For a fine introduction to the theremin, its history and other instruments it spawned, check out the "Good Vibrations" episode of the podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs," by Andrew Hickey . The podcast title essentially describes its premise, but the background on each...

This is a great clip and yes, it has been posted here before. If you plug "orange-colored sky" into the message board search tool, you'll likely find discussions of this performance and of an infamous Burt Ward cover version of the same song (on a single produced by none other than Frank Z...

... stapled some hair on the front for his look... No doubt it looked great, but before reading this description, the photos looked to me like Gilligan's hat might have been inhabited by a Black Widow-style tarantula. It's been many years since I watched Gilligan's Island, but Little Buddy's hat cr...

As a kid, I kind of liked seeing new villains, but as a grown-up I agree that there was a lot to be desired about some of the baddies introduced in season 2. (Season 1, with False Face, Bookworm and even Zelda was better on that score.) I rank Clock King, Minstrel, Ma Parker and Archer from best-lik...

Great find. I love these kinds of missing links. I haven't seen Robin and the 7 Hoods yet, but I checked out its Wikipedia entry and found a couole more incidental connections: Edward G. Robinson made uncredited cameos in both Batman and "Robin," and the original batmaestro, Nelson Riddle,...

Fantastic work!

Thanks, Andy!

I have Blu-Rays but haven't busted them out since buying the series on Apple TV. (I don't know its resolution, but it doesn't matter much to me because I only watch on a laptop screen.) I got the VUDU streaming version with the Blu-Rays but lost the password or some such ages ago. I've forgotten whe...

The admiration is reciprocated, but I can't help wondering what Batman' *driving* at?

The Start Button was the first batspin image, and it became the "official" one used throughout the series, but in the pilot (and maybe other early episodes?) at least a couple of other spinning images were also used. A notable example is at about 15:40 in Hi Diddle Riddle -- it looks like ...

Fantastic!

Kamdan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:28 pm

Scott Sebring wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:52 am Yes. The narrated version for both parts is what aired. I went in depth on this nearly tens years ago after the DVD mishap.

I’ll have hunt down that thread.

https://www.66batman.com/forums/viewtop ... 355#p19355

I seldom watch the Archer episodes, but the discussion of Robin's beltless boarding of the Batboat (a few entries up in this thread) prompted a revisit. I found what I think is an Easter Egg quite accidentally, while trying in vain to suss out the name of Archer's getaway boat. Freezing frames to tr...

HOLY BATMAN THE MOVIE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION! Mrs Fish wanted to watch BATMAN RETURNS the other night so I paired it with BATMAN THE MOVIE so I could finally lay to rest in my brain if the boat is blue or black-- and in the first scene of Batman and Robin arriving at the pier-- as Victor Paul (Robin)...

Yep. as Jimmy sez, the lampposts on the real bridge are obscured by lookalike lampposts painted on the matte. I'm not sure how they did such things in Old Hollywood, but when arranging digital layers, it's useful to have identical anchor points like that in each layer. If you make the upper layer pa...