Series One
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