Mr. Terrific was cancelled after half a season, but… was it really a terrible show? Is star Stephen Strimpell partly to blame? This time, we push back on Thirteen Week Theatre’s take on Strimpell, consider why pill popping was such a common way to get superpowers in the Sixties, and the show’s …. agressive … laugh track. Also, were the network execs commissioning superhero sitcoms really trying to imitate Batman, or just cash in?
Plus, The Music Within’s bass guitar cover of the Batman theme, more from Adam and Burt on Hour Magazine, and e-mail from our listeners!
Excerpt from Outré magazine's Stephen Strimpell interview (ilovegetsmart.com)
#217 A well-planned bat-reunion: The Wil Shriner Show, 1988
#216 Putting a Finger on the Clock King script
#215 Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity
#213 “Mr. Terrific”: A tough pill to swallow? Pt 1
#212 That’s no bat, boy, that’s Captain Nice!
#211 Holy overbooking! The Late Show’s Batman reunion
#210 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 2)
#209 The Sandman Cometh Alone (part 1)
#208 The Pilot Audience Report: Why did Batman seem “kind of stupid”?
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#207 The Bat-bible, and Buck Henry’s rejection of camp
#206 Neil Hamilton: From silent film star to Gotham’s top cop
#205 Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2
#204 “Rembrandt III”: Watching paint dry
#203 “Has TV gone batty?” Snarky press coverage from 1966
#202 British Batmania: A Slow Burn
#201 Chip Kidd’s Book of Bat-Merch
#200 “Batman: The Movie”: The Novel
#199 "Nora Clavicle" scripts and writing in season three
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