Sixty years ago, "Batman" crashed onto TV screens, unleashing Batmania, a rogue’s gallery of villains, and a pop-culture phenomenon that still resonates.

On TVs everywhere, a white hot beam of light pierces the midnight sky, sending its urgent message into the inky black night over Gotham, striking terror into rotten hearts of evil-doers.

"Campy" or "superheroic"? On Jan. 12, 1966, the dynamic duo came alive.

Between 1966 and 1968, Burt Ward played Robin the Boy Wonder opposite Adam West's Batman. The experience of bringing Gotham's Caped Crusader to the small screen was both thrilling and dangerous.

The original Batman television series from 1966, campy as it was, helped make the character a cultural icon. Before Batman ’66, DC Comics was considering canceling Detective Comics. Then suddenly, the ...

In 1966, DC Comics fans were introduced to the soon-to-be iconic live-action TV series Batman. Adam West starred as the legendary Caped Crusader, with the show capturing a more colorful, campy, and ...

Egghead, the supervillain played by Vincent Price in the 1966 Batman TV series, will be one of the characters available as an action figure from the forthcoming line of Mattel toys.The line, along ...

Batman is a pretty fashionable crimefighter, and if you're looking to celebrate his grooviest era, you can now make space for a cowl straight out of the 1966 TV series that starred Adam West as the ...

Robin (Burt Ward), left, and Batman (Adam West) in front of one of the phony rear-projection location backgrounds in the campy 1960s TV series "Batman." The show debuted on TV on this day in 1966 | ...