Is anybody here young enough to remember when this was released theatrcially in 1966 as AN EVENING WITH BATMAN AND ROBIN to cash in on the BATMAN TV series that debuted a couple months before?

Like a lot of us Bat-fans I was thrilled that there was an actual BATMAN show on TV featuring the classic villains and I watched it devotedly but even as a 12 year old kid I was dismayed by the campy, comical approach.

In some ways I liked the '43 serial better but wished that it, too, would have used the comic book villains.

John Carradine as the Joker?

Gale Sondergaard as the Catwoman?

Eric Blore as the Penguin?