BATMAN(1966) SEASON, TWO PT. 2
The second season of this series was sooooo long
that they had to break it up into two sets!!! The reason
that this season is so long is that they started having
two episodes a week, one night after the other!! In this,
the second set, we have most all of the cast returning
to reprise their roles: Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan
Napier, Neil Hamilton & Stafford Repp as the main
five characters; Batman, Robin, Alfred, Commissioner
Gordon & Chief O'Hara! Also returning to reprise
their villainous roles are Burgess Meredith(Penguin),
Julie Newmar(Catwoman), Victor Buono(King Tut)
& Cesar Romero(Joker)!
Not returning is one of the best of the villains, Frank
Gorshin as The Riddler!! He has been replaced with
another fine actor, but much blander, John Astin
(best known as Gomez Addams on The Addams
Family)! Another, not as big of change, is Mr. Freeze,
whom two people take over the role in this season!!
Holy season 2, what else is up????
EPISODES 31: THE PUZZLES ARE COMING(Dec. 21, 1966):
A dude calling himself The Puzzler is back in Gotham
and right away he sends a puzzle to Commissioner
Gordon indicating his plans to hit up millionaire Artemus
Knab for all he has!!
"Holy Hamlet", "Holy deposit slip", "Holy flight plan",
"Holy Graf Zeppelin"!!
Starring in order of appearance: Commisioner Gordon
(Neil Hamilton), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Dick Grayson
(Burt Ward), Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake), Bruce Wayne(Adam
West) & Alfred(Alan Napier)!!
Continues in "The Duo Is Slumming"! A-
EPISODE 32: THE DUO IS SLUMMING(Dec. 22, 1966):
Continuing from the previous episode, after Batman
and Robin escape the hot air balloon trap, and knowing
The Puzzler's plans, they set out to thwort them!
Here we have "Holy stratosphere" & "Holy Audubon"
"Holy crack-up", "Holy miracles"!
And in a cameo, we non other than Andy Devine(The Adventures
Of Wild Bill Hickock, Robin Hood[Disney], The Over The Hill Gang
1 & 2)!! A-
EPISODE 33: THE SANDMAN COMETH(Dec. 28, 1966):
Catwoman returns, and she's in cahoots with The Sandman!!
Their plan, to make millions and then get rid of each other!!
Here we have "Holy alter Ego", "Holy fireworks"!!
Starring in order of appearance: Commissioner Gordon
(Neil Hamilton), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Aunt Harriet
(Madge Blake), Alfred(Alan Napier), Bruce Wayne/
Batman(Adam West), Dick Grayson/Robin(Burt Ward), & !
Guest starring Julie Newmar returning as Catwoman! And
also here is the great Michael Rennie(The Day The Earth Stood
Still) & Spring Bryington(December Bride, Laramie, The Warewolf
Of London)!!
This continues in "The Cat And The Fiddle"!! A
EPISODE 34: THE CATWOMAN GOETH(Dec. 29, 1966):
With Batman and Robin "disposed" of, Sandman goes
back to work on the lady Spaghetti, while Catwoman
has fun watching Robin trying to out smart the maze
she put him in!!
Here we have "Holy voltage", "Holy taxation", "Holy rat
trap", "Holy sedative"!
Again Julie Newmar, Michael Rennie and Spring Bryington
all return!! And returning for a cameo is James Brolin(Marcus
Welby, M.D., Hotel, Capricorn One)! A
EPISODE 35: THE CONTAMINATED COWL(Jan. 4, 1967):
The Mad Hatter has broken out of prison, and one of
his first crimes is to steal 700 hat boxes!!!!
"Holy fireworks"!
Starring in order of appearance: Bruce Wayne/Batman
(Adam West), Alfred(Alan Napier), Dick Grayson (Burt Ward),
Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton), Chief O'Hara(Stafford
Repp) & seen but not heard is Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)!
Returning as The Mad Hatter is David Wayne!
