Here is an oddly fascinating list of the cartoony fight sound effect intertitles used in the old Batman TV show.
"Kapow" was the most popular, used in fifty different episodes (I believe that the same sound effect was never used more than once in the same episode) followed by "pow" (49 eps) "boff" (43) and "zap" (42).
Some of the lesser ones are also interesting: "awk" and "awkkkkkk" are both used four times, but "awkk," "awkkk," "awkkkk" and "awkkkkk" are never used. Likewise, "zzzzzwap" is used four times. I suspect that the images were recycled.
I also noticed that the first two episodes of the second season have a lot of pseudo old English spellings: "whack-eth," "wham-eth," "clank-est." Sure enough, it's the one where Art Carney plays a sort of Robin Hood-ish villain.
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