necessarily for their exquisite acting ability but because both men exhibited in their natural personalities the traits of their Super Hero characters. Adam and Burt really were The real “Batman and Robin!” Adam and Burt together were a force to be reckoned with. Everyone had a good laugh with and at this duo. And Every kid in the world saw their show and wanted to be a Super Hero too! Adam West was taught early on to be honest and not take himself too seriously. He led his life and career in the same way and so did Burt. Victor Paul (Burt’s stunt man) always seemed to be off having coffee with Adam West at the worst times! It seemed like all the dangerous stunts ended up with Burt doing his own stunts! Burt was constantly in the emergency hospital. He was thinking he was just an unlucky guy.. Burt was blown off tables and singed a bit. When he rode with Batman he rode in the lower side car. Adam would push a button and the side car would disengage careening away into the pier and splash! into the water with Burt inside or another time right into a chicken coop! Everyone thought it was very funny.. except maybe Burt! He was often left white knuckled and screaming! Executive producer William Dozier thought Burt was as close to the character of “Robin” as they could have imagined.
Bob Kane and Bill Silver from D.C. Comics created the original Batman character which was sweetened by a cast of over 250 guest stars and people who wanted to do the show including: Ann Baxter, Jim Brolin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Price and so many others.. Batman and Robin also had 3 Catwomen to deal with over the course of the series! That’s 27 in cat lives!! Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether were some of the sexy cat women in Burt and Adam’s on screen lives. Then of course there were the equally famous villains like Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin and more..
Lee Meriwether (Catwoman) with Burt Ward.
First came the successful series then the movie followed. The series was 34 episodes and the movie was utilized to sell the series overseas! And of course this was the 1960’s love era so that meant a lot of freer love on-screen and off for both of our superheroes! The director was actually a bit worried about the bulge in Burt’s tights and gave Burt special “medical pills” to shrink the manly superhero size that was in his “private parts area”. Burt of course quit the pulls Lickity split and started to discreetly use his caped crusader cape to cover the prominent family jewels. Oh the life of a prominent Super Hero! Well, Burt almost lost the family jewels again when he met Tracy whose prominent VIP dad wanted Burt in all his caped crusader fabulousness to say goodbye to his daughter perhaps thinking that being entangled with a Super Hero was just not the role he envisioned for his special girl. But
This is “Arrow” a Great Dane (adopted from Gentle Giants) with Anne Carlson’s daughter Boothe.
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