EPISODE NUMBERS: 19-20, Production Code 8721

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Purr-Fect Crime:
The Catwoman purr-loins one of a matched pair of Mark Andrews' priceless Golden Cat statuettes (which holds a secret to the lost treasure of Captain Manx) from a Gotham museum, so Batman and Robin rush to safeguard the other one from her clutches. After Alfred and Robin recharge The Batmobile with the atomic pile in The Batcave, The Dynamic Duo coat the cat with golden radioactive mist, and The Dynamic Duo wait in the shadows for Catwoman to appear. But the factions of law and disorder clash, and Robin is drugged by the felonious feline and her two accomplices, Felix and Leo. In the fracas surrounding Batman's efforts to save his pal, Catwoman and company make off with the second statue.

After Robin resuscitates, The Duo, aided by the radioactive mist, trace Catwoman to her lair, The Gato And Chat Fur Company warehouse @ 2809 West 20th Street. There, Batman and Robin plummet through a trap door into Catwoman's clutches! After subjecting her prey to moving walls of spikes (made of rubber!) and a toy bomb, as a normal cat will do, she spirits The Boy Wonder away to unknown torments while The Caped Crusader is forced to choose between two doors (Holy Let's Make A Deal!) — behind one is Catwoman; behind the other is a deadly Batman-eating tiger, answering to a rather unsuitable moniker of Tinkerbell! Much to his consternation, Batman chooses the door leading to the tiger and not the lady...

Better Luck Next Time:
After Catwoman slips away to administer nameless horrors to Robin, Batman fends off Tinkerbell long enough to remove from his utility belt a pair of Batclaws, which he uses to climb up the wall and out of harm's reach. Realizing he won't be able to stay there for long, he plugs his Batears with a pair of Batearplugs and subdues the tiger with super-amplified sounds (20,000 decibels!) from a Batcommunicator on his utility belt. The Caped Crusader leaps from the wall, takes refuge in the room where the tiger was released, and heads out to save his sidekick---only to find himself lost in the catacombs of Catwoman's lair. Meanwhile, Catwoman is on to bigger and badder things, having Robin balanced on the end of a board over a pit of more hungry tigers and supplying sand (matching The Boy Wonder's weight) to the other end of the board. As the sand is released, the board lowers Robin slowly, deeper and deeper into the tiger den! Leaving her henchmen to her own devices, The Catwoman departs in search of Captain Manx's treasure, using a map created by fitting the two Golden Cats together and drawing their outline. Batman saves his chum in the nick of time, and pit their fists against Catwoman's lackies; during the battle, Leo escapes to join his female boss and warn her of Batman's pursuit of her.

The Dynamic Duo spirit the Golden Cats to the Batcave, where they deduce Catwoman's scheme. Soon they are at McElroy Point, where the treasure is supposedly buried — and suddenly they find themselves forced to navigate Catwoman's minefield (sabotaged by Leo, natch). The pair make use of The Batmobile Batarmor and Automatic Tire Device to escape the mines unscathed, just as The Feline-eous Femme Fatale and Leo locate the treasure in a nearby cave. Overcome by greed, Catwoman double-crosses Leo by gassing him to sleep, and she winds up being chased through the dark cave by the arriving Dynamic Duo. Catwoman arrives at the edge a bottomless crevice which she tries unsuccessfully to leap; with the heavy booty weighing her down, she barely manages to catch hold of a stalactite on the other side. Batman tries to save her but, because she refuses to let go of the treasure to save at least one of her lives, she plummets into the bottomless chasm! (Wonder if she landed on her feet?) Later at Wayne Manor, Alfred, Bruce and Dick, in the midst of playing chess, are surprised by Aunt Harriet, who presents them with Catwoman's pet feline and claims he stole a lobster she was preparing for dinner. Dick merely quips, "He comes from a broken home."

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross, Lee Orgel

DIRECTED BY: James Sheldon

CAST:
Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Pat Zurica (Guard)
Jock Mahoney (Leo)
Ralph Manza (Felix)
Harry Holcomb (Mr. Andrews)
Alex Sharp (Henchman)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- This episode was the second one chosen by GAF ViewMaster to make into one of their disk sets.

- Linda Harrison (Cheerleader #2) later portrayed Nora in the 1968 20th Century-Fox scifi classic Planet Of The Apes; she was married to Fox president Richard Zanuck at the time of thie episode's production.

- This is the only time the famed Atomic Pile was seen in use.

- There was actually only one live tiger used on the show; the others in the pit were of stock footage.

- In the comics, The Catwoman's right name was Selina Kyle--which was never used on the TV series.

- The 20,000-decibel super-amplified sound effect of Batman's Batcommunicator is reused in Episode #8717-Pt. 1, "The Bookworm Turns". It is also the same sound effect which emits from The Green Hornet's Hornet Sting on The Green Hornet (ABC, 1966-67). - Holy Disservice!! ABC News interrupted the original broadcast of the first episode with Julie Newmar as the sexy Catwoman with coverage of The Gemini 8 spacecraft with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott aboard having problems with the controls not functioning correctly. Thousands of obviously uninterested Batfans called to complain about the interruption!!!