Continues in The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul! A
EPISODE 36: THE MAD HATTER RUNS AFOUL(Jan. 5, 1967):
Again, continued from the previous episode!!
"Holy memory banks", "Holy hoodwinked", "Holy
naivete", "Holy multitudes"!
As Aunt Harriet didn't speak in the last episode, a
note here to say that she does in this one!! A
EPISODE 37: THE ZODIAC CRIMES(Jan. 11, 1967):
Two arch criminals for the price of one here!! The Joker
hatches a plan based on the Zodiac, and enlists the aid
of non other than the Penguin!!
Here we have "Holy astronomy", "Holy sarcophagus",
"Holy Frankenstein", "Holy corpuscles"!
Starring in order of appearance: Commissioner Gordon
(Neil Hamilton), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Madge Blake
(Aunt Harriet)Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West), Alfred
(Alan Napier) & Dick Grayson (Burt Ward)!!
Reprising their roles again here are Cesar Romero &
Burgess Merideth!
Continues in The Joker's Hard Times! A
EPISODE 38: THE JOKER'S HARD TIMES(Jan. 12, 1967):
With the Penguin back behind bars, The Joker has to go
it alone!!
"Holy mashed potatoes", "Holy sonic boom", "Holy red snapper"!
For the first time, a three parter with this being continued
in "The Penguin Declines"!!! A
EPISODE 39: THE PENGUIN DECLINES(Jan. 18, 1967):
The Joker breaks Penguin out of prison, again, to help him
with the finish to the zodiac crimes that he's got planned!!
Penguin goes after Venus to sweet talk her into talking to
Batman about her going to the Batcave so she can get all
information about the Penguin out of his Batcomputer!!
"Holy holocaust"!
Guests returning again are Cesar Romero and Burgess
Meredith!! A
EPISODE 40: THAT DARN CATWOMAN(Jan. 19, 1967):
Catwoman has a new potion that she uses on Robin to
bring him to the dark side!! She uses an accomplice to
administer it by the name of Pussycat! A
"Holy nick of time"!
Leslie Gore sings an abbreviated version of one of her
more famous, and last hit, songs in this episodes, "California
Nights"!!
Starring in order of appearance: Dick Grayson(Burt
Ward), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Bruce Wayne/Batman
(Adam West), Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton),
Alfred(Alan Napier) & Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)!
This of course guest stars Julie Newmar returning as
Catwoman!! But also here is one of my all time favorite
female singers, Leslie Gore(as Pussycat)!! And another
guest star here is J. Pat O'Malley(in so many Disney
movies that it's hard to list them all, but some of the
bigger ones are One Hundred And One Dalmatians, The
Jungle Book, Robin Hood, Mary Poppins & The Swamp
Fox[from Disney's Wonderful World Of Color]! It's interesting
to me that the name of the episode is a play on a Disney
movie, That Darn Cat!! A coincidence? I don't think so!!
One more guest star to note, Steve Franken("Who", you say?
Well, he's one of the biggest characters out of The Many
Loves Of Dobie Gillis: Chatsworth Osborne Jr.!!!)!!
Continues in Scat! Darn Catwoman! A-
EPISODE 41: SCAT! DARN CATWOMAN(Jan. 25, 1967):
Continued from previous episode, with all the particulars here!
Leslie sings part of another song, "Maybe Now"! And Batman
joins Catwoman's group under duress!!
"Holy shucks", "Holy diversionary tactics"! A
EPISODE 42: PENGUIN IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND(Jan. 26, 1967):
While driving to a convention, Batman and Robin hear a
heist going down and rush in to stop it!! Only problem is,
the Penguin was shooting a movie and Batman and Robin
busted in on it!! Now they're at the mercy of Penguin!!
"Holy CinemaScope", "Holy miss cast", "Holy movie moguls"!!
