Anyone watch this at any point and believe the show was intended to be a serious show?
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Only when I was 5.
shareWhen it was on I did. Of course, I WAS eleven.
shareYes.
I never bought the B.S. that it was supposed to be intentionally campy. I'm going by the show that preceded it, The Green Hornet, produced by the same people. That show had the exact same feel of Batman, except without the zany angles and graphics, and it definitely played things straight.
I never liked the show growing up for this exact reason. It felt like a dry, stale show where the so-called campiness was forced after the fact, not the intent the entire time.
Yes, when I watched it as a kid in the late 60s on UK TV.
At that age, 6 or7, the concept of camp was lost on me. I got some of the humour but not all. The over the top dialogue and often bizarre antics of the villains seemed serious to me back then.
In the UK, they showed one episode on Saturday evening, and the follow up episode on Sunday evening. The Saturday episode always ended with the heroes captured and about to be put to death, and the voiceover doing the ' Will they escape this fiendish trap' kind of dialogue. And I could hardly contain my excitement for Sundays episode. I took their peril absolutely seriously.
I think it was meant to be a serious show except for kids, which is why it had these kiddie elements in there (wham! bam! boom!). But then adults started watching it and misinterpreted it as camp, so the producers went with that and tried making the show more campy as it went along to save face.
But no question that this was supposed to be an attempt at a dramatic kids show that became a victim of its own success, where adults started watching it, assumed it was for them and then latched onto it as a funny, ironic show full of camp.
Batman premiered on January 12, 1966.
Green Hornet premiered on September 9, 1966.
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Obviously Lyle Waggoner and Peter Dyell thought the show was a drama when they auditioned.
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I did once, but in my defense, I was 5 years old.
shareAs a child? Yes. The campy humour of it was a bit wasted on me, because I just enjoyed the adventure element of it.
Obviously, watching it as an adult, you can see a lot of it was very tounge in cheek. But, in my opinion, that makes it more enjoyable.