New Adventures of Batman- Filmation 1977

[kennermike]

pulled the trigger today. Im sure I wont be dissapointed

[Mr.Marion]

I finally got around to watching this. I don't think it ever was rerun in the last 30 years on tv. I'm 7 episodes in. Filmation sure use the dramatic cue (sound effect) fast and loose. Daaa Daaa Daah. This show has its flaw Catwoman has an awful redesign and the made up villains are really lame. Like Sweet tooth who has fat kids with missing teeth as his henchmen.

[PNGwynne]

It's OK, it's nice to see Clayface and the voice work is novel. But I enjoy the '60s version more.

Lol I recall when I first realized who Olan Soule was, I was so shocked: This is Batman? He looks like a librarian. But he's Batman to me almost as much as West.

[hedrap]

This show held a cult toon status for decades because the opening credits and villain montage was like an animated hieroglyph without translation.

"Why is Riddler in red? Who's the glowing white dude? Clayface? Is that Adam West and Ward?!?"

Then you watch it, and it's as slow as mud.

[palitoy]

I was obsessed with that Riddler as it's my favourite bat villain, i thought i kept missing his episode.

[PNGwynne]

This show held a cult toon status for decades because the opening credits and villain montage was like an animated hieroglyph without translation.

"Why is Riddler in red? Who's the glowing white dude? Clayface? Is that Adam West and Ward?!?"

Then you watch it, and it's as slow as mud.

So true! I watched the heck out of it back in the day, though. Like Palitoy, I kept thinking, "How am I always missing the Riddler?"

And was that even a design choice, or did Filmation get his model sheet reversed?

[hedrap]

Nude Adventures of Batman and Challenge of the Soup Friends drafted Bat villains.

NA took Joker, and Penguin, Challenge took Riddler and Scarecrow. They passed on Freeze since they had CaptCold. Filmation animated the title sequence, but blanked on usage. So they inverted and reversed parts of the cell. Green becomes Red, Question mark flips around.

[PNGwynne]

Nude Adventures of Batman and Challenge of the Soup Friends drafted Bat villains.

NA took Joker, and Penguin, Challenge took Riddler and Scarecrow. They passed on Freeze since they had CaptCold. Filmation animated the title sequence, but blanked on usage. So they inverted and reversed parts of the cell. Green becomes Red, Question mark flips around.

Ummm....lol what's up with your spellcheck, Hedrap?

[hedrap]

haahaha....it's a gag I picked up from a George Carlin live show I was at. He breezingly said "and the genital public doesn't know *** is going on..." so I'll drop a misnomer in every so often to see if anyone picks up on it. It's hard to do at the Museum with the Overlords Language Dalek.

Besides...Nude Adventures of Batman sounds 70's real! "From the makers of Flesh Gordon..."

[Bruce Banner]

Loved the show as a kid. Still enjoy it now.

[huedell]

With respect to filmation batman fan (and his post), the bottom line is that NAOB was never designed to compete with '66. It was produced as a product of its time.

So, of course, if you're expecting anything resembling the previous West/Ward offering, its highly likely you'll be disappointed.

I occasionally enjoy watching NAOB... but West/Ward are meaningless in the equation (as far as their presence not altering the fact that the show is not cleverly written satire as their '66 series was).

The sole reason I enjoy NAOB is the nostalgia. Loved the show as a kid, and its pretty neat to re-visit every so often for that nostalgia-buzz.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I bought the set when it came out on DVD but could not even make it through half of the episodes

[rykerw1701]

I bought the set when it came out on DVD but could not even make it through half of the episodes

Yeah me too. It sits on a shelf getting dusty. And I did the same thing with the first two volumes of "The Adventures of Superman." Nostalgia only gets you so far.

[palitoy]

My understanding of the series was it based on 50s Batman comics, so they're cosmic and kind of out there with weird villains and of course, Bat Mite.

Having young kids when the DVD came out, it ran at least 20 times in my house. The only thing that really got on my nerves was Lenny Weinrib after a while, he wasn't a very versatile guy with the villain voices.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^It definitely has the vibe of the 50s sci-fi comics, whereas both the live-action and animated shows from the 60s hew to the period BEFORE sci-fi took over, namely the mid 40s to mid 50s Batman tales, with a bit of the then contemporary "New Look" mid 60s era thrown in.

Chris