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Like many who grew up in the '60s and '70s (and perhaps even '80s and later), Tim and Paul had the course of their lives changed by the 1966 Batman TV show, from the types of play they did growing up to their present-day interests.

In this series, they discuss the show's allure and its failures, the arc of the show from satire to sitcom, its influences (the '40s serials and the comic books themselves) and the things it, in turn, influenced.

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#097 The Riddler’s cutting room floor: “The Silent Film Capers”

Nov 8, 2018

Dick Carr's first draft of The Silent Film Capers — which Bat-fans know as Death in Slow Motion — was submitted in November 1965. It went through numerous revisions before becoming the story we know and love. In this episode, we go through the first three drafts of the script and find the original form of the giant book, a cut subplot about chocolate cake, the reason Mr. Van Jones doesn't seem to mind that Riddler ruined his party, and much more.

Plus, the Skeletal Family version of the Batman theme, and your mail!

The Silent Film Capers by Dick Carr:

The Ogg Couple (original three-part version), "final script" by Stanford Sherman

Thread on The Ogg Couple on the '66 Batman Message Board

Captain Action information link from Chris Cavanaugh