{"id":20337,"date":"2018-05-08T04:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20337"},"modified":"2018-05-08T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T08:56:23","slug":"fun-facts-about-the-original-1960s-batman-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20337","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts About the Original 1960s \u2018Batman\u2019 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z050818batman_tv_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Spearman of Definition.org posted 20\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/definition.org\/1960s-batman-fun-facts\/\">Fun Facts About the Original 1960s \u2018Batman\u2019 Series<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3.\u00a0 In order to find the perfect dynamic duo, two separate screen tests were held. One included Adam West and Burt Ward, while the other included Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell. Needless to say, West and Ward got the parts; however, the screen tests for both pairs can be found on YouTube, and they show just how different the show could\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n<p>Waggoner later went on to appear alongside another television super hero, Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, in the 1970s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>18.\u00a0\u00a0Adam West could have gone on to play another hero if he had wanted. He was offered the part of James Bond in the 1969 film, On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service. He turned down the role, as he felt a British actor would be much better for the part. The role in that film eventually went to George Lazenby, who was Australian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">20.\u00a0 After the series was cancelled ABC held out hope that another network would purchase it and continue making the show. After waiting for a considerable amount of time, they assumed this wouldn\u2019t happen, and the sets were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>NBC then decided to acquire the show; however, took back their offer when they realized the sets were gone.<\/p>\n<p>Oh what might have been!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Spearman of Definition.org posted 20\u00a0 Fun Facts About the Original 1960s \u2018Batman\u2019 Series.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,56,63,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-humor","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20339,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions\/20339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}