Anyone ever notice this crazy bat-fact?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I like Lyle Waggoner elsewhere, but his delivery is very wooden, without that serious, but still somehow slightly ironic and sly way West has about him. Dyell's voice would have gotten annoying over time, I imagine. He looked fine, but yeah, Burt Ward IS Robin.

Chris

[enyawd72]

I always thought Dyell had too mousy a voice for the role. Burt Ward was just born to play that part. At no time have I ever detected him acting so much as just being himself. It's hard to beat what comes natural to some. Now Adam West did fine tune his performance a little by the time they started filming. He gave more emphasis or embellishment to everything he said once the series rolled out.

Couldn't agree more...Burt Ward was and remains the perfect embodiment of Robin. He had charm, as well as the youthful exuberance the character needs, yet always came across as extremely intelligent, mature and capable.

Then Chris O'Donnell made Robin a whiny unlikable punk with an attitude problem.

[MIB41]

I always thought Dyell had too mousy a voice for the role. Burt Ward was just born to play that part. At no time have I ever detected him acting so much as just being himself. It's hard to beat what comes natural to some. Now Adam West did fine tune his performance a little by the time they started filming. He gave more emphasis or embellishment to everything he said once the series rolled out.

[Mego Milk]

amaze.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I like to think of West and Ward in those screen tests as the Batman and Robin of Earth-Two, and Waggoner and and Dyell as the Earth-B versions or something.

Chris

[enyawd72]

^Yeah, I'm really glad they tweaked the costumes for the actual show...especially those EARS!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Those screen tests are on the Blu-Ray set as well.

Chris

[enyawd72]

With the release of the DVDs I thought this deserved a bump...I still think it's wacky and cool!

[jwyblejr]

That bat logo on his chest looks more like a bird.

[johnmiic]

Looked it up on youtube and the one on Lyle's costume was even more of a variant. I can't get a good look at the utility belt buckle tho:

[knight errant00]

I remember noticing that as a kid when I would draw pictures of the stuff from the show. As I remember, the bat on the bat-signal itself doesn't even really match the image as projected, either!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I believe the screen tests consisted of two scenes, one in a thrown together Batcave set and one on a Wayne Manor set.

West and Ward did the same screen tests as Waggoner and Dydell (I think that's his name).

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Lyle Waggner just did a screen test. I don't think there was an entire pilot featuring him...

[johnmiic]

Maybe each symbol was used on a different prop and none of the dept.'s bothered to coordinate. You're looking at the logo's from: the logo-animated intro-trademark, chest symbol-costuming, utility belt-props but not necessarily costuming, Batmobile-George Barris/vehicle, Bat-signal-props; but because it's lighted maybe not the same dept. that made the utility belt. How many of these are leftover from the pilot that starred Lyle Wagner? They may have chose not to fix some of these to save on budget.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah, it's all over the map. The Batcycle's Bat-symbol is slightly different than the Batmobile's symbol, and the Batboat's symbol looks like West's chest insignia.

Kind of like how Michael Keaton's original Batsuit had those extra points on it. The standard bat was plastered on EVERYTHING in 1989...and his suit didn't match!

Chris