EPISODE NUMBER: 05/06

PLOT SUMMARY:
Instant Freeze:
Mr. Freeze seeks revenge against Batman for knocking a beaker of Instant Freeze on him during a past fight, an accident that has rendered Freeze incapable of going out in public without a special air-conditioned suit and forces him to live in a super-cooled house designed to keep his body temperature at a frosty 50 degrees below zero. Freeze begins his rampage of revenge by heisting some famous diamonds ("ice" in the criminal vernacular!) from The Gotham City Diamond Exchange. In The Batcave, Batman perfects an anti-freeze pill which, as he tries it out in a Deep-Freeze Cabinet, sadly, fails to do the trick in extreme cold. Then, on a tip from Commissioