9.0/102 votesLoading...#1 - Flop Goes the Joker
Season 2 Episode 58 - Aired 3/23/1967
The Joker persuades wealthy heiress Baby Jane Towser to join him in his artistic capers. Aided by his new accomplice, the Joker easily clears out a wing of the Gotham City Museum to make room for his latest "masterpiece" - pieces of a broken table. But the laughing criminal has plans for the priceless collection of paintings that once filled the room.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Stanford Sherman
8.4/10472 votesLoading...#2 - That Darn Catwoman
Season 2 Episode 40 - Aired 1/19/1967
The Catwoman manages to drug Robin. The junior member of the Dynamic Duo is now the Catwoman's mindless slave. Batman is on the trail of the sultry villain, but he's hampered by the fact he can't harm his partner. Eventually, Batman is trapped by the Catwoman. He's in a giant trap and Robin is cutting the rope that will cause a giant mouse trap to snap on Batman. The Catwoman offers Batman a choice -- die by Robin's hand or agree to be subjected to the same drug.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.4/10438 votesLoading...#3 - Scat! Darn Catwoman
Season 2 Episode 41 - Aired 1/25/1967
Batman agrees to let the Catwoman drug him. But he appears to have a headache and the Catwoman permits him to take an aspirin. After the drug is administered, Batman appears to assist Catwoman on her crime wave. However, the police receive anonymous telephone calls that enable them to pick up members of Catwoman's gang, including the drugged Robin. Meanwhile, the Gotham City police try to trace the hot line to the Batcave. Batman is there with Catwoman. He uses a device that foils the trace. Eventually, Batman reveals he hadn't taken an aspirin but his universal drug antidote that prevented the drug from working. Catwoman tries to flee on top of a warehouse near the Gotham River. Batman is in pursuit and corners her. But, unwilling to go straight, she falls into the river. Has she lost her life, or just one of her nine lives?
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.1/10629 votesLoading...#4 - The Purr-Fect Crime
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1966
Catwoman initiates a series of thefts that cause Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman and Robin. But the importance of the crimes go beyond the taking of the objects involved. The Dynamic Duo eventually find Catwoman's lair. But Robin is whisked away while Batman is given a choice between two doors. If he picks the right door, he'll find Catwoman. If he picks the wrong one, he'll face certain doom. The hero makes the wrong selection and is about to be attacked by a tiger.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.1/10412 votesLoading...#5 - The Cat's Meow
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 12/14/1966
The Catwoman "steals" the voice of a television talk-show host in the middle of an interview with Bruce Wayne. She plants clues to suggest either the Joker, Riddler or Penguin may have committed the crime. In the meantime, she has fooled Commissioner Gordon into thinking she has gone straight. She makes her first mistake when she masquerades as Miss Klutz, a dance instructor visiting Wayne Manor. Allergic to dogwood, she sneezes and gives herself away. Her next target is to "steal" the voices of British singers Chad and Jeremy. Batman and Robin eventually track her to a dance studio, where a fight erupts. After it appears the Dynamic Duo has triumphed over Catwoman's forces, she drugs them. The heroes are placed inside a chamber where the sounds of water dripping will be magnified many, many times and drive them insane.
Director: James B. Clark
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.1/10376 votesLoading...#6 - Batman Displays His Knowledge
Season 2 Episode 50 - Aired 2/23/1967
Catwoman goes ahead with her scheme to steal several Batagonian Cat's Eye opals, but she has trouble finding someone to fence them since such rare stones would be easily spotted. With little recourse left, she decides to turn them in for the reward money. It seems like the perfect job for her acquaintance, Freddy the Fence. But when he notices that the gems are fakes, Catwoman realizes she has been tricked by Batman and vows to get revenge on the Caped Crusader once and for all.
