EPISODE NUMBERS: 104, Production Code 1714

PLOT SUMMARY:

While surfing champion Skip Parker is sidelined by a telephone call, his friend, Barbara Gordon (who's celebrating her birthday!), awaits his return on the beach. Upon picking up the reciever, Skip is quickly gassed by a hidden device and kidnapped by The Joker and his men Riptide and Wipeout and moll Undine. Barbara bears witness to Skip being carried into The Jokemobile and calls her father in hopes that he will, in turn, alert Batman. Meanwhile, Joker, hoping to become a surfing champion himself, has transferred all of Skip's knowledge and ability to his own brain with a terrifying Surfing Experience & Ability Trabsferometer & Vigor Reverser! Batman and Robin easily divine the location of Joker's secret headquarters at The Ten Toes Surfboard Shop, but they are captured there by the waiting Joker, Riptide and Wipeout, who paralyze them with handfuls of poisonous sea urchin spines! While The Joker and Undine depart for Gotham Point and the surfing championship, Riptide and Wipeout turn The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder into human surfboards!

Employing the use of a Portable Ultraviolet Batray, The Dynamic Duo burst free from their foam coffins and rescue Skip, who was locked up in a nearby bench, as Riptide and Wipeout make a break for it. Realising the only way to collar The Clown Prince Of Crime is to challenge (and defeat!) him in the surfing contest, Batman orders Robin to return to Wayne Manor, switch to Dick Grayson, and go to the beach and preside as a judge of the contest. Batman heads for Gotham Point Beach and discovers Joker employing the use of his newly acquired surfing prowess to frighten off all the other contestants. So The Caped Crusader grabs his surfboard, dons his swimming trunks, and heads out into the water to compete against The Joker and handily hang 10. The Joker is beaten, confronted by Skip Parker, and, knowing he has been found out, retreats with Undine, Riptide and Hideout to local surfing hangout The Hang 5, where The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, joins The Dynamic Duo as they rout The Homicidal Harlquin and his henchies!

Meanwhile in Londinium, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, use a man-made fog to pull off a robbery...

WRITTEN BY: Charles Hoffman

DIRECTED BY: Oscar Rudolph

CAST:
Cesar Romero (The Joker)
John Trombatore (Johnnie Green & His Green Men)
Robert Van Holten (Johnnie Green & His Green Men)
Richard Person (Johnnie Green & His Green Men)
Marilyn Campbell (Johnnie Green & His Green Men)
Johnnie Green (Johnnie Green & His Green Men)
Joyce Lederer (Girl Surfer)
Ron Burke (Wipeout)
Sivi Alberg (Undine)
Skip Ward (Riptide)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Skip Ward (Riptide), one of the Joker's Henchmen in this episode also portrayed a character named Gil in "Easy Come, Easy Go"(1967) starring Elvis Presley. Gil was a character who helped try to steal Elvis' prospected sunken treasure.

- During the surfing challenge, Batman is threatened by a shark. To counter it, he makes use of Shark Repellent Batspray--something which was first employed in the 1966 movie.

- The surfing footage used in this segmant was borrowed from the 1966 Cinema V film The Endless Summer.

- The Jokemobile appears for the second and last time on Batman in this episode.

- In the snece were the villians are running from Batman and Robin, Joker's henchman were barefoot but when they ran into the building, they suddenly had shoes on and socks could be clearly seen also.

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