Out out Darn Spot

Synopsis: Animated children’s television series, consisting of five-minute shorts. The 100-episode series was created by Hal Seeger in 1966, to parody the popular Batman and The Green Hornet television series which had premiered the same year. Batfink was a crime fighter with super sonic sonar and wings of steel. He and his sidekick Karate would keep the world safe from villains such as Hugo a Go Go, Daniel Boom, and the Monstrous Master Movie Maker. In this episode Sir Sol Iloquy, a great English actor, is performing Macbeth on television, using the original dagger. During Act II, Scene i ( "Is this a dagger I see before me?"), Hugo brings on the spotlight with makes hundreds of spots. Iloquy is blinded and Hugo grabs the dagger to thunderous (artificially produced) applause.
Series: Batfink
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Notes: All 100 episodes released on one DVD in 2004.
Keywords: children’s television; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)