was one of THE FIRST films to use CGI,_ which is now all-too commonplace in movies. The original Batman cartoon of the 1960's was a product of its time. Considering that it aired on the back heels of the campy Batman live show, it performed very well. The NEW Adventures of Batman that aired in 1977 showed a remarkable improvement in Filmation's animation. However, the television code of non-violence prevailed as always since the late 1960's that forced superhero cartoons of the 60's _off the air, including Speed Racer, Ultra-man, Marine Boy and Prince Planet,_ which also used limited animation albeit Anime, Batman in 1977 aired at a time when television networks and parents didn't believe superheroes could function without such sidekicks as _Bat-mite, The Wonder Twins, Wendy and Marvin and Wonder Dog._ By the time the 1980's came, cartoons like _G.I Joe, the Transformers, He-Man and Thundercats_ were placed in syndication, allowing them to 'bypass' as it were the control of such parental groups like A.C.T centered in our nation's capitol, that stipulated non-violence in cartoons on the 'big three' networks, ABC, NBC and CBS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_for_Children%27s_Television Just take a look at this presentation of Bravestarr by Filmation in the late 1980's to give you some idea of how the animation improved at Filmation, since their Batman version of the 1960's. ua-cam.com/video/DGprsRSy-lg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/users/clipUgkxK6-oK3_5M1PwmBZRMOxv5uXum2ygTrws As an electronic technician I will tell you the technology involved creating _Freakazoid, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League: the Animated Series_ is something taken for granted today. In the 1970's we did not have VCR's, video games, home computers, things that seem unimaginable to many young people today. What we DID possess was the DRIVE to create _from emptiness_ born from lack of having grandiose devices at our finger tips, forcing us to invent whatever we could to feed our imagination, thus endowing greater creativity; _"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Plato_
Once upon a time, comics and cartoons were made for children. Children loved them. Then they grew up and demanded their comics and cartoons grow up with them. Only they'd never let their children read or watch "The Killing Joke." Instead, todays children watch other things. Something has been lost. The mature but restrained Batman the Animated Series was good. But the current crop of R rated DC animation is stuff that no one would let their kids watch.
Solomon Grundy isn't really a Batman villain per se. Also, you seem to imply Mad Hatter's tv debut was on the cartoon, when he had two live-action stories on the Adam West series. One was even a retelling of a comic book story.
@@scockery there isn’t really much of one, he only really battled Batman in the JLA/JSA crossover books with the rest being him reforming and helping Infinity, Inc.
@@scockery There is a tangential connection to Batman, in that Solomon Grundy was originally created as a villain for the original (Golden Age) Green Lantern, who in turn was co-created by Batman co-creator Bill Finger.
Dude I generally enjoy your videos but you're always leaving in multiple takes of the same line. 9:28 Also you could at least put something in the title or description if the video is a recut or compilation of your older content.
I was 10 years old when this series made its debut. It was good enough for me!
There is a theory that the "Pink" Riddler was pink and only appeared in the opening because Hanna Barbara had the rights to the character for Challenge of the SuperFriends, like Scarecrow. The opening had already been drawn, so instead of replacing him and redrawing a portion of the opening, they changed the colors to blur the lines as to him not actually being the Riddler. He could have been "Captain Questionmark."
Everyone talks about the Pink Kryptonite, but nobody talks about Pink Riddler and rainbow-costumed Batman.
@@poweroffriendship2.0
We dont talk about the pink one
Captain Questionmark sounds like someone The Tick would fight, and now I need to see what kinda schemes he'd come up with.
This video was referencing the New Adventures of Batman. Not the Superfriends.
I wonder if Filmation founder Hal Sutherland's infamous colorblindness was also a factor. I know it was responsible for strange uses of pink in at least two other Filmation projects, Star Trek: The Animated Series and He-Man.
Filmation did the impossible in 1968 - creating Saturday morning cartoons with very little money. The production shortcuts that kept costs down were paced in a way that kept the action moving. Filmation used an old children's television trick that always works with low-budget shows - a musical score that adds to the action and keeps viewer interest high. Filmation had a knack for great music that held up well when compared to all other cartoons on television in 1968.
