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Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 1/12/1966
Hi Diddle Riddle
A bomb goes off at the Gotham City World's Fair revealing a riddle which leads Batman and Robin to the Peale Art Gallery. The duo find out it's a trick from the Riddler who serves them subpeonas. Batman must find out the Riddler's sceme or he must reveal his true identity. Robin finds two clues in the papers and they head to a diso where he unfortuneatly cannot get in. Batman's drugged by the Riddler's assistant, Molly. Batman's drugged and Robin is tranquilliezed by the Riddler, who in turn tries to steal the Batmobile. The Riddler attempts to blow the Batmobile up after he kidnaps Robin. Batman races out to the Batmobile but in his incompacitated condition, he is forced to turn his keys over to the police. The Riddler attempts to operate on Robin.

Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 1/13/1966
Smack in the Middle
Batman's attempts to contact Robin with no luck. Riddle copies Robin's face for Molly who infiltrates the Bat-Cave but falls to her death when Batman discovers her. Batman frees Robin. The Riddler goes after the Mammoth Of Moldavia. The Dynamic Due pursue and capture the Mole Hill Mob as Riddler escapes in an explosion.

Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 1/19/1966
Fine Feathered Finks
Awaiting release from prison, The Penguin schemes to get Batman to plan his crimes for him. Batman and Robin investigate the alias K.G. Bird. Batman as Bruce Wayne plants a bug at the umbrella store and is captured by The Penguin. Bruce is set for doom as he head to the furnace.

Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 1/20/1966
The Penguin's a Jinx
Bruce Wayne escapes his firery demise. Batman and Robin stake-out Dawn Robbins' place awaiting for The Penguin but he magnitizes them to the door with a giant magnet and escapes. The Penguin is soon apprehended at Wayne Manor attempting to retreive the ransom for Dawn Robbins. NEXT WEEK: Batman versus The Joker!

Season 1, Episode 5 – Aired: 1/26/1966
The Joker Is Wild
The Joker espaces after a prison baseball game where he Batman and Robin at a museum and at the opera. Batman and Robin are caught and The Joker makes a move to unmask them.

Season 1, Episode 6 – Aired: 1/27/1966
Batman Is Riled
The Joker escapes after a fowled attempt to reveal Batman's true identity. At the S.S. Gotham Christianing, Joker recaptures Batman & Robin only to be foiled by the Dynamic Duo.

Season 1, Episode 7 – Aired: 2/2/1966
Instant Freeze
Mr. Freeze seeks vengeance on Batman for his accident by stealing some diamonds. Freeze foils the Dynamic Duo with duplicates. Mr. Freeze attempts to steel the visiting Princess of Molino's diamonds only to be intercepted by Batman & Robin. Mr. Freeze freezes the Duo in their tracks as they try to apprehend him.

Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 2/3/1966
Rats Like Cheese
Batman & Robin are thawed out as Mr. Freeze has captured the Gotham City's star baseball pitcher. Freeze proposes a trade for Batman. Robin tracks them down to Freeze's warehouse. Mr. Freeze demonstrates his freezing system on the Dynamic Duo. Batman saves the day by knocking out Mr. Freeze & reverses the controls

Season 1, Episode 9 – Aired: 2/9/1966
Zelda the Great
Zelda, The Great returns to town to steal her yearly stash of money. On her visit she tricks Aunt Harriet into believing that Dick is hurt and lures her into a trap which leaves her suspended over a vat of boiling oil.

Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 2/10/1966
A Death Worse Than Fate
Bruce Wayne convinces Zelda her money she stole is actually real and Aunt Harriet is returned. A clue leads the Dynamic Duo to Zelda's accomplice, Eivol's lare where they get captured. Zelda informs Batman & Robin about the trap and capture Eivol and his men. Zelda surrenders and is given a reprieve as a magician.

Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 2/16/1966
A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away
The Riddler has returned to Gotham in hopes of kidnapping the visiting King Boris. Will the Dynamic Duo be able to figure out the many riddles and save the King?

Season 1, Episode 12 – Aired: 2/17/1966
When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play
While The Riddler's men escort King Boris and his statue back to Gotham, Batman manages to get his blowtorch from his utility belt and burn the armature, causing the reactor to short circuit and deactivate. The Dynamic Duo free themselves and return to The Batcave. Believing he has spun The Duo to their deaths, The Riddler proceeds with his blackmail scheme: to use King Boris as an unwitting pawn by his placing the statue inside the museum, and inform Commissioner Gordon that, unless he's paid a million dollars he'll destroy The Queen Of Freedom Monument!

Meanwhile, after Whitey, one of The Riddler's men, dresses up as Batman and pays a visit to Commissioner Gordon's office and Bruce Wayne, Batman and Robin have solved the last of The Prince Of Puzzler's riddles, figuring out his scheme, and they set a trap for him inside the museum. The Riddler and The River Rats arrives to collect their cash -- only to find to their dismay that not only the statue containing the bomb isn't there, the satchel of money is phony! Suddenly, The Dynamic Duo appear from a balcony above, informing The King Of Criminal Conundrums that they've already deactivated the bomb, and then deactivate The Riddler and The River Rats themselves!

Season 1, Episode 13 – Aired: 2/23/1966
The Thirteenth Hat
Jervis Tetch, The Mad Hatter, sets out to take revenge against The Batman and the 12 members of the jury that convicted him and sent him to prison. Using The Super Instant Mesmerizer concealed in his top hat, he begins stealing hats of the jurors--along with their owners! After collecting most of the jury, Tetch decides it's time to add Batman's cowl -- his "thirteenth" hat, he calls it -- so he sets a trap for The Caped Crusader and Robin The Boy Wonder at the studio of sculptor Octave Marbot, who is currently sculpting a statue of Batman.

Masquerading as Marbot, Tetch tries luring The Dynamic Duo into removing his cowl so he can use it as a model for the statue's head. Knowing full well that Marbot has finished the head already, The Batman sees through The Mad Hatter's disguise, and, pretending to fall for his deception, The Dynamic Duo retire to the back room to remove The Batman's cowl in secret. There they find the real Marbot bound and gagged in the closet, and burst out to confront The Mad Hatter. During the battle that ensues, Tetch tries his Super Instant Mesmerizer on Batman, but the latter counterattacks with his Antimesmeriszing Batreflector; unfortunately, The Hatter dodges and Robin, standing behind him, is hit by the deflecting ray. Rushing to his aid, Batman is knocked asunder by Jervis Tetch, who manages to entomb The Caped Crusader in Super-Fast Hardening Plaster!

Season 1, Episode 14 – Aired: 2/24/1966
Batman Stands Pat
After several minutes, Jervis Tetch is convinced that The Batman has smothered to death inside the plaster, and he has the real Marbot break it open in order to obtain a mold of The Caped Crusader's cowl. As Marbot slowly chips away at the plaster shroud, they hear someone chipping away from the inside! Lo and behold, Batman - who wisely held his Batbreath - emerges from the plaster, and The Mad Hatter and his cronies Cappy and Dicer make a hasty retreat. They try to utilize The Batmobile as a getaway car, but they unknowingly trigger its Antitheft Device strategically set up by The Dynamic Duo (there have been a rash of recent car thefts in the area). Learning that The Hatter has only one more juror to capture, Turkey Bullwinkle, owner of the Bowl-O-Drome bowling alley, Batman arranges for Alfred to plant a Homing Battransmitter in Bullwinkle's bowler, hoping that it will lead them to The Mad Hatter's hideaway.

Later that night, at The Bowl-O-Drome, Alf succeeds in planting the device moments before The Hatter and his assistant, Lisa - posing as a reporter for Male Mode, a magazine devoted to men's fashion - swipe his hat. Unfortunately, as Bullwinkle confronts The Mad Hatter, they drop the hat, unwittingly exposing the Battransmitter. Jervis Tetch sees this as a golden opportunity to lure The Batman into a trap, and subsequently uses his Super Mesmerizer on Turkey Bullwinkle and makes off with his 12th and final juror and his bowler. The Mad Hatter deliberately leads The Darknight Duo directly to his digs, where he hopes to use his ghastly machinery of his homicidal hat factory to dispose of them. They do fall into The Hatter's trap, but manages to overpower their vengeful adversary, eventually sending him plummeting into a vat of shrinking solution. Bruce and Dick later buy a hat for Aunt Harriet on her birthday at Madame Magda's.

NEXT WEEK: The Joker returns!

Season 1, Episode 15 – Aired: 3/2/1966
The Joker Goes to School
The Clown Prince Of Crime, The Joker, attempts to undermine student morale at Woodrow Roosevelt High School in order to recruit high school dropouts for his gang of Bad Pennies by rigging the school vending machines to give out silver dollars and negotiable stocks and bonds instead of milk. Alerted by Commissioner Gordon, Batman races out to the school. An immediate assembly is made by the school's student leaders: including Richard "Dick" Grayson, Pete, and Susie, the school's head cheerleader. Batman shows up to show slides of mug shots of The Joker, when suddenly, out of the blue, he pops up right in full view of everyone! The Batman attempts to arrest him for loitering on school grounds, but The Joker manages to get off on a mere technicality. Meanwhile, across Gotham City, a bar is held up by a gimmicked jukebox which when activated spouts a double-barrel shotgun; then two stocking-masked hoodlums, actually two of Joker's Bad Pennies, Nick and Two-Bits, rush in to rob the bar's receipts from the register!

The Joker reconvenes with Nick and Two-Bits at their hideout, The One-Armed Bandit Novelty Company; unbeknownst to everyone else, Susie is also a member of The Joker's Bad Pennies! She arranges to swipe some important exam papers to that The Joker can use them in a blackmail scheme, and also leads The Dynamic Duo into a trap set by The Joker. The Homicidal Harlequin and his Bad Pennies snag The Duo with one of the rigged vending machines which, instead of giving out silver dollars, locks them in shackles and emits sleeping gas! Batman and Robin are transferred to the inside of an insidious moving van, where they are strapped to electric chairs; on the wall is a one-armed bandit, which when activated will release instant and inescapable 50,000 lethal volts of electricity should it turn up three lemons!!!!

Season 1, Episode 16 – Aired: 3/3/1966
He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul
Just as the deadly one-armed bandit spins 3 lemons, Gotham City suffers a massive blackout! The Joker and his gang beat a harried retreat, just as the cops arrive just in time to cut Batman and Robin out from the electric chairs before the power comes back on! After replaying the audiotape The Caped Crusader secretly made while in the van, The Dynamic Duo were able to make out Susie as one of the members of The Joker's criminal gang, much to Robin's shock. So Robin, in the guise of Dick Grayson, Undercover Agent, tries to trick Susie into leading him into The Bad Pennies and The Joker himself. Unfortunately, Bad Penny member Nick catches immediately on and sends Dick on his way....but not before tipping him off on an impending robbery at a local bar. The Dynamic Duo enter the bar, trigger the gimmicked jukebox which spouts a double-barrel shotgun, deflect its bullets with The Batshield, and use a Batbomb to destroy the crooked machine! They then realize that Susie is in danger and rush to her aid, just as The Joker, realizing that The Dynamic Duo is on to Susie, gives her some perfume, which he instructs her to use only after she has planted answers to some important Nationwide Pre-College Exam papers she stole inside one of the rigged machines, not telling her that the perfume has been poisoned!

In the gym, Batman and Robin confront Susie and warn her of impending danger, but she brushes them off. When she applies the poisonous perfume and slumps unconscious, Batman and Robin save her life by using the Universal Antidote Pills in their utility belts, and she repays them by revealing the whole criminal scheme. Meanwhile, Joker, Nick, and Two-Bits arrive at the school in time to snap an incriminating picture of The Woodrow Roosevelt High School basketball team clutching the exam papers complete with the answers, which the team received from a rigged milk machine. The Joker then reaches a new low in crime: he plans to use the picture to disqualify and suspend the otherwise innocent team members for cheating, and stop them from playing Disco Tech in the night's big game, for he bet his cash on the opposite team and with the home players out of the game, the opposing team, Disco Tech would win from default. The Dynamic Duo suddenly swing down from the rafters on their Batropes to inform the students that the exam papers were phonies which they planted, rendering The Joker's picture useless. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder then proceed to deliver the punch line, putting The Joker and his Bad Pennies out of circulation! Susie, by the way, is sent to The Wayne Foundation Institute For Delinquent Girls.

NEXT WEEK: Batman battles False-Face!

Season 1, Episode 17 – Aired: 3/9/1966
True or False-Face
The wily master of disguise, False-Face, steals The Mergenberg Crown by masquerading as the Queen's escort, and replaces it with a false one right under the watchful eyes of the police. Included with the paste crown is an obscure clue revealing to Batman and Robin that False-Face's next crime will be the hijacking of an armored car. They catch him red-handed at the Gotham City Bank, but he escapes in his Trick-Truck. The Dynamic Duo spirit False Face to an alley, where his flunkies give battle. The police arrive in time to apprehend the gang, but False-Face disguises himself as Police Chief O'Hara and escapes.

Suspecting a counterfeit money scheme is in the works, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder rush to the bank note printer's office and capture False-Face's slinky assistant, Blaze, who is attempting to make off with a load of money paper. At Police Headquarters Blaze is interrogated, with the fake O'Hara taking part. She is torn between infatuation with Batman and her loyalty to False-Face, but finally she agrees to lead the Caped Crusader to the criminal's hideout...but it's a ruse! False-Face, disguised as a gumball machine, gasses Batman while Blaze clonks Robin over the head. The Dynamic Duo are glued to the subway rail tracks by a super-strong epoxy, as a train hurtles toward them and will momentarily trisect them!

Season 1, Episode 18 – Aired: 3/10/1966
Holy Rat Race
As the train barrels towards our heroes, Alfred hears a strange transmission on the radio that alerts him to the Dynamic Duo's peril. He contacts Batman who requests that Alfred throw the short-circuit lever of thhe Battransmitter, causing Batman's radio to blow up and melt the epoxy on his wrist. He uses his free hand to reach The Batlaser in his utility belt, which he uses to melt away the remaining epoxy and free himself and Robin just as the train passes through the station and by our heroes! Batman and Robin return to Gordon's office at Police HQ and deduce that False-Face will attempt a bank robbery in which real money will be replaced with his own fake bills, so that the only money that will be any good will be False-Face's ill-gotten gains. (After all, who would think of telling the real tender from the fake?)

