ABC began promoting the debut of the Batman TV, in newspapers, on January 5, 1966.
ABC began promoting the debut of the Batman TV, in newspapers, on January 5, 1966.
Could this children’s book, from 1966, influenced me to write THE DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS???
I just discovered this video, which goes perfectly with the subject of my novel. Here is the original “media influencer”, Dick Clark, promoting the “new” TV show Batman on American Bandstand. Even Dick’s Top 10 & some dancing at the end of the clip.
Color on television was a big deal in the mid 60s. Television news was the last programs to switch to color. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite went to color in February of 1966. The Huntley & Brinkley Report on NBC & the ABC World News would not go to color broadcast until later …
Adam West, who played Batman on the 1966 TV show, Batman, was born on this day, September 19, in 1928.
In my novel, the girls in room 420 (Sherry, Kathy, Grace & Debbie) have this poster on their dorm room wall. This was sold when he was a teenager heartthrob on The Man from UNCLE. Today he plays Ducky on NCIS.
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 