You're absolutely right. At 8 years old I thought the show was shoddy- no kid could be fooled by seeing the same shot of Robin throw his Batarang over and over. But Filmation's music and frantic pacing are oddly entertaining when seen through a nostalgic lens.
@@tomchris60 Saturday mornings in the 1960's was tough competition for viewers. Three networks with three offerings for each time slot. Which cartoon you watched was a vote against the other two you didn't watch. Once I picked my favorites I rarely crossed-watched the other shows. CBS and Filmation were a big hit with my school friends too. NBC threw all their support behind DePatie-Freleng's, "The Pink Panther Show", but that felt more like a show for the kindergarten crowd, lol.
@@eddstarr2185 Both Hanna and Barbera and Filmation had great music 🎼
Filmation was terrible. Anything made by Hanna-Barbera during the 70s was even worse.
@@davidlafleche1142 What made you a critic you wouldn't know what a great cartoon was if you were in it... Hanna and Barbera always had some great shows Filmation are great we got He-man and She-Ra,Bravestarr and the Christmas special A Snow White Christmas 🌲 and the movie Happily Ever After
I LOVE THIS CARTOON SERIES DESPITE WHATEVER FLAWS IT HAS.STILL WATCH IT IN 2024.
@@MIXPRO68 AGREED 👍
Lou Schiemer in his book Creating the Filmation Generation said, they only got paid enough to break even on the shows. They had to sell the shows to none US markets to turn a profit, which included the cost of redubbing the shows for non English speaking markets.
Nine? Or nine?
@@docsavage8640Non. Non U.S markets.
I watched the “new adventures of batman” (I think 1977 or something like that) and I still love that show so much
The original show was on when I was just a baby I saw this show later in the 70s and then he was on Saturday morning in 1977 I Saw the live action show in reruns
As a kid growing up with my little brother in the 60s,we watched the batman live show, we loved it. Adam west is and always will be my batman, but when they made a cartoon we were excited. Sure their were alot of imperfections, we didn't care we had batman. We felt the same way about star trek when it came out with a cartoon
Around the same time as New Adventures, Filmation produced a Tarzan show. They reused a lot of Tarzan's animation a few years later on He-Man. They never let anything go to waste.
The List of Filmation are as follows:
Batman 🦇
Tarzan
He-man
She-Ra
Lone Ranger
Flash Gordon
Justice league
Green 💚 Lantern
AQUAMAN....Atom
Hawkman..... Flash
Superman
Superboy.....Web Woman
Young/Space Sentinels
Super Stretch and Microwoman
Super Seven
That orange cat woman costume you showed looks like the one that Cat-man wears
I loved that cartoon when I was a kid
68 was a nice spiritual Season 4 to the West series.
77 was even kiddier than Superfriends! And that...DAMN...Bat-Mite.
@@OhBear-j8l Bat-Mite was a pain in the backside but he was helpful like the Wonder Twins and Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog and Gleek there's only 3 episodes of the Teen Titans,JLA, Hawkman,Atom, Flash and Green Lantern the rest like Aquaman, Batman 🦇 Superman and Superboy had lots of episodes and the cartoon series of Captain Marvel (SHAZAM) was great even with CM JR and Mary Marvel ISIS was a part of the Super 7
Loved this show, best music ever and super cool sound effects for the bat mobile. Personally I dislike the way modern commentators criticise the shows from my childhood. They were awesome for me.
It was aimed at kids, who didn’t care about re-use. I remember just thinking how fun it was to have my favorite live action superhero made into a cartoon. I suppose it’s not that fun through the eyes of adults. Kind of like the parents in the Polar Exoress
Barbera being District Attorney is that weird. Around this time in the comics she was in Congress.
It was more like the late Adam West Batman series but turned animated yet it was still enjoyable for its time.
I absolutely loved these cartoons growing up and didn't care about any of the recycled stuff. The Spiderman cartoons were the same. I remember it as the Batman / Tarzan hour later in the 70s
Mad Hatter WAS in the Adam West show before this. Also, he's the only villain to have his alter ego used: Jervis Tetch.
Ya, I didnt care one bit cause back then its all we had.
I’ve heard of the new adventures of Batman and Robin recently and it’s surprisingly fun, due to me not caring for the silver age era and the mentioned scrappy doo version of Batmite.
Definitely would love to see you cover “Brave and the Bold” “That’s not my Batman”
Keep on doing what makes you happy.