The two heroes secret themselves in the bank vault, surprising the villains. False-Face and Blaze escape in the disguised Trick-Truck but are pursued by The Dynamic Duo to Bioscope Movie Studios. False-Face, discovering Blaze's crush on Batman (she was the one who sent the radio message earlier), holds her hostage and lots of mayhem ensues in and around the matchstick movie sets. False-Face blows up Batman's clever inflatable Batmobile as the chase through the movie sets continues, ending with False-Face disguising himself as a cowboy to slug it out with Batman. One last diversionary smoke screen and out pops Commissioner Gordon — a fake Commissioner Gordon. Batman sees through the disguise and rips off this last false face, and takes the protean criminal off to jail. Blaze reforms and goes off to become a shepherdess with her brother.

NEXT WEEK: Batman faces The Catwoman!

Season 1, Episode 19 – Aired: 3/16/1966
The Purr-Fect Crime
Catwoman steals some priceless art and Batman & Robin take chase. Robin is separated from Batman who has to choose between 2 doors to find his chum. Which one will he choose?

Season 1, Episode 20 – Aired: 3/17/1966
Better Luck Next Time
Batman escapes and rescues Robin from further danger while Catwoman searches for her treasure. The Dynamic Duo finally catch up to her in but at what cost?


Season 1, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/23/1966
The Penguin Goes Straight
While attending a matinee performance at a Gotham City Theater, The Penguin, with the aid of his trusty bulletproof umbrella, foils a would-be thief who attempts to steal beautiful actress Sophia Starr's great ruby. The forces of good suspect that this is a plot, but Penguin insists upon his good intentions. Later, at The Millionaire's Club, Penguin once again prevents a crime, this time fending off 2 crooks (actually Eagle-Eye and Dove, Penguin's Finks!) from kidnapping millionaire Reggie Rich from a steam-room. The Dynamic Duo finally show up, and Penguin announces his Penguin Protection Agency, intended to protect the wealth of Gotham City's society crowd (and as actual competition for Batman and Robin!), including Sophia Starr's Jewelry. In an attempt to prevent The Abominable Avian from swiping Sophia Starr's jewels, The Caped Crusader has Alfred the butler pose as an insurance company agent and sends him on a secret errand to photograph the jewelry, and switch Penguin's cigarette holder for one containing a hidden microphone. Unfortunately, Alfred didn't count on Penguin's bug detecting handle of his umbrella, and when he discovers the switch, Alf manages to yank the rug out from under Penguin and escape with the photos.

That night, after using Alfred's pictures to create phony jewels to replace the real ones, which Penguin has been hired to protect, The Darknight Detectives break into Miss Starr's apartment in order to replace the real jewels with the fakes. Unfortunately, they are caught trying to make the switch and are charged with burglary by The Felonious Fowl and his Finks. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder escape, but are now labeled fugitives from justice! When The Penguin throws a party at The Gotham Amusement Pier, The Dynamic Duo arrive to investigate, but quickly fall into a Penguin trap and are pelted with cement-filled umbrellas! They are strung up behind the balloon-shooting gallery, and the pop guns (wielded by an unknowing Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara) are loaded with real bullets!

Season 1, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/24/1966
Not Yet, He Ain't
Just as Gordon and O'Hara shoot, The Dynamic Duo lift up their feet and deflect the deadly bullets with the bulletproof soles of their boots. The Batman then cuts himself and Robin free of their bonds with his Batknife, and they both escape. Upon discovering The Dynamic Duo's escape from his trap, The Penguin gets his new society friends to put pressure on Commissioner Gordon to rally Gotham to a manhunt — or bat-and-robin-hunt — and Gordon has no choice but to agree. Batman & Robin arrive at The Penguin Protection Agency, faking insanity and ready to tear The Penguin, Eagle-Eye and Dove apart! Following the ensuing melee, The Dynamic Duo immediately depart upon the arrival of the authorities, who, after chasing The Demented Duo for a couple of blocks, apparently kill them in a shootout in an nearby alley — but the cops' guns were loaded with blanks, as Batman had planned.

Convinced Batman and Robin are finished, Penguin and his Finks swipe The Batmobile and speed off to plans their master caper, which is scheduled to transpire during his wedding to Sophia (the theft of his own wedding gifts!). Eagle-Eye and Dove rig a water pipe, which explodes; then the umbrellas which Penguin has passed out burst out in spectacular display, diverting attention from the fact that the wedding gifts are being burgled, using the ex-Batmobile (rechristened as The Birdmobile!!) as a getaway car, and they head for their secret impregnable hideaway. Batman and Robin, riding The Batcycle, use their deep knowledge of the vehicle (and a remote control!) to force The Batmobile to do their bidding and deliver The Pompous, Waddling Master Of Fowl Play and his Finks to justice. Sophia Starr, despite this experience, still believes she can reform Penguin by marrying him, but believes otherwise when The Avaricious Avian fancies the wedding gifts more than his would-be bride!

NEXT WEEK: Batman jousts with The Joker again!

Season 1, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/30/1966
The Ring of Wax
The Riddler smuggles a revolutionary new ring of Universal Wax Solvent, a substance that can eat through anything, from the French Cognac District into the U.S. of A. inside a wax statue of Batman intended for display at Madame Soleil's Wax Museum. (Since the U.S. Government has forbidden its importation for fear that it might fall into the wrong hands, Riddler had to devise something to fool Customs!) In place of the wax Batman statue is a wax replica of The Conundrum King himself, which at its unveiling sprays the audience with a gun filled with red paint while a tape recorder blares out 2 Riddles. In his hideout at The Kandle Lite Kandle Factory, Riddler melts the wax-figure of Batman, containing the wax solvent, into a vatful of boiling wax, as Moth, his new female assistant, looks on.

Meanwhile, Riddler's puzzles lure Batman and Robin to The Gotham City Public Library, where The Riddler and his 2 henchmen, Tallow and Matches, has broken into the rare book vault with his wax solvent to swipe a rare book about the fabled lost treasure of The Incas! When The Dynamic Duo arrive at the factory, they are unwittingly anticipated by The Riddler and company, who give battle; after which, he uses a can of his own Dr. Riddler's Instant Forever-Stick Invisible Wax Emulsion to glue The Duo's feet to the floor, and he and his cronies beat a hasty retreat. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder track their foes back to The Wax Museum, where they are immediately overpowered and taken to Riddler's hideout, where they are suspended by rope over a huge vat of boiling wax, which Riddler plans to use to convert them into giant human candles!

Season 1, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/31/1966
Give 'em the Axe
The awful fumes from the molten wax ultimately force Riddler and crew to take refuge downstairs, giving Batman the distraction he needs to reflect a single ray of sun off the shiny buckle of his utility belt into an open barrel of an explosive formula! The explosion that results frees The Duo from their bonds only to knock them out. Believing the explosion has finished them off, The Riddler informs Commissioner Gordon, et al, of the demise of Batman and Robin, and he and his crew hasten to The Gotham City Museum, to break into the sarcophagus of the ancient Incan emperor Hualpo Cusi — which supposedly contains the long-lost treasure. Meanwhile, a very much alive and well Batman and Robin regain consciousness and trace Riddler to the museum only to find it locked, with the only entrance seeming to be a small window on an upper floor -- too big for Batman to fit through, but small enough for a Boy Wonder.

Robin climbs through the window and while making his way through the building to the front door to let Batman in, Robin is overpowered by Matches and Tallow, and brought to The Riddler, who has him tied down to a medieval rack to be stretched! The Caped Crusader suspects that The Boy Wonder is in trouble and makes ample use of The Batram under The Batmobile to smash open the museum doors. He arrives in time to rescue Robin and The Dynamic Duo thwart Riddler, Matches, Tallow and Moth in their attempt to plunder the ancient treasure, and stop their Universal Wax Solvent from destroying a rare old sarcophagus containing an Incan mummy and the treasure. Bruce Wayne and Richard Grayson later take Aunt Harriet to The Gotham City Museum to see the mummified exhibit of Hualpo Cusi.

NEXT WEEK: Batman jousts with The Joker again!

Season 1, Episode 25 – Aired: 4/6/1966
The Joker Trumps an Ace
The Clown Prince Of Crime, The Joker, returns to commit what appear to be senseless crimes: first he raids a fur salon, where he steals a hairpin from one of the rich patrons, then he pilfers one of the holes from a golf course. The Dynamic Duo, au naturel, are called in to investigate, arriving at Gordon's office just as an inflatable jack-in-the-box sent in by The Homicidal Harlequin is delivered. The Batman deduces that The Joker plans to steal the solid gold golf clubs belonging to the visiting Maharajah of Nimpah and immediately rushes down by Batmobile to the golf course to thwart the villain. Just as The Maharajah hits the golf ball into the hole he's playing, a cloud of colored gas spews from it, knocking everyone unconscious. (As it's revealed, The Joker stole this hole; he used the stolen hairpin as a trigger, and it was struck by the golf ball and activated the sleeping gas smoke bomb cleverly hidden inside the hole.) The Joker's henchmen then sees fit to kidnap the Maharajah (with a forklift, as the Nimpahnese monarch weighs over 350 lbs.!) and spirit him away by van. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder immediately gives pursuit in The Batmobile, but, just as they gain on them, the van, which is covered by folding mirrors which allow it to blend totally into the background, quickly vanishes! Later, Batman and Robin trace The Joker to his GHQ at the abandoned Katz, Katz & Katz Company Oil Refinery, where they are captured and locked inside an enormous chimney. As if this isn't enough, deadly gas starts to pour in!

Season 1, Episode 26 – Aired: 4/7/1966
Batman Sets the Pace
Batman and Robin discover where the gas is found and track down the Joker and the Maharajah. Joker demands ransom money for the Maharajah only to be revealed to be the same person.

Season 1, Episode 27 – Aired: 4/13/1966
The Curse of Tut
A new villain, King Tut, prepares to claim Gotham City as his new Thebes.

Season 1, Episode 28 – Aired: 4/14/1966
The Pharaoh's in a Rut
Batman sets a trap for King Tut, but is captured along with Tut's faithless Queen Nefertiti.

Season 1, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/20/1966
The Bookworm Turns
The Bookworm stages a phoney assissination on the Commissioner and leaves a clue for them to solve. With the help of Lydia, the Bookworm captures Robin who is tied to the Wayne Memorial Tower.

Season 1, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/21/1966
While Gotham City Burns
Recalling one of Lydia's cryptic remarks ("He strikes at midnight," she said) Batman divines the meaning, and, with Chief O'Hara (whom he met on the way), races to Big Benjamin to attempt to stop the clock and save Robin before it's too late. O'Hara fails to shoot out the clockworks, and, with but a minute to spare until 12 midnight, The Caped Crusader uses The Batzooka to shoot a line to the lightning rod on top of the clock tower and the second to the clock's hands; he then connects the ends of both lines to The Batmobile's nuclear power source into the positive terminal, in hopes of positively charging the clapper and the bell and thus repel each other! Just as Benjamin's clapper is about to strike, Batman's plan is successful, and Robin is saved. After the rescue, The Peerless Pair repair to The Batcave, where they research their foe's methods. Simultaneously, Bookworm is upstairs in Wayne Manor pilfering a rare alchemical text from Bruce's library; he then arranges for a giant-sized cookbook (the name of it is called The Delight Of Cooking by Suzan Barrie) to appear in the middle of 5th and Cedar streets in downtown Gotham. The Dynamic Duo race to the scene, open the book with a super-powered magnet from The Batmobile (actually, Bookworm and Lydia opened it, with a remote control), enter the book, find a small kitchen inside, and soon find themselves trapped inside the armor-plated book as scalding hot steam is pumped in!!

Bookworm and Lydia see this as a chance to swipe The Batmobile, and they drive it to the rear of The Morganbilt Library, where he plans to use its Batbeam, to break into The Library and snatch all of the rare and priceless books stored within. As Chief O'Hara, Commissioner Gordon, and a group of Gotham's Finest attempt to open the giant cookbook, The Caped Crusader contacts Alfred at The Batcave and, with his help, locates the manhole under the book which Bookworm introduced his murderous steampipe! It is here that The Dynamic Duo make their escape, just as the police finally blast open the book to find it empty, and deduce The Duo had been consumed by the steam. Meanwhile, a very much un-steamed Batman and Robin pick up The Bookworm's conversation in The Batmobile by way of a concealed microphone; it's then relayed to them via an automatic feedback circuit in their Batcave, and they head for The Morganbilt Library, where they eventually subdue The Pernicious Plagiarist and his bookish crew at the library, saving Gotham City yet again. Bookworm and Lydia are taken to Police HQ for Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson to see in person before being hauled off to the pokey.

NEXT WEEK: the return of The Riddler!

Season 1, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/27/1966
Death in Slow Motion
The Riddler steals box office receipts and Batman & Robin trace him to a bakery. With only the riddles that are given, Batman and Robin track the Riddler down only to be separated with Robing on the splitting block.

Season 1, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/28/1966
The Riddler's False Notion
After leaving Van Jones' fatal party, Batman returns to his now-empty Batmobile. There, along with Commissioner Gordon, he finds 2 more Riddles (shot from his Batvehicle's Antitheft Rocket chambers), which lead him to The Gotham Lumberyard, where The Riddler is shooting Robin's demise under the buzzsaw's teeth! As The Caped Crusader makes ready to save The Boy Wonder, The Riddler, disguised as a silent-film cliffhanger villain (complete with black top hat, cape and moustache!) attacks Batman with his bullwhip! Realizing his junior partner is in danger, Batman rushes to his aid, giving Riddler and C.B., Von Bloheim and Wolf the distraction they need to escape. When Batman reaches the boy at the saw, he finds he has been duped by a Robin-disguised dummy. Just then, Pauline spots The Caped Crusader and tries to make her escape, but is quickly captured and taken to The Batcave, along with Commissioner Gordon (as insurance that Batman won't use methods which might bounce back on him in court), after dosing them both with Batgas. There in The Batcave, Pauline reveals 2 more Riddles which lead The Batman to the top of The Chessman Building.

