EPISODE NUMBERS: 47-48, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

An Egg Grows in Gotham:
In an attempt to take over Gotham City, Egghead pilfers the city charter from its case at City Hall. It seema the city is actually owned by The Mohican Indians and is leased to the city governmant! Every 5 years, the city must pay The Indians - in this case Chief Screaming Chicken, last of The Mohicans - 9 raccoon pelts; 3 pelts from each of the 9 descendants of Gotham City's founders: Pete Savage, Tim Tyler, and our own philanthropist Bruce N. Wayne. If the pelts aren't delivered by midnight on the night of the lease's expiration, the full force of Gotham City will revert back to The Mohicans. Egghead secretly signs a lease with The Chief to act as his legal representative if and when the time on the lease runs out, which Egghead intends to make sure will happen. Batman and Robin trace Egghead to his hideout at The Ghoti-Oeufs Caviar Company and cartch him in the act of negotiating with Screaming Chicken. Egghead bombs The Duo with an egg containing nitrous oxide, and beats a hasty exit with his gang; Batman and Robin later neutralize the gas's aftereffects with Sad Pills.

Later that night, while Bruce Wayne, Richard Grayson, Peter Savage and Timothy Tyler perpare to deliver the raccoon pelts to Chief Screaming Chicken, Egghead kidnaps each and every one of them, with plans of not only preventing the renewal of the city's lease, but to reveal The Batman's secret identity, which he suspects is Bruce Wayne! Planning to eggs tract the truth from his mind, Egghead uses one of his goulish devices, which not only will transplant all of Bruce Wayne's knowledge into Egghead's brain, but will leave poor Bruce a mindless fop, too!

The Yegg Foes in Gotham:
Just as the machine has reached full power and is beginning to tap into the secrets of Bruce's mind, Dick reaches the machine's powerswitch and raises it from 110 to 220 currents, causing the machine to overload and explode. Egghead is thus forced to fall back on "Plan B": a radar egg which he activates and then takes off. The millionaires use and overhead water pipe to escape the deadly egg, and Bruce takes a grape and, treating it as if it were a marble, flicks it at the bomb, detonating it. The four head back to the city, where they discover they have missed the deadline by 3 minutes. Gotham City is now in the posession of Chief Screaming Chicken and Egghead. Egghead immediately fires all of the city officials, banishes The Dynamic Duo from the city, and then declares the city open season for the criminal underworld.

Hoping to find a way to defeat Egghead, Batman and Robin, as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, swipe the Gotham City charter from City Hall; there they discover the charter prevents anyone with a criminal record from holding a lease to Gotham City! Once Egghead discovers he's been legally deposed from office, he and his criminal cronies loot the city treasury and plan to escape to Venezuela to lay low. The Dynamic Duo arrive at the treasury too late to capture Egghead (they find Chief Chicken all tied up instead), but trace him to Old MacDonald's Chicken Farm, where Egghead and company is stocking up on enough Grade AAA eggs to satisfy his dietary practices before leaving the country...but, after and egg-throwing Batfight, they wind up with egg on their faces, instead!

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross, Edwin Self

DIRECTED BY: George Waggner

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)
Vincent Price (Egghead)
Ben Alexander (Plain clothes cop)
Anthony Brand (Motorcycle Cop)
George Fenneman (Newsman)
Burt Mustin (MacDonald)
Grant Woods (Tour Guide)
Albert Carrier (Pete Savage)
Steve Dunne (Tim Tyler)
Gene Dynarski (Benedict)
Ben Weldon (Foo Yung)
Gail Hire (Miss Bacon)
Ben Welden (Foo Yung)
Mae Clarke (Lady)
Allen Emerson (Policeman)
Jonathan Hole (Jewelry Store Clerk)
George McCoy (Motorist)
Edward Everett Horton (Chief Screaming Chicken)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- This is the first appearance of Vincent Price as Egghead. Ironically, Egghead was not a DC Comics villain. He was based off of Marvel Comics Egghead who was a foe of original Ant-Man, Henry Pym.

- Listen for Nelson Riddle's own rendition of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" during the egg-throwing Batfight.

SCREEN GRABS FROM EPISODE 1

SCREEN GRABS FROM EPISODE 2

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