(Going back to the convo about the female Bat-rogues:) After my recent "Addams Family" binge I went back rewatched all the Marsha Queen of Diamonds episodes.
They were good, but I didn't find Marsha all that compelling. Not nearly as compelling as Morticia Addams, leastways.
I was thinking Green Lantern even though it would be an expensive show -- I'm thinking it would have Star Trek: TOS vibes with the aliens and they could rotoscope animation into live action to create GL's energy effects. It would probably have to be like the 70s Hulk show where you only see him use his energy powers once or twice an episode.
But the other suggestions here seem more realistic.
They could even keep the same actor from Green Hornet to be GL. And then say Thomas Kalmaku knows martial arts to keep Bruce Lee... yeah, that's the ticket...
I would add The Atom, since using giant props to show shrunken characters had already been a thing in television for years.
That makes sense. Along those lines, perhaps they could have tried Adam Strange, since there was a lot of interest in space travel in the '60s.
Some of DC's non-costumed adventurers might have been tried in the 1960s. The decade witnessed World War II settings, so they could have tried something with Sergeant Rock or the Haunted Tank. Or Ivan Tors could have done a show about the Sea Devils (Anybody remember them?). Or "Time Tunnel" could have been done with Rip Hunter as the starring character.
As Nemo noted above, more "street-level" costumed characters like Green Arrow might have made it, but it's hard to see one of the more super superheroes making it on a TV budget in those days. The effects could have been managed in the '60s, with enough time and budget. The TV shows of the time simply wouldn't have had those resources. They'd probably have looked lame, like the 1970s "Spider-Man" series.
If they'd REALLY wanted to, a Hollywood studio could have done a big-budget superhero movie with Superman, or the JLA, or Green Lantern, or almost any other property. The effects technicians of the day could have produced some credible and interesting results on something like that, if they'd gotten the chance. The movie market just wasn't yet ready for it. Just imagine a well-done '60s JLA movie!
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They did try with Wonder Woman (which was awful) and Dick Tracy (which was pretty good):
Did not know about those unsold pilots. You learn something new every day!
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Somewhere I probably still have those pilots on a VHS tape (or tapes). I had ordered the Batgirl pilot episode from a private collector around 1980. I think they were bundled with on one tape or I got them at the same time.
I just noticed that nobody noticed that Adam West's thread has made 100 pages. That's a tribute, right?
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