Batman - Episode Guide Season 3 95. Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin gs: Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) Elizabeth Harrower (Drusilla) Jonathan Troy (Rev. Hazlitt) Jon Walter (Henchman #1) Batman and Robin, having returned to The Batcave from declawing The Catwoman once again, promptly ascend to Wayne Manor as Bruce Wayne and Richard Grayson, who come calling to take Chief O'Hara, Commissioner Gordon and his daughter, Barbara, to the opera. Unfortunately, Barbara, in an elevator, is kidnapped by The Penguin, with the aim of forcing her to marry him! The Penguin tells the astonished group by phone that they should read the society section of next day's newspaper. When they do, they discover the announcement of a forthcoming wedding ? between Barbara and The Penguin (who hopes to gain immunity from the police as Commissioner Gordon's son-in-law!), and they desperately try to locate The Penguin's hideout. Penguin henchmen, in search of a minister to perform the ceremony, fall upon The Reverend Hazlitt and Alfred. The quick-thinking butler pretends that he is The Reverend, and leaves with the thugs (but secretly alerts The Dynamic Duo via the Emergency Batcall on his belt). Bruce and Dick become The Dynamic Duo and, locating Penguin's hideout in a vacant apartment next door to Barbara's own (apparently the last place, Penguin believes, anyone would think to look!), race to the scene, while Alfred is locked up with Barbara. Believing Alf to be a man of The Cloth, she swears him to secrecy and then walks ever so precariously along the ledge to her apartment. She enters her bedroom, activates a secret panel and changes into the costume and accoutrements of Batgirl. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin burst into the apartment which they discover holds a befuddled Alfred Pennyworth and a wedding dress stuffed with pillows! Just as The Blackbird Of Prey and his Finks confront The Dynamic Duo, Batgirl arrives to help the overcome Penguin and his men. Batman and Robin are definitely taken aback by the arrival of this new crimefightress. Meanwhile, Alfred, who had been listening at the locked door, has guessed Batgirl's secret identity! As The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder try to rescue Alfred from the locked room, Batgirl returns to the apartment where (as Barbara) she had been held. However, The Penguin regains consciousness and gasses The Duo asleep with a dose of his insidious Penguingas! Then, after bagging them, along with Alfred and what he thinks is Barbara Gordon but is actually the wedding dress stuffed with pillows, he toses them off the terrace in his waiting truck, which drives them to Penguin's auxilliary hideout. Barbara Gordon spots Penguin making his escape in the truck, transforms once again into Batgirl, and pursues the truck to the hideout on her Batgirlcycle and arrives in time to gets a chance to show her mettle when she saves The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder from being dunked in a avt of boiling water and being steamed alive! As The Dynamic Duo precipitates a mel?e with The Penguin and his henchmen, Batgirl confronts Alfred for decieving her. Alf merely informs her that he didn't mean to lie, for he chose to take the minister's place to protect him. Apoligizing and forgiving him, Batgirl makes him promise not to reveal her true identity; Alf agrees and she quickly changes into the wedding dress so Batman will not become suspicious of her identity. After bagging The Penguin and his Finks (literally!), Batman and Robin turn to thank Batgirl for her help, but she is nowhere to be found; she eventually returns as Barbara to thank Batman and Robin for protecting her. After Bruce Wayne donates a sizable fund to a police charity, Gordon is shocked by a telephoned Riddle... b: 14-Sep-1967 pc: 1701 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: This season, all of the action word titles which appear during the climactic fight sequences were still inserted inbetween scenes, with an added twist: they now flash. Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) wasn't the first heroine in the Bat-comics. Batwoman (a.k.a. Kathy Kane) made her debut in Detective Comics #233 in July 1956. In April 1961 DC Comics introduced Batwoman's niece Betty Kane (who had a thing for Dick Grayson until 1983) a.k.a. Bat-Girl in Batman #139. Both Batwoman & Bat-Girl were gone in 1964, but were back in 1977 as guest stars in the comic book spin-off Batman Family stariing Robin & Batgirl which debuted in 1975 and ended in 1978. Tragically, Kathy Kane/Batwoman was killed off in Detective Comics #485 ("The Vengeance Vow," August-September 1979) in which she was treacherously slain by The League Of Assasins. Also, a huge number of third season segments were intentionally produced on minimalist sets, for the show's producers were strapped for dough. Added to the anguish was the fact that the show was now seen once a week (Thursdays @ 7:30), the reason being that broadcasting twice a week proved to be overkill (hence the previous season's massive inventory of 60 episodes). In this episode, Barbara Gordon has recently returned from four years of college, and Richard Grayson gets his driver's license on his birthday and can now drive The Batmobile! The showcasing of next week's villains at show's end attempted to bridge the gap between the episodes, now that the show was seen once a week. Producer Howie Horwitz made a 15-minute film (which was never aired) of the Batgirl character for ABC (which featured her and The Dynamic Duo confronting the villain Killer Moth) in order to convince The Alphabet Network that the addition of the new character would help the ratings. The network liked it and decided to give the Batman TV series a chance at a third season. The Batgirlcycle was reconstructed out of a Yamaha YDS-5E. In the presentation reel, Batgirl rode a black, less feminine cycle. Yvonne Craig (Barbara Gordon/Batgirl) previously starred with Elvis Presley in "Kissin' Cousins (1964)". She was also but for a short time in Elvis' movie "It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)". Elvis and Yvonne also dated at least once. Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) later starred with Elvis Presley in "Stay Away, Joe" as Joe's (Elvis') father Charlie Lightcloud. 96. Ring Around the Riddler gs: Joan Collins (The Siren) Peggy Ann Garner (Betsy Boldface) Frank Gorshin (The Riddler) Nicholas Georgiade (Kayo) Gil Perkins (Cauliflower) James Brolin (Kid Gulliver) Peggy Olson (Cashier) The Riddler attempts to take control of prize fighting in Gotham, kidnapping the current champ, Kid Gulliver, and brainwashing him into throwing his next fight. While Bruce, chairman of The Gotham City Boxing Commission, watches on TV, The Riddler robs reciepts from The Gotham Square Garden boxoffice, and leaves behind a blinking metal box, which puts the cashier in a state of shock! Examining the box Batman finds it contains a Riddle about a long-buried temple in Southwestern Asia. Later, Riddler, dressed in a burnoose, appears on Betsy Boldface's TV show in the guise of Mushy Nebuchadnezzer, SW Asia's supposed boxing champion. Barbara suspects it's Riddler in disguise and, swicthing to Batgirl, follows Betsey to Riddler's hideout at a little-used gymnasium, where Loreli Circe, The Siren, tries to put her under her spell. She is unsuccessful, since her powerful high note (2 octaves above high "C") works on men only! The Riddler then resorts to having Batgirl tied up and thrown into the steamroom, but she escapes through an airvent. Meanwhile, The Batman solves 2 more Riddles put through by Riddler over the phone--which is plugged into radio station GTZR--and accepts his challenge to a fight that night at The Garden. There at The Garden, Aunt Harriet, having returned from a trip, greets Commissioner Gordon and daughter Barbara in the audience. As the fight begins, The Caped Crusader has the advantage over The Prince Of Puzzlers, but this quickly changes when he is pelted with metal filings by The Riddler and is immobilized by a giant electromagnet hidden under the ring, activated by Betsey. While The Batman is pounded to a pulp by Riddler, Barbara, who bore witness in the audience, leaves to become Batgirl; she finds Betsey Boldface underneath the ring and shuts off the magnet, setting Batman free. The Riddler and his gang retreat hastily and dash back to their hideout, where they are immediately captured. Meanwhile, back at Police HQ, Loreli Circe, The Siren, is using her melodic charms on Commissioner Gordon... b: 21-Sep-1967 pc: 1707 w: Charles Hoffman d: Sam Strangis NOTE: This is the final appearance of Frank Gorshin as The Riddler, despite his claim that, "like a boomerang, I shall be back." Oh, The Riddler does return, in Episode #1722, "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra" (March 7, 1968), but Gorshin does not! Madge Blake (as Aunt Harriet) makes one of 2 cameo appearances on Batman in this episode. This was done to accommodate her ill health (she succumbed to a heart attack at age 69 on February 19, 1969). The Riddler's right name, Edward Nygma, was never used in the TV series. This is the only time throughout the entire third season The Dynamic Duo are seen executing their famous Batclimb; apparently this is stock footage, perhaps gleaned from Season-1 episode #8723-Pt. 1, "The Penguin Goes Straight". 97. The Wail of the Siren gs: Joan Collins (Loreli Circe, The Siren) Ethel Merman (Lola Lasagne) Mike Mazurki (Allegro) Cliff Osmond (Andante) In Police HQ, Loreli Circe, The Siren, the world-famous chanteuse who can sing in 7 different octaves, gives Commissioner Gordon a dose of her hypnotic vocal prowess and puts him under her spell; she then orders him to stow away in The Batmobile's trunk, and, when it returns to The Batcave, to immediately report back to her with information as to The Batman's true identity. When the commissioner inadvertently skips out on a meeting at his daughter Barbara's apartment, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, thinking something is up, speed back to The Batcave, unwittingly taking Gordon, hiding in the trunk, with them! While faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth dusts The Batcave, Gordon steps out of The Batmobile's trunk, and recognizes him as Bruce Wayne's butler! From this vantage point he learns Batman and Robin's secrets and immediately rushes to a nearby phone to tell The Deadly Chanteuse herself. Although Gordon soon discovers the truth, he is sprayed with Batsleep by Alfred before he can reveal anything. Meanwhile, Batgirl is suspecting The Siren is behind the disappearance of her dad and traces her to her hideout, where she hears her hypnotizing Bruce Wayne by phone with one of her high notes (2 octaves above high C) and then has him meet her at his office at The Wayne Foundation building. The Caped Crusadress immediately dashes by Batgirlcycle to Gordon's office to use The Batphone to call The Batman, but reaches The Boy Wonder. She informs him of Siren's nefarious plot and The Dynamite Detectives rendezvous at Bruce's office. Sadly, they arrive too late as Bruce Wayne has already signed over everything he owns to The Siren--including The