Monday PSA: Television PSA – Batgirl in “Equal Pay for Women”
Filed under: Comics
If the embedded video doesn’t appear, check it out here.
A change of pace today: a super-hero video PSA. From 1972, here is Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in a public service announcement for equal pay for women. It should come as no surprise that the U.S. Department of Labor (Wage & Hour Division) sponsored this ad. What may come as a surprise is that this PSA was produced 4 years after the Batman television show ended.
There is a slightly different, shorter version of the PSA also available on YouTube (thankfully, the picture quality is much better in this one).
In addition to Yvonne Craig as Batgirl, Burt Ward reprises his role as Robin and William Dozier narrates. Batman is played not by Adam West but by Dick Gautier (probably best known for playing Hymie the Robot on Get Smart, and — for all my Transformers loving readers — the voice of Rodimus Prime from the third season of Transformers).
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Tags: comics psa batgirl batman robin yvonne craig burt ward dick gautier adam west
January 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hasn’t Robin been working for Batman longer than Batgirl has? Giving her equal pay would be distinctly unfair.
January 8th, 2008 at 7:02 am
If I remember correctly there was also a version en espanol.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Woo Hoo! Transformers for the win!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Wow, I never knew that Hymie was Rodimus!!! (Get Smart and Tranformers, two of my favorite shows as a kid!)
Fairness has nothing to do with it. Have you SEEN Batgirl (as played by Yvonne Craig)?
I think she deserves for greater compensation than Robin.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I liked his voice as Rodimus. really suited the young unsure of himself leader role well.
Matt: Good point. Unless Robin hasn’t gotten a raise.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Is Batgirl threatening to kill them unless they pay her?
January 8th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Excellent! Holy Act of Congress, Batman!!
January 9th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Is she planning to tell the IRS her secret identity, then? Unless Batman’s paying her under the table. Hm…I can’t decide if Bruce Wayne has so much money because he knows how to fiddle the books, or if he has so much money he doesn’t need to.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Go Batgirl!
That was wonderful.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Batman will just fire her and hire her nonunion Mexican equivalent; la Cucaracha or Guano-girl.
Or better yet; CHARO.
haha
~P~
P-TOR
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