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What satire there is these days often satirizes the village idiot. Batman kids the comics-which kid the kids. The man from U.N.C.L.E. is, at its best, only taking off on James Bond, an acknowledged spoof on itself...
True-Blue Batman. Major trouble in color consistency is that there is no uniform standard used by all production studios on all cameras, so that there are as many transmission-tone variations as there are color girls. Often, as Huntley and Brinkley report, the audience just gets Chet tinted correctly (healthy suntan, hazel-brown eyes) when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial...
...Batman Cometh...
...Once again TIME'S pseudo-sophisticated critics have missed the point. The Batman TV show [Jan. 28] appeals to a whole generation who learned to read with comic books before TV, and now can unashamedly rejoice in the return of their favorite...
There is much more to come. Warns Dozier: "If Batman does well, I have the Green Hornet and Wonder Woman in my quiver." Small wonder that kids are wondering what's to become of the older generation...