Batman: The Animated Series

The complete toy cameos in Yester toys: Robby the Robot (Lost in Space), Creature From The Black Lagoon, A Saucer Man (Invasion of the Saucer People), a cymbol playing monkey.



Awesome stuff to see Adam West cameo in a later incarnation of Batman. I had wondered if this episode was written for Adam West or if it was just a fortunate coincidence.

This episode was special and full of in gags in that not only do they have Adam West to voice the Gray Ghost but they have Bruce Timm's voice and his look to use on the Mad Bomber. It was a great idea to have Adam West voice Simon Trent, because the both once acted out superheroes on TV. Another interesting note is that the stuidio that apparently made the Grey Ghost show "Spectrum" is the same animation studio that animated a number of episodes on this show (including this one). Suprisingly for Spectrum , the characters weren't exactly on model in this episode. But that's a minor gripe other things in this episode, such as the exploding were absoluteley cinematic. Definitley reccomended.

I was so glade when I finally had enough money to buy the first three volumes of Batman: The Animated Series on DVD and I remember that the first episodes I choice to watch was "Beware The Gray Ghost."



The story is interesting and it's nice that you don't really know the villain until almost the end. I also liked that Adam West (Batman from the 60's) was able to be apart of it this episode.



I also found it quite nice that Batman brought the Gray Ghost (Simon Trent) back to the Batcave and let him be apart of the adventure.



Over all a great episode and still one, if not thee, best episode of batman; at least for me.

Buildings in Gotham City are being blown up. Batman cannot figure out how the bad guy is doing it. He finds a note from "The Mad Bomber" and he realizes that what is happening is very similar to what happened in an old series he watched as a kid called "The Gray Ghost". He goes in search of the films from that series because the episode he needs, he never finished as a kid. The local film bank does not have any copies and the originals were destroyed in a fire at the studio. Batman now must seek out the help of the man that played "The Gray Ghost"......

This episode is another one of my all time favorates, I thought it was a dream come true when Adam West came in to guest voice since he was Batman in the 60's which of course was the show I saw when I was at least 7 years old which introduced me and got me into the Caped Crusader.



Other than that bomber plot which was really just the maguffin of the episode what was really important was on interaction between Bruce/Batman and Simon Trent/Gray Ghost. You can't help but feel a deep sense of pathos for the character Simon Trent he's down on his luck and aging, the guy deserves better; I sometimes wonder if part of this could of been slightly based on Adam West's life whether it is or not the emotion hits hard. What I thought was really sad was seeing this guy was begining to stop believing in himself, he feels that playing that once famous fictional hero The Gray Ghost has ruined his life and he as a person hasn't amounted to anything. A really heartbreaking scene for me would be seeing him trash some of the Grey Ghost memorabily in anger and then cry at his misery. But of course there is only one person that can save him and help him believe once more and that is Batman.



I really loved seeing how far Bruce's admiration for the old pulp hero goes. The fact that we see Bruce as a child really love this character and he use to watch it with his parients, which added a little emotional weight. Seeing that Bruce bought back all of the memorbily Simon sold and of course as his Batman alter ego put it all back in the nice condition it was in as if he didn't want to see both the man and his hero die.



But of course we see the most memorable moment was when we saw Simon in the Batcave and see how the hero he portrays has influnced and inspired Batman since the Bat Cave seems similarly designed like the home base The Gray Ghost had; then of course Batman shows him the memorbily he has collected and tells him everything he felt when watching his show, what it taught him and how it has inspired him to be the person he is now.



I could easily emphasize with Batman's admiration and belief for The Gray Ghost because it's ironically similar to my own for Batman as a kid I loved Batman and I still do today. This episode is a lot of things, it's a tribute to the Batman legend in general showing how far it has truely stretch from then and now, to us the fans of not just Batman but could be any other superhero or series of some kind Sailor Moon, Superman, The Incredable Hulk, X-Men you name it. But most importantly it's all about the importance of belief not just heroism in general but in one's self and the hero inside you.



Babe Ruth once said, "Heroes are remembered, but legends never die." That's true with The Gray Ghost but most importantly with us that's true with Batman.

As a child, Bruce Wayne used to watch a TV show about a hero called the Gray Ghost. In the present day, he finds out that a series of crimes are being committed that call to mind an episode of the Gray Ghost TV series. When Batman is unable to find any tapes of the show, he has to call Simon Trent, an aging actor who played the Gray Ghost, to help him find out who is behind all the bombings.



What was interesting about this episode was how uch Bruce admired the Gray Ghost, and even found inspiration for the Batcave's design in the show. It was quite enjoyable to see how similar the Gray Ghost and Batman were similar mand this is why I liked the confrontations between Simon and Batman: Batman wants to remind Simon of everything the Gray Ghost stood for, for it is what Batman now stands for. Adam West did an exceptional job as the title character, and his voice fitted the character perfectly. Another great scene is the flashback with Bruce and his father; it actually reminded me why the death of Batman's parents were so tragic.



A fun, enjoyable episode with a great title character and some good development for Batman.

This is really one of the great episode of Batman. Simon Trent is a type cast actor who play the Gray Ghost, and he helped Batman with the case. Casting Adam West was perfect! Having an old Batman play with [At that time]the new Batman. I thought Simon Trent is based on Adam West's life who is [intresting enough] also is a type cast actor who played Batman back in the 60s. And the Mad Bomber is play by Bruce Timm, Who created this show, That made the episode more fun to watch. So it's worth watching.