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Rats Like Cheese

Episode Number: 8    Season Num: 1    First Aired: February 3, 1966    Prod Code: n/a
A very frigid Batman and Robin are immediately rushed to Gotham City Hospital where they are thawed out with the help of the miraculous Super-Hypotherm-De-Icifier Chamber Mark VII, which reverses the freezing process. Freeze, meanwhile, has captured Paul Diamante (Spanish for "diamond"), the star pitcher of The Gotham City Eagles baseball team, just before the big game. Immediately upon learning of The Caped Crusader's surviving his freeze gun, Freeze offers to exchange Diamante for Batman. The hostage exchange happens via helicopter at the ballpark, where Batman is knocked unconscious and spirited away by helicopter.
Robin, ordered by Batman not to interfere, has planted a homing device on the senior crime-fighter and follows him to the Freeze hideout but is captured by his men. There, after dinner, Freeze demonstrates the pinpoint control of his house-freezing system: he slowly changes the temperature of his hideout so The Duo will be frozen to death. He isolates Robin in a small spot of warmth and begins to deep-freeze Batman. Luckily, Batman has remembered to wear his super-thermo-B-long underwear, preventing him from the extreme cold long enough to sock Mr. Freeze in the jaw and reverse the temperature controls. The tables are turned, Freeze and his men are put on ice, and justice prevails once more! Later, at a private party in Wayne Manor, Bruce and Dick are too eager to turn down a helping of baked Alaska, which was earlier on served to them (as the Dynamic Duo) in Freeze's hideout!

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Writer: Max Hodge
Director: Robert Butler
Star: Adam West (Bruce N. Wayne/Batman),  William Dozier (Narrator),  Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]),  Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth),  Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara),  Burt Ward (Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin: The Boy Wonder),  Neil Hamilton (I) (Commissioner James W. Gordon)
Recurring Role: Don Hannum (Art Rogers)
Guest Star: Roy Sickner (Mo),  Robert Hogan (Paul Diamante),  William O'Connell (Mr. Perkins),  John Zaremba (Kolevator/Butler),  Ken Del Conte (Al Scott),  Dan Terranova (Dr. Vince),  John Willis (Newscaster),  Bill Hudson (Photographer),  Guy Way (Nippy),  Troy Melton (Chill),  Shelby Grant (Princess Sandra),  George Sanders (Mr. Freeze),  Teri Garr (Girl)

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Although his real name in the comics is Victor Fries, on the TV show it was Dr. Shimmel. (edit)
This is the final appearance of George Sanders as Mr. Freeze. (edit)
George Sanders at one time was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, who would later play the villainess Minerva in the final episode Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires. (edit)
Dr. Vince is an obvious spoof on the 1961-66 ABC medical drama Ben Casey. (edit)

Quotes

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Batman: Mr. Freeze. Give yourself up. We can get help for you. Medical help!
Mr. Freeze: In prison? This I do not believe. No, you must pay for what you did to me. For forcing me to live like this. Never again to know the warmth of a summer breeze. Never to feel the heat of burning logs in vintertime. Revenge. That is what I need! Revenge! I will have revenge!
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This episode features one of the scant few times that Robin actually disobeys an order from Batman. (edit)
Despite the fact that no one but Mr. Freeze can survive in the extreme cold of his hideout, his Butler seems to have managed it when he handed Freeze his sherry, as his hand can clearly been seen placing the glass down outside of the warm red area. (edit)

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