You're welcome and thanks for the great comment! I got to meet Ms. Craig in the late 90's and you are correct, she is a very kind and gracious Lady. I am glad I got the chance to meet her.
One of those scenes (where she turns her hat and cape in to her cowl and cape) are from the seven minute "proposal" they created to "sell" Batgirl to the network.
Gotta love it!! You are one of the few that actually LIKES her theme song!! (I always did) And like the Catwomen, that was all Batgirl under that purple leatherette outfit (unlike the Alicia Silverstone Batgirl suit!)!!
I didn't like it either. She didn't wear a cowel she wasn't a red head and she wasn't related to Commission Gordon. It became the same costume (with a little changes like a cowel )for the TV show Birds of Prey. In the part where Barbara Gordon was still Battling before her accident.
Did anyone else notice that when the wall turned, the door on the right rotated so that the dressing room side stayed pointed to the camera until the end when it finally turned around to reveal a mirror. If that section didn't turn the way it does, then the camera crew would have been visible in the mirror as it rotated. Pretty good engineering.
@Nevaeh0Evol - No, as it says in the video, she is the daughter of Police Commissioner Gordon. She is Barbara Gordon, Librarian and her 'alter-ego' is BATGIRL.
I had no problem with Alicia Silverstone being Batgirl. My only problem with the change in her backstory. Making her the niece of the butler instead of the daughter of the police commissioner.
@flamingmarsupial I never noticed that they walked on particular sides of each other at different times, but now that you mention it, I suppose it's correct. I do remember things like the "Alf cycle" and the "Bat cycle", not the Batgirl cycle but the motorcycle I seem to remember Batman and Robin riding with a bullet proof windshield, it might have been in the movie. I always wanted a Bat cycle, still do, especially with a bullet proof windshield. My windshield scratches to easily.
I always wondered how she managed to get that 'secret room', revolving wall and get a secret door cut in the side of the building to she could get the motorcycle out. We'll never know I guess :)
@Saulg21 - Alan Napier portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in the TV series from the 60's and he passed away in August of 1988 at the age of 85. Which actor are you referring to?
thanx for this awesome video remix! I had the pleasure to DJ a party @ Limelight in NYC back in 1991 where Yvonne Craig was receiving a Nightlife Award, she could not have been any more kind and charming. I hate what DC comics has done with this character since and Alicia Silverstone's boring turn as BG. Wish there could be a film or TV version made of the original campy character today.
True, women looked like women, not like little boys. Pity that "the look" now-a-says is no hips and flat chests that have two perfectly round silicone sacks in them!
if she had ever gotten evicted from her apartment, her secret identity wouldn't have been a secret anymore. they never did explain who did the modifications to her apartment or how she got the motorcycle back into it's hiding place.
@@Jay-vr9ir Wouldn't he want to know what the reason why she needed the loan? Wouldn't the contractor wonder why she needed the modifications to her apartment?
@Vortigern99 - Thanks for that. I didn't know he passes and since this video if all about the 60's Batgirl, I was as little confused. May Mr. Gough rest in peace, he brought is own unique touch to the role of Alfred.
Yvonne Craig was Beautiful and Dynamic as Batgirl. I keep reading comments about the Batgirl Theme Song. All I can say is it was "cool" back then, and it beats the heck out of the crap that is played on the radio today.
@flamingmarsupial Well, it's been a month ago since I noticed it now, I try to keep up on things. Now that you mention it, I guess I did see that wig with her mask on a couple of occasions sitting on that wig holder. I just never really put the 2 together. Also, at that age I wasn't really looking at her hair :)
@Beautifulmusiclistnr I think the theme song without the lyrics is great. They used whenever she showed up. It has a latin and groovy feeling in it . Her theme music is almost as good as the I dream of Genie s3 and WW themes. Its just the lyrics and the singing that didn't quite cooked here. Fortunately they dropped the singing after 2 failed attempts.
I rememer the whole series from tv growing up. Where did the did the odd bit come from.The differt room in her aprtment , the revesable outfit / batgirl suit and slightly differnt style bike ?
+michael maloney The end clip with her mask being different was from the "sell it to the executives" clip. The villain was The Killer Moth. It used to be here on RU-vid somewhere, but I haven't seen it for a while.
I think that Kristen Bell would make a good Batgirl in a new Batman movie, she look and even talks like Yvonne Craig (when dressed as Batgirl). I had a crush on batgirl, thought that she was really cute. I also thought that her and Robin were boyfriend and girlfriend when I was younger, lol.
As a kid in the 1960's I NEVER missed an episode of this show, I've prolly seen every episode 20 times. I just noticed something in this vid, Barbara Gordon's hair goes from short and black, to long and red. I guess one of them is a wig.
I heard that this was filmed not to pitch a spin-off series, but to actually pitch the addition of Batgirl the the BATMAN cast as the producers weren't that keen on the idea of adding a 3rd hero. But that's just what I heard. I could be wrong.
one question: how does batgirl fund her crimefighting? batman and robin's alter egos are millionaires they can afford to fight crime, but batgirl's alter ego is a librarian they don't make much money. and i'm pretty sure that the payments on a batgirl cycle arn't cheap.
