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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...
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Season 1

  • Hi Diddle Riddle
    7.8/101,115 votes
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    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.

  • Smack in the Middle
    7.6/10917 votes
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    Smack in the Middle

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1966

    The Riddler fashions a mold of the face of the unconscious Robin. He contacts Batman with two more riddles. The Riddler tells Batman if he can solve the riddles, he'll know where Robin is.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • Fine Feathered Finks
    7.5/10761 votes
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    Fine Feathered Finks

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1966

    The Penguin plots to manipulate Batman into inadvertently devising capers for him.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • The Penguin's a Jinx
    7.5/10735 votes
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    The Penguin's a Jinx

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1966

    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.

  • The Joker Is Wild
    7.7/10726 votes
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    The Joker Is Wild

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/1966

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

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Robert Dozier

  • Batman is Riled
    7.6/10686 votes
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    Batman is Riled

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/1966

    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

  • Instant Freeze
    7.4/10671 votes
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    Instant Freeze

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/1966

    Mr. Freeze, thought to have perished, has returned and is seeking revenge on Batman. The villain is committing crimes involving diamonds, or "ice," in one form or another. He freezes Batman and Robin, who look like goners.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Max Hodge

  • Rats Like Cheese
    7.2/10638 votes
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    Rats Like Cheese

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/3/1966

    Vince, a temperamental physician at a Gotham City hospital (apparently a takeoff on Ben Casey), saves Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo resume their pursuit of Mr. Freeze. Eventually, Batman substitutes himself for Paul Diamonte, a baseball player, Mr. Freeze has kidnapped. Robin, disobeying Batman's orders to stay away, is also captured by the villain. Now, in his headquarters, Mr. Freeze is using his climate controls so that only Batman or Robin will have access to life-giving warmth.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Max Hodge

  • Zelda the Great
    7.0/10600 votes
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    Zelda the Great

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/9/1966

    The Dynamic Duo arrange a trap for an elusive annual bank robber, but the female magician they are hunting is on to them with a new scheme of her own.

    Director: Norman Foster

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • A Death Worse Than Fate
    7.0/10583 votes
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    A Death Worse Than Fate

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/1966

    Told that her loot is genuine money after all, Zelda is forced to lure Batman and Robin into a possibly unsolvable deathtrap, with hitmen waiting outside to shoot them if they escape.

    Director: Norman Foster

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away
    7.5/10571 votes
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    A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/1966

    King Boris, who hails from a European country, comes to Gotham City for a visit. Upon his arrival, there is a disturbance, which includes a clue from the Riddler. Batman and Robin investigate and get on the Riddler's trail. They are trapped by the criminal, who ties them to large wheels that will spin with ever-increasing speed until they are dead.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Fred De Gorter

  • When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play
    7.6/10563 votes
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    When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/1966

    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

  • The Thirteenth Hat
    7.3/10560 votes
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    The Thirteenth Hat

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/23/1966

    Jervis Tetsch, aka the Mad Hatter, is abducting all the jurors who convicted him of a previous crime wave. He is also taking their hats. His final target is none other than Batman, who provided the key testimony in the Mad Hatter's trial. Batman and Robin have the Mad Hatter and his gang cornered but the criminal mastermind manages to encase the Caped Crusader in plaster of Paris.

    Director: Norman Foster

    Writer: Charles Hoffman

  • Batman Stands Pat
    7.2/10544 votes
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    Batman Stands Pat

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1966

    Batman, thanks to superior breath control, is able to escape the plaster of Paris in which he was encased. Despite this, the Mad Hatter is still at large. Eventually, Batman and Robin again face off against the Mad Hatter at his criminal lair. Things look bad, but the Dyamic Duo manage to triumph.

    Director: Norman Foster

    Writer: Charles Hoffman

  • The Joker Goes to School
    7.7/10585 votes
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    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.

  • He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul
    7.6/10554 votes
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    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.

  • True or False-Face
    7.7/10577 votes
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    True or False-Face

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/1966

    False Face traps Batman and Robin, and binding them to a subway track just minutes before a train is scheduled to come by.

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: Stephen Kandel

  • Holy Rat Race
    7.7/10558 votes
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    Holy Rat Race

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1966

    Alfred contacts Batman by radio from the Batcave. Batman instructs the butler to short circuit a communications device the hero has on his wrist. This enable Batman to get free of his bonds. He and Robin get free just before they would be run over by a subway train. The Dynamic Duo resume their pursuit of False Face, which ends up at an old movie studio.

