
The largest series full on new villians which were
played by guest stars. The highest watched show is in this series
(#49 & #50) which starred Liberache. No Frank Gorshin in this
series, John Austin took over as Riddler, also the Green Hornet
appeared along side Batman & Robin in #85 & #86.
Episode #35 Shoot a Crooked
Arrow Part 1 9705-Pt. 1 7 Sep 66
The Archer and his band of baddies steal money from Bruce Wayne's
safe and give the cash to Gotham's poor. The crooks are put away,
but the poor people rally to their defense and raise their bail
- leaving the Archer free to comandeer an armored car filled with
$10,000,000 intended for charity. Batman and Robin are caught
searching Archer's hideout, and Archer threatens to hurt Alfred
unless they tell him where the Batcave is. Batman's quick thinking
saves Alfred, but he and Robin are strung up to be run through
by Archer and his men on horse back.
Guest Stars: Art Carney, Lee Delano, James O'Hara, Steve
Pendleton, Loren Ewing, Barbara Nichols, Doodles Weaver, Dick
Clark
Episode #36 Walk The Straight and Narrow Part
2 9705-Pt. 2 8 Sep 66
The Crusader and Boy Wonder are saved at the very last moment
by their Batsprings. Archer and his cronies go to their new hideout
underneath police headquarters. Archer hijacks the armored truck,
but when it is recovered, nothing appears to be missing. During
the money-giving ceremony, the bills are found to be counterfeit.
Archer and his men prepare to flee to Switzerland as Batman and
Robin give chase in the Batboat.
Guest Stars: Art Carney, James O'Hara, Sam Jaffe, Barbara
Nichols, Alan Corthwaite
Episode #37 Hot Off the Griddle Part 1 9703-Pt.
1 14 Sep 66
Catwoman and her catburglars jump Batman and Robin at the Natural
History Museum, shoot the Duo with twin darts, and throw them
out of a 12th story window. A precautionary net catches Batman
and Robin, but the Cat Pack escapes -- except for one member,
who points them toward the Pink Sand Box Club. They manage to
elude Catwoman's fiendish hot metal chamber trap, but are knocked
out by a Catatonic blast of steam. When the duo awake they are
stretched out on greased aluminum in the midday sun, with giant
magnifying glasses aimed at their heads.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, George Barrows, Charles Hovath,
Buck Kartalian, Jack Kelly, James Brolin, David Fresco, George
Niese, Edy Williams
Episode #38 The Cat and The Fiddle Part 2
9703-Pt. 2 15 Sep 66
A welcome solar eclipse gives Batman and Robin the needed precious
seconds to readjust the magnifying glasses with their feet burning
away their shackles. Batman and Robin discover Catwoman is now
masquerading as rich old Minerva Matthews. "Minerva"
tries to purloin two catgut-strung Stradivarius violins from Zubin
Zucchini, but "Zubin" turns out to be Robin in disguise.
Batman and Robin try to coax Catwoman in from the ledge where
she has taken refuge. Will this Cat land on her feet?
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, George Barrows, Charles Hovath,
Buck Kartalian, Jack Kelly, James Brolin, David Fresco, George
Niese, Edy Williams
Episode #39 The Minstrel's Shakedown Part
1 9713-Pt. 1 21 Sep 66
Minstrel, a lute-playing evil electronics genius, throws the Gotham
Stock Exchange's computerized stock quotations into chaos. He
demands $1000 per week per exchange member in lieu of sending
the market into utter pandemonium. The Dynamic Duo uses the Batdrone
to find Minstrel's hideout, but are captured as they confront
him. The Melodic Fiend hoists the Peerless Pair up on a spit over
a radar grill to be roasted as he plays "Rockabye Batman."
Guest Stars: Van Johnson, Phyllis Diller
Episode #40 Barbecued Batman? Part 2 9713-Pt.
2 22 Sep 66
Happily, three adhesive Batbombs distract Minstrel's gang long
enough for the Duo to escape. Batman manages to capture Amanda,
one of Minstrel's goons, and bug her purse before letting her
go. Thus, Batman and Robin discover that he plans to topple the
Exchange unless his plan is accepted within an hour. As the members
of the Exchange gather in the conference room, they fail to notice
that the caterers are really Minstrel's henchmen...and that the
fiend himself is in their midst, disguised as one of them!
Guest Stars: Van Johnson
Episode #41 The Spell of Tut Part 1 9709-Pt.
1 28 Sep 66
For some mysterious purpose, King Tut is attempting to revive
a handful of ancient scarab beetles. Batman discovers that distilled
essence of scarab lymph creates a deadly potion, known to Tut
as abu raubu simbu tu, capable of paralyzing the human will. Batman,
as Bruce Wayne, next acquires Tut's Sphinx and plants Robin inside,
hoping that Tut will take the bait. Tut's men steal the Sphinx
but discover Robin inside. Batman follows his Batgeiger signals
in the Batmobile to Robin's rescue. Tut, meanwhile, has precariously
suspended the Boy Wonder over a pit of crocodiles!
Guest Stars: Victor Buono
Episode #42 Tut's Case is Shut Part 2 9709-Pt.
2 29 Sep 66
Batman swings in on his Batrope and rescues Robin just in time.
Robin explains that Gordon's temporary secretary, buxom Miss Cleo
Patrick, is really working for Tut and plans to slip the dope
the police with scarab extract. The duo are alerted that the Sphinx
has reappeared in Jefferson Square Park. Rendezvousing there,
Gordon, who is now also under Tut's spell, slips Batman a scarab
mickey, and as a Tutling abducts Robin, Batman follows docilely.
