(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Batman: The Complete Television Series available in limited edition Blu-ray as well as DVD and digitally includes the 120 original ABC broadcast episodes with guest stars that ranged from Liberace to Vincent Price to Bruce Lee.
Adam West. AP
No Surprise: Adam West has an excellent sense of humour.
The actor after all was immersed in a madcap brew of scenery-chewing villains and pun-filled dialogue in the 1960s TV series Batman and yet managed to portray the caped crusader as both in on the joke and properly superheroic.
In a phone call to discuss the first-ever home video release of Batman which co-starred Burt Ward as Robin Alan Napier as butler Alfred and Neil Hamilton as the police commissioner West cuts drolly to the chase.
“I’m so tired of people asking me ‘When when when’” he said feigning an air of annoyance about the pent-up demand then added “I’m totally delighted it’s out now.”
Does the series with its gleefully cheesy on-screen graphics and improbable plots hold up after nearly five decades
“You are going to have three times the fun at least. It’s so beautifully remastered that every molecule every pore everything you can see wonderfully” West replied. With the video’s clarity he said “if we ever made a mistake viewers can point it out.”
Batman: The Complete Television Series available in limited edition Blu-ray as well as DVD and digitally includes the 120 original ABC broadcast episodes with guest stars that ranged from Liberace to Vincent Price to Bruce Lee. Three hours of new content includes interviews with West and Ward.
West said his favourite villain was Frank Gorshin as The Riddler — “Intense and manic and funny. He thought funny” — with Burgess Meredith as The Penguin a close second.