Birds of Prey

[Mr. Socko]

What exactly was this? I hear it was an old tv show that was a spin off of the Anthology films?

 

[Dvhyzs]

aired 2002, from IMDB:
"New Gotham's Undercover Superhero Batman has disappeared leaving behind a daughter from his long-time love Catwoman. Her name is Helena the mysterious superhero known as "The Huntress". She has teamed up with the paralyzed hero "Batgirl" together they meet up with their next teammate Dinah Lance. Dinah is a telepath and psychic who had terrifying dreams about Batgirl's brutal accident. They must learn how to work together and become not only a team of superheroes but also a family"

Sounds meh.

 

[El Payaso]

It was a bad Tv show.

 

[TwilightPro101]

A few sites on it for you:

http://www.gothamclocktower.com/

http://www.birdsofpreyonline.com/


Honestly I liked this show on some level, but it ruined the whole concept of what BIRDS OF PREY was. It basically became Meteor Freaks from SMALLVILLE as Metas.

Huntress would basically fight a new meta every week and in the final episode face an aged Harley Quinn, who was her doctor. Yeah...

 

[BubbaGump]

Saw some episodes on youtube...It was just--bad.

Mark Hamill voiced the Joker (even though he was played by a different actor). It was the only part I liked. Costumed stayed pretty accurate, but the face was blurred!

Now that I've had my say, you can close this thread. Birds of Prey--no.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Bubba sums up pretty much about the only thing that stayed true to form.

The show has never been released on DVD, but it does have a cult audience built in surprisingly.

I prefer the comics and Ashley Scott and Dinah Myer myself.

 

[Catman]

The show had potential but they screwed it up.

 

[TwilightPro101]

The last episode ironically turned out to be the best episode.

 

[union_jak]

It had live action versions of Clayface and Lady Shiva.

You could say it's a spin off from the Burton films, Batgirl was Alfreds niece so it ignores B&R, but it also ignores the fact that the Joker is dead.

If it was a little more like the BoP comic and Dinah was like the proper Black Canary it could have been a good series.

 

[Catman]

The problem of this show was that they didn't have their hearts into it. It was a show cashing in on the success of Smallville's first season.

 

[Mr. Socko]

It had Clayface, Harley, and Joker... Time to head to youtube!

Was Batman ever in it?

 

[union_jak]

Batman cameoed at the start, fighting with a Michelle Pfeiffer-based Catwoman I think. The voice over said they had a child and after No Mans Land and Barbara was shot, Batman took off.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Not bad!

But in all honesty, I usually hate Spin-off shows. I could see why this failed, people want Batman not Huntress. I remember way back when, they were planning a Bruce Wayne television show where he as a young man traveled the world. Glad that never got picked up, come on people, we want to see Batman not a teenage Bruce Wayne walking through mountains for 7 seasons. We want the goddamn Batman. I don't watch Smallville either, and I won't until he wears that red cape. Studios think they're so smart, they'll give us the crummy stuff for tv and give us the real superheroes for movies.

 

[CFE]

The one good touch was Dr. Harleen Quinzel as Helena's psychiatrist. Had the show continued I think they planned to have Harley think up a plan for revenge on Helena.

CFE

 

[union_jak]

They used the same B&R Batgirl costume, just changed the colours to the traditional ones.

 

[CFE]

They used the same B&R Batgirl costume, just changed the colours to the traditional ones.

I did like that...

And Ian Abercrombie did well trying to portray a Michael Gough based Alfred.

CFE

 

[kooguy911]

as for what i think it was a horrible show and thats why it's ignored by alot of people.

 

[Mister J]

It had potential, but turned out to be a cluster****. It tried to tie into Batman too much, knowing that he wasn't going to be a part of it. Going with the an actual Black Canary (like Lori Laughin's role) would have been much better. Huntress needed to be revamped, but I thought Dina Meyer was pretty strong as Oracle.

 

[Punisher RULES]

The show aired on WB and sort of went unnoticed, I thought it was pretty cool. If it wasn't a Batman related show I'd have never watched it. They teased episode after episode as if Bats was gonna show up and he never did. The first episode has Barbara in full Batgirl costume in the final third act.

 

[TwilightPro101]

13 episodes all total. The last three aired back-to-back one night during the Fall.

As for the Bruce Wayne spin-off, that wasn't made due to the studio wanting to hold the rights for the movie and SMALLVILLE developed out of that.

 

[Abaddon]

It was pure crap. Dinah Meyer was great though.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Blame it on the producers of SMALLVILLE not really giving a damn about us Bat fans.

I hated the first metahuman, that may as well have been a rip-off of Scarecrow and their Clayface...blah.

 

[BurtonBegan]

huh, has this even been out in england? never heard of it. The actress looks pretty hot, might check it out on you tube. I think for this to be a success, it would have to come from a successful batfilm where batsy and catwoman got together.

 

[TwilightPro101]

I don't honestly know if it was released in England.

All I know is it ran for 13 episodes state-side and merged a lot of Bat elements.

Batman and the Joker fight. Batman and Catwoman fall in love and seperate. Have Helena. The Joker supposedly dies but comes back in shoots Barbara ala the Killing Joke. Barbara becomes Oracle. Helena comes into Barbara's care and they form Birds of Prey.

 

[Abaddon]

Joker also has Catwoman killed(by Clayface it's revelead later) and Batman skidaddles.