But once at the green-house hideout, Batman snaps out of his feigned
trance - his stomach was protectively coated with buttermilk -
and, with Robin at his side, subdues the Tutlings.
Guest Stars: Victor Buono, Van "Green Hornet"
Williams, Bruce "Kato" Lee
Episode #43 Greatest Mother of Them All Part
1 9707-Pt. 1 5 Oct 66
Infamous Ma Parker and her four fiendish children raid Gotham's
Ladies Auxiliary's Mother of the Year Awards, but are captured
and sent to the pen. Batman and Robin depart the prison, leaving
Warden Crichton to deal with them. As they leave, a Trusty, who
has been nosing suspiciously in the Batmobile engine, bets the
Dynamic Duo that they can't reach 100 mph on the rood back to
town. In the prison, meanwhile, the Parker gang captures Crichton
and takes over. As for Batman and Robin, says Ma to Crichton,
the Batmobile is rigged to blow up at 60 mph. The Batmobile is
at this very moment reaching sixty!
Guest Stars: Shelly Winters, Julie Newmar (cameo), Milton
Berle
Episode #44 Ma Parker Part 2 9707-Pt. 2 6
Oct 66
Batman, suspecting foul play, stops the car, finds the bomb in
the engine, and tosses it into a field where it explodes. Then
he and Robin rush back to the prison, but Crichton, covered by
Ma and her men, assures the Dynamic Duo that everything is in
order. The gang pulls an armored-car heist and the Dynamic Duo
rush to the scene, but the crooks throw money into the street
and escape in the crush of greedy onlookers. Batman has torn away
a gang member's sleeve recognizes it as prison garb. He telephones
Crichton who blurts out that Ma has taken over the prison. Batman
and Robin break into the pen only to be captured by Ma's men and
strapped into twin electric chairs.
Guest Stars: Shelly Winters
Episode #45 The Clock King's Crazy Crimes Part
1 9711-Pt. 1 12 Oct 66
Evil Clock King and his gang of Second Hands rob a jewelry shop
and then invade a Pop Art opening at the Parkhurst Gallery. Batman
and Robin view this on their Batmobile TV and rush to Parkhurst's
just in time to interrupt the King's attempted theft, but the
crooks escape in a barrage of flying watch springs. Batman is
able to trace the fiend to the deserted quarters of Tick Tock
Synthetic Rubies, Inc.. But the gang jumps the Dynamic Duo as
they enter, and Clock King has the pair stashed in the lower half
of a giant hourglass, ready to buried in the pile of sand that
has begun to sift down from the top!
Guest Stars: Walter Slezak, Sammy Davis, Jr.
Episode #46 The Clock King Gets Crowned Part
2 9711-Pt. 2 13 Oct 66
Batman and Robin topple and smash the hourglass to escape their
awful fate. Meanwhile, Aunt Harriet is shopping for a clock for
Bruce's birthday, not knowing that Clock King has planted one
of his special devices for her to buy. Unfortunately, the clock
Harriet buys contains the Automatic Energy Directional Control
Switch, and the gang must retrieve it from Wayne Manor. Bruce,
Dick, and Aunt Harriet fight the rascals off. Batman and Robin
figure that the gang plans to hijack a $1,000,000 cesium clock
being flown in by helicopter at five o'clock.
Guest Stars: Walter Slezak
Episode #47 An Egg Grows In Gotham Part 1
9717-Pt. 1 19 Oct 66
Egghead and his yeggs plan to get control of Gotham City by stealing
its ownership from Chief Screaming Chicken, the last of the Mohicans.
Batman and Robin trace Egghead to the Ghoti Oeufs Caviar Company.
After a crushing battle, Egghead throws in a laughing gas eggrenade
that doubles up the Dynamic Duo while he escapes. Then, on the
way to the ceremony, Egghead abducts Savage, Tyler, Bruce Wayne,
and Dick Grayson, and takes them to his hideout where he attaches
the Electro-Thought Transferrer to Bruce Wayne, suspecting him
to be Batman.
Guest Stars: Vincent Price
Episode #48 The Yegg Foes In Gotham 9717-Pt.
2 20 Oct 66
Bruce, Dick, Savage, and Tyler escape the bomb's sensitive field
by hoisting themselves to the door on a pipe. But in the meantime,
the city's ownership has reverted to Screaming Chicken and thereby
to Egghead, who in turn fires all city officials and opens the
metropolis to the underworld. Screaming Chicken, now sorry for
collaborating with Egghead, explains that Egghead and his yeggs
are stocking up on supplies for an eggscape to Venezuela. Batman
and Robin deduce that Old MacDonald's chicken farm is the only
one with enough Grade AAA eggs to satisfy Egghead's needs.
Guest Stars: Vincent Price, Burt Mustin, Bill "Jose
Jimenez" Dana
Episode #49 The Devil's Fingers Part 1 9721-Pt.
1 26 Oct 66
The Liberace-like Chandell courts Aunt Harriet at Wayne Manor,
only to be robbed of his jewels by three bagpipe-toting babes.
