Batman Cartoon 1968 - A Perfidious Pieman is Simon

Simon the Pieman returns to steal 4 million Turkish coins ("piastres"). In the process, he kidnaps Barbara Gordon, and sets up: Batman in a belfry, hanging on to the clapper of a swinging bell to avoid ending up in the soup; Robin running to dodge candles that will light dynamite fuses on his ankles; Batgirl to be thrown down a well in a pumpkin shell; Batman & Robin trapped in a submersible pie heading to crash into a reef; and Batgirl to be crushed under a PIE-zoelectric crystal. Where does he get all those marvelous toys?

Some voices:
Batman: Olan Soulé
Robin: Casey Kasem
Batgirl: Jane Webb
Narrator & Simon: Ted Knight (2 years BEFORE "Mary Tyler Moore")

TVLand once stated that Olan Soulé voiced Batman on Radio in the 1940's, but this is in dispute. TVLand has been known to make mistakes. We do know that Filmation's voice of Superman in their 1966 cartoons, Bud Collyer, DID voice Superman on Radio in the 40's.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Batman
• Cartoon
• Simon
• Pieman
• Robin
• Batgirl
• bat-traps
• belfry
• porridge
• dynamite
• Kasem
• Knight
• Filmation

[ACcountryFan]

Was this villain created just for the cartoon series?

[DesiDoomsday]

Yep!

[hcvang]

So am I.

Comparing this to BTAS is ridiculous - this is from 1968 - the very first animated Batman series ever made. In the SIXTIES. You know anything about the comics at all? They were never "dark" until the 80s.

Filmation's Superman and Batman series were the first saturday morning cartoons ever - without these things being the hit they were, we would never have gotten B:TAS...

Show some respect.

[LarryKoopaRoy]

I can't watch this without thinking of Imaperson's videos.

[deadman00]

Simon, the one few Batman villain who dosent mind dressing in drag.

[saturn0205]

Serious plot hole here. Dick Grayson's a former circus acrobat. Couldn't he have just pulled himself up on the chains and hovered over the candlestick spinning wheel???

[MAZLOTV]

slim

[Arthus850]

wow. when I think a batman villain, I think either a psychotic murderer with little to no backstory, like the joker, or a misunderstood person with a tragic backstory like mr. freeze or killer croc. I know that batman's dark gothic story line wasn't featured in any of the shows until bruce timm's DCAU, but simon the pieman? seriously?

[ryanbuffet]

The pie man's peter griffin's long lost brother XD

[DoctorExplosion]

@hcvang

Batman was super dark in the 30s.

[Girardifan]

@Fgrandinetti The amazing thing about this cartoon is that when Batgirl is tied to a chair and gagged in her Barbara Gordon idendity she manages to escape on her own but whenever she's captured as Batgirl she's completely helpless and has to be rescued by Batman and Robin. She should save herself the trouble of changing into Batgirl and fight crime as Barbara Gordon.

[Girardifan]

@Kagaines In these Filmation cartoons, Batgirl is so easy to capture. In this cartoon, she is captured by Simon the pieman 3 times as Batgirl and 1 time as Barbara Gordon. Ironically, when Batgirl is captured in her Barbara Gordon idendity, she is able to escape on her own, but when she's captured as Batgirl, she has to rely on Batman and Robin to rescue her ("Batman! Robin! Help!!!).

[bobobobo568]

Boy, I'm glad that the narrator explained everything for me!

[fredbob396]

So you wanna play paddycake, GAY BAKERMAN?