EPISODE NUMBERS: 35-36, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Shoot a Crooked Arrow:
In The Caped Crusader's second season opener, The Archer, a medieval crook modeled after Robin Hood, escapes from Police Headquarters in a moving van from The Trojan Hearse Company, driven by Maid Marilyn. Together, with his band of merry malefactors - Crier Tuck and Big John - he pays a surprise visit to Wayne Manor, where they gas everyone and then steal the loose cash Bruce kept in the wall safe, thus stealing from the rich, and giving it to the poor, clueless Gothamites. Later that day, The Archer and company attempt to thwart justice by dropping in on Police HQ. Protected with goggles, the medieval muggers blind Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and The Dynamic Duo with another of Archer's special trick arrows and beat a hasty retreat out the window. As The Archer, Marion, Tuck and John give out the money they swiped from The Everett Bannister's Koin Machines Company, they are apprehended by Batman and Robin---only to be rapidly bailed out by the poor but misguided citizens with the exact same money distributed to them by Archer, whom they view as a hero!

The Dynamic Duo trace The Archer to his hideout at The Earl Of Huntington Archery Range (Robin Hood is the alias of The Earl Of Huntington) in Gotham's Green Forest section, where Alfred Pennyworth attempts to divert the crooks long enough for The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder to inspect his GHQ--where they unwittingly trigger a secret alarm which ensnares them in a giant net. After stringing up The Duo by their thumbs, The Archer demands Batman reveal The Batcave's secret location or else he beheads Alfred (Archer intends to storm The Cave and destroy the crime computers therein). The Caped Crusader notices to his relief that the gullontine Archer plans to use on Alfred is a fake prop used by magicians and refuses Archer's ultimatum. Archer takes The Dynamic Duo out doors, ties them to a stake, and, along with his merry madmen (mounted on horseback), perpare to run them both through with lances!!

Walk The Straight And Narrow:
Just as The Dynamic Duo are about to be impaled, they activate The Batsprings which are cleverly hidden in their boots and catapult them up and out of harm's way. Rather than go back after the unshiskebabed superheroes, The Archer and his merry malefactors opt to beat a hasty retreat to their new hideout in the basement of Police HQ! Next, Archer and his cronies hijack an armored car carrying $10 million, which The Wayne Foundation plans to donate to the poor Gothamites. The truck is later found abandoned not too short a distance away with the cash left untouched, so the ceremony commences as planned. Whilst Alfred Pennyworth, in disguise as Batman, and Robin bears witness from across the street, Bruce Wayne attends the ceremony, where it's learned that The Archer has substituted the money in the truck for phoney tender bearing The Archer's picture!

The Caped Crusader deduces that Alan A. Dale, one of The Wayne Foundation's directors who was resposible for the money's well-being, is one of The Archer's merry band of mad malefactors, and they are planning to escape by boat to Switzerland in international waters, where they feel they'll be forever protected from the law...or so they assume! The Dynamic Duo chase the crooks by Batboat and rout The Archer, Crier Tuck, Big John, Maid Marilyn, and Alan A. Dale before they get the chance! Later, Bruce, Dick and Alfred perform archery on their front lawn.

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross

DIRECTED BY: Sherman Marks

CAST:
Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper)
William Dozier (Narrator)
Adam West (Bruce N. Wayne/Batman)
Burt Ward (Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin: The Boy Wonder)
Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth)
Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara)
Neil Hamilton (I) (Commissioner James W. Gordon)
James O'Hara (Cop)
David Lewis (Warden Crichton)
Byron Keith (Mayor Lindseed)
Sam Jaffe (Zolton Zorba)
Myron Dell (Pedestrian)
Robert Cornthwaite (Alan A. Dale)
Robert Adler (Poor Person 1)
Doodles Weaver (Crier Tuck)
Barbara Nichols (Maid Marilyn)
Loren Ewing (Big John)
Steve Pendleton (Guard 1)
Lee Delano (Guard 2)
Dick Clark (Himself)
Art Carney (The Archer)
Archie Moore (Everett Bannister)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Beginning this season, all of the action word titles which appear during the climactic fight sequences were inserted inbetween scenes, as opposed to being superimposed over scenes like the first season and the movie, due to cutting down the massive budget devoted to camera and art work. - The character of Zoltan Zorba was originally known as Alan A. Aardvark, but when Sam Jaffe was selected to portray the role, it was changed to Zorba as a sort of takeoff on his role of Dr. Zorba on the 1961-66 ABC medical drama Ben Casey.

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