Wayne Family Jewels! Batgirl and Robin confront Siren but she orders them out of her building. The two only pretend to leave ? Robin uses the opportunity to leave behind a bug so that the villainess' activities can be monitored. The Caped Crusadress and The Boy Wonder follow The Siren and her men, Allegro and Andante, to the roof, where she orders Bruce Wayne to jump off the building, and Batgirl and Robin are quick to respond! They are quickly spotted by Siren and she orders Bruce Wayne to help Allegro and Andante dispose of them, but, in the ensuing m?l?e, Siren is accidentally knocked over the ledge, only to be saved by the Boy Wonder, who promises to save her only if she sings an "antidote note" that restores hypnotized Bruce Wayne to normal. Having little alternative, she revives Bruce with the note, despite losing her voice for good! (Chief O'Hara, who's been told to jump in a lake, is also released.) Later, at Wayne Manor, Batman revives a still sleeping Commissioner Gordon, who, to The Dynamic Duo's releief, has no recollection of what has previously transpired. The Penguin is later seen making an encounter with Lola Lasagne at The Gotham Racetrack... b: 28-Sep-1967 pc: 1708 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: George Waggner NOTE: The Billy May-Willy Mack-composed Batgirl theme first originated here. Director George Waggner often berated poor Joan Collins during production of this episode. Joan Collins was still a virtual unknown in America until her role of Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on Dynasty (ABC, 1981-89) helped put her on the map. 98. The Sport of Penguins gs: Ethel Merman (Lola Lasagne) Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) Horace McMahon (Glu Gluten) Lewis Charles (Armband) Herbert Anderson (Racing Secretary) Constance Davis (Myrtle) Allen Emerson (Photographer) The Penguin steals Lola Lasagne's fancy, priceless parasol during a photo session highlighting her and her prize-winning filly, Parasol, at the racetrack. Then, while trying to pilfer a priceless folio of famous Parasols, Penguin is quickly stopped by Barbara Gordon; he quickly drops the folio and scrams, but strtegically turns on a time-bomb in his umbrella and leaves it in a nearby umbrella stand!Barbara quickly contacts her dad, who in turn contacts The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, who rush over to The Gotham Library in the nick of time to dispatcch the deadly umbrella bomb before it dfetonates! Later Lola herself visits Penguin's Book Shop under the pseudonym of fortune hunter Lulu Schulz, who was divorced by her wealthy husband who completely cleaned her out, leaving her with nothing but the racehorse Parasol; she discovered that the supposedly valuable umbrella Pengy swiped is only a fake. Penguin sets his monocle on Lola's real prize possession: her horse Parasol, who is favored to win the Bruce Wayne Handicap. Although the winnings are supposed to be donated to The Wayne Foundation for charity, Penguin has a dastardly plan to fix the race so that they both come out victorious, and Lola joins in gladly. At Glu Gluten's Glue Factory, Penguin and Lola try to purchase a run-down nag that closely resembles Parasol, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Batman, Robin and eventually Batgirl. The Blackbird Of Prey quickly summons his henchmen, and the inevitable Batfight begins as Lola swiped the horse. While the henchmen battle it out with The Dynamic Trio, The Penguin dashes outside to apply paste all to The Batmobile's seats! So when The Batman and Robin attempt to give chase they find themselves glued to their own car! While The Pompous, Waddling Master Of Fowl Play makes another attempt to snatch the valuable folio of parasols from the library, Lola spraypaints the glue factory horse to look like Parasol. b: 05-Oct-1967 pc: 1703-Pt. 1 w: Charles Hoffman d: Sam Strangis NOTE: Joe Brooks (Visor) played the nearsighted Vanderbilt on F Troop (ABC, 1965-67). Although not used in the TV series, Penguin's real name was Oswarld Chesterfield Cobblepot, first revealed in the Sunday, February 17, 1946 Batman and Robin newspaper strip, written by Alvin Schwartz. 99. A Horse of Another Color gs: Ethel Merman (Lola Lasagne) Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) Horace McMahon (Glu Gluten) Lewis Charles (Armband) Herbert Anderson (Racing Secretary) Constance Davis (Myrtle) Allen Emerson (Photographer) Penguin schemes to make a bundle for Lola and himself by disguising the glue factory reject as Parasol and the real Parasol under the moniker of Bumber shoot; that way, everyone will bet on the paste Parasol, while The Penguin will make a killing from a wager on the true horse, which is an unmistakeable long shot! Needing a quick 10 grand to place that wager, he goes right back to Gotham Library to resume stealing the valuable parasol folio...unwittingly activating and Emergency Library Prowler Alarm, signaling Barbara Gordon, who immediately contacts her dad, Commissioner Gordon, who calls Batman and Robin, who rush to the library in time to catch Penguin plucking the folio. He gasses everyone with his umbrella and escapes. Knowing Penguin is short of funds, The Batman places a 'wanted to buy' ad in the collector's newspaper for a valuable book on parasols. The Penguin spots the ad and contacts the advertiser, Mr. A.L. Fredd (who actually is Alfred the butler in disguise, of course) and offers to sell him the folio for the needed amount of betting cash. The Felonious Fowl is angered to no end upon discovering The Caped Crusader has returned the stolen folio, and, blaming Barbara Gordon, he sends her a deadly gas-filled toy penguin! Penguin goes to the track to place his bet and scratches of all the horses in the race with the exception of Parasol and a newcomer Bumbershoot--literally!---with some well-placed itching powder. Bruce learns of this scheme and guesses the true nature of Penguin's plan to ride Bumbershoot in the race, and immediately enters his own horse, Waynebeau, in the handicap, knowing it's a shoo-in to win. Alfred knows Bruce would like Batgirl as jockey for Waynebeau, as Dick Grayson is set to ride the phony Parasol. The dutiful butler then rushed to the library in time to smother the toy penguin before it gets a chance to do any harm, and then informs Barbara about Bruce's plans for the race. Later, at the racetrack, The Caped Crusadress on Waynebeau easily passes Penguin on Bumbershoot and handily wins the Handicap. Realizing something has gone awry, The Blackbird Of Prey quickly waddles back to the jockey room to swicth into his regular garb before escaping, and finds that The Dynamic Trio have tailed him (no pun intended!). They battle the henchmen and proceed to put salt on The Penguin's tail once again. In Gotham City Library, The King Of The Nile, Tut, is ogling some rare ancient Egyptian scrolls... b: 12-Oct-1967 pc: 1703-Pt. 2 w: Charles Hoffman d: Sam Strangis NOTE: During the actual horse race, watch out for a stuntman dressed as Batgirl mounted on Waynebeau! 100. The Unkindest Tut of All gs: Victor Buono (King Tut) James Gammon (Osris) Patti Gilbert (Shirley) Cathleen Cordell (Librarian) James Ramsey (TV Announcer) The Nabob of the Nile returns to Tut-ness after being hit on the head with a brick during a love-in. "Retired," he sets himself up in a tent on 6th and Albert streets as a public crime predictor. After 3 crimes Tut predicts (and perpetrates!) are committed, Batman and Robin pay him a visit---without much success. Later, King Tut has his cronies rob the soccer stadium and deliberately let The Caped Crimebuster apprehend them, delaying him long enough for Tut to plant a homing device in The Batmobile! Discovering that The Batcave is under Wayne Manor, Tut calls the house and demands to speak to Batman, not Bruce Wayne! Bruce denies Tut's accusing him of being Batman, so the doubtful monarch demands to back up his claim by appearing in public with The Caped Crusader simultaneously, or he will blow his cover. Later, Bruce programs The Batmobile to drive by itself and employs the use of a dummy Batman and the art of ventriloquism to confront the nefarious nabob. Thinking he has failed in his plan, Tut practically falls to pieces; he apparently recovers and predicts a raid to free Gotham City's archcriminals, luring The GC Police to the prion. Meanwhile, Tut snatches priceless Egyptian scrolls which will eventually lead him to the statue of a god, rumoured to give its possessor power to control the world! Becoming aware of the danger of the scrolls, Barbara Gordon switches to Batgirl and speeds by Batgirlcycle to The Gotham City Library--too late! She tracks the obese monarch to his hideout, where she is knocked unconscious by Tut's new queen, Shirley, and captured. The Dynamic Duo follows Batgirl's trail at the library to Tut's hideout, where, with a resuscitated Batgirl, thrash Tut and his Tut-lings. Later, Gotham City is shocked by the arrival of Louie The Lilac... b: 19-Oct-1967 pc: 1709 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Sam Strangis NOTE: According to publicity, comedienne Patti Gilbert as Tut's moll ended up conking Yvonne Craig on the head 3 times in order to get a good take for the bit with the break-away vase. (Holy Headache!) Though he fails to do so here, Tut finally succeeds in storming The Batcave and divining The Dynamic Duo's identities in episode #1725, "I'll Be A Mummy's Uncle." 101. Louie the Lilac gs: Milton Berle (Louie the Lilac) Lisa Seagram (Lila) Richard Bakalyan (Arbutus) Karl Lukas (Acacia) Jimmy Boyd (Dogwood) Schuyler Aubrey (Princess Primrose/Thelma Jones) Commissioner Gordon plans a "flower-in" at Gotham City City Park but is disappointed to learn that there are no flowers available. Meanwhile, the dastardly Louie The Lilac plans to "take over" the minds of Gotham City's flower children ? and he begins by kidnapping one of their leaders, Princess Primrose (having placed her under the power of his nefarious Lilac Spray), an old school chum of Barbara Gordon, who knew her as Thelma Jones. The Princess kidnapping' from the flowerless flower-in has the flower children incensed and they immediately start demonstrating at Gotham City City Hall. Louie, au naturel, knew that Barabra would contact The Caped Crusader (which she did!), and rigs a trap for him and The Boy Wonder. While The Dynamic Duo converse with Barbara, Louie plants a card for Lila's Lilac Shop in The Batmobile. The Batman and Robin discover the card, decide it is a clue, and proceed Lila's Lilac shop, where Louie has prepared a pernicious treat for them: they are drugged with poisonous lilacs and a well-laced vase and left spreadeagled on a trellis in Louie's hothouse, where they regain consciousness and find themselves about to become lunch for deadly man-eating lilac plants! Barbara Gordon is tailed to her apartment by Louie's henchman Arbutus, who confronts her and yanks out the phone cord as she is about to contact the authorities. She then locks herself in her bedroom, changes into that Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, and chases off Arbutus. Alfred Pennyworth arrives to inform her that The Batmobile has been located near Louie's greehouse and give her the address, and she mounts her Batgirlcycle and speeds there in a flash!Meanwhile, Louie takes Primrose, still under his spell, to the flowerless flower-in, where she sings his praises! When the spray wears off, The Princess spills the beans, and unlucky Louie escapes in his Flowermobile, with Primrose and her flower-powered followers hot in pursuit. Back at the hothouse, The Caped Crusader manages to free one of his feet to punt a nearby flowerpot through a window, breaking it (Holy Field Goal!). The cool air pouring in instantly destroys the deadly plant, and The Dynamic Duo leap free from the anthropophagous bloom in the greenhouse and battle the returning Louie and his henchmen Arbutus, Acacia, and Dogwood. Batgirl gleefully joinss in on The Batbrawl, and manages to defeat Louie with a can of Powdery Mildew spray that renders him moldy, decayed and moth-eaten. Louie, unwilling to be taken in, tries to throw himself into the man-eating lilac plant. After rounding up Arbutus, Acacia, and Dogwood, The Dynamic Duo rescue Louie from the greenhouse, where The Lilac was unaware that the plants have already been neutralized by cold air, and haven't done him a modicum of harm! The Dynamic Duo then discover that Egghead has joined forces with Cossack Queen Zelda... b: 26-Oct-1967 pc: 1710 w: Dwight Taylor d: George Waggner NOTE: This marks the second (and final) appearance of the Billy May-Willy Mack-composed Batgirl theme. It appears here with a much slower tempo than its first appearance, in Episode #1708, "The Wail Of The Siren." Milton Berle (Louie the Lilac) has had Elvis Presley appear as a guest performer on his show twice in 1956. 