Re: The Mansion That Burned Down May Not Have Been TV's "Wayne Manor"
> This AP report, as carried on the website of KTVU-2 San
> Francisco/Oakland, quotes a Pasadena, California Fire
> Department spokeswoman as saying that officials were at
> first confused and that the mansion that burned down was not
> the one used as Wayne Manor in the 1966-68 "Batman" TV
> series, but a house two blocks away from "Wayne Manor".
I think that CNN is saying that in fact, it was not.
>
> I believe in the series itself, viewers only saw one
> exterior shot of the house. But once, we actually got to see
> more of Wayne Manor's exterior. In one of the first scenes
> of the 1966 "Batman" movie, featuring the TV cast, we do get
> to see the a side view of the front lawn and driveway of the
> mansion as Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and Dick Grayson (Burt
> Ward) arrive in a convertible and enter the house, then
> descend into the Batcave to become Batman and Robin. During
> this scene, Wayne's butler Alfred Penyworth (Alan Napier)
> and Grayson's aunt Harriet Cooper (Madge Blake) were working
> in the front garden when Wayne and Grayson drove in.
>
> If my memory serves me correct, the pilot for the "Batman"
> TV series, originally intended as a one-hour once-a-week
> show, was filmed 40 years ago this month (October, 1965) and
> intended for a September, 1966 premiere. ABC bought the
> series about a month or so later and asked the producers to
> start production right away for a January, 1966 premiere,
> scheduling it on both Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 P.M.
> ET/PT with two-part episodes (part one Wednesday, part two
> Thursday). It was the idea of splitting the stories into
> two-parters on consecutive nights that made the show a hit.
>
