Small Screens: ‘Batman’ Returns!

Christian Bale in a slightly different take on Batman than Adam West’s

Once upon a time you could safely rely on being able to find a couple things somewhere on TV, if you just flipped around long enough:The Three Stoogesand the oldBatmanseries. Running in seemingly near-constant syndication long after its too-brief run (120 episodes over 3 seasons from 1966–68), its Pop Art-mad cheeky humor wastheway that most people growing up in the 1970s was introduced to the Caped Crusader. Once Frank Mil...