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Wednesday, January 26 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* To get Batman off on the right talon, ABC is pitting him against some fine-feathered birds of prey. This week Oscar Winner (for Razor's Edge) Anne Baxter is a visiting villainess...
...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
Wednesday, January 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second week of this new twice-a-week series features Burgess Meredith as the Penguin -a fine-feathered foe of that dynamic duo, Batman and Robin...
...much too fast. It started with the narrator's "put your gum under your seats," zipped through a catchy theme, and within minutes, the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder were risking their dedicated lives in a effort to rid Gotham City of crime. Adam West stars at Batman; even lacking a size 48 chest, his portrayal is excellent. Batman's young ward is played by Burt Ward, who is everything we remember from drugstore newsstand days...
...boat with four cigarettes and no matches ... How can they smoke? Toss a cigarette overboard and make the boat a cigarette lighter). Maniacally played by Frank Gorshin, he "contrives his plots like artichokes ... you must pull apart the spiny leaves to get to the heart." Alfred, Batman's butler, does not look at all like he should, the police commissioner has no moustache, and somehow an Aunt Harriet has sneaked into the Batman's life; other than that, the half-hour follows Detective Magazine without a miss. There's the Batmobile (now nuclear-powered), Batarang, Bathook, and Batcave. They even...