BATMAN TV Series 1966–1968 Created by Lorenzo Semple Jr & William Dozier. TAGLINE : "Batman comes to life tonight! Watch master criminals like The Riddler try to outwit those legendary crime fighters Batman and Robin in TWO spine-tingling episodes each week!" - The Caped Crusader and his young ward battle evildoers in Gotham City in action filled, campy comedy classic. Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and his ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward) lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty utility-belts) thwart the efforts of a rogues gallery of flamboyant arch-villains, including The Joker (Cesar Romero), The Penguin (Burgess Meredith), The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) and the Catwoman (Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt). Received THREE EMMY Nominations including BEST COMEDY SERIES of 1966. CAST includes Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Repp, Madge Blake, William Dozier (Narrator), Yvonne Craig, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Julie Newmar, Vincent Price, Anne Baxter, Victor Buono, Carolyn Jones, Estelle Winwood, Cliff Robertson, Eartha Kitt, Milton Berle and MANY, MANY More. After ABC cancelled the series, the producers waited to see if anyone else would pick it up, then bulldozed the Batcave set when it appeared nobody would. Two weeks later, NBC offered to pick it up, unaware that the set had already been dismantled; unwilling to invest in the high cost of rebuilding the entire set, NBC ultimately declined to acquire the series.