Title/Link: ‘Batman’ de-camps
Publication: USA Today
Date: June 9, 2005
Quotes:
Rob Worley, president of Comics2Film.com, understands how the Dark Knight found himself lampooned in the kitschy TV show, which ran from 1966 to 1968.
“You’ve got a guy who dresses up in a cape, tights and big ears, running around with his little buddy fighting bad guys,” he says. “The TV world of the time probably didn’t have the technology to pull off the comic-book character and effects, so it chose to be campy. And that’s a tone that stuck.”