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Episode Summary
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!moreless
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!moreless
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Madge Blake
Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]
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William Dozier
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Adam West
Bruce N. Wayne/Batman
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ADD TRIVIA- Part of the episode was actually filmed on the Mayberry exterior for The Andy Griffith Show at Desilu Studios. Edit
- Stafford Repp, despite the fact that Chief O'Hara is supposed to be unconscious, is rather noticeably walking himself into the Trick-Truck. Edit
- 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. Edit
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Notes
ADD NOTES- In the opening credits of this episode and the second and in the closing credits of this episode the Special guest Villain was billed as ??? as Falseface. It was only in the ending credits of the second episode that Malachi Thorne was credited. Edit
- False-Face was a substitute version of Two-Face, who first appeared in Detective Comics #66 (August 1942) and was patterned by both Batman creator Bob Kane and Batman uncredited co-creator Bill Finger after the 1931 horror film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring Fredric March. Two-Face's original name was Harvey Kent but was changed to Harvey Dent to stop confusion with Clark Kent (i.e. Superman). Two-Face wouldn't be back until the early 1970s in part due to the 1954 book written by Dr. Fredric Wertham entitled Seduction of the Innocent. Wertham also thought that Batman and Robin were homosexuals. Probably because of his own homophobia, he decided to take it out on The Caped Crusaders, but there was no proof of Wertham's accusation. The Comics Code Authority (starting in 1954), though no longer strictly enforced, is a legacy of Wertham's crusade. Edit
- 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
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Quotes
ADD QUOTES- Narrator: Disaster threatens. Bashed by BMT? Will the Dynamic Duo dice with death and descend to defeat? Can Batman and Robin break the unbreakable, slip out of the chemical clutches, escape the epoxy? Keep your Batwings crossed until tomorrow. Same Time - Same Channel - Same Perilous Predicament! 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
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