Director: Robert Sparr
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.0/10590 votesLoading...#7 - Better Luck Next Time
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/17/1966
Batman evades the attacking tiger thanks to his utility belt. First, he scales the wall. Then, he uses a sonic device "to split the tiger's skull," as narrator William Dozier informs us. The hero still has to free Robin, who is facing a separate death trap. Once that task is completed, the Dynamic Duo are back on Catwoman's trail. It turns out the feline villain is after the lost treasure of Captain Manx, which is in a remote spot outside of Gotham City.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.0/10440 votesLoading...#8 - An Egg Grows in Gotham
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/19/1966
Egghead steals the Gotham City charter. He finds a loophole that could give him control of Gotham City if descendants of the original founding families (including Bruce Wayne) do not pay nine raccoon pelts to Chief Screaming Chicken on time. Not only is he interested in stopping the payment, but Egghead believes he also has a lead on Batman's true identity.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.0/10420 votesLoading...#9 - The Yegg Foes in Gotham
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/20/1966
When the lease payment for Gotham City fails to be made on time, possession of the city falls into the hands of Egghead. Chaos ensues as the villain fires Commissioner Gordon and bans the Dynamic Duo from city limits. While the criminal underworld enjoys free reign, Batman and Robin search the city charter's fine print for a solution.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.0/10425 votesLoading...#10 - Hizzonner the Penguin
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/2/1966
The Penguin appears to have gone straight. (Evidently the citizens of Gotham City have short memories; he tried the same trick in season one.) Not only that, he has emerged as the leading contender for mayor of Gotham City, thanks to a little-known provision of the city charter that permits felons to run for elective office. Mayor Linseed, facing almost certain defeat, convinces Batman to run for mayor. This displeases the Penguin, who doesn't want to leave anything to chance. He lures Batman and Robin into a trap and, by episode's end, things don't look good for the Dynamic Duo.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stanford Sherman
8.0/10410 votesLoading...#11 - The Bat's Kow Tow
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 12/15/1966
Batman and Robin escape Catwoman's trap by hitting the precise note needed to shatter the glass chamber in which they're prisoners. They quickly get on the trail of Catwoman. The feminine feline criminal eventually "steals" the voices of Chad and Jeremy, Commissioner Gordon and talk-show host Allen Stephens. She blackmails the British government, which faces the lost of revenue from the taxes on Chad and Jeremy's performances. Batman and Robin eventually capture Catwoman and her gang, but not before Batman and Catwoman express obvious affection for each other.
Director: James B. Clark
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
8.0/10390 votesLoading...#12 - The Zodiac Crimes
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 1/11/1967
The Joker and the Penguin team up on a crime wave based on signs of the zodiac. The pair, aided and abetted by a woman known as Venus, keep Batman and Robin on the run. The Dynamic Duo manage to capture the Penguin but the Joker remains on the loose. Batman and Robin figure the Joker's next caper will take place at a museum and lay a trap. But the heroes are captured instead. Now, Batman and Robin face almost certain death; the heroes are to be crushed beneath a giant asteroid on display at the museum.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stephen Kandel, Stanford Sherman
8.0/10371 votesLoading...#13 - The Penguin Declines
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 1/18/1967
Batman, summoning all the strength he can muster, breaks his chains and frees Robin from the giant clam. The heroes arrange for the Joker's former confederate, Venus, to stay at an apartment while they figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, the Joker has freed the Penguin from Gotham State Prison to continue their crime wave. The Joker tricks Venus into asking Batman to take her to the Batcave. The Dynamic Duo take her to their base of operations (but only after making her fall asleep first). When they arrive, the Joker, Penguin and assorted thugs are revealed to be hiding in the Batmobile's trunk. Batman, however, anticipated this and none of the criminals know where the Batcave is. A figure erupts, with Batman and Robin finally ending the zodiac crimes.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stephen Kandel, Stanford Sherman
8.0/10359 votesLoading...#14 - The Joker's Last Laugh
Season 2 Episode 47 - Aired 2/15/1967
Counterfeit money is being distributed by respectable citizens in Gotham City. Batman and Robin investigate, and find one of the Joker's lifelike robots substituting for a bank teller. They are certain who is behind the crime. But to get actual proof, Batman plans to visit the villain as Bruce Wayne and trick him into disclosing his operation. When his scheme suddenly backfires, it appears he will instead have to appoint the Joker as Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.9/10508 votesLoading...#15 - The Bookworm Turns
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/20/1966
Commissioner Gordon appears to have been assassinated during the opening of a new bridge. A copy of Hemingway's 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' nearly blows up the Batmobile. Both incidents are clues to the Bookworm's latest scheme. Batman and Robin interrogate The Bookworm's henchwoman Miss Limpet but deduce she is leading them into a trap. And while Batman intends to walk right into it, it is Robin who falls first.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: Rik Vollaerts
