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After close to 100 episodes of actresses playing either villains or arm candy, the introduction of Batgirl is a welcome female presence, even if her first appearance sees her kidnapped and blackmailed.
To these hard-core comic book fans, the camp sensibility - the show's scripts were rife with double-entendres and played with the utmost sincerity - was a blight on the superhero's legacy.
Yes, the show is decades old, and it certainly shows its age, but it's silly fun in a way the few other superhero shows before or since even attempted.
The show's real draw lay in its villains, a richly textured rogues gallery of 37 top-notch Hollywood character actors (and a few leading men and woman) who breathed outsize life into these outré creations.
Is there room for a show where candy-colored criminals leave elaborate clues to their crimes...? Humorless types will say no. To them, I say na. (Or, more accurately, "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.")
At a time when America was already slipping towards cultural, political, and social chaos, the Bright Knight Batman pointed out both how comical and yet reassuring such starkly defined positions can be.
Season three saw the addition of Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in a frankly bonkers attempt to lure female viewers... with plot lines now completely jumping the shark.