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The cartoon was produced at Hal Seeger Studios, in New York City, and at Bill Ackerman Productions in Midland Park, New Jersey. It was syndicated by [[Screen Gems]] and continued to air on local stations throughout the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|title= Batfink |publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|url= http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/29088/batfink-the-complete-series/|access-date=10 January 2011}}</ref> [[Nickelodeon]] briefly aired episodes of ''Batfink'' on ''[[Weinerville]]'' as well as its ''[[Nick in the Afternoon]]'' block in 1995 and 1997. In September 2006, it returned to the U.S. as part of "Cartoons Without a Clue", [[Boomerang (TV network)|Boomerang]]'s mystery lineup on weekends.
The ''Batfink'' series was very popular in the UK, becoming a [[Cult following|cult series]] like the later ''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'', and from 1967 onwards, it was shown at least once every year on UK terrestrial television until 1983, initially on the BBC network, where it was allocated an early evening slot just before the [[BBC News]], and latterly as part of [[CITV|Children's ITV]]; it subsequently reappeared in 1986 on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] Saturday morning magazine show ''[[Get Fresh]]''. In the early 1990s, it was repeated again as part of [[TV-am]]'s ''[[Wide Awake Club (TV-am)|Wide Awake Club]]/[[Wacaday]]'' series; after ''Wacaday'' finished in 1992, ''Batfink'' was consigned to the vaults in the UK for the next twelve years. It was introduced to a new audience in 2004, when it was included in a number of episodes of the [[BBC]]'s Saturday morning show ''[[Dick and Dom in da Bungalow]]'', and since April 2006, it has been enjoying an extended, if somewhat irregular, repeat run on [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]]. This run finished in the 2010s.
''Batfink'' was made quickly and cheaply by re-using stock sequences. Although most serial animations do this to some extent, ''Batfink'' did it more than most. Commonly repeated scenes include the intro to the initial briefings by the Chief (the TV screen hotline buzzing into life), Batfink and Karate getting into the Battillac, the Battillac going round mountain bends, the Battillac going over a bridge, Batfink's supersonic sonar radar, and others. Sometimes, the repeated scenes would be cut short, so that sections could be re-used to fit the storyline more closely.
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