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A Piece of the Action (1)

Episode Number: 85    Season Num: 2    First Aired: March 1, 1967    Prod Code: 9751-Pt. 1
On a foray into The Pick Chip Stamps Factory in Gotham City, The Green Hornet and Kato, tracing a flood of counterfeit stamps, are confronted by the unlikely Col. Gumm, an evil foreman running a counterfeit rare-stamp operation out of the factory, who informs boss Pinky Pinkston. The two crimefighters leave even though they have a good chance of trouncing Gumm. Factory owner Pinky Pinkston is concerned about the break-in, so she asks Commissioner Gordon for help, and Gordon alerts The Dynamic Duo. Later, Bruce Wayne lunches with Pinky and her friend Britt Reid, and Gumm (in disguise) overhears their conversation as she asks Bruce to get The Batman to guard her factory against The Green Hornet and Kato.

Bruce and Britt visit Boris Severoff's Stamp Store to complain about counterfeit stamps. Severoff (Gumm in disguise) denies everything, but he hurriedly advises his thugs, Canceled, Reprint, and Block, to dismantle the operation. Unfortunately, Pinky overhears Gumm's conversation, and she is bound and gagged in his office. The Green Hornet and Kato, returning to the factory in an attempt to round up the do-badders, are captured by Gumm and his men. Although The Batman and Robin arrive soon after, they fall into a glue trap and are forced to watch in horror as The Hornet and Kato are fed to an Enlarged Perforation and Coiling Machine, in which they are both to be blocked, gummed, and perforated into lifesized stamps, while The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, stuck to Col. Gumm's undetatchable glue pad, await their turn!

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Charles Hoffman
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Star: Adam West (Bruce N. Wayne/Batman),  Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper [ seasons 1-2 ]),  Burt Ward (Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin The Boy Wonder),  Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth),  Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara),  William Dozier (the narrator),  David Lewis (Warden Crichton),  Byron Keith (Mayor Linseed),  Neil Hamilton (I) (Commissioner James W. Gordon)
Recurring Role: James O'Hara (Sgt. Semple)
Guest Star: Van Williams (Britt Reid / Green Hornet),  Diane McBain (Pinky Pinkston),  Seymour Cassel (Canceled),  Rico Cattani (Reprint),  Alex Rocco (Block),  Harry Frazier (Mr. Stample),  Angelique Pettyjohn (1st Model [Angelique]),  Jan Watson (2nd Model [Shirley]),  Dusty Cadis (Waiter),  Bruce Lee (Kato),  Roger C. Carmel (Col. Gumm),  Edward G. Robinson (Cameo [window])

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Diane McBain and Van Williams previously worked together for two seasons on Surfside 6.
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Diane McBain previously played Lisa in Season 1 episode The Thirteenth Hat and Batman Stands Pat.
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Roger C. Carmel, best known as Harry Mudd on Star Trek, does not receive any main billing as Guest Villain in this episode.
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Two actresses in this episode each had a role in 2 of Elvis Presley's movies. Diane McBain was cast as Diane St. Clair in the 1966 movie Spinout and Angelique Pettyjohn was cast as Gloria in 1967 movie Clambake.
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The Green Hornet and Kato are billed in the sub-main titles as "Visiting Heros". (edit)

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Maybe this is explained on the Hornet's own TV series, but why doesn't anyone recognize Kato? Granted, in costume he's only referred to as the Hornet's "masked confederate". Maybe he just keeps a low profile. Still, maybe just because of Bruce Lee's high recognition factor it's a little hard to believe that no one would connect Asian Britt Reid's valet/chauffeur with the Green Hornet's Asian chauffeur/sidekick. (edit)
Okay, it's the Batman TV show, so we shouldn't take it too seriously. But previously the Green Hornet and Kato have been identified within the show both as crimefighters (in "The Spell of Tut") and TV characters ("The Impractical Joker"). Here they are presented as the criminal types (at least to the public) they were portrayed on the television series and throughout the Hornet's history. (edit)
Before Gumm reveals he's a master criminal, why doesn't Pinky notice that Gumm's supposedly normal employees are wearing big nametags with typical Batman-style villain/henchman names ("Cancelled", "Reprint", etc.)? (edit)
Burt Ward and Adam West do not-so-convincing jobs of pretending to be stuck by their arms to the glue pad, despite the fact that their capes are between the arms and the pad. Still they valiantly press their arms back as if they were stuck in that manner. (edit)

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8.8
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A Piece of the Action (1)
"Series classic"
Special "hero" guests: The Green Hornet and Kato tonight on Batman.
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8.6
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A Piece of the Action (1)
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kato and the green hornet invade gotham city. the real villian hardly gets any recognition at all and batman worrys about getting his super hero status tarnished by the green hornet. kato could kick robins behind in real life so they let it end in a tie f
Continue » Posted Nov 11, 2005 3:59 pm PST
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