It's Batman/Bruce Wayne (Lewis Wilson) and his ward Robin/Dick Grayson (Douglas Croft) fighting crime in Gotham City. Little Tokyo has been cleared out but dark forces still remain.
It's wartime Batman and some of the racist anti-Japanese takes are not going to age well. It's not unexpected. The racism is very jarring but it's the times that they were living in. It is weird to see the cheesy bad costumes clashing with the serious ugliness of racism. It's childish. This is no Dark Knight nor is it masterpiece theater. It's a 15 episode serial. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger and the theaters would show the episodes one week apart. It's historically interesting for many reasons. One can see some of the 60's TV show and quite frankly, it shows more of the style of the 50's Adventures of Superman. It does get rather repetitive. The story meanders and rambles. The action beats are the same for every episode although there are some bigger set pieces but some are just hand-to-hand in a warehouse. This is not good cinema but it is interesting.
It's wartime Batman and some of the racist anti-Japanese takes are not going to age well. It's not unexpected. The racism is very jarring but it's the times that they were living in. It is weird to see the cheesy bad costumes clashing with the serious ugliness of racism. It's childish. This is no Dark Knight nor is it masterpiece theater. It's a 15 episode serial. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger and the theaters would show the episodes one week apart. It's historically interesting for many reasons. One can see some of the 60's TV show and quite frankly, it shows more of the style of the 50's Adventures of Superman. It does get rather repetitive. The story meanders and rambles. The action beats are the same for every episode although there are some bigger set pieces but some are just hand-to-hand in a warehouse. This is not good cinema but it is interesting.