Batman Cartoon Opening

[ayzveru48]

batman,aplausos

[Themastercode1235]

Think how many seizures this will gave people..

[fairymairah]

i agree becuase they banned a pokemon porygon soldier becuase of the flickering colors ^_^ ! ! ! ! !

[pineapplewar]

seizure much?

[tripwirecreator25]

@DmoneyBrown I know.

[Vintodrimmer]

0:28 TRATATATATATATATATTA SEIZURES!!!

[tripwirecreator25]

That opening reminds me of Mermaidman and Barnacleboy hehehe and the background lookes seizure-ey.

[bloodawn5]

Holy epilesy Batman!!

[gbelfrage]

The narrator is Ted Knight of Caddyshack and Mary Tyler Moore show fame. Knight got his start in radio and was one of the early voice talents at Filmation. If you listen carefully, you'll notice he does a number of other voices in these early Batman cartoons, including the Joker.

[XD00155]

EPILEPSY

[albertlouisher]

t=i like the live action batman better

[MegaBondagemon]

Now that is one seizure-inducing intro...

[MrMicropimpin]

yall ever find it funny how in the scooby doo during the 60's they had batman and robin and that basketball team wit them to solve mysteries

[zazelby]

@MrMicropimpin That was for the series where they had a "guest star" in every episode, some real people voicing themselves, some from cartoons. "That basketball team" was a little of each - the Globetrotters were and are a real team, but they were being voiced by the voice actors from their cartoon rather than by the real athletes.

[kylelikesducks]

I'm gonna get a fit watching that titles again!

[GamingBoy58]

seziures 0:49 - 0:58

[ShadowCrowX]

this cartoon was just as good as the 1990's Animated Series, and I'm basing that only on seeing the Scarecrow episode

[Curseco]

@ShadowCrowX What Scarecrow episode?

[ShadowCrowX]

@Curseco the one where Scarecrow uses his gas to make Batman confront his past.

[zazelby]

@ShadowCrowX ... I'm pretty sure you're thinking of an episode of the Superfriends (during the later Super Powers years) called "The Fear", not this show. "The Fear" was the first time that Batman's origin had ever been shown on television, and this show predates that episode by decades.

[ShadowCrowX]

@zazelby I'm pretty sure it was this series because of the animation style. I dunno, did they usually focus on one super hero in an episode with no mention of the others in Super Friends?

[zazelby]

@ShadowCrowX Sometimes, and I'm pretty sure that one did. Still, since the Scarecrow was only in one episode of this old series, and he didn't use any fear bombs (instead using knock-out gas contained in eggs and other farm-related gimmicks) and his plot involved kidnapping Batgirl and stealing items from a Farmer's Market (with no hint of Batman "confronting his past"), I'm absolutely certain it's not this series. It's video k2IIPbqFsJs if you want to see it on Youtube.

[TheAwesome45]

@zazelby its the same series ive seen the episode and that and this have the same narrator

[zazelby]

@TheAwesome45 Again, it's not the same series. (And this narrator also worked on the Superfriends, as did these voice actors for Batman and Robin). There was only one Scarecrow episode on this old series, and its plot was as I described it (Scarecrow robs a costume ball and a farmer's market using eggs full of knock-out gas and kidnaps Batgirl). No fear gas is used, and Batman never "confronts his past". The plot of the Superfriends episode "The Fear" has both those elements.

[zombiewhacker]

"Scourge of Gotham City's kooky criminals?"

[Iamthe1SailorMars]

...The Joker looks more like a tranny than usual...

[smellevision]

I love how half the buildings in Gotham City look like the Guggenheim Museum. This is what animation was like before somebody thought of letting the Koreans do all the work.

[VampireXutes]

How secret is the Batcave, really, when there's a bloody ROAD leading straight to/from it?

[KitttyNinja]

Anyone know where I can watch "The adventures of Batman and Robin" episodes? I can't find them anywhere!

[flapdoodle64]

The great thing is that there is almost ZERO actual animation in this.

[getsomelead]

compare to the batman the animated series opening and which one would you want to watch?

[Laceykat66]

This is not the 1985 opening but the 1960s/70s version.

[JamesRandomThingys]

This cartoon is soo campy it's cool! I love it.

[kluang1]

penguin the what?

[darkseraphimm]

@kluang1 LOL the Pudgy Purveyor of Perfidy!

[arthurespio]

it says batman with robin not and robin fail

[TTNoble77]

29 People Watched Bat-Man the animated series

[dukes0916]

Voice of the late-great Ted Night doing the intro! I belive he narated the Aquaman series from this time (& yes... it was the 60's) as well!

