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NenaBoneta
08-02-2006, 10:37 AM
I was at Target the other day looking around and I was in the DVD section and I saw Batman T.V show box set,like realy old school series even before Adam west!!,When I got home I looked it up on IMBD
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0041162/
I was very amazed to see that there was a earlyer series,even befor Adam west's Batman show.Has anyone else ever heard of this 1940's batman T.V series??? Has anyone ever seen it before or watched it or perchesed it before??
Gary Joyce
08-02-2006, 10:42 AM
Yeah i knew about it.I remember it being shown over here in the U.K when the first Batman movie came out.I then video them so have had them in my collection for a while.

I recently bought them off e-bay as a family member taped over them (no-one has owned up yet)

As for the quality of the show well its not bad and its certainly a little racist against the japanese but all in all i'd say its worth watching.
Chris Johnson
08-02-2006, 10:49 AM
I believe that is one of the old movie serials.
snipe
08-02-2006, 12:17 PM
It's not a tv series, it was a movie serial. There were two of them: one in '43, the other in '49. Both are available on dvd now.
The Punished
08-02-2006, 12:34 PM
Yeah, I see the old serials dvd at Best Buy all the time.
Paul Dee
08-02-2006, 01:43 PM
I really wish they'd do a Region 2 release of these serials. I have both of them after finding them on a torrent site but proper quality ones would be lovely.
NenaBoneta
08-02-2006, 03:28 PM
was the Joker in any of them???
Paul Dee
08-02-2006, 03:34 PM
Nah, the two villains were Dr Daka and someone called the Wizard.

Obligatory wikipedia link here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_and_Robin_%281948_movie%29)
NenaBoneta
08-02-2006, 10:24 PM
Nah, the two villains were Dr Daka and someone called the Wizard.

Obligatory wikipedia link here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_and_Robin_%281948_movie%29)
wow there sorta offensive and raceist with the "You're as yellow as your skin!") quote. ,I happen to be half asian,but still i would love to watch it one of these days,I hope they still have it at best buy or target
snipe
08-02-2006, 11:24 PM
wow there sorta offensive and raceist with the "You're as yellow as your skin!") quote. ,I happen to be half asian,but still i would love to watch it one of these days,I hope they still have it at best buy or target

There are also quite a few "Slanty-eyed Jap" lines thrown in that first one. Height of WWII propaganda at it's best. It was off the market for quite a while, then an edited version was out there. The DVD releases are the original, unedited versions, however.
Gaspard
08-03-2006, 10:03 AM
I accidentally found them from the IMDb myself, but haven't seen them. Would love to, though :D
Fenix
08-03-2006, 11:27 AM
News to me :) I guess I´m not a geek after all...
Kara Zor El
08-03-2006, 11:42 AM
I've seen them both right the way through. They are simmilar in style to the Old Flash Gordon Movie Serials and Lone Ranger. Each episode ended with a cliff hanger. There was no Batmobile (they drive a normal car) but there was Robin. Batman's ears flopped all over the place.
I'd say don''t break your back trying to own them. They're not very good in comparisson to other Movie serials of the time or earlier.
Babylon23
08-04-2006, 12:19 AM
This serial used to be shown on Australian television every school holidays when I was young, and my brother and I would watch it every time (they also showed Godzilla movies a lot). I loved it back then.

I bought it not long ago, and I have to say, it's not great. It's incredibly racist, as was a lot of media at the time.

It certainly isn't of the same level of quality as the Buster Crabbe Falsh Gordon serial.