EPISODE NUMBERS: 49-50, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Devil's Fingers:
World-famous concert pianist Chandell, who leads a second life as the nefarious Fingers, plans to dispose of Bruce Wayne and Richard Grayson and then marry Aunt Harriet Cooper so he can have enough money to pay off his evil twin brother. Harry, who knows Chandell used a piano player during a White House concert which made him famous and has been blackmailing him ever since. As part of his plan to divert any suspicion which just might fall upon him, Chandell arranges for his lethal female assistants - Doe, Rae, and Mimi - to appear at Wayne Manor with their highpitched bagpipes, which they use to put everyone asleep and then they ransack the place! Whilst Bruce and Dick are away on vacation, Chandell and Harry plot to strip The Burma Import Compay clean with the aid of his felonious female trio during his concert that evening.

During that concert Chandell strikes an incorrect note, signaling the girls to strike; that note is, of course, discovered by Bruce Wayne, who'd been listening to the concert on his portable radio, and, believing something is stirring, he signals Dick and the two switch identities and return to Gotham City as The Dynamic Duo! Meanwhile, Chandell furthers his plan by playing up to Aunt Harriet. Later, realizing thet The Caped Crusader is on his trail, he assaults himself with a rootbeer bottle and leads them to a trap at twin brother Harry's abandoned Parnassus Music-Roll Co. where they are captured and tied to a conveyor belt which leads directly into a machine that will perforate them into player piano rolls!

The Dead Ringers:
As a player piano feeds the musical notes to the music roll machine via a microphone, The Caped Crusader mentally visualizes the chords which will make the cutting devices to puncture the outlines of their bodies. The Dynamic Duo save themselves by outshouting the piano with bad Bat-singing. Batman and Robin quickly apprehend Harry and his pack of Piano Movers and take them to Police HQ, where they reveal that a master criminal named Fingers is the ringleader...only to have Harry sprung from the hoosegow by his criminal attorney, Alfred Slye. Convinced that Chandell and Fingers are one and the same, and deducing his plan to do away with Bruce and Dick and marry up with Aunt Harriet, The Dynamic Duo form a trap for The Precarious Pianist. They arrange for their own deaths by faking an explosion in the darkroom set up in the front hall. Immediately upon learning that Chandell, after marrying Aunt Harriet, is going straight and abandon them, Harry and Doe, Rae, and Mimi decide to take matters into their own hands.

The girls put Chandell to sleep with their bewitching bagpipes. Mr. Slye shows up and informs Harry that he won't be able to claim The Wayne Fortune until the will is settled in 11 years...and then presents his client with a staggering $100,000 bill, payable by midnight, or he will be brought back to jail. Believing Slye's fees are too high, Harry orders his beauties to work him over with their bagpipes, too. Chandell and Slye are then tied to the conveyor belt leading into the same music roll machine which failed to do in The Dynamic Duo earlier. Masquerading as Chandell, Harry pays a visit on Harriet, who immediately spots him for a phony and tries to take him by citizen's arrest at gunpoint ("As they say in the movies, 'stick up your mitts!'!"), but is overcome, along with Alfred, by the spellbinding sound of the girls' bagpipes. Harry transports the two in a packing case and sprays it with machine-gunfire, only to watch in shock as The Dynamic Duo, protected by The Batshield, leap out and capture the gang, and rescue Chandell and Slye from the monstrous music roll machine. Harriet receives a medal by The GCPD for bravery; then is saddened to learn that Chandell is going on a 20-year "world tour" (behind bars, with Doe, Rae, Mimi, and evil twin Harry!).

WRITTEN BY: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

DIRECTED BY: Larry Peerce

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)
Marilyn Hanold (Doe)
Edy Williams (Rae)
Sivi Alberg (Mimi)
James Millhollin (Alfred Slye)
Diane Farrell (Sally)
Jack Perkins (Piano Mover [Henchman])
Liberace (Chandell/Fingers [Likewise as Harry])

INTERESTING NOTES:
- The Liberace episodes on Batman were the most highest rated episodes in the series.

- Liberace insisted on using his own pianos, as he wouldn't trust anyone else's

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