The Batman/Superman Hour was a Filmation animated series that was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1969.
Premiering on September 14, 1968, this 60-minute program featured new adventures of the DC Comics Superheroes like Batman, Robin and Batgirl alongside shorts from The New Adventures of Superman and The Adventures of Superboy.
This series marked the first animated Saturday morning cartoon for Batman, and his classic enemies. At the time the show was ordered by CBS, the live-action Batman TV show was at its ratings peak on ABC. Due to a licensing oversight on the part of the live-action show's producers, Filmation was able to secure the cartoon rights to Batman and produce the series for CBS. - From Superfriends Wiki
This series was the first time Olan Soule and Casey Kasem performed as the voices of Batman and Robin. When The New Adventures of Batman was produced in 1977, Adam West and Burt Ward reprised the roles they had originally played in the live action TV series. Soule and Kasem would return several times to reprise their roles in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Super Friends, The All-New Super Friends Hour, Challenge of the SuperFriends and The World's Greatest Super Friends. Kasem would go on to voice Robin with Adam West as Batman in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
In 1969, the series was repackaged into 30-minute episodes without the Superman segments and renamed Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder. Batman would next appear in The New Adventures of Batman in 1977. In 1985, Warner Home Video released five selected episodes of the series on VHS as part of the "Super Powers" video collection. These videos were re-released in 1996 and are out of print. In 1996, episodes were included in The Superman/Batman Adventures on the USA Network. They later aired on the Boomerang Network. - From DC Wiki
This series marked the animation debut of Batman, his supporting cast and some of their classic enemies like Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, and some villains exclusive to the series.
The success of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure in 1967 had prompted Filmation to produce a Metamorpho pilot and begin development on other similar series. These plans were cancelled when CBS secured the animation rights to Batman in the wake of ABC's recent success with the Batman live action television series. Going into production close to the start of the 1968 TV season, what would become The Batman/Superman Hour required Filmation to pull as many additional animators from other projects as they could spare to ramp up production.
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Trivia Time:
In the book "Creating the Filmation Generation", Lou Scheimer recounts that in one early Batman segment, one of the background painters included the ABC logo on a wall in one of the backgrounds, since the live-action Batman series had been broadcast on ABC. But the cartoon series was shown on CBS, who were not amused. Nobody at Filmation had caught the mistake before it went to air. They ended up redoing the scene for the next broadcast and the version with the ABC logo was not aired again.
After production ended on the Batman/Superman Hour in 1969, Filmation was asked to produce two new spots featuring Superman and three featuring Batman that were incorporated into early episodes of Sesame Street (1969). - From
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