EPISODE NUMBERS: 45-46, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Clock King's Crazy Crimes:
The master of time crimes, Temple Fugate, The Clock King, arranges for one of his trick timepieces to be sold to the Harry Hummert Jewelry Shop, which caters to Gotham City's elite. Concealed inside the clock is a small TV camera which allows Clock King to observe everyone in the shop. Alerting his moll, Millie Second, and his group of Second Hands, he activates the tricky mechanism in the clock, which gasses all of the patrons asleep. CK and his minute minions see this as a golden opportunity to strip the shop clean of its valuables. Batman and Robin are alerted to the robbery by Commissioner Gordon and rush to Hummert's shop, where they discover that the clock was bought at The Parkhurst Gallery. They quickly leave the shop and speed for the gallery, where they discover that the clock was put up for auction by a Mr. Kronos. The Dynamic Duo deduce that it was Temple Fugate incognito, and they make their next stop Dunbar's Drive-in in search for one of Fugate's former molls, Thelma Thymepiece. Meanwhile, back at The Parkhurst Gallery, Clock King disguises himself as pop art expert Progress Pigment, and attempts to snatch a rare time-related painting under the very noses of the TV audience. After making a short speech to the crowd Temple "Progress Pigment" Fugate unveils his latest sculpture, called Time Out Of Joint, which resembles the inside of a clock and when turned on emits a potpourri of assembled sounds and noises as the mechanical parts move about. Nobody suspects that the mechanical marvel is actually being used as a decoy to cover up the sound of a saber saw attatched to its rear, which cuts through the wall into the storage room filled with valuable paintings.

After the saw does its diabolical duty, "Progress Pigment" clicks another switch on the sculpture, this one emitting a high-pitched noise so piercing that it knocks everyone out except for him and his Second Hands, 3 and 5, who were protected by earmuffs. Clock King enters the storage room and swipes the clock masterpiece therein. Batman and Robin, who, at Dunbar's Drive-in, have been enjoying their Batburgers and watching The Clock King on The Batscope in The Batmobile, rush for the place and confront CK and his Second Hands as they depart with the painting. They proceed to thrash Second Hands 3 and 5 but are stopped by Clock King, who fakes a sprained wrist sustained from clutching the heavy painting and releases a barrage of giant springs in their direction from yet another hidden compartment in his Time Out Of Joint. The time The Dynamic Duo make in trying to pry themselves free of the giant coils gives The Clock King and The Second Hands room to split. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder analyze the dust inside a wristwatch dropped by Clock King at the gallery, and use it to trace him and his gang to their hideout at the deserted premises of Tick Tock Synthetic Rubies, Inc. Unaware that CK deliberately left behind the watch, The Duo fall into an untimely trap! The Clock King remove their utility belts and encase them in the lower chamber of a gigantic hourglass and leave them to be buried under sand which slowly fills it up and threatens to smother them to death!

The Clock King Gets Crowned:
Waiting until after The Clock King has left, Batman and Robin topple the hourglass over onto its side by rocking it back and forth. Then run inside the glass until it rolls outside and smash open the glass against a truck, releasing them. The Clock King, meanwhile, is enraged on learning one of his men accidentally planted his Automatic Energy Directional Control Switch, meant for a bomb to be used in his final caper: in a clock bought by Dick Greyson's Aunt Harriet as a birthday present for Bruce Wayne!

Clock King and his Second Hands invade Wayne Manor to steal back the mistakenly rigged clock, and proceeds to purloin Bruce Wayne's priceless collection of antique pocket watch collection and Aunt Harriet herself, before being interrupted by Bruce and Dick, who steal back the watches and Aunt Harriet! Working on slim clues, the two crimefighters then act on an earlier remark made by CK, and they race to the Gotham Clock Tower to foil The Clock King's plan to steal a valuable Cesium clock by using the clock's mechancial blacksmith to set off a bomb. With the help of a wild shot fired by one of the Second Hands, Batman and Robin use the intricate mechanism of the clock tower to bring their foes to an untimely end.

WRITTEN BY: Charles Sinclair, Bill Finger

DIRECTED BY: James Neilson

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)
Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself)
Jerry Doggett (Forbes)
Michael Pate (Second Hand #3)
Sandra Lynn (Girl)
Louise Lorimer (Mrs. Frontenal)
Herbert Anderson (Hummert)
Ivan Triesault (Parkhurst)
Eileen O'Neill (Millie)
Roger Bacon (Boy)
Walter Slezak (The Clock King)
Linda Lorimer (Car Hop)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- The Clock King debuted in World's Finest #111, August 1960. CK also existed in comics books as a Green Arrow villain.

- This is the only instance of Batman comic writer Bill Finger penning the script of a Batman TV episode.

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