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Spellbound

Episode Number: 10    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Saturday May 1, 1999    Prod Code: 09
A strangly clad man with a mesmerizing eyball prowls Gothham, altering people's perception of reality to make them commit crimes without knowing it.

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Writer: Robert Goodman
Director: Butch Lukic
Star: Lauren Tom (Dana Tan),  Teri Garr (Mary McGinnis),  Will Friedle (Terry McGinnis / Batman),  Ryan O'Donohue (Matt McGinnis),  Stockard Channing (Commissioner Barbara Gordon (1999-2000)),  Kevin Conroy (Bruce Wayne),  Yvette Lowenthal (Chelsea Cunningham)
Recurring Role: Seth Green (Nelson Nash)
Guest Star: Sam McMurray (Mr. Cunningham),  Dorian Harewood (Jim Tate),  Andrew Bowen (Rick),  Vernee Watson-Johnson (Lorraine Tate),  Richard Sanders (Mr. Deakins),  Omar Gooding (Jared),  Jon Cypher (Spellbinder)

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This episode, along with "Hooked Up" and "A Touch Of Curare" were released on VHS as Batman Beyond: Spellbound. It was later paired up with the VHS release of Batman Beyond: School Dayz (consisting of "The Winning Edge", "Golem" and "Dead Man's Hand") on DVD. (edit)
Spellbinder is introduced. (edit)

Quotes

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Bruce: Terry, listen to my voice. Whatever you're seeing, it isn't real.
(Spellbinder hits Batman with a branch)
Batman: That sure felt real. (edit)
Terry: Then Batman tied Doctor Billings up and disappeared.
Barbara: And you are Mr.Wayne's new assistant?
(Terry nods his head happily)
Barbara: Your father was Warren McGinnis?
(Terry nods his head seriously)
Barbara: Stay out of trouble, kid. (edit)
News Anchor: With this second report about a spellbinder hypnotizing citizens, the police have reopened the case involving Chelsea Cunningham.
Terry: Told you so.
Bruce: Umm hmm.... Now suit up and get out there. Find out who this Spellbinder is.
Terry: Actually, I was thinking of a different costume tonight. Hope you don't mind. (showing a tuxedo) Found this in the closet upstairs. Way retro. Who's DG? (edit)
Terry: I don't buy it. I mean Chelsea's flaky but she's not stupid! She's not going to make up some goofy guy with a mask and a magic eyeball. It's too crazy not to be true.
Bruce: Leave it alone. She's just a troubled kid lashing out to daddy. Nothing for you to get invoved with.
Terry: Guess you're the expert in troubled kids--you collect them, right? (edit)
(Commissioner Gordon and a policeman walk past them)
Terry: What's that about?
Jared: Got to be Chels. You didn't hear about her and her old man last night? She bugged and tossed some pricey statue of his into the river. (edit)

Trivia

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In the library scene, Bruce is on a ladder, two shelves from the top of the book wall. In the next shot, he is at least three shelves from the top. (edit)
Trivia: Terry borrows Dick Grayson's tux, as it's "way retro." Terry and Dick do look like they're about the same build - makes sense. (Of course, it does raise the question of how the lean Terry fits the Batsuit designed for the muscular Bruce). (edit)
Bruce is getting sloppy - at one point he pulls up the three victims. (At this point, it had been one student- Chelsea - and two parents of students). He shows pictures of Chelsea, who was ensorcelled, the curator, who was ensorcelled, and Jared, whose mother was ensorcelled. Why not a picture of Jared's mother? (edit)

Allusions

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Shop 'Til You Drop
In one of Terry's visions, he is on a game show called Supermarket Spree. This alludes to the extremely popular cable game show Shop 'Til You Drop (1991-2003). (edit)
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dregj
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Spellbound
"Fine example"
A man with poor taste in clothes and a shiney ball tempts young people into commiting crime
Continue » Posted Apr 23, 2007 7:15 am PST
8.2
Great
Spellbound
"Filler episode"
people are entranced to commit crimes while under the control of new villan appropiately named spellbound. it's up to Terry to unmasked him and put an end to his crime spree
Continue » Posted Jul 22, 2005 11:15 am PST
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