Yeah, Tailspin IS on DVD.

Actually, somewhere in between. He's smug and snarky when he thinks he's running the show… but whenever Bats punctures his balloon, he starts to lose it. It's an evolution, really…starts out cool, but is a raving mess by the climax.

In the original comic, Connelly's character was actually Betty Page, and artist Dave Steven's lovingly drawn rendition of her pretty much single-handedly revived interest in her. (Actually, MOST of the characters in the strip were based on either celebrities, famous fictional characters, or just people Stevens knew,…

There were at least two shows from the period (GET SMART and HOGAN'S HEROES) that, although officially parodies of the action/adventure genre, actually used more-or-less straight genre plots and storylines… meaning that they frequently wrapped up episodes by killing off this week's villian.
In a weird way, they were…