102. The Ogg and I gs: Anne Baxter (Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks) Vincent Price (Egghead) Alfred Dennis (Omar Orloff) Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan) Violet Carlson (Old Lady) Billy Corcoran (Boy Scout) James O'Hara (Policeman) James Lanphier (Indian Man) Pat Becker (Technician) Mary Benoit (Petula) John Lormer (Professor Dactyl) Donald Elson (Tender) Incognito as a deliveryman, Egghead kidnaps Commissioner Gordon from his office at Police HQ with the aid of Olga and a getaway baloon! They spirit Gordon away to his hideout, where Egghead isues a ransom demand of a $0.10 tax for every eaten egg in Gotham City. Realizing the only way to locate Egghead and Gordon is by splitting up, The Dynamic Duo converge upon The Bessarovian Embassy, while Batgirl joins ranks with Alfred Pennyworth to follow The Commissioner's trail by the strong scent of his aftershave lotion (Wellington #4, from Sumatra!), which they hope and pray to find emanating from Egghead's digs. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin have opened a ialogue with Bessarovian ambassador Omar Orloff, who is convinced that Olga will swipe the giant Samovar Of Genghis Khan, which is being held at the embassy for safekeeping. The Duo agree, and they hide inside The Samovar to ambush Olga. While Egghead is out collecting his egg tax at Gilligan's Restaurant, Olga and her Cossacks raid the embassy and steal The Samovar, with The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder tucked away safely inside. Later, at the hideout, The Dynamic Duo burst forth from The Samovar only to be immediately gassed by The Cossack Queen. Robin and Commissioner Gordon regain consciousness to learn to their consternation that they are being made into borscht by Ambassador Orloff, who is revealed to be one of Olga's Cossacks, while The Caped Crusader is targeted by Olga a one of her future husbands (as queen she's entitled to 6 husbands, and Egghead is slated to become one of them)! Outside the hideout Batgirl and Alfred finally locate the scent of Gordon's aftershave and arrive in time to rescue The Dynamic Duo and The Commissioner and make borscht out of the cossacks themselves! Just as it sems the heroes have won, Egghead reveals his secret weapon: 2 chickens who for weeks have been placed on a diet of onions. Egghead and Olga toss the chickens' eggs at Batman, Robin and Batgirl, each of which explode and emit clouds of tear gas! As The Dynamic Trio become awash in a warm sea of tears, Egghead, Queen Olga and her Cossack beat a hasty retreat. b: 02-Nov-1967 pc: 1705-Pt. 1 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: The late Anne Baxter, debuting here as Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks, portrayed Zelda The Great in the series' first season. Her final TV role was that of Victoria Cabot on Hotel (ABC, 1983-88), which also starred Batman guest star James Brolin. The late Alan Hale Jr.'s portrayal of Gilligan in this episode is in reference to another show for which he is famous: the 1964-67 CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island (as Jonas Grumby, The Skipper!). We learn here that Alf once worked for The Earl Of Chutney, and Olga used to be a dishwasher at a Bessarovian restaurant. 103. How to Hatch a Dinosaur gs: Anne Baxter (Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks) Vincent Price (Egghead) Alfred Dennis (Omar Orloff) Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan) Violet Carlson (Old Lady) Billy Corcoran (Boy Scout) James O'Hara (Policeman) James Lanphier (Indian Man) Pat Becker (Technician) Mary Benoit (Petula) John Lormer (Professor Dactyl) Donald Elson (Tender) Egghead, Queen Olga and The Cossacks raid The Gotham City Radium Center and rob 2 lbs. of radium. Later, as Barbara Gordon visits her friend Professor Dactyl at The Gotham Museum, Egghead and Olga grab a giant fossilized 40 million year-old Neosaurus egg, unbeknownst to Barbara or Dactyl! Barbara alerts her dad of the egg's theft, and he in turn alerts The Dynamic Duo. As The Caped Crusader and The Dominoed Daredoll ponder the problem, Egghead plans to hatch the egg with the radium and release the monster on a rampage of Gotham City! At the same time, Batman and Batgirl remember Professor Grimes' article on revitalizing fossils ("Revitalizing Fossil Forms By The Use Of High-Energy Radioactive Energy Sources," which appeared in an issue of The Southeastern Regional Journal Of Applied Radiology) and, uncovering Egghead's plot, use their Batgeiger counters to track down the radium to Egghead's hideaway. Leaving Batgirl and Robin to enter the front way, Batman sneaks around to the back entrance. Entering the hideout, Batgirl and Robin are quickly captured and forced to watch as Egghead succeds in hatching the egg. Egghead then tries to offer the pair as a snack to the hatched beast, but the moster advances towards him instead! Egghead, Olga, and her Cossacks turn chicken and gladly turn themselves in to the waiting paddy wagon outside. As Batgirl and Robin prepare to take on the monster, they are uprised to see it remove its head and reveal the weclome countenance of Batman, who, knowing that it was impossible to hatch the egg, decided to use Egghead's scheme against him. So, he donned a Neosaurus costume, secretly entered the egg, and made it look like Egghead had really hatched a monster! As Bruce, Dick, O'Hara and Gordon chow down on Barbara's birthday cake, she recieves a call from her surfer friend, Skip Parker...just as The Joker and his cohorts Riptide and Wipeout arrive at Gotham Point by Jokemobile... b: 09-Nov-1967 pc: 1705-Pt. 2 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: The Neosaurus costume was hand-me-down wardrobe from the January 11, 1967 "The Questing Beast" episode of Lost In Space (CBS, 1965-68), which aired on CBS Wednesday nights opposite Batman from January 1966 to August 1967. Since Twentieth Century-Fox TV was involved with both productions, many of the sound effects heard on Batman are the same as Irwin Allen's science fiction adventure. 104. Surf's Up! Joker Under! gs: Cesar Romero (The Joker) Skip Ward (Riptide) Sivi Alberg (Undine) Ron Burke (Wipeout) Skip Parker (Ronnie Knox) Hot Dog Harriman (John Mitchum) Joyce Lederer (Girl Surfer) Johnnie Green (Johnnie Green & His Green Men) Marilyn Campbell (Johnnie Green & His Green Men) Richard Person (Johnnie Green & His Green Men) Robert Van Holten (Johnnie Green & His Green Men) John Trombatore (Johnnie Green & His Green Men) While surfing champion Skip Parker is sidelined by a telephone call, his friend, Barbara Gordon (who's celebrating her birthday!), awaits his return on the beach. Upon picking up the reciever, Skip is quickly gassed by a hidden device and kidnapped by The Joker and his men Riptide and Wipeout and moll Undine. Barbara bears witness to Skip being carried into The Jokemobile and calls her father in hopes that he will, in turn, alert Batman. Meanwhile, Joker, hoping to become a surfing champion himself, has transferred all of Skip's knowledge and ability to his own brain with a terrifying Surfing Experience & Ability Trabsferometer & Vigor Reverser! Batman and Robin easily divine the location of Joker's secret headquarters at The Ten Toes Surfboard Shop, but they are captured there by the waiting Joker, Riptide and Wipeout, who paralyze them with handfuls of poisonous sea urchin spines! While The Joker and Undine depart for Gotham Point and the surfing championship, Riptide and Wipeout turn The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder into human surfboards! Employing the use of a Portable Ultraviolet Batray, The Dynamic Duo burst free from their foam coffins and rescue Skip, who was locked up in a nearby bench, as Riptide and Wipeout make a break for it. Realising the only way to collar The Clown Prince Of Crime is to challenge (and defeat!) him in the surfing contest, Batman orders Robin to return to Wayne Manor, switch to Dick Grayson, and go to the beach and preside as a judge of the contest. Batman heads for Gotham Point Beach and discovers Joker employing the use of his newly acquired surfing prowess to frighten off all the other contestants. So The Caped Crusader grabs his surfboard, dons his swimming trunks, and heads out into the water to compete against The Joker and handily hang 10. The Joker is beaten, confronted by Skip Parker, and, knowing he has been found out, retreats with Undine, Riptide and Hideout to local surfing hangout The Hang 5, where The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, joins The Dynamic Duo as they rout The Homicidal Harlquin and his henchies! Meanwhile in Londinium, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, use a man-made fog to pull off a robbery... b: 16-Nov-1967 pc: 1714 w: Charles Hoffman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: The surfing footage used in this segmant was borrowed from the 1966 Cinema V film The Endless Summer. The Jokemobile appears for the second and last time on Batman in this episode. During the surfing challenge, Batman is threatened by a shark. To counter it, he makes use of Shark Repellent Batspray--something which was first employed in the 1966 movie. Skip Ward (Riptide), one of the Joker's Henchmen in this episode also portrayed a character named Gil in "Easy Come, Easy Go"(1967) starring Elvis Presley. Gil was a character who helped try to steal Elvis' prospected sunken treasure. 