Yale Udoff

Udoff began his career at ABC in New York working with producers-executives Douglas Cramer, Edgar Scherick and Roone Arledge, and he is credited by some for coming up with the idea to transform the Batman comic books into a TV series in the 1960s. Udoff walked in and said we ought to do Batman. They threw him out of the office, but he persisted and we decided to look into it. Udoff wrote up a formal proposal for Scherick, who then took it to higher-ups at the network. Suddenly, all these executives were flying back to New York from L.A. reading Batman comic books hidden in their Fortune magazines.