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Here is the series that made the
show a TV legend, viewing figures were at its highest for this first
series and the sets were at their best! Some of the earlier episodes
in this series were actually filmed in 1965 - also thats the year
when ABC showed a network presentation for a little preview of the
first episode.
16 writers worked for the scripts
in this first series, William Dozier's son wrote episodes #5 &
#6. The most common writer was Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Episode #1 Hi Diddle Riddle Part
1 6028-Pt. 1 12 Jan 66
The Riddler uses a trumped-up lawsuit to try to unmask Batman in
court. Batman is forced to break the law himself, and Robin ends
up in the master-fiend's evil clutches. Watch for the latest dance
craze: the Batusi!
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin, Jill St. John
Episode #2 Smack in the Middle
Part 2 6028-Pt. 2 13 Jan 66
The Riddler tries to lure Batman into a trap using Robin as the
bait.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin, Jill St. John
Episode # 3 Fine Feathered Finks
Part 1 8703-Pt. 1 19 Jan 66
Disguised as his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, Batman infiltrates the
Penguin's umbrella factory in an attempt to track him down. Thinking
he is merely a spy from a rival factory, the Penguin orders that
he be quickly dispatched in his 12,000 degree furnace.
Guest Stars:Burgess Meredith
Episode # 4 The Penguin's A Jinx
Part 2 8703-Pt. 2 20 Jan 66
Narrowly escaping a fiery death, Batman and Robin decide that the
Penguin's next move is to kidnap a famous actress. Rushing to the
scene, the lovely actress begins to fall for the caped crusader
just as Penguin makes his move.
Guest Stars:Burgess Meredith
Episode #5 The Joker is Wild
Part 1 8709-Pt. 1 26 Jan 66
The Joker has escaped from prison and plots to design his own utility
belt to combat the caped crusader. Just as the Dynamic Duo attempt
to unmask the villain, they are stopped by sneezing powder, and
the Joker moves in to unmask Batman on live TV.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Nancy Kovac
Episode #6 Batman Is Riled Part
2 6 8709-Pt. 2 27 Jan 66
Thanks to the Joker, Gotham descends into its worst crime wave ever.
Joker takes Batman and Robin back to his lair, demanding that the
S.S. Gotham be handed over to him, or he will behead the Dynamic
Duo.
Guest Stars:Cesar Romero; Nancy Kovack
Episode #7 Instant Freeze Part
1 8707-Pt. 1 2 Feb 66
Mr. Freeze is raising havoc with his flame-freeze gun, and Batman
and Robin rush to the rescue. The Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder
try to foil Freeze's attempt to steal the Circle of Ice Diamond,
but Freeze freezes them in their steps with his deadly ice-gun and
drives away.
Guest Stars: George Sanders, Teri Garr
Episode #8 Rats Like Cheese Part
2 8707-Pt. 2 3 Feb 66
Batman and Robin are thawed out, but Freeze has kidnapped Gotham
City's star ballplayer just before the big game. Freeze's terms
are a fair exchange: the ballplayer for Batman.
Guest Stars: George Sanders
Episode #9 Zelda The Great Part
1 8705-Pt. 1 9 Feb 66
Crooked escape artist Zelda the Great nearly falls for Baman and
Robin's attempt to trap her with a homing device disguised as a
large jewel. But Zelda's real plan is revealed when Dick Grayson's
Aunt is kidnapped, held for ransom, and suspended over a vat of
boiling oil!
Guest Stars:Anne Baxter, Jack Kruschen
Episode #10 Death Worse Than
Fate Part 2 8705-Pt. 2 10/2/66
A few minutes before Zelda the Great is about to deep-fry Aunt Harriet,
Batman makes contact with her and they arrange to pay the ransom.
Harriet is safely returned, but a match book leads Batman and Robin
into a trap set by Zelda's evil associate Eivol Ekdol.
Guest Stars: Anne Baxter, Jack Kruschen
Episode #11 A Riddle a Day Keeps
The Riddler Away Part 1 8711-Pt. 1 16 Feb 66
Riddler disrupts the arrival of visiting King Boris and leaves a
mysterious clue at the Miss Galaxy pageant. Batman and Robin rush
to the Royal Mushroom Club, only to be trapped and strapped to a
generator drive shaft, awaiting their doom.