Again, The Caped Crusader finds The Riddler filming The Boy Wonder, this time as Robin is about to be pushed off a ledge onto the street below, and the crooked crew is preparing to film Robin's fatal fall during an unsuccessful "Harold Lloyd"-style scene. Batman tosses down a Batarang just as Riddler thrusts Robin over the edge, and the boy catches it between his teeth. The Batman then lifts him up to the top of the building, but The Duo lose The Riddler and his felonious filmsters, who escape by helicopter and treat The Dynamic Duo to a skywriting clue that has a false meaning. Later, The Riddler, dressed as a desperado, arrives the home of silent-film magnate Van Jones, who has agreed to pay $100,000 for the footage of Batman and Robin; however, Riddler, not content with the money, has his cronies steal Van Jones' entire film collection and hold it for a sizable ransom! This dastardly scheme is, of course, foiled by our heroes, who weren't fooled by Riddler's doubledealing clues one bit! The Dynamic Duo later show up at Wayne Manor to give Aunt Harriet a special birthday kiss.

NEXT WEEK: The Penguin waddles again!

Season 1, Episode 33 – Aired: 5/4/1966
Fine Finny Fiends
The Penguin kidnaps Alfred Pennyworth after luring him to a phony fish store selling cut-rate caviar. Alfred is then brainwashed by the pudgy purveyor of perfidy in preparation for his plan to rob The Multimillionaires' Annual Award Dinner. Since Alfred is arranging the dinner, he's one of the few people with information on the dinner's secret location and which bathing beauty will be chosen to accept the award money for this year's honoured charity. Before he can be missed, Alf is returned home without the slightest idea of what has transpired, but Batman and Robin are puzzled by his given to nervous tics.

Later, a fishook which had fallen out of Alfred's morning coat appears inside one of the canapes the butler prepared for the buffet before the awards. The hook tips off The Caped Crusader that The Penguin's hideout is on a fishing pier owned by the bird under the moniker of Knott A. Fish ("not a fish," get it?! Never mind.). The Penguin and his Finks capture The Dynamic Duo and places them inside a vaccum tank filled with balloons for a trap that will take Batman and Robin's breath away--literally! As the air is slowly sucked out of the room, the baloons begin to break; The Dynamic Duo will become a Doomed Duo once the final balloon has burst!

Season 1, Episode 34 – Aired: 5/5/1966
Batman Makes the Scenes
Believing The Dynamic Duo has been finished off, The Pudgy Purveyor Of Perfidy and his Finks quickly dash to establish their "alibis". Meanwhile, Batman has reached the emergency tank of Batoxygen in his utility belt to stay conscious long enough to use his Batknife and sever the bonds tying him and Robin so they can escape the deadly vacuum tank. Now convinced that Alfred Pennyworth has been brainwashed, The Caped Crusader gives him the information The Penguin wants. When Penguin calls Wayne Manor and signals Alfred to relay the info, the butler reveals that the dinner is to be held on board the good ship S.S. Gotham Neptune and that the chosen beauty queen is Miss Natural Resources. The Penguin then releases Alf from his power, causing him to forget what has transpired.

That very night, Penguin switches his latest moll, Finella, for Miss Natural Resources and arms her with an umbrella triggered with knockout gas. Fearing for the attending millionaires' safety, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson decide to attend the dinner as The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder. All goes well until time arrives for dessert with the giant cake containing Finella. As she pops out of the cake, she uses Penguin's gas-filled umbrella to put the millionaires to bed; as they slumber, The Penguin and his Finks snatch the charity money and rush back to their hideout to divvy up the loot. But poor Finella suffers a fit of remorse for her actions. Unknown to her, and Penguin, The Dynamic Duo had taken AntiPenguin Gas Pills beforehand, and took a shortcut to the felonious fowl's hideout; there they lay in wait for Penguin, thrash him and his lackeys about, and re-cage him. The Multimillionaires' Annual Award Dinner transfers to Wayne Manor for safety, and Finella (appearing in a mink stole) is given a police escort there by Commissioner Gordon.

Season 1, Episode 35 – Aired: 7/30/1966
Batman - The Movie
Batman and Robin battle The Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler and The Penquin in the big-screen version of the hit ABC-TV series.

Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/8/1966
Walk the Straight and Narrow
Just as The Dynamic Duo are about to be impaled, they activate The Batsprings which are cleverly hidden in their boots and catapult them up and out of harm's way. Rather than go back after the unshiskebabed superheroes, The Archer and his merry malefactors opt to beat a hasty retreat to their new hideout in the basement of Police HQ! Next, Archer and his cronies hijack an armored car carrying $10 million, which The Wayne Foundation plans to donate to the poor Gothamites. The truck is later found abandoned not too short a distance away with the cash left untouched, so the ceremony commences as planned. Whilst Alfred Pennyworth, in disguise as Batman, and Robin bears witness from across the street, Bruce Wayne attends the ceremony, where it's learned that The Archer has substituted the money in the truck for phoney tender bearing The Archer's picture!

The Caped Crusader deduces that Alan A. Dale, one of The Wayne Foundation's directors who was resposible for the money's well-being, is one of The Archer's merry band of mad malefactors, and they are planning to escape by boat to Switzerland in international waters, where they feel they'll be forever protected from the law...or so they assume! The Dynamic Duo chase the crooks by Batboat and rout The Archer, Crier Tuck, Big John, Maid Marilyn, and Alan A. Dale before they get the chance! Later, Bruce, Dick and Alfred perform archery on their front lawn.

Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/7/1966
Shoot a Crooked Arrow
In The Caped Crusader's second season opener, The Archer, a medieval crook modeled after Robin Hood, escapes from Police Headquarters in a moving van from The Trojan Hearse Company, driven by Maid Marilyn. Together, with his band of merry malefactors - Crier Tuck and Big John - he pays a surprise visit to Wayne Manor, where they gas everyone and then steal the loose cash Bruce kept in the wall safe, thus stealing from the rich, and giving it to the poor, clueless Gothamites. Later that day, The Archer and company attempt to thwart justice by dropping in on Police HQ. Protected with goggles, the medieval muggers blind Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and The Dynamic Duo with another of Archer's special trick arrows and beat a hasty retreat out the window. As The Archer, Marion, Tuck and John give out the money they swiped from The Everett Bannister's Koin Machines Company, they are apprehended by Batman and Robin---only to be rapidly bailed out by the poor but misguided citizens with the exact same money distributed to them by Archer, whom they view as a hero!

The Dynamic Duo trace The Archer to his hideout at The Earl Of Huntington Archery Range (Robin Hood is the alias of The Earl Of Huntington) in Gotham's Green Forest section, where Alfred Pennyworth attempts to divert the crooks long enough for The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder to inspect his GHQ--where they unwittingly trigger a secret alarm which ensnares them in a giant net. After stringing up The Duo by their thumbs, The Archer demands Batman reveal The Batcave's secret location or else he beheads Alfred (Archer intends to storm The Cave and destroy the crime computers therein). The Caped Crusader notices to his relief that the gullontine Archer plans to use on Alfred is a fake prop used by magicians and refuses Archer's ultimatum. Archer takes The Dynamic Duo out doors, ties them to a stake, and, along with his merry madmen (mounted on horseback), perpare to run them both through with lances!!

Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/14/1966
Hot Off the Griddle
Catwoman has returned to foil Batman and Robin once again. The attempt to catch her but are double crossed and end up being the flies under a magnifying glass.

Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/15/1966
The Cat and the Fiddle
Batman and Robin barely escape from their hot ordeal and track Catwoman's next step. Catwoman attempts to steal the violins but doesn't get to far due to Batman saving her life.

Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 9/21/1966
The Minstrel's Shakedown
The Minstrel, a medieval lute-playing electronics genius, sends the stock market into an uproar when he alters the computerized stock quotations; he later airs a televised ultimatum, demanding $1000 a week from each exchange member, or else stock quotations wil be further disrupted, causing the market to crash! The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder try to capture the musical maniac later that night when he tries to realter his crooked circuitry, but Minstrel blinds The Dynamic Duo with one of his devilish devices and beats a rhythmic retreat. The Batman tries to track The Minstrel to his hideout by using The Batdrone Plane to trace the TV signal The Minstrel used to televise his ultimatums. But he predicts The Duo will attempt just that and decides to broadcast from his criminal studio at The Willow Street Warehouse rather than from his normal hideout. Batman and Robin later locate the warehouse by Batmobile and sneak in, but not before The Batman sprinkes a few precautions along the corridor: Adhesive Batbombs. The Dynamic Duo attempt to surprise The Minstrel but are caught and tied to a giant eletronic spit which will slowly roast them over an electric radar grill!

Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 9/22/1966
Barbecued Batman?
Just as it looks like The Dynamic Duo's geese are cooked (literally!), the Adhesive Batbombs Batman planted in the hallway earlier go off, enticing Minstrel and his minions, Amanda, Bass and Treble, and giving The Duo the distraction they need to shake loose the spit from its supports and free themselves. When The Minstrel realizes The Batman has escaped, he and Bass and Treble retreat to their other hideout, leaving behind their moll, Amanda. The Batman places a bugging device into her purse before he releases her, hoping that she will lead them to The Minstrel's second hideout. Surpised by Amanda's return, The Minstrel immediately spots the bug in her purse and informs the eavesdropping Dynamic Duo that he will now commence "Plan High-C," and that The Batman should gather the members of the stock exchange at the exchange building within half an hour for a demonstration of his monstrous scheme! The Minstrel makes devilishly good on his evil threat, using a broadcast signal that corresponds to the building's resonace to cause the entire building to shake, and blackmailing the stock exchange members into giving into his demands within one hour or he will send the whole building crumbling down! Batman figures Minstrel can't broadcast his signal without power, so he severs all the power in the building. Minstrel nevertheless broadcasts his ultimatums with his own power, but The Caped Crusader realises the broadcast was prerecorded and he sees through The Minstrel's disguise as one of the members of the stock exchange! Minstrel and his men, Bass and Treble, who were disguised as caterers, are brought to justice by The Dynamic Duo! Later that night, Bruce Wayne and his brood watch The Minstrel on a newscast, prior to being transferred to Gotham State Pen, singing a promise of a jailbreak and revenge upon Batman and Robin. NEXT WEEK: another battle royal with King Tut!

Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 9/28/1966
The Spell of Tut
Two apparently clueless minions of the nefarious archcriminal King Tut break into the mansion of a Man of Distinction and steal only a string of amber beads. Batman and Robin are called in to investigate and discover from their only clue, a lead pestle, that Tut is at his hideout in The Apex Apothecary Shop, attempting to release a handful of ancient scarab beetles, preserved for millennia in the amber. The heroes interrupt Tut in his work, but, in the ensuing Batfight, are waylaid by sneezing powder, giving the girthful pharaoh and his Tutlings time to escape with the now revived scarabs. The Peerless Pair have only a lone beetle to take back to The Batcave for examination. Their analysis reveals that Tut hopes to create a terrible ancient potion called abu raubu simbu tu, which can be used to subdue the human will, and The Pudgy Pharaoh, armed with the formerly extinct scarabs, will make enough of the drug (95,000 gallons, to be exact, according to The Apothecary) to put all of Gotham under his power! The Batman decides to set an intricate plan to entrap The Misguided Monarch. He has the sphinx Tut formerly employed to make ill-fated predictions delivered to Wayne Manor's front lawn. Hoping that Tut's men will snatch the statue, he has Robin hide inside it. The Criminal King swallows the bait by claiming his evil property. While in contact with Batman, Robin accidentally drops his Batcommunicator, alerting Tut to his presence. The Boy Wonder is dragged from the statue and is about to be made a guineapig for Tut's evil drug when he overpowers Tut's men and escapes through an unlocked door, hoping to reach the outside---only to instead find himself on a narrow platform suspended over a deadly pit of Tut's pet crocodiles! The platform is slowly pulled out from Robin, while The Caped Crusader speeds to the rescue. Can he make it??

Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 9/29/1966
Tut's Case is Shut
Batman manages to find Tut's hideout by tracing The Radioactive Batpellets he planted in Robin' utility belt with The Batgeiger Counter in The Batmobile. Using The Batlaser, he melts away the bars guarding the window to the crocodile pit. Then he swings across the room on his Batrope saves his pal just as the platform under his feet is completely yanked out! Returning to The Batmobile, Robin reveals that Commissioner Gordon's shapely temp secretary, Cleo Patrick, is actually a spy for King Tut, and his new Queen Of The Nile. Intent on warning The Commissioner of the danger, Batman calls Police HQ but gets Chief O'Hara; unfortunately, his warning is just a tad too late, for the unwaring Chief has already consumed Tut's paralyzing drug cleverly disguised as a vitamin pill! As The Dynamic Duo race back to Gotham, Tut appears at the office and on a whim commands O'Hara perform acrobatics outside on the ledge! While watching the Chief perform, Tut spots The Batmobile pull up to the building and he and Cleo beat a hasty retreat by elevator as Batman and Robin arrive to coax O'Hara off the ledge.

Later, Gordon, under Tut's spell, meets The Caped Crusader in Jefferson Square Park and drugs his lemonade with an abu raubu simbu tu pill. Now apparently under Tut's sinister spell, Batman is led away with robin by Tut's Tutlings to The Apex Apothecary Shop. As The Corpulent King prepares to leave for the watrerworks to spike the city's water supply with his drug, The Caped Crusader snaps out of his phoney trance and, along with Robin, topple Tut's men. The Nefarious Nabob escapes outside to his truck containing his abominable abu raubu simbu tu; fortunately, it refuses to start, giving The Dynamic Duo enough time to finish off his henchman and race outside to spill the truck's contents into the gutter. In attempting to prevent the flow of his precious bug juice, Tut accidentally swallows some of it, hoisting himself on his own insidious petard, and he becomes Batman's slave! Later, in Gordon's office, Tut reverts to his original self.

Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 10/5/1966
The Greatest Mother of Them All
Gangstress Ma Parker and her fiendish brood--sons Pretty Boy, Mad Dog, and Machine Gun and daughter Legs--have invaded Gotham City and begin their wave of crime by disrupting Gotham's Ladies Auxiliary's Mother of the Year Awards Ceremony and robbing the entire audience. Batman and Robin are called into action. They quickly locate the fiendish family at their home on Cherry Blossom Road, where, under the cover of a smoke bomb, they evade apprehension, save for Pretty Boy. Later, Machine Gun is also captured, after The Parkers pilfer money from a theater's box office. Then Mad Dog is foiled in his attempt to hold up a drugstore. They finally trace Ma and the last of her delinquent children, Legs, at an old ladies' home, where, after Ma's high-speed rocket-wheelchair race ends at a well-placed wall, they are arrested. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder quickly take Ma and Legs to Gotham State Penitentiary to join the rest of their family. As Batman and Robin leave the prison, they notice a trustee examining The Batmobile's Batengine. Writing off his rather suspicious behaviour as curiosity, they start on their way. Unfortunately, back in Warden Crichton's office, Ma reveals that she has been secreting sympathetic guards into the prison for some time, so it is easy for her gang to take over; she also brags that Batman was her unwitting pawn in capturing her and her crooked kids, for now she's in total control of The Gotham State Pen! Furthermore, unknown to The Dynamic Duo, that "curious" trustee planted a timebomb inside The Batmobile, thus it has been rigged to explode once it reaches 60mph!

