Batman franchise media Romero as the Joker, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, and Lee Meriweather as Catwoman. In 1999, Tim McCanlies wrote a pilot script and series bible for a planned series called "Bruce Wayne" to be produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions. Taking place in his teenage years, the series would cover his passage into young adulthood, training, and development into becoming Batman. Other characters would include Alfred, Sergeant Jim Gordon, law school student Harvey Dent, and a seductive young Selina Kyle. Planned to run for five to six seasons, it would show how he acquired his martial arts
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),