I didn’t realize you could buy “Return to the Batcave.” This was a TV movie which seemed to have a multiple personality syndrome, but it was a lot of fun. It details the making of the 1968 Batman TV show in flashbacks, and that part is played straight while focusing on such silliness as Burt Ward’s second fiddle status and Adam West being caught in a threesome with two bat-groupies. (That part isn’t really funny; I think it’s included at Adam West’s urging just so he can brag.) The other half of the movie is a wacky modern story about Adam West and Burt Ward searching for a stolen Batmobile. The adventure is a campy Batman story with thugs wearing shirts that say “thug” on them and encounters with a pseudo Catwoman and Riddler played by Frank Gorshin and Julie Newmar (not respectively).

It’s great to see Gorshin in one of his final roles doing what he did best; for that alone, I may buy this one. No Bat-completist should be without it.