Great Video!!!! I remember watching the show when I was a kid. The acting was cheesy sometimes but the villians were an A-list of who's who. Thanks for the memories.
Far and away my favorite is the Joker--he was antic, manic, funny, campy and threatening all at once--as an actor that's not an easy thing to do folks. Cesar Romero made him his own---such a brilliant, fun characterization.
This is one of the best things I've ever come across on YT! I never missed an episode of Batman on Wed & Thur nights back in the mid-60's, and I'd forgotten about some of these villians. Everybody in Hollywood was desperate for a role at the time! My personal favs were Joker, Penguin, and Mad Hatter. And how about Joan Collins as The Siren!!!
I am still amazed that the producers were able to cast so many A-list actors to make a guest appearance as a bat-villain. These people were all very famous back in the 60's. Otto Preminger, Tellullah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Cliff Robertson, Van Johnson, Liberace to name just a few, were already Hollywood legends by then.
Bookworm was such a goofy character. I enjoy watching late night TV and seeing batman come on, but I have to admit that when I first saw the bookworm I was laughing so hard at his little hat light.
when I was a kid growing up in england Batman was the only program on TV i would stay in for, it was brilliant. collected the a&BC gum cards too. best programme ever made and lots of my mates still talk about it to this day! There were a lot of famous actors in it too. RIP to all those creative people who made and too part in it who are no longer with us.
Even if you had never seen the show, you would be able to tell the great ones just by this clip. Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman just jump off the screen
I heard once that there was at least an idea to have two face on the show, played by a young Clint Eastwood. that made me think, what other actors at the time could have made good batman villains? ones that came to mind for me were either Boris Karloff or peter Lorre as scarecrow, and Tina Louise as poison ivy.
Catwoman: Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether (film) - Joker: Cesar Romero - Riddler: Frank Gorshin, John Astin (one appearance, not shown here); Bookworm: Roddy McDowell - Zelda: Anne Baxter - Egghead: Vincent Price - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds: Carolyn Jones (better known as Morticia Addams) - The Minstrel: Van Johnson - Louie: Milton Berle - Lord Marmaduke Ffogg: Rudy Vallee - Lady Penelope Peasoup: Glynis Johns - Dr. Casandra: Ida Lupino
@3dartistguy According to Wikipedia, Killer Moth was played by Tim Herbert. I remember seeing that on TV, but I thought it was just a commercial advertising Batgirl's debut.
She was the one who had the real chemistry with Adam West. Lee Meriweather tried in the movie but couldn't match it. Then they brought in Ertha Kitt. It was the '60's and they didn't try to make it work.
Cosmicblast77 I remember a radio morning show did a routine about Julie Newmar.man #1: Remember Julie Newmar from Batman? Well, today is her birthday.man #2: Yeah, she's sexy. She is slinky. She is hot.man #1: She's seventy=eight.
Ah, King Tut, my favorite classic villain. Wish he'd show up in something new... Ho, I totally forgot about Bookworm and, well, most of those other ones.
Bravo!! I hated every damn one of them. I remember once as a kid, I think it was the Penguin building something inside a building, u could hear banging and noise and Batman couldn't figure out what it was. I waited till the same Bat time next week and the Penguin came busting out of the side of the building in a TANK !! I though for sure Batman was in trouble that time.
It would be great if I could hear anything over the music loop. And maybe if you displayed the names with each scene instead of once at the beginning of the letter?
@KryptonMike Yes, John (Gomez on "The Addams Family") Astin. But wonder why they didn't show footage of him as The Riddler when they showed all three Catwomans and Mr. Freezes?
Yes, Archer was played by Art Canary, Bookworm aka Roddy McDowwall, Black Widow aka Tallaulah Bankhead, Catwoman, Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt; Chandel aka Liberace, ClockKing aka Walter Slezak, Nora Clavicle Ida Lupino, Col Gumm Roger C Carmel, Egghead Vincent Price, False Face/Malachi Throne, Green Hornet Van Williams, Joker Cesar Romero, King Tut Victor Buono, Louie the Lilac Milton Berle, Lord Phfogg Rudy Valliee, Lady Peasoup, Glynnis Johns, Lola Lasanga Ethel Merman, etc...
Man-Bat was a creation AFTER the tv series...and I doubt he would have been featured anyway...but hey, they didn't have the "Getaway Genius" either, nor did they have a flying Batcave, or "Ace" the Bat Hound or Bat Mite like the oh so serious Batman comics...
In an Entertainment Weekly book on great TV shows that featured Batman of the sixties, Two Face was never on the series due to censor beliefs Two Face would be too scary for kids. Two Face was set to be a duality obsessed criminal once a television news reporter disfigured in an explosion out for revenge. The actor set to play Two Face, a young Clint Eastwood.
