"You are going to have three times the fun, at least. It's so beautifully remastered that every molecule, every pore, everything, you can see wonderfully," West replied.
With the video's clarity, he said, "if we ever made a mistake, viewers can point it out."
Batman: The Complete Television Series, will be available in limited edition Blu-ray as well as DVD and digitally, includes the 120 original broadcast episodes with guest stars who ranged from Liberace to Vincent Price to Bruce Lee.
Three hours of new content includes interviews with West and Ward.
West said his favourite villain was Frank Gorshin as The Riddler - "intense and manic and funny. He thought funny" - with Burgess Meredith as The Penguin a close second.
He eagerly grabbed the role and the show, West recalled.
"From the moment I read that first script by Lorenzo Semple Jnr I said, 'Sign me up.' I found it so amusing, so incredibly funny, but so exciting for kids that I just wanted the chance to cook with that character."
As for subsequent movies that portrayed a bleakly troubled Batman, "They have the Dark Knight. I'm the Bright Knight," West said.
Did he tire of being identified as the comic book character, particularly when he was trying to move to the next stage of his career?
"If I can stop crying for a moment," he replied, drolly. "You get terribly typecast playing a character like that. But in the overall, I'm delighted because my character became iconic and has opened a lot of doors in other ways, too."
West, 86, remains busy, focusing these days on comedy and voice-over roles, most notably on Family Guy as Mayor Adam West.
TV profile
Who: Adam West, the original screen Batman
What: The complete 1960s television series
Available: To buy and rent on DVD and Bluray from on December 3
- AP