Season 2, Episode 10 – Aired: 10/6/1966
Ma Parker
As The Dynamic Duo speeds back to The Batcave, Batman suspects foul play because of a comment made by the trustee dealing with The Batmobile's speed, and he immediately stops the car and disables the car-bomb just before it can go off! Quick as a blink, The Peerless Pair speed back to the prison to check on The Parkers. However, clever playacting convinces them that all is well there. Ma then holds a meeting of the prison inmates and informs them of her plan for using The Gotham State Pen as a hideout while Batman & Robin do their work by send more crooks to fatten her jailhouse gang. (After all, who'd think to looking for escaped crooks inside a prison?) During an armed car robbery, Ma detonates the druck with dynamite, the resulting explosion triggering The Batseismograph, which in turn alerts The Dynamic Duo.
They rush to the scene, where under a shower of cash, Ma Parker and her delinquent kids cut out--but her plan goes awry when Batman siezes a scrap of cloth from a fleeing thief and recognizes it as prison garb! Suspecting Ma Parker is involved, Batman and Robin break into the prison, only to be captured and strapped into electric chairs by Ma's gang, scheduled to be barbecued at midnight! When Ma pulls the switch to fry The Duo, she and her cohorts find that Batman (having lured Legs into leaving the room beforehand) has cleverly managed to rewire the whole setup, using it to signal Alfred to cause a prisonwide blackout instead of an execution! The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder immediately free themselves and recapture The Parker Family to restore order in Gotham State Penitentiary. Later, in Warden Crichton's office, Gordon, Robin, Crichton and Batman are surprised at a bundle of roses sent to The Caped Crusader by Ma Parker; the reason: it's Mother's Day!

NEXT WEEK: The Dynamic Duo meets The Clock King!

Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 10/12/1966
The Clock King's Crazy Crimes
The master of time crimes, Temple Fugate, The Clock King, arranges for one of his trick timepieces to be sold to the Harry Hummert Jewelry Shop, which caters to Gotham City's elite. Concealed inside the clock is a small TV camera which allows Clock King to observe everyone in the shop. Alerting his moll, Millie Second, and his group of Second Hands, he activates the tricky mechanism in the clock, which gasses all of the patrons asleep. CK and his minute minions see this as a golden opportunity to strip the shop clean of its valuables. Batman and Robin are alerted to the robbery by Commissioner Gordon and rush to Hummert's shop, where they discover that the clock was bought at The Parkhurst Gallery. They quickly leave the shop and speed for the gallery, where they discover that the clock was put up for auction by a Mr. Kronos. The Dynamic Duo deduce that it was Temple Fugate incognito, and they make their next stop Dunbar's Drive-in in search for one of Fugate's former molls, Thelma Thymepiece. Meanwhile, back at The Parkhurst Gallery, Clock King disguises himself as pop art expert Progress Pigment, and attempts to snatch a rare time-related painting under the very noses of the TV audience. After making a short speech to the crowd Temple "Progress Pigment" Fugate unveils his latest sculpture, called Time Out Of Joint, which resembles the inside of a clock and when turned on emits a potpourri of assembled sounds and noises as the mechanical parts move about. Nobody suspects that the mechanical marvel is actually being used as a decoy to cover up the sound of a saber saw attatched to its rear, which cuts through the wall into the storage room filled with valuable paintings.

After the saw does its diabolical duty, "Progress Pigment" clicks another switch on the sculpture, this one emitting a high-pitched noise so piercing that it knocks everyone out except for him and his Second Hands, 3 and 5, who were protected by earmuffs. Clock King enters the storage room and swipes the clock masterpiece therein. Batman and Robin, who, at Dunbar's Drive-in, have been enjoying their Batburgers and watching The Clock King on The Batscope in The Batmobile, rush for the place and confront CK and his Second Hands as they depart with the painting. They proceed to thrash Second Hands 3 and 5 but are stopped by Clock King, who fakes a sprained wrist sustained from clutching the heavy painting and releases a barrage of giant springs in their direction from yet another hidden compartment in his Time Out Of Joint. The time The Dynamic Duo make in trying to pry themselves free of the giant coils gives The Clock King and The Second Hands room to split. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder analyze the dust inside a wristwatch dropped by Clock King at the gallery, and use it to trace him and his gang to their hideout at the deserted premises of Tick Tock Synthetic Rubies, Inc. Unaware that CK deliberately left behind the watch, The Duo fall into an untimely trap! The Clock King remove their utility belts and encase them in the lower chamber of a gigantic hourglass and leave them to be buried under sand which slowly fills it up and threatens to smother them to death!

Season 2, Episode 12 – Aired: 10/13/1966
The Clock King Gets Crowned
Waiting until after The Clock King has left, Batman and Robin topple the hourglass over onto its side by rocking it back and forth. Then run inside the glass until it rolls outside and smash open the glass against a truck, releasing them. The Clock King, meanwhile, is enraged on learning one of his men accidentally planted his Automatic Energy Directional Control Switch, meant for a bomb to be used in his final caper: in a clock bought by Dick Greyson's Aunt Harriet as a birthday present for Bruce Wayne!

Clock King and his Second Hands invade Wayne Manor to steal back the mistakenly rigged clock, and proceeds to purloin Bruce Wayne's priceless collection of antique pocket watch collection and Aunt Harriet herself, before being interrupted by Bruce and Dick, who steal back the watches and Aunt Harriet! Working on slim clues, the two crimefighters then act on an earlier remark made by CK, and they race to the Gotham Clock Tower to foil The Clock King's plan to steal a valuable Cesium clock by using the clock's mechancial blacksmith to set off a bomb. With the help of a wild shot fired by one of the Second Hands, Batman and Robin use the intricate mechanism of the clock tower to bring their foes to an untimely end.

Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 10/19/1966
An Egg Grows in Gotham
In an attempt to take over Gotham City, Egghead pilfers the city charter from its case at City Hall. It seema the city is actually owned by The Mohican Indians and is leased to the city governmant! Every 5 years, the city must pay The Indians - in this case Chief Screaming Chicken, last of The Mohicans - 9 raccoon pelts; 3 pelts from each of the 9 descendants of Gotham City's founders: Pete Savage, Tim Tyler, and our own philanthropist Bruce N. Wayne. If the pelts aren't delivered by midnight on the night of the lease's expiration, the full force of Gotham City will revert back to The Mohicans. Egghead secretly signs a lease with The Chief to act as his legal representative if and when the time on the lease runs out, which Egghead intends to make sure will happen. Batman and Robin trace Egghead to his hideout at The Ghoti-Oeufs Caviar Company and cartch him in the act of negotiating with Screaming Chicken. Egghead bombs The Duo with an egg containing nitrous oxide, and beats a hasty exit with his gang; Batman and Robin later neutralize the gas's aftereffects with Sad Pills.

Later that night, while Bruce Wayne, Richard Grayson, Peter Savage and Timothy Tyler perpare to deliver the raccoon pelts to Chief Screaming Chicken, Egghead kidnaps each and every one of them, with plans of not only preventing the renewal of the city's lease, but to reveal The Batman's secret identity, which he suspects is Bruce Wayne! Planning to eggs tract the truth from his mind, Egghead uses one of his goulish devices, which not only will transplant all of Bruce Wayne's knowledge into Egghead's brain, but will leave poor Bruce a mindless fop, too!

Season 2, Episode 14 – Aired: 10/20/1966
The Yegg Foes in Gotham
Just as the machine has reached full power and is beginning to tap into the secrets of Bruce's mind, Dick reaches the machine's powerswitch and raises it from 110 to 220 currents, causing the machine to overload and explode. Egghead is thus forced to fall back on "Plan B": a radar egg which he activates and then takes off. The millionaires use and overhead water pipe to escape the deadly egg, and Bruce takes a grape and, treating it as if it were a marble, flicks it at the bomb, detonating it. The four head back to the city, where they discover they have missed the deadline by 3 minutes. Gotham City is now in the posession of Chief Screaming Chicken and Egghead. Egghead immediately fires all of the city officials, banishes The Dynamic Duo from the city, and then declares the city open season for the criminal underworld. Hoping to find a way to defeat Egghead, Batman and Robin, as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, swipe the Gotham City charter from City Hall; there they discover the charter prevents anyone with a criminal record from holding a lease to Gotham City! Once Egghead discovers he's been legally deposed from office, he and his criminal cronies loot the city treasury and plan to escape to Venezuela to lay low. The Dynamic Duo arrive at the treasury too late to capture Egghead (they find Chief Chicken all tied up instead), but trace him to Old MacDonald's Chicken Farm, where Egghead and company is stocking up on enough Grade AAA eggs to satisfy his dietary practices before leaving the country...but, after and egg-throwing Batfight, they wind up with egg on their faces, instead! NEXT WEEK: Batman challenged by Chandell!

Season 2, Episode 15 – Aired: 10/26/1966
The Devil's Fingers
World-famous concert pianist Chandell, who leads a second life as the nefarious Fingers, plans to dispose of Bruce Wayne and Richard Grayson and then marry Aunt Harriet Cooper so he can have enough money to pay off his evil twin brother. Harry, who knows Chandell used a piano player during a White House concert which made him famous and has been blackmailing him ever since. As part of his plan to divert any suspicion which just might fall upon him, Chandell arranges for his lethal female assistants - Doe, Rae, and Mimi - to appear at Wayne Manor with their highpitched bagpipes, which they use to put everyone asleep and then they ransack the place! Whilst Bruce and Dick are away on vacation, Chandell and Harry plot to strip The Burma Import Compay clean with the aid of his felonious female trio during his concert that evening.

During that concert Chandell strikes an incorrect note, signaling the girls to strike; that note is, of course, discovered by Bruce Wayne, who'd been listening to the concert on his portable radio, and, believing something is stirring, he signals Dick and the two switch identities and return to Gotham City as The Dynamic Duo! Meanwhile, Chandell furthers his plan by playing up to Aunt Harriet. Later, realizing thet The Caped Crusader is on his trail, he assaults himself with a rootbeer bottle and leads them to a trap at twin brother Harry's abandoned Parnassus Music-Roll Co. where they are captured and tied to a conveyor belt which leads directly into a machine that will perforate them into player piano rolls!

Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 10/27/1966
The Dead Ringers
As a player piano feeds the musical notes to the music roll machine via a microphone, The Caped Crusader mentally visualizes the chords which will make the cutting devices to puncture the outlines of their bodies. The Dynamic Duo save themselves by outshouting the piano with bad Bat-singing. Batman and Robin quickly apprehend Harry and his pack of Piano Movers and take them to Police HQ, where they reveal that a master criminal named Fingers is the ringleader...only to have Harry sprung from the hoosegow by his criminal attorney, Alfred Slye. Convinced that Chandell and Fingers are one and the same, and deducing his plan to do away with Bruce and Dick and marry up with Aunt Harriet, The Dynamic Duo form a trap for The Precarious Pianist. They arrange for their own deaths by faking an explosion in the darkroom set up in the front hall. Immediately upon learning that Chandell, after marrying Aunt Harriet, is going straight and abandon them, Harry and Doe, Rae, and Mimi decide to take matters into their own hands.

The girls put Chandell to sleep with their bewitching bagpipes. Mr. Slye shows up and informs Harry that he won't be able to claim The Wayne Fortune until the will is settled in 11 years...and then presents his client with a staggering $100,000 bill, payable by midnight, or he will be brought back to jail. Believing Slye's fees are too high, Harry orders his beauties to work him over with their bagpipes, too. Chandell and Slye are then tied to the conveyor belt leading into the same music roll machine which failed to do in The Dynamic Duo earlier. Masquerading as Chandell, Harry pays a visit on Harriet, who immediately spots him for a phony and tries to take him by citizen's arrest at gunpoint ("As they say in the movies, 'stick up your mitts!'!"), but is overcome, along with Alfred, by the spellbinding sound of the girls' bagpipes. Harry transports the two in a packing case and sprays it with machine-gunfire, only to watch in shock as The Dynamic Duo, protected by The Batshield, leap out and capture the gang, and rescue Chandell and Slye from the monstrous music roll machine. Harriet receives a medal by The GCPD for bravery; then is saddened to learn that Chandell is going on a 20-year "world tour" (behind bars, with Doe, Rae, Mimi, and evil twin Harry!).

NEXT WEEK: The Penguin waddles again!

Season 2, Episode 17 – Aired: 11/2/1966
Hizzonner the Penguin
To the confusion of everyone, that black bird of prey, The Penguin, campaigns for the office of Mayor Of Gotham City! He endears himself to Gothamites by preventing a robbery, saving a baby in a runaway carriage, and donating $100,000 to a city charity! Gallus, C.F. Rooper and E.G. Trendek arrive with the latest polls, which show massive support for Penguin, and The Batman sees that the only way to clip this conniving bird's wings is to run for mayor himself. While The Caped Crusader launces a rather tasteful, low-profile campaign, The Penguin proceeds in the opposite direction, going all out in overshadowing Batman with loud bands, a belly dancer, pretty girls, and free champagne! Later, when Batman and robin sre scheduled to appear before the Grand Order Of Occidental Nighthawks (G-O-O-N!), they wind up confronting Penguin's G.O.O.N's, instead. The Dynamic Duo are quicky overpowered, bound and tied, and finally suspended on one side of a giant scale (emulating The Scales Of Justice!) over a scalding vat of sulphuric acid! The other side of the scale is filled with blocks of ice suspended over a giant heater; as the ice melts, The Duo comes closer and closer to the acid bath!

