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(OT) Light the Batsignal one last time... :(

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,848

    Bummer, I grew up on him and Batman. Even net him when I was a kid at a show. At least he was able to bounce back from being typecast and had his family.

    He did outlast the joker, the riddler and the penguin.

    R.I.P.

  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,772

    Aww, sorry to hear it. Not surprised. He did live to be a ripe old age, but still sad to see him go. We've lost a lot of greats in the past year or so. 

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057

    Awww, no more Mayor West!

    R.I.P. Adam West.  You brought many a smile to this face!

  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417

    He died happy, surrounded by his family, and a beloved icon.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    88, that's a good run.

    2017 hasn't been quite as horrific with celebrity deaths as 2016. So far.

     

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,076

    I hadn't realised how relatively few episodes were made of Batman; a little went a very long way

    Condolences to his familyand friends.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,190

    Who remembers him in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,190
    edited June 2017
    SimonJM said:

    I hadn't realised how relatively few episodes were made of Batman; a little went a very long way

    Condolences to his familyand friends.

    Color TV was still very new and a lot of the attraction to the TV Batman series was the vivid colors. yes (although I remember seeing my first color TV in the late '50s.  Big wooden cabinet, little round color screen indecision)

     

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  • Daywalker DesignsDaywalker Designs Posts: 3,586

    crying Loved his Batman; heck, I loved most all of the villains in the show.

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,034

    Fond memories..

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    I never could quite remember the words of the theme tune though. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,087
    Chohole said:

    I never could quite remember the words of the theme tune though. 

    It had words?

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,463
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Chohole said:

    I never could quite remember the words of the theme tune though. 

    It had words?

    Sure, here they are:

    Batman.... Batman.... Batman.... Batman...

    Na na na na na na NUH!

    Batman!

    RIP Mr. West. 

  • GreybroGreybro Posts: 2,606

    Loved that show so much as a kid! RIP

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    Cybersox13 said:

    Sure, here they are:

    Batman.... Batman.... Batman.... Batman...

    Na na na na na na NUH!

    I always thought it was more like

    Da da da da, da da da dah!

    Cybersox13 said:

    Batman!

    RIP Mr. West. 

    Indeed. He will alwasy be "my" Batman.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,057

    ...holy obituary, yet another icon of my youth gone.

    Yeah, many memories.

    I actually saw the feature film on the big screen when I was a kid.  Ahh never know when you need that "Shark Repellent Bat Spray!"

    Then there there were those on screen comic book sound effects during fights.

    Also loved it when he and Robin would be "scaling" a wall with their "Bat Rope" (using the old of tilting the camera angle trick) and some celebrity would pop his or her head out a window for a moment.

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,983

    So sad, loved the Batman

  • OstadanOstadan Posts: 1,130

    West also was in an interesting episode of the animated Batman series of the '90s, playing an actor who had once been a batmanlike TV hero, The Grey Ghost; but who got few roles after that.  We learn that this was an inspiration for Batman.  The casting of West was a stroke of genius.

    Somewhere on YouTube, you can find the screentests with West/Ward, and with Lyle Waggoner and some other young Robin actor.   They picked right; West and Ward acted as if they were in on the joke, while still playing it straight.  Waggoner did not seem to get it.

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