EPISODE NUMBERS: 33-34, Production Code 8734

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Fine Finny Fiends:
The Penguin kidnaps Alfred Pennyworth after luring him to a phony fish store selling cut-rate caviar. Alfred is then brainwashed by the pudgy purveyor of perfidy in preparation for his plan to rob The Multimillionaires' Annual Award Dinner. Since Alfred is arranging the dinner, he's one of the few people with information on the dinner's secret location and which bathing beauty will be chosen to accept the award money for this year's honoured charity. Before he can be missed, Alf is returned home without the slightest idea of what has transpired, but Batman and Robin are puzzled by his given to nervous tics.

Later, a fishook which had fallen out of Alfred's morning coat appears inside one of the canapes the butler prepared for the buffet before the awards. The hook tips off The Caped Crusader that The Penguin's hideout is on a fishing pier owned by the bird under the moniker of Knott A. Fish ("not a fish," get it?! Never mind.). The Penguin and his Finks capture The Dynamic Duo and places them inside a vaccum tank filled with balloons for a trap that will take Batman and Robin's breath away--literally! As the air is slowly sucked out of the room, the baloons begin to break; The Dynamic Duo will become a Doomed Duo once the final baloon has burst!

Batman Makes the Scenes:
Believing The Dynamic Duo has been finished off, The Pudgy Purveyor Of Perfidy and his Finks quickly dash to establish their "alibis". Meanwhile, Batman has reached the emergency tank of Batoxygen in his utility belt to stay conscious long enough to use his Batknife and sever the bonds tying him and Robin so they can escape the deadly vacuum tank. Now convinced that Alfred Pennyworth has been brainwashed, The Caped Crusader gives him the information The Penguin wants. When Penguin calls Wayne Manor and signals Alfred to relay the info, the butler reveals that the dinner is to be held on board the good ship S.S. Gotham Neptune and that the chosen beauty queen is Miss Natural Resources. The Penguin then releases Alf from his power, causing him to forget what has transpired.

That very night, Penguin switches his latest moll, Finella, for Miss Natural Resources and arms her with an umbrella triggered with knockout gas. Fearing for the attending millionaires' safety, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson decide to attend the dinner as The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder. All goes well until time arrives for dessert with the giant cake containing Finella. As she pops out of the cake, she uses Penguin's gas-filled umbrella to put the millionaires to bed; as they slumber, The Penguin and his Finks snatch the charity money and rush back to their hideout to divvy up the loot. But poor Finella suffers a fit of remorse for her actions. Unknown to her, and Penguin, The Dynamic Duo had taken AntiPenguin Gas Pills beforehand, and took a shortcut to the felonious fowl's hideout; there they lay in wait for Penguin, thrash him and his lackeys about, and re-cage him. The Multimillionaires' Annual Award Dinner transfers to Wayne Manor for safety, and Finella (appearing in a mink stole) is given a police escort there by Commissioner Gordon.

WRITTEN BY: Sheldon Stark

DIRECTED BY: Tom Gries

CAST:
Burgess Meredith (The Penguin)
Bill Williams (Multimillionaire)
Frank Wilcox (Millionaire)
Ann Reece (Beauty)
Lisa Mitchell (Miss Natural Resources)
Charles La Torre (Manager)
Dal Jenkins (Shark)
Julie Gregg (Finella)
Louie Elias (Swordfish)
Victor Lundin (Octopus)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- In the scene where The Batman shows Alfred a series of mug shots of criminals for recognition, take note of first two pictures. They are of none other than Executive Producer William Dozier and Producer Howie Horwitz.

- Without an airhose or some other means of directing the air to his and Robin's mouths, any air from the utility belt would be sucked out of the room as quickly as it was released from the utility belt tank.