The thing I always found most interesting about the original DC Comics Batman is that unlike his compadres like Superman, The Flash, and the others, he has
no super powers. He's got his utility belt with all the gadgets on it, but other than that, he's just a regular human being. This sets him apart and makes him more of a believable character, because bullets won't bounce off his chest and he can't outrun them either— so when he's in danger, he's taking a lot more risks.
As to the TV show, I guess you just have to take it for what it is, a prime example of 60's "camp," the idea that a show (or a painting, or music, or whatever) could be "so bad it's good." Andy Warhol seems to have started this trend, with his "paintings" that are nothing more than silkscreened photographs with a few daubs of color added. Warhol
couldn't have been serious, and he had the last laugh, since those things now sell at auction for six and seven figures!
This little clip is an example of the only kind of "camp" that works, because it's
unintentionally bad. The set looks like they spent about $100 on it (if that), for the big canvas backdrop of the Batman logo, and the dancers must have had no more than two rehearsals.
As for costumes, "Hey Fred, run over to Woolworth's and pick up a dozen white sweaters and a dozen white pairs of pants!"
I'm no expert on dance, having been to the ballet exactly twice in my life, and it didn't do anything for me... and it wasn't my idea to go, either time. Still, even if you don't know a thing about coreography, it's impossible not to see how uncoordinated these people are. Watch closely, and you'll see that a couple of times they almost crash into each other, and in the middle part with the girl in the center and two guys on either side, she's off her mark and is
way closer to the guy on the right than she should be.
It was the dancing that almost had me on the floor, and was what made me think that the clip was woth posting here.
