Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson – panel from Batman # 84 ( June 1954 ), page 24

* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.

Dick Grayson is one such example, having outgrown the mantle of Robin when he was under Batman and taken up the new identity of Nightwing.

The first incarnation of the character, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics # 38 ( April 1940 ).

As Robin, Dick Grayson made regular appearances in Batman related comic books and other DC Comics publications from 1940 through the early 1980s until the character set aside the Robin identity and became the independent superhero Nightwing.

Following the retirement of Dick Grayson as Robin, a new version of the character, Jason Todd, debuted in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ).

In the wake of The New 52, Tim Drake later takes on the identity of Red Robin while Jason Todd still operates as the Red Hood, and Dick Grayson reclaims his role as Nightwing.

) Although Robin is best known as Batman's sidekick, the Robins have also been members of the superhero group the Teen Titans-with the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as a founding member and the group's leader and with Tim Drake as the team leader.

Dick Grayson was an 8-year-old acrobat, the youngest of a family act called the " Flying Graysons ".

Like Dick Grayson, Jason Todd was the son of circus acrobats murdered by a criminal ( this time the Batman adversary Killer Croc ), and then adopted by Bruce Wayne.

In this incarnation, he was red-haired and unfailingly cheerful, and wore his circus costume to fight crime until Dick Grayson presented him with a Robin suit of his own.

Weeks later, after Dick Grayson became Nightwing and Todd proved his crime-fighting worth by helping Batman catch a gang of robbers, Batman offered Todd the position as Robin.

Some outside the comic book community mistakenly thought that DC was considering killing Dick Grayson, not realizing he had been replaced.

After Bruce Wayne's apparent death during Final Crisis, Todd attempted to usurp the Mantle of the Bat by battling Tim Drake and Dick Grayson during Battle for the Cowl as a brutal and murderous version of Batman.

Tim was introduced as a happy medium between the first two Robins in that, from the readers ' point of view, he is neither overly well behaved like Dick Grayson nor overly impudent like Jason Todd.

After Batman's apparent death during Final Crisis, Talia leaves her son under Dick Grayson and Alfred Pennyworth's care and Damian is deeply affected by his father's absence.

On Earth-Two, home of the Golden Age version of DC's superheroes, Dick Grayson continued to be Robin even as an adult, having no successors, and even after Batman's death.

Robin ( Dick Grayson ) was portrayed by Douglas Croft and Johnny Duncan, respectively, in the 1943 and 1949 fifteen chapter Batman serials.

The Dick Grayson version of Robin also appears in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Loren Lester.

The animated series Teen Titans features Robin ( voiced by Scott Menville ) as the leader of a team of young heroes ; it is hinted that it is Dick Grayson.

When the Teen Titans animated season two, episode eleven, " Fractured ", introduced their version of Bat-Mite he stated that he was Robin's DNA buddy ( genetic twin ) and was given the more pronounceable nickname " Larry " by Beast Boy, after Larry had given the team his real name, Nosyarg Kcid or Dick Grayson spelled backwards.

This idea, that Robin is in fact Dick Grayson, is further supported in Teen Titans in an episode in which Starfire travels to the future, and Robin has taken the identity of Nightwing.

His portrayal is based mainly on Burt Ward's Dick Grayson.

* Extensive biography on Dick Grayson

An early treatment was the short story Autofac by Philip K. Dick, published in 1955, which precedes von Neumann's original paper about self-reproducing machines.

They then published an edition under the current title ( the original was too close to VALIS ), prepared from the corrected typescript given by Dick to his friend Tim Powers.

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads ?, a sequel to the earlier show, surpassed the original, while the same writers ( Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ) provided Ronnie Barker with his most successful sitcom vehicle, Porridge ( 1974 – 77 ).

The original scriptwriters were Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason, who were also working on the series Dick Barton whose popularity partly inspired The Archers and whose slot in the schedules it eventually took.

Writer Dick DeBartolo, a veteran of the original show, created funnier and often risqué questions (" After being hit by a steamroller, Norman had to slide his ____________ under the door.

Among the signatories to Project for the New American Century's original statement of Principals is George H. W. Bush ’ s Vice President Dan Quayle, George W. Bush's defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, his Vice President Dick Cheney, and his brother Jeb Bush.

The Smothers Brothers had further television shows: a 1968 CBS summer replacement series, The Summer Brothers Smothers Show ; The Smothers Brothers Show ( 1975 ), initially produced by Joe Hamilton ( who concurrently produced The Carol Burnett Show, starring his wife ), which was an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the look and feel of the original comedy-variety series without the controversy ; and The Tom and Dick Smothers Brothers Specials I and II in 1980.

Most of the current members of the Justice Society Infinity are either original members of Earth-Two's Justice Society, such as the Atom ( Al Pratt ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ), but it also included characters that are normally associated with Infinity, Inc., such as Jade and Nuklon ( Albert Rothstein ).

Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz and Bobby Colomby formed the original band.

In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

As a result, original members Verdine White, Ralph Johnson and Andrew Woofolk returned to the band with new members guitarist / vocalist Sheldon Reynolds, lead guitarist Dick Smith, and drummer Sonny Emory.

Dick Clark talks to Myrna Horowitz, one of the original dancers when the program began in 1952, on the show's 17th anniversary in 1970.

Writing as C. L. Anderson, her novel Bitter Angels won the 2010 Philip K. Dick award for best paperback original novel.

The coalition had four original directors, including Robertson himself, Robertson's son, Gordon Robertson, Dick Weinhold, head of the Texas organization, and Billy McCormack, pastor of the University Worship Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.

However, most of the station's content remains archive material — some of it newly discovered, such as the original Dick Barton Special Agent and early episodes of The Goon Show.

Their original writers Dick Hills and Sid Green took a relatively straightforward approach, depicting " Eric " as an aggressive, knockabout comedian and " Ernie " as an essentially conventional and somewhat disapproving straight man.

It can also be noted that Kalambya Boys original members were Onesmus Musyoki ( vocals ), Joseph Mutaiti ( vocals ), Dick Mutuku Mulwa ( rhythm guitar ), James Maisha Muli ( Drums ) and Peter Kisaa ( solo guitar ).

* Dick Grayson, the civilian identity of the original Robin in comics, the current Batman

On-air hosts on the channel include original Rolling Stones manager / producer Andrew Loog Oldham, singer / guitarist Joan Jett, former record executive Kid Leo, punk rock singer Handsome Dick Manitoba, and rock entrepreneur Kim Fowley.

at Mermaid Theatre ( 1986 ); Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense at Fortune Theatre ( 1987 ; and singing on the original London cast album ); Fanny Brice and other comediennes in Ziegfeld ( 1988 ) at the London Palladium ( which held the record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for " Greatest Theatrical Losses "); and Dick Whittington in Poppy at Half Moon Theatre ( 1988 – 89 ).

McMahon had a supporting role in the original 1970's version of the movie " Fun With Dick & Jane ".

Later stage work included the original productions of Kafka's Dick ( 1986 ) and Our Country's Good ( 1988 ) at the Royal Court Theatre and work for the Royal National Theatre including " The Government Inspector ".