Picture Perfect Wednesday:NananananananaBATMAN!

Yesterday, it was 45 years ago that the "Batman" TV show debuted on ABC, with Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin. Yvonne Craig later joined the heroic line-up as Batgirl. Legendary iconic television performances as recurring villains were provided by Cesar Romero (as The Joker), Frank Gorshin (as The Riddler), Burgess Meredith (as The Penguin) and Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (as Catwoman, at various points).

The new Batgirl (secretly Commissioner Gordon's daugther, Barbara) was created by DC Comics editor Julie Schwartz and artist Carmine Infantino at the request of the show's producer, William Dozier, for its third season. Dozier envisioned Batgirl in her own spin-off series, a plan that never came to be.

The failure of the spin-off series to materialize doesn't change the fact that version of Batgirl remains the coolest version. Within the next month or so, I'll be reviewing the book reprinting her comic book adventures from the 1960s and 1970s, but in the meantime, here are some recent portrayals of her.

For more pictures from the classic Batman television show, check out this post at Cinema Steve.

Tectonic Tuesday: Yvonne Craig

Last Spring, the great and wise Imam of Imam's Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, full of Allah-given insight that no one since Mohammed Himself (may peas be upon him) has been, revealed to the world the real cause of earthquakes. Forget the lies spread about tectonic plates by the so-called scientists of the West--those tools of the evil Zionist conspiracy--but believe instead this simple, divinely inspired truth, as these are the words of Allah himself as spoken by the Imam of Imams: "Many women who do not dress modestly... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes."

This series of posts spotlights the immodest women that Imam Slammy (as he is known by his friends) warned us about, while proving beyond any doubt the truth of his claims with the historical proof that their wanton ways have caused the earth to crack and buildings to crumble.


Eighteenth Case Study: Yvonne Craig

Born in 1937, teenaged Yvonne Craig immodestly paraded her body before audiences under the guise of "ballet," but it was when she turned to acting that she became a major threat to the stability of earth. In 1959, she appeared with numerous other bikini-clad women in "Gidget." Their wontoness caused the Hebgen Lake quake in August of that year.

But it was 1967 that she became a clear and present danger to civilizations and life around the planet. During that year, and into 1968, Craig appeared as Batgirl on the television show "Batman." Although she made a half-hearted show of modesty by wearing a cowl that covered her hair and part of her face, the rest of her skin-tight purple outfit (and the way she pranced around in it) was anything but modest.

Craig is the one responsible for the 1968 earthquake in 23 states and Canada, cracked roads and toppled structures from Toronto to Missouri, and threatened to bring down the legendary St. Louis Arch. With the "Batman" television show airing around the world even now, there is truly no way to accurately measure the damage and suffering that has been visited upon the world by immodesty of Yvonne Craig.