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: Stephen Kandel

  • The Purr-Fect Crime
    8.1/10622 votes
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    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

  • Better Luck Next Time
    8.0/10582 votes
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    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

  • The Penguin Goes Straight
    7.7/10517 votes
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    The Penguin Goes Straight

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1966

    After his recent release from jail, The Penguin has started his own protective agency and is thwarting small time hoodlums everywhere he goes. Batman & Robin decide to send in an undercover Alfred to spy on the newly reformed Penguin and his recently acquainted high society friends. However, the Penguin has anticipated Batman and Robin's every move and manages to give them a makeover into wanted men instead of him.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • Not Yet, He Ain't
    7.6/10496 votes
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    Not Yet, He Ain't

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1966

    Already wanted for a robbery they didn't commit, Batman and Robin fake their own deaths with a little help from Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara. They even allow the Penguin to take hold of the Batmobile, now renamed 'Birdmobile' in order to keep track on them via a hidden camera.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

  • The Ring of Wax
    7.5/10491 votes
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    The Ring of Wax

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1966

    The Riddler's latest scheme involves stealing a wax figure to melt down for its wax that is powerfully corrosive when exposed to direct flame.

    Director: James B. Clark

    Writer: Bob Rodgers

  • Give 'em the Axe
    7.5/10476 votes
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    Give 'em the Axe

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/1966

    Taking advantage of the Riddler's mistaken belief that they were killed escaping his deathtrap, the Dynamic Duo must stop the villain from stealing a treasure of Incan jewels that would mean destroying an archaeological treasure as well.

    Director: James B. Clark

    Writer: Bob Rodgers

  • The Joker Trumps an Ace
    7.5/10472 votes
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    The Joker Trumps an Ace

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1966

    The Joker launches a new crime wave with robberies that appear to make no sense, such as stealing hairpins from rich women and a hole from a golf course. But the Joker knows exactly what he's doing. Batman and Robin are in pursuit and eventually invade the villain's headquarters. The heroes are placed in a chamber and are told if they can float for an hour, they'll go free. The Joker then begins to flood the chamber with poison gas. The Joker says the Dynamic Duo may not be able to swim in the gas "but you can drown in it!"

    Director: Richard C. Sarafian

    Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell

  • Batman Sets the Pace
    7.5/10473 votes
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    Batman Sets the Pace

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/7/1966

    After an ingenious escape, Batman and Robin again pick up the trail of the Joker. The villain's ultimate crime is designed not only to make him rich but to ruin Batman's reputation.

    Director: Richard C. Sarafian

    Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell

  • The Curse of Tut
    7.5/10470 votes
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    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

  • The Pharaoh's in a Rut
    7.5/10450 votes
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    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

  • The Bookworm Turns
    7.9/10501 votes
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    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

  • While Gotham City Burns
    7.7/10477 votes
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    While Gotham City Burns

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/21/1966

    Batman saves Robin from the Wayne Memorial Clock Tower at the last possible Big Benjamin second. While they are busy in the Batcave, The Bookworm steals a priceless cookbook from stately Wayne Manor. He then lures the Dynamic Duo into an oversized cookbook on display in the middle of Gotham city and steals the Batmobile. Can Batman and Robin escape before their goose is cooked?

    Director: Larry Peerce

    Writer: Rik Vollaerts

  • Death in Slow Motion
    7.7/10474 votes
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    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

  • The Riddler's False Notion
    7.7/10465 votes
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    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

  • Fine Finny Fiends
    7.6/10447 votes
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    Fine Finny Fiends

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/4/1966

    Alfred is kidnapped by the Penguin ans his finny fiends while buying caviar for the Multimillionaires Annual Award Dinner. Although the loyal butler does not know the secret location where the dinner is to be held, Penguin brainwashes the man-servant as part of his diabolical scheme. Batman and Robin track down the Penguin's hideout on a fishing pier owned by 'Knott A. Fish', only to walk into a trap.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Sheldon Stark

  • Batman Makes the Scenes
    7.5/10445 votes
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    Batman Makes the Scenes

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/5/1966

    The Penguin learns the location of the Multi-millionaires Annual Award Dinner from Alfred: on board Bruce Wayne's S.S. Gotham Neptune. His female fink Finella replaces the beauty queen for the chosen charity Miss Natural Resources, pops out of a giant cake at the diner and proceeds to gas all the multimillionaires present, as well as Bruce Wayne and Master Grayson's replacements: Batman and Robin.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Sheldon Stark