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Batman (1966 film) Quotes

Batman (1966 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Batman stopped airing in 1970.

It features William Dozier as producer, Nelson Riddle, Theme:, and Neal Hefti in charge of musical score, and Howard Schwartz as head of cinematography.

Batman (1966 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Batman (1966 film) is 104 minutes long. Batman (1966 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Adam West as Batman, Stafford Repp as Chief O'Hara, Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, Milton Frome as Vice Admiral Fangschliester, Frank Gorshin as The Riddler, Lee Meriwether as The Catwoman, and Alan Napier as Alfred.

Batman (1966 film) Quotes

Adam West as Batman

  • (Robin) "Are you sure you didn't hurt your head in that fight, Batman?"
  • (Adam West) "Perfectly. Here, swallow this pill."
  • (Robin) "Thanks."
  • (Robin) "When you think, Batman, with those four supercrooks hangin' around, it's amazing somebody hasn't already reported this place to the police."
  • (Adam West) "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions."
  • (Robin) "Gosh, drink is sure a filthy thing, isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes."
  • (Adam West) "Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."
  • (Robin) "That crazy missile. It wrote two more riddles before it blew up."
  • (Adam West) ""What goes up white and comes down yellow and white?""
  • (Robin) "An egg."
  • (Adam West) ""How do you divide seventeen apples among sixteen people?""
  • (Robin) "Make applesauce."
  • (Adam West) "Apples into applesauce; A unification into one smooth mixture. An egg; nature's perfect container. The container of all our hopes for the future."
  • (Robin) "A unification and a container of hope? United World Organization."
  • (Adam West) "Precisely, Robin. And there's a special meeting of the Security Council today. If what I fear is true --"
  • (Robin) "Wow. Let's commandeer a taxi."
  • (Adam West) "No, Robin. Not at this time of day. Luckily, we're in tip-top condition. It'll be faster if we run. Let's go."
  • (Robin) "Holy marathon. I'm getting a stitch, Batman."
  • (Adam West) "Let's hope that it's a stitch in time, Robin, that saves nine; The nine members of the United World Security Council. Come on."
  • (Adam West) "The Riddler is loose to plague us with his criminal conundrums."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "Penguin, Joker, Riddler -- and Catwoman, too. The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate."
  • (Adam West) "We've been given the plainest warning. They're working together to take over --"
  • (Stafford Repp) "Take over what, Batman? Gotham City?"
  • (Adam West) "Any two of them would try that."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "The whole country?"
  • (Adam West) "If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four ? Their minimum objective must be -- the entire world."
  • (Adam West) "Confound it, the batteries are dead."
  • (Adam West) "They may be drinkers, Robin, but they're also human beings."
  • (Robin) "Gosh, drinking's sure a filthy thing isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes."
  • (Adam West) "Uh-uh."
  • (Adam West) "Bon Voyage, p*****."
  • (Adam West) "What has yellow skin and writes?"
  • (Robin) "A ball-point banana."
  • (Adam West) "What people are always in a hurry?"
  • (Robin) "Rushing people -- Russians."
  • (Adam West) "So this means --"
  • (Robin) "Someone Russian is going to slip on a banana and break their neck."
  • (Adam West) "Precisely, Robin."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "A fine job, Batman. You allayed their fears magnificently."
  • (Adam West) "What else could I have done, Commissioner? If I told the truth, panic will grip the city."
  • (Stafford Repp) "The truth. Sure, and what is the truth?"
  • (Adam West) "A decoy. A strange anonymous warning that Commodore Schmidlapp is in danger, to lure me into a trap."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "A fiendish attempt on Batman's life."
  • (Stafford Repp) "You mean, when they were luring you to a watery grave, the commodore's yacht has been hijacked in some places?"
  • (Adam West) "Precisely."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "And who behind it? Not a clue."
  • (Adam West) "Tell me, Commissioner: What known supercriminals are at large just now?"
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "I'll check at once, Batman. Bonnie, let's have the latest status report on supercriminals still at large."
  • (Unnamed) "Yes, Commissioner."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "Thank you, Bonnie. Coming up, Batman, on the closed-circuit TV screen. Come over here."
  • (Closed Circuit TV Screen) "Status report. Known supercriminals not currently imprisoned."
  • (Adam West) "The Penguin."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "That pompous, waddling master of foul play, maestro a million criminal umbrellas."
  • (Robin) "The Joker."
  • (Stafford Repp) "Devilish clown prince of crime. Oh, if I only had a nickel for every time he's baffled us."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "What, the Riddler loose too?"
  • (Adam West) "So it seems. Loose to plague us with his criminal conundrums."
  • (Robin) "Gosh. And the Catwoman."
  • (Closed Circuit TV Screen) "End of status report."
  • (Adam West) "To the Batmobile. This could be the break we've been looking for."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "It could be any one of them -- But which one? Which ones?"
  • (Adam West) "Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder --"
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "You mean where there's a fish there could be a Penguin?"
  • (Robin) "But wait. It happened at sea -- See? C for Catwoman."
  • (Adam West) "Yet, an exploding shark was pulling my leg --"
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "The Joker."
  • (Stafford Repp) "All adds up to a sinister riddle -- Riddle-R. Riddler."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "A thought strikes me -- So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance --"
  • (Adam West) "The four of them -- Their forces combined --"
  • (Robin) "Holy nightmare."

