How the 66 Batman TV show might have been

[mitchedwards]

Here is Lyle Wagners audition for Batman. Looks like this would have been a more serious show, if they went with him as Batman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vpl-...eature=related

[toys2cool]

I think he would've been good,the Robin sucked though

[boss]

How long before we see the Lyle Wagner custom batman figure?

[tomstoyz2]

I've seen this before, very weird. I did kinda like the "serious tone" of it though. I agree, he was ok & the guy who auditioned for Robin was really bad.

[Airdave817]

Holy - - - -!

Lyle Wagner could have been pretty good. I guess I'm more used and accustomed to Adam West. Burt Ward nailed it as Robin. This kid was kinda dorky.

I'm surprised that they never brought Wagner back. He would have been great as any character - maybe DA Harvey Dent? But they went with False Face instead of Two-Face. What were they thinking?


I thought he was great in Back to the Batcave!

[Brue]

i would have preferred lyle

when i watched them as a kid i didn't know west was terrible or that it was a spoof.

now i long for a more serious show.

watching the other characters - no one played it as campy as west - unless it was a villain who's character was a little off.

i agree burt nailed the robin part. this kid in the audition looked the part but had the voice of a RADIO robin - overly childish to get the point across that he was smaller and younger than batman. my 4yo daughter was watching this audition with me and asked "why does robin sound like a girl?" he also struggled to deliver lines.

[Mikey]

That Robin was horrible

[Earth 2 Chris]

The West screen test has him playing it more straight as well. I'm not sure they had figured out the level of parody they ended up with at this point. Lyle Waggoner got his revenge in that "Back to the Batcave" movie a few years back.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

Although I really like Lyle Waggoner, I think Adam West was a much better Batman.

[Hector]

Well...that other Robin has had a much more successful show business career than Burt Ward:

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

[Hector]

Lyle Wagner had the look...but don't think I would've liked his voice as Batman though...Adam West's was deeper.

However, I like the seriousness of this footage...more on the likes of the Green Hornet...serious...not campy.

[Hector]

Interesting to find that Lyle Wagner is seven years younger than Adam West.

[Hector]

Interesting to find out that Burt Ward was an avid reader of Superman comics and not Batman ones.

[Hector]

This is my third time seeing this footage...and wow...Wagner's body is dead on Batman...the guy was in great shape...West on the other hand had no body...he was just skinny with absolutely no muscle definition whatsoever.

Lyle Wagner wins hands down on the look of Batman...but West wins in the voice department.

[kingdom warrior]

That's pretty cool. If they would have done a serious batman Lyle would have been great....I remember Peter Deyell from an episode of Lost in Space and I think he was also in an episode of the Adventures of Superman.

Deyell seems to have done well for himself.