Batfink: This Is Your Life (1967 TV Short) User Reviews

My Wings are like a Shield of Steel

[Ian Mc-3 · 12 November 1999]

I can't believe that I'm the first Batfink fan on the site to comment on the amazing cartoon adventures of Batfink.

His exploits with karate were the stuff of legend when I was a kid. To this very day some 30 years later i still use the meorable quote:

"Your (bullets, insults, cannons etc) can't hurt me. My wings are like a shield of steel!"

If only the kids of today grew up with Batfink and Hong Kong Phooee instead of Pokemon and Transformers we would have a better less violent society...true story!

Batfink Rules!

[ian-1211 · 10/10 · 19 December 2006]

This is got to be one the greatest cartoons ever created! I am a huge Batfink fan and I am also the proud owner of the 4 Disc complete box set. The stories can be a bit repetitive but it totally funny! Batfink along with his wings of steel and his super sonic sonar radar helps to foils the plots of mad scientist Hugo A-Go-Go along with other zany villains. With the help of Karate, his strong but simple right hand man, the bumbling Chief of Police and the inquisitive hidden programme narrator, he's saves the day in the end! This cartoon was produced in the late 1960's but was so popular it continued to aired throughout the 1970's and into the 1980's until it was cancelled in around 1988! Vanished completely during the 1990's, it made an incredible T.V comeback in 2004 and again is become a huge part of a child's life in the mid to late 2000's! You should show it too your kids and they will start to introduce it to their generation because Batfink just plain rules! "Your bullets cannot harm me, my wings are like a shield of steel!" 10/10

"My supersonic sonar radar will help me!"

[Sic Coyote · 13 January 2002]

Classic TV, and I grew up watching Batfink & TRANSFORMERS. Don't dis the bots! but back to the review. I had totally forgotten the show until I found one of the old Videos released in the UK. then as the show went on I could literally say the catchphrases as they came up. CLASSIC.

When catchphrases were funny

[VLeung · 17 May 2000]

Ian, (the other reviewer) you forgot 'I'll use my supersonic sonar radar to detect him!' Batfink was deliberately cheap and tacky, and a heck of a lot cooler than the 60s cartoon shows that thought they were so hip. Like the piss-poor Jetsons. . .