Original Robin actor Burt Ward was told his penis was too big for TV show

The actor who originally played Robin in the Batman TV series was once told his penis was too big – yes, too big – for the show... Having been encouraged to try and shrink things down.

This, of course, didn’t leave much to the imagination, which turned out to be an issue when people saw what Ward was packing.

Speaking to Page Six back in 2020, the 77-year-old revealed that the size of his genitals turned out to be an unexpected area of concern for the Catholic League of Decency, who felt Robin’s bulge was too large.

“With Adam they put Turkish towels in his undershorts,” he explained. Savage.

Eventually, it got to the stage where the studio was unable to ignore the complaints, and had to do something about it.

The star recalled how the doctor prescribed medication to ‘shrink me up’, but he stopped taking the pills just days later.

“I took them for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children,” he said.

“I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.”

Despite being a huge celebrity by the time he was 20 – and one packing particularly impressive heat, at that – Ward said he didn’t spend evenings as a young adult out on the town picking up women.

“You must understand I never smoked, drank or did drugs so I never went to a bar in my entire life,” he continued.

“It’s not to say I didn’t go out and have a good time but I never went out and did what you think Hollywood [celebrities] do.

“I was a straight-A student at UCLA. In fact, the Dean at UCLA was upset with me when I left in my third year to do Robin because she said I should have been a nuclear physicist.

“I was in the top 3% in the United States in science and math.”