"Batman" debuts 1966

Everyone's favorite super-hero show, Batman, aired its first episode Hi Diddle Riddle, January 12, 1966.  The show featured a theme song to which we  know the all words...word, rather and took 'camp' to heights never achieved before or since.  It starred Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo.  Throughout its three season run, a galaxy of stars appeared, such as Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, Cesar Romero as the Joker, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, and Eartha Kitt as Catwoman. 

Other guests were Vincent Price, Caroline Jones, Bruce Lee, Ethel Merman, Liberace, Roddy McDowall, Joan Collins and Lee Meriwether.

Remember 'some days you just can't get rid of a bomb'?  The shark jumping out of the water and clamping on Batman's leg? 

The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last" aired in 1959

It is ironic that this episode of "The Twilight Zone" has been a topic of group discussion earlier this week on another website, since the original aired November 20, 1959.  A friend on Writing.com mentioned that she had to get her glasses fixed before she could continue writing and this episode was invoked. 

Burgess Meredith stars as Henry Bemis, a man in love with books in a time when reading is frowned upon.  During a lunch break, he sneaks into a bank vault to read a few pages and thusly, survives a (very brief but) all-out nuclear war.  Now he has 'time enough to last' to read his books.  But Fate has one more cruel trick to pull...