I got surprised when you talked about being surprised twice in a row around 6:30 lol little editing errors are what makes yt special
I am surprised that you were surprised that he was surprised twice in a row 😅
@jayger1018 how surprising
After Batgirl was introduced in the live-action show, one of the most nonsensical ongoing gags in TV history was how the Dynamic Duo never found out her true identity (nor she theirs), but Alfred knew -- and he kept all their secrets!
If the second Filmation cartoon was a continuation (at least in spirit), it was never explained at what point they all found out because it was obvious from several episodes that they all now knew.
Do you remember the first Iron man or Hulk cartoons? the Batman Filmation series is a masterpiece compared to toughs ..
After watching the acid trip that Batman '66 was, I picked up two of the old Batman cartoons. Not bad, if you don't mind your Batman silly as hell.
Hey Vee a new video thx buddy from BC Canada 🇨🇦
Better than anything they've done with Batman in the past 20 years.
I saw repeats of these as a kid in the 70s and barely remember it. I do remember that this was the first time I saw Clayface. Oh and I forgot about Batmite
The return of the dynamic duo is the best Batman cartoon
Hello Mr Infuso, have a good day.
Honestly I did rather like the two animated specials that came out a few years back…especially Batman Vs. Two-Face! Interesting to think that Two-Face never made it into any of the classic Adam West series’s, so to see that entire era essentially wrap with Two-Face’s introduction…and voiced by William Shatner to boot…EPIC! 😍😅😁
A lot of the corner cutting was necessary for the show to exist. As a commercial animator, I understand budgets. I actually enjoy limited animation. Probably because I grew up with it. Filmation was a great places for animators to get work experienced and build careers, like Glen Keane. The consistency of good drawings in the Filmation shows was better that a lot of Hanna Barbera shows. Thank for sharing!!
Robin was so Sus 🌈 in this old cartoon lol even before the Jaboody Dubs voiceovers 🤣
Wennie Leinrib? I think you mean Lennie Weinrib.
2:39 I love how Batman’s left arm just suddenly blinks into existence
9:22 This character is "The Judge" who, like Simon the Pieman, was an original character. He caused the escape of twelve criminals so that they could be his "jury." Basically he was a "revenge" type character who went after law-abiding citizens who prevented his crimes from being successful. This illustration has Robin being tortured because Bruce Wayne is "on trial" and Batman "couldn't be found."
I have seen some of these back they aired in the late 70’s, and I watched a playlist of these episodes on UA-cam not that long ago, and I did watch the late 60’s cartoon in reruns once too💁🏻♂.
When I was a boy, I used to love this show, Superman, Aquaman, Superboy, and I loved Spider-Man from those years, too. I never saw the other 60s Filmation superhero shows until I was much older. By then I had grown out of my love for cartoons. It's still fun to watch these once in a while.
@@timfurnier7061 When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s I saw all of them in reruns but I didn't know that at the time the 70s and 80s had great shows but most of them were old and new and now that I have this phone 🤳 I get to see them again after all this time
I'd watch a Brave and the Bold review. I loved the Music Meister episode.
I think you meant to say "few and far between" not "far and few between"
Remember, it was different days.we had imagination and tv was special. We looked forward to this as there was just a few channels. Scooby doo,banana splits,Tom jerry etc all did short cuts to save money. Great show and be careful. No cgi or ai in these days from script to animation
I spotted a few moments where Batman's chest symbol changes colours. 1:31 it's yellow with a black bat, 1:33 when he's pulled back it's black with a yellow bat. 1:34 when he's throwing the batarang it changes between the same two colours withing frames.
I remember getting a video of this when I was seven years old. One thing that really stood out for me was the Riddler's voice, the way he always awkwardly paused. Multiple times. In just. One sentence. Before letting out the weirdest evil laugh I've ever heard in anything.
Didn’t this video already happen a few months ago ?
I never thought I'd see the day where MCR is referenced in a vee infuso video
I remember the original Spiderman reused scenes and didn't even fill in faces in background scenes.
