Lets agree that among all the film and TV versions of Batman, Adam Wests was the silliest.

It was also one of the most important because West kept Batman alive at a time when the character could have faded into bat-obscurity.

In the ABC television series that ran from 1966 to 1968, West played Batman for laughs, parodying superhero situations and behavior while setting up jokes that could have been lifted from Hee-Haw.