After giving a stirring speech at the graduation class of Aaron Burr High School, Robin is sidetracked by Pussycat and cat-scratched with the drug Cataphrenia, which turns him into a criminal that obeys Catwoman's commands. After roughing up Chief O'Hara, The ex-Boy Wonder departs as a new member of The Catwoman's covey! O'Hara quickly alerts Commissioner Gordon who alerts Batman...but meanwhile, with Robin's help, Catwoman steals $200,000 from Wayne Manor - her first step toward raising the million dollars she needs to purchase the plans to The Gotham City Mint. Aware that the police are hot on her trail, The Catwoman threatens to kill The Boy Wonder should the law try to intervene. Consequently, Batman must act on his own. Mayor Linseed is desperate.
After Catwoman succeeds in perpetrating two more heists, Batman divines that her next job will be at Prince Ibn Kereb of Gedalia's weighing-in ceremony, where the Prince equals his weight in greenbacks. Batman arrived to do battle with Catmen Spade, Marlowe and Templar, but he finds that he must now deal with the drugged Robin, whom Catwoman sics on "the blue dragon". Batman allows the boy to rough him up and crash a chair over him. When the Caped Crusader tails the gang to Catlair West, and finds Robin all tied up, he thinks he has played possum and rushes over to free him, but when he does, he finds that Robin has played possum...just not in the way that Batman believes, though, and he is caught in a Cattrap. Batman finds himself dangling mere feet above certain death, tied to a giant mousetrap that will spring shut just as soon as The Boy Wonder finishes sawing away at the rope...unless Batman accepts Catwoman's offer to join her side and be subjected to the Cataphrenia.
Though Robin spent most of the two episodes under the control of Catwoman, she never considered learning his or Batman's true identity during this time.
It is mentioned that if you cross the Gotham River, you wind up in New Guernsey. Across the Hudson River in New York, you're in New Jersey. Jersey and Guernsey are both Channel Islands, British territory next to France.
Narrator: Holy Bat-Trap! What a decision! A life of crime or no life at all!! There's no way out! Or is there?? Tune in next week for the shocking answer!! Same Cat-Time!! Same Cat-Channel!!!
Batman: Catwoman, I find you to be odious, abhorrent and insegrievious.
Catwoman: Dealing with you has expanded my vocabulary and increased my word power. A whole lot.
The song Pussycat sings, California Nights was actually sung by Lesley Gore in 1967.
J. Pat O'Malley was a voice actor for several Disney films such as 101 Dalmations, Mary Poppins, Alice In Wonderland, Son of Flubber and The Jungle Book.
This is Julie Newmar's 9th appearance as Catwoman. She was previously seen in Season 1 episodes The Purr-Fect Crime & Better Luck Next Time and in season 2; Hot Off the Griddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cat's Meow, The Bat's Kow Tow, The Sandman Cometh & The Catwoman Goeth.
George Sawaya played Quetch in the 1966 Batman: The Movie.
Singer Leslie Gore, who had hits with It's My Party & Judy's Turn to Cry, is the niece of Batman producer Howie Horwitz.
Robin gives a speech at the Aaron Burr High School. It is an unusual name for a high school but not chosen without reason. Aaron Burr, the third U.S. Vice President, became the center of controversy when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was later charged with treason. In this episode Robin seems to turn on Batman, in effect becoming a traitor.
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