A staple of the Dozier Batman series was Batman and Robin using their Batropes to climb up a building to get the drop on various villains. As the series progressed however, the villains began to expect it and had traps set up near windows the Dynamic Duo would likely enter from.
Celebrity appearances[]
A hallmark of the Batclimbs were celebrities appearing out of windows and speaking to Batman and Robin. These moments were considered out of canon of the episode. Characters such as Lurch (from the Addams Family), Colonel Klink (from Hogan's Heroes) and the Green Hornet and his aide Kato (from The Green Hornet) were known to appear. Many of these were filmed out of sequence with rest of the show and were done when the actors could fit it in. These were as follows:
- Jerry Lewis (The Bookworm Turns)
- Drunkard (George Cisar) (Batman: The Movie)
- Dick Clark (Shoot A Crooked Arrow)
- Green Hornet (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee) (The Spell of Tut)
- Sammy Davis Jr. (The Clock King's Crazy Crimes)
- Jose Jimenez (Bill Dana) (The Yegg Foes in Gotham)
- Sam Stone (Howard Duff) (The Impractical Joker)
- Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer) (It's How You Play the Game)
- Lurch (Ted Cassidy) (The Penguin's Nest)
- Don Ho (The Bat's Kow Tow)
- Santa Claus (Andy Devine) (The Duo is Slumming)
- Art Linkletter (Catwoman Goes to College)
- Edward G. Robinson (Batman's Satisfaction)
- Aileen Mehle (using her pen name of Suzy Knickerbocker) (King Tut's Coup)
- Carpet King (Cyril Lord) (Ice Spy)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold[]
In the episode The Color of Revenge of Batman: The Brave and the Bold a Batclimb was featured as part of Batman and Robin's assault on Crazy Quilt. This is in keeping with the series various references to the 1960s Series.
Batman '66[]
The first issue of Batman '66, which is based on the former television series features a Batclimb with a guest appearance by Dracula.