Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl, Dead at 78
Source: People
Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl on the Batman series in the sixties, has died at the age of 78, CNN reports.
After a two-year long battle with breast cancer during which the cancer metastasized to her liver, the actress died on Monday in her home in Pacific Palisades, California her family announced in a statement on her website.
"She had been in chemo almost continuously for the past two plus years since being diagnosed and that had weakened her immune system," the statement read. "This didn't dampen her sense of humor or her spirit, she intended to fight and win this battle."
"In the end, her min still wanted to fight but her body had given up."
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Met her at a con once, and chatted a bit. She was an absolute sweetheart
Our big Saturday night excitement now is to grab a bite out and then high-tail it home to watch Batman on MeTV!
She was a dancer wasn't she? And that had a lot to do with her getting the role...the way she could move and of course, that body.
Yvonne, RIP...you will live on forever in our dreams.
and if they did do a repeat like over the summer, they would do the "cliff hanger" part 2 right after part 1. Otherwise - "Same Bat time, Same Bat channel". 
When my niece was a little younger, I did get her hooked on them (I think TV Land had been airing some episodes). And to think that Adam West and Burt Ward are still around whereas a number of supporting characters and villains (outside of a handful like Julie Newmar & Frank Gorshin) are pretty much gone.
about how they had the "In Color" at the bottom screen during the opening credits (like they have the "In High Definition" now... although I think they pretty much dropped that too). She has seen the B&W ones and was confused by them but having a Justice League-loving near-60 year old daddy, she has seen the "oldies" of all sorts of stuff in B&W. Back in the '60s, we had a RCA 20" color console on legs so did get to see that NBC peacock with its rainbow feathers. 
But we did have a 19" GE B&W "portable" (it had a handle on it...lol).
My mother would have been 85 this year and she used to talk about how her and her friends had gone to see "The Wizard of Oz" back in 1939 ("when movies were 10 cents for a matinee" as she would add), and the shock of them seeing the movie shift to color partway through.
