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Marsha, Queen of Diamonds (1)

Episode Number: 57    Season Num: 2    First Aired: November 23, 1966    Prod Code: 9727-Pt. 1
Chief O'Hara has been drugged into a love-slave of Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, allowing her to rob U. Magnum's of the famous Pretzel Diamond. Gordon puts through a call to The Dynamic Duo on The Red Phone to alert them of the chief's off-kilter behavior, sending them to Police HQ. Meanwhile, The Diamond Queen has O'hara phone Gordon, who rushes to Marsha's hideout to resuce the chief and apprehend the diamond diva, but, thanks to a dart fired from a statue of Daniel Cupid tipped with a love potion concocted by Marsha's Aunt Hilda (a winsome witch who was a chemistry professor at Vassar for 20 years before being thrown out for turning the entire student body orange for a week!), the commissioner is added to Marsha's unending list of love slaves. Under Marsha's spell, Gordon phones The Caped Crusader and lures him into a trap at her lair!

The Dynamic Duo speed to Marsha's love-nest/hideout, where the criminal Queen Of Diamonds shoots a love-potion-tipped arrow at Batman, but The Caped Crusader uses every fiber of his superior Bat-will to fight off the powerful drug. Enraged by this insufferable effrontery, Marsha orders The Grand Mogul her Guardians to destroy Batman and Robin and, in the fray, Robin is both drugged and captured. Marsha offers to trade the Boy Wonder for huge batdiamond that powers The Batcomputer in The Batcave. Batman demurs, saying that no stranger can enter the Batcave; Marsha bounds over this hurdle by offering Batman her hand in marriage. This way, she will no longer be a stranger, she will become Mrs. Batman!! The next time we see Batman, he walks down the aisle with Marsha toward the church altar!

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Writer: Stanford Sherman
Director: James B. Clark
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. O'Leary),  Estelle Winwood (Aunt Hilda),  Carolyn Jones (Marsha, Queen of Diamonds)
Guest Star: Ben Gage (Clerk),  Charles Stewart (Clergyman),  Joyce Nizarri (Girl),  Hugh Douglas (Announcer),  Woody Strode (Grand Mogul),  William McLennon (Victim #2),  Murray Pollack (Victim #3),  Rick DiSante (Victim #4),  Harry Stanton (Victim #1)

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This is the only episode with a cliffhanger where Batman doesn't face death. He instead faces a wedding. (edit)
This is one episode when Batman and Robin are already down in the batcave when Commissioner Gordon calls them instead of in Wayne Manor. (edit)
In this episode, it is revealed that Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara are both married while Alfred had never taken the plunge. (edit)
Carolyn Jones previously appeared in the 1953 movie House Of Wax with fellow Batman alumni Vincent Price who played Egghead.

She is best remembered as Morticia on The Addams Family which aired on ABC from 1964-66.

Another 2 castmembers of The Addams Family John Astin, who played Gomez, portrayed The Riddler in 2 episodes called Batman's Anniversary & A Riddling Controversy and Ted Cassidy who played Lurch & Thing makes a window cameo in The Penguin's Nest. (edit)

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Narrator: Watch out, Batman! The powers of darkness lurk in this room! (edit)

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