Season 2, Episode 18 – Aired: 11/3/1966
Dizzonner the Penguin
With the trusty aid of his acid-proofed Batcostume prepped by Alfred, The Caped Crusader leaps off the scale and into the acid, protecting his exposed face with his cape. He quickly climbs out of the vat, dips his hands into the acid to dissolve his bonds, and frees Robin. Later, Batman appears in a televised debate with The Penguin, in which Penguin states that Batman associates with criminals, while he labels himself as an "associate with the law," despite his claim of "no mudslinging in this campaign" . The debate is interrupted by news of The GOONs' breaking into The Gotham City Convention Hall and making off with the priceless collection of gems set up for display at an upcoming jeweler's convention. The Penguin and The Dynamic Duo rush off to thwart the crooks.

After a heated fight, Penguin emerges victorious, giving him a wide lead over his caped opponent in the subsequent polls, but the final election results show an increase of support for Batman. The Penguin realizes his political career is becoming kaput, thus forcing him to kidnap members of the election board on in an elaborate attempt to sway the votes in his favor. The Dynamic Duo trace The Penguin to his hideout. There, they rescue the election board and package the Penguin along with his lackeys inside Penguin's own campaign literature machine. The Duo then tell Penguin that Batman won the election by an overwhelming margin, for the votes were already counted when he kidnapped the board of election members. Returning to police H.Q., The Caped Crusader turns down his new position in Mayor Lindseed's favor. Over the phone, Batman also talks to the two major political parties in the United States. Both offer him the 1968 nomination for President of the United States. The first offer he declines. The second offer he responds by saying he thought the party already had a canidate.

NEXT WEEK: Mr. Freeze returns!

Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 11/9/1966
Green Ice
Mr. Freeze returns for revenge on Batman and Robin. After Mr. Freeze freezes Commissioner Gordon & Cheif O'Hara, Batman & Robin rush to their aid only to be frozen into human popsicles themselves.

Season 2, Episode 20 – Aired: 11/10/1966
Deep Freeze
With their virtually-frozen feet, The Dynamic Duo locate the heat exhaust valve and turn it so that recycled exhaust in the heating unit will reverse the refrigerating process and manage to melt their way out through the resulting heat transfer. Returning to Police HQ, Batman and Robin are greeted by a newspaper photograph depicting The Caped Crusader wearing Commissioner Gordon's gold watch, which Freeze stole at the party. The Frigid Fiend is succeeding in his plan as he has finally managed to lead Gotham into believing Batman has weakened to the temptations of bribery! Mr. Freeze, believing that Batman and Robin are out of the way, proceeds with his master plan to blackmail Gotham City. Unless the city fathers pay him $1,000,000,000, Mr. Freeze will bury the city into one huge cake of ice! To prove his intentions are sincere, he demonstrates his power by freezing The Gotham City Reservoir.

Gordon is tempted to contact The Dynamic Duo, but is discouraged by his loss of faith in Batman. Undaunted by their tarnished reputations, Batman and Robin secretly pay a visit to freeze's hideout, where they are captured and about to be frozen solid, just like like Miss Iceland, whom they see encased in a huge block of ice!!! However, The Duo have applied themselves with a protective layer of Antifreeze Activating Solution, and, armed with their Batthermal Underwear, they thwart Freeze's plans and overpower The Frosty Fiend and his frigid flunkies. The Caped Crusader uses a crowbar to free Miss Iceland from her icy tomb, and they discover Freeze nearby, without his Freze Collar, and near certain death. Obviously wanting him alive to pay for his evil, Batman and Robin brings him over to Miss Iceland's ice coffin and encase him within, keeping him breathing until the police finds his frozen neckpiece.

NEXT WEEK: rematch! Batman versus The Joker!

Season 2, Episode 21 – Aired: 11/16/1966
The Impractical Joker
Following clues from The Joker's vandalization of key-like objects around Gotham, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder head to Angus Ferguson's rare key exhibition. There, Joker steals The Jeweled Key Of Kaincardine with the aid of his new invention, a mysterious little spark-spewing box which leaves The Dynamic Duo completely helpless while he escapes with The Key. Ferguson is furious. Later, Batman and Robin follow a televised clue by The Joker and they trace The Homicidal Harlequin to a fur salon, where they encounter the pasty-faced clown and his henchmen.

Batman & Robin capture the mysterious device dropped by the departing Joker, which turns out to be nothing but from a sparkly diversion to help Joker practice hypnotic suggestion! Back in The Batcave, The Batman uses The Batcomputer and a phone book to find Joker's hideout. The Dynamic Duo proceed by Batmobile to the place--resulting in instant capture by The Joker, who places Robin inside a spray wax machine while Batman is strapped to a giant key duplicator!

Season 2, Episode 22 – Aired: 11/17/1966
The Joker's Provokers
Batman frees himself and Robin as the Joker finishes his little time machine box. Alfred manages to single handedly capture the Joker.

Season 2, Episode 23 – Aired: 11/23/1966
Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
Marsha, Queen of the Diamonds steels the Pretzel Diamond as she lures Commissioner Gordon & Chief O'Hara under her spell. Batman & Robin come to their aid only to be seduced by the love potion. Marsha offers Batman her hand in marriage for a trade for Robin.

Season 2, Episode 24 – Aired: 11/24/1966
Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds
Batman's nuptials are interrupted by a disguised Alfred & Aunt Harriet. Marsha escapes & returns to her hideout. Batman & Robin are changed into toad... or are they.

Season 2, Episode 25 – Aired: 11/30/1966
Come Back, Shame
Shame, a conniving cowboy of crime, and his western gang comprised of Okie Annie, Messy James, and Rip Snorting, plan to build a superpowered truck, which will outrace even The Batmobile. Needing some additional parts for the truck, they swipe a racing car right in the middle of The Gotham City 500 Road Race! Shame returns to his hideout at the abandoned Westernland Amusement Park, where he befriends a small boy names Andy, who imitates a cowboy. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin have figured out Shame's scheme and plants a story with DJ Hot Rod Harry about the new parts added to the Wayne Limousine. Shame listens to said broadcast on Andy's radio and prepares to hijack the limo, with Oakie Annie as bait!
Taking a drive in the limo, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Alfred encounter a cow in the middle of the road. The three get out of the limo to move the cow when Shame and his pernicious posse emerge from the bushes armed to the teeth and they make off with the car. Long after Shame and crew have vanished, The Batcycle, which had been following them for a mile behind them, arrives carrying The Alfred cycle. Using a circuitous route, Alfred rides to The Batcave and Bruce and Dick follow suit in The Batcycle. Later on, The Dynamic Duo trace the vehicle to Westernland by way of The Infrared Batdust, with which the Wayne limo's tires were cleverly coated but can only be detected by The Batmobile's specially tinted windshield. After a battle, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder are knocked senseless by a falling chandelier. Shane leads them outside and stakes them out in the middle of the road and releases a herd of stampeding cattle in their direction, with intentions of trampling The Duo!

Season 2, Episode 26 – Aired: 12/1/1966
It's the Way You Play the Game
The vibrations of the stampeding cattle cause the stake holding Batman's wrists to shake loose from the ground, and, leaping to his feet, he takes off his cape and, matador-style, guides the stampede away from himself and Robin. Returning to The Batcave, The Caped Crusader again contacts Hot Rod Harry who refers them to used car salesman Laughing Leo--who is also a secret informant of Shame's criminal posse! At Laughing Leo's lot, located on the corner of Surf Avenue and 20th Street, The Dynamic Duo are unable to get a straight answer from Leo. They depart, and, feeling something is wrong, Leo reports back to Shame that Batman and Robin have survived. Shame is put into a funk so deep he shoots up nearly his entire garage!

Shame anticipates The Dynamic Duo's return and prepares a double-barrel ambush! As predicted The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder do return to Westernland where they are greeted by a hail of bullets--and Robin is shot in the heel by Shame! Batman rushes The Boy Wonder back to The Batcave for treatment; there Alfred reports that he, as Bruce Wayne, is scheduled to appear at the rodeo this afternoon. Alfred's reminder manages to crack the case: Shame plans to steal the four prize Black Angus bulls, each worth $300,000, that will be on display! However, by the time The Dynamic Duo reach the rodeo, Shame and his posse are long gone with the bulls in his supertruck. Figuring the bulls have to be fed, Batman tracks the gang to The K.O. Corral down at the stockyards, where, after a blazing gunfight, Batman and Robin corral the entire gang of desperadoes and take them to the hoosegow. NEXT WEEK: Burgess Meredith with a new Penguin ploy!

Season 2, Episode 27 – Aired: 12/7/1966
The Penguin's Nest
The Penguin steals signatures to gain access to their money. He attempts to get arrested but Batman & Robin figure it out his play and finally arrest him. The Penguin's henchmen spring him and kidnap Chief O'Hara.

Season 2, Episode 28 – Aired: 12/8/1966
The Bird's Last Jest
Happily, The Dynamic Duo's quick thinking and fast reflexes foil The Penguin at this dastardly game, and the pair act as his prosecutors at the ensuing criminal trial. There, The Penguin's spirited, self-destructive defense backfires and he is released once more. Batman and Robin's next ploy is to send Alfred to The Penguin's Nest disguised as master forger Quill-Pen Quertch. However, The Penguin catches on and has the faithful butler rolled into a giant pie. The diabolical dish is driven to Wayne Manor, where The Penguin threatens to bake the butler unless Bruce Wayne forks over a cool million. Luckily, Bruce and Dick duck out to get the cash, transform themselves into The Dynamic Duo, and save the day. The Penguin and his malodorous maitres'd reaches the State Pen just in time to discover to their horror that Ballpoint Baxter has been paroled!

Season 2, Episode 29 – Aired: 12/14/1966
The Cat's Meow
Catwoman returns to Gotham looking to steal British Rockers' Chad & Jeremy's voices. In a foiled attempt to capture then, Batman & Robin find Catwoman's lair only to be trapped underneath a giant faucet.

Season 2, Episode 30 – Aired: 12/15/1966
The Bat's Kow Tow
Batman & Robin free themselves from the echo chamber only to find out that Catwoman has taken Chad & Jeremy's voices and is holding them for ransom. The Caped Crusaders track down Catwoman and capture her and return the British duo's voices.

Season 2, Episode 31 – Aired: 12/21/1966
The Puzzles Are Coming
Batman & Robin know that the Puzzler's in town and is after Artemus Knab, a multi billionaire. Batman & Robin track down the Puzzler only to be gassed and find themselves strapped to a hot-air balloon getting ready to take off.

Season 2, Episode 32 – Aired: 12/22/1966
The Duo Is Slumming
Robin receives help from bird in a dangerous balloon trip courteous of the Puzzler. Batman and Robin thwart the Puzzler's quest to take control of the Supersonic plane.

Season 2, Episode 33 – Aired: 12/28/1966
The Sandman Cometh
Batman and Robin are alerted when Mooney, a policewoman working undercover as a member of The Catwoman's mob, vanishes shortly after warning Gordon that Catwoman is planning to join forces with a European criminal known as The Sandman for committing a crime. Later, Catwoman pretending to fall asleep on a mattress display in a store window is spirited away by one of Sandman's cronies and later turns up on a TV newscast, where she cleverly advertises the talents of a sleep expert names Dr. Somnambula, a.k.a. Sandman, in hopes of gaining the attention of J. Pauline Spaghetti, a rich insomniac.
Sandman's scheme is a success, and he is summoned to Spaghetti's penthouse; there, while examining her eyes, he gasses her asleep. Working fast, he snaps photos of J. Pauline's financial ledger just as The Dynamic Duo arrive to rescue her from the man they--but not J. Pauline!--believe to be The Sandman. While Spaghetti proves to them that she wasn't in danger, Sandman escapes. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder later trace The Sandman to his GHQ at the abandoned Morpheus Mattress Factory on Derwin Alley. Upon entering the deserted factory, they are quickly seized by Sandman and his henchmen Snooze and Nap. The Batman is bound to a mattress under a giant button stitcher, while Robin is ordered to push the button which activates the machine. The Sandman decides to give Robin to Catwoman as a present and splits.

Season 2, Episode 34 – Aired: 12/29/1966
The Catwoman Goeth
Batman frees himself from the giant sewing machine. Batman recovers the Batmobile and informs Catwoman of Sandman's betrayal. Batman & Robin battle it out with the Sandman.

Season 2, Episode 35 – Aired: 1/4/1967
The Contaminated Cowl
The Mad Hatter escapes prison. Batman & Robin catch up to the Mad Hatter who turns Batman's cowl pink and get trapped under his X-Ray Accelerator Tube.

Season 2, Episode 36 – Aired: 1/5/1967
The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul
After Jervis Tetch and his criminal quintet hit the road, Overbeck releases Batman and Robin, who managed to avert the deadly rays with the helpful aid of their trusty Bat-X-Ray Deflectors, from the cabinet and replace them with a pair of human skeletons clad in Batsuits. Later, The Mad Hatter and his slippery stooges are very convinced The Dynamic Duo is a Defunct Duo when they discover the skeletons (typical of a criminal to return to the scene of the crime to admire his handiwork!). And so does the rest of the world, when The Batskeletons are discovered by a cleaning woman the very next morning, and she alerts the police. With The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder out of the loop, the full force of Gotham City are at half mast, believing they're dead, and all businesses are shut down and people flocked into their homes by the thousands! The Mad Hatter is given carte blanche to commence with his true scheme: substitute Hattie Hatfield's paste ruby (certainly he knew it was phony!) for a priceless ruby from the forehead of The Golden Buddha Of Bergama on display at The Gotham City Museum.

Meanwhile, The Dynamic Duo, back at their familiar haunt, trace Jervis to his hideout at the defunct Green Derby Restaurant (what more fitting GHQ for a criminal of The Hatter's caliber to hang his headgear?), thanks to a Homing Battransmitter hidden inside the stolen pink cowl. Finding Jervis The Hatter and his quartet of crooked cronies awaiting them at the top of a giant water tower adjacent to the restaurant, Batman and Robin clamber to the top after them and rout them. Chief O'Hara and his boys in blue arrive to take over the proceedings, and The Duo greet the millions of Gothamites who came out to cheer them on, having learned they were still alive! Later, at Wayne Manor, Alfred Pennyworth answer Aunt Harriet's burning question about how Bruce and Dick could possibly have known The Dynamic Duo were still alive, while other's didn't; he says he told them himself, after hearing it from Maudie, his cousin Egbert's wife and cleaning woman at the atomic energy lab, who'd discovered the Batskeletons and, well, has a predeliction to exaggerate!
NEXT WEEK: a Batman special: the first installment of an action-packed 3-parter in which The Joker and The Penguin team up against The Caped Crusaders. Don't miss the start of the hostilities, Batfans...next week! Same Battime, same Batchannel!