7.9/10447 votesLoading...#16 - The Cat and the Fiddle
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1966
Catwoman disguises herself as a wealthy recluse - Minerva Matthews - to exchange a quarter million dollars for two Stradivarius violins. Once the instruments are safely in her hands, the villain reveals her true identity and demands the cash back. But Catwoman is surprised to learn that her business partner - Zubin Zucchini - is also not who he appears to be.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
7.9/10417 votesLoading...#17 - Dizzoner the Penguin
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 11/3/1966
After escaping the Penguin's death trap, Batman still faces an uphill run to defeat the Penguin in the race for mayor of Gotham City. The Feathered Fiend uses every dirty trick he can think of to ruin Batman's reputation. But the Penguin discovers opinion polls aren't what they are cracked up to be. Still, Batman and Robin will need to subdue the villain before his plot can be put down once and for all.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stanford Sherman
7.9/10376 votesLoading...#18 - The Joker's Hard Times
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 1/12/1967
Batman and Robin narrowly escape the Joker's death trap and quickly get back on the villain's trail. The villain runs the Gothham City Police Department ragged with his crimes based on the zodiac. Meanwhile, Venus, the Joker's accomplice, warms to Batman. Eventually, the Dynamic Duo again corner the Joker. But, once more, the heroes are captured. Now, Batman, Robin and Venus are chained in a shallow pool with a giant clam. The clam swallows Robin and Batman and Venus will be next on its menu.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stephen Kandel, Stanford Sherman
7.9/10342 votesLoading...#19 - The Joker's Epitaph
Season 2 Episode 48 - Aired 2/16/1967
The Joker is now Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank, due to an unsuccessful plan of Batman's. He installs his robots as tellers, and despite his criminal past, seems to be running things in perfect order. The Dynamic Duo realize they will have to trick him into making a mistake in order to remove him. They go to work on a plan to gain control of his robots. But that plan is jeopardized when, due to an odd turn of events, Batman's true identity Bruce Wayne is declared mentally ill and hauled off in a straight-jacket.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.9/10372 votesLoading...#20 - Catwoman Goes to College
Season 2 Episode 49 - Aired 2/22/1967
Catwoman is released from prison, and claiming she wants to enrich her education, enrolls at Gotham City University. She dresses one of her own henchmen as the Caped Crusader in order to frame him for a robbery. With Batman in jail, she goes ahead with her plan for a mass sit-in at Chimes Square. Catwoman is more than surprised when Batman himself shows up at the event. However, his efforts to expose the villainess are futile, and she prepares to terminate him and Robin in front of the whole crowd.
Director: Robert Sparr
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
7.9/10440 votesLoading...#21 - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1967
"Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin", is the first episode of Season 3 of the Batman television series', first aired on ABC September 14, 1967 as its ninety-fifth episode. It guest starred Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, and also was the first appearance of Yvonne Craig as Police Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Stanford Sherman
7.9/10341 votesLoading...#22 - I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1968
With plans to build an indestructible empire, King Tut goes in search of Nilanium, the world's strongest metal. But with the only known deposit lying directly beneath Wayne Manor, Tut's tunneling soon leads him to the discovery of a lifetime - the Batcave itself. With their secret identities in jeopardy, Batman and Robin race to stop him before his find is leaked to the world.
Director: Sam Strangis
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
7.8/101,123 votesLoading...#23 - Hi Diddle Riddle
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1966
While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.8/10445 votesLoading...#24 - Hot Off the Griddle
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1966
Catwoman makes her return known with a string of robberies. Hoping to lure her into a trap, Batman plants a news blurb giving the whereabouts of a rare canary, but Catwoman is tipped off and arrives prepared. Batman and Robin follow a lead to Catwoman's hideout, the Pink Sandbox, but soon discover that this villain has been waiting for them.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross
7.8/105 votesLoading...#25 - A Piece of the Action
Season 2 Episode 51 - Aired 3/1/1967
The Green Hornet and Kato are in Gotham City to bust a counterfeiting stamp ring. Believed to be arch-criminals by nearly everyone, their midnight visit to Colonel Gumm at the Pink Chip Stamps Factory stirs alarm. Even Batman and Robin believe they are out for a piece of the action. Figuring the Green Hornet's goal must be the Gotham Gothic, a rare and valuable stamp, they trail him and Kato to the Pink Chip Stamps Factory. But when Colonel Gumm and his men make giant stamps out of the visiting crime fighters, it appears Batman and Robin will be doomed to the same fate.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Charles Hoffman
The Best Episodes of Batman
Every episode of Batman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Batman!
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyAction & Adventure
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"Flop Goes the Joker" is the best rated episode of "Batman". It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by George Waggner and written by Stanford Sherman, it aired on 3/23/1967. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "That Darn Catwoman".