But Chandell turns out to be a master criminal who planned the
Wayne Manor robbery to confuse the law while he makes his move
on Harriet Later, Batman and Robin pop into Chandell's dressing
room and find him recovering from a self-inflicted blow that he
blames on his twin brother (and accomplice) Harry. The Peerless
Pair bound in on Harry, but the crook's Three Piano Movers jump
Batman and Robin and tie them to the conveyor belt that feeds
the music roll cutter!
Guest Stars: Liberace
Episode #50 The Dead Ringers Part 2 9721-Pt.
2 27 Oct 66
Batman and Robin rout the Piano Movers and capture Harry, who
explains that a criminal named Fingers is behind it all. Then
Harry's lawyer, Mr. SIye, springs him on a technicality. Batman
figures that Fingers is Chandell and that Harry is blackmailing
his brother. Furthermore, they figure, Chandell plans to knock
off Bruce and Dick and then marry Harriet for the inheritance.
Batman and Robin dash home to feign a sudden and explosive darkroom
death for Bruce and Dick.
Guest Stars: Liberace
Episode #51 Hizzonner the Penguin Part 1 9719-Pt.
1 2 Nov 66
Suspiciously endearing himself to the citizens of Gotham by foiling
a robbery, saving a runaway baby carriage and donating money to
charity, the Penguin announces he is running for mayor of Gotham
City. His support is so overwhelming that Batman decides he must
enter the race. At a scheduled appearance before the Grand Order
of Occidental Nighthawks (G.O.O.N.), the dynamic duo are captured
and suspended over a vat of sulfuric acid.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith, Little Egypt, Paul Revere
and the Raiders
Episode #52 Dizzoner The Penguin Part 2 9719-Pt.
2 3 Nov 66
Batman tumbles into the vat of acid, but luckily Alfred has fashioned
his suit of acid-proof fabric. As his bonds dissolve, he rescues
Robin and they head to a TV debate showdown with Penguin. A special
bulletin tells viewers that the loot for an upcoming jewelers'
convention is being ransacked by criminals at the Gotham Convention
Hall. Batman and Penguin rush down to see which is the better
man, and Batman captures one criminal to Penguin's seven. When
the election returns start to come in, Penguin gets nervous and
captures the city's election commissioners in an effort to become
mayor by force.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
Episode #53 Green Ice Part 1 9725-Pt. 1 9
Nov 66
Mr. Freeze kidnaps shapely Miss Iceland from the Gotham City Beauty
Contest to freeze her and marry her. He and his henchmen freeze
Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara and set up a phony bribe
to discredit the lawmen. Next, Mr. Freeze appears at Bruce Wayne's
poolside reception, robbing the guests and freezing them in the
pool. Two of his henchmen, disguised as the Dynamic Duo, fight
Freeze and allow him to escape. As the guests are freed from the
frozen pool, Batman and Robin deduce that Freeze's hideout is
the old Frosty Freezie factory. Once inside, Freeze and his men
jump them, place them in giant Frosty Freezie containers, and
leave them to be frozen solid!
Guest Stars: Otto Preminger
Episode #54 Deep Freeze Part 2 9725-Pt. 2
10 Nov 66
Clever Batman and Robin turn the exhaust nozzles in the bottom
of the containers, thus reversing the exhaust process and melting
their icy doom. All Gotham is distressed with the evidence that
Batman has succumbed to the Villain's bribes. Freeze, meanwhile,
commences his crowning caper - the blackmail of Gotham City. He
threatens to freeze the entire city under a giant glacier unless
they can cough up one billion dollars.
Guest Stars: Otto Preminger
Episode #55 The Impractical Joker Part 1 9723-Pt.
1 16 Nov 66
Joker vandalizes a number of key objects around Gotham, and Commissioner
Gordon begs Batman and Robin to solve his enigmatic clues.. Joker
makes off with the Jeweled Key of Kaincordins and then appears
on TV to offer another obscure clue to Batman and Robin. Figuring
it out, the Dynamic Duo rush to a fur salon and confront the gang,
who manage to escape. The Batcomputer tracks the Joker to his
hideout, an old key factory. But when Batman and Robin bound in
on the gang, the Joker's henchmen get the drop on them. Robin
is placed in a spray wax machine, while Batman is trussed up on
a giant key duplicator!
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Howard Duff
Episode #56 The Joker's Provokers Part 2 9723-Pt.
2 17 Nov 66
Just before the sharp cutting blade slices into him, Batman is
able to wrench a key from his Utility Belt and jam the key duplicator's
mechanism, causing it to release him so he can rescue Robin from
the spray wax. Meanwhile, Joker plans to take over Gotham City
using a time machine and hallucinogens in the city's reservoir.
Alfred arrives at the Water Works on his Alfcycle to save the
city, with a little help from the Dynamic Duo.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #57 Marsha, Queen of Diamonds Part
1 9727-Pt. 1 23 Nov 66
Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, enslaves Commissioner Gordon and Chief
O'Hara to get to the huge Batdiamond, which powers the Batcomputer.
The witchy Aunt Hilda brews up an extra-strong love potion so
Marsha can work her magic on Batman, but the drug strikes Robin
instead and he is instantly smitten. Marsha presents her ultimatum:
the Batdiamond for Robin's freedom from her spell. Batman swears
that no stranger can enter the Batcave, and Marsha points out
that if he marries her, she won't be a stranger. At the church,
Marsha joins Batman at the altar. "Do you take this woman
. . ."
