Super 7 Part 2: The New Adventures of Batman and Robin

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

In The New Adventures of Batman & Robin, the "Dynamic Duo" fights crime in Gotham City, encountering the classic Batman rogues gallery as well as some original villains. Complicating matters is Bat-Mite, a well-meaning imp from another dimension called Ergo, who considers himself Batman's biggest fan. As a result, he wears a variant of Batman’s costume and attempts to help him, only to often create more problems (although he is occasionally an asset). Missing is Alfred, the faithful butler of Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne; also notable in this series are the inverted colors of the "R" on Robin's costume.

This was an excellent Filmation cartoon from 1977 featuring the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward (the live-action Batman & Robin from the 1960's Batman TV show). This cartoon stayed closer to the more serious Batman comics that were being published by DC Comics at the time, with the glaring exception of BAT-MITE (who is an honorary member of the Scrappy-Doo Club).

Only one season of this show was ever made, and it was then re-packaged over and over again till some undetermined year of the early 80's.

Once they figured that they could shuffle the episodes in to the Super 7, they kind of abused it and over-ran the show. Still awesome, though!

Comments

[aurora77]

I really don't think I ever saw this one. I have no memories of it whatsoever.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Really??? It's SO GOOD! And it ran from '77 till '83 (I know, you were a bit young then)... Bat-Mite is everything that Scrappy-Doo ever was, only more so and in a CAPE! With MAGIC POWERS!

OOH! And the Bat-Computer! It always took the last 2 minutes of the show to spell everything out for the kids by shouting, literally, "BAT-MESSAGE! BAT-MESSAGE!" so that Batman and Robin could discus what moral kids should have walked away from the episode with! A true favorite for me :)

[janusfiles.livejournal.com]

I should point out that the version of Bat-Mite here is pretty faithful to how he originally appeared in the comics. Bat-Mite is essentially a counterpart to Mr. Mxyzptlk; the difference being that Bat-Mite is Batman's Biggest Fan EVER!. He wants to help Batman, but the results usually leave something to be desired.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Agree'd! However, he's STILL a Scrappy-Doo :)

[janusfiles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he was a Scrappy-Doo before there even was a Scrappy-Doo.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Proto-Scrappy!