Starring in order of appearance: Bruce Wayne/Batman
(Adam West), Dick Grayson(Burt Ward), Chief O'Hara
(Stafford Repp), Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton),
Alfred(Alan Napier), & Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)!
Guest starring here is of course Burgess Merideth(Penguin)
along with Carolyn Jones(The Addams Family) as Marsha
The Queen Of Diamonds!! A
Continued in Penguin Sets A Trend
EPISODE 43: PENGUIN SETS A TREND(Feb. 1, 1967):
The Penguin is sure he's taken care of Batman and Robin
and that his plan is going as scheduled!! What he doesn't
plan on is B & R escaping his death trap!!
As the Penguin's plan start to come together, Batman and
Robin have worked their way back into the "film", but get
stuck while Penguin's out fleecing the Army!!
"Holy cliffhangers", "Holy sub-orbit" "Holy catastrophes"
"Holy bull's-eye"!
This trio of episodes ends with Penguin's Disastrous End! A
EPISODE 44: PENGUIN'S DISASTROUS END(Feb. 2, 1967):
The finale to this trio of episodes with the Penguin, last
we saw Batman and Robin they were dumped in a scrap
metal crusher!
Penguin's gets Marsha's aunt to whip up a love potion
to disable the guards of the subtreasury building so that
they can make off with all the gold that's held there!!! B+
EPISODE 45: BATMAN'S ANNIVERSARY(Feb. 8, 1967):
While attending a celebration commemorating the anniversary
of Batman showing up at Gotham, they present him with a
golden calf filled with brand new money to be donated to
his favorite charity!! During the festivities, smoke fills the
room and "firemen" barge in and steal the calf!! This is all
perpetrated by The Riddler, who's goal is to make Batman's
anniversary anything but happy!!
"Holy cryptology", "Holy trampoline", "Holy relief", "Holy pianola"!!
Starring in order of appearance: Dick Grayson(Burt Ward)
Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West), Alfred(Alan Napier),
Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake), Commissioner Gordon(Neil
Hamilton) & Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp)!
Replacing Frank Gorshin as the Riddler in this one is
John Astin(The Addams Family)ll!!
Continues in A Riddling Controversy! A
EPISODE 46: A RIDDLING CONTROVERSY(Feb. 9, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode!
Holy production goofs, Batman!! At the beginning of
the episode, Batman and Robin activate their emergency
boot rockets to get out of the quicksand cake, and you
can CLEARLY see the wires that lift them up and out of
the cake!!!! LOL
"Holy Titanic"! A
EPISODE 47: THE JOKER'S LAST LAUGH(Feb. 15, 1967):
Joker's back and he's passing out money - phony money!!
What does he have up his sleeve?
"Holy funny bone", "Holy chutzpah", "Holy precision", "Holy
clockworks", "Holy honey corn"(???), "Holy dead end"!
Starring in order of appearance: Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton),
Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Dick Grayson(Burt Ward), Bruce Wayne/
Batman(Adam West), Alfred The Butler(Alan Napier) & Aunt Harriet
(Madge Blake)!
Returning guest star here is Cesar Romero!! Also here as
Mr. Glee is Lawrence Montaigne, who's known in the Star
Trek universe for his role on Star Trek: TOS as Decius in
the episode "Balance Of Terror" and, maybe even more
as Ston in "Amok Time"!! He's also in Star Trek: Of Mice
And Men!!
Continues in The Joker's Epitaph! A
EPISODE 48: THE JOKER'S EPITAPH(Feb. 16, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode! With the fate of Robin
in the hands of Bruce Wayne(yep, not Batman), things look pretty
dark for the team! It looks like the Joker's plans are coming to
fruition!! Can Alfred come to the rescue here??
"Holy bankruptcy", "Holy stomachache", "Holy madness", "Holy
stew pot", "Holy wedding cake"! A
EPISODE 49: CATWOMAN GOES TO COLLEGE(Feb. 22, 1967):
Bruce Wayne comes to the aid of inmate The Catwoman and
helps her get paroled with one provisal, that he's her parole
officer and he's totally responsible for her actions!! She says
she wants to go straight and go back to collage to get her
degree!! Seems, though, that there's more to this than meets
the eye!!