Guest Stars: Carolyn Jones
Episode #58 Marsha's Scheme Of Diamonds Part
2 9727-Pt. 2 24 Nov 66
The wedding is halted in the nick of time by Alfred, disguised
as an English solicitor, and Aunt Harriet, as the one and only
Mrs. Batman. Marsha escapes while Batman and Alfred give Robin
a Bat-antidote. They trace Marsha to Aunt Hilda's cave. Marsha
desperately calls on the Grand Mogul and the Guardians to chop
down the Duo, while Hilda tries her powerful toad-turning potion
on them. Marsha triumphantly walks into Gordon's office, with
the Grand Mogul carrying a cage containing a blue-caped toad and
a red-caped toad...who speak with the voices of Batman and Robin!
Guest Stars: Carolyn Jones
Episode #59 Come Back, Shame Part 1 9729-Pt.
1 30 Nov 66
Batman and Robin discover that outlaw Shame is designing a special
truck which can outrun the Batmobile. Batman plants a phony radio
annoucement about Bruce Wayne's new valve lifters in his limousine
that can get the car up to 200 mph. Shame and his hombres rustle
the limousine outside of town, and the Caped Crusaders trace the
special infra-red tire tracks to the bad guys' Westernland hideout.
There, a terrific barroom brawl ensues, during which the Terrific
Twosome are caught in the spokes of a wagon wheel chandelier.
Shame then stakes Batman and Robin out in the street and lets
loose a small herd of stampeding cattle at them!
Guest Stars: Cliff Robertson, Joan Staley
Episode #60 It's How You Play The Game Part
2 9729-Pt. 2 1 Dec 66
Shame and his friends depart, but the stampeding cows cause Batman's
stake to come loose. He gets free of his bonds and draws the cattle
away from his chum by waving his cape, matador-style. After running
down several dead ends and having a shootout at Westernland (during
which Robin is wounded and treated with Batcillin), the pair realizes
that Shame is after the four prize Black Angus bulls that will
be on display at that day's rodeo. Batman and Robin face off with
Shame and the others for a shoot-out.
Guest Stars: Cliff Robertson, Joan Staley, Werner Klemperer
Episode #61 The Penguin's Nest Part 1 9701-Pt.
1 7 Dec 66
At his super-exclusive restaurant, The Penguin's Nest, Penguin
requires all the patrons to handwrite their own orders. He then
plans to return to prison and give these writing samples to his
forger cohort Ballpoint Baxter, so the two can extort money from
the unsuspecting millionaires. But the scheme runs "a-fowl"
when he is sent to the city jail instead of the state prison!
While Batman and Robin finally figure out Penguin's plot, the
villain's gang spring him from the jail and stuff Chief O'Hara
into a trunk. Penguin plans to drop the trunk into the water,
spray the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder with machine gun fire,
and then throw a switch, electrifying the pool!
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith, Stanley Ralph Ross (one
of the show's most prolific writers), Ted "Lurch" Cassidy
Episode #62 The Birds Last Jest Part 2 9701-Pt.
2 8 Dec 66
Ducking behind their Batshields to avoid the machine gun fire,
Batman and Robin toss a reverse polarity wire over Penguin 's
circuit, causing the trunk containing O'Hara to fly out of the
water and land poolside. Batman and Robin prosecute at Penguin's
trial, but Penguin's eloquent defense backfires and he is once
again released. The Dynamic Duo then disguise Alfred as Quill-Pen
Quertch, the most brilliant forger ever. But Penguin catches on
to Alfred's masquerade, rolls the butler inside a giantic pie,
and threatens to cook the pastry unless Wayne can cough up $1,000,000!
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith
Episode #63 The Cat's Meow Part 1 9737-Pt.
1 14 Dec 66
Fiendish feline Catwoman plots to steal the voices of Brit-pop
sensations Chad and Jeremy with the tricky Voice-Eraser she made
in prison. Catwoman calls Gordon and steals his voice. Masquerading
as dance teacher Edna Klutz, Catwoman visits young Dick at Wayne
Manor, but is forced to escape when she sneezes her disguise apart.
Batman and Robin then rush to the dance studio where they find
Catwoman and her crusty crew, who scratch Catamin into their handsome
faces. Then the Peerless Pair are locked into a giant echo chamber
where the dripping of a faucet is magnified ten million times,
threatening to reduce their minds to oatmeal.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, Chad and Jeremy, Joe Flynn,
Judy Strangis
Episode #64 The Bat's Kow Tow Part 2 9737-Pt.
2 15 Dec 66
Batman hums the chamber's F sharp above high C sympathetic vibration,
thus blasting the room apart for his and Robin's escape. Then
they rush to the Policeman's Ball where Chad and Jeremy are singing.
Catwoman is already there and steals their voices in the middle
of a song. Later, Catwoman crashes the Allen Stevens Show to announce
her ransom demand: $22,400,000 for the return of Chad and Jeremy's
voices. Catwoman further threatens to de-voice everybody unless
she is paid by noon the next day.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, Chad and Jeremy, Joe Flynn,
Jay Sebring, Judy Strangis, Steve Allen, Don Ho
Episode #65 The Puzzles Are Coming Part 1
9731-Pt. 1 21 Dec 66
The perfidious Puzzler sends a baffling backward puzzle clue on
a toy plane through Commissioner Gordon's window. Batman and Robin
deduce that it refers to multi-billionaire Artemus Knab ("Bank"
spelled backwards), who claims to be working on a legitimate deal
with Puzzler. A publicity balloon leads them to Knab's Gotham
Airport christening of his supersonic plane, the Retsoor. Puzzler
and his gang immobilize the guests and the Dynamic Duo with Puzzle
Gas. Batman and Robin recover and follow another balloon clue
to Puzzler's balloon factory hideout, where they are captured
and sent aloft in a hot-air balloon, the basket of which is rigged
to drop at 20,000 feet.
