Final episode of ‘Batman’ airs 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 14 1968)


Video: 'Batman clip * William Smith and Zsa Zsa Gabor guest star' (Mar. 14, 1968)

(Thursday, March 14, 1968, 7:30-8:00 p.m. EST) — Minerva uses her “Deepest Secret Extractor,” disguised as a piece of equipment at her mineral spa, to discover where her wealthiest customers hide their valuables on tonight’s final first-run episode of Batman, an American live action television series on ABC, based on the DC comic book character of the same name.

NBC had agreed to take over the series but the deal fell through when it was discovered that someone had destroyed the Batman sets which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build.