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, the original Robin, was a master of Savate and other forms of martial arts.

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 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

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in " Woman's Gratitude " ( 1869 ); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in " Joe Go-Lightly " ( 1867 ), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him ; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from " The Bumboat Woman's Story " ( 1870 ).

He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, Moby Dick, portraying Father Mapple ( played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version ), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.

Other spoken word albums included Lullaby of Christmas, narrated by Gregory Peck, a twenty minute version of Moby Dick, with Charles Laughton as Captain Ahab, and The Littlest Angel, narrated by Loretta Young.

That version became the longtime theme for the TV quiz Sports Challenge, hosted by Dick Enberg.

Dick Clark insisted the violent content of the song be toned down when Price appeared on American Bandstand but it was still the " violent " version that was on top of the R & B charts of 1959.

Shortly after the series ended, Loud appeared on The Dick Cavett Show, performing with a working version of what would later become the band " Mumps " ( which at that point included his siblings Delilah, Michelle and Kevin in the line-up ), under the name " Loud ".

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young, among others.

The first version of a bill to establish a commission to regulate trade was introduced on January 25, 1912, by Oklahoma congressman Dick Thompson Morgan, once known as the " father of the Federal Trade Commission.

The Monday-night version aired its last program in December 1957, but ABC gave Clark a Saturday-night time slot for The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, which originated from the Little Theatre in Manhattan, beginning on February 15, 1958.

Their next and last commercially-released single from the album was " Pump It ", which borrows much of its sound from " Misirlou ", specifically Dick Dale's version ; it peaked at number 8 in Australia but 18 in America.

An American feature film version from Columbia Pictures was released in 1988, directed by British veteran director Ken Annakin, starring Tami Erin as Pippi with Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, John Schuck and Dick Van Patten in supporting roles.

The print version won a Philip K. Dick Award .< ref name =" WWE-1998 ">

McMahon appeared in several films, including The Incident, Fun With Dick and Jane, Full Moon High, and Butterfly, as well as briefly in the film version of Bewitched.

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

Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of All the President's Men, and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film Dick.

** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ( Tri-State version ) ( 1 time ) – with Dick Murdoch

" The Flintstones " version was called the Twitch and aired in 1962, as did " The Dick Van Dyke Show "' s Twizzle.

Dick Clark is the host most commonly associated with the show, having hosted every incarnation from 1973 – 1988, save for a 1974 – 1979 syndicated version, The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, hosted by Bill Cullen.