EPISODE NUMBERS: 74-75, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

That Darn Catwoman :
After giving a stirring speech at the graduation class of Aaron Burr High School, Robin is sidetracked by Pussycat and cat-scratched with the drug cataphrenic, which turns him into Catwoman's pawn. After roughing up Chief O'Hara, The ex-Boy Wonder departs as a new member of The Catwoman's covey! O'Hara quickly alerts Commissioner Gordon who alerts Batman...but meanwhile, with Robin's help, Catwoman steals $200,000 from Wayne Manor - her first step toward raising the million dollars she needs to purchase the plans to The Gotham City Mint. Aware that the police are hot on her trail, The Catwoman threatens to kill The Boy Wonder should the law try to intervene. Consequently, Batman must act on his own. Mayor Linseed is desperate.

After Catwoman succeeds in perpetrating two more heists, Batman divines that her next job will be at Prince Ibn Kereb of Gedalia's weighing-in ceremony, where the Prince equals his weight in greenbacks. Batman arrived to do battle with Catmen Spade, Marlowe and Templar, but he finds that he must now deal with the drugged Robin, whom Catwoman sics on "the blue dragon". Batman allows the boy to rough him up and crash a chair over him. When the Caped Crusader tails the gang to Catlair West, and finds Robin all tied up, he thinks he has played possum and rushes over to free him, but when he does, he finds that Robin has played possum...just not in the way that Batman believes, though, and he is caught in a Cattrap. Batman finds himself dangling mere feet above certain death, tied to a giant mousetrap that will spring shut just as soon as The Boy Wonder finishes sawing away at the rope...

Scat, Darn Catwoman:
The Feline-ious Felon agrees to release The Batman from the trap only if he agrees to join her gang, and, having little alternative, The Caped Crusader acquiesces, but he slips himself a Universal Batantidote before he is scratched with Cataphrenic, allowing him to keep his reason. Pretending to be under The Catwoman's spell, Batman accompanies the gang to The Old Criminals' Home to visit "Little Al," from whom Catwoman hopes to buy the plans to the GC Mint. Batman phones an anonymous tip to the police informing them where they can capture Robin and Pussycat. Knowing that The Boy Wonder is now safe, Batman sets a trap for Catwoman, who convinces him to take her back to The Batcave. While in The Batcave, Batman diverts a phone line instigated by the police trying to trace him to the cave, leading the cops right to the place of inventor Pet Pending, whom they arrest. After a tour of The Batcave, Batman gasses Catwoman asleep and leaves a note for Alfred Pennyworth ordering him to deliver The Batantidote to Robin at Police HQ.

Returning to Gotham, Batman and Catwoman meet the rest of the gang at The Mint. Using a hidden entrance detailed in The Catwoman's plans, they enter the building with plans to loot the whole safe! They blast their way into the vault with a silent explosive, where they are confronted by Robin, now restored to his faithful crimefighting old self again thanks to The Batantidote. The Dynamic Duo make mincemeat of The Catmen, but, just as the police arrive to collect the crooks, Catwoman steals Batman's keys and escapes in The Batmobile. Commandeering O'Hara's squad car, The Dynamic Duo give chase through The New Guernsey Bridge, but realize the impossibility of gaining The Batmobile's top speed, so they use The Batmobile's remote control to stop the car at a waterfront building. The Catwoman takes chase by Batman and climbs to the roof to avoid capture, but she is overcome by vertigo! Here she proposes marriage to The Caped Crusader, which he rejects only when she suggests killing Robin to make their lives together purrfect. Pretending to surrender, The Catwoman reaches out for Batman's hand and deliberately slips, falls and disappears into the water below...but has she drowned?

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross

DIRECTED BY: Oscar Rudolph

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)
Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Jock Gaynor (Spade)
George Sawaya (Templar)
J. Pat O'Malley (Pat Pending)
Allen Jenkins (Little Al [cameo])
Rolla Altman (Girl Teller)
David Renard (Prince Kereb)
Lesley Gore (Pussycat)
Steve Franken (Rudy [valet])

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Singer Leslie Gore, who had hits with It's My Party & Judy's Turn to Cry, is the niece of Batman producer Howie Horwitz.

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