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'''Mike Henry, '''known for his role as Tarzan and as a football player, posed for a set of publicity stills for a Batman Saturday morning kids program that CBS had bought. Ed Graham was to be producer and the idea was bought in 1964 and by 1965, CBS was yet to put the program into production. This attempt is independant from the 1966 ABC series.
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==Resources==
Former American footballer and actor Mike Henry, known for roles such as Tarzan in the 1960s and Junior from the ''Smokey and the Bandit'' series, posed for '''a set of publicity stills''' where he dressed up as Batman for a Saturday morning children's program that CBS had bought the idea for in 1964, with Ed Graham (who originally pitched the idea to them) as producer. The show would have been more straightforward and serious in tone than ABC's ''Batman'', and Mike was one of the actors considered for the role of Batman.


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However, before the show could come to fruition, DC Comics got the TV rights for Batman back and then made a deal with ABC to create the show that exists today. Consequently, anything in context to the '64 Batman pitch was put away or lost, including the publicity stills. As of today, these stills haven't been found.


NB!!!! There is a fake fluterring around on the internet based on a man's account whereby he has claimed to have seen it at some comic book convention in the 70's.
==Sources==
*[http://shazamaholic.blogspot.com/2011/02/batman-on-tv-what-might-have-been.html Blog post on the history of the Batman TV show]
*[http://www.batman-on-film.com/batman_60s-tv-series.html Another blog post on the show's history]


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Revision as of 01:15, 9 November 2016

Mike Henry Batman Mockup.jpg

A mock up of one person's account on what the stills looked like.

Status: Lost


Former American footballer and actor Mike Henry, known for roles such as Tarzan in the 1960s and Junior from the Smokey and the Bandit series, posed for a set of publicity stills where he dressed up as Batman for a Saturday morning children's program that CBS had bought the idea for in 1964, with Ed Graham (who originally pitched the idea to them) as producer. The show would have been more straightforward and serious in tone than ABC's Batman, and Mike was one of the actors considered for the role of Batman.

However, before the show could come to fruition, DC Comics got the TV rights for Batman back and then made a deal with ABC to create the show that exists today. Consequently, anything in context to the '64 Batman pitch was put away or lost, including the publicity stills. As of today, these stills haven't been found.

Sources

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