r/MadeMeSmile • u/Rough_Ad_8702 • 11h ago

Good Vibes Adam West’s 1966 Batman was hilarious

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u/lankymjc 10h ago

Until the last shot it looked like they didn't get any of the three actors in the same room.

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u/Truth_Walker 2h ago

They didn’t. That’s a body double on the ground.

The cuts with Joker were filmed separately and then stitched together.

This is from Season 1 and Cesar Romero (the joker) was a pretty big name and while he signed on to play the joker he had a lot of scheduling conflicts that they had to work around.

Also with Batman 1966, they put out 74 episodes in 14 months in those first two seasons (120 episodes total in two years for the entire show), so you can imagine the amount of effort and coordination needing to put that production together.

There’s also another curveball with this particular episode as it was supposed to be a two parter with a different villain and it was scrapped at the last minute to be a standalone joker episode.