LOS ANGELES (AP) – No surprise: Adam West has an excellent sense of humor.
The actor, after all, was immersed in a madcap brew of scenery-chewing villains and pun-filled dialogue in the 1960s TV series “Batman” and yet managed to portray the caped crusader as both in on the joke and properly superheroic.
In a phone call to discuss the first-ever home video release of “Batman,” which co-starred Burt Ward as Robin, Alan Napier as butler Alfred and Neil Hamilton as the police commissioner, West cuts drolly to the chase.
“I’m so tired of people asking me, ‘When, when, when?'” he said, feigning an air of annoyance about the pent-up demand, then added, “I’m totally delighted it’s out now.”
Does the series, with its gleefully cheesy on-screen graphics and improbable plots, hold up after nearly five decades?