The 1960s Batman TV series: Who was the best villain?

[GlassJoe]

well???<br />

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">I find this more difficult than Sophie's Choice because I LOVED them all, but I chose the Riddler, because as a kid I found him the most entertaining, and ya gotta love the threads, clothes DO make the man!</font></strong></p><p><img height="183" src="http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/riddle1.jpg" width="172" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;Later, when&nbsp;I heard&nbsp;that&nbsp;Frank Gorshin&nbsp;enjoyed sitting in a brass room, eating chocolate cake in his underpants, I loved him even more!!!</font></strong></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-31-06 @ 7:06 AM</span>

[Don Stugots]

The Joker was dressed to impress as well. He gets my vote. But like you said, they are all cool characters.

[GlassJoe]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000099">I
find this more difficult than Sophie's Choice because I LOVED them all,
but I chose the Riddler, because as a kid I found him the most
entertaining, and ya gotta love the threads, clothes DO make the man!</font></strong></p><p><img width="172" height="183" border="0" src="http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/riddle1.jpg" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">
Later, when I heard that Frank Gorshin enjoyed sitting in a brass room,
eating chocolate cake in his underpants, I loved him even more!!!</font></strong></p><p>

<span class="post_edited">This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-31-06 @ 7:06 AM</span></p>Other Riddler facts:<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>- Was the first villain featured on the series.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>- Frank Gorshin was the only actor ever nominated for an Emmy for a performance on the show.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>-
The Riddler wasn't a popular character in the comic book until the
series.&nbsp; The character hadn't been used in several years.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[EliSnow]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Maybe because I'm a Batman reader, I really don't think the villains were really cool in retrospect.&nbsp; However, in my mind, the answer is obvious:</font></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/11JNCat5wb.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3">Frank Gorshin's Riddler is second.&nbsp; </font></p>

[JimBeam]

<p>Catwoman clearly as she was always boner enducing while trying to capture Batman.</p><p>King Tut not so much.</p>

[spazemunky]

Catwoman, i can't run a batch to any of the other villans.<br />

[Doctor Manhattan]

<strong>spazemunky</strong> wrote:<br />Catwoman, i can't run a batch to any of the other villans.<br /><p><font size="2"><strong>Don't speak too quickly:</strong></font></p><p><img src="http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1342/penguinbatmanseriado5mv.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>i always thought the &quot;egg&quot; words were pretty funny</p><p>EGGHEAD!</p><p><img src="http://www.screenhead.com/funny/bat_price.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[FezPaul]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000099">I find this more difficult than Sophie's Choice because I LOVED them all, but I chose the Riddler, because as a kid I found him the most entertaining, and ya gotta love the threads, clothes DO make the man!</font></strong></p><p><img height="183" src="http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/riddle1.jpg" width="172" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;Later, when&nbsp;I heard&nbsp;that&nbsp;Frank Gorshin&nbsp;enjoyed sitting in a brass room, eating chocolate cake in his underpants, I loved him even more!!!</font></strong></p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-31-06 @ 7:06 AM</span> <p>http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/leskosit2.jpg<br /></p>

[torker]

<p>No love for the Riddler?</p><p><img height="216" src="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/rid247s.jpg" width="202" border="0" /></p><p>I voted for Tut.</p>

[FUNKMAN]

anybody remember Shane?&nbsp;&nbsp; and wasn't it richie cunningham's little brother who would walk around in a cowboy outfit calling &quot;Shane Shane&quot;?

[Death Metal Moe]

<p><font size="7">NO LORD FOG?!?!??!??!</font></p><p><font size="7" /></p><p><font size="7">TRAVESTY!!!!!!!!!</font></p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>But seriously, I always thought this guy was the best.</p><p><img height="400" src="http://www.leskobooks.org/images/0300-title-4-report-ebook.jpg" width="300" border="0" /></p>

[torker]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />anybody remember Shane?&nbsp;&nbsp; and wasn't it richie cunningham's little brother who would walk around in a cowboy outfit calling &quot;Shane Shane&quot;? <p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/shame.rm" target="_self">Shame on you, Shame.</a></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>torker</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />anybody remember Shane?&nbsp;&nbsp; and wasn't it richie cunningham's little brother who would walk around in a cowboy outfit calling &quot;Shane Shane&quot;? <p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/shame.rm" target="_self">Shame on you, Shame.</a></p><p>Torker, you are Da Man!</p><p>so it was Shame.. thank you thank you thank you!&nbsp; how come he's not on&nbsp;the Wikipedia Batman Villains page?</p>

[spot]

I gotta go with Mr. Gorshin as the Riddler.

[curtoid]

<p><img height="167" src="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/haret110ss.jpg" width="131" border="0" />&nbsp;</p>

[A.J.]

<p>No Shelley Winters as Ma Parker?</p><p><img height="270" src="http://www.geocities.com/~1966/mabarkb.jpg" width="219" border="0" /></p>

[Donnielimes]

I'd like to say Gorshin for the Riddler or Romero for the Joker,but the reality is at 7 years old Julie Newmar gave me my first woodie.

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Donnielimes on 4-6-06 @ 11:09 AM</span>

[Tall_James]

<p>My last call-in to the show dealt with this topic and I was GOD-AWFUL on air.&nbsp; Therefore, I recuse myself.</p>

[TheSpacePope]

I'm tempted to go with Julie Newmar for the hotness factor, but the geek in me says Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, because he was so fucking annoying and I like to keep kayfabe and really hate my supervilliains.

[high fly]

<p><font size="2">Went with the Catwoman for the sexiness.</font></p><p><font size="2">The best in terms of a show was the Riddler and I recall at the time when it went into reruns that the bastards would never rerun the riddler episodes but kept giving us those damned Mr.Freeze ones.</font></p>

[FreshJ]

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0"><tr><td valign="middle" align="center"><br /></td><td valign="middle"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720106/">Stafford Repp</a></td><td valign="middle"> .... </td><td valign="middle">Police Chief O'Hara</td></tr></table><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I mean does a police chief really have to depend on batman for every little thing, he is the true villian, not protecting gothem from criminals.&nbsp;</p>

[mdr55]

Where's Egghead on that list?<br />

[XMRonFez]

<p>I got my picture taken with Frank Gorshin a few years before he died at a Horror Sci Fi Convention. It's not as good as having my own radio show, but I have to vote for The Riddler.</p><p>I have to give my three worst...</p><p><img height="173" src="http://members.tripod.com/~AdamWest/louie2.jpg" width="177" border="0" />Milton Berle as Louie The Lilac..</p><p><img height="229" src="http://www.bobsliberace.com/decades/1960s/1960s.image/harry.jpeg" width="290" border="0" />Liberacie as Chandell AKA Fingers</p><p><img height="184" src="http://www.1966batfan.com/bw583s.jpg" width="189" border="0" />Tellulah Bankhead as The Black Widow...</p>