If you want to appreciate season one, watch the movie first. When you speak of something not holding up well, this is what you talk about.
edit: after posting this, I read the two posts above. I don't know what to say. Maybe I shouldn't have re-watched it during the peak years of the series.
Or maybe it's just that I've not been able to appreciate camp ever since I grew old enough to realize what the Batman TV series, which my six-year-old self loved, really was. It was a betrayal.