I had the privilege to meet Adam West at a few Sci FI/Comic conventions ,he was never less then gracious to the fans and was great at telling stories about filming the 1966 series.
Like quite a few people, I ,back in the 80's and early 90's, hated the TV show because the silly,camp Batman it presented was the popular image of the character at a time when the much darker,serious Dark Knight intepertation domnated the comic books. But after the Dark Knight version became populaVVr with the Movies and the "Batman:TAS" TV show became popular, I gave the show..on TV reruns , another chance and came to a discovery:Goddamn, that show was drop dead funny (for at least the first two seasons,the third season pretty much sucked because Lorenzo Semple, the show's creator and head writer, left in a dispute after the Second Season, and the quality went off the cliff). The kind of campy.over the top humor the show did looks easy to do, but is actually pretty hard to do well. The same goes for West's performance:The kind of deadpan humor...to be deadly serious and keep a straight face no matter how absurb the dialogue and situations got.....looks easy but but actually requires comic skills of a high order. West had them.
RIP, Adam. Have fun in the great Batcave in the sky.