Guest Stars: Maurice Evans
Episode #66 The Duo Is Slumming Part 2 9731-Pt.
2 22 Dec 66
Robin manages to jam the altimeter with a stale piece of gum while
employing his bird-calling talents to entice a nearby bird to
peck a small hole in the balloon, thus allowing it to float easily
back to Earth. The Duo then rush back to Puzzler's balloon factory,
only to have the wily crooks elude them. Batman deciphers the
last remaining Puzzle clue and deduces that Puzzler's real loot
is the Retsoor. Can they reach the hangar before Puzzler takes
off?
Guest Stars: Maurice Evans, Andy Devine
Episode #67 The Sandman Cometh Part 1 9715-Pt.
1 28 Dec 66
When a commercial advertises a cure for insomnia, Batman figures
correctly that it is part of a villainous plot by Catwoman and
Sandman. Proceeding to the house of J. Pauline Spaghetti, a billionaress
who hasn't slept in seven years, the dynamic duo find Sandman
masquerading as the sleep therapist from the commercial, Dr. Somnambula.
However, since none of her valuables are missing, Sandman is able
to slip out. Heading to the Morpheus Mattress factory, Batman
is captured and tied beneath a button-stitching device, while
Robin is put in a sleep trance and instructed to activate the
machine.
Guest Stars: Michael Rennie; Julie Newmar
Episode #68 The Catwoman Goeth Part 2 9715-Pt.
2 29 Dec 66
Robin is placed in the inescapable catmaze, as Batman narrowly
escapes a piercing death below a button machine. Meanwhile, Sandman
sneaks over to J. Pauline Spaghetti's house. Batman escapes and
learns from Commissioner Gordon that Sandman and J. Pauline have
just withdrawn $200,000,000 from her bank account and eloped to
her private island. Upon hearing of the doublecross, Catwoman
releases Robin from the maze. The dynamic duo hop in the Batboat
and head to the island to save the Spaghetti fortune and capture
Sandman.
Guest Stars: Michael Rennie; Julie Newmar, Gypsy Rose
Lee
Episode #69 The Contaminated Cowl Part 1 9739-Pt.
1 4 Jan 67
While Bruce Wayne awards atomic physicist Professor Overbeck a
subsidy to continue his fine work, the Mad Hatter and his cohorts
steal 700 hat boxes from Bonbon's Box Boutique. That evening at
the Headdress Ball, the Hatter swipes Hattie Hatfield's priceless
ruby and sprays Batman with radioactive fumes, contaminating his
cowl. When Batman and Robin visit Professor Overbeck to get the
cowl decontaminated, the Hatter, posing as the scientist's assistant,
steals the cowl while Batman changes into a fresh outfit. The
Hatter's men get the upper hand and lock the Dynamic Duo into
a Fluoroscopic Cabinet where high-voltage X-rays will irradiate
them forever.
Guest Stars: David Wayne
Episode #70 The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul Part2
9739-Pt. 2 5 Jan 67
After Mad Hatter leaves, Overbeck replaces Batman and Robin in
the Fluoroscopic Cabinet with a couple of skeletons from his own
closet, tricking the crooks into thinking that the Dynamic Duo
have been blasted to bones. But Overbeck's cleaning lady spots
the cowled skeletons and sends the whole world into mourning by
announcing that Batman and Robin are dead! Mad Hatter chooses
this time to substitute Hattie Hatfield's ruby, which he knew
all along to be fake, for the really priceless ruby in the forehead
of the Golden Buddha of Bergama on display at the Gotham Art Center.
Guest Stars: David Wayne
Episode #71 The Zodiac Crimes Part 1 9733-Pt.
1 11 Jan 67
The dastardly duo of Penguin and the Joker, accompanied by evil
beauty Venus, plans twelve crimes corresponding to the signs of
the Zodiac. And their first caper is to divert Batman and Robin
to a rehearsal of "The Twins" (Gemini) while Joker steals
the real twins, the fabulous Twin Diamonds from the Jewelry Shop.
Smitten by the Caped Crusader, Venus leads the Duo to the opera
house where Joker kidnaps Leo Crustash (both Leo and Scorpio)
from the stage in the middle of a performance. When they try to
interfere with Joker's next caper, the heist of the museum's masterpiece
entitled "Virgin Bereaved" (Virgo), Joker and his men
tie the Dynamic Duo to an altar in the museum underneath a meteorite
rigged to fall on them when its supporting cable is cut by a revolving
thermite fuse.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Terry Moore
Episode #72 The Joker's Hard Time Part 2 9733-Pt.
2 12 Jan 67
While Batman frees his left hand and hurls the Batarang at the
thermite bomb, Joker steals the statue of Justice (Libra) from
Police Headquarters. Batman and Robin finally free themselves
to join the chase. But Venus has already lifted the famous Golden
Scorpion (Scorpio) from the Jewelry Shop, and Joker moves to kidnap
millionaire Basil Bowman (Sagittarius). When Batman and Robin
bound in, Joker uses Venus as a shield to escape. She switches
to the side of the good guys and leads Batman and Robin to Leo
Crustash's hiding place. But when Joker nets a priceless fish
(Pisces) from the International Zoologists' Society exhibition,
he also nets the Dynamic Duo and Venus. At the criminals' lair,
Batman, Robin and Venus are left chained in a shallow pool to
be devoured by a giant clam.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Terry Moore
Episode #73 The Penguin Declines Part 3 9733-Pt.
