8.0/104 votes#1 - Death in Slow Motion
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/27/1966
Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Kops raid the till at the newly opened Gotham movie theater. The culprits turn out to be 'The Riddler' and his gang in disguise. They lead the Dynamic Duo on a crime spree chase from Mother Gatham's Bakery, past the Gotham Library, and into a Temperance Party. At each of these events, the villains are accompanied by German film maker Van Bloheim who captures everything on celluloid.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Richard Carr
7.7/103 votes#2 - The Riddler's False Notion
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/28/1966
Robin has been captured by 'The Riddler', leaving Batman fearing his own reaction. Therefore he asks Commissioner Gordon to accompany him to the Bat-cave to witness his interrogation of Pauline, The Riddler's moll. All clues eventually lead back to the priceless silent film collection of Mr. Van Jones, to which The Riddler is about to add his own silent masterpiece.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Richard Carr
7.5/103 votes#3 - Odds on Evil
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1966
Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work: IMFer Andre (pretending to be Cinammon's husband) breaks the bank at roulette thanks to a not-so-portable computer worn by Willie underneath his tux. Andre then loses the money to Rollin as another gambler. Kostas tries to get the money back by playing against Rollin and cheating by using marked cards and tinted contact lens. However, Rollin has a similar pair of lens and also deals bad hands to Kostas. Finally Kostas antes up the 1.5 million in war funds, thinking he can't lose. Rollins tricks him, and the team must make a desperate escape.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Allan Balter
7.5/104 votes#4 - The Curse of Tut
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/13/1966
A former academic who thinks he is really King Tut has returned. Batman and Robin seek his capture. A twist occurs, however, when King Tut's gang kidnaps Bruce Wayne. They are taking the millionaire in an ambulance. As Bruce tries to get free, the rear doors of the ambulance open and Bruce rides a cart toward a cliff.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.5/104 votes#5 - The Pharaoh's in a Rut
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/14/1966
Bruce frees himself just before the cart he is riding goes over a cliff. As Batman, he works to bring King Tut to justice. But the hero is captured by King Tut instead. Batman is then tortured as King Tut drops a pebble on his head at a time. Robin works to track Batman in time.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.2/104 votes#6 - Old Man Out (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1966
Rollin manages to avoid the guards and escape, but Vossek is moved to a new cell in solitary confinement. Briggs comes up with a new plan and manages to relay it to the imprisoned Rollin. They manage to do so, and manage to rescue Vossek from the prison. With Barney providing distraction as a clown, the team manages to get Vossek over the border before Vossek's captors can catch up to them.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Ellis Marcus
7.0/101 votes#7 - Scourge of the West
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1965
Private Wilton Parmenter gets promoted after leading a charge against the Confederates and receives an assignment as Fort Courage's new commanding officer.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
7.0/101 votes#8 - Don't Look Now, One of Our Cannon Is Missing
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1965
O'Rourke plots to retrieve the cannon he loaned to the Hekawis for use in a festival.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#9 - Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965
Agarn believes he is dying after his medical report is mixed up with that of his horse.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#10 - The Girl From Philadelphia
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1965
Wilton's old girlfriend comes to vie for his affection and to persuade him to return to the East.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#11 - Old Iron Pants
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965
O'Rourke Enterprise's tries mail order brides while Parmenter is away at command school.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#12 - Me Heap Big Injun
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1965
Agarn leaves the troop to become an Indian, and turns out to be a better Indian than the entire Hekawi tribe.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#13 - A Gift From the Chief
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1965
Parmenter accidentally saves Wild Eagle's life, and receives a baby as a reward.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Hal Goldman
7.0/104 votes#14 - Memory
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1966
The IMF must undermine ""the Butcher of the Balkans"", Janos Karq, by having his head of security capture an agent, Sparrow, who will then incriminate Karq. To pull off the ruse, they need a memory expert, Baresh, who can memorize the necessary information in the short time allowed and pretend to be Sparrow. Baresh will later be traded back. However, during a faked ""rescue"" to make Sparrow look more convincing, Baresh gets a look at Soska's master list of agents, and the team must rescue him from the prison immediately to get the information.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Robert Lewin
7.0/104 votes#15 - Old Man Out (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1966
The IMF team goes in as a circus team to rescue Anton Cardinal Vossek, who is being held in the impregnable Seravno Prison. Vossek is the leader of the country's freedom movement, in rebellion against Colonel Scutari, and is awaiting a fake trial before execution. With the aid of circus acrobat Crystal Walker, the team must get Vossek out. To do so, Rollin fakes being a pickpocket so as to be arrested. Once inside Servano, he has to sneak through the prison and get Vossek out of his cell as a test run for the next day...only for the guards to interrupt at an inopportune moment.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Ellis Marcus
6.0/101 votes#16 - She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1965
Dobbs' mother is coming but everyone thinks it is Laura Lee, a dance hall singer to entertain the men.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Larry Markes
6.0/101 votes#17 - Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/1976
The Amazon Princess must fight a Nazi gorilla named Gargantua, trained to retrieve a defecting agent, whose knowledge poses a threat to Hitler's agenda.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: David Ketchum
5.0/101 votes#18 - The Psychic
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/22/1967
An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of manufacturer of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded to South America to sell them to an enemy powers. The IMF needs to recover the stock documents worth $80 mil. Cinnamon gets close to Lowell as a psychic who manages to prove herself accurate with her predictions thanks to IMF assistance. She then "predicts" that Rollin (as a gangster) will play against him, try to cheat, and lose. Lowell finds the fake cards that the IMF has planted. He goes through with the game, intending on cheating Rollin. He succeeds, but as Rollin is tossed out he secretly switches the stock documents with phonies thanks to a automated feeder arm, leaving Lowell with nothing but an unendorsed check for $80 milliion.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Allan Balter
5.0/102 votes#19 - The Missile (aka Torpedo)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1971
James Read, an enemy agent, is posing as an analyst to get to a top-secret U.S. missile guidance system being tested and steal the plans - the IMF must have him take back fake plans and unwittingly pass on the incorrect information to his superiors. Dana takes the place of Read's contact and he and fake boss Jim fake a romantic relationship so Read can get blackmail photos and use them to turn over the system. Read tells Dana of his plan to kill Jim, but before she can warn Jim, Dana is kidnapped by Hecker, a psychopath who believes Dana is a former girlfriend he killed. After Willy saves Barney from a firetrap meant for Jim, Paris and Barney manage to rescue Dana and alert Jim just in time to avoid a rigged car, convincing Read he's in the clear with the guidance system.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Arthur Weiss
0.5/101 votes#20 - The Case of the Fatal Fetish
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1965
Burger tries to head off trouble when his young assistant falls for an unscrupulous woman.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Samuel Newman
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"Death in Slow Motion" is the best rated episode directed by Charles R. Rondeau. It scored 8/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by Richard Carr. It aired on 4/27/1966 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Riddler's False Notion".