EPISODE NUMBERS: 13-14, Production Code 8719

PLOT SUMMARIES:

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 staue'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!

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.

WRITTEN BY: Charles Hoffman

DIRECTED BY: Norman Foster

CAST:
Gil Perkins (Dicer)
David Wayne (Jervis Tetch, The Mad Hatter)
Robert Montgomery (Silver shop manager)
Bob Legionaire (Sporting Goods Manager)
Norma Varden (Mrs. Monteagle)
John Ward (Citizen)
Monique Lemaire (Madame Magda)
Diane McBain (Lisa)
Alberto Morin (Octave Marbot)
Roland La Starza (Cappy)
Sandra Wells (Babette)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- This episode is unusually dark in its look and like a few of the other episodes early on ("The Purr-fect Crime" being another), is played almost completely straight with very little camp

- Reginald Denny (King Boris) went on to portray his final role, that of Commodore Schmidlapp in the 1966 Batman motion picture.

- During the recap scene at the beginning of this episode, we're supposed to be shown a sketch of The Riddler's waterworks hideout, but instead we are shown the sketch of Dawn Robbins' penthouse apartment, which appeared in episode #8703-Pt. 2, "The Penguin's a Jinx."

- Look for the blatantly (campy) stuffed dummies of Batman and Robin on the drive shaft.