What the corpus says about Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:06:31 · David Sims (0.50)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) ↔ The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · programming · ABC's executive wanted a glitzy primetime comedy adventure show, like the Man from U.N.C.L.E., with Batman. · "I want to do the man from uncle with Batman, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:55:35 · David Sims (0.40)] Batman: The Brave and the Bold (animated) ↔ Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · lineage · The cartoon closest in tone to the West show: a Batman not haunted by anything. · "this is a Batman who is not haunted by anything."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) ⇒ The Munsters (TV series) (the host's read) · industry · Batman premiering and eating the Munsters' timeslot is why that show tanked. · "And it was because Batman premiered and immediately Munsters like tank."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:09:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) ↔ Doctor Who · industry · Early TV was thrown away; the BBC burned old Doctor Who like ABC lost the Batman sets. · "I guess ABC was just like, well, there's so many early TV things like that with all those old Doctor Who episodes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:50:45 · David Sims (0.40)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) ⇒ The Simpsons (the host's read) · industry · The Radioactive Man parody mirrors the fate of old Batman actors doing car-dealership appearances in costume. · "that's the kind of thing that the Simpsons parodies, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:16:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Adam West ↔ Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · career · West says the show hurt his career for a while because people assumed he was a bad actor. · "He talks about that this show fucked up his career for a while after this because people assumed he was a bad actor and he was like out of touch."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:42:49 · David Sims (0.40)] Robert Morse ↔ Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · what-if · Morse is a guy you are surprised never played a Batman villain on this show. · "He's a guy you're surprised never played a Batman villain on this show, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · fun · Batman premiered and the Munsters tanked within four months; the Munsters movies came out after cancellation. · "Right, it was like within 4 months of Batman premiering."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:09:05 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · fun · During NBC's attempt to poach the show, they discovered most of the Batman sets had been destroyed. · "they found out that for some reason, most of the Batman sets had been destroyed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:20:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Batman (TV series, 1966-68) · fun · Mr. Freeze was played by three people (Preminger, Sanders, Wallach), whoever was available that week. · "Three different people play Mr. Freeze."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:31:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · A Dalek is an iron-lung garbage can with a plunger arm, and the Lego film's villains riff on such designs. · "But his main villainous called the Dalek, and it's like this sort of like big garbage."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:29:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Batman ↔ The Simpsons · lineage · Joke density, word jokes and visual jokes read as proto-Simpsons. · "it feels very Simpsons."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:05:02 · James Urbaniak (0.50)] Buster Keaton ↔ The Simpsons · craft · Keaton is great at the Simpsons-style 'plus joke', a joke with another joke on top. · "Keaton is great at the Simpsons style plus joke."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:47:36 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Simpsons · craft · The portal landing in odd places reminds the speaker of a Simpsons Homer/Bart stunt episode. · "Do you remember when Bart starts jumping on his bike and Homer does it and then he falls down the cliff for like ever?"
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.