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BAM! SPLATT! TO THE BATMOBILE!
Coventry Telegraph
|January 12, 2026
Holy smoke! MARION MCMULLEN looks back at how Batman and Robin sprang into TV action 60 years ago
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BATMAN and Robin made their first appearance on American TV 60 years. The masked superheroes started making life difficult for the crime world on January 12, 1966 ... and lots of famous faces wanted to be villains.
Frank Sinatra wanted to play The Joker and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Kennedy and Gregory Peck all tried to get a part in a “wall climb” scene.
This story is from the January 12, 2026 edition of Coventry Telegraph.
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