Batman

Batman is now a movie franchise, a serious downer that started as a morally complicated comic book, but in time morphed into the kitsch that it always should have been. That theme saw its greatest expression in the popular and Pop Art-ish TV series of the same name that starred a winking Adam West as the millionaire crime fighter and Burt Ward as his young ward. And while this was the 1960s and network TV, so don’t expect any skin, it was still hotly sinful with Yvonne Craig’s Batgirl, Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt as the purr-fectly perverted Catwomen.