If you're going to call pussycat a villain don't forget Molly (played by Jill St. John) or Venus (Terry Moore)...etc. P.S. Dr. Cassandera was out of order
I wasn't thinking about the amount of time for each villian, I simply got what I believed was the best clip of each villian no matter what the amount of time, but it couldn't be too long.
mr.freeze by george sanders.otto preminger and eli wallach.siren by joan collins.the puzzler by maurice evans.sandman by michael rennie,shame by cliff robertson,mad hatter by david wayne,false face by malachi throne
Thanks Dude...unfortunately, there's nothing i cna do about the so called loudness of the background music without uploading the whole video up all over again. I tried the best i could at the time. thanks for the kind words. I loved King Tut and Egghead though, and couldn;t stand Eartha Kitt's Catwoman. They should gotten Lee Meriwhether to take up the role in the third season since she did a great movie in the movie...
I did...and I thought the made for tv Batman villians like Minerva, Nora Clavicle, Dr Cassandra, Lola Lasanga, Siren, Louie the Lilac, Lord Phogg, Puzzler, Black Widow were lame!
@3dartistguy Well you pretty much would cross out the entire Batman rouges gallery, The Joker X Two-Face X Clayface X The Penguin X Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum X The Scarcrow X except maybe for Catwoman and Ras Al Ghul I guess.
The story i heard was Gorshin was booked in vegas and couldn't make the shoot. Mr. astin was called in at the last minute. I think he did pretty well considering. It would have been great if he had his own character.
There's a whole article on the tradition of the guest star (and this show is a big participant in that tradition) in the cool new book FIFTY SHADES OF TRAILER PARK BOYS: TPB in the Great Comedic Traditions. It's at amazon now!
@3dartistguy But didn't Eli Wallach (Tuco) of "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" fame play Mr. Freeze at some point? And he didn't join in till the 3rd Dollar movie so Eastwood would have had some momentum going on at the time. Maybe he palled a J. Chan and didn't play a villain in fear of being typecast.
Music is too loud. Can't hear what people are saying too often.
Only wish criminals were this creative and stylish in real life lol
You have to love the classics like the Riddler and the Joker, but I love the way Vincent Price portrays Egghead.
These were some of the greatest actors and actresses of their time. They were able to perform and have fun. Great classic !
"Some people kill time, but this time...TIME is going to kill you!"
I think they reached the pinnacle of villain creation back there.
Great Video!!!! I remember watching the show when I was a kid. The acting was cheesy sometimes but the villians were an A-list of who's who. Thanks for the memories.
I still think Julie Newmar is the hottest Catwoman ever
Far and away my favorite is the Joker--he was antic, manic, funny, campy and threatening all at once--as an actor that's not an easy thing to do folks. Cesar Romero made him his own---such a brilliant, fun characterization.
Why not turn down the music so the villains can be heard ?
I miss Burgess Meredith and Cesar Romero, but Frank Gorshin was my all-time favorite Batvillian. He was also an awesome comedian in real life, too.
man , what a glorious list of villains
This is one of the best things I've ever come across on YT! I never missed an episode of Batman on Wed & Thur nights back in the mid-60's, and I'd forgotten about some of these villians. Everybody in Hollywood was desperate for a role at the time! My personal favs were Joker, Penguin, and Mad Hatter. And how about Joan Collins as The Siren!!!
I am still amazed that the producers were able to cast so many A-list actors to make a guest appearance as a bat-villain. These people were all very famous back in the 60's. Otto Preminger, Tellullah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Cliff Robertson, Van Johnson, Liberace to name just a few, were already Hollywood legends by then.
Bookworm was such a goofy character. I enjoy watching late night TV and seeing batman come on, but I have to admit that when I first saw the bookworm I was laughing so hard at his little hat light.
Downright Awesome!!!!! Enough characters & storylines to fill a decade or more if they really wanted to.
when I was a kid growing up in england Batman was the only program on TV i would stay in for, it was brilliant. collected the a&BC gum cards too. best programme ever made and lots of my mates still talk about it to this day! There were a lot of famous actors in it too. RIP to all those creative people who made and too part in it who are no longer with us.
I watched every episode as a kid and forgot half of these...thanks for compiling and posting. Definitely Lee Merriweather
Nice collage! Well done!
False face was never credited at the end of episode featuring him but it was Malachi Throne who had a very distinctive voice.
Even if you had never seen the show, you would be able to tell the great ones just by this clip. Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman just jump off the screen
and the Lord Marmaduke fogg one too,and the queen of the cossacks too and the riddler one also the Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft
They were all my favorites since my childhood. Most of the time.
Glad you liked it! I only wish they would release the series onto dvd.
Eartha Kitt 's Catwoman looks like Janet Jackson when she wears the mask
great compilation.
Later airings gave Malachi Throne the credit for playing False Face.