Guest Stars:Frank Gorshin
Episode #12 When the Rat's Away,
The Mice will Play Part 2 8711-Pt. 2 17 Feb 66
After King Boris places his Queen of Freedom statue in Gotham's
Museum of Fame at a special ceremony, Riddler sends word to Commissioner
Gordon that the statue contains a time bomb which he will deactivate
only after the city delivers $1,000,000 to him. For help, Gordon
calls upon wealthy Bruce Wayne, who is really Batman.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin
Episode #13 The Thirteenth Hat
Part 1 8719-Pt. 1 23 Feb 66
When a number of hats, along with their owners, disappear around
Gotham City, Batman and Robin realize that the Mad Hatter must again
be on the loose and trying to kidnap each member of the jury who
convicted him. The trail leads to a sculptor's studio, and a horrendous,
statue shattering melee ensues. Robin is clonked, and the Hatter
gleefully buries Batman in Super-Fast Hardening Plaster.
Guest Stars: David Wayne
Episode # 14 Batman Stands Pat
Part 2 8719-Pt. 2 24 Feb 66
Batman and his chum escape from their plaster prisons and crack
their adversary's scheme. The Hatter purposely leads Batman and
Robin to his fiendish hat factory, stocked with terrifying torture
machines.
Guest Stars: David Wayne
Episode #15 Joker Goes To School
Part 1 8715-Pt. 1 2 Mar 66
Commissioner Gordon alerts Batman that Joker is again on the prowl,
seeking to undermine student morale in order to recruit high school
drop-outs into his gang, the Bad Pennies. The Dynamic Duo are kidnapped
strapped into an electric chair-like seat and faced with a shock
of 50,000 volts if the slot machine in front of them turns up three
lemons!
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #16 He Meets His Match,
The Grisly Ghoul Part 2
In the nick of time, Gotham City is struck with a massive power
failure that turns off Joker's 50,000 volt charge. Batman and Robin
are rescued, and Robin agrees to infiltrate the Bad Pennies in a
dangerous undercover mission.
Guest Stars:Cesar Romero
Episode #17 True Or False Face
- Part 1 8715-Pt. 2 3 Mar 66
Batman and Boy Wonder deduce that False-Face is plotting a counterfeit
money caper and find themselves on a deserted subway platform, supposedly
his hideout. But wait! Treachery triumphs once again, as False-Face
knocks out Batman and Robin and epoxys them to the subway tracks.
Guest Stars: Malachi Throne
Episode # 18 Holy Rat Race Part
2 8713-Pt. 1 9 Mar 66
Alfred manages to short out a circuit and free Batman and Robin
just as the subway train rushes past. Thank heavens! They beat the
masked marauder at his own game during a daring bank robbery, foiling
False-Face's putrid plot.
Guest Stars: Malachi Throne
Episode # 19 The Purr-fect Crime
Part 1 8713-Pt. 2 10 Mar 66
Catwoman breaks into a museum to steal a priceless gold cat statuette.
Following Catwoman to her hideout turns deadly when the two are
captured and separated. Batman, sealed in a room with two doors
is told to pick one, and a giant tiger leaps out from behind.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar
Episode # 20 Better Luck Next
Time Part 2 8721-Pt. 1 16/3/66
Using his suction Batcups, Batman escapes the tiger and rescues
Robin from more hungry jungle cats. They discover that Catwoman
is not merely after the gold statuettes, but Captain Manx's buried
treasure -- whose map is visible when the statues are fitted together.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar
Episode #21 The Penguin Goes
Straight Part 1 8721-Pt. 2 17/3/66
Penguin announces his Penguin Protective Agency, established to
compete with the Dynamic Duo in guarding society's wealth against
hoods and mountebanks. The Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder are captured
and strung up behind a balloon shooting gallery at Penguin's gala
party. The Feathered Felon invites Gordon and Chief O'Hara to take
a couple of pot shots, which they do, not realizing that the pop
guns are loaded with real bullets.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
Episode #22 Not Yet, He Ain't
Part 2 8723-Pt. 1 23 Mar 66
In a dynamic double flash, Batman and Robin lift their feet and
deflect the bullets with their bullet-proof Batboot soles, and Batman
cuts himself and Robin loose with his Bat-claw knife blade. When
Penguin discovers their escape, he rallies Gotham's leading citizens
to demand the apprehension of the dirty duo.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
Episode # 23 Ring of Wax Part
1 8725-Pt. 1 30 Mar 66
Riddler makes off with The Rare Old Book on The Lost Treasure of
the Incas, leaving a trail of clues which leads to Madame Soliel's
Wax Museum. There, a Revolutionary War Tableau comes to life, and
Riddler shoots doped darts into the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder.
