Batman franchise media the television show singing in-character were released in 1966: Burgess Meredith as the Penguin in "The Capture" and "The Escape", Frank Gorshin as the Riddler in "The Riddler", and Adam West as Batman in "Miranda". In 1976 West performed a pair of novelty songs, "The Story of Batman" and "Batman and Robin", for Target Records. All six of these recordings (sans the b-sides to Gorshin and West's singles) were later included on the 1997 compilation, "Batmania: Songs Inspired by Batman TV Series". In 1966, Burt Ward also recorded a limited "disc jokey only" release with Frank Zappa called "Boy Wonder,
Burgess Meredith He would later play two more roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, "Night Gallery". Meredith was the narrator for "" in 1983. The actor appeared in various other television programs, including the role of Christopher Norbert III, in the 1962 episode "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town" of the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, "The Eleventh Hour" starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He also guest starred in the ABC drama about psychiatry, "Breaking Point" in the 1963 episode titled "Heart of Marble, Body of Stone". Meredith appeared in various western series, such as "Rawhide" (four times),