I spotted that at Futureshop the other day for $24 Canadian, an animated Batman, 16 episodes, featuring the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward.

I was about to buy it but I got distracted by the antics of my kid. Anyway, before I go back to pick it up, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask youse guys if you've heard anything about this.

Here's a link:

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FSM2133426&catid=11020

Huzz

Whoops - wrong forum!!

Huzz

Huzz to Enterprise, Huzz to Enterprise. Griff! Beam me over to the Movies for Modelers board when you have a chance!

Thanks!
Huzz

Apparently, Bat-Mite is in every episode. If your kids are 5 or under, I'd say go for it.

Setting coordinates and... engergizing. :)

"There's something not natural about having my molecules scrambled and beamed all over the galaxy!"

But I do seem to have arrived in one piece. Thanks Griff!

Huzz
Er - why are my feet pointing backwards? :p

I'm betting that these are the old Filmation Cartoons. When they first started to air, the voices of the Caped Crusaders were provided by Olan Soule' and Casey Kasem.

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/images/2004/feb4/batmite.jpg

Later, when Batgirl and Batmite were added to the show, they got Adam West and Burt Ward to reprise their roles.
Ted Knight supplied the other voices - Penguin, Riddler, Joker, Commissioner Gordon, even narrating in his 'Ted Baxter' voice, etc...

- GJS

And.... I was right! Here we go:



Synopsis: http://www.geocities.com/sshumsuper7fan78/batmangirltrilg.jpg
The New Adventures of Batman is an animated series produced by Filmation in 1977 featuring the adventures of the DC Comics superheroes, Batman, Robin and often Batgirl. In this series, Batman, Robin and Batgirl battle various villians in Gotham City. Complicating things however is the presence of Batmite, a other-dimensional imp who considers himself the biggest fan of Batman and insists on helping him, regardless of whether Batman wants it or not.

Episodes:
1 - The Pest
The Moonman
Trouble Identity
A Sweet Joke On Gotham City
The Bermuda Rectangle
Bite-Sized
Reading, Writing & Wronging
The Chameleon
2 - He Who Laughs Last
The Deep Freeze
Dead Ringers
Curses! Oiled Again!
Birds Of A Feather Fool Around Together
Have An Evil Day (1)
Have An Evil Day (2)
This Looks Like A Job For Bat-Mite!


DVD Features:
Audio Commentary: "Bat-Commentary" - An audio commentary from Filmation historian Michael Swanigan and Filmation founder Lou Schiemer on two of the episodes from the series.

Documentary: Dark Versus Light Filmation and the Batman - (1977 marked Batman's return to television in Filmations New Adventures of Batman. With interviews ranging from the President of DC Comics to the President of Warner Bros. Animation, the legacy of Filmation will be examined from animation style, to how this core DC character was depicted in this series.
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Check out this link:

http://www.geocities.com/sshumsuper7fan78/jimsNAOBatmanepguide.htm

- GJS

What did the Batmobile look like in this series?

My kid is 4 and might enjoy this. I'm just wondering though if I would find it too kid-oriented for me to enjoy too.

Dunno about that batmobile - its proabably black tho..........;)

Huzz

I'm betting that these are the old Filmation Cartoons. When they first started to air, the voices of the Caped Crusaders were provided by Olan Soule' and Casey Kasem.

Actually, the original cartoon was done by another company in the 60's. Filmation bought all of the animation masters and character designs for the new show. They changed the look of Commisioner Gordon and could not use the Riddler as a villain in their show.
ABC had the rights to show Batman as a member of the Superfriends, and on that show Casey Kasem DID do the voice of Robin. This was the only time in TV history where a licensed character appeared on two seperate networks at the same time.

Oh, and the Batmobile was solid black with a blue bat on the hood. It had a flat front gray grill and a red interior. The front windshields were modeled after the 60's BM, but the rest was pure Filmation. In the first episode, the Joker steals a car that runs on water, and it looked exactly like the BM except that it was yellow and had a flat windshield and no bat-wings on the rear quarter panels.

Actually, the original cartoon was done by another company in the 60's. Filmation bought all of the animation masters and character designs for the new show.



Sorry to disagree but, I remember the cartoon being a Filmation production from the very beginning. To back me up, a little Googling produced this:

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Filmation's Batman

Hot off the heels of ABC's live action series, CBS hired Filmation (famous in the 1980's for cartoons such as He-Man and Fat Albert, among others) to produce animated episodes of Batman and incorporate them into the studio's already popular The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.

Knocking Aquaman out of the title, Batman continued where the ABC series left off and introduced new villains of its own such as Simon the Pieman. The Joker (voiced by the late comedy straight man Ted Knight) made numerous appearances, as did other villains such as the Penguin, the Riddler, Mr. Freeze, and the first ever non-comic appearance of the Scarecrow!

During the initial 1968-1969 run of the series, Filmation made 14-minute episodes and, to a lesser extent, 7-minute episodes. The longer episodes would be interrupted in the middle to give the same "cliffhanger" appearance that the ABC series did. The shorter episodes were able to fit into the show without commercial interruption.

