Memories of the fantastic movies, TV shows, books and comics of my youth. Lots of clippings from my scrapbooks and articles from my magazine collection, as well as some vintage advertisements just for fun!
Sunday, September 6, 2009
1989 Family Channel Batman ad
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This full-page ad, published in a fall 1989 cable trade magazine, is a very nice rendition of Adam West's campy Caped Crusader.
The only problem with Family Channel is that they edited the episodes even more than the syndication package other stations were getting at the time.
BATMAN is 25 minutes w/o commmercials,20th Century Fox Television Syndication re-edited them to 22:30 w/o commercials. THEN Family Channel edited an additional 1:30 minutes - either for 'violence' or more commmercials!
Holy flashbacks! Who didnt love the campy Batman 1960's television show? The brilliancy of it was how the actors delivered their deadpan dialogue spot on. And Adam West as Bruce Wayne and Burt Ward as Robin stepped into history. What kid didn't wanna be like them?
Born in the late 50's, a kid in the 60's, a teen in the 70's, I'm "forever-fourteen." Monsters, spooky stuff, sci-fi and Star Trek captured my imagination as a youth and the memories made will never fade. The profile photo symbolizes the efforts of my stepdad to rid me of my "childish" interests, as he called them; at which, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.
The only problem with Family Channel is that they edited the episodes even more than the syndication package other stations were getting at the time.
ReplyDeleteBATMAN is 25 minutes w/o commmercials,20th Century Fox Television Syndication re-edited them to 22:30 w/o commercials. THEN Family Channel edited an additional 1:30 minutes - either for 'violence' or more commmercials!
But they left all the camp in --
ReplyDeleteHoly flashbacks! Who didnt love the campy Batman 1960's television show? The brilliancy of it was how the actors delivered their deadpan dialogue spot on. And Adam West as Bruce Wayne and Burt Ward as Robin stepped into history. What kid didn't wanna be like them?
ReplyDeletegreat post
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