Why John Astin Replaced Frank Gorshin As The 1966 Batman Series' Riddler

Jan 11 2023 by /Film

 

William Dozier's 1966 TV adaptation of "Batman" remains, even at this late date, the high water mark for all Batman media. 

Colorful, whimsical, surreal, and borderline kinky, "Batman" served as an arch satire of the conservative underpinnings of most mainstream comic book heroes. Batman and Robin, played by the legendary Adam West and Burt Ward, were depicted as simultaneously heroic and terminally square, eschewing vice and indecency in favor of painfully wholesome, all-American activities...

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