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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Today, we are accustomed to a variety of superhero-related entertainment, but in the 1960s comics we the only choice...until ABC debuted BATMAN. While the show was a departure from the "lurk-in-the-shadows" crimefighter of the comic books, it offered an eager audience nearly 3 years of BAM, POW, & KABOOM. Pop Culture Expert Arlen Schumer discusses the show and its impact on generations.
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0:00.0 | The night may be long and the dark may be deep, but the answers are there to be found. |
0:07.6 | Whether it's the normal, the abnormal, or the paranormal, you're in the right place. |
0:12.6 | Let's go beyond reality. |
0:14.7 | Welcome to the show. |
0:16.1 | Welcome to Monday night. |
0:17.9 | And I know it's not really Monday night. |
0:20.2 | But because I had a classic program last night, it feels like Monday night, and I know it's not really Monday night. But because I had a classic program last |
0:22.8 | night, it feels like Monday night. It's actually Tuesday night, and we have a fantastic discussion. |
0:28.6 | Sometimes, you know, we talk about the paranormal, we talk about the abnormal, we talk about |
0:34.3 | conspiracy, we talk about a lot of very interesting topics. |
0:39.9 | And we talk about some fun topics. |
0:44.1 | This topic tonight will combine fun and interesting. |
0:51.9 | And it will also combine nostalgia and my personal, I don't know what I would call it. |
0:52.8 | I guess fascination. |
1:04.4 | How many of you were kids that faithfully and enthusiastically and frequently, I guess, would be the other word, |
1:09.5 | watch the Batman television series with Adam West and Bert Ward, of course. |
1:11.6 | I was one of those kids. |
1:17.9 | Now, I wasn't old enough to watch it when it came on television as a primetime series, |
1:27.1 | but I certainly was old enough for watching it as a after school syndicated series in the mid-70s, early to mid-70s. I'd race home and I'd watch |
1:31.5 | it religiously. I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I, you know, everything my parents got |
1:41.3 | me toy-wise, and we didn't get a whole lot. We were not like today, but the things we did get, uh, Batman related. |
1:49.4 | I had several towels that I had specifically marked as my Batman capes. |
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