[MrBassem95]

@TTNoble77 well its kinda a better opening in the animated series

[TTNoble77]

@MrBassem95 No, what I ment to say is that this is crap when commparred to BTAS

[Aeolis7]

This is NOT from 1985... try 1968.

[Ray0Alien]

Holy 70's Cartoons Batman!!

[NIDORAX]

Why did they have to make the background flashing blue and red !

[CPTWingman]

Oh, and for the records... they never roared out of a red barn... they roared out of the Batcave, as it has always been.

[CPTWingman]

Hey, buddy... If I don't remember wrong... this was a 1968 cartoon, that ran side by side with Superman, and Aquaman, on 1970s Saturday morning Cartoons... Rencrow... get your head out of the gutter. Dick Grayson was his WARD, not lord. Why is it that this new generation has to make everything nasty?

[The4EverYoung85]

@CPTWingman Hey, if the announcer spoke clearly, this generation's collective mind wouldn't immediately go to the gutter.

[DoseAnyoneCare]

hey he said batman and robin but then it said batman with robin okay?

[rencrow]

"bruce wayne and his young lord dick grayson are known only to his faithful butler alfred"

Why does that sound so wrong?

[coolrog0705]

@rencrow it's young ward dick grayson.

[musc124]

1968 guy

[ysbaddaden2003]

Whatever happened to the red barn they used to roar out of in their Batmobile?

[spykerspyder]

Seizure time! *headdesk*

I do dig the 1960s Batmobile, though.

[ore7529]

ポケモンショックｗｗｗｗｗ

[TheCRAZYLEGS14]

this is from 1968 not 1985!

[Jazzy9964]

It seem Like every Filmation Super Hero Cartoon from the 60's had that flashing Background ...talk about epileptic seizures!!

[NowhereMan1966]

@Jazzy9964 - I was watching "The Archies" on RTV and they had the same background. I think I found the leading trigger of epileptic seizures for 1968. B-)

[erickvso]

lol at 0:13, Robin is in love with Alfred and Bruce is like (¬_¬)'

[iBaLL00Nex]

at 0:29 ,are they farting and jumping out of the car ?

[100mrnothing]

Love it

[apls291]

LOL 0:11 gay love

[FoxPlant2006]

Does anyone have the closing for this?

[BoredAtHomeStudios]

Adam West is imortal.

[hanoc101]

The late, great Ted Knight (narrator)

[kc86er]

This is from 1968, not 1985!

[100mrnothing]

@kc86er Tell me about it dude im a huge batman fan and i was offended by that you know the whole 1985 thing

[RoastedToad]

Life, LIMB, and property?! LIMBS?! How many limbs have they ever saved...specifically?

[ChelseaandLottie]

lol their seats look like the mcdonalds logo! XD

[CaptainFur]

The best part was the closing theme to this series! When you get to hear the music with out the dialog. I've been looking for that recording!

[afgmuscl3]

This sucks. Batman the animated series with Kevin Conrey was the best. It won an emmy and was rated the second best cartoon of all time. Bloody simpsons beat it.

[Gioguate]

batman wasnt much of a dark night in this times lol

[hcvang]

swinging theme... =)

when will this reach DVD? It's my favourite Filmation show, probably.

[TheUAEmentor]

that is very old it can't be from 1985

i'm sure that it's from 1968

[boofdfast]

Very CLASSIC. Love this intro, the boomerang flinging sound was the most memorable. Filmation made the BEST version... Hanna Barbera's Superfriend version was LAME and boring. Love the Riddler. lol

[BoingotheClown]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure this is from around 1970, not 1985.

[charlyblues]

fucking dope!

[Jazzy9964]

1985? I can remember this back in 67

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@Jazzy9964 This particular one came from the 1970's/early 1980's.

[Jazzy9964]

@TheManiacOnWheelsUSA I think you're wrong on this one... the 1970's/early 80's one had Adam West and Burt Ward doing the voices and let's not forget batmite... I remember this one well when I was young... I'm pretty sure it was the late 60's

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@Jazzy9964 OK, this is when Wikipedia is your friend. lol It did debut in September 1969. It starred Olan Soule as "Batman"/"Bruce Wayne" and classic cartoon voiceover icon, Casey Kasem as "Dick Grayson"/"Robin the Boy Wonder".

[ToddServo]

@Jazzy9964 actually that version with Ward and West doing the voices and with Bat-Mite..was The New Adventures Of Batman..also done by Filmation in 1977...West also did the voice of Batman in the last two seasons of Superfriends in the early 80's

[Jazzy9964]

@ToddServo Yes. indeed

[blueday14]

Nice!

[bonzot]

shit

[krisfrosz133]

Cartoons in the old days narrate everything in the opening sequences as if we can't figure the plot ourselves.

[plateshutoverlock]

In Seizurevision!

[Spartacus217]

I wish I was a millionaire philanthropist.

