Upon later cult success, the pilot was, as co-creator and co-writer Robert Smigel later stated in a retrospective interview concerning the series, the subject of a film offer from an unnamed studio. The offer was of no interest to Smigel, however, as the studio wished to recast the lead character of Lookwell with that of a bigger star, namely Nicolas Cage. The offer in the end, of course, fell through, because, according to the writer, without Adam West it simply 'wouldn't work'.
The set for Ty Lookwell's home has a bust of William Shakespeare that's a duplicate of the one in Wayne Manor, concealing the "Access to Bat-Cave via Bat-Poles" controls, in Batman (1966).
A part was written for Donna Rice as herself. But she turned it down. Her character was replaced with Deborah Richter as Miss Royster.