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Hot Off the Griddle (1)

Episode Number: 37    Season Num: 2    First Aired: September 14, 1966    Prod Code: 9703-Pt. 1
Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara and The Dynamic Duo suspect — strongly — that The Catwoman has returned to open a school for cat burglars, and she tips them off to her presence after her Catmen John, Charles, and Thomas snatch a catalogue, a catamaran, and three mittens (rhymes with "kittens," who lost their "mittens"...whew!) The Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum, in order to snare the lovely cat. However, Jack is secretly in league with Catwoman, and he tips her off. Consequently, Batman and Robin are ambushed at their Museum stakeout by the cat burglars, paralyzed by Catwoman's tranquilizer darts, and thrown out the window. They are saved from certain doom by a safety net, which they set up just in case the bird was dropped out the window.

The Dynamic Duo manage to capture one of Catwoman's thugs, who, along with a new single called "The Catusi" by Benedict Arnold & The Traitors (oh, brother!), leads them to a nightclub called The Pink Sand Box, which is Catwoman's new hideout (kitty litter!). There they are quickly deposited by a revolving booth into a room with a metal floor. This floor turns red-hot, forcing our heroes to dance the hot-foot! Hoping to cool the floor, The Caped Crusader bursts an overhead water pipe--only to unwittingly release Catatonic, a gas which reders him and The Boy Wonder unconscious. They recover outside, strapped to aluminum grills, their bodies greased with margarine and two giant magnifying glasses poised directly over them, with the intent of roasting them alive in the midday sun!

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Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
Director: Don Weis
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 Brolin (Ralph Staphylococcus),  Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Guest Star: Edy Williams (Hostess),  George N. Neise (Cramer),  David Fresco (Zubin Zuccini),  Jack Kelly (Jack O'Shea),  Buck Kartalian (John),  Charles Horvath (Thomas),  George Barrows (Charles)

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James Brolin made the first of 3 Batman appearances in these episodes before moving on to star in the ABC Primetime dramas Marcus Welby, M.D. and Hotel. Brolin was roomate to the show's casting director, Michael McLean, which accounts for his appearances on Batman. (edit)
Buck Kartalian (John) later played The Werewolf in the TV series The Monster Squad. (edit)
George Barrows is best known for his title role of Ro-Man/Great Guidance in the 1953 scifi thriller Robot Monster and playing gorillas in various other pictures. (edit)
We learn here that Alfred Pennyworth sustained a back injury in the last war, porbably an excuse made up in order to not have to Catusi with Aunt Harriet. (edit)

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Gordon: I have grown to realize that there are two basics in life we can be sure of.
O'Hara: Death and taxes, sir?
Gordon: Batman and Robin.
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Catwoman: I'm not just pussyfooting around this time, Batman! (edit)

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