105. The Londinium Larcenies gs: Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg) Glynis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Glynnis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Lyn Peters (Prudence) Maurice Dallimore (Watson) Harvey Jason (Scudder) Monte Landis (Basil) Larry Anthony (Digby) Aleta Rotell (Daisy) Nannette Turner (Sheila) Stacey Maxwell (Rosamund) Lynley Lawrence (Kit) Joseph Abdullah (Fagin) Gil Stuart (The Bobby) Monte Landis (Basil) After stealing the Queen's collection of snuffboxes from a Londinium museum, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, escape in a thick fog. Ireland Yard calls in Batman & Robin to solve the mystery, and Barbara Gordon is eager to accompany them. The Caped Crusader is interesting in comparing Lord Ffogg's aftergrass with that of Wayne Manor. While at the Ffogg Estate, Robin learns from Ffogg's daughter, Lady Prudence that her father and her aunt, Lady Peasoup, operate a school for lady crooks under the guise of a girl's finishing school! The unimpressed Ffogg vows to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of Londinium. Batman and Robin manage to bring The Batmobile and Batcomputer to Londinium (and preserve their secret identities all at the same time) by packing them into crates and passing them off as Dick Grayson's desk and books, and then reassemble them in a Batcave-like space beneath a rented manor. During The Dynamic Duo's visit at the estate with Ireland Yard Superintendant Watson, Barbara Gordon slips off to contact Alfred and have him meet her at the road leading to the estate, where she changes into her Batgirl outfit brought by the butler. Later, upon leaving the Ffogg estate, The Dynamic Duo are set upon by Ffogg's servants Scudder, Basil, and Digby (disguised as highwaymen) but are aided by Batgirl, who arrives in time to help rout the roughians ? and then leaves as suddenly as she arrived! Batman and Robin return to the Londinium Batcave and are ambushed with a noxious fog bomb planted by Ffogg's servants! b: 23-Nov-1967 pc: 1711-Pt. 1 w: Elkan Allen and Charles Hoffman s: Elkan Allen d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: This is the only 3-part third-season episode of Batman, as well as the third overall and last. Ireland Yard is a takeoff on Scotland Yard. Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg) and one of his henchmen Monte Landis (Basil) both had parts in 2 different Elvis Presley movies. Rudy Vallee portrayed Louis Penlow in "Live a Little, Love a Little"(1968). Monte Landis portrayed Georgie in "Double Trouble"(1967). Take a look at the skeleton in the Londinium Batcave! 106. The Foggiest Notion gs: Glynis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg) Glynnis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Lyn Peters (Prudence) Maurice Dallimore (Watson) Harvey Jason (Scudder) Monte Landis (Basil) Larry Anthony (Digby) Aleta Rotell (Daisy) Nannette Turner (Sheila) Stacey Maxwell (Rosamund) Lynley Lawrence (Kit) Joseph Abdullah (Fagin) Gil Stuart (The Bobby) Monte Landis (Basil) Batman quickly dispenses with the fog bomb with a General Emergency Batextinguisher, then returns with Robin to venerable Ireland Yard to warn Commissioner Gordon and Superintendant Watson of their suspicions of The Lord and his Lady. While there, they are sent a clue that leads them to a pub on the docks called The Three Bells. Barbara Gordon, in the meantime, plans to join Ffogg's teaching staff. Down at the docks, The Dynamic Duo find a ship containing priceless mod materials and patterns from Barnaby Street. In the pub, Batman is captured inside by Ffogg and his henchmen while the underage Robin, barred from the pub (overrun by hippies and mod people!) and left outside in The Batmobile to guard the ship, is swept away by Lady Peasoup and her henchwomen after severing the ship's mooring line and setting it free. Back on the road outside Ffogg Estate, The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, rendezvous with Alfred and, voicing her suspicions about Ffogg and Peasoup, proceeds to investigate The Cricket Pavilion, and, having a little more luck, discovers stolen loot stored by Ffogg's. However, she is detected by Lady Prudence, who immediately immobilizes her in a cloud of paralyzing gas. Convinced his sister has secured the ship, Lord Ffogg has The Boy Wonder moved to the winch room at The Tower Bridge, where he is tied to the winch that opens and closes the bridge. Batman uses The Batcomputer to locate robin just as the winch starts to rais the bridge and, using his Antimechanical Batray, manages to stop the bridge and rescue Robin from death in the Tower of Londinium. Together, they battle Lord Ffogg, Scudder, Basil and Digby ? but Ffogg escapes by creating yet another cloud of man-made mist with his pipe of fog! b: 30-Nov-1967 pc: 1711-Pt. 2 w: Elkan Allen and Charles Rudolph s: Elkan Allen d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: The interior shots of Superintendant Watson's office in Ireland Yard were done on the same set as Commissioner Gordon's office, with a slight change of apparrel. Episode guests Monte Landis, Stacey Maxwell and Maurice Dallimore all appeared in various episodes of The Monkees (NBC, 1966-68). Glynis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) is remembered for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (Buena Vista, 1964). 107. The Bloody Tower gs: Glynis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg) Glynnis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) Lyn Peters (Prudence) Maurice Dallimore (Watson) Harvey Jason (Scudder) Monte Landis (Basil) Larry Anthony (Digby) Aleta Rotell (Daisy) Nannette Turner (Sheila) Stacey Maxwell (Rosamund) Lynley Lawrence (Kit) Joseph Abdullah (Fagin) Gil Stuart (The Bobby) Monte Landis (Basil) Escaping Ffogg's fog in the winch room, The Dynamic Duo, accompanied by Alfred, race to the Ffogg estate to save Batgirl, who is still chained up in the dungeon and about to be finished off by Ffogg and Peasoup with some lethal fog pellets. Robin arrives at the estate but is spotted and lured by Lady Prudence to Lord Ffogg's hive of African Death Bees. Meanwhile, Ffogg and Peasoup discover that the lethal fog pellets have gone stale and they rush off to find some more, allowing Batman time to sneak into the dungeon...but is surprised by the returning Lord, who shoves him downstairs, followed by fresh fog pellets. While both Batman and Batgirl are left to perish in the dungeon threatened by lethal gas pellets, Robin is stung by the deadly queen African bee and left to die in the girls' dormitory. Lord Ffogg, Lady Peasoup and the gang plan to forge ahead with the theft of The Crown Jewels and leave for The Tower Of Londinium. Fortunately ? with the help of Alfred and the unexpected arrival of Aunt Harriet in Londinium ? the tables finally turn: Robin, with the use of an African Death Bee Antidote Pill, is saved from bee-death and rushes outside to The Batmobile to greet Alf; meanwhile, in the dungeon, Batman disperses the poisonous fog with Anti-Lethal-Fog Batspray, saves Batgirl, and uses her rope to perform an Indian rope trick to escape through an overhead grating. En masse, The Dynamic Trio arrive in time to foil Ffogg's plans to swipe the jewels. Following the ensuing Batfight, Ffogg, fearing apprehension, tries to escape using his fog pipe, but The Caped Crusader thwarts this attempt with his Pipe Of Fog Batreverser and he and Superintendant Watson take the entire group into custody. Later, back at Gotham City Police HQ, The Dynamic Duo leave Gordon's office and sees The Catwoman immediately dive into an elevator... b: 07-Dec-1967 pc: 1711-Pt. 3 w: Elkan Allen and Charles Hoffman s: Elkan Allen d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: This was the final performance as Aunt Harriet Cooper Madge Blake ever gave. We learn here that Alfred Pennyworth drove around Londinium in his second cousin Cuthbert's taxicab. Here, Robin is seen actually driving The Batmobile!!!!!! 108. Catwoman's Dressed to Kill gs: Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) Dirk Evans (Angora) James Griffith (Manx) Rudy Hrenreich (Himself) Karen Huston (Queen Bess) Jeanie Moore (Woman) Gerald Peters (Attendant) An envious Catwoman disrupts a luncheon honoring the 10 best-dressed women in Gotham City and sets off a hair-raising irepparably ruining the of all the ladies there. Later, Catwoman invades a magazine fashion show and attempts to swipe all of the one-of-a-kind dresses. While her henchmen, Angora and Manx, subdue Batman and Robin with some bolts of cloth, Catwoman bolts into the models' dressing room, knowing full well that the naturally gentlemanly Dynamic Duo wouldn't dare enter a ladies' dressing room with their eyes closed! Batgirl arrives to free The Duo from the cloth, and, with her eyes wide open, enters the dressing room alone and is overpowered by Catwoman, and spirits her off to her Catlair in an abandoned loft in The Garment District on 32 Pussyfoot Road before The Dynamic Duo realize what's happened! The Catwoman later contacts The Batman and informs her of her Catlair's location, where she has tied Batgirl down to a conveyor belt leading to a giant pattern-cutting machine, which in a matter of minutes will cut her into a purr-fect pinafore! Believing Catwoman plans the pilfering of The Golden Fleece, a solid-gold dress belonging to the visiting Quen Bess Of Belgravia, from The Belgravian Embassy, The Caped Crusader finds himself in somewhat of a dilemma. As The Catlair and The Embassy are miles apart, he is torn between rescuing Batgirl and preventing an international incident by stopping Catwoman's theft of The Fleece! A quick-thinking Batman phones Alfred Pennyworth and sends him to rescue The Dynamic Daredoll; Alf disguises himself as the world' oldest-living hippie in order to prevent Batgirl from recognizing him and tip her off as to the connection between Batman and Bruce Wayne. Batgirl then rushes by Batgirlcycle to The Embassy to join her partners in crime-fighting. Meanwhile Batman and Robin are already there to confront Catwoman, who is convinced that they have sacrificed Batgirl in her time of need order to arrest her; she soon learns differently when Batgirl arrives to join The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder in apprehending Catwoman, Angora and Manx! The Dynamic Trio is given honorary medals by The Belgravian Embassy when they learn that Egghead and Cossack Queen Olga are up to no good again... b: 14-Dec-1967 pc: 1717 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Sam Strangis NOTE: The first appearance of Eartha Kitt as Catwoman #3! She replaced Julie Newmar who at the time was filming her role of Hesh-Ke for the Columbia Picture Mackenna's Gold (which also featured Bat-guest villains Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach). Designer Rudi Gernreich later went on to design the wardrobe for the 1975-78 syndicated sci-fi show Space: 1999. Envisioning Catwoman as black was unique to the television series, an experiment that hasn't been repeated. Footage of The Dynamic Duo crossing the street and racing through bustling crowds in Gotham City (filmed in downtown Los Angeles) is edited from the 1966 Batman movie. 