Have this series on dvd
As a child during the initial broadcast of the 1966 Batman tv series, I loved the Filmation series, exactly because it was a continuation of the live action show's continuity. I liked the Julie Newmar inspired cartoon Catwoman costume, if not the green color. You mention that her outfit has no connection to a cat theme, so it's too bad they didn't bother to include the tv series' cat ears headpiece, especially as she's already depicted wearing the expected (for the time) domino mask. And since animation has a lot more freedom design wise, it's too bad they didn't add a cat tail. If you've ever seen original storyboards for the 1966 tv series or film, the artist always depicted Catwoman's sleek black costume as including a slinky cat's tail. That might come off as goofy for the live action show, if it was a droopy cloth attachment, just hanging down all the time. However, the cartoon could have given it a little style, perhaps moving slightly (but nothing to imply the character actually HAD a tail, ha ha). Anyway, this is a great review, & I'm now open to giving the New Adventures series another chance. I'd actually outgrown Saturday morning cartoons by that point, & stopped watching after just a few episodes, because I couldn't stand Bat-Mite. Your assessment is persuading me to check it out again, especially since it's on Blu-ray. One of your earlier Batman themed reviews had footage from the then-new 1968 Cartoon Blu-ray, which is how I found out the old Filmation show had finally been released, so I'll always be grateful for that. Keep up the excellent work!
The show's a classic.
Given the recent election, the joker being elected mayor doesn't seem so far fetched
The Penguin also ran, and I think won, in the 1960s live-action series.
This is my favorite Batman cartoon because, unlike Batman The Animated Series, they looked like the way they did in the comics. On Batman TAS they looked like stick figures. And now the new show is drawn the same way. Even to the point of Batman's cape covering the whole suit so they can save time and money on drawing the symbol on his chest.
When I heard about TAS I was excited, I thought it was going to be based on the 2 movies . I would have preferred X-Men style of animation with Batman wearing the black suit like he wore in Batman and Batman Returns.
As Return of the caped crusaders , Batman Vs Two face and The brave and Bold animated series showed there is still a place for a batman with a lighter more fun approach in this world
What do you think would have happened if the other tv station had picked up the live action series? How would the stories have changed?
Such a bizarre show, I watched it once and that was enough - but still glad to have it on bluray.
Loved these series’. Used to watch it in the early morning during the week before school. They had the Batman/Superman/Aqua Man show. Most of the episodes were Batman or Superman. Rare to see Aqua Man. Super Friends was awesome on Saturday Morning.
I would catch the show on video tape. The German version even had the same voice actors as the dubbed Adam West show. Later I got to see Star Trek TAS and immediately, even at like 9-10, made the connection, as they were using the same music, the same sound effects, and even the animation was very similar. Hey, they even had the many Color and animation errors. The Color errors were rooted in the fact that animation director Hal Sutherland was actually Color blind. True story.
I didn’t know that the “Radioactive” Cat at 9:16 was permanently imprinted into my childhood brain til the picture popped up and triggered a flood of memories of this show!
I would love to see you cover the brave and the bold.
Simon, The Pieman was a baker, not a chef.
I didn't know this particular show existed until today. I guess I thought Batman got his cartoon debut in The Superfriends.
Late 60's tech/animation, cheap budgets, decent storylines kept children glued to thier 20" max Console TVs on Saturday mornings.
With the odd physical appearance of Commissioner Gordon in the first series -- I think he has been drawn after the appearance at the time of the DC comic book editor Julius Schwartz. Likely an inside joke.
Man i used to watch this Batmans VHS a lot when i was a kid
I love it
This Batman and Robin definitely are the voices I would *hear* when I would read the comics, despite Adam West having been such a cool Batman to me as a little kid. I loved this and all the Filmation DC shows back when they were new (didnt even mind the animation shortcuts). I can see why they did the blend between '66 live show and comics, but I really wish they'd have stuck closer to the '66 looks so it could've been more of a "next season" just animated, like how so many of us say Star Trek TAS each week. And on a side note: this is the creepiest Scarecrow version I've ever seen, even since then. Brrr.
Even the comic version of Catwoman's costume at the time had cat ears at least
amd great vid vee
11:14 - Seems Vee had a couple of editing errors himself. Two takes of the same sentence are kept in - twice.
Myth Busters proved that those "realistic face masks" actually exist. The difficulty is getting them to move realisticly, and that if the voice isn't disguised, too, the illusion falls apart easily. All in all, AI deepfakes are easier to make.
i feel like i'm being lectured by patrick bateman before he kills me if he was obsessed with batman instead of huey lewis and the news
Solomon Grundy wants pants too!
