EPISODE NUMBERS: 108, Production Code 1717

PLOT SUMMARY:

An envious Catwoman disrupts a luncheon honoring the 10 best-dressed women in Gotham City and sets off a hair-raising irepparably ruining the of all the ladies there. Later, Catwoman invades a magazine fashion show and attempts to swipe all of the one-of-a-kind dresses. While her henchmen, Angora and Manx, subdue Batman and Robin with some bolts of cloth, Catwoman bolts into the models' dressing room, knowing full well that the naturally gentlemanly Dynamic Duo wouldn't dare enter a ladies' dressing room with their eyes closed! Batgirl arrives to free The Duo from the cloth, and, with her eyes wide open, enters the dressing room alone and is overpowered by Catwoman, and spirits her off to her Catlair in an abandoned loft in The Garment District on 32 Pussyfoot Road before The Dynamic Duo realize what's happened! The Catwoman later contacts The Batman and informs her of her Catlair's location, where she has tied Batgirl down to a conveyor belt leading to a giant pattern-cutting machine, which in a matter of minutes will cut her into a purr-fect pinafore!

Believing Catwoman plans the pilfering of The Golden Fleece, a solid-gold dress belonging to the visiting Quen Bess Of Belgravia, from The Belgravian Embassy, The Caped Crusader finds himself in somewhat of a dilemma. As The Catlair and The Embassy are miles apart, he is torn between rescuing Batgirl and preventing an international incident by stopping Catwoman's theft of The Fleece! A quick-thinking Batman phones Alfred Pennyworth and sends him to rescue The Dynamic Daredoll; Alf disguises himself as the world' oldest-living hippie in order to prevent Batgirl from recognizing him and tip her off as to the connection between Batman and Bruce Wayne. Batgirl then rushes by Batgirlcycle to The Embassy to join her partners in crime-fighting. Meanwhile Batman and Robin are already there to confront Catwoman, who is convinced that they have sacrificed Batgirl in her time of need order to arrest her; she soon learns differently when Batgirl arrives to join The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder in apprehending Catwoman, Angora and Manx!

The Dynamic Trio is given honorary medals by The Belgravian Embassy when they learn that Egghead and Cossack Queen Olga are up to no good again...

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross

DIRECTED BY: Sam Strangis

CAST:
Gerald Peters (Attendant)
Jeanie Moore (Woman)
Karen Huston (Queen Bess)
Rudy Hrenreich (Himself)
James Griffith (Manx)
Dirk Evans (Angora)
Eartha Kitt (Catwoman)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- In 1968, Eartha Kitt made several negative comments about the Vietnam War reportedly causing first lady Lady Bird Johnson to start crying. The subsequent negative publicity from the incident caused Miss Kitt to leave the country for several years.

- Footage of The Dynamic Duo crossing the street and racing through bustling crowds in Gotham City (filmed in downtown Los Angeles) is edited from the 1966 Batman movie.

- Envisioning Catwoman as black was unique to the television series, an experiment that hadn't been repeated until the 2002 failed Catwoman starring Hallie Berry.

- The first appearance of Eartha Kitt as Catwoman #3! She replaced Julie Newmar who at the time was filming her role of Hesh-Ke for the Columbia Picture Mackenna's Gold (which also featured Bat-guest villains Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach).

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