Filmation Era - The Adventures of Batman (1968-1969)

[ObserveCreativeSoul]

Let's discuss this underrated and often forgotten campy cartoon. Some of the episodes are actually quite good and hilarious, my favorites being: "Hizzoner, the Joker", "Simon the Pieman", "From Catwoman with Love", "It Takes Two to Make a Team".

And Larry Storch's Joker is so much better than Lennie Weinrib's cringe take on him in 1977's The New Adventures of Batman.

[thecolorsblend]

I rather enjoyed this Filmation Batman show. Yeah, it's limited animation, which was par for the course back in the 60's. And it was definitely Saturday morning fodder. But transitioning from Adam West to Neal Adams is easier to do with this cartoon (and the Batman issues that came out in 1969). This show was about as dark as it could've been under the circumstances.

Overall, it's not bad. It's not BTAS either but it's not bad.

[ObserveCreativeSoul]

Indeed, it was a fun cartoon with a lot of creativity and heart to it: Joker-mice, Alfred saving Batman & Robin from doing time in jail by using the Bat-Copter, the Joker, Penguin and the Riddler teaming up to take our heroes down without any big quarrels. Fun, exciting, daring and adventurous. The main problem with The Adventures of Batman is that they haven't done a lot of promotion for the series in general (as much as they did for the 1989/66/even the awkward '77 one with Bat-Mite franchises).

Also, I've been talking to some folks recently, and there's a strange controversy going on about whether it was actually Ted Knight who voiced the Joker and not Larry Storch (whose name never showed up in the credits): https://twitter.com/ObservofCreativ/status/941943877241655302