Editing Batfink (section)

{{Short description|1966–1967 animated television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox television
| image  = Bf&karate.jpg
| caption = Batfink being chauffeured by his sidekick Karate.
| runtime = 26 min. (approx. 6 min. per short)
| creator = [[Hal Seeger]]
| starring = [[Frank Buxton]]<br />[[Len Maxwell]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=60}}</ref>
| narrated = Len Maxwell
| writer = [[Dennis Marks (screenwriter)|Dennis Marks]]<br />[[Heywood Kling]]
| company = [[Hal Seeger|Hal Seeger Productions]]<br />[[Golden West Broadcasters]]
| country = United States
| network = [[KTLA]] & [[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1966|4|21}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1967|10|4}}
| num_episodes = 100
|list_episodes = 
}}
'''''Batfink''''' is an American animated television series, consisting of five-minute shorts, that first aired in April 1966.{{efn|David Mackay published a filmography of Batfink in the Sept. 1993 issues of Frames per Second magazine,<ref>[http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/index.php Frames per Second] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623013502/http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/index.php |date=23 June 2014}}</ref> and also provided a complete listing of episodes, plot summaries and air dates on his website<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.davemackey.com/animation/seeger/batfink/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305191137/http://www.davemackey.com/animation/seeger/batfink/index.html|url-status=dead|title=website|archivedate=March 5, 2005}}</ref>}} The 100-episode series was quickly created by [[Hal Seeger]], starting in 1966, to send up the popular ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' and ''[[The Green Hornet (TV series)|Green Hornet]]'' television series, which had premiered the same year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Another Caped Crusader, Super Tongue in Cheek|work=The New York Times|date=5 August 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/arts/television/05deca.html|access-date=10 January 2011|first=Frank|last=Decaro|archive-date=July 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728140642/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/arts/television/05deca.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Ed |title=50 Saturday Morning Cartoons From The 1960s, THE FINTSTONES to SUPERHEROES and SCOOBY-DOO |url=https://toonado.com/cartoons/50-saturday-morning-cartoons-from-the-1960s-the-fintstones-to-superheroes-and-scooby-doo-a4356 |access-date=27 April 2022 |publisher=toonado.com |date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424041539/https://toonado.com/cartoons/50-saturday-morning-cartoons-from-the-1960s-the-fintstones-to-superheroes-and-scooby-doo-a4356 |url-status=live }}</ref>

It depicts an [[anthropomorphic]] bat [[cyborg]] who acts as [[superhero]] and a [[martial artist]] who is acting as his [[sidekick]]. The main villain is a [[mad scientist]] who seeks [[world domination]].