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...Rockin' Robin...
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...
...Foppish Playboy Bruce Wayne, but at night he dons his puce long johns and his black bat hat and makes war on the diabolical denizens of the dark underworld. Adam West plays Bruce/Batman, and Burt Ward is Dick Grayson (alias Robin the Boy Wonder) in this revival of the 1940s comic strip. Premi...
...thirty minutes went 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...
...money was spent in preparing this series. If this is true, then certainly much was doled out to script writers. You'll have to watch to really get into the mode, but the lines are spoken almost as if they were still within the white balloons. Impossible speeches like Robin's "Holy ashtray!!!" and his mentor's "You've done it again, chum," should not come off, but undeniably, they do. Credit must be given to West and Ward, but some mention should be made of the superb direction. Someone must have read a lot of comic books...