109. The Ogg Couple gs: Anne Baxter (Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks) Vincent Price (Egghead) Violet Carson (Old Lady) Billy Corcoran (Boy Scout) Donald Elson (Bank Manager) Ed Long (Museum Guard) Penelope Gillette (Passerby) Can 2 fiendish archcriminals share a nefarious plot to terrorize Gotham City without driving each other crazy?? Olga, Queen of The Bessarovian Cossacks, again teams with Egghead to raid The Gotham City Museum and steal The Sword Of Bulbul and The Egg Of Ogg. Commissioner Gordon immediately summons Batman and Robin to investigate. While The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder chat with Gordon, Egghead and Olga plan the theft of 500 pounds of condensed caviar given to the people of Gotham City by The Czar Of Samarkand (at $200 per ounce), and currently stored at The Gotham City Bank. The Batman predicts the supercriminals' next move and races by Batmobile to the bank. While Queen Olga and her Cossacks swipe the caviar on horseback, Egghead, newly arrived on his burro, is captured by the bank guard. Batgirl quickly arrives on her Batgirlcycle and manages to convince Egghead to turn stool pigeon and lead her to Olga's hideout. Moments after Batgirl and Egghead ride off, The Dynamic Duo arrive at the bank and follow Batgirl's trail. Arriving at the hideout, in an icehouse, The Caped Crusadress finds that Egghead has lured her into a trap! She is quickly captured, bound by both hands behind her back, and forced to do a saber Batdance while Olga's Cossacks prod her with ices scimitars! The Duo arrive at the hideout, spots The Batgirlcycle, and leaps into the deperate fray to battle The Cossacks until Egghead manages to toss Batgirl into a vat of caviar to drown. While the duo rush to her aid and manage to prevent her from becoming a permanent hors d'ouerve, Egghead, Queen Olga and her Cossacks take full advantage of the distraction to make their escape, only to fall immediately into the hands of the law. Holy Here We Go Again! The Dynamic Duo recieve word that The Joker and The Catwoman have joined forces... b: 21-Dec-1967 pc: 1705-Pt. 3 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: The final appearance of both Anne Baxter as Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks and the late Vincent Price as Egghead. Egghead declines from a strong second season villain to a whiney brat! This was originally planned as a third installment for episodes #102/#103 (all were shot together over nine days), but rather than have ABC air another 3-parter, the producers split up the episodes. Some footage used in "The Ogg Couple"'s teaser sequence is cribbed from Episode #1705-Pt. 2, "How to Hatch a Dinosaur." 110. The Funny Feline Felonies gs: Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) Cesar Romero (The Joker) Sandy Kevin (Giggler) Bobby Hall (Laugher) Pierre Salinger (Lucky Pierre) David Lewis (Warden Chrichton) Rusty Lane (Judge) Gil Perkins (Foreman) Ronald Long (Karnaby Katz) Dick Kallman (Little Louie Groovy) Joe E. Ross (Louie Groovy's Agent) Louis Quinn (Mr. Keeper) Christine Nelson (Mrs. Keeper) Upon his release from Gotham City Prison, The Joker is immediately picked up by The Catwoman in her KittyCar. They soon arrive at a sleazy hotel across the street from Police HQ, where The Catwoman shows The Joker an old parchment that will direct them to a hidden cache of gunpowder they will use to blast a hole in The Federal Depository and clean the place out! Before leaving, they alert The Batman by shooting at him from an open window. The Caped Crusader traces the gunfire to the hotel room and finds The Joker's prison garb and a corner from the parchment. Moments later, Batgirl arrives and makes off with the fragmented parchment; returning to the library as Barbara Gordon, she finds the parchment was purr-loined from the very same library out of which she works. She locates a mircofilm copy and discovers that it contained an ancient riddle, which when mixed with certain clues will lead to the hidden gunpowder! Barbara solves the riddle and goes to her father's office at Police HQ to call Batman (via The Batphone!!!) and arrange to rendezvous with The Dynamic Duo at the home of Little Louie Groovy, who owns the parchment's first clue: a nightshirt. The Batman and Robin arrive just as The Catwoman and The Joker arrive to steal the nightshirt. Joker tricks The Duo into shaking hands and buzzes them with his deadly Joker buzzer, and he and Catwoman leaves with the shirt. Batgirl appears moments later to revive batman and robin, and informs them that the shirt was only half the clue to the gunpowder's location, and The Dynamic Trio speed for the home of mod clothier Karnaby Katz, who owns the clue' second half in the form of a crib. However, The Trio arrive too late - or so it seems! Just outside the bushes Joker, Catwoman and their men wait in ambush for them! b: 28-Dec-1967 pc: 1715-Pt. 1 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: Eartha Kitt's second and final appearance as the third Catwoman. This was originally a 2-part episode which was split into single 2-part episodes as the producers yearned to avoid a single cliffhanger ending suspended over a week's time. The late Joe E. Ross (Louie Groovy's Agent) is remembered for his role of Officer Gunther Toody on Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC, 1961-63). Gil Perkins (Foreman) played Cauliflower in episode #1707, "Ring Around The Riddler," and Bluebeard in the 1966 Batman movie. 111. The Joke's on Catwoman gs: Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) Cesar Romero (The Joker) Sandy Kevin (Giggler) Bobby Hall (Laugher) Pierre Salinger (Lucky Pierre) David Lewis (Warden Chrichton) Rusty Lane (Judge) Gil Perkins (Foreman) Ronald Long (Karnaby Katz) Dick Kallman (Little Louie Groovy) Joe E. Ross (Louie Groovy's Agent) Louis Quinn (Mr. Keeper) Christine Nelson (Mrs. Keeper) As The Dynamic Duo depart in their Batmobile, Batgirl tries to rev up her Batgirlcycle, but it refuses to start. Joker and Catwoman leap from the bushes, and reveal to her that they swiped the spark plug from her beloved bike, preventing it from working. They then capture Batgirl and tie her up on the front lawn with deadly Cat Whiskers (Holy Bondage!), which when exposed to body heat will contract and strangle her to death! After Joker and Catwoman leave, Batgirl uses her nose to activate the lawn sprinkler, causing The Cat Whiskers to expand and spare her life. She then hurries to Gordon's office and arranges to meet Batman and Robin at The Grimalkin Novelty Company. Arriving at the archcriminals' hideaway, The Dynamic Trio overhear the villains' entire plan. The fiends depart for Phoney Island to find the secluded gunpowder, unaware of The Trio are dogging their every move! Later, at Phoney island, the villains find the gunpowder is hidden somewhere inside the lighthouse. While searching the house, The Trio ambush and try to apprehend the crooks, when The Joker, trying to make a break for it, trips a switch, accidentally revealing the gunpowder! Without thinking the Joker lights a match so he can examine the gunpowder more closely, and as Batman wrestles the match away from him, it is unwittingly tossed into the gunpowder and sets it off! Batman quickly protects everyone with Antiblast Batpowder, and as The Trio prepares to deliver the criminals to the pokey, The Catwoman demands legal aid: Lucky Pierre, who has never lost a case (Holy Perry Mason!). Later, in court, Pierre refuses to crossexamine any of Batman's witnesses, despite the latter acting as prosecutor. Unknown to The Caped Crusader, the entire jury has secretly been replaced with Catwoman's former henchmen, who issue a dishonest not-guilty verdict! (Holy Fixed Jury!) Unfortunately, the jury foreman loses his disguise at the end of the trial, and, after Batman recognizes him, pulls a machine gun! Batman quickly disarms the gunsel, The Joker and his men rise to battle, and the crooks are rounded up. Lucky Pierre finally loses his first case, and he angrily discards all of his lucky charms and storms out. Later, Louie The Lilac surprises Barbara Gordon @ The Gotham Library... b: 04-Jan-1968 pc: 1715-Pt. 2 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: Incidentally, Catwoman and Joker are among Batman's earliest comic book adversaries, initially appearing in Batman #1 (Spring 1940), and became the best-known and most frequently seen Batman anatagonists. There is a photograph of Vice-President Richard Milhous Nixon in the courtroom. 112. Louie's Lethal Lilac Time gs: Milton Berle (Louie the Lilac) Ronald Knight (Sassafras) John Dennis (Saffron) Nobu McCarthy (Lotus) Percy Helton (Gus, the Janitor) While at Bruce Wayne's beachhouse, Sassafras and Saffron, two of Louie The Lilac's gang members, kidnap Bruce and Dick Grayson after some ambergris (the section of a whale used to make perfume) is discovered on the beach by Dick. Barbara Gordon was present at the beachhouse during the proceedings, and she phones Commissioner Gordon who in turn attempts to contact The Dynamic Duo, who, as they were kidnap victims, aren't at home! Meanwhile, Bruce and Dick have been transferred, along with some ambergris, to Louie's hideout at The Defunct Fragrance Factory on Lavender Lane, where they are tied to some machinery and the ambergris is turned over to Lois, Louie's perfume expert (and moll!). Lotus tells The Lilac that she's going to need scent pouches from several animals; Louie sends Saffron and Sassafras after some, and plans for Bruce (an animal expert in his own right) to remove the scent pouches once those animals are secured. Back in The Batcave, Alfred Pennyworth uses The Batcomputer to locate his masters. He alerts Barbara Gordon who, after dispatching a too-nosy janitor, heads for the factory as that Caped Crusadress, Batgirl. The ever-reliable Wayne butler also sends The Batmobile by remote control to the factory, in hopes it may be of some use to the captured Duo. Batgirl and several of Gotham's Finest arrive at the factory at the same time, and while The Commissioner uses a bull horn to contact Louie, Batgirl sneaks into the factory...only to be immediately captured and dumped into a vat which Louie orders filled with hot oil used to extract the scent from the blossoms! Continually refusing to operate on the animals, Bruce finds himself forced to do so in order to spare Batgirl's life. Louie agrees and provides Bruce and Dick 2 glasses of warm water they request for this procedure, then locks the pair in the basement with the animals...but, of course, reneges on his promise and decides to 86 The Caped Crusadress anyway! While in the basement, Bruce introduces his latest Batinvention: The Instant Unfolding Batcostumes With Utility Belts; just add warm water, and they exxpand to full size! Minutes after, Brucer and Dick switch garb, and, as The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, escape from the basement and rendezvous with the police, who aid them in breaking down the entrance in time to rescue a now out-of-vat Batgirl from Louie, and The Dynamic Trio rout the whole gang! Batman and Robin then pretend to rescue the kidnapped millionaire and his youthful ward by entering the basement and reemerge from within as Bruce and Dick. Meanwhile, womens' rights spokesperson Nora Clavicle plans to overrun the male-populated governement in Gotham City... b: 11-Jan-1968 pc: 1718 w: Charles Hoffman d: Sam Strangis NOTE: The second and final performance by the late, great Uncle Miltie as Louie The Lilac. Footage of the driverless Batmobile is gleaned from Season-2 episode #9741-Pt. 2, "Penguin Sets A Trend." 113. Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club gs: Barbara Rush (Nora Clavicle) June Wilkinson (Evelina) Inga Neilson (Angelina) Byron Keith (Mayor Linseed) Larry Gelman (Bank Manager) Jean Byron (Mrs. Millie Lindseed) Judy Parker (Telephone Operator) Ginny Gan (1st Policewoman) Rhae Andrece (2nd Policewoman) Alyce Andrece (3rd Policewoman) Elizabeth Baur (4th Policewoman) Nora Clavicle is ostensibly a womens' rights spokesperson, but she is secretly a crime queenpin. Exercising her influence over Mayor Linseed's wife Millie (and, consequently, Mayor Linseed!) she has Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and Batman and Robin all fired and replaced with women. Clavicle, now police commissioner, appoints Millie Lindseed police chief in return. She then has her 2 henchgirls Evelina and Angelina, set a trap for The Dynamic Trio. Nora has her 2 aides to rob The Gotham National Bank right under the noses of the the newly-appointed policewomen, who prove too concerned with their makeup and exchanging of recipies to stop the robbery! Meanwhile, Batman and Robin overhear the police radio teport about the robbery and decide to try their hand at catching the thieves. With Batgirl assisting, they use a portable Batcomputer to trace the gang to their hideout: The Drop Stitch & Co. knitting supply warehouse. As The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and The Daring Daredoll attempt to apprehend Nora and her aides, Nora grabs Batgirl and threaten to stab her with a razor-sharp knitting needle! She then confesses her plot to destroy Gotham City and collect on an insurance policy she took out on it. Nora then orders Evelina and Angelina to tied The Dynamic Trio into a gruesome Terriffic Siamese Human Knot, which will instantly strangulate all of them with the slightest motion! As the three crimefighters struggle to avoid strangulation, Nora, Evelina and Angelina prepare the final step in their plan: uncrating and unleashing thousands of mechanical mice loaded with explosives and programmed to detonate at sunset. Batman, of course, remembers a way out of the Siamese knot, and, following his instructions, the trio escape! He then realizes the terror Gotham faces and rushes off on an errand, whilst Robin puts through a call to Chief Lindseed in hopes of getting the police force to help---however all of the policewomen are fearful of any rodent, including mechanical ones, and faint dead away, rendering them useless! Moments later, The Batman returns and procures three flutes, with which ? liked Masked Pied Pipers ? the trio lead the mechanical mice safely out into the water of Gotham Harbor. This trick works, Batman cagily explains, because of a peculiar sound-actuated mechanism in the mice. Nora and her gang are rounded up with a citizen's arrest by Gordon, O'Hara and Alfred, after which Gotham returns to normal operation. In another part of Gotham, The Penguin puts forth his scheme to infect a bin of bucks at the U.S. Mint with Lygerian Sleeping Sickness... b: 18-Jan-1968 pc: 1719 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: Elizabeth Baur (4th Policewoman) is the daughter of Fox casting director Jack Baur and, in 1971, eventually won the role of Fran Belding (replacing Barbara Anderson) in the TV series Ironside (NBC, 1967-75). Larry Gelman (Bank Manager) later went on to play Vinnie on The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-75) and Dr. Tupperman on The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-78). Jean Byron (Mrs. Millie Lindseed) played the matriarch Natalie Lane on The Patty Duke Show (ABC, 1963-66), which aired on the same Wednesday schedule as Batman in early 1966! Twins Rhae and Alyce Andrese (2nd and 3rd Policewoman, respectively) portrayed lookalike androids Alice I and Alice II in the November 3, 1967 episode of Star Trek, "I, Mudd," which also featured Batman guest star Roger C. Carmel as Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd. 114. Penguin's Clean Sweep gs: Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) Monique Van Vooren (Miss Clean) Charles Dierkop (Dustbag) Newell Oestreich (Pushbroom) John Beradino (Doctor) William Phillips (Mint Supervisor) Abel Fernandez (Thug #1) Angelo Posito (Thug #2) Richard Jury (Bank Teller) John Vivyan (Bank Director) David Galliagn (Teenage Boy) Pamela McMyler (Teenage Girl) Len Felber (Policeman) The Blackbird Of Prey, The Penguin, his assistants, Dustbag and Pushbroom, and his moll Miss Clean visit The U.S. Mint to conduct their own guided tour of the building. Later, The Dynamic Duo are alerted by the bird and his minions at The Mint, and dash to Police HQ, where they immediately spot Penguin right outside and apprehend him. Upon learning the tricky bird stole absolutely nothing from The Mint, they release him...and decide to see what he's up to. Joined by Batgirl, Batman and Robin head for The Mint and discover that Penguin has infected the tender with the dreaded Lygerian Sleeping Sickness (a disease which puts its victim to sleep for years!) and a supply of the contaminated cash has already been shipped to The Gotham National Bank! While Batgirl speeds to the bank by Batgirlcyle as a ruse, Batman and Robin take The Batmobile to Gotham General Hospital to heck on the supply of Vaccine B-6, the only known antidite to the sleeping sickness. Unfortunately, they arrive in time to discover that Penguin has given himself and Dustbag and Pushbroom a dose of the vaccine, then pours it down the drain, releases 3 Lygerian Fruit Flies, and leaves The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder to be bitten alive by the infectuous insects! Batman uses his All-Purpose Batswatter to put 2 of the flies out of their misery; then, he spots the 3rd fly on Robin's nose and uses his Battweezers to remove it and take back with them to The Batcave to analyze. Before they do, they head back to Gotham Bank to relay the news with Batgirl. At the bank, they find that $13,000 of the tainted tender have already been distributed to unknowing Gothamites! Not knowing exactly which bills are infected, The Caped Crusader leaves nothing to chance and immediately puts through a warning broadcast by radio to the public urging them to get rid of the corrupted cash. As the people dump the money into the street Penguin and his gang promptly vaccuums up Gotham's cash-laden boulevards with giant vaccum cleaners. While The Penguin sorts his newfound wealth, millionaire Bruce Wayne contacts all of the worlds financiers, warning them not to take any of the money now circulating in Gotham City. Realizing he cannot do anything with his infectuous ill-gotten gains, The Penguin threatens to release 500 fruitflies in the city unless Bruce instructs the financiers to accept his money. After consulting with amateur weatherman Alfred Pennyworth, who, with an array of Bat Weather Instruments, informs them that the current weather will be cold and clear, Bruce defies his threat. An incenced Penguin quickly makes good on his ultimatum by releasing the flies, and, believing they did their job, he and his gang set out to rob Gotham's jewelry stores! Finding The Dynamic Trio, Gordon, and O'Hara asleep in the street reassures The Fiendish Fowl that his insidious scheme has come to pass. But as Penguin overplays his hand by trying to remove Chief O'Hara's gold watch, they all jump up and knock the villains cold; Penguin is deposited in the nearest garbage can. The Caped Crusader informs The Billious Bird that the flies were too used to tropical heat and were instantly overwhelmed by the cold weather which crushed them to death. Robin adds that Penguin tricked himself by giving himself that double dose of sleeping sickness vaccine; so large one that he'll probably contract Lygerian Sleeping Sickness himself...and The Penguin falls fast asleep! (It then suddenly starts raining, despite Alfred's forecast!) Meanwhile, Calamity Jan and her mom, Frontier Fanny, pay a visit on that criminal cowpoke, Shame, at The Gotham State Pen... b: 25-Jan-1968 pc: 1721 w: Stanford Sherman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: A Fine Feathered Finale for the late Burgess Meredith, who makes his swansong appearance (sorry!) as The Penguin. He was one of the most used and loved of all the Bat-villains, appearing in 20 episodes of the series. This episode's in-joke was to cast John Beradino as a doctor. At the time, Beradino had for five years portrayed Dr. Steve Hardy on ABC's General Hospital, whose cast also included Batman recurring regular David Lewis. Charles Dierkop (Dustbag) went on to portray Det. Pete Royster on Police Woman (NBC, 1974-78). 115. The Great Escape gs: Cliff Robertson (Shame) Victor Lundin (Chief Standing Pat) Hermione Baddeley (Frontier Fanny) Dina Merrill (Calamity Jan) Barry Dennen (Fred) Brian Sullivan (Fortissimo Fra Diavlo) Dorothy Kirsten (Leonora Sotto Voce) Jerry Mathers (Pops The Doorman [cameo]) Arnold Stang (Peter [gun shop owner]) That conniving cowboy of crime, Shame, breaks jail with the trusty aide of his fiancee, Calamity Jan, and her mom, Frontier Fanny, in a Sherman tank. At Police Headquarters, The Batman and Robin gets a message from Shame announcing his plans to steal a rock and roll from The Gotham City Stage. While The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder race back to The Batcave to consult The Batcomputer, Shame hides out at Gotham City Central Park Stables, where he is introduced to the members of his new posse: Standing Pat, a giant indian who converses in signals issued by his cigar; and Fernado Ricardo Enrique Dominquez (Fred for short), a Mexican with a British accent. Menwhile, The Dynamic Duo solves the meaning of the rock and the roll: the rock refers to a diamond, and the roll is really a bankroll, but they are stumped as to what is meant by The Gotham City Stage! Batgirl divines the meaning, however, and she notifies Batman via the red Batphone in Gordon's office, and arranges to rendezvous with The Dynamic Duo at a downtown street. Shame and his posse arrive at The Gotham City Opera House (the "stage"!), where they snatch a diamond pendant (the "rock"!) and a $20,000 bankroll (the "roll"!) from singers Leonora Sotto Voce and Fortissimo Fra Diavlo. The Dynamic Trio arrive in time to catch them in the act and give Shame and his crooked cowboys a good fist-beating (frontier style!) until Fanny and Jan spritz them with a whiff of Fear Gas. The three cower in fear, giving Shame enough room to kidnap Batgirl and scram. At The Batcave, Alfred neutralizes The Fear Gas's aftereffects with Batantidote Powder. While The Caped Crusader traces The Crokked Cowboy to his hideout, Fred and Standing Pat return with an acetylene torch and a diamond drill. While Shame and his gang leave the stable with Batgirl, a horseshoe drops from the doorframe onto Frontier Fanny's head, knocking her out and leaving her as fair game for the arriving Dynamic Duo. Reviving, Fanny warns that Batgirl's a goner if anything should happen to her! b: 01-Feb-1968 pc: 1723-Pt. 1 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: Jerry Mathers (Pops) endeared himself to '50s viewers as The Beaver. Dina Merrill (Calamity Jan) was in real life Cliff Robertson's bride at the time these episodes were shot. In this 2-part segment, Chief O'Hara refers to a clasic old movie: Low Midnight. 