"Holy Hollywood", "Holy caffeine"!
Starring in order of appearance: Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam
West),Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton), Dick Grayson(Burt
Ward), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Alfred(Alan Napier),
Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)!
Julie Newmar returns as Catwoman!
In a cameo window appearance, which hasn't occured
for several episodes, is Art Linkletter(People Are Funny)!!
Continues in Batman Displays His Knowledge! A
EPISODE 50: BATMAN DISPLAYS HIS KNOWLEDGE(Feb. 23, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode! With the plans of
Catwoman in the open, Batman and Robin give her just
enough rope to hang herself!!
"Holy Bijou", "Holy epigrams", "Holy Zorro", "Holy hypothesis"! A
EPISODE 51: A PIECE OF THE ACTION(Mar. 1, 1967):
The Green Hornet & Kato are in town, and they're scoping
out a stamp factory!! Strange goings on indeed!! Seems
that Bruce Wayne and Britt Reid(Green Hornet) were old
school chums, as well as rivals, and this gives them another
chance to renew their rivalry!!
"Holy split seconds" "Holy fly-paper", "Holy human collector's
item"!
The third, and final, reference/appearance of the masked
duo, The Green Hornet and Kato!!
Starring in order of appearance: Commissioner Gordon(Neil
Hamilton), Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake), Bruce Wayne/Batman
(Adam West), Dick Grayson(Burt Ward), Alfred(Alan Napier) &
Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp)!
Guest starring as The Green Hornet & Kato are Van Johnson
and Bruce Lee!! Also guesting here is Roger C. Carmel, well
known in the Star Trek circle as Harry Mudd, of the TOS
episodes "Mudd's Women" & "I, Mudd"!!! Also here is Diane
McBain(Surfide 6, Spinout)!!
Continues in Batman's Satisfaction! A
EPISODE 52: BATMAN'S SATISFACTION(Mar. 2, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode!!
"Holy living end", and perhaps the longest holy of all,
"Holy uncanny photographic mental processes", "Holy
unlikelihood"!
Our window guest in this one is Edward G. Robinson!! A
EPISODE 53: KING TUT'S COUP(Mar. 8, 1967):
King Tut's back, and this time he's out after his Queen,
Cleopatra!! To this end, he targets "Lisa Carson, daughter
of wealthy socialite John E. Carson"!!!!! LOL!! Lisa just
happens to be Bruce Wayne's date to the Egyptian Ball
dressed as, you guessed it, Cleopatra!!! (you really can't
make this stuff up!!!)
"Holy jet set"!
Starring in order of appearance: Commissioner Gordon(Neil
Hamilton), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)
Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West), Alfred(Alan Napier) & Dick
Grayson(Burt Ward)!
Victor Buono returns as Tut!! Also guest starring here is
the original Catwoman, Lee Meriwether, who was also in
the Star Trek: TOS episode "That Which Survives", and from Star
Trek: TOS Yeoman Rand herself, Grace Lee Whitney!! And
another Star Trek: TOS tie-in, Lloyd Haynes who was in
the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"!!!!
In another window, cameo appearance by Suzy Knickerbocker,
pen name for columnist Aileen Mehle!! She wrote a gossip
column for several publications!!
Continues in Batman's Waterloo! A
EPISODE 54: BATMAN'S WATERLOO(Mar. 9, 1967):
Batman's under water, Robin's fit to be tied!! Tut's got his
Cleopatra and ready for a bride!! And for the mere sum of
$8,300,487.12 he'll let her go!!
An interesting point here, Robin doesn't say a word in this
til 17 minutes into the episode!!
No holys! A
EPISODE 55: BLACK WIDOW STRIKES AGAIN(Mar. 15, 1967):
A woman calling herself The Black Widow is in town and fleecing the
banks for thousands of dollars!!