[maveholic]

holy seizure Batman!

[uselessman73]

So they fart their way up from the batmobile?

[CRUZEOO]

@uselessman73 HAHAHAHHAA



[redshiftexperiment]

you may recognize the voice of Ted Knight.

[spacegasp]

This is from 1970-71.

[kdemonde]

@spacegasp 1967-68

[Petsura]

WHY, why is his outfit blue?

[Shawnster65]

@Petsura About that time period, Aurora Plastics had a Batman kit that was colored the same way once it was painted to the suggestionon the box ( the art was done to the comics in which Batman was also blue like that.) Me, I LOVED watching this in 1969 when I was 5, just before I got ready for kindergarten every day. This brings back SOOO many memories!!!

[Petsura]

@Shawnster65

wow, you're pretty old

[icosmini]

Robin the boy wonder :D

[jayce79]

Loved the Batmobile.

[Shawnster65]

@jayce79 Same here...as one who lived thru that day as a little guy, I also miss the Aurora model kits of Batman and Robin, and the old action figures and the whole thing..thank God for Boomerang network and their regular showings of this, and the Aquaman, Flash and Atom adventures as well as Superman and Superboy. Classic!

[cavad]

@Shawnster65 but they dont show it

[Shawnster65]

@cavad True. Now and then they'll show an Aquaman or Superman adventures in single format on Boom, but they show them at odd hours and mostly for fill-in stuff. Nice to catch them in anyway you can get em' though.

[3dartistguy]

I liked thse better than the 90s animated series...

[otherjoe1234]

Swear To Me!!

[ROMANTIKILLER2]

I think the best Batman series was the animated one of the 90's... it had such great stories and atmosphere!

[JuanMamaril]

@ROMANTIKILLER2 Well but Batman in the 90's version was a total un-trusting dick.

In these older cartoons he was somebody the people loved, except the villains of course.

But yeah, Robin's old outfit does look gay.

[deusirae76]

@JuanMamaril TAS has far more interesting hero and villains, even some really tragedy characters. This is just laughable and naïve compared to TAS.

[JuanMamaril]

@deusirae76 Well your mug is laughable too :P

[srb9]

I miss these!

[YoungAF1]

I wish Boomerang still aired them

WB still hasn't managed to release them somehow

[srb9]

@YoungAF1 yeah I wonder where they are...

[DwightFry78]

"To protect life, limb, and property"? Batman is a member of the Christian Right!

[Vitreo]

Love how Mr. Freeze only got a snapshot @ 1:40

[kdemonde]

Actually it's the 1968 intro not 1985

[mattbucket667]

the joker, the clowned prince of crime, i like that one

[flapdoodle64]

Even this is better than Christopher Nolan's movies.

[Vitreo]

You mean Joel Schumacher....

[DwightFry78]

Schumacher's were awful, but Nolan's aren't much better. At least in these old cartoons Bats didn't wear that lame-ass S&M crow-like armor-thing. And they weren't selling them as the Second Coming.

[tinoking]

good thing they evolved then devolved after The batman

[fredtarafder]

Pathetic

[bar56bod]

its a bit technight and swing wingish

[thame87]

Alfred, the faithful butler looks more like a dumb ass mixed with an old, sly pervert.

And that FART-POWA around 0:30 is a pretty awesome force to be used against criminals. I wish I could have possess such a power since my birth.

[stephykinsthewolf]

robin, dick, richerd to me its all the same to me :D

what a cutie though

[Dokifreeman]

Children were playing batman outside just to say DICK al the time. :D

[Astraldragon1]

now this is the Batman cartoon I watched (in repeats)...it came out a year (1968) after I was born (1967)...not sure if it is on DVD but if not it should be....i know the 2nd Batman Cartoon with Batmite( hate him) is on DVD.

[Vampires4Life]

Ha! epic.

[DarkLegendVampire]

Ack, SEIZURES!

[brokenhourglass]

What's with the awkward little face to face shot with Alfred and Dick? Made me chuckle.

[leonbrain68]

Uh, a message that these men were lovers? LOL! :)

[Pander8874]

seizure time lol

[fuzzyrats12]

@Pander8874 omg i was thinking the same thing! lol

[SerenitytheDragonair]

@Pander8874 Man, I laughed so hard I almost spit out my Pepsi xD

[srb9]

This *is* from1968. It was released on VHS as part of the Super Powers collection in 1985.

[007InMiami]

This is 1985? It sounds so 1960ish.

[goldenthoth]

" 2 protect life, men and property" wow!!! i guess back then they just don't care about women right?

[KRstar78]

batgirl is in the series too

[goldenthoth]

really; can't tell with this intro!

[KRstar78]

its lif limb and property. i this you actually have to watch the enite series batgirl is in quite a few episodes. She's a supporting character.