116. The Great Train Robbery gs: Cliff Robertson (Shame) Victor Lundin (Chief Standing Pat) Hermione Baddeley (Frontier Fanny) Dina Merrill (Calamity Jan) Barry Dennen (Fred) Brian Sullivan (Fortissimo Fra Diavlo) Dorothy Kirsten (Leonora Sotto Voce) Jerry Mathers (Pops The Doorman [cameo]) Arnold Stang (Peter [gun shop owner]) Shame and his criminal posse invade an ammunition shop where, after holding up its proprietor, Peter, and arming themselves to the teeth, they plan their next move. Meanwhile, Calamity Jan pleasd with Shame to swap Batgirl for her mom, and he grudgingly agrees. The next morning he sends Chief Standing Pat to Police HQ and deliver his offer. The Dynamic Duo accepts, and they transfer Frontier Fanny to The Central American Pavillion at the closed Gotham City World Fair, as requested, where Shame, Jan, Pat and Fred await in ambush. Batman spots the prenicious posse, and tosses a chemical capsule which makes their weapons 20X heavier than usual! Batgirl manages to fee herself, and The Dynamic Trio brutallt bash the barehanded bandits. Shame snatches up a gun and blasts out a pinata, knocking out The Trio long enough for the posse to head for them hills! Batman, Batgirl and Robin regain consciousness and reconvene in Gordon's office, where Batgirl relates Shame's plan to commit a Great Train Robbery. The Caped Crusader quickly recalls a shipment of old money which is being transported by train to The Treasury Department to be burned to ashes--and believes this is exactly what Shame is after! The Dynamic Trio rush to save the train! In the meantime, Shame severs the tracks with the acetylene torch and breaks into the money car with the diamond drill, spraying its occupants with Fear Gas and snatches the cash. The Dynamic Duo speeds back to The Batcave where The Caped Crusader launches a Batdrone plane to issue a skywritten challenge to Shame. Shame accepts, and agrees to meet Batman alone in the condemned tenement district (the exact equivalency of a ghost town!). Naturally, Shame reneges on his agreement with Batman and secretly has his posse wait in a nearby alley, with orders to blow Batman away when he and The Caped Crusader are within 20 feet apart. The final showdown commences, and while The Criminal Cowboy and The Caped Crusader slowly advance toward each other, Batgirl and Robin manages to disarm Shame's posse. Shame realizes something's wrong and resorts to plan B: a derringer hidden in his hat! Batman knocks it from his hand with a well-aimed and -thrown Batarang. Shame manages to fool Batman by cowardly begging for mercy at Batman's feet and pretending to surrender. He knocks him aside, and the two battle it out in the middle of the street. The Caped Crusader emerges victorious, and Shame, Jan, Fanny, Fred, and Pat are all hoosegow-bound! Meanwhile, King Tut undergoes treatment at The Mount Ararat Hospital... b: 08-Feb-1968 pc: 1723-Pt. 2 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: Cliff Robertson's final performance of Shame. Arnold Stang (Peter [gun shop owner]) provided the voice of Top Cat, as well as The Bee in several commercials for Honey Nut Cheerios in the 1980s. Batman was preempted on ABC February 15, 1968. 117. I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle gs: Victoria Vetri () Victor Buono (King Tut) Joey Tata (Suleiman The Great) Angela Dorian (Florence Of Arabia) Henny Youngman (Manny The Mesopotamian) Kathleen Freeman (Rosetta Stone) Tony Epper (Tutling) Jock Mahoney (H.L. Hunter) King Tut, currently undergoing psychiatric treatment at The Mount Ararat Hospital with Dr. Denton, escapes during one of their regular sessions when his unending drone bores the doctor asleep. Tut rejoins his gang--Suleman The Great, Florence Of Arabia, and Manny The Mesopotamian--and they rob The Rosetta Stone Company blind of $47,000 and hide out at The Florence Of Arabia Bellydancing Club (closed due to a case of the stomach flu!) run by Florence herself, Tut's new Queen Of The Nile. Here he informs Manny and Suleman that he has located a deposit of Nilanium, the hardest metal in the world, directly beneath Wayne Manor, and he plans to use the stolen cash to buy an adjacent piece of property from real estate agent Manny and then blast a slanting shaft under the manor! After conulting with Rosetta Stone and The Batcomputer, The Caped Crusader divines King Tut's scheme, and also learns that his shaft is aimed directly at The Batcave and that The Batanium Shield Lining of The Batcave might not withstand the blasting. After telling The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, to rendezvous with them at Tut's mine, batman and Robin depart via a secret entrance through The Subterranean Blue Grotto Exit, to prevent Tut from spotting The Batmobile. Meanwhile, Tut's mining foreman, H.L. Hunter, announces that they have struck something way too hard to break through with ordinary blasting. Tut believes they have strick Nilanium, and proceeds to blast it out himself. Just then, The Dynamic Trio appear, ready and raring to apprehend The Corpulent King, but Tut and his gang quickly hop into a nearby mining car and speed off down the tunnel. Wanting to preserve their secret identities, Batman and Robin prevent Batgirl from learning what lies within by having her remain behind to keep watch as they race down the tunnel; unfortunately, Tut and his crew has already reached the end of the shaft and crashed right through into The Batcave!!! When Batman and Robin reach the bottom of the shaft, Tut and his men confront them with their knowledge of their true identities! After a short Batfight, Batman spritzes the place with Batnesia Gas to erase whatever memory of The Batcave The Tutlings have, and then orders Alfred to bring them to the front lawn. But Tut has already escaped up the tunnel during the battle and The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder chase him in hopes of capturing him before he gets a chance to spill the beans, but all and alas to no avail. Just as The Nefarios Nabob is about to announce the true identities of Batman and Robin, he is done in by his own loud voice, which vibrates a rocks from the roof which knocks him unconscious. He comes to, reverts to his naturally scholarly self, and, to The Dynamic Duo's relief, has absolutely no recollection of his past experience! The Joker and his gang fly overhead in a homemade flying saucer to spread intergalactic terror in Gotham... b: 22-Feb-1968 pc: 1725 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Sam Strangis NOTE: This is the final appearance of the late Victor Buono as King Tut. Tut beats up The Batdummy which was previously used against him in Episode #1709, "The Unkindest Tut of All." Grabbing it with a sigh of recognition, he happily beats it up! Jock Mahoney (H.L. Hunter) is best remembered as one of several actors who portrayed Tarzan in the movies. Here, King Tut, once restored to his old self again, reveals his true name for the first and only time: Professor William Omaha Mackelroy. 118. The Joker's Flying Saucer gs: Cesar Romero (The Joker) Richard Bakalyan (Verdigris) Corinne Calvet (Emerald) Jeff Burton (Shamrock) Tony Gardner (Chartreuse) Byron Keith (Mayor Lindseed) Fritz Field (Professor Greenleaf) Ellen Corby (Mrs. Green) The Joker and his men Verdigris, Shamrock, and Chartreuse, and his moll Emerald create a flying saucer scare in Gotham City in order to prepare the people for his latest scheme: to build an actual flying saucer with the plans he obtained from a mad scientist cellmate and use it to take over the world! While The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder visit with Gordon (who was swamped with phone calls by concerned and frightened Gothamites), Verdigris (dressed as a little green man from Mars) plants a little green timebomb inside The Batmobile, set to detonate @ midnight! The Dynamic Duo speed back to The Batcave to use The Current Criminal Activity Batdisclosure Unit, and they discover The Joker's plan to build a flying saucer, but first he must obtain a source of lightweight metal. The Batman then remembers a supply of beyllium currently stored at The Wayne Foundation Metal Research Wing and sends Alfred Pennyworth to keep an eye on it. As Batman and Robin prepare to join their butler, midnight arrives, the bomb goes off and wrecks the entire Batcave!!!!!! Meanwhile, The Harlequin Of Homicidal Humor and his henchmen raid The Wayne Foundation and, mistaking Alf for a mad scientist, spirit him back to their hideout to browbeat him into building the fiendish flying saucer. Over 8 hours later, in the battered Batcave, Batman and Robin survived the effects of the bomb, protected by their Antithermal Bat-T-shirts and finally wake up. Finding the fallout has broken every recieving device and knocked all the phones off the hooks, they make some quick repairs and try to contact Alfred, who has since completed the flying saucer; then they rev up The Batcycle, speed to Gotham Airport, switch to The Batcopter and take off in search of the saucer. Back at The Joker's hideout at The Abandoned Launching Pad Factory on Flying Circus Hill, Batgirl, who followed Joker from The Wayne Foundation and was also captured, along woth Alfred, is about to be launced into orbit by The Criminal Comedian--but she foils his scheme by activating her Automatic Fuse Extinguisher in her Utility Belt. An incensed Joker immediately has The Caped Crusadress and Alfred taken aboard the saucer, and they all take off and head for outer space. Alf finally reaches The Dynamic Duo (which has kept distant pursuit in The Batcopter) on his tiny Intercosmic Two-Way Thermophone hidden inside his handkerchief and informs them that he cleverly placed some homing berillyum in the saucer, which will force it to return to the factory. As Joker begins his ultimatum from outer space, his saucer is automatically pulled back to the factory where a waiting Batman and Robin proceed to put The Fiendish Funnyman and his flunkies into orbit! Meanwhile, in Spiffany's Jewelry Store, Cassandra Spellcraft, alias Dr. Cassandra, and her husband Cabala take Camouflage Pills and advance on the fabulous Mope Diamond... b: 29-Feb-1968 pc: 1720 w: Charles Hoffman d: Sam Strangis NOTE: The footage of The Dynamic Duo driving The Batcycle to the heliport where they switch to The Batcopter is edited from the 1966 Batman movie. This is the final appearance of both the late Cesar Romero as The Joker and Byron Keith as Mayor Lindseed. Richard Bakalyan (seen here as Verdigris) previously played Arbutus in Episode #1710, "Louie the Lilac," Sphinx in the Season-2 episodes #9755, "King Tut's Coup/Batman's Waterloo," and C.B. in the first-season episodes #8731, "Death in Slow Motion/The Riddler's False Notion." Stock footage from the classic 1953 20th Century-Fox scifi film Invaders From Mars was used to show The Joker's Flying Saucer in flight. Although The Joker had a run-in with Alfred Pennyworth at the end of Season-2 Episode #9723-Pt. 2, "The Joker's Provokers," he failed to recognize him in this episode. The late Ellen Corby (Mrs. Green) was well known for her portrayal of Grandma Esther Walton on The Waltons (CBS, 1972-81). The idea of The Batcave being destroyed was later adapted in 1995's Batman Forever. 