00:00Hello, Commissioner. What's the trouble?
00:03I see. That sounds serious.
00:07Some sad news now. The world of popular culture has lost one of its biggest heroes.
00:11Adam West has died.
00:14With an acting career spanning over 50 years, Adam West was one of Hollywood's great survivors.
00:21Adam was a leading man in tights.
00:24He played an iconic superhero beloved by tens of millions worldwide.
00:29Adam West was the original and the best Batman.
00:32Never meet your heroes unless your hero is Adam West.
00:36Emergency. Batman speaking.
00:38Adam was absolutely a larger-than-life character who really lived up to his image off-screen.
00:45This is how we did that. That you didn't know.
00:49Also acclaimed for his starring role in the hit TV series Family Guy,
00:53he battled with alcohol and depression after the cancellation of Batman in the late 1960s.
00:59It took me probably 10 to 12 years of doing anything I could just to keep working.
01:06Do you recognize me?
01:08Yeah!
01:09Do you really?
01:10Batman was a blessing and a curse to Adam.
01:13He didn't realize that it was going to typecast him forever.
01:17Seemingly in good shape, his sudden death at the age of 88 shocked the world.
01:24Even up until the end, I was always in awe of what good shape he was and how physically fit he was.
01:32Although Adam West was in his late 80s when he died, by all accounts he was a fit and healthy man,
01:40at a good weight for his height, and was enjoying his rejuvenated career and life with a loving family.
01:47But according to reports, he was diagnosed with leukemia, which is a cancer of the blood.
01:52People with leukemia can live for five years or even more, but Adam died just days after his diagnosis.
02:00His sudden decline was as rapid as it was mysterious.
02:05So I'm hoping to unmask the truth behind Adam West's sudden death.
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