Anyone else prefer Season 3?

It was obviously "jumping the shark" to bring Batgirl into it, but of course at the time anything would have been preferable to the show being cancelled! It was becoming lame; full conflicts concluding in half-hour slot instead of 2 or 3-parter, the stars becoming more in the way of "has-beens" or "never-weres" like Zsa Zsa Gabor, and the lame scripts teaming up supervillains more and more! They're still entertaining to me 50 years later; esp. really bad Green Hornet crossover!  

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Season one is King.


Never make friends with the devil brother, his pitchfork will get you in the end.

Season 2 was the best.

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As I recall, Batman had a "weird run of seasons."

Season 1 was only half a season. It STARTED halfway through the 1965-1966 TV season(January?)

Season 3 was only half a season. It ENDED (cancelled) halfway through the 1967-1968 season (January?).

Season 2 was the only Season that had a "full buy" of episodes -- the most of any season, I would suppose.

Which makes Season 2 the best in quantity if not quality. Still, it was the peak for the series.

Season 3 -- at the time -- was just sad. Shrunk down to one episode a week, with no cliffhanger except a "little one" in the middle of the half hour. The budget was so cheap that they didn't build sets for each villain's lair anymore -- they used the SAME big dark room every week and just put different props in it. And for the most part, major actors of yesteryear and today didn't line up to play the baddies so much. (Though I think Cliff Robertson as Shame came back in 1968 -- the same year he won the Best Actor Oscar for "Charly.")

Verdict: Season Two. (As long as there was a Mad Hatter two-parter in there. Was there?)

If her bike didn't have ruffles on it---it would have been awesome. I know they did it so she would appear feminine even being a crime fighter working along men. Wonder woman herself was 'clipped' in the 1960's--and lost her powers. I am sure that the tv execs were worried how batgirl would appear.

I think Batgirl should have been there from the start actually. She had investigative skills as a librarian.

When I saw the very first episode of Batman as a little boy, I actually asked God in my prayers that night please to make it all have been a mistake and to let the real Batman show up tomorrow night. I’m not joking.

Same Bat time. Same Bat channel.

Can you think of a better way to escape from a giant ice cream then using some anti ice cream tablet?