3 18 Jan 67
Batman uses superhuman strength to burst his bonds and pull Robin
from the clam's jaws. Joker's men have helped Penguin escape from
prison, and now he helps Joker in his last two capers. Joker turns
the entire Gotham City water supply (Aquarius) into Joker-Jello
and then asks $10,000,000 to de-gelatinize it. Meanwhile, Penguin
visits Venus at Bruce Wayne's apartment to sweet-talk her into
getting his criminal record out of the Batfile for him. When Batman
and Robin return from masterfully de-gelatinizing the reservoir
themselves, Venus coaxes them into taking her to the Batcave.
But Penguin and Joker have hidden in the Batmobile's trunk and
spring out at the Caped Crusader's lair, hoping to make Batman
the goat (Capricorn).
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Terry Moore
Episode #74 That Darn Catwoman Part 1 9743-Pt.
1 19 Jan 67
Catwoman's stooge, Pussycat, drugs Robin with cataphrenic and
recruits him into Catwoman's gang. Catwoman plans to raise a million
dollars to buy the plans to the Gotham City Mint. She and the
gang, assisted by Robin, rob Wayne Manor and several other places
to get cash. Batman figures Catwoman will next hit Prince lbn
Kereb of Gedalias's weighing-in ceremony (whereby the Prince equals
his weight in greenbacks). Batman trounces Catwoman's henchmen
but Robin overpowers him. Batman follows the gang to Catlair West,
where he is captured and trussed up in a terrible trap... that
will spring as soon as Robin finishes sawing the rope.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, Leslie Gore
Episode #75 Scat! Darn Catwoman Part 2 9743-Pt.
2 25 Jan 67
Catwoman offers to free Batman if he joins her. He agrees but
secretly takes a Universal Batantidote before Catwoman uses cataphrenic.
Batman goes with the gang to visit Little Al at the Old Criminal's
Home to buy the plans to the Mint, and manages to phone an anonymous
tip to the cops leading to the capture of Robin and Pussycat.
Catwoman then talks Batman into taking her to the Batcave. He
sprays her with Batsleep and they drive to his hideout, leaving
a note for Alfred to take Batantidote to Robin at Police Headquarters.
Catwoman, Batman, and the gang break into the Mint and are confronted
by Robin. The Dynamic Duo makes mincemeat of the gang, but Catwoman
escapes in the Batmobile.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, Leslie Gore
Episode #76 Penguin Is a Girl's Best Friend
Part 1 9741-Pt. 1 26 Jan 67
When Batman and Robin mistakenly break up a holdup scene for a
movie Penguin is shooting with Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, they
are signed to acting roles in the film. While on location at the
Museum of Antiquities, Pengy's movie gang steals an entire collection
of fifteenth-century armor. When Batman learns of the theft, Penguin
immediately shoots a scene in which the Dynamic Duo are beaten
and captured for real. Then, the Peerless Pair are tied to a huge
double catapult, to be launched over Gotham City like a pair of
squashed tomatoes.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith, Carolyn Jones
Episode #77 Penguin Sets A Trend Part 2 9741-Pt.
2 1 Feb 67
Batman remote-controls the Batmobile to catch him and Robin when
they are catapulted. Then, feeling he must stick close to Penguin,
he and Robin rejoin the film company. Penguin dresses them in
armor and clanks them onto two huge electro-magnets. The villain
marches off with his own fifteenth- century armored division to
visit star-struck General Magruder at the Hexagon and to steal
some obscure military plans. Batman throws a piece of metal into
an open light socket, and shorts out the fuse and the electro-magnet.
Still armored, the Dynamic Duo chase Penguin to an alley where
they are caught in a barrage of garbage cans. Penguin pays a garbage
truck driver to take them away with his other scrap to be mashed
in a high-pressure hydraulic scrap-metal crusher.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith, Carolyn Jones, Alan Reed
Episode #78 Penguin's Disastrous End Part
3 9741-Pt. 3 2 Feb 67
But Batman and Robin counter the hydraulic pressure of the crusher
with the Batpumps. Penguin, meanwhile, locks his armor in Aunt
Hilda's cave, then goes with his entourage to the Sub-Treasury
for the final scene of his caper. Marsha distracts the guards,
while Penguin and his men carry mysteriously bulky equipment into
the vault. Batman and Robin trace Hilda's runaway lizards through
the sewers to her cave where the Henchman guarding the armor inadvertently
reveals Penguin s activities. Batman, Robin, Chief O'Hara, Gordon
and lots of cops arrive at the Sub-Treasury just as Penguin and
company lock themselves into the vault, where they stay for three
days. Finally, through an outside wall, the gang emerges -- in
a tank made from gold bullion.
Guest Stars: Burgess Meredith, Carolyn Jones, Alan Reed
Episode #79 Batman's Anniversary Part 1 9745-Pt.