Spiriting them back to his hideout, Riddler and his two goons dangle
Batman and Robin over a vat of boiling wax preparatory toa fatal
double dip.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin
Episode #24 Give Em' The Axe
Part 2 8725-Pt. 2 31 Mar 66
Batman and Robin blast themselves free of their fetters and clear
of the awful wax to the floor below. Meanwhile, Riddler has gone
after the Sarcophagus at the Gotham City Museum, where it awaits
an airtight case for display.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin
Episode #25 Joker Trumps An Ace
Part 1 8727-Pt. 1 6 Apr 66
Joker is on the loose again, and his apparent target is the solid-gold
golf clubs of the Maharajah of Nimpah - until Batman and Robin arrive
to witness him kidnap the 350-pound Maharajah himself! The Peerless
Pair trace Joker to his Old Re-finery hideout and burst in to rescue
His Highness. But Joker locks the Dauntless Duo into a very high
chimney which he begins to fill with lethal gas!
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #26 Batman Sets the Pace
Part 2 8727-Pt. 2 7 Apr 66
When the Joker sees that Batman and Robin have escaped his death
trap, he trundles off to hatch another. Joker's ransom demand is
for Batman to endorse the Maharajah's personal check for one-half
million dollars, which he will cash at Gotham City State Bank the
next morning.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #27 The Curse of Tut
Part 1 8729-Pt. 1 13 Apr 66
The evil King Tut wants to claim Gotham City as his kingdom. Batman
and Robin decide to do some undercover investigating at the Gotham
Museum's Egyptian exhibit. After being gassed by phony ambulance
drivers, Tut's henchmen in disguise, Bruce finds himself careening
down a hill on a stretcher, headed for a 300-foot cliff.
Guest Stars: Victor Buono
Episode #28 The Pharoah's in
a Rut Part 2 8729-Pt. 2 14 Apr 66
After barely escaping death, Batman goes on television to say he
has rescued Bruce Wayne and is headed to Egypt to do some research.
Tut falls for this ruse and kidnaps Bruce/Batman, subjecting him
to Theban Pebble Torture at his secret hideout.
Guest Stars: Victor Buono
Episode #29 The Bookworm Turns
Part 1 8717-Pt. 1 20 Apr 66
Bookworm lures Batman and Robin to Police Headquarters and confounds
them with a series of book-clues. Batman and Robin cleverly suspect
a trap and question Bookworm's moll Lydia, who spills a false clue
as she has been directed by her master. Batman races off and leaves
Robin with Lydia, who gasses him and helps Bookworm strap the kid
to the clapper of the giant bell that will toll in just one minute.
Guest Stars: Roddy McDowall, Jerry Lewis
Episode # 30 While Gotham City
Turns Part 2 8717-Pt. 2 21 Apr 66
Batman zooms to the Bell Tower and barely saves Robin's life. But
Bookworm traps the Dynamic Duo inside a giant cookbook, which fills
with steam and threatens to cook Batman and Robin alive.
Guest Stars: Roddy McDowall
Episode #31 Death in Slow Motion
Part 1 8731-Pt. 1 27 Apr 66
Disguised as Charlie Chaplin, Riddler strikes the box office of
a silent film showing. Following his riddles leads Batman and Robin
to the scene of his next robbery, a bakery payroll, where the Riddler
and his gang are disguised as a location film shoot. The crooks
then crash a party, where they spike the punch and escape with Robin
as their hostage.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin
Episode #32 The Riddler's False
Notion Part 2 8731-Pt. 2 28 Apr 66
The Riddler escapes, but Batman captures a hostage of his own, the
Riddler's moll, Pauline. After taking her back to the Batcave, The
Caped Crusader uses his amazing scientific equipment to get her
to confess a riddle that leads him to the Chessman Building. Batman
narrowly saves Robin before solving a skywritten riddle that leads
them to the house of a silent film producer.
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin
Episode #33 Fine Finny Fiends
Part 1 8733-Pt. 1 4 May 66
Penguin and his "finny fiends" kidnap Alfred and hypnotize
him to divulge the secret location of Bruce Wayne's Multimillionaires
Annual Award Dinner. Before Batman and Robin can intervene, Alfred
is home safe with no memory of being kidnapped. A hook found on
his coat seems fishy, so the dynamic duo journey down to the pier,
where Penguin traps them in a vacuum tank and begins to suck out
the air.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
Episode #34 Batman Makes The
Scenes Part 2 8733-Pt. 2 5 May 66
Surviving an airless vacuum chamber, Batman escapes and revives
Robin. Batman tells Alfred the location of the multi-millionaires'
dinner, knowing that the butler will act on Penguin's post-hypnotic
suggestion and tip off the crooks. At the dinner, Batman and Robin
stand in for Bruce Wayne. The Penguin's moll Finella jumps out of
a cake and gasses the audience. Will the Dynamic Duo save the day?
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
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