Lee Meriwether as The Catwoman

  • (Lee Meriwether) "You dismal bird. You and your submarine, Where has it got us now?"
  • (Burgess Meredith) "Shut up, you feline floozy."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "If you please, to take off the mask to give the better picture?"
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "Great Scott. Batman take off his mask?"
  • (Stafford Repp) "The woman must be mad."
  • (Adam West) "Please -- Chief O'Hara -- all of you. This young lady is a stranger to our shores. Her request is not unnatural, however, impossible to grant."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "Impossible?"
  • (Adam West) "Indeed. If Robin and I were to remove our masks, the secret of our true identities would be revealed."
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "Completely destroying their value as ace crimefighters."
  • (Stafford Repp) "Sure, ma'am. Not even Commisioner Gordon and meself know who they really are."
  • (Robin) "In fact, our own relatives we live with don't know."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "But your so curious costumes --"
  • (Robin) "Don't be put off by them, ma'am. Underneath this garb, we're perfectly ordinary Americans."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "You are like the masked vigilantes in the Westerns, no?"
  • (Commissioner Gordon) "Certainly not. Batman and Robin are fully deputized agents of the law."
  • (Robin) "Support your police. That's our message."
  • (Adam West) "Well said, Robin -- and no better way to end this press conference -- thank you, and good day."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "United Underworld. Heh. We're about as united as the United World Organization on Gotham East River. What's the matter with you all?"
  • (Lee Meriwether) "You're going to see the purr-fect crime, when I get Batman in my claws."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "Riddler."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "Yes?"
  • (Lee Meriwether) "You're mad, Riddler. Penguin finished Batman by now."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "Why, that miserable waddling mountebank of a bird? He couldn't finish a bag of popcorn."

Frank Gorshin as The Riddler

  • (The Joker) "Suppose Penguin did fail. All the more reason not to hand them your crazy clues."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "Oh, but I must, I must. Why, outwitting Batman is my sole delight, my heaven on earth, my very paradise."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "They've already been through one of his fishy explosions, and yet they're still very much alive."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "You and your trained, exploding shark."
  • (Burgess Meredith) "How was I to know they'd have a can of shark-repellent Batspray handy?"
  • (Frank Gorshin) "I see the way to do it. We'll play each of our treacherous trumps in one hand, and we'll do it right here."
  • (Burgess Meredith) "How?"
  • (Frank Gorshin) "How? The end. The end, oh --"
  • (Frank Gorshin) "We shall spring them from The Joker's Jack-In-The-Box, through that window, out over the sea, and into the waiting arms of The Penguin's Exploding Octopus."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "The trigger: one of my riddles, of course, and the bait: You. Catwoman."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "This bird has flown around the bend."
  • (The Joker) "To cuckoo land."
  • (Lee Meriwether) "Riddler. Joker. Do something. We weren't meant for a watery grave, DO SOMETHING."
  • (The Joker) "Now hear this. Now hear this. Blow all tanks. Surface. Surface."
  • (Frank Gorshin) "Commodore Schmidlapp ringing for his tea."

Burgess Meredith as The Penguin

  • (Burgess Meredith) "Now hear this, now hear this. This is your Captain speaking. My fine pinioned pirates, we're approaching the tricky buoy. Sharpen your cutlasses. There may be skullduggery ahead."
  • (Burgess Meredith) "Ahoy there. Could you chaps direct me to a policeman? Commodore Schmidlapp's the name. Big Ben Distilleries, you know."
  • (Robin) "Holy costume party. That's the Penguin."
  • (Adam West) "Obviously."
  • (Robin) "What's his game, I wonder."
  • (Adam West) "What's your game, Penguin?"
  • (Burgess Meredith) "Penguin?"
  • (Burgess Meredith) "No, my name's Schmidlapp, old boy. Schmidlapp."
  • (Burgess Meredith) "Waugh waugh."
  • (The Joker) "Waugh waugh."
  • (Burgess Meredith) "Careful, careful, every one of them has a mother."

Milton Frome as Vice Admiral Fangschliester

  • (Milton Frome) "-- to some chap named P.N. Guin."
  • (Adam West) "P.N. Guin?"
  • (Robin) "The Penguin."
  • (Milton Frome) "Avast and belay, Batman. Your tone sounds rather grim. We haven't done anything foolish, have we?"
  • (Adam West) "Disposing of pre-atomic submarines to persons who don't even leave their full addresses -- Good day, Admiral."
  • (Milton Frome) "Gosh."

Alan Napier as Alfred

  • (Robin) "Holy demolition."
  • (Alan Napier) "Bless my dustpan."

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