One mystifying point that wasn't mentioned in the podcast. Both West's "Back to the Batcave" and IMDB claim that Chet Huntley himself had a cameo in "Dizzoner the Penguin." Of course it does feature Dennis James as Chet Chumley, but I couldn't identify anyone on screen who looked like the NBC anchor. Am I missing something, or is this another bit of unsubstantiated myth?
"I'm half-demented with whimsical outrage!"
-- The Joker, in a line cut from "The Joker's Epitaph"
Unnnn. And all drama, character development, and excitement went right out the window, sacrificed for a few corny puns. How do you come back from this? The next week's 'Green Ice' was a decent try, but the die was cast. The second season was in full swing. Within weeks of this masterpiece Stanley Ralph Ross was practically taping a sign on Batman's back reading, "IDIOT." This may have been the linchpin that accelerated the show's decline and made the series a laughing stock despised by comics fans for several decades.
bat-rss wrote:One mystifying point that wasn't mentioned in the podcast. Both West's "Back to the Batcave" and IMDB claim that Chet Huntley himself had a cameo in "Dizzoner the Penguin." Of course it does feature Dennis James as Chet Chumley, but I couldn't identify anyone on screen who looked like the NBC anchor. Am I missing something, or is this another bit of unsubstantiated myth?
Adam must have been confused and anyone can put up information on IMDB. In short, I don't ever recall hearing (or seeing) that Huntley made a cameo, with James' parody good enough to get some people confused.
One of the best episodes of the series and the best one with the Penguin. It showed another potential direction of the show, as a means of satire and cultural critique that wasn't really pursued. Maybe a bit in the Joker painting episode.
If anything, the story seems to run out of steam towards the end of the 2nd part but it's still quite enjoyable.
O'Hara dozing during Batman's speech is hilarious, as is Adam West's pause in his delivery.
bat-rss wrote:One mystifying point that wasn't mentioned in the podcast. Both West's "Back to the Batcave" and IMDB claim that Chet Huntley himself had a cameo in "Dizzoner the Penguin." Of course it does feature Dennis James as Chet Chumley, but I couldn't identify anyone on screen who looked like the NBC anchor. Am I missing something, or is this another bit of unsubstantiated myth?
Adam must have been confused and anyone can put up information on IMDB. In short, I don't ever recall hearing (or seeing) that Huntley made a cameo, with James' parody good enough to get some people confused.
There are certainly other clear inaccuracies in "Back to the Batcave", including his assertion that the people singing "Batman" in the themesong were actually horns, or that Catwoman stole THREE gold cat statues in her first appearance! Yes, I think "Chet Chumley" must have confused both West and the IMDB poster (who may have included that after reading what West wrote!). Thanks.
"I'm half-demented with whimsical outrage!"
-- The Joker, in a line cut from "The Joker's Epitaph"
bat-rss wrote:One mystifying point that wasn't mentioned in the podcast. Both West's "Back to the Batcave" and IMDB claim that Chet Huntley himself had a cameo in "Dizzoner the Penguin." Of course it does feature Dennis James as Chet Chumley, but I couldn't identify anyone on screen who looked like the NBC anchor. Am I missing something, or is this another bit of unsubstantiated myth?
Adam must have been confused and anyone can put up information on IMDB. In short, I don't ever recall hearing (or seeing) that Huntley made a cameo, with James' parody good enough to get some people confused.
Excellent point about how anyone can put up info on IMDB.
In a similar vein, the latest podcast (which I enjoyed) on the Preminger Mr. Freeze episode contained a reference to Julie Gregg making an uncredited cameo as one of the beauty pageant contestants. To the best of my knowledge, that was not her. I think it was merely the observation of yet another overzealous and misguided IMDB poster.
'I thought Siren was perfect for Joan.'--Stanley Ralph Ross, writer of 'The Wail of the Siren'
My hobbies include gazing at the Siren and doing her bidding, evil or otherwise.
'She had a devastating, hypnotic effect on all the men.'--A schoolmate describing Joan Collins at age 17
It wasn't until well after my brother and I recorded our show on these episodes that we connected the dots on Hizzoner = "His Honor" and Dizzoner = "Dishonor"
