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The Best Episodes of Batman

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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 in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Batman Season 2 Episode 39 - The Penguin Declines
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Penguin Declines

    S2:E39

    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
    Writers:Stanford Sherman, Stephen Kandel

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  2. Batman Season 2 Episode 47 - The Joker's Last Laugh
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #2 - The Joker's Last Laugh

    S2:E47

    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.

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  3. Batman Season 2 Episode 58 - Flop Goes the Joker
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Flop Goes the Joker

    S2:E58

    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

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  4. Batman Season 2 Episode 14 - The Yegg Foes in Gotham
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - The Yegg Foes in Gotham

    S2:E14

    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

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  5. Batman Season 2 Episode 41 - Scat! Darn Catwoman
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Scat! Darn Catwoman

    S2:E41

    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

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  6. Batman Season 2 Episode 50 - Batman Displays His Knowledge
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Batman Displays His Knowledge

    S2:E50

    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

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  7. Batman Season 3 Episode 1 - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #7 - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin

    S3:E1

    "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

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  8. Batman Season 1 Episode 29 - The Bookworm Turns
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #8 - The Bookworm Turns

    S1:E29

    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

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  9. Batman Season 1 Episode 31 - Death in Slow Motion
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Death in Slow Motion

    S1:E31

    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

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  10. Batman Season 2 Episode 7 - The Spell of Tut
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #10 - The Spell of Tut

    S2:E7

    King Tut has relapsed into his kingly ways, this time showing a marked interest in scarab beetles and apothecary potions. Robin infiltrates their hideout to discover their true intentions, relaying what he hears to Batman, but their plan is put in jeopardy when Robin's presence is detected.

    Director:Larry Peerce
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, Earl Barret

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  11. Batman Season 2 Episode 23 - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds

    S2:E23

    Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, is after the giant diamond that powers the Batcomputer. With her love darts, she puts both Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara under her spell (and into her custody). When the Dynamic Duo show up, they too are injected with her love potion, and Batman must agree to marry Marsha if he ever wants his friends to be returned.

    Director:James B. Clark
    Writer:Stanford Sherman

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  12. Batman Season 2 Episode 27 - The Penguin's Nest
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Penguin's Nest

    S2:E27

    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.

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  13. Batman Season 2 Episode 37 - The Zodiac Crimes
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #13 - The Zodiac Crimes

    S2:E37

    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
    Writers:Stanford Sherman, Stephen Kandel

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  14. Batman Season 2 Episode 48 - The Joker's Epitaph
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Joker's Epitaph

    S2:E48

    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.

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  15. Batman Season 1 Episode 5 - The Joker Is Wild
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #15 - The Joker Is Wild

    S1:E5

    The Joker decides to fight fire with fire against Batman with a utility belt of his own.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Robert Dozier

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  16. Batman Season 1 Episode 27 - The Curse of Tut
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #16 - The Curse of Tut

    S1:E27

    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

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  17. Batman Season 2 Episode 40 - That Darn Catwoman
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #17 - That Darn Catwoman

    S2:E40

    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

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  18. Batman Season 1 Episode 1 - Hi Diddle Riddle
    7.6/10(18 votes)

    #18 - Hi Diddle Riddle

    S1:E1

    While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  19. Batman Season 1 Episode 4 - The Penguin's a Jinx
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - The Penguin's a Jinx

    S1:E4

    Bruce Wayne escapes the Penguin's deathtrap and returns to the Batcave. What he doesn't know is that one of the Penguin's clues, an umbrella, has a listening device.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  20. Batman Season 1 Episode 6 - Batman is Riled
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Batman is Riled

    S1:E6

    Batman avoids a public unmasking but is unable to bring in the Joker, thanks to the villain's utility belt. Eventually, Batman and Robin are captured by the Joker's gang. But the Joker doesn't know a showdown with the Dynamic Duo awaits.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Robert Dozier

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  21. Batman Season 1 Episode 12 - When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #21 - When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play

    S1:E12

    Batman manages to escape the Riddler's death trap. He and Robin decide to lay low until they can figure out the Riddler's caper. Meanwhile, the Riddler frees King Boris, who brings a gift to a major monument in Gotham City. It turns out the Riddler has substituted a bomb for King Boris's gift and he is demanding a ransom. The Riddler, though, overplays his hand, enabling Batman and Robin to capture the Riddler and his gang.

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Fred De Gorter

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  22. Batman Season 1 Episode 32 - The Riddler's False Notion
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - The Riddler's False Notion

    S1:E32

    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

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  23. Batman Season 2 Episode 20 - Deep Freeze
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Deep Freeze

    S2:E20

    The press continues to attack Batman and Robin, thanks to framing by Mr. Freeze. As public animosity mounts, the Dynamic Duo decide to hang up their capes for the time being. But when Mr. Freeze demands the impossible sum of one billion dollars, or else he will cover all of Gotham City with ice, the Caped Crusaders feel compelled to go back into action to foil the frosty villain.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Max Hodge

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  24. Batman Season 2 Episode 51 - A Piece of the Action
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #24 - A Piece of the Action

    S2:E51

    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

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  25. Batman Season 3 Episode 23 - I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #25 - I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle

    S3:E23

    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

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Penguin Declines" is the best rated episode of "Batman". It scored 8.2/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Oscar Rudolph and written by Stanford Sherman, Stephen Kandel, it aired on 1/18/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Joker's Last Laugh".