Bat Clips

As my wife and I were returning home from our niece’s birthday party we made a stop at Walgreens. Here I saw something that I normally would have passed up but took a chance and found something I really liked. Now the outside of this DVD says that Bat Clips is an inside look at a Superhero phenomenon. They should say it is a glimpse. The back says that Batman has been at the top of movies, TV shows, comic books and fan conventions for 50 years and they have rare footage. Yes they do have rare footage but it is all about the 60’s Batman series. If I had seen it all before I would have been disappointed but there are some things that I had not seen. For instance you get to see the promo film that was only seen by network executives that sold them the idea to use Batgirl. She helps Batman and Robin defeat Killer Moth just as she did in the comic book. This is the only time Killer Moth fought the TV Batman. Killer Moth stuck mostly to fighting Batman in the comic books. It has a Batman and Batgirl promo for the ERA and for the Batman movie as well as the TV series. In the 80’s Fox TV aired a late show that for awhile reunited the cast of old shows from the 60’s. The highlight of this was reuniting the cast of Batman and Gilligan’s Island. On this DVD someone had a camcorder and you get to see backstage footage on what happened after the show ended. It was nice to see Alan Napier again as I believe this was his last time with the cast. You can tell he is not in good health. You get to see Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig, Julie Newmar and Frank Gorshin again. There is a fan convention with Adam West dressed as Batman. The convention must have been from the 80’s as he says he has been dressing as Batman for over 20 years. Also, the song Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison can be heard playing in the background. Some of his comments were fairly suggestive but they say that he was always trying to slip those into the show too. So most of this was from the 60’s and 80’s and there is no mention of his early days in comic books or any of the animated cartoons or the movies about him in the last 20 to 25 years. Still while some of this has turned up on bootleg material at conventions, so some of you may have seen it, they are now available for over the counter purchase. If this had cost me $9.95 or even $4.95 I would have been disappointed. However, at Walgreens it was a steal for just $1.00. That is right only a dollar. So keep your eyes open at any Walgreens or any store that might carry Bat Clips.