Parody / Spoof TV Shows........

[Sitting Duck]

BATMAN (1966) was a spoof of the old superhero serials of the 40's.

the POW! KABAAM! one? never actually thought about it but I guess it's very spoof like, however being probably my first ever exposure to Batman, I thought that's what it was meant to be... (if u see what I mean?)

That's just the opinion of fans who see any Batman that isn't Grimdark Edgelord in tone as illegitimate. The Batman comic book has had its more lighthearted phases and was going through one at the time of the Adam West series. A while back, Frank Conniff was on the podcast Reels of Justice prosecuting The Dark Knight. His primary motivation for doing so was because he believes that the Batman franchise has been tilting too hard into the Dark and Gritty of late. While I found his case to be a bit underprepared, he had a killer response to the defense's lauding of Heath Ledger's performance as tthe Joker.

[RCMerchant]

Batman comics in the 50's and 60's were, for the most part, just plain stupid.

[zombie no.one]

batman the LSD years 

- I think there was a fairly recent spoof type tv prog that people on here were into, but I only saw a couple of clips. seem to remember it was adolf hitler chasing people around?... or maybe just a character who looked like him?

[Sitting Duck]

Something else to consider regarding Sixties Batman. In just about every other live action superhero TV show of that general period, the lead character spends most of the episode in the secret identity, only going into superhero mode for the climax. With Batman, after determining that Gotham City's finest aren't up to the task, Commissioner Gordon sends up the Batsignal, Bruce and Dick slide down the Batpoles, and they get on their nanananas.

[zombie no.one]

does batman even wear 'civvies'? or is he permenantly in batman mode...I confess I've never seen any of the movies, and I don't remember the tv show that well...

[RCMerchant]

^I seen the first "new" Batman movie- with Micheal Keaton- he wore a suit and tie. In the series- he was Bruce Wayne on occasion.

[RCMerchant]

Something else to consider regarding Sixties Batman. In just about every other live action superhero TV show of that general period, the lead character spends most of the episode in the secret identity, only going into superhero mode for the climax. With Batman, after determining that Gotham City's finest aren't up to the task, Commissioner Gordon sends up the Batsignal, Bruce and Dick slide down the Batpoles, and they get on their nanananas.

I don't recall there being any other superhero show of the 60's, beyond the short lived the GREEN HORNET. In the 70's they had the Hulk, Wonder Woman, and Spiderman, but don't recall much about them.
The 50's had Superman, and he was pretty much Supes most  of the time. I mean, who wants to sit threw a whole program of Clark Kent?
Oh yeah- more 70's superhero shows- SHAZAM! (Captain Marvel), ISIS, ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL- all live action Saturday morning shows.