ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 1/18/1968
EPISODE NUMBERS: 113, Production Code 1719
PLOT SUMMARY:
Nora Clavicle is ostensibly a womens' rights spokesperson, but she is secretly a crime queen. Exercising her influence over Mayor Linseed's wife (and, consequently, Mayor Linseed) she has Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and Batman and Robin all fired and replaced with women. She then has her henchgirls set a trap for the Caped Crusaders: when the newly-appointed policewomen prove too concerned with their makeup to stop Nora's gang from robbing the bank, Batman and Robin decide to try their hand at catching the thieves. With Batgirl assisting, they trace the gang to a knitting company's warehouse, where the heroes are captured and tied into a gruesome human Siamese knot.
As the three crimefighters struggle to avoid strangulation, Nora unleashes mechanical mice that will explode at sunset, so that she might collect on an insurance policy she has taken out on Gotham. Batman, of course, figures a way out of the Siamese knot. He then procures three flutes, with which — liked Masked Pied Pipers — the trio lead the mechanical mice safely out into the water of Gotham Harbor. This trick works, Batman cagily explains, because of a peculiar sound-actuated mechanism in the mice. Nora and her gang are rounded up with a citizen's arrest by Gordon, O'Hara and Alfred, after which Gotham returns to normal operation.
WRITTEN BY: Stanford Sherman
DIRECTED BY: Oscar Rudolph
CAST:
Elizabeth Baur (4th Policewoman)
Alyce Andrece (3rd Policewoman)
Rhae Andrece (2nd Policewoman)
Ginny Gan (1st Policewoman)
Judy Parker (Telephone Operator)
Jean Byron (Mrs. Millie Lindseed)
Larry Gelman (Bank Manager)
Byron Keith (Mayor Linseed)
Inga Neilson (Angelina)
June Wilkinson (Evelina)
Barbara Rush (Nora Clavicle)
INTERESTING NOTES:
- Elizabeth Baur is the cousin of Sharon Gless of "Cagney and Lacey" fame.
- This is one of the few episodes that didn't feature a batfight.
- Elizabeth Baur (4th Policewoman) is the daughter of Fox casting director Jack Baur and, in 1971, eventually won the role of Fran Belding (replacing Barbara Anderson) in the TV series Ironside (NBC, 1967-75).
- Jean Byron (Mrs. Millie Lindseed) played the matriarch Natalie Lane
on The Patty Duke Show (ABC, 1963-66), which aired on the same Wednesday schedule as Batman in early 1966!
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