1 8 Feb 67
The anniversary of Batman's alliance with the law is disrupted
by the Riddler and his gang, who steal the celebratory golden
calf filled with $200,000. The Riddler next floods the underground
vault at the Gotham City Bank, and the Duo rush in and tangle
with Riddler and his gang. When Robin's Batrespirator is ripped
off, Riddler escapes and leaves a clue on the bank door. Riddler
returns to the Factory to dry out the stolen money and purchase
a terrifying tiny device called the De-Molecularizer, Meanwhile
the Dynamic Duo keep an appointment at the Bakers Guild to pose
for the sculptured marshmallow figures which will top the anniversary
cake. Riddler and his gang, disguised as bakers, lift Batman and
Robin to the top of the three-story high cake on a cherry-picker,
then chortle as they step off onto the icing -- which is really
quicksand
Guest Stars: John Astin
Episode #80 A Riddling Controversy Part 2
9745-Pt. 2 9 Feb 67
Recalling the similarity of water and quicksand, Batman and Robin
remain motionless, then set off Heel and Toe Batrockets which
zoom them out of the trap. Riddler has pulled another heist leaving
another clue. The Duo race to the penthouse of a wealthy exiled
South American dictator whom Riddler has trapped in a puzzle cage
with explosives at his feet. Robin finds the key to the puzzle
and Batman opens the box to find a paper donkey's tail. Riddler
exhibits the destructive powers of his new De-Molecularizer on
a park statue for the Duo, Gordon and O'Hara. Unless Gotham City's
criminal statutes are rescinded, Police Headquarters is his next
target.
Guest Stars: John Astin
Episode #81 The Joker's Last Laugh Part 1
9747-Pt. 1 15 Feb 67
When Gotham becomes plagued by counterfeit bills, Batman and Robin
trace the money to a teller at the Gotham Bank who is actually
a robot controlled by the Joker. Batman traces the robot's origin
back to a comic book printing press. As Bruce Wayne, Batman asks
the Joker to print more fake money to help him out of financial
trouble, promising to make him vice president of the bank in exchange.
Robin leaps through the window to capture Joker and is pinned
onto a printer, about to be pressed into a comic book.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #82 The Joker's Epitaph Part 2 9747-Pt.
2 16 Feb 67
Alfred arrives just in time to save our heroes from disaster,
but the Joker escapes with a certificate from Wayne naming him
as vice president of the bank. Commissioner Gordon asks Batman
to nab Bruce Wayne for handing control of the bank over to the
Joker. Joker shows up at Wayne Manor with a tape of Bruce asking
Joker to print more counterfeit money and says that he will go
public with it unless Wayne kills Batman and Robin. When he refuses,
Joker orders him to marry his moll Josie, with the initial marriage
settlement to be $3,000,000. Meanwhile, Gordon has called in a
German medical expert to have Bruce Wayne institutionalized.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #83 Catwoman Goes To College Part
1 9747-Pt. 2 16 Feb 67
Catwoman is paroled into the care of Bruce Wayne. She registers
as a criminology major at G.C.U., but it's apparent that her fiendish
follies are far from over. Catwoman incites a student riot and
Batman is falsely arrested, but escapes disguised as Alfred. Catwoman,
meanwhile, is working on her plot to steal the Patagonian Cat's
Eye Opals. She lures Batman and Robin to the top of a tall building.
Bound hand and foot, the Dynamic Duo are tossed into a giant coffee
cup which is part of an advertising sign. Two large instant sulfuric
acid cubes are dumped into the pot perched above them, and the
giant percolator is poised to pour into the cup its deadly liquid.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar, Art Linkletter
Episode #84 Batman Displays His Knowledge
Part 2 9749-Pt. 2 23 Feb 67
But Batman uses the sulfuric acid to burn through his ropes and
hurls the Batarang at the master switch, turning off the sign.
Catwoman and her men successfully steal the opals, but discover
that Batman has tricked them and the stones are only cheap imitations.
She sends a message to Batman, inviting him to meet her alone
at the model house at the Sherlock Homes Real Estate development
at midnight. Catwoman prepares a poisonous perfume for their meeting.
Guest Stars: Julie Newmar
Episode #85 A Piece Of The Action Part 1 9751-Pt.
1 1 Mar 67
Green Hornet and Kato stealthily enter the Pink Chip Stamp Factory
and are ejected by the foreman, Col. Gumm, and his assistants.
Factory owner Pinky Pinkston is worried and calls Commissioner
Gordon for help. Batman tells Gordon he suspects Pinky's factory
is turning out fake stamps. At night, Green Hornet and Kato enter
the factory and are taken by Gumm and his men while Batman and
Robin enter through a window. The Caped Crusaders attempt to rescue
the Green Hornet but, stuck to a glue table, they are forced to
watch the Green Hornet and Kato being fed to the Enlarged Perforation
and Coiling Machine to become man-sized stamps. There will be
four stamps soon, Gumm chortles.
Guest Stars: Roger C. Carmel, Van Williams, Bruce Lee
Episode #86 Batman's Satisfaction Part 2 9751-Pt.
2 2 Mar 67
As they are unglued, the Caped Crusaders leap to and disconnect
the electric plug. The gang scatters and Gumm kidnaps Pinky, but
she has managed to leave a coded message in a bowl of alphabet
soup. Batman decodes the message, which mentions a warehouse and
a warning about the Stamps Exhibition. Meanwhile, Gumm has mistakenly
deduced that Bruce is Green Hornet and Britt is Batman. After
Pinky's poodle chews her free, she and Gotham's finest rush to
the International Stamps Exhibition. Gumm breaks up the affair
by grabbing the stamps, and is escaping with his men when the
Hornet and Kato, Batman and Robin arrive to flatten the villains.