119. The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra gs: Howard Duff (Cabala) Ida Lupino (Cassandra Spellcraft/Dr. Cassandra) David Lewis (Warden Crichton) Bill Zuckert (Prison Captain) G. David Schine (Himself [Floorwalker]) Upon learning that The Gotham City Bank has been robbed by 2 invisible crooks, Commissioner Gordon attempts to contact The Dynamic Duo but is stopped by the invisible Cassandra Spellcraft, alias Dr. Cassandra, and her husband Cabala. After warning The Batman that they're helpless to stop them, they depart. While The Batman pays a visit to Gotham City Library where Barbara Gordon shows him some books on the occult sciences, Dr. Cassandra and Cabala return to their hideout where the good Dr. shows Cabala her deadly Alvino-ray gun and warns Gordon that she will now try to steal the famous Mope diamond from Spiffany's Jewelry Store. The Commissioner quickly informs The Dymanic Duo; joined by Batgirl, the trio converge upon the jewelry store just as Dr.Cassandra tries to swipe the valuable gem. Turning her Alvino-ray gun on the trio, she steals their dimension, flattening them, leaving her free to steal the Mope Diamond while Cabala collects the flattened heroes and delivers them to Police Headquarters. Gordon is horrified when the three heroes slide under the office door! Chief O'Hara suggests that their only hope is to call upon the voice which answers The Batphone. Alfred Pennyworth is indeed notified of his employers' flattened condition and has them delivered to the main post office; in cognito, he collects the trio and returns them to The Batcave. Meanwhile, Dr. Cassandra and Cabala use their camouflage pills and sneak into Gotham State Penitentiary to release 6 of Gotham City's archcriminals - The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, The Catwoman, King Tut, and Egghead! - and take them with them to their secret hideout in the basement of The Mortar And Pestle Building on Abracadabra Lane, where they're all issued camouflage pills and given a specific section of the city to rob. Back in The Batcave, Alfred recalls The Batmobile with The Remote Batcontrol and uses The 3-Dimensional Batrestorer on the trio and departs before Batgirl recognizes him. A fully-restored Terriffic Trio is notified about the prison breakout engineered by the good Dr. and Cabala, and Batman proceeds to use The Special Escaped Archcriminal Batlocater in The Batcomputer to lcoate the hideout. Dr. Cassandra, Cabala and the crooks see The Terrific Trio and immediately ingest the pills, making themselves invisible and immune to aground attack. The Batman extinguishes the lights and The Trio turn the tables on the criminals, who become visible when they become unconscious. Later, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara keep an appointment at Minerva's Mineral Spa... b: 07-Mar-1968 pc: 1722 w: Stanley Ralph Ross d: Sam Strangis NOTE: Look carefully at the villains which Dr. Cassandra springs from prison in this episode, and you will notice that Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Meredith, Vincent Price, Victor Buono, and Eartha Kitt are not in their regular roles! All were unavailable, so stunt doubles filled in for them. The late Ida Lupino and Howard Duff were husband and wife between 1951 and 1984. They even took some time to star in a sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, 1957-58). This was the final appearance of the late David Lewis as Warden Crichton. The Batman makes use of a Portable Batphone in this episode--something which is undoubtedly a precursor to today's cellphone! (Holy Avant Garde!) The late G. David Schine (seen here as Himself [Floorwalker]) became infamous in the 1950s as an aide to disgraced, anti-Communist demogogue Sen. Joe McCarthy and his assistant Roy Cohn. 120. Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires gs: Zsa Zsa Gabor (Minerva) Jacques Bergerac (Freddy Touche The Fence) William Smith (Adonis) Al Ferrara (Atlas) Yvonne Arnett (Aphrodite) Boyd Santell (Security Guard) George Neise (Mr. Shubert) Minerva, owner-operator-proprietress of a Mineral Spa that caters to millionaires, uses her dastardly Deepest Secret Extractor to pick the brains of her wealthy customers and to locate their hidden valuables. While Bruce Wayne and another wealthy patreon discuss the collection of priceless diamonds in the safe at The Wayne Foundation, Minerva eavesdrops and cleverly swipes Bruce's wristwatch from the locked box in which he place his other valuables. Later, she contacts Bruce by phone and tells him they found his missing timepiece and he will recieve an free-of-charge Eggplant Jelly Vitamin Scalp Massage if he comes to collect it. Arriving at Minerva' spa, Bruce recieves the full scalp treatment, inluding Minerva's Deepest Secret Extractor, with which Min uncovers the combination to the Wayne Foundation vault! While Bruce leaves Minerva recieves a call from Lord Easystreet, asking her for an appointment. Bruce rushes around the corner to the alley where Robin is waiting in The Batmobile; there he becomes The Caped Crusader and he and The Boy Wonder return to the sinister spa. Suspecting The Batman is on to her scheme, Minerva orders her men Adonis and Atlas to put The Dynamic Duo into her Persimmon Pressurizers to parboil them. Whyle Batman and Robin are left to cook, Minerva enters The Wayne Foundation Vault and swipes the diamonds from within; after which, she rescrambles the combination and hands them over to French Freddy, The Fence. She returns to discover to her shock that Batman and Robin have escaped, with the aid of their Steam-Neutralizing Batpellets...but she decides to rob Lord Easystreet before skipping town. Later, The Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder question Minerva at Police HQ, where, of course, she denies the whole thing regarding their attempted murder or any of the robberies. Suspecting that she lied, The Batman sets a trap for her, and Barbara Gordon agrees to assist by making sure the true Lord Easystreet fails to keep his appointment at the spa by detaining him at the library; she notifies him about a certain book he is searching for which has finally turned up there. While The Lord goes to The Gotham Library, Alfred, who is Easystreet's doppleganger, replaces him and keeps his appointment at Minerva' Spa; here, Min prepares to put Alf under her Deepest Secret Extractor. Meanwhile, The Caped Crusader learn that the combination to The Wayne Founation ahs been tampered with, and uses his Three-Second-Flat Batvault Combination Unscrambler to break inside and uncovers the diamonds' theft. He then realizes Alfred is in danger, and, along with The Boy Wonder, he heads back to the spa. Minerva soon learns that Alfred is a phony and tries to dsicover his real indentity; before she can do so, The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, shows up---only to be immediately nabbed by Adonis and Atlas and placed, along with Alfred, into the same Persimmon Pressurizers which failed to do in The Dynamic Duo earlier. Minerva discovers that Fredy The Fence has blown town with The Wayne Diamonds and prepares to follow him, but is blocked by Batman and Robin. She releases Alfred and Batgirl and sics Adonis and Atlas on The Dynamic Trio; during The Batfight, she tries to escape, but fall into the waiting hands of Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara, who arrive with Freddy (who was nabbed at Gotham Airport) and to take Minerva and the now-subdued Adonis and Atlas into custody. b: 14-Mar-1968 pc: 1726 w: Charles Hoffman d: Oscar Rudolph NOTE: An era ends! This is the 120th and final firstrun network telecast of Batman ever transmitted on ABC. The short-lived ABC sitcom Second Hundred Years occupied Batman's former 7:30 Thursday night slot the following week and stayed there for the remainder of the 1967-68 season, so you notice that Batman didn't go into reruns that summer! Special appearances by show producers William Dozier and Howie Horwitz add a little inside humor to this series finale. After the show was canceled by ABC-TV, NBC showed a great interest in purchasing the show! Tragically, some network exec. at ABC, in a effort to get valuable space on the studio lot had the whole set demolished, forcing NBC, not willing to invest in the great cost to rebuild the set ($800,000!!!), to decline. >:( The role of Minerva was originally intended for Mae West, who at the time was being groomed for the role of Leticia Van Allen in the 1970 20th Century-Fox release Myra Beckinridge. The Dynamic Duo would later reappear on network TV as animated characters on CBS Saturday Morning in the fall of 1968 (a full half-year after the end of the live-action series' run), as part of Filmation's The Batman-Superman Hour, which stressed action, and left the camp of the live-action TV series behind. (Adam West and Burt Ward later reteamed to voice their animated counterparts in Filmation's The New Adventures Of Batman, which first aired on CBS in 1977.) Interestingly, The Dynamic Duo's first appearance as animated characters were in the opening titles of the live-action Batman TV series! Special Return To The Batcave: The Misadventures Of Adam And Burt gs: Jack Brewer (Young Adam West/'Batman') Jason Marsden (Young Burt Ward) Brett Rickaby (Young Frank Gorshin) Julia Rose (Young Julie Newmar) Erin Carufel (Young Yvonne Craig/Batgirl) Paul A. Kaufman (Network Executive #2) Adam West (Himself) Burt Ward (Himself) Frank Gorshin (Himself) Julie Newmar (Arizona Bar Owner/Herself) Rory Thost (Hunter) Frank Addela (Robin stuntman) Heidi Androl (Sexy fan) Curtis Armstrong (Jerry the Butler) Steve Blalock (Batman stuntman) Carl Ciarfalio (Henchman - Slim) Silas Cooper (Wardrobe man) Traci L. Crouch (Secretary) John E. Goetz (Valet parker) Kelly King (Jonelle) Elisa Marchand (Femme fatale) Lee Meriwether (Waitress in diner) Todd Merrill (Network executive) Ben Perkins (Fan boy) Bobby Porter (Henchman - Big Joe) Tait Ruppert (Publicist) Nikki Schieler Ziering (Lucy) Anthony G. Schmidt (Henchman - Pretty Boy) Scott Schwartz (Henchman - Curly) Lyle Waggoner (Narrator/Himself) Betty White (Woman in Window during Batclimb sequence [uncredited]) Almost 35 years after the demise of the original show comes this new television movie that reunites Batman series stars Adam West and Burt Ward in a comedy adventure where they stumble upon a diabolical plot to steal the original Batmobile from a charity benefit! While trying to unravel the details and find The Batmobile, West and Ward flashback to the tumultuous times of their 1966-68 ABC television series to reveal a bizarre behind-the-scenes story of the creation of a television classic, from their on-the-set explosions to their wild real-life encounters with fans. b: 09-Mar-2003 w: Duane Poole d: Paul A. Kaufman NOTE: First broadcast as a "CBS Sunday Movie," Sunday, March 9 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Shockingly, the only original Batman footage ever shown in this special is from the 1966 Batman movie!! Actual footage of Lyle Waggoner's screen test for Batman is featured.