ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 3/15/1967-3/16/1967
EPISODE NUMBERS: 89-90, Production Code N/A
PLOT SUMMARIES:
Black Widow Strikes Again:
Mrs. Max Black, The Black Widow, has arrived in Gotham City and just robbed The American National Bank! And then The Beneficial Bank! And then The Commercial, Diversified, Empire and Federal State Banks!! With the aid of her brain short-circuiter, B.W. simply requests a large sum of wampum, and the bank presidents rendered incapable of independent thought as a result of her device, are only too happy to hand it over. While Black Widow and her henchmen Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs, and Trap Door count the stolen cash in her den, Batman and Robin, trying to figure out B.W.'s next move, deduce that she's proceeding alphabetically, and they set a trap for her at The Gotham General Bank. There they confront Black Widow and her henchmen, and she tries to short-circuit their brains, but is thwarted by their AntiShort-Circuiting Batelectrodes. She then, nevetheless, falls back on Plan Beta: Batman is sprayed with paralyzing spider venom and The Avaricious Arachnid escapes!
The hobbled Duo give hot pursuit of Black Widow with the aid of their Odor-Sensitometer Radar Circuit in The Batmobile. Eventually they trace the smell of gas fumes from Black Widow's motorcycle to a small farmhouse, where they are greeted by an elderly farm couple in rocking chairs. Unable to get information from the pair as to B.W.'s location, they speed back to The Batcave. There, they listen to the conversation with the farm ouple on The Battape Reader and realize that their voices were amplified and that the couples were fakes! The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder speed back to the dummy farmhouse, where they penetrate The Widow's lair beneath and find themselves caught in a giant web. Black Widow then has her henchmen release two very deadly black widow spiders and leaves The Gotham Guardians to die...
Caught in the Spider's Den:
The Caped Crusader reaches the 5,000-volt mini-charge in his ever-reliable utility belt and, using the web as a conductor, electrocutes the spiders. The Dynamic Duo then proceed to The Black Widow's vault, where they find her and Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs and Trap Door counting the money from her latest robbery. Spotting them, B.W. reverses the polarity of her brain device and short circuits his Batbrain! Robin, fortunately, has lost one of his electrodes and is not subsceptible to the device's effects--but is quickly tied up anyway. The Caped Crusader, now under Black Widow's spell, uses his Remote-Controlled Batcomputer Oscillator to locate a bank The Spidery Fiend can rob. The computer responds with an answer but also warns that Batman's life will be in danger if he accompanies her to the bank!
Black Widow, unwilling to lose Batman, employs the help of a mind-control device, a rack of disguises and the male rubber dummy from the front porch, Black Widow attempts a heist of The Heritage Bank — in the guise of The Dynamic Duo! They succeed, and the guard is forced to shoot at them as they make a break for it. Meanwhile, Robin, of course, manages to release himself and uses Black Widow's mind-control device to break the spell of his partner and they extricate themselves from the sticky trap. They discover the spidery gang in another room of the hideout, counting their ill-gotten loot. Black Widow might return at any minute, so Batman re-ties Robin and goes back to playing solitaire. Once B.W. has returned with her ill-gotten gains, The Duo pounce on Tarantula, Daddy Longlegs and Trap Door! Batman then turns Black Widow's own mind-control device back on its creator, rendering her helpless. Later, in Gotham State Pen, The Dynamic Duo use The Brain-Wave Batanalyzers to de-criminalize Black Widow and her minions.
WRITTEN BY: Robert Mintz
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)
George Raft (Cameo)
Don 'Red' Barry (Tarantula)
Michael Lane (Daddy Longlegs)
Al Ferrara (Trap Door)
Pitt Herbert (Irving Leghorn)
Grady Sutton (Irving Cash)
George Chandler (Grandpa)
Walker Edmiston (Teller)
Milton Stark (Irving Bracken)
Don Briggs (Irving Irving)
Meg Wyllie (Grandma)
Tallulah Bankhead (Black Widow)
Richard Krisher (Motorcycle Cop)
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