Season 2, Episode 37 – Aired: 1/11/1967
The Zodiac Crimes
The Joker plots to commit 12 crimes based on the astrological zodiac signs. The Penguin arrives to help the Joker.

Season 2, Episode 38 – Aired: 1/12/1967
The Joker's Hard Times
Batman frees one of his hands, takes a Batarang from his utility belt, and tosses it at the burning thermite. Breaking off a piece, Batman frees himself, pulls out a Batknife and cuts Robin loose, and they escape with seconds to spare before the great stone drops! Joker believes the duo are finished and snatches a statue of Justice (Libra The Scales!), worth a fortune in carrara marble, from outside Police HQ, just as Venus, incognito as a trenchcoat detective, plucks a jeweled scorpion (Scorpio!). The Dynamic Duo arrive at Police HQ in time to chase down The Joker, who beats a retreat in a stolen police car.
Unable to catch him, The Duo set a trap for Joker and his crew at the home of Basil Bowman (Sagittarius The Archer!). When The Criminal Clown arrives and finds Batman And Robin, he grabs Venus and, with a knife at her throat, makes his escape using her as his shield! Finally realizing Joker isn't to be trusted, Venus defects to The Dynamic Duo's side and leads him to a record shop and there they find Leo Crustash. Later, not only does Joker snatch 2 rare fish (Pisces!!) that were on exhibit at The Gotham City Park Fountain, but one of his men manages to snatch Venus as well, not long after The Dynamic Duo speed off in pursuit. Back at his GHQ, The Joker catches The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder in a huge net and are quickly taken to a water-filled tank, where, along with Venus, they are about to become the main course of a giant clam. The Joker departs to commit his next crime, while the clam tries to swallow Robin!!!!

Season 2, Episode 39 - Aired: 1/18/1967
The Penguin Declines
Using every ounce of his superhuman Bat-strength, Batman bursts free of his chains, rushes over to the clam and pries it open long enough to rescue Robin from the maw of the menacing mollusk! Freeing Venus, the trio make their escape, while The Joker, needing more assistance with his remaining 2 Zodiac Crimes, has his flunkies Uranus and Mars smuggle The Penguin out of prison in a prison laundry truck. Using a mixture of his own insidious creation, The Joker turns the entire Gotham City water supply into Jokerjelly and then demands $10 million to change it back! Meanwhile, The Penguin, claiming he has reformed, tries to woo Venus into asking Batman to let her visit The Batcave so that she can remove Penguin's criminal record from The Batcomputer.

The Dynamic Duo fly out to the Jokerjelly-infested Gotham City Reservoir by Batcopter and restore the water supply with the trusty aid of a Special Exploding Batarang and The Portable Batlab. Returning to the city, Batman and Robin pay a visit to Venus, who fell for Penguin's fib about going straight, and convinces Batman into taking her to The Batcave.

Hoping to make Batman the goat, Penguin, Joker and henchmen Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus secretly stow away in The Batmobile's trunk. The Duo returns to The Batcave with Venus and there the crooks pop right out ready for doing away with Batman and Robin and converting The Batcave into the headquarters of Gotham City's criminals!

But The Caped Crusader stops them by activating his newly designed Batspectrograph Criminal Analyzer, which recorded Joker and Penguin's bone structure, metabolism rate, molecular blood structure, retina patterns and other invaluable scientific data. The Penguin tries to liquidate The Duo with his deadly Umbrella Gun but The Batprobe Negative Ion Attractor, which Batman strategically installed in The Batmobile's trunk, depleted its power source during the time they were inside. After a fierce fight, the whole gang is captured and ready to be delivered to prison.

Later at Wayne Manor, Dick Grayson cringes as he learns from Aunt Harriet that the main course for dinner is clam chowder but his guardian Bruce assures him it's his chance to get even!

Season 2, Episode 40 – Aired: 1/19/1967
That Darn Catwoman
After giving a stirring speech at the graduation class of Aaron Burr High School, Robin is sidetracked by Pussycat and cat-scratched with the drug cataphrenic, which turns him into Catwoman's pawn. After roughing up Chief O'Hara, The ex-Boy Wonder departs as a new member of The Catwoman's covey! O'Hara quickly alerts Commissioner Gordon who alerts Batman...but meanwhile, with Robin's help, Catwoman steals $200,000 from Wayne Manor - her first step toward raising the million dollars she needs to purchase the plans to The Gotham City Mint. Aware that the police are hot on her trail, The Catwoman threatens to kill The Boy Wonder should the law try to intervene. Consequently, Batman must act on his own. Mayor Linseed is desperate.

After Catwoman succeeds in perpetrating two more heists, Batman divines that her next job will be at Prince Ibn Kereb of Gedalia's weighing-in ceremony, where the Prince equals his weight in greenbacks. Batman arrived to do battle with Catmen Spade, Marlowe and Templar, but he finds that he must now deal with the drugged Robin, whom Catwoman sics on "the blue dragon". Batman allows the boy to rough him up and crash a chair over him. When the Caped Crusader tails the gang to Catlair West, and finds Robin all tied up, he thinks he has played possum and rushes over to free him, but when he does, he finds that Robin has played possum...just not in the way that Batman believes, though, and he is caught in a Cattrap. Batman finds himself dangling mere feet above certain death, tied to a giant mousetrap that will spring shut just as soon as The Boy Wonder finishes sawing away at the rope...

Season 2, Episode 41 – Aired: 1/25/1967
Scat, Darn Catwoman
The Feline-ious Felon agrees to release The Batman from the trap only if he agrees to join her gang, and, having little alternative, The Caped Crusader acquiesces, but he slips himself a Universal Batantidote before he is scratched with Cataphrenic, allowing him to keep his reason. Pretending to be under The Catwoman's spell, Batman accompanies the gang to The Old Criminals' Home to visit "Little Al," from whom Catwoman hopes to buy the plans to the GC Mint. Batman phones an anonymous tip to the police informing them where they can capture Robin and Pussycat. Knowing that The Boy Wonder is now safe, Batman sets a trap for Catwoman, who convinces him to take her back to The Batcave. While in The Batcave, Batman diverts a phone line instigated by the police trying to trace him to the cave, leading the cops right to the place of inventor Pet Pending, whom they arrest. After a tour of The Batcave, Batman gasses Catwoman asleep and leaves a note for Alfred Pennyworth ordering him to deliver The Batantidote to Robin at Police HQ.

Returning to Gotham, Batman and Catwoman meet the rest of the gang at The Mint. Using a hidden entrance detailed in The Catwoman's plans, they enter the building with plans to loot the whole safe! They blast their way into the vault with a silent explosive, where they are confronted by Robin, now restored to his faithful crimefighting old self again thanks to The Batantidote. The Dynamic Duo make mincemeat of The Catmen, but, just as the police arrive to collect the crooks, Catwoman steals Batman's keys and escapes in The Batmobile. Commandeering O'Hara's squad car, The Dynamic Duo give chase through The New Guernsey Bridge, but realize the impossibility of gaining The Batmobile's top speed, so they use The Batmobile's remote control to stop the car at a waterfront building. The Catwoman takes chase by Batman and climbs to the roof to avoid capture, but she is overcome by vertigo! Here she proposes marriage to The Caped Crusader, which he rejects only when she suggests killing Robin to make their lives together purrfect. Pretending to surrender, The Catwoman reaches out for Batman's hand and deliberately slips, falls and disappears into the water below...but has she drowned?


Season 2, Episode 42 – Aired: 1/26/1967
Penguin Is a Girl's Best Friend
The Dynamic Duo foil a holdup of a nearby bank---unbeknownst to them it was actually a holdup scene being shot by Penguin for his new motion picture which they accidentally interrupted! Batman and Robin are forced into signing a contract to appear in the film! The Batman arranges for Aunt Harriet's Film Decency League to raid the scene in which The Queen Of Diamonds, Marsha, was supposed to take a milk bath in the nude. So Penguin tries to teach The Cowled Crimefighter a lesson by setting up a love scene between Batman and Marsha so that he can film 100 takes of the duet smooching--on purpose!

Whilst Marsha and her Aunt Hilda go off to Gotham's Central Park in search of old toads for one of Hilda's love potions, Penguin moves his movie company to The Museum Of Antiquities, where his cronies snatch an entire collection of priceless 15th-century chaimnail armor. Penguin discover's Batman's on to his scheme, and he calls for a staged fight which is actually for real! He then places The Duo onto a giant catapult, where he straps cameras to their legs, intending to film them a they are prepared to be launched across Gotham City!

Season 2, Episode 43 – Aired: 2/1/1967
Penguin Sets a Trend
As the rope holding the catapult slowly burns through, Batman remembers that he still has The Batmobile's Remote Control device strapped to his wrist. He quickly computes the trajectory, then uses the remote control to signal The Batmobile to meet them at Mulberry and 7th Streets, where he and Robin will come crashing down. The Batmobile heads for her programmed destination, just as The Dynamic Duo are launched up, up into the air and away across Gotham City. As predicted, The Batmobile gets there before The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, just in time to release a safety net from the trunk to catch them. The Duo return to Penguin's movie studio, where the pompous, waddling producer dresses them in 2 suits of armor and them immobilizes them with a huge electromagnet, leaving them suspended in midair while he keeps an appointment with Gen. MacGruder at The Hexagon. Back at the studio, The Batman somehow manages to loosen a fitting from his suit of armor and tosses it into an open light socket, overloading the circuit, shorting out the fuse, deactivating the magnet, and releasing him and Robin.

With little time to spare, The Duo speed to The Hexagon still clad in the armor. Meanwhile, Penguin and his finks use the armor stolen from the antiquities museum to break into the secret storeroom and pilfer some topsecret plans! Batman and Robin arrive too late at The Hexagon, but they still manage to pick up his trail and locate The Penguin's van, giving him chase. Due to the armor's massive weight, the van blows a fuse during a sharp turn, forcing Pengy and his crooked crew to abandon it, and The Blackbird Of Prey sends his henchmen back to their hideout while he leads The Caped Crimebusters into a trap. Penguin leads the armored heroes down an alley and trips them up by rolling several metal drums into their way. Penguin then pays the driver of an arriving scrap truck to cart everything -- including The Armored Duo! -- away to be tamped down inside a highpressure hydraulic scrap-metal crusher!

Season 2, Episode 44 – Aired: 2/2/1967
Penguin's Disastrous End
While inside the crusher, Batman plucks The Batpumps from his utility belt and uses them to counter the crusher's external pressure with air pressure and stop it from turning him and Robin into paperweights. The Duo then use a torch to slice their way out of their scrap metal cocoon. Meanwhile, Marsha and Aunt Hilda find their old toads and create a batch of love potion to use on the guards at The Gotham City Sub-Treasury, and while The Queen Of Diamonds mesmerizes the guards with her Dance Of The Seven Veils, Penguin and his men move mysterious equipment inside the gold vault. The Caped Crusader has tracked Aunt Hilda's escaped lizards back to her underground hideout, where they find the missing chainmail armor and one of Penguin's thugs, who unwittingly alerts The Dynamic Duo as to The Penguin's present location. Having secured The Fink, The Duo speed for The Sub-Treasury, just as Penguin, Marsha, Hilda, and the rest of the gang lock themselves up inside the vault.

For 3 long days, The Batman, Robin, Chief O'Hara and Commissioner Gordon wait outside, while the gang, inside the vault, aided by a tank of fresh air, remain until finally, they burst from within inside a solid gold tank! They piece the entire mystery together: Penguin used his sinister movie studio to steal the chainmail armor used the armor to steal the plans from The Hexagon and used the plans to build the tank. Chief O'Hara dives into his squad car and uses it to block the tank, but the tank runs right over it, crushing the vehicle flat! The Dynamic Duo, Gordon, and several boys in blue move the flattened car to discover O'Hara had dove into a manhole with his very life. Batman and Robin give chase in The Batmobile and use The Batzooka to disable the tank, forcing the villains to surrender. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson end with watching a 16mm home movie of Marsha and Batman kissing, at home with Alfred and Aunt Harriet.

NEXT WEEK: John Astin as The Riddler battles Batman!

Season 2, Episode 45 – Aired: 2/8/1967
Batman's Anniversary
On an urgent call from Commissioner Gordon, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson switch to Batman and Robin and rush to The Gotham Plaza Hotel; once there, they are surprised by a party being held in celebration of Batman and Robin's anniversary of their partnership with The Gotham City Police Department. During the presentation of a golden calf filled with $200,000 intended for charity, the party is interrupted by erupting clouds of green smoke and the sudden appearance of three emergency firemen who swipe the calf and escape through an open window. Before making his escape, one of the firemen reveals himself to be that crooked Count Of Conundrums himself, The Riddler, in disguise, who drops off one of his criminal clues, and then drops out to a safety net placed just outside! The Dynamic Duo attempt to give chase in The Batmobile, but lose the getaway truck in some Riddler-planned confusion. Following up on Riddler's clue, The Dynamic Duo analyze a crossword puzzle in The Gotham Herald newspaper. Believing they have solved the puzzle, and that it holds the key to The Riddler's next caper, they put through a call to Gordon by Batphone to alert him. However, Gordon informs them that the underground vault of The Gotham City Bank has been flooded.

Realizing they have misread the clues, Batman and Robin track Riddler to the bank where he and his henchmen Across and Down are attempting to steal the cash. Armed with Batrespirators, The Duo give battle; during the fight, Riddler yanks off Robin's respirator and tosses it asunder, causing Batman to rush to his aid and give Riddler and his minions the distraction they need to split. The trio of supercrooks reconvene at their hideout at the soon-to-be-opened Norman Jigsaw Puzzle Factory, where they meet up with their moll, Anna Gram and to dry out the stolen money, for The Prince Of Puzzlers wants to collect $3 million in order to bargain for a horrifying weapon from Professor Avery Evans Charm: a pen-sized Demolecularizer. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin remember their appointment with The Gotham City's Bakers Guild to pose for lifesize marshmallow figurines, which will top a giant cake. Unknown to them, The Riddler, Across and Down have replaced the guild members! They lift The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder by forklift to the top of the 3-story cake; then, with a click of a switch by Riddler, Batman and Robin find themselves stuck as the cake directly under our heroes is made of 15 feet of lethal quicksand cleverly disguised as strawberry icing! As The Dynamic Duo slowly sink to oblivion, The Riddler and his men depart to prepare his next criminal scheme.

