Holy Pay Gap, Batman! Robin Was Paid a Lot Less Than Batman
TV’s Batman could have been very different if the showrunners had gone with another superhero duo. When casting Batman and Robin, the show’s producers conducted two separate screen tests for their actors to perform a given scene. The two pairs in the running were Adam West and Burt Ward, as well as Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell.
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Obviously, West and Ward were chosen, and for 120 episodes the pair sure had their work cut out for them. Considering they had mostly equal screen time, it wasn’t very fair that Ward wasn’t compensated as much as West was. The actor reportedly earned $350 per week, which was negligible compared to his co-star’s $2,000 paycheck per episode.