This was from a different era
The Penguin looks like Dan Aykroyd.
The series witn Bat-Mite was my Satua morning treasure! I fondly remember Chameleon, Catwoman/Clayface team up, garbage turned to clothes, and the team up of all 4 villains win the trans dimensional trip was fun for kids and comics lovers (genre was not so serious back then). Catwoman’s costume was more like Kraven the Hunter.
I think they good
I'm a fan
Simon pieman saying Simon says that is a catchphrase used by underdogs nemesis Simon bar sinister
Quite contrary , it is the best!
I like the 1966 live-action Batman better!
Filmation made a lot of real slop but they have funny moments. LIke watching 70's Spiderman to the 90's version. I think its a valid criticism, the reruns were aired at the same time.
yea i had watched this series as well as the batman & scooby team ups as a kid even tho i was born in the 2000s 😂
Imagine having an issue with them repeating animations and then repeating what you are saying in parts of your commentary.
It feels like a cheap cartoon version of Batman 66. The sound of the Batmobile is all wrong, though.
Sweet-Tooth went on to be the main villain of the fan musical HOly Musical B@man, tho I believe that was a coincidence and they originally did not realize Sweet-Tooth was already a Batman villain.
HOLY MUSICAL, B@MAN is one of the finest pieces of Batman media ever created.
Bro.! What's up with the Re-Run? You've done this before , I love your stuff but damn bro., give me something new
i was gonna say, I thought i saw this
These cartoons were made, for kids who could fill in the blanks…IJS
Huh, was this the debut of Batgirl in what would become her more familiar colors? approximately "Batman but lighter blue and gray" ? instead of the TV show's purple.. I guess it would have to be, unless in between these series, the comics added her in that outfit.
Also this version has the yellow parts that ... I associate with TNBA. weird. I wonder if that was a direct inspiration.
It's also confusing how the second series follows from the first and uses the animation, but super friends and the other hanna-barbera stuff took the VOICES from the first series.
Wow, they made Barbara the DA way before the terrible most recent show did. or am I remembering that wrong..
There is actually a weird logic to "put a mask on a guy, people will think he's Robin" since we're to believe that mask hides Dick's face from the general public.
More Batman
I thought their was only the Scooby Doo cartoon and the super Friends that we had a cartoon Batman
Love ❤ The Batman 2004 series more
Batman Beyond
I like this series. Never cared for the Super Friends series and couldn't stand Batmite.
Judging by the tone in your voice 'Vee Infuso' I detect that you must be younger than forty years old, perhaps less than thirty. It's important that when you judge, you judge within the context of the time of the subject under scrutiny. Most animated companies such as Universal, Warner Brothers and MGM shut down their studios by the mid 1960's because animation was simply too costly.
From the 1late 1960s to the early 1980's The United States was subject to stagflation; EVERYTHING had to do with COST. As a product of the 1960's and 1970's, I assuredly tell you that the 1990's to the present hasn't experienced anything nearly as dismal.
Hanna-Barbera perfected the use of limited animation which was subsequently used by Filmation studios who also implemented rotoscoping. DC Comics, then known as National Periodical Publications approached Filmation to do a Superman animation series. Thus was born 'The NEW Adventures of Superman' the addition of the prefix 'NEW' to distinguish it from the live action 'Adventures of Superman' in the 1950's starring George Reeves. The first two seasons of Filmation Superman were crude to say the least but the quality improved over time, especially during the debut of Aquaman and Batman produced LATER.
Hanna-Barbera produced The Fantastic Four cartoon in the 1960's that, while possessing much greater detail and fidelity to comic book source material, lacked the 'fluidity' of character movement seen in Filmation. The Spiderman cartoon produced by Gantry-Lawrence in the first season had perhaps the BEST stories for a superhero of that decade, but reused many shots of Spiderman swinging. The latter two seasons of Spiderman's cartoons were produced by Krantz, at only _a fraction_ of the budget given to Gantry-Lawrence. Perhaps the best animation superhero was Space Ghost, created and performed by the legendary Alex Toth.