Season 2, Episode 46 – Aired: 2/9/1967
A Riddling Controversy
As the lethal quicksand has almost claimed our heroes, Batman and Robin escape by reaching down ever so slowly, activate their experimental Heel-and-Toe Batrockets, and rocket themselves to safety. They investigate another cunning clue left by Riddler after his latest crime, and encounter Riddler, Across and Down at the penthouse of Anthony Aquila, an exiled South American dictator. They are unable to stop the thieving trio from cracking the dictator's safe because they must first rescue dictator himself from one of Riddler's fiendish puzzle-traps. Fearing for the man's life, The Duo allow the villains to escape with their ill-gotten gains. The Boy Wonder succeeds in solving the puzzle of the cage and releasing Aquila, only to find that the box supposedly containing the explosives was a fake.
The Riddler finally amasses enough capital to purchase Professor Charm's invention, which he plans to demonstrate on a park statue. Disguised as a street cleaner, Riddler aims the Demolecularizer at the statue and makes it vanish right before the very eyes of The Dynamic Duo and the police! The Conundrum King then promises to Demolecularize Police HQ unless Gotham's criminal codes are rescinded. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder fly The Batcopter over Gotham and seed the clouds above with di-chloride, thus neutralizing Riddler's device with a well-timed lightning bolt from a passing storm cloud. The Dynamic Duo then trace Riddler to his hideout by Batcycle at The Norman Jigsaw Puzzle Factory, where they round him and his cronies Anna Gram, Across and Down up and send them on another long trek back to the pokey. Later, in Gordon's office @ Police HQ, a guilt-wracked Professor Charm returns the stolen cash.

NEXT WEEK: Cesar Romero returs as The Joker!

Season 2, Episode 47 – Aired: 2/15/1967
The Joker's Last Laugh
When a rash of counterfeit money is discovered emanating from Gotham City Bank, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder are summoned to investigate. At Police HQ, they discover that The Joker has planted a tiny loudspeaker on Commissioner Gordon's cufflinks which was the source of a constant broadcast of hideous laughter that seemed to echo in Gordon's ears and had been driving him and Chief O'Hara up the wall. Believing The Harlequin Of Homicidal Humor is behind the phony tender at the bank, The Dynamic Duo rush to the scene. There at the bank, it is discovered that the bank's chief teller has been replaced by Mr. Glee, a Joker-controlled robot. The Batman and Robin disables the robot and takes him to The Batcave, and Joker and his moll, Josie Miller, is able to divine the Batcave's location with the robot's built-in homing device, and they give pursuit in The Jokemobile! However, Batman has anticipated this and uses a tracking signal Batdeflector to lead The Joker to a fake Batcave!

Back in The Batcave, The Caped Crusader traces The Clown Prince Of Crime to his new hideout: at the offices of Penthouse Comic-Book Publishers. In order to prove Joker is printing illegal tender, Robin attempts a break-in, while Bruce Wayne pretends to be a broken man from embezzling some of the bank's money, and his only way out is to ingratiate himself with Joker. If The Joker would agree to print some of his funny money, Bruce would return the favor by making him Vice President of The Gotham National Bank. Joker quickly, and gleefully, agrees, but just as he is about to print the corrupt cash, The Boy Wonder appears and does battle with Boff and Yock, two of Joker's other robots. Bruce joins in briefly, but Robin is nevertheless quickly subdued and winds up strapped to a giant printing press Joker uses to manufacture comic books. Just to make sure that Bruce doesn't try to pull a fast one, he orders Boff and Yock to force him to throw the lever that activates the press and turn Robin into a human-sized comic book...

Season 2, Episode 48 – Aired: 2/16/1967
The Joker's Epitaph
Just as it looks like The Boy Wonder is about to become a permanent part of next week's comic issue, the faithful Alfred, disguised as The Batman, Batclimbs to The Joker's hideout, enters the window, arrives just in time to gas the bad guys and release Robin. Joker, however, escapes with his minions and a document signed by Bruce that names The Joker bank vice president! The next time Batman and Robin pay a visit to the bank, they discover that Joker, employing the alias "W.C. Whiteface," has hired his moll and gang as bank employees. Unable to take legal action, The Duo return to Wayne Manor. There, as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, they meet with Joker and Josie, who now proceeds to attempt to perpetrate an intricate blackmail scheme on Bruce with a secret tape recording of his demand for counterfeit cash! In exchange for the tape, Bruce must turn over the corpses of The Dynamic Duo. He refuses and Joker then orders Bruce to marry Josie with an initial $3 million marriage settlement! Bruce can't figure out how to foil the scheme without revealing his secret identity, so he, with Dick, seeks an alternate way out. Back in The Batcave, Batman and Robin hatch a Batscheme to use The Joker's own robots against him. While The Boy Wonder rigs the robots, Bruce Wayne is summoned upstairs where he is apprehended. Believing Bruce was not in his right mind when he appointed Joker to the position of bank VP, Gordon calls in a specialist named Dr. Floyd, who arranges for Bruce to be declared legally insane and put away for his own good! Wayne is then apprehended by Chief O'Hara and The AntiLunatic Squad.
Alfred quickly heads to The Batcave to relay this info to Robin, and, after giving Boff, Yock and Mr. Glee their final instructions, Robin and Alfred speed off by Batmobile to rescue Bruce. Locating the van, they blast open its doors with The Batray and use the superpowered Batmagnet to attract the metal buckles of Bruce's straitjacket to yank him from the speeding van, and he rolls with the fall to escape harm. Bruse switches back to Batman with a spare Batsuit, and The Dynamic Duo race the remaining mile to the bank, arriving just in time to witness the robots in action. Mr. Glee identifies Josie as his long-lost wife, and The Caped Crusader accuses The Joker of aiding and abetting bigamy! Just then, Boff and Yock, the robot tellers, start holding up the customers as per Batman's instructions. Realizing something has gone awry, The Joker pulls out his robot control device and reprogram Boff and Yock to seize The Dynamic Duo. Batman and Robin, knowing that Joker has hoisted himself on his own petard, use the opportunity to pin an attempted murder charge on The Fiendish Funnyman once they have quickly dispatched the mechanical malefactors. Later, Dr. Floyd pronounces that Bruce's fall from the van has restored his sanity, and Bruce receives a clean bill of health.
NEXT WEEK: Julie Newmar springs back as The Catwoman!

Season 2, Episode 49 – Aired: 2/22/1967
Catwoman Goes to College
The Catwoman leaves jail and is turned over to her parole officer - Bruce Wayne. She immediately enrolls as a criminology major at Gotham City University. Aided by 3 overage freshmen named Brown, Cornell, and Penn, she arranges for the lifesized statue of Batman to be stolen from the university rotunda. Alerted by Gordon to the theft of the statue, The Dynamic Duo arrive on the scene. While The Caped Crusader examines the only clue to the theft, a freshman beanie containing a single red hair, The Catwoman uses the stolen statue as the model for a Batman costume for Cornell, who so costumed is an exact double for The Caped Crusader. The next day, Batman gives a lecture in criminology to Catwoman's class, where he gives a complete description of the statue thief. Believing Batman is on to him, Penn makes his escape as Catwoman secretly rings the class bell.

Later, when The Batman and The Catwoman are sharing a soda at The Sweet Shoppe, a local school hangout, Robin The Boy Wonder informs The Caped Crusader about the recent robbery of a supermarket by a crook wearing a Batman suit. Before he can investigate, Captain Courageous, a newly arrived police officer from California has him arrested. While Batman waits in jail, Catwoman incites a student riot. Alfred, disguised as Batman's lawyer, arrives at the Gotham jail with a Batmakeup case, and, after a quick switch, Batman leaves the jail disguised as Alfred. That night at a rally in Chime Square, The Felonious Feline captures The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, deposits them inside a giant coffee cup, and activates the mechanical percolator that, in a matter of moments, will liquidate our heroes with deadly sulphuric acid!

Season 2, Episode 50 – Aired: 2/23/1967
Batman Displays His Knowledge
As the acid begins to spill out of the pot's spout, Batman positions his hand under the flow so that the first few drops of acid will burn away his bonds. Then, using The Batrope, he switches off the master switch. Meanwhile, Catwoman and her men have managed to steal the rare Batagonian Cat's Eye Opals from The Forever Jewel Company. They take them to French Freddy Touche, a well-known fence who runs a fencing school, in the hopes of selling them on the black market. Freddy knows that the opals are supposed to be jinxed and refuses to take them. Later, while trying to convince Catwoman to return the opals for the reward, Freddy discovers that the gems are fakes, created by Batman. Infuriated, Catwoman invites Batman to meet her alone at the model home of The Sherlock Holmes Real Estate Development at midnight. Arriving at the house, Catwoman tries to kill Batman with poisonous perfume, but Batman suspects the trouble and protected himself by putting Batplugs in his Batnostrils, thus foiling her scheme. Catwoman calls for her cleverly hidden henchmen to finish him off. Robin quickly appears, and together The Dynamic Duo rout the roughians. Bruce returns Catowman to Gotham State Pen; she tells him her heart is for Batman. NEXT WEEK: Batman and Robin clash with The Green Hornet and Kato!

Season 2, Episode 51 – Aired: 3/1/1967
A Piece of the Action
On a foray into The Pick Chip Stamps Factory in Gotham City, The Green Hornet and Kato, tracing a flood of counterfeit stamps, are confronted by the unlikely Col. Gumm, an evil foreman running a counterfeit rare-stamp operation out of the factory, who informs boss Pinky Pinkston. The two crimefighters leave even though they have a good chance of trouncing Gumm. Factory owner Pinky Pinkston is concerned about the break-in, so she asks Commissioner Gordon for help, and Gordon alerts The Dynamic Duo. Later, Bruce Wayne lunches with Pinky and her friend Britt Reid and Gumm overhears their conversation as she asks Bruce to get The Batman to guard her factory against The Green Hornet and Kato.

Bruce and Britt visit Boris Severoff's Stamp Store to complain about counterfeit stamps. Severoff denies everything but he hurriedly advises his thugs; Canceled, Reprint and Block, to dismantle the operation. Unfortunately, Pinky overhears Gumm's conversation and she is bound and gagged in his office. The Green Hornet and Kato, returning to the factory in an attempt to round up the do-badders, are captured by Gumm and his men. Although The Batman and Robin arrive soon after, they fall into a glue trap and are forced to watch in horror as The Hornet and Kato are fed to an Enlarged Perforation and Coiling Machine, in which they are both to be blocked, gummed, and perforated into lifesized stamps, while The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, stuck to Col. Gumm's undetatchable glue pad, await their turn!

Season 2, Episode 52 – Aired: 3/2/1967
Batman's Satisfaction
The Green Hornet and Kato are stamped and thumbtacked to the wall, but Batman and Robin unwittingly come unglued and overpower Col. Gumm, Cancelled, Reprint, and Block. At the last possible instant, The Caped Crusader quickly shuts off the machine and loosens the outside panel giving The Green Hornet enough room to use his Hornet Sting gun to blast open the machine. But the evil gang has dispersed, with Gumm kidnapping Pinky. Green Hornet and Kato try to pick up the trail of the escaped Col. Gumm and his gang; meanwhile, Batman labors with and interpret the letters remaining in Col. Gumm's Gumm's abandoned bowl of alphabet soup Pinky left for him and deciphers a message in the soup, which points our heroes toward The International Stamps Exhibition.
Meanwhile, Pinky escapes Gumm's clutches with the aid of her pink dog, Apricot, informs Commissioner Gordon of the imminent crime, and accompanies the GCPD to The Exhibition. There Batman and Robin find not only Colonel Gumm, Canceled, Reprint and Block, but The Green Hornet and Kato, too, whom The Duo believe are the crooks behind this whole criminal scheme! During the ensuing battle, Batman finds himself pitted against Green Hornet and Kato using his karate prowess to subdue Robin. Col. Gumm, still disguised as "Mr. Barbarosa," kidnaps Pinky and tries to snatch the priceless stamps. The Dynamic Duo break off their fight to rescue Pinky, and The Green Hornet and Kato split just as Chied O'Hara, Commissioner Gordon and a slew of Gotham's Finest arrive to apprehend the real culprits and wrap things up. Later that night, Bruce Wayne, Britt Reid and Pinky Pinkston celebrate with a candlelit dinner.
NEXT WEEK: Victor Buono returns as King Tut!

Season 2, Episode 53 – Aired: 3/8/1967
King Tut's Coup
Falling flower pots at Yale U. transform a professor and two students into King Tut, Lord Chancellor and Jester. Among other dastardly deeds, he plans the kidnapping of Lisa, the daughter of wealthy Andrew Carson who will appear as Cleopatra at an Egyptian-themed costume ball. Batman and Robin learn of Tut's return and of his plans to spirit away Lisa and subsequently do away with the two of them.

Watchful policemen at the ball mistake the Tut-garbed Mayor Zorty for the "real" villain, and consequently are absent when the foretold kidnapping ultimately takes place. Batman and Robin tail the large criminal to his hideout, but are captured. Robin struggles against his bonds as a casket containing an unconscious Batman is allowed to sink into a watery grave.

Season 2, Episode 54 – Aired: 3/9/1967
Batman's Waterloo
Batman uses The Emergency Wireless Battransmitter to alert Alfred Pennyworth with Morse Batcode to his present location. The ever-reliable butler arrives just in time to rescue The Caped Crusader from the sunken casket. After Batman revives from the trance he put himself into in order to conserve air, Alfred informs him that he overheard Tut planning to boil Robin in oil. Meanwhile, Tut decides to accept the money Lisa' father is prepared to pay $8,300,487.12 for her safe return and, using a radio program as the go-between, arranges for Batman to deliver the money to the abandoned boilerworks, alone.

As Tut prepares to boil The Boy Wonder, his current queen, Neila, tries to help Lisa an Robin escape, but all are quickly discovered and captured by Tut. Just as Robin is about to be thrown into the boiling vat of oil, Batman uses the battering ram attached to The Batcycle to burst into the room. Quickly knocking Tut's men out of the way with a money bag, Batman throws a capsule into the oil, turning it into foam rubber! Saved, Robin aids his partner in taking out The Tutlings. Meanwhile, Tut, knocked out during the battle, reverts to his normal scholarly self. Later, after a date, Lisa Carson invites Bruce Wayne into her hotel room for milk and cookies.

