It's the eighth day of The Month of Mayhem, so what better way to celebrate than with the series finale of the "Batman" TV show from 1968!
So what the heck can I say about Batman that hasn't been said a million times before?
This was the last episode of the 60's TV series, and it was titled as you can see, "Minerva, Mayhem And Millionaires."
These people were crazy! The first season had 34 episodes, and in the second season, they cranked out 60 episodes in about seven months! Season three ended here after 26 more episodes! They might have been just a little burned out!
We were raised on Superman and Batman comic books, so when this TV show came on, we were more than ready. It was corny as Hell, but you just had to love it!
I think the Batman TV series was the premiere example of campy crap!
This was Pop Culture at it's finest hour!
This series finale featured a spa where the customers not only got their hair washed, they get their brains washed too, and for free!
Minerva was played by the timeless Goddess Zsa Zsa Gabor. She affixes this gizmo to the customer's head and then they spill the beans as to how to get to their hidden monies!
All she has to do is turn it on, and ask them a question and they will tell her everything she needs to know to be able to easily rob them later!
Don't you love it that this cat still has his shoes and socks on! He deserves to lose all his money to Minerva!
Dungeon Queen and iconic Hungarian beauty Zsa Zsa Gabor passed away at the age of 99 a couple of years back in 2016! From Orson Welles' "Touch Of Evil" to the 1958 classic "Queen Of Outer Space," Zsa Zsa always added something special to the mix! She will never be replaced!
Adam West was Batman, and boy was he good at it!
Most actors can't act like this and get away with it, except maybe The Shat! Adam also passed away not that long ago at the age of 88 in 2017. What a guy!
Minerva's guards and henchmen were William (Grave of the Vampire) Smith as Adonis, Al (Dracula's Dog) Ferrara as Atlas, and Mark (Doomsday Machine) Bailey as Apollo! Yvonne (her only role ever) Arnett is Aphrodite, and the guy in the middle is Jacques (Gigi) Bergerac as Freddie the Fence!
Minerva even lures Bruce Wayne into her lair so she can extract his secrets too!
Great shot! Batman and Robin look like they're going to a Toga party!
What the Holy Hell Batman? They put them in a pressure cooker!
Alfred and Bat Girl get there just in time to save the boys from getting cooked alive like a couple of lobsters!
Well we all know what happened to Batman after this!
The legend and the stories have continued in film on a regular basis for fifty years now, and honestly, I don't think they will ever stop making Batman something or another for the rest of eternity!
Unless one of these evil thugs finally does him in for good, Batman will outlive us all, and maybe even the roaches too!
3 comments:
You don't always hear the nicest things about Zsa Zsa Gabor, so it's nice to see the comments her.
(Just this evening I saw NAKED GUN 2 1/2, where she has a pretty funny cameo.)
That's funny Grant, because that's exactly what I was thinking when I wrote it.
When it comes to that Green Hornet episode of BATMAN, some people joke that you can't suspend your disbelief enough to imagine Burt Ward's Robin being any kind of a threat to Bruce Lee's Kato. It's tempting to make the same joke about a BATMAN villain played by William Smith.
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