12. Hugh Hefner May Be Responsible For The 1960s TV Series
Believe it or not, as well as spending his days in the company of beautiful women, Hugh Hefner is also a big comic book fan. He would often throw parties with a superhero theme, and one such event at the Chicago Playboy Club in 1965 saw him and his guests dress up as the campy characters from the Batman comics of the time. However, an ABC executive (Yale Udoff) was also at this party, and seeing just how much the crowd seemed to love this version of the Caped Crusader, he apparently went straight to the nearest pay phone and immediately pitched the idea of a similarly camp television series to his superiors.
