Batfink

Batfink
Batfink being chauffeured by his aide, Karate.
Created by	Hal Seeger
Written by	Dennis Marks, Heywood Kling
Starring	Frank Buxton Len Maxwell
Narrated by	Len Maxwell
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	100 (6-min. cartoons) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	26 min. (approx. 6 min. per cartoon)
Production company(s)	Hal Seeger Productions Golden West Broadcasters
Distributor	Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	KTLA & Syndication
Original release	April 21, 1966 – October 4, 1967
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Batfink is an animated television series, consisting of five-minute shorts, that first aired in April 1966. The 100-episode series was quickly created by Hal Seeger, starting in 1966, to send up the popular Batman and The Green Hornet television series which had premiered the same year.

The cartoon was produced at Hal Seeger Studios, in New York City, and at Bill Ackerman Productions in Midland Park, New Jersey. It was syndicated by Screen Gems and continued to air on local stations throughout the 1980s.Nickelodeon briefly aired episodes of Batfink on its Weinerville and Nick in the Afternoon series in the 1990s. In September 2006, it returned to the U.S. as part of "Cartoons Without a Clue," Boomerang's mystery lineup on weekends.

The Batfink series was very popular in the UK, becoming a cult series like the later DangerMouse, and from 1967 onwards was shown at least once every year on UK terrestrial television until 1983, initially on the BBC network where it was allocated an early evening slot just before the BBC News, and latterly as part of Children's ITV; it subsequently reappeared in 1986 on the ITV Saturday morning magazine show Get Fresh. In the early 1990s it was repeated again as part of TV-am's Wide Awake Club/Wacaday series; after Wacaday finished in 1992, Batfink was consigned to the vaults in the UK for the next twelve years. It was introduced to a new audience in 2004 when it was included in a number of episodes of the BBC's Saturday morning show Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, and since April of 2006 has been enjoying an extended, if somewhat irregular, repeat run on CBBC.