THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1967

[AaronHandy3]

40 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!

"Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin" (prod. #1701) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. on ABC as the 95th episode of Batman.

This segment launched the series' third and final season, and introduced Batviewers to actress-ballerina Yvonne Joyce Craig as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl. Also, the show was now seen once a week on ABC (Thursdays @ 7:30), the reason being that broadcasting twice a week proved to be overkill (hence the previous season's massive inventory of 60 episodes!).

Producer Howie Horwitz made a 15-minute film (which was never aired) of the Batgirl character for ABC (which featured her and The Dynamic Duo confronting the villain Killer Moth) in order to convince The Alphabet Network that the addition of the new character would help the ratings. The network liked it and decided to give the Batman TV series a chance at a third season.

This season, all of the action word titles which appear during the climactic fight sequences were still inserted inbetween scenes, with an added twist: they now flash.

HAPPY 40TH BATIVERSARY, DOMINOED DAREDOLL!