I never new there was as many villains on the show.Ceasar Romero and The Penguin were my favourites
I heard once that there was at least an idea to have two face on the show, played by a young Clint Eastwood. that made me think, what other actors at the time could have made good batman villains? ones that came to mind for me
were either Boris Karloff or peter Lorre as scarecrow, and Tina Louise as poison ivy.
Whoa that would've been badass! I love Clinty.
Marsha Queen of Diamonds.Zsa Zsa Gabor also played a smillar villianess Minerva, Queen of Diamonds as well...
Catwoman: Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether (film) - Joker: Cesar Romero - Riddler: Frank Gorshin, John Astin (one appearance, not shown here); Bookworm: Roddy McDowell - Zelda: Anne Baxter - Egghead: Vincent Price - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds: Carolyn Jones (better known as Morticia Addams) - The Minstrel: Van Johnson - Louie: Milton Berle - Lord Marmaduke Ffogg: Rudy Vallee - Lady Penelope Peasoup: Glynis Johns - Dr. Casandra: Ida Lupino
I believe I saw some DVDs in my friends collection, I'll have to check again
@3dartistguy According to Wikipedia, Killer Moth was played by Tim Herbert. I remember seeing that on TV, but I thought it was just a commercial advertising Batgirl's debut.
Villains are always fun and sooooooooooooooo Cool/Groovy!
I watched this series as a kid but haven't seen the shows since that time. I forgot some of the Villains. Thanks for the clip.
Aren't there any David Wayne fans out there? I thought that he excelled as the Mad Hatter. Very campy, and very menacing, all at the same time.
+Jack Grattan Yes he was. But think about this. Look at him, and look at Agnes Moorehead playing Endora. Don't they look like they were twins?
My favorite part of this series was when Aunt Harriet popped a gun on Liberace!
dang i never realized this show featured so many dang villians... i guess i just didnt watch it enought...lolz at vincent price's egghead character
I agree, Julie Newmar was the hottest Catwomen
She was the one who had the real chemistry with Adam West. Lee Meriweather tried in the movie but couldn't match it. Then they brought in Ertha Kitt. It was the '60's and they didn't try to make it work.
EARTHA !
Meeeowwwwwwwrowwwwwwwrrrrr!!!!!
ol roc indeed jul 26 2014 is the day I turned
the big 50
Cosmicblast77 I remember a radio morning show did a routine about Julie Newmar.man #1: Remember Julie Newmar from Batman? Well, today is her birthday.man #2: Yeah, she's sexy. She is slinky. She is hot.man #1: She's seventy=eight.
OMG 1:50! I didn't know that Harry Mudd was a Batman Villian too as well as a Star Trek Villain.
Ah, King Tut, my favorite classic villain. Wish he'd show up in something new...
Ho, I totally forgot about Bookworm and, well, most of those other ones.
Fun show. In college we sat down with a note book and wrote down all of the characters. No You Tube back then.
I liked Roddy McDowell as The Bookworm. His performance turned a ho hum villain on paper into a very compelling character.
@CrashDevinator
If you didn't take the hint, this is only from the 60's TV show, to which Man Bat, unsurprisingly, was not featured.
Like, groovy man.
Always liked George Sanders as Mr. Freeze.
great post, thanks for that, awesome
Bravo!! I hated every damn one of them. I remember once as a kid, I think it was the Penguin building something inside a building, u could hear banging and noise and Batman couldn't figure out what it was. I waited till the same Bat time next week and the Penguin came busting out of the side of the building in a TANK !! I though for sure Batman was in trouble that time.
Egghead was the best. Simply eggquisite.
Eggcelent
Well what do you eggcpect?
Using his Egg-pertese
Vincent was egg-ceptional !
'HOLY RETRO!'
Where else you gonna find and all star cast of oddballs & oddities!
@3dartistguy Tim Herbert played Killer Moth in the unaired pilot for "Batgirl".
5:10 Look out, angry grandma on the loose, it's too much for the likes of Batman, Robin, AND the cops to handle!
It would be great if I could hear anything over the music loop. And maybe if you displayed the names with each scene instead of once at the beginning of the letter?
@KryptonMike Yes, John (Gomez on "The Addams Family") Astin. But wonder why they didn't show footage of him as The Riddler when they showed all three Catwomans and Mr. Freezes?
Yes, Archer was played by Art Canary, Bookworm aka Roddy McDowwall, Black Widow aka Tallaulah Bankhead, Catwoman, Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt; Chandel aka Liberace, ClockKing aka Walter Slezak, Nora Clavicle Ida Lupino, Col Gumm Roger C Carmel, Egghead Vincent Price, False Face/Malachi Throne, Green Hornet Van Williams, Joker Cesar Romero, King Tut Victor Buono, Louie the Lilac Milton Berle, Lord Phfogg Rudy Valliee, Lady Peasoup, Glynnis Johns, Lola Lasanga Ethel Merman, etc...
