- 8.3/103 votes
#1 - Labyrinth
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1967
When David Vincent brings an injured alien into the doctor for treatment, the patient's x-rays reveal odd results. While David works to alert the authorities, the aliens conspire to destroy both evidence and witnesses.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Art Wallace
- 8.0/103 votes
#2 - The Minstrel's Shakedown
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/1966
The Minstrel, a villain with both musical talent and electronic ingenuity, is wrecking havoc with the Gotham City Exchange in an attempt to blackmail the exchange members. When he soon realizes Batman and Robin are equally skilled with electronics, he deems them a threat to his plan and sets a trap for their demise.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
- 8.0/102 votes
#3 - The Penguin's Nest
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 12/7/1966
Penguin has opened a fancy restaurant called The Penguin's Nest. There every order has to be written down by the customers on a piece of paper. He then plans to get himself arrested and hand over the handwritten notes to a forger doing time by the name of Ballpoint Baxter. Suspecting a scheme, Batman urges the police not to send The Penguin back to his permanent cell. Unable to reach Ballpoint, The Penguin and his culinary cohorts escape from jail, taking Chief O'Hara along as a hostage.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 7.5/102 votes
#4 - The Bird's Last Jest
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 12/8/1966
Attempting to save Chief O'Hara from drowning inside a metal trunk, Batman and Robin find themselves under fire from the Penguin's henchmen. Batman instructs Alfred to pose as famous forger Quill-Pen Quertch (complete with false fingerprints), but the Penguin recognizes Alfred as soon as he puts on his glasses. The evil Bird-man and his cronies then visit stately Wayne manor brandishing a giant Butler-pie.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 7.3/103 votes
#5 - Barbecued Batman?
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/1966
Failing to destroy Batman and Robin, the Minstrel enacts "Plan High C." He shakes the building of the Gotham City Exchange, and promises to send it crumbling down if his demands are not met in one hour. Batman assumes cutting off the building's power will thwart the villain, but when that plan fails, it's up to the Dynamic Duo to track down the Minstrel before it's too late.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
- 7.0/101 votes
#6 - Massacre
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1966
The guys arrive in South Dakota in June 24, 1876, near Little Bighorn. They are captured by Indians, although Doug manages to escape and make it to Custer's camp. Custer refuses to believe Doug's tale. Meanwhile, Tony has tried to warn Sitting Bull. The Indians prepare to burn Tony at the stake, but Sitting Bull intervenes, impressed by Tony's bravery. A trial-by-combat settles the matter when Tony wins against Yellow Elk but spares his life. Tony tries to convince Sitting Bull to approach Custer peacefully, much to the disgruntlement and skepticism of Crazy Horse. Sitting Bull lets Tony go to Custer's camp with a message of peace, but Custer refuses it and locks both travellers up. They manage to escape, and are forced to watch as history plays itself out and Custer and his men are massacred.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Carey Wilber
- 7.0/102 votes
#7 - Kitara (aka The Bigot)
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1971
John Darcy, codename 'Kitara', leads a liberation movement in the African country of Bocamo and has been inadvertently captured by the ruthless Colonel Kohler. Kohler plans to torture Kitara, who if he confesses his true identity will result in the destruction of the entire movement. Kohler is after a truckful of government gold bullion Kitara stole. Jim and Doug play agents while Barney is captured and gets the location of the bullion from Kitara and gets it to Jim. Doug warns Kohler about ""lamposa hycondra"", a disease that causes blacks to turn white. After Kohler takes a IMF-rigged shower he wakes up the next morning to find himself black! Dana as a reporter introduces Kohler to shopkeeper Paris, who has ""proof"" that Kohler's grandfather was black. Kohler goes on the run and Paris hides him out at the gold's location. The authorities find Kohler there and believe he is Kitara and have him arrested, then hand the gold over to Jim to deliver it to headquarters.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Mann Rubin
- 6.9/107 votes
#8 - The Joker Goes to School
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/1966
At Woodrow Roosevelt High School, a vending machine gives out money. Dick Grayson is there to witness it. Batman learns the vending machines are operated by a company bought by the Joker after being released from prison. The Joker and his gang are aided by Susie, a cheerleader at the school. In the course of their investigation, Batman and Robin are captured and placed in electric chairs. If a "one armed bandit" comes up the wrong way, they'll be electrocuted.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 6.9/107 votes
#9 - He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1966
A power failure prevents Batman and Robin from being electrocuted. Meanwhile, a recording Batman made confirms that cheerleader Susie is one of the Joker's confederates. Robin, in his Dick Grayson identity, attempts to infiltrate the gang. Meanwhile, the Joker's main plot is finally revealed. Members of the high school basketball team receive answers to final exams from the rigged vending machines. The Joker appears, claiming to be a concerned citizen. The team's starters will be suspended as the Joker bets big money on the team's next opponent. Batman, however, has other ideas.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 6.6/1028 votes
#10 - Requiem for Methuselah
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1969
The crew of the Enterprise encounter an immortal human in this science fiction variation on Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Jerome Bixby
- 6.5/102 votes
#11 - Fool's Gold
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1969
Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Ken Pettus
- 6.5/102 votes
#12 - The Party
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1971
Alexander Vanin, arrested and convicted for espionage, hid a list of agents operating in the U.S. His control, Mishenko of the EEPR, has been ordered to get the list but Vanin refuses to give in because then Mishenko would cut him loose. The IMF must get the list. Vanin hypnotized himself to forget the list's location and only his wife Olga can give the trigger command to let him remember. Jim gets Olga to the U.S. while Barney and the others clear out the EEPR Consulate with a bomb ruse and then take it over and stage a party where the reunited couple meet (while Mishenko waits across the street for Barney to defuse the bomb). The IMF fake partygoers sneak out and Mishenko shows up to find Vanin there. To prove his loyalty and that he didn't talk, Vanin has his wife give the trigger, unaware that the IMF are listening in and get to the bus where Vanin hid the list before Mishenko can.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Harold Livingston
- 6.0/102 votes
#13 - Time Bomb
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1969
The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Leigh Vance