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O'Hara would have been fine for the Ivy that was envisioned in the Catwoman script but if they'd gone with the classic Ivy template, it would have required someone with a lot more gravitas.

Season 2 "That Darn Catwoman"/"Scat Darn Catwoman". And in fact, the gimmick by which "Pussycat" puts Robin under her spell is clearly a gimmick likely intended for a Poison Ivy character.

To me, the episode represents the series losing its careful balance of not going too over the top with the humor in Season 1. The contrast with Newmar's first episode as Catwoman in S1 with what they made her in S2 was IMO not a welcome development where Stanley Ralph Ross (who wrote all the...

Actually the character of Poison Ivy was originally in the first draft for the episode that Lesley Gore appeared in as "Pussycat". The character was being written in the same way Gore's character was ultimately written, as a teenaged style henchmoll and not as the character that had already...

I think the powers that be had reached a point where after rewriting two Riddler scripts first for Puzzler and then Joker, they decided they weren't going to wait for Gorshin any longer. Astin I believe had an ABC contract that needed to be burned off because of Addams Family's cancellation the...

Gore's uncle was Howie Horwitz, the producer of the show. The Batclimbs were unique pretty much to Season 2. I think Jerry Lewis was the only one in Season 1. Some of the cameos would sometimes be filmed separate from the main episode and they would just be inserted where appropriate (the...

Actually, there was only one mention of Gordon being married in S2, and I think by the time they decided to introduce the character of Batgirl, the idea was now that Gordon was a widower. These kinds of inconsistencies are quite common to TV of that era. There's not a lot of good I can say...

They brought back Julie Newmar's stand-in for that "Catwoman" appearance. Incidentally, Lupino's outfit is the same outfit worn by Minstrel's moll Octavia in S2 and also by Joker's henchmoll Josie in another S2 episode.

I think one thing to keep in mind though regarding Lee is that if you look at her roles in this era she is never what one might call a "focal" guest star, in the sense of someone who carries the action on screen for much of the time. Not even in "Star Trek" where if you add it up, her screen...

I really was not a fan of Eartha's CW. Not simply because Julie owned the role IMO (Lee Meriwether was really just an ememergency replacement who was conveneiently under contract to Fox when Julie couldn't do the movie due to an injury) but I also felt quite honestly that Eartha was looking her...

I am sorry to learn of Yvonne's passing. I never expected that of the three heroes of the show she would be the first to leave us. I know for a lot of people, she made an impression on them that has lasted for decades. I have to confess, I was never a fan of her performances as Batgirl and...

The missing tag is for the Marsha episode, not Minerva. The other disc with the pilot episode is missing narration from the opening scene and it is also the disc with new bonus material added.

E-mail received just now for notification of shipment of replacement discs for the regular DVD set (yes, I got both!)

One thing you can always be sure of with any DVD release under the Warner label is that there won't be any music replacement or editing. If it had been CBS/Paramount they likely would have cut Batman's rendition of "Buttercup!"

The new special features are on Season 1 Disc 1. They include all next week villain tags, even those that were left in the episode proper. Interesting how it wasn't until midway in Season 2 that the promo would give the actor's name as well. They would also specify if it was the...

Got my Blu-Ray replacements just now!

My e-mail came too! I'll be looking forward to this.

No, that isn't Lois who didn't work in America. I have to confess I was never a fan of Yvonne's interpretation of Batgirl. Granted, I think the scripts didn't help matters by having her work more as a rival to Batman and Robin than as a team player, but Yvonne I think tended to magnify the...

A song that could only have been written by "an obvious criminal type" as Alfred described him. :)

Why couldn't they have come to that realization before it got stuck in the Siren episode????? :)

I never realized it all these years but yeah, "Willy Mack" as in William Mackelroy, which was also used for King Tut's alter ego!

LOL. That shows how dumb the song really was, because hey, the answer was right inside Police HQ all the time! :)

The annoying Batgirl song I'd note came at the expense of a critical scene that was shot in the Siren episode in which we see Siren in her alter ego of Lorelei Circe, famous singer announcing that she was through with her "respectable" life. It was an important bit of back story that was...

Or more accurately, Julie's regular stand-in/double. It always amused me how for years some people would give "credits" to Julie, Romero, Meredith, Gorshin etc. for having appeared in that episode when it was only their doubles (of course the sound effects people did mix in laughter of...

Part of the reason for why we only saw her once in Season 1 is because it took them a while to cast the part. Apparently the first choice was Suzanne Pleshette, who I honestly can not envision in the role at all (though I could easily envision her putting on a CW suit to try and get Bob...

I think another reason you didn't see the Big Four early in Season 2 is because the Batman movie was still playing in theaters featuring the "Big Four" and they may have felt showcasing them again too soon on TV might have hurt further box office for the film. An exception was having Julie...

Grace Lee Whitney in her first post-Star Trek role as King Tut's henchmoll Neila.

Actually, "Batman" was filmed primarily on the 40 Acres Desilu backlot and the climax of the False Face episode is at Desilu where at one point the Batmobile goes past the Quonset huts of "Gomer Pyle USMC" (letting us see the empty backside of them) and you can also see some of the old "Gone...

That out of sync blast happened only in the pilot. It's in all prints of it.

Where is there a nine digit UPC code? Like the others, I had to go the 12 digit route for both Blu-Ray and DVD.