9.0/102 votes#1 - 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.
8.5/102 votes#2 - 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.
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.
7.6/1011 votes#4 - 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.
7.5/106 votes#5 - 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.
7.5/102 votes#6 - 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.
7.3/109 votes#7 - 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.
7.2/105 votes#8 - 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.
7.2/106 votes#9 - 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.
7.0/107 votes#10 - 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.
6.9/107 votes#11 - 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#12 - 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.
6.7/106 votes#13 - 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.
6.7/106 votes#14 - 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.
6.5/102 votes#15 - The Dead Ringers
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/27/1966
Batman and Robin escape Chandell's trap. Once back in the Batcave, they deduce his plan to get the Wayne family fortune by killing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, then marrying the rightful heir, Aunt Harriet. In order to trap the villain, Bruce and Dick fake their own deaths. However, Harry has also figured out his brother Chandell's scheme, and desiring the Wayne fortune for himself, concocts a plan to masquerade as his twin brother.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
6.0/102 votes#16 - The Devil's Fingers
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/26/1966
Chandell, the musical virtuoso, visits Gotham City for a piano concert. But unknown to the public, Chandell is being blackmailed into a life of crime by his twin brother Harry, who retains most of the profits. Chandell intends to buy off Harry forever, and he knows just where to get the funds - from the Wayne family fortune. With Batman and Robin out of town, he suspects the robbery will be a piece of cake. However, Batman has been listening to Chandell's concert remotely, and after detecting an anomalous chord, summons Robin back to Wayne Manor to investigate.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
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"The Joker's Last Laugh" is the best rated episode written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Oscar Rudolph. It aired on 2/15/1967 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Joker's Epitaph".