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The 1968 Filmation Adventures of Batman cartoon series will be available on a two-disc DVD set on June 3 at a suggested retail price of $19.97 US. These cartoons were first shown as part of The Batman/Superman Hour. There are a total of 34 shorts included, with the following breakdown provided by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment:

Disc 1

1. “How Many Herring in a Wheelbarrow?”/ “A Bird Out of Hand”
2. “The Cool, Cruel Mr. Freeze”/ “The Joke’s on Robin”
3. “Bubi, Bubi, Who’s Got the Ruby?” / “Opera Buffa”
4. “The Nine Lives of Batman”/ “In Again, Out Again Penguin”
5. “The Big Birthday Caper”/ “Long John Joker”
6. “The Crime Computer”/ “1001 Faces of the Riddler”
7. “Partners in Peril”/ “Two Penguins Too Many”
8. “Hizzoner the Joker” / “The Underworld, Underground Caper”
9. “Will the Real Robin Please Stand Up” / “Freeze’s Frozen Vikings”

The Adventures of Batman

Disc 2

1. “Simon the Pieman”/ “The Great Scarecrow Scare”
2. “My Crime is Your Crime”/ “Beware of Living Dolls”
3. “From Catwoman with Love” / “He Who Wipes the Ice, Goes to the Cooler”
4. “A Game of Cat and Mouse”/ “A Mad, Mad Tea Party”
5. “A Perfidious Pieman Is Simon”/ “Perilous Playthings”
6. “The Fiendishly Frigid Fraud” / “The Cool Cruel Christmas Caper”
7. “The Jigsaw Jeopardy”/ “Enter the Judge”
8. “It Takes Two to Make a Team” / “Wrath of the Riddler”

I’m too young to have ever seen these, but I imagine there are fond memories associated for those who recall them. I’m guessing they have a similar feel to the contemporaneous campy Batman TV show.

These may be the opening credits, in which case, I hope they tone down that strobe effect to avoid seizures.

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