"Holy nerve center", "Holy olfactory"!
Starring in order of appearance: Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp),
Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton), Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake),
Dick Grayson(Burt Ward), Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West) &
Alfred(Alan Napier)!
Guest starring here is the incomparable Tallulah Bankhead(Lifeboat,
Die Die My Darling) in her last acting performance as The Black Widow!!
In a short cameo in a bank we see George Raft!!
More "special effects" fopahs, strings clearly seen pulling on spiders!!
Continues in Caught In The Spider's Den! B
EPISODE 56: CAUGHT IN THE SPIDER'S DEN(Mar. 16, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode!!
No Holy's again!
This is really a poor episode!! B
EPISODE 57: POP GOES THE JOKER(Mar. 22, 1967):
Joker's back - - Surprise!! And he's destroying artworks! In
doing so, he becomes the newest pop-artist!! Well, at least
according to the local "expert"!! Seems the plan is to fleece
wealthy people of their money by enrolling them in his "school
of art"!!
"Holy hoaxes", "Holy hostage", "Holy hamburger"!
This has a scene that I'm sure was taken straight out of this
episode and used in the first Batman(1989) movie!!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Alfred(Alan Napier), Aunt Harriet
(Madge Blake),Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West), Dick Grayson
(Burt Ward), Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp) & Commissioner Gordon
(Neil Hamilton)!
Guest starring Cesar Romero who reprises his Joker's
role!!
Continues in Plop Goes The Joker! A
EPISODE 58: FLOP GOES THE JOKER(Mar. 23, 1967):
With Robin in a giant "mobile" with sharp blades spinning
all around him, and Bruce Wayne tied up in a chair watching
the whole ordeal, it looks bleak!!
Of course they get loose and go out to stop the dasterdly
plan of the man of mirth!! His ultimate plan: to clear out
the Gotham City Museum of all of it's priceless art!!
The gal playing Baby Jane is terrible!!!! A
EPISODE 59: ICE SPY(Mar. 29, 1967):
For the last episodes on this DVD set we have returning Mr.
Freeze, but he just doesn't seem to be himself lately!! OK, all
jokes aside, we have a THIRD actor playing the notorious
master of the cold!! They still haven't been able to hold a
candle to the original, George Sanders!!! Anyway, Mr. Freeze
uses an iceberg to kidnap a professor who's discovered a
formula for making instant ice!! Then he holds him for ransom!
But his real goal is to get the formula from the good professor!!
No holy anything here!!
Starring in order of appearance: Bruce Wayne/Batman(Adam West),
Chief O'Hara(Stafford Repp), Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton),
Dick Grayson(Burt Ward) & Aunt Harriet(Madge Blake)! This is the
first episode in which Alfred(Alan Napier) didn't appear in!!!!
Guest starring as Mr. Freeze is Eli Wallach and as Professor
Isaacson is Elisha Cook Jr.(Magnum P.I., The Maltese Falcon,
The Big Sleep and the Star Trek: TOS episode "Court Martial")!
The special guest cameo in this is a not-so-well known dude
named Cyril Lord, known in the 60's as the carpet king!!
Continues in The Duo Defy! A
EPISODE 60: THE DUO DEFY(Mar. 30, 1967):
Continued from the previous episode!! Mr. Freeze is determined
to get the formula, then use it to control the world!!
"Holy chill blades", !
Alan Napier does show up in this one, right at the end!! A
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
Since my generation knows Batman either as a film noir
type (Tim Burton's and Christopher Nolan's movies) or as
something toyetic (Joel Schumacher's movies), it might
surprise us to learn that there was a campy '60s show
featuring the Caped Crusader and Robin. Whatever the
modern movies gave us, they don't give us zany puns or
graphics showing noises. You can bet money that they
had a lot of fun making this series. You're bound to
love it. - lee_eisenberg