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Penguin Is a Girl's Best Friend (1)Episode Number: 76 Season Num: 2 First Aired: January 26, 1967 Prod Code: 9741-Pt. 1 |
The Dynamic Duo foil a holdup of a nearby bank---unbeknownst to them it was actually a holdup scene being shot by Penguin for his new motion picture (his production company is, natch, Penguin Productions, Inc.!), which they accidentally interrupted! Batman and Robin are forced into signing a contract to appear in the film! The Batman arranges for Aunt Harriet's Film Decency League to raid the scene in which The Queen Of Diamonds, Marsha, was supposed to take a milk bath in the nude. So Penguin tries to teach The Cowled Crimefighter a lesson by setting up a love scene between Batman and Marsha so that he can film 100 takes of the duet smooching--on purpose!
Whilst Marsha and her Aunt Hilda go off to Gotham's Central Park in search of old toads for one of Hilda's love potions, Penguin moves his movie company to The Museum Of Antiquities, where his cronies snatch an entire collection of priceless 15th-century chaimnail armor. Penguin discover's Batman's on to his scheme, and he calls for a staged fight which is actually for real! He then places The Duo onto a giant catapult, where he straps cameras to their legs, intending to film them a they are prepared to be launched across Gotham City!
| 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: | Estelle Winwood (Aunt Hilda), Milton Stark (Mr. Tambor), Don Hannum (1st Guard), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Carolyn Jones (Marsha, Queen Of Diamonds) |
| Guest Star: | Bob Hastings (Major Beasley), Alan Reed Jr (General MacGruder), Kimberly Allen (Miss Patterson), Frank Baron (Henchman #1), Ted Fish (Truckdriver), Frank Conte (Henchman #2), Andy Romano (2nd Guard), Brad Logan (Workman) |
Repeated on ABC June 29, 1967.
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This particular episode breaks tradition on the series of the teaser sequence of Part I forever ending with Bruce and Dick sliding down The Batpoles, in an attempt on the producers' part to keep the proceedings from getting...well, too predictable.
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The reference to the nude milk bath scene is a not-so-subtle jab at the big-budget money-losing movie Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Taylor's milk bath scene raised similar complaints.
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Several shots of the Batman set and crew can be found sprinkled throughout "Penguin Is A Girl's Best Friend."
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This is the second 3-part episode of Batman, as well as Carolyn Jones' second and final appearance as Marsha, Queen of Diamonds.
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