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Holy Rat Race

Episode Number: 18    Season Num: 1    First Aired: March 10, 1966    Prod Code: n/a
As the train barrels towards our heroes, Alfred hears a strange transmission on the radio that alerts him to the Dynamic Duo's peril. He contacts Batman who requests that Alfred throw the short-circuit lever of thhe Battransmitter, causing Batman's radio to blow up and melt the epoxy on his wrist. He uses his free hand to reach The Batlaser in his utility belt, which he uses to melt away the remaining epoxy and free himself and Robin just as the train passes through the station and by our heroes! Batman and Robin return to Gordon's office at Police HQ and deduce that False-Face will attempt a bank robbery in which real money will be replaced with his own fake bills, so that the only money that will be any good will be False-Face's ill-gotten gains. (After all, who would think of telling the real tender from the fake?)
The two heroes secret themselves in the bank vault, surprising the villains. False-Face and Blaze escape in the disguised Trick-Truck but are pursued by The Dynamic Duo to Bioscope Movie Studios. False-Face, discovering Blaze's crush on Batman (she was the one who sent the radio message earlier), holds her hostage and lots of mayhem ensues in and around the matchstick movie sets. False-Face blows up Batman's clever inflatable Batmobile as the chase through the movie sets continues, ending with False-Face disguising himself as a cowboy to slug it out with Batman. One last diversionary smoke screen and out pops Commissioner Gordon — a fake Commissioner Gordon. Batman sees through the disguise and rips off this last false face, and takes the protean criminal off to jail. Blaze reforms and goes off to become a shepherdess with her brother.
NEXT WEEK: Batman faces The Catwoman!

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Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: William Graham
Star: Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]),  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)
Recurring Role: David Lewis (Warden Crichton),  Byron Keith (Mayor Lindseed)
Guest Star: Gary Owens (TV Announcer),  Joe Brooks (Brinks),  Billy Curtis (Burns (midget)),  Myrna Fahey (Blaze),  Chuck Fox (Pinkerton),  Michael Fox (Leo Gore),  S. John Launer (George W. Ladd),  Holly Bane (Cowboy),  Malachi Throne (False-Face),  Patrick Whyte (Curator)

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At the end of this episode, in the living room of Wayne Manor, there is a meeting of two cast members from Elvis Presley's movie Loving You. Myrna Fahey was the 3rd girl and Madge Blake was the Hired Agitator.
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The late Myrna Fahey, a runner-up in both the 1952 Miss Maine beauty pageant and the 1956 "Miss Rheingold" (the beer company) beauty contest, played Kay Banks Dunston on the 1961-62 short-lived sitcom Father Of The Bride.
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During the scene at The Bioscope Movie studios in which Chief O'Hara drives up to The False Inflatable Batmobile, look carefully in the rearview mirror. You can see cameraman Howard Schwartz in the car's back seat! (edit)
Malachi Throne provided the voice of The Judge in the October 31, 1998 epiosde Judgement Day in the Batman Gotham Knights.

He is best known to Trekkies as Commodore Jose Mendez in Star Trek episodes The Menagerie pt 1 and 2 and as Senator Pardek in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes called Unification pt 1 & 2.
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When the "quick-drying" epoxy glue is blown off of Batman's left wrist, you can tell it is merely a rather flimsy saran wrap which isn't solid or even liquid at all. (edit)

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