"Campy" or "superheroic"? On Jan. 12, 1966, the dynamic duo came alive.

The classic Batman television series, which premiered on January 12, 1966, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, is something of a point of contention for longtime fans of DC’s Dark ...

Batman is a pretty fashionable crimefighter, and if you're looking to celebrate his grooviest era, you can now make space for a cowl straight out of the 1966 TV series that starred Adam West as the ...

“ABC Hoping To Set New Trend With ‘Batman.” That was the headline on this story from our Jan. 12, 1966, edition of the Orlando Sentinel. Sandra Hinson’s story previews the debut of what would become ...

Egghead, the supervillain played by Vincent Price in the 1966 Batman TV series, will be one of the characters available as an action figure from the forthcoming line of Mattel toys.The line, along ...

The internal outlook for the 1966 Batman series was remarkably grim following early screenings conducted by ABC. Test audiences reportedly provided some of the lowest scores in the history of the ...

The original Batman television series from 1966, campy as it was, helped make the character a cultural icon. Before Batman ’66, DC Comics was considering canceling Detective Comics. Then suddenly, the ...

Back in 1966, the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder escaped from the realm of DC Comics and made it onto the small screen. The Batman TV series aired from 1966 to 1968 and featured a more lighthearted ...

Robin (Burt Ward), left, and Batman (Adam West) in front of one of the phony rear-projection location backgrounds in the campy 1960s TV series "Batman." The show debuted on TV on this day in 1966 | ...