Guest Stars: Roger Carmel; Van Williams; Bruce Lee, Edward
G. Robinson
Episode #87 King Tut's Coup Part 1 9755-Pt.
1 8 Mar 67
Tut and his minions steal a jeweled casket from the Gotham City
Museum, while Tut plans to claim his queen, the beautiful Lisa
Carson, at Bruce Wayne's Egyptian ball. Fearing Tut will show
up at the ball, Batman has the police come in costume, ready to
apprehend the villain. But, when Deputy Mayor Zorty arrives in
a King Tut costume given to him by a stranger, the police arrest
him instead. The real Tut and his men manage to sneak in kidnap
Lisa. Batman and Robin show up at his hideout but are knocked
out. With Robin looking on, Batman is sealed inside the jeweled
casket. Struggling against his bonds, Robin sees bubbles rise
as the casket sinks into a large vat of water.
Guest Stars: Victor Buono
Episode #88 Batman's Waterloo Part 2 9755-Pt.
2 9 Mar 67
Alfred, alerted by the emergency Bat-transmitter, hops on his
Alfcycle to come to Batman's rescue. He empties the water from
the vat and wakes Batman from the trance he put himself in to
survive. Meanwhile, Lisa Carson's father has agreed to pay a huge
ransom to Tut for his daughter. When Tut learns Batman is alive,
he instructs the caped crusader to bring the money to an abandoned
boiler works alone. Batman roars up on the Batcycle to find that
Robin is about to be tossed into boiling oil.
Guest Stars: Victor Buono
Episode #89 Black Widow Strikes Again Part
1 9753-Pt. 1 15 Mar 67
The evil Black Widow and her cohorts are behind a string of bank
robberies, which Batman realizes are occurring in alphabetical
order. Following up a warning to the Gotham General Bank, Batman
and Robin confront Black Widow as she enters the building. She
and Tarantula escape and are followed by Batman and Robin to their
hideout, which is complete with underground web. They find Black
Widow and her henchmen, who release black widow spiders at their
feet and depart.
Guest Stars: Tallulah Bankhead
Episode #90 Caught In The Spider's Den Part
2 9753-Pt. 2 16 Mar 67
Batman uses his mini-charge to electrocute the spiders and escape
the web. Black Widow turns her brain-wave short-circuiter with
reversed polarity on the two, and Batman, who is still wearing
his electrodes, succumbs to her electronic charms. After Robin
has been tied up, he uses the remote control unit of the Batcomputer
to ask for a new bank to rob. The computer suggests the Just Opened
Heritage Bank, but warns that Batman's life is in danger.
Guest Stars: Tallulah Bankhead
Episode #91 Pop Goes The Joker Part 1 9757-Pt.
1 22 Mar 67
Joker becomes a pop art icon when he disfigures a prominent artist's
work and then wins an art contest by leaving his canvas blank.
His plot becomes clear when he then enrolls pupils for an art
course, accepting millionaires only, Bruce included. Joker breaks
the news to his pupils that they're prisoners --he's holding them
for a ransom which is to be their respective art collections.
Robin finds Bruce and tries to rescue him by thumping Joker's
henchmen with the students' sculptures, but he's overcome and
strung up in a mobile of slashing giant palette knives as Bruce
is forced to watch.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #92 Flop Goes The Joker Part 2 9757-Pt.
2 23 Mar 67
Robin dodges knives while Bruce wriggles out of his bonds and
helps Robin get free. Joker sweet-talks Baby Jane into forgiving
him, as well as into giving him the entire Renaissance Collection
from the Museum! He demands ten million dollars for the paintings,
only to find that he's been duped by Batman and some clumsy paintings
of Alfred's. Picking up Baby Jane, he bolts for Wayne Manor where
he hopes to grab enough cash to hide out a while. Alfred fends
him off with candlesticks, but Joker is dangerously close to the
Batpoles and, therefore, to discovering the secrets of the Batcave!
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero
Episode #93 Ice Spy Part 1 9759-Pt. 1 29 Mar
67
Mr. Freeze uses an iceberg to kidnap skating star Glacia Glaze
and scientist Isaac Isaacson, who has developed a formula for
instant ice, from an ocean liner. Batman decides there was an
accomplice aboard ship and puts the Batcomputer to work on finding
the culprit, whom he suspects to be Glacia Glaze herself. Beneath
the ice rink, Freeze tortures Isaacson to get the formula and
submits his ransom demand: a hefty sum to be delivered by Batman
and Robin. The Duo arrive with the money, but Freeze realizes
it's phony and shoves them into a transparent vaporizing pipe
which will evaporate them into the ice of the rink above.
Guest Stars: Eli Wallach, Leslie Parrish
Episode #94 The Duo Defy Part 2 9759-Pt. 2
30 Mar 67
After Batman and Robin have seemingly been vaporized, Mr. Freeze,
afraid of detection, decides to return to the iceberg. When they've
gone, Batman and Robin, who have used all emergency exit, step
out of Isolde's sealhouse. The next day, Mr. Freeze, his iceberg
now one of many in Gotham Harbor, gets the formula and Glacia
woos Isaacson into showing them how it works. Using the President's
Congressional teleprompter, Mr. Freeze informs the country of
his plans to demonstrate his Ice-Ray Beam.
Guest Stars: Eli Wallach, Carpet King