Posted By Action Flick Chick on November 3, 2009
During the second season of the Batman television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward, executive producer William “Bill” Dozier asked DC Comics editor for a female bat-heroine he might add to the program. Collaborating with artist Carmine Infantino and author Gardner Fox, Schwartz created Commissioner Gordon’s previously unmentioned daughter Barbara who became Batgirl when interrupted by a villain called the Killer Moth while on her way to a costume party.
Dozier cast Yvonne Craig (who famously played the green Orion dancing girl Marta in an episode of Star Trek) as Batgirl – Barbara Gordon and prepared this 7-and-a-half minute test footage while seeking renew for a third season on the ABC network. The show got renewed, although it lost one of its two nights per week and therefore lost its two-part episodes with the cliffhanger endings in the middle. This promo never aired and the Killer Moth, featured in this scene, never appeared in the series.
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I seem to remember the commissioner mentioned he had a daughter in a couple of pre-Batgirl episodes. (Possibly even mentioning a name) but it could be something that was slipped in during the second season scripts once the wheels were in motion for Babs/Batgirl to show up in the comics and planning for season 3.
Video’s gone now.
As a grade schooler, I had a crush on Batgirl. Well, Batgirl, Joan of Arc, etc…pretty much any woman who wasn’t afraid to be her best.