Tracy

I usually try not to have two “obscure YouTube clips” posts in one day, but I just found this one and couldn’t resist talking about it ASAP. In 1966-7, William Dozier, the producer (and narrator) of the Batman TV series, tried developing some other comic-book and comic-strip franchises into shows. He’d already done The Green Hornet, and in 1967 he produced a pilot based on Dick Tracy. This made sense, since Dick Tracy was an influence on Batman in the first place — Tracy was a cop and Batman worked outside the law, but they both fought grotesque villains with strange motifs and obsessions. But the pilot didn’t sell; neither did Dozier’s pilot for a comedy version of Wonder Woman as a plain-Jane teenager.