NEXT WEEK: Miss Tallulah Bankhead locks horns with Batman!

Season 2, Episode 55 – Aired: 3/15/1967
Black Widow Strikes Again
Mrs. Max Black, The Black Widow, has arrived in Gotham City and just robbed The American National Bank! And then The Beneficial Bank! And then The Commercial, Diversified, Empire and Federal State Banks!! With the aid of her brain short-circuiter, B.W. simply requests a large sum of wampum, and the bank presidents rendered incapable of independent thought as a result of her device, are only too happy to hand it over. While Black Widow and her henchmen Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs, and Trap Door count the stolen cash in her den, Batman and Robin, trying to figure out B.W.'s next move, deduce that she's proceeding alphabetically, and they set a trap for her at The Gotham General Bank. There they confront Black Widow and her henchmen, and she tries to short-circuit their brains, but is thwarted by their AntiShort-Circuiting Batelectrodes. She then, nevetheless, falls back on Plan Beta: Batman is sprayed with paralyzing spider venom and The Avaricious Arachnid escapes!

The hobbled Duo give hot pursuit of Black Widow with the aid of their Odor-Sensitometer Radar Circuit in The Batmobile. Eventually they trace the smell of gas fumes from Black Widow's motorcycle to a small farmhouse, where they are greeted by an elderly farm couple in rocking chairs. Unable to get information from the pair as to B.W.'s location, they speed back to The Batcave. There, they listen to the conversation with the farm ouple on The Battape Reader and realize that their voices were amplified and that the couples were fakes! The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder speed back to the dummy farmhouse, where they penetrate The Widow's lair beneath and find themselves caught in a giant web. Black Widow then has her henchmen release two very deadly black widow spiders and leaves The Gotham Guardians to die...

Season 2, Episode 56 – Aired: 3/16/1967
Caught in the Spider's Den
The Caped Crusader reaches the 5,000-volt mini-charge in his ever-reliable utility belt and, using the web as a conductor, electrocutes the spiders. The Dynamic Duo then proceed to The Black Widow's vault, where they find her and Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs and Trap Door counting the money from her latest robbery. Spotting them, B.W. reverses the polarity of her brain device and short circuits his Batbrain! Robin, fortunately, has lost one of his electrodes and is not subsceptible to the device's effects--but is quickly tied up anyway. The Caped Crusader, now under Black Widow's spell, uses his Remote-Controlled Batcomputer Oscillator to locate a bank The Spidery Fiend can rob. The computer responds with an answer but also warns that Batman's life will be in danger if he accompanies her to the bank! Black Widow, unwilling to lose Batman, employs the help of a mind-control device, a rack of disguises and the male rubber dummy from the front porch, Black Widow attempts a heist of The Heritage Bank — in the guise of The Dynamic Duo! They succeed, and the guard is forced to shoot at them as they make a break for it. Meanwhile, Robin, of course, manages to release himself and uses Black Widow's mind-control device to break the spell of his partner and they extricate themselves from the sticky trap. They discover the spidery gang in another room of the hideout, counting their ill-gotten loot. Black Widow might return at any minute, so Batman re-ties Robin and goes back to playing solitaire. Once B.W. has returned with her ill-gotten gains, The Duo pounce on Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs and Trap Door! Batman then turns Black Widow's own mind-control device back on its creator, rendering her helpless. Later, in Gotham State Pen, The Dynamic Duo use The Brain-Wave Batanalyzers to de-criminalize Black Widow and her minions.

Season 2, Episode 57 – Aired: 3/22/1967
Pop Goes the Joker
That Harlequin Of Homicidal Humor, The Joker, appears at Park's Gallery, where he sprays pain all over the exhibit of the latest works of artist Oliver Muzzy. Alfred, who coincidentally happened to be present during the proceedings looking for a painting for Bruce Wayne, secretly alerts his employer by phone as to The Joker's antics. The Dynamic Duo speed to the gallery by Batmobile, only to be taken by surprise at Muzzy's delight by Joker's spray paint's pop art effects, and he offers him a partnership! Unable to apprehend The Joker, The Terriffic Twosome depart for The Batcave to await his next move.

Days later, Joker enters and wins an art contest sponsored by Baby Jane Towser, a rich heiress to the paper clip fortune. He then announces that he has formed his own art school for millionaires only. Bruce Wayne decides to sign up in order to keep close watch on the cunning clown, who later kidnaps the entire class and holds them for ransom! Robin suspecting Bruce is in danger, races to the school, where he and Bruce take on Joker's men, fist-wise. But they are quickly defeated, and Bruce is tied to a chair and forced to watch Robin, who is tied to a giant mobile covered with rotating palette knives, which threaten to slice him to ribbons!

Season 2, Episode 58 – Aired: 3/23/1967
Flop Goes the Joker
As the future seems bleak for our beloved Boy Wonder, Bruce blocks the mechanical works of the mobile with himself and his chair, long enough for Robin to work himself loose and use one of the flailing knives to deactivate the mechanism. Returning to see if the mobile has completed its diabolical duty, The Joker and his crooked cronies are jumped on by Bruce and The Boy Wonder. While they pin the henchmen to a wall with carefully thrown pallette knives, Joker begs for Baby Jane's forgiveness; feeling sorry for him, B.J. arranges for his freedom. She then takes him back home with her, where, during a chicken dinner, Joker covers her antique table with paint and has his henchmen chop it up. He convinces the gullible B.J. that he has turned her table into a work of art, and she lets him replace the priceless Renaissance art collection in her father's wing at the museum with the table's painted remains.

After snatching the collection, The Joker puts through a call to Gordon and demands $10 million in order to ransom the paintings, or he will burn them! Unknown to Joker, The Batman replaced the stolen paintings with rather "childish" fingerpaintings by Alfred. Shocked by the sudden appearance of The Daring Duet, Joker retreats with Baby Jane, while his men take quite a Bat-beating. Planning to revenge himself against Bruce Wayne and hoping to swipe some loot, Joker arrives at Wayne Manor, where he loses a duel with Alfred and runs into Bruce's study; there he trips the switch to The Batpoles, hidden in a bust of William Shakespeare. Mistaking it for a secret passage, he slides down one of the poles---but not before a quick-thinking Alf activates The Emergency Batpole Elevator, sending The Clown Prince Of Crime crashing to the top of the shaft. After a couple of trips up and down the pole, Joker finally gives up. Later, Alfred opens an exhibit of his "childish" paintings, with proceeds donated to The Wayne Foundation Free Nursery. NEXT WEEK: Eli Wallach as the frigid Mr. Freeze!

Season 2, Episode 59 – Aired: 3/29/1967
Ice Spy
Mr. Freeze shows up in Gotham Harbor in a giant glacier-hideout. Using the ice magnets inside his iceberg hideout, he immobilizes the S.S. Gotham Queen and kidnaps the brilliant Icelandic scientist Professor Isaacson, in hopes of obtaining a formula for instant ice - which will help him freeze the entire harbor and, eventually, whatever he wants. The Dynamic Duo guess that The Frosty Felon had an accomplice on board the ship, and Batman feeds a list containing the passengers of the S.S. Gotham Queen to The Batcomputer. Moments later, it is discovered that ice-skating star Glacia Glaze was on board under her right name Emma Strunk, and, convinced that there is a connection between her and Mr. Freeze, The Caped Crusader plans to check her out that evening as Bruce N. Wayne, when he will escort Aunt Harriet Cooper to the ice show. Meanwhile, Mr. Freeze has defected to his hideout directly underneath The Bruce Wayne Ice Arena and uses his pet seal Isolde to deliver his ransom demands for Prof. Isaacson, which involves a TV broadcast by Bruce Wayne @ midnight.

That night at the ice show, Bruce and Aunt Harriet pay a visit on Glacia in her dressing room...unwittingly interrupting her while she is attempting to keep in contact with Mr. Freeze through her compact which doubles as a 2-way radio communicator. Intrigued by her compact Harriet opens it and is surprised to hear the voice of Mr. Freeze! Glacia quickly covers up by calling it a music box, but Bruce Wayne/Batman is convinved well beyond the shadow of a doubt that Glacia Glaze---b.k.a. Emma Strunk---is definitely in league with The Frozen Fiend! Later that same night, Bruce Wayne does videorecord his TV message @ 11 P.M., so he, as Batman, can trap Mr. Freeze with Robin a good hour later when he tries to collect the ransom money. Meanwhile, Mr. Freeze has attempted to get Prof. Isaacson to spill the beans on his secret invention by putting him in a quick-freezer...without luck, however, for the Icelandic Isaacson is used to the intense cold weather, and it has little effect on him. A discouraged but undaunted Freeze then falls back on "Plan B," injecting Isaacson with carbon monoxide. After returning him to the quick-freezer, Freeze is surprised of The Dynamic Duo's appearance during Bruce Wayne's prerecorded telecast. He is enraged on learning they have brought fake money, and he had his men Frosty and Chilblains toss them into his sinister Sub-Zero Temperature Vaporizing Cabinet, which when activated will instantly vaporize their bodies and make them a part of the ice-skating rink above!

Season 2, Episode 60 – Aired: 3/30/1967
The Duo Defy
When it seems that Batman & Robin are no more, bust still fears that he will be discovered, Freeze and crew returns to his iceberg. But The Dynamic Duo escape the terrible cabinet by an emergence exit, and, after waiting until The Frozen Fiend has departed, make their appearance via Isodle's sealhouse. Freeze, meanwhile, in his iceberg hideout has managed to syphen the formula from Professor Isaacson and builds the deadly Ice-Ray, intending to freeze all of Gotham City and the entire country! To prove his word, he ices down various parts of Gotham.

At Batman's behest, Commissioner Gordon has a Small Echoing Seal Pulsator placed on Mr. Freeze's trained wonder-seal Isolde, and releases her into Gotham Harbor. Then, tracing the seal back to Mr. Freeze's hideout in The Batcopter, The Dynamic Duo rescue Prof. Isaacson. Freeze tries to render the heroes immobile with his Freeze Gun, but it proves to be no match for their Super-Thermalized Batskivvies! Following the ensuing Batfight, the Gotham authorities, also led straight to Freeze's glacier-hideout, arrive in time to round up the cold-hearted criminals before they can escape to sea in their Ice-Sub, and place them on ice - in jail. Later, Bruce, Dick, Aunt Harriet and Alfred relax by playing with racing cars.

Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/14/1967
Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
The Penquin kidnaps Barbara Gordon and plans on marrying her. Batman & Robin track down the Penquin & with the help of Batgirl, the new crimefighter in town, defeats him.

Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/21/1967
Ring Around the Riddler
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 receipts from The Gotham Square Garden box office, 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 switching 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...

Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/28/1967
The Wail of the Siren
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 mélée, 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...

Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/5/1967
The Sport of Penguins (1)
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.

Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/12/1967
A Horse of Another Color (2)
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...

Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/19/1967
The Unkindest Tut of All
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...

Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/26/1967
Louie the Lilac
The leader of the flower children of Gotham City are in danger thanks to Louie the Lilac. Batman and Robin will have to deal with this fiend and rescue all of Gotham from his Lilac Spray.

Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/2/1967
The Ogg and I (1)
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.

Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/9/1967
How to Hatch a Dinosaur (2)
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 succeeds in hatching the egg. Egghead then tries to offer the pair as a snack to the hatched beast, but the monster 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 welcome 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 receives a call from her surfer friend, Skip Parker...just as The Joker and his cohorts Riptide and Wipeout arrive at Gotham Point by Jokemobile...

Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/16/1967
Surf's Up! Joker's Under!
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...

Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/23/1967
The Londinium Larcenies (1)
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!

Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/30/1967
The Foggiest Notion (2)
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!

Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/7/1967
The Bloody Tower (3)
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...

Season 3, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/14/1967
Catwoman's Dressed to Kill
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...

Season 3, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/21/1967
The Ogg Couple
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...

Season 3, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/28/1967
The Funny Feline Felonies (1)
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!

Season 3, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/4/1968
The Joke's on Catwoman (2)
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...

Season 3, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/11/1968
Louie's Lethal Lilac Time
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...

Season 3, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/18/1968
Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club
Nora Clavicle is ostensibly a womens' rights spokesperson, but she is secretly a crime queen. Exercising her influence over Mayor Linseed's wife (and, consequently, Mayor Linseed) she has Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and Batman and Robin all fired and replaced with women. She then has her henchgirls set a trap for the Caped Crusaders: when the newly-appointed policewomen prove too concerned with their makeup to stop Nora's gang from robbing the bank, Batman and Robin decide to try their hand at catching the thieves. With Batgirl assisting, they trace the gang to a knitting company's warehouse, where the heroes are captured and tied into a gruesome human Siamese knot. As the three crimefighters struggle to avoid strangulation, Nora unleashes mechanical mice that will explode at sunset, so that she might collect on an insurance policy she has taken out on Gotham. Batman, of course, figures a way out of the Siamese knot. He then 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.

Season 3, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/25/1968
Penguin's Clean Sweep
The Penguin returns to Gotham to poison the currency within Gotham City. If the citizens accept his crooked currency, then will he give the antidote. It will be up to Batman, Robin and Batgirl to save the day.

Season 3, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/1/1968
The Great Escape (1)
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!

Season 3, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/8/1968
The Great Train Robbery (2)
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...

Season 3, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/22/1968
I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle
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...

Season 3, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/29/1968
The Joker's Flying Saucer
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...

Season 3, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/7/1968
The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra
Upon learning that The Gotham City Bank has been robbed by two 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 doctor 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 Dynamic 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 and 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; incognito, 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 six of Gotham City's arch-criminals - 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 Teriffic Trio is notified about the prison breakout engineered by the good Dr. and Cabala, and Batman proceeds to use The Special Escaped Arch-criminal Batlocater in The Batcomputer to locate 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...

Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/14/1968
Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires
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 patron 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 receive an free-of-charge Eggplant Jelly Vitamin Scalp Massage if he comes to collect it. Arriving at Minerva' spa, Bruce receives the full scalp treatment, including Minerva's Deepest Secret Extractor, with which Min uncovers the combination to the Wayne Foundation vault! While Bruce leaves Minerva receives 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. While 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 Foundation has 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 discover his real identity; 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.