Gee willikers tv#
In a decade that burned on the streets and in rice fields half a world away, Batman was the magnum opus of TV escapism in a decade that included a beautiful witch married to a mortal, a beautiful genie serving a mortal, and suddenly-rich Appalachian hicks who move to Beverly Hills.
And the Batman-and-Robin-scale-a-building scenes (clearly walking horizontally with the camera turned sideways) often included cameos from the “windows” that included Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., and Ted Cassidy as Lurch from the Addams Family. You can’t buy friends with money,” holds up even today on retro TV cable channels. West’s deadpan delivery of lines like, “Remember, Riddler. And it hit crazily, airing twice a week on ABC with an audience share of more than 50% - meaning more than half of everybody watching anything was watching Batman.Īnd it was damned funny. Producer William Dozier may never have read Sontag, but he read the comics, which had reached a point of absurdity in the mid-‘60s, and he understood that this over-the-top approach could amuse adults and stimulate children at the same time. Camp, she said, thrived on a love of exaggeration and disengaged itself from politics.
It served as the embodiment of Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp,” which sought to erase the boundaries between “high” and “low” (pop) culture. I will now defend TV’s Batman as the perfect TV show in the perfect moment.
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