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True or False-FaceEpisode Number: 17 Season Num: 1 First Aired: March 9, 1966 Prod Code: n/a |
The wily master of disguise, False-Face, steals The Mergenberg Crown by masquerading as the Queen's escort, and replaces it with a false one right under the watchful eyes of the police. Included with the paste crown is an obscure clue revealing to Batman and Robin that False-Face's next crime will be the hijacking of an armored car. They catch him red-handed at the Gotham City Bank, but he escapes in his Trick-Truck. The Dynamic Duo spirit False Face to an alley, where his flunkies give battle. The police arrive in time to apprehend the gang, but False-Face disguises himself as Police Chief O'Hara and escapes.
Suspecting a counterfeit money scheme is in the works, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder rush to the bank note printer's office and capture False-Face's slinky assistant, Blaze, who is attempting to make off with a load of money paper. At Police Headquarters Blaze is interrogated, with the fake O'Hara taking part. She is torn between infatuation with Batman and her loyalty to False-Face, but finally she agrees to lead the Caped Crusader to the criminal's hideout...but it's a ruse! False-Face, disguised as a gumball machine, gasses Batman while Blaze clonks Robin over the head. The Dynamic Duo are glued to the subway rail tracks by a super-strong epoxy, as a train hurtles toward them and will momentarily trisect them!
Suspecting a counterfeit money scheme is in the works, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder rush to the bank note printer's office and capture False-Face's slinky assistant, Blaze, who is attempting to make off with a load of money paper. At Police Headquarters Blaze is interrogated, with the fake O'Hara taking part. She is torn between infatuation with Batman and her loyalty to False-Face, but finally she agrees to lead the Caped Crusader to the criminal's hideout...but it's a ruse! False-Face, disguised as a gumball machine, gasses Batman while Blaze clonks Robin over the head. The Dynamic Duo are glued to the subway rail tracks by a super-strong epoxy, as a train hurtles toward them and will momentarily trisect them!
| Writer: | Stephen Kandel |
| Director: | William Graham |
| Star: | Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]), Neil Hamilton (I) (Commissioner James W. Gordon), 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) |
| Recurring Role: | David Lewis (Warden Crichton), Byron Keith (Mayor Lindseed) |
| Guest Star: | Malachi Throne (False-Face), Gary Owens (TV Announcer), Joe Brooks (Brinks), Billy Curtis (Burns (midget)), Myrna Fahey (Blaze), Chuck Fox (Pinkerton), Michael Fox (Leo Gore), Holly Bane (Cowboy), S. John Launer (George W. Ladd), Patrick Whyte (Curator) |
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False-Face was a more substitute version of Two-Face, who Bat-creator Bob Kane patterned after the 1926 horror film The Phantom Of The Opera starring Lon Chaney. Two-Face's name was Harvey Kent, but changed to Dent. Two-Face wouldn't be back until the early 1970s because of a 1954 book written by Dr. Fredric Wertham called "Seduction of the Innocent", Wertham also thought that Batman & Robin were homosexuals (because of his own homophobia he decided to take it out on The Caped Crusaders) but there was no proof,that's why from 1955 to today reader would see a comics code in every issue.
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Billy Curtis, one of the most famous "little people" in Hollywood, is best known as The Mayor Of Munchkinland in the MGM 1939 classic movie The Wizard Of Oz.
(edit) Although Finger's original creation hasn't reappeared in recent times, the animated Batman Beyond series revived the idea of a villain named Falseface for an episode called Plague.
Malachi Throne did not voice the character but another character, Fingers, in 11 episodes later called Speak No Evil.
(edit) Malachi Throne's real face is briefly seen when he is "disguised" as the armored car guard, although he's wearing a presumably fake mustache.
(edit) The late Bill Finger created False Face in Batman #113 (February 1958); this episode was based on a June 1958 comic book story featuring The Protean Plunderer. (edit)
(edit) Although Finger's original creation hasn't reappeared in recent times, the animated Batman Beyond series revived the idea of a villain named Falseface for an episode called Plague.
Malachi Throne did not voice the character but another character, Fingers, in 11 episodes later called Speak No Evil.
(edit) Malachi Throne's real face is briefly seen when he is "disguised" as the armored car guard, although he's wearing a presumably fake mustache.
(edit) The late Bill Finger created False Face in Batman #113 (February 1958); this episode was based on a June 1958 comic book story featuring The Protean Plunderer. (edit)
FalseFace: The Express will be through here inside of five minutes, Batman. Inside of six, no more Batman!
Robin: Fiend!
Batman: FalseFace, you'll regret this! Eventually. (edit)
Robin: Fiend!
Batman: FalseFace, you'll regret this! Eventually. (edit)
Stafford Repp, despite the fact that Chief O'Hara is supposed to be unconscious, is rather noticeably walking himself into the Trick-Truck.
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Rather foolishly, Falseface straps Batman and Robin to two separate sets of parallel tracks. The passing subway car would kill one of them, but not both.
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