The Batman episodes were syndicated to local television stations, had a one-shot video release from Warner Home Video, and from 1995 to 1997, were regularly seen on USA Network's The Superman/Batman Adventures, which featured other DC Comics cartoons by Filmation and about half of the Hanna-Barbera Super Friends library. These same Superman/Batman Adventures episodes are now appearing as a part of Cartoon Network's sister network Boomerang. For completests of these Batman episodes, it should be noted that Warner Bros. occasionally edited a few seconds from random episodes.
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Wickipedia lists the following credits for Filmation:

Filmation series


1960s


The New Adventures of Superman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Superman_%28animated_series% 29) (1966–1967 CBS)
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superman/Aquaman_Hour_of_Adventure) (1967–1968 CBS)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_%28TV_series%29 ) (1967 ABC)
Fantastic Voyage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage_%28TV_series%29) (1968 ABC)
Aquaman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman_%28TV_series%29) (1968 CBS)
The Archie Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archie_Show) (1968 CBS)
The Batman/Superman Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman/Superman_Hour) (1968–1969 CBS)
The Archie Comedy Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archie_Comedy_Hour) (1969 CBS)
The Adventures of Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Batman_and_Robin_the_Boy_Wonder) (1969–1970 CBS)
The Hardy Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys) (1969 ABC)


1970s


Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Jerry_Lewis_Please_Sit_Down%3F) (1970 ABC)
Sabrina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_The_Teenage_Witch#Animated_series) and the Groovie Goolies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovie_Goolies) (1970 CBS & ABC)
Archie's Funhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archie%27s_Funhouse&action=edit) (live-action/animation hybrid) (1970 CBS)
Sabrina The Teenage Witch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_The_Teenage_Witch#Animated_series) (1971–1974 CBS)
Archie's TV Funnies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%27s_TV_Funnies) (1971 CBS)
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Albert_and_the_Cosby_Kids) (1972 CBS)
The Brady Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Kids) (1972–1974 ABC)
Lassie's Rescue Rangers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie%27s_Rescue_Rangers) (1973–1974 ABC)
Star Trek: The Animated Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series) (1973 NBC)
My Favorite Martians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Martian#Animated_series) (1973 CBS)
Mission: Magic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Magic) (1973 ABC)
The U.S. of Archie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_U.S._of_Archie) (1974)
The New Adventures of Gilligan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Gilligan) (1974 ABC)
Shazam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam%21_%28TV_series%29)! (live-action TV series) (1974 CBS)
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Lives_of_Waldo_Kitty) (1975 NBC)
The Secret of Isis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Isis) (live-action TV series) (1975 CBS)
The Ghost Busters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters) (live-action TV series) (1975 CBS)
Uncle Croc's Block (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uncle_Croc%27s_Block&action=edit) (1975 ABC) (featuring Fraidy Cat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraidy_Cat_%28TV_series%29), Wacky and Packy (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wacky_and_Packy&action=edit), and M*U*S*H (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M%2AU%2AS%2AH&action=edit))
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%2C_Lord_of_the_Jungle) (1976 CBS)
Ark II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_II) (live-action TV series) (1976 CBS)
The New Adventures of Batman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Batman) (1977 CBS)
Space Academy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Academy) (live-action TV series) (1977 CBS)
Space Sentinels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sentinels) (1977 NBC)
Tarzan and the Super 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_the_Super_7) (1978 CBS)
Fabulous Funnies (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabulous_Funnies&action=edit) (1978 NBC)
Mighty Mouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Mouse), Heckle & Jeckle, & Quackula Adventure Hour (1979 CBS)
Jason of Star Command (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_of_Star_Command) (live-action TV series) (1979 CBS)
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Flash_Gordon) (1979–1981 NBC)
The Brown Hornet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Hornet) (single segment on Fat Albert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Albert)) (1979 CBS)

1980s


The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tom_and_Jerry_Comedy_Show) (1980 CBS)
Lone Ranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Ranger#Other_media) (1980 CBS)
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tarzan/Lone_Ranger_Adventure_Hour) (1980–1981 CBS)
Blackstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackStar) (1981 CBS)
The New Adventures of Zorro (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_New_Adventures_of_Zorro&action=edit) (1981 CBS)
Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Superpower_Hour_with_Shazam%21) (1981 NBC)
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tarzan/Lone_Ranger_Adventure_Hour) (1981–1982 CBS)
Sport Billy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Billy) (1982 NBC)
Gilligan's Planet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Planet) (1982 CBS)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man_and_the_Masters_of_the_Universe) (1983–1985 Synd)
The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Fat_Albert_and_the_Cosby_Kids) (1984–1985 Synd)
She-Ra: Princess of Power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra#The_cartoon) (1985–1987 Synd)
The Original Ghostbusters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters) (animated) (1986–1988 Synd)
Bravestarr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravestarr) (1987–1989 Synd)


Here's the Wickipedia entries for Filmation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation

Norm Prescott:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Prescott

And Filmation partner Lou Scheimer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Scheimer

- GJS

And lets not forget BatFink!

And lets not forget BatFink!
http://www.abc.net.au/abckids/inc/shows/images/batfink_297.jpg
...and Karate!

I believe that was a Hal Seegar Cartoon.

- GJS

Sorry to disagree but, I remember the cartoon being a Filmation production from the very beginning.

You are right, in the documetary on "The New Adventures of Batman", Scheimer said that they had the original character setups and such from the original series. So the moves of the characters were identical to the 60's series. I mis-heard them on my first viewing of the doc.

Ah! But at least we understand why you got that impression! That explanation makes perfect sense!

I think I'd like to get hold of this dvd set myself and check it out. It sounds fun!

- GJS

I have an urge to make batfinks car. Easy project anyway. Just get a V-dub and put batwings on the rear fenders.
What was it called anyway? The Finkwagen?

Totally OT - but I am now up to over 500 posts. Didn't even notice the other day.

Congratulations! 'Habit forming, isn't it?

- GJS