[goldenthoth]

uh huh

[KRstar78]

grow up

[goldenthoth]

i've just agreed with you and you tell me to grow up? what the hell is that!!!

[KRstar78]

im sorry i misunderstood you. I thought you were being scarcastic, Sorry :)

[goldenthoth]

4given

[TheRealJJJ]

I want the complete series on DVD... badly. Come on, Warner Bros.

[ourimaler]

Heh. This was my very first introduction to the character of Batman, way back in kindergarten.

[Vetal83]

that shit hurt my eyes!

[gamehound83]

Burt Ward lives in the next town from me.

He rescues great dane's and finds them new homes.

[darcysmack]

does he wear a cape and mask when he does it?

[gamehound83]

No but he does when he makes a special aperiance

[MonsieurSunshine]

ward=gaylover

[TehBarnz]

Watch out, villains!

[srb9]

This was made in 1968 but released to VHS in 1985 as part of the Super Powers Collection.

[rubick79]

definitely wasn't first aired in 1985 it was 1969 after the live action show was canceled.

[butterp7]

I don't think this was airing in 1985..I believe it aired originally in the 60's.

[spykerspyder]

Seizure time, Batman! *headdesk*

[GWINDOR33]

Anyone else think Alfred and Dick Grayson exchanged a chilling look into each others eyes? Almost as if they were thinking the same disturbing thoughts about Bruce Wayne.

[CelticCymru]

Jesus Christ I am having a seizer after that flashing intro

[mcschitty]

lol i always appreciated a good epileptic fit

[wonchopmonkeyman]

Drink everytime someone says Batman and Robin

[jimbodiced]

Christ you do that and you will be flat on your ass before the ending of this intro lol

[plateshutoverlock]

Looks like the 1970s, the style was much different by the time the 80s rolled around. And those flashing backgrounds, watch out!

[TriangleWitch]

thees where from 1969 and early 70's, not the 80's

[JungleOasis]

Woah flashing lights - they wouldn't be allowed to do that now.

[plateshutoverlock]

I'm surprised that they allow it on any program now after the Pokemon incident in Japan, but I still see newer shows with the kind of flashing lights that can set off a seizure.

[kdemonde]

Was that a radio show? i recall hearing something a radio show of "The Bat-man"

[JungleOasis]

Must tell you something funny. Since I was curious about the Porygon episode I clicked on it on YouTube (just to see the comments, you know.) The number of stupid people commenting lol:

Well apparently if you're Japanese that means you're more prone to having a seizure ... said one commenter on another video.

(*Yes..!* Because they only AIRED that episode in Japan. ...t_t You fucking nob.)

I pressed my face up against the screen and didn't have a seizure.

(Um, well that would be physically

[JungleOasis]

impossible, since a seizure occurs when information enters the brain too fast and it can't control the signals then. Meaning they jump wires and that's how a fit starts - MEANING you don't even need to be epileptic or 'japananese' to have a fit lolz.)

[plateshutoverlock]

*****PLEASE NOTE! I AM NO EXPERT ON SEIZURES NOR DO I EVEN PRETEND TO BE ONE***** An analog (probably digital as well) TV transmits the flashing and it's frequency perfectly while youtube uses lossy compression, drops frames, etc which distorts and probably lessens the effect somewhat. This by no means means you won't get a seizure from a youtube, just that you are slightly less likely than with TV

[doyoulikecheese5219]

Oh, so you're some kind of seizure expert?! JK

[crippe1000]

What did Batman start as? Cartoon? Comic Book? Movie? Sorry but im only 15 and I dont know much about batman :p

[Kalametor]

it started as a comic book, ran for a while then the tv series came out and that really sprung its popularity, eveauntully the movies came out

[crippe1000]

Ok, thx =)

[ysbaddaden2003]

There was also for four years a Bob Kane drawn strip with his assistants, two serials the first with Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft, the second with Robert Lowery and John Duncan as Batman and Robin, a couple of attempts to make radio shows that went no where, although Matt Crowley and Ronald Liss played Batman and Robin on the radio show The Adventures of Superman starring Bud Collyer. And then during the TV show, and later with the Michael Keaton movies new attempts at comic strips.

[sonicedhoedown1]

Batman started as a comic book, but it wasnt an individual series of comic books though.

Batman actually made his debut in a comic book called detective comics in I believe issue 24 or 29. After that he had his own comic book then, his tv show and as Kalametor pointed out he had a tv show which brought up the batman's popularity, then came the movies.

Glad I could help, I know i'm a batman nerd but that's what being 29 yrs old is like.

[kdemonde]

In 1938, started out as a comic book, there was no t.v in 1938. Your curiousity is appreciated young man.