_It was THAT Alex Toth_ who, before passing away, had very little to say about modern comic books and cartoons when it came to storytelling. (From Wikipedia); In a 2001 interview he (Toth) criticized the trend of fully painted comics, saying _"It could be comics if those who know how to paint also knew how to tell a story! Who knew what pacing was, and didn't just jam a lot of pretty pictures together into a page, pages, and call it a story, continuity! It ain't!"_ Toth lamented what he saw as a lack of awareness on the part of younger artists of their predecessors, as well as a feeling that the innocent fun of comics' past was being lost in the pursuit of pointless nihilism and mature content.
By the time The Superfriends made their appearance in 1973, animation techniques had improved considerably. The stories however, remained a product of their time as Wonder Woman was constantly depicted as 'a damsel in distress', due to rampant Male Chauvinism of the 1970's, something that would not be tolerated today. I remember my father, a computer expert since the 1960's telling me in the 1970's when I was only thirteen years old, that computer animation would soon be possible but at that time was prohibitively expensive. That's why when the movie 'TRON' was produced in 1982 it became revolutionary and took the country by storm. _It was one of THE FIRST films to use CGI,_ which is now all-too commonplace in movies.
The original Batman cartoon of the 1960's was a product of its time. Considering that it aired on the back heels of the campy Batman live show, it performed very well. The NEW Adventures of Batman that aired in 1977 showed a remarkable improvement in Filmation's animation. However, the television code of non-violence prevailed as always since the late 1960's that forced superhero cartoons of the 60's _off the air, including Speed Racer, Ultra-man, Marine Boy and Prince Planet,_ which also used limited animation albeit Anime, Batman in 1977 aired at a time when television networks and parents didn't believe superheroes could function without such sidekicks as _Bat-mite, The Wonder Twins, Wendy and Marvin and Wonder Dog._
By the time the 1980's came, cartoons like _G.I Joe, the Transformers, He-Man and Thundercats_ were placed in syndication, allowing them to 'bypass' as it were the control of such parental groups like A.C.T centered in our nation's capitol, that stipulated non-violence in cartoons on the 'big three' networks, ABC, NBC and CBS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_for_Children%27s_Television
Just take a look at this presentation of Bravestarr by Filmation in the late 1980's to give you some idea of how the animation improved at Filmation, since their Batman version of the 1960's. ua-cam.com/video/DGprsRSy-lg/v-deo.html
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As an electronic technician I will tell you the technology involved creating _Freakazoid, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League: the Animated Series_ is something taken for granted today. In the 1970's we did not have VCR's, video games, home computers, things that seem unimaginable to many young people today. What we DID possess was the DRIVE to create _from emptiness_ born from lack of having grandiose devices at our finger tips, forcing us to invent whatever we could to feed our imagination, thus endowing greater creativity; _"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Plato_
Once upon a time, comics and cartoons were made for children. Children loved them. Then they grew up and demanded their comics and cartoons grow up with them. Only they'd never let their children read or watch "The Killing Joke." Instead, todays children watch other things.
Something has been lost. The mature but restrained Batman the Animated Series was good. But the current crop of R rated DC animation is stuff that no one would let their kids watch.
Few and far between
There were the same story lines
A bit frustrating when you mention character voices and then don't play a sample to show what you're talking about.
Solomon Grundy isn't really a Batman villain per se.
Also, you seem to imply Mad Hatter's tv debut was on the cartoon, when he had two live-action stories on the Adam West series. One was even a retelling of a comic book story.
Grundy was an original Green Lantern villain, since he was partly made of wood- Green Lantern’s weakness
@@bostonrailfan2427 I thought so. So where does the Batman association come from?
@@scockery there isn’t really much of one, he only really battled Batman in the JLA/JSA crossover books with the rest being him reforming and helping Infinity, Inc.
@@scockery There is a tangential connection to Batman, in that Solomon Grundy was originally created as a villain for the original (Golden Age) Green Lantern, who in turn was co-created by Batman co-creator Bill Finger.
Dude I generally enjoy your videos but you're always leaving in multiple takes of the same line. 9:28 Also you could at least put something in the title or description if the video is a recut or compilation of your older content.
I thought Larry Storch was a great Joker.
As a kid I hated this cartoon.
BluRay does still exist?
yes
yes, zoomer