You poor diluted soul..you for got the second Riddler, other wise nice job, citizen...carry on, and remember always keep both hand on the bat rope
nice list
if its too loud for ya, than simply turn down your monitor sound!
Man-Bat was a creation AFTER the tv series...and I doubt he would have been featured anyway...but hey, they didn't have the "Getaway Genius" either, nor did they have a flying Batcave, or "Ace" the Bat Hound or Bat Mite like the oh so serious Batman comics...
Whoa egghead's Vincent Price, sweet!
In an Entertainment Weekly book on great TV shows that featured Batman of the sixties, Two Face was never on the series due to censor beliefs Two Face would be too scary for kids. Two Face was set to be a duality obsessed criminal once a television news reporter disfigured in an explosion out for revenge. The actor set to play Two Face, a young Clint Eastwood.
1:23, my favorite onetime villain, Clock King!
If you're going to call pussycat a villain
don't forget Molly (played by Jill St. John)
or Venus (Terry Moore)...etc.
P.S. Dr. Cassandera was out of order
holy villiany.!
I wasn't thinking about the amount of time for each villian, I simply got what I believed was the best clip of each villian no matter what the amount of time, but it couldn't be too long.
Eartha Kitt died around Christmas last year.
I only hope that this persuades fox to release the batman tv series onto DVD
I forgot about all these villains.
mr.freeze by george sanders.otto preminger and eli wallach.siren by joan collins.the puzzler by maurice evans.sandman by michael rennie,shame by cliff robertson,mad hatter by david wayne,false face by malachi throne
Thanks Dude...unfortunately, there's nothing i cna do about the so called loudness of the background music without uploading the whole video up all over again. I tried the best i could at the time. thanks for the kind words. I loved King Tut and Egghead though, and couldn;t stand Eartha Kitt's Catwoman. They should gotten Lee Meriwhether to take up the role in the third season since she did a great movie in the movie...
I did...and I thought the made for tv Batman villians like Minerva, Nora Clavicle, Dr Cassandra, Lola Lasanga, Siren, Louie the Lilac, Lord Phogg, Puzzler, Black Widow were lame!
@3dartistguy Well you pretty much would cross out the entire Batman rouges gallery,
The Joker X Two-Face X Clayface X The Penguin X Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum X The Scarcrow X
except maybe for Catwoman and Ras Al Ghul I guess.
There was smillar character called Louie the Lilac, but no Poison Ivy
nothing strikes fear in the hearts of men like the terrible lilac!
John Astin also played the Riddler, however he was inferior to Gorshin, IMHO
Thankyou for that. It was a real trip down back to my childhood. Kapow!
well done.!
I think the character Harley Quinn was introduced in Batman: The Animated Series. After that, she became a popular villain in the comics.
Jacques Bergerac was one handsome dude!
The story i heard was Gorshin was booked in vegas and couldn't make the shoot. Mr. astin was called in at the last minute. I think he did pretty well considering. It would have been great if he had his own character.
@3dartistguy ---They DID air Malachi Throne without disguise in the episode on ONE shot.
6:11,
sooooo props couldnt come up with sumthing better than 2 fire extinguishers attached to a backpack??
1:43 : that's Alex Rocco grinning behind Roger C. Carmel
fantastic bat villians woaaaa
Liberace as a villain? What a scream!
we got enough Egghead's in DC....BATMAN for PRESIDENT! YEAH!
The music was too loud.. As for John Astin, I thought that he was good too.
Frank Gorshin ROCKS!!
There's a whole article on the tradition of the guest star (and this show is a big participant in that tradition) in the cool new book FIFTY SHADES OF TRAILER PARK BOYS: TPB in the Great Comedic Traditions. It's at amazon now!
Eartha Kitt ws only filling in for Julie Newmar who was busy filming McKenna's Gold.
OMG - I completely forgot about some of the villians and who played them.
I think I can name all the celebs.
There was no Poison Ivy character in the series...the only closest character was Louie the Lilac played by Milton Berle
I never new there was as many villains on the show
@3dartistguy
But didn't Eli Wallach (Tuco) of "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" fame play Mr. Freeze at some point? And he didn't join in till the 3rd Dollar movie so Eastwood would have had some momentum going on at the time. Maybe he palled a J. Chan and didn't play a villain in fear of being typecast.
ANNE BAXTER WAS HEADLINED AS THE VILLIANESS, NOT EKDAL.
Otto Preminger as Mr Freeze still cracks me up.
Bruce Lee was "Kato", the partner of "The green hornet".
Damn, man, everybody was on this show back then.
yes. Harry
Why isn't this show on DVD yet? Man, the owners are missing out on boatloads of money! Batboatloads!
Who played Killer Moth?