I like how both the Penguin and his masked henchman were allowed to keep their entire outfits in jail

They couldn't have found a better actor to play someone so birdlike in look, voice and manner.

I love how, as early as his first episode, Penguin was able to turn Batman's detective mind against him, and get him to plot a whole bird-themed crime from a totally senseless clue! He was always one of my favourite Bat-villains!

Rest in peace to Adam West & Burgess Meredith. They both lived very long successful lives.

Love how Penguin’s cell mate just throws his mother in law under the bus like that.

"How dare you mock me on the eve of my greatest triumph!"

I really wish they'd bring back this style of Penguin for the Batman movies. It really, really wouldn't kill the Batman films to lighten up and have a little more fun.

INDb states 'Burgess Meredith had given up smoking some twenty-odd years earlier, but his character was required to smoke with a cigarette holder. The smoke would get caught in his throat and he would start coughing. Rather than constantly ruin takes in this matter, he developed the laugh to cover it up'. What a great character Penguin was, all down to Mr Meredith's (RIP) fine acting skills.

Burgess Meredith a man who can play a penguin like villain, a worker finding a job in the great depression with a man who's slow and a Philadelphia boxing trainer well

1:37 never fails to make me smile lol. Burgess Meredith was the best as the Penguin.

I liked how he was a penguin that quacked like a duck.

RIP Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 - September 9, 1997), aged 89 You will be remembered as a legend.

The Penguin and the Mad Hatter were the 2 best dressed villains, both in tuxedos & top hats!

The more I watch these old episodes, the more I like the Penguin. Burgess Meredith was well liked by the crew too. They always had a script ready for whenever he was available.

He showed him as a little intelligent criminal, and he acted as a confident master criminal, and the way he smoked and all his expression hand eye, body coordination was amazing depending on the situation of his roll , one never tired of watching him every time, even all the group, frank, LM whether, joker are class act, whereas ridler was also superb.

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is definitely the best dressed villian in Gotham City.

8:20 Penguin managed to out fence (umbrella) Batman and Robin. Unlike Joker he is NOT a terribly poor fencer

Rip Burgess Meredith also best known for playing Mickey Goldmill in the classic Rocky in 1976 along with sequels Rocky 2 and 3 and back in Rocky 5 in 1990 and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men films.

"Pompous waddling master of foul (fowl) play." - commissioner Gordon 1966 batman movie.

Penguin is so fun to watch.

I love how no matter how many times penguin gets hit, he never loses his hat or cigarette

My favourite childhood tv show. Needs to be repeated for today’s youngsters

The best part of this is Penguin making an Orwell reference decades before the internet popularized it.

At 6:18 you can briefly see someone off stage catch the penguin as he comes to the end of the zipline.

I am thankful that I remember Burgess Meredith during my childhood in the 80s. Rocky III, and the BatMan in syndication. He was TRULY an actor’s actor indeed. Carl Weathers spoke very kindly of him in a SAG interview in the recent years.

I just realized it Mickey from rocky. How did I not know this for years. Lol

My favourite character of Batman is the Penguin man!!!🎩🐧☂️

Gotta Love Pengy! He is my fav Bat Baddie! Burgess take on him was AWESOME! Would have loved to see him get to do the Penguin Serious!

Burgess Meredith did great penguin

2:23 The actor playing Penguin's henchman "Sparrow" is Walter Burke. He also played "Alfred Swanson" in the Munster's episode, "Movie Star Munster." That distinctive voice tipped me off! 😀

Burgess Meredith. One of the greatest actors without question.

Burgess Meredith was great as the Penguin! I guess after he quit being a criminal in Gotham he became a boxing trainer, lol!

Burgess Meredith plays the role with PZZAZ. ...fantastic fun a and tongue in cheek script ......60s classic that doesn't date...

Penguin 🐧 is a crafty clever villain bird Burgess will always be my favorite Penguin on Batman

Best penguin ever.

Hes my favorite villian in the show

Burgess Meredith is the best Penguin

I was expecting: "get up you sob ... cause penguin loves you"

The first bit makes me feel like villains used to do these kinds of things just for the attention. Crook: I dunno, Penguin. Couldn't we just knock over a candy store and call it a day? Penguin: We could. We could. Wouldn't be really unique though. Anyone can do that. I want to do something really dazzling!

Burgess Meredith was a top drawer actor.

Burgess sir was the best ever Hollywood actor, he was s true professional...what an actor he was.

“I am an aristocrat of crookery, my dear man!” Nice.

Watching this show on TV in Black and wHITE ON A B/W TV SCREEN as a child in the 1970's AND BEYOND WAS AWESOME...however nothing beats the dynamic colorization of it All!

My favorite Penguin episode was when he was running for mayor of Gotham City. He had just embarrassed Batman when Batman wouldn't kiss a voter's baby. Then he said to Batman: "Politics is wonderful!!! I can use all my dirtiest, slurpiest tricks but now they're all legal!!LOL

Salute to William Dozier, power to get these legendary actors to appear on this show.

Illegal umbrellas. Talk about a serious crime.

Later in the series in the episode "Dizzoner the Penguin" he gives my favorite line. A pollster tells him he is losing the mayoral race to Batman. Penguin says, "You better pray my lead holds or you'll be taking random samples of river water... from the bottom."

Love it! Flashbacks ❤😂

Rest In Peace Adam West and Burgess Meredith

This show is different from modern comics, but the villains are definitely enjoyable.

You can see in these early episodes, they hadn’t nailed down some of the more iconic aspects of Penguin’s character, such as the quacking laugh, which Meredith said he used to cover when the cigarette would make him cough.

Rest in peace Burgess Meredith 🕊️❤️

I heard after an almost life threatening accident his nose broke to the point of being much shorter and turned into a boxing trainer in Philadelphia.

What can I say about the Penguin?. "Magnificent".

A classic and good show!

I miss watching this show

Security camera in 1966: 1080p Security cameras 2021: 24i

I loved Burgess Meredith's Penguin :)

Burgess = Genius... Great stuff

Can’t believe there aren’t more comments here.

Meredith is just so perfect as Penguin, he’s genuinely hilarious but also manages to be a credible threat in the context of the show.

"The baleful bird is about to chirp". Sounds like something an actor would do as a speech exercise.

Was anyone concerned that the Penguin and his henchman in the jail cell were wearing their criminal clothing instead of prison uniforms or similar....

The worlds of 8 year old kids watching this everyday at 3 o'clock, rushing home from school, for the totally real. Go figure. The unreal. In 1975 re-runs.

The original Oswald Cobblepot.

The 4 original Criminals of the Adam West BatMan series were my favorites: Burgess Meredith Cesar Romero Lee Meriwether Frank Gorshin Danny Devito and Jack Nicholson were a good Penguin and Joker but no one can beat the originals.

1 thing's for sure. you can NEVER compare Danny Devito to Burgess Meredeth.

This was an Incredible Video for My Second Favorite Villain In The Batman 1966 Series and My Second Favorite Version of Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin. The Late Burgess Meredith (1907-1977) did a Phenomenal Performance Being The First Actor to bring Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin to Life.

Wow, those security guards that work the prison’s CCTV cams like true-blue cameramen! Holy unlikely camera angles, Batman!

A tricky little creature, aha so funny the old Batman

I did not know the penguin .was rocky coach in the rocky films

You don’t really think you’ll win, do you?

All that time fighting Batman and Robin gave him the skills to train Rocky.

I just realized this is mr Bemis from the twilight zone

Bergess Merideth was THE best villain, what an amazing actor on EVERTHING he was ever in.

I would rather work for the penguin.

wow I (not running 4 anything) just love the EARLy content of this Video

İ realy like this show

I like this video. I'm not sure why.

Burgess was a lead actor before the 60’s. Like in the comic books he called him “The Batman."

Penguin 1966 : young Rocky's coach

Rest in peace Mickey Goldmill

What a incredible iconic actor Burgess Meredith was, and still remains to this day!!! A Magical Healing Shaman he was!!! When your re-watch these old scenes, and these giants of actors come on the set and do a over the top performance, plus adding in how the "set" is "Masterfully Dressed", for that total dramatic effect for the scene, and the star performance of these iconic actors this is not likely to be captured like say Mr. Burgess Meredith ever again, and you are just thankful to be in the now moment, and yes in that now moment that you are tangibly in you experience dramatic healing, your star becomes your healer, no joking here folks, their great, and natural, and innate abilities as a actor directly transcend time, and space to dissolves tumor's diseases within our own bodies. You send, We send, we all send to Mr. Burgess Meredith our Magical Healing Shaman, 1,000,000 Thank You (s) and Salutations!!! Re-watch your Healer video throughout your life, not every day, only when you truly need major, and total intervention with a disease,, and if need be, turn off the tv, radio, don't read the paper, and watch your Shaman for the most powerful results imaginable!!! okay? Good!!! Kelly

Hey Super Sam Seven, are you going to do other Batvillains....False Face? Zelda the Great? Egghead? Please do.

I just learned that Penguin is Mickey from The Rocky movies🤯👏🏽

Love that episode where Penguin and the Joker teamed up together.

Well the Penguin was pretty ROCKY

The guy named Hawkeye also appeared on another episode of Batman playing the henchman of the Penguin once again! I guess he stayed in touch with the Penguin while they were both in prison!

Didn’t have to look at a TV screen….once I hear that gravelly voice of his, I would say to myself, “That’s Burgess Meredith “.

If there's a camera in their cell wouldn't they notice it panning and tracking them earlier on? In addition to that, the damn cameras were freaking huge!!!!!.

"HEY VENGANCE" *Shoots to kill*

The actor who played Penguin in the show was smoking a lot meaning it’s a sign of lung cancer.

“An Aristocrat of Crookery” Godspeed Burgess Meredith

🐧my favorite tv penquin in the 90s was pingu,noot noot😁

Assistia todos os dias. Saudades.

Aristocrat of crookery😂

This is where Tim Burton got his ideas for Batman Returns.

Yo Mick, you used to like penguins?---Rocky

I cant believe the penguin trained Rocky. Wow

the penguin was one aspect of the tv show that they got 100 percent correct. BM's performance should be the template for all other mediated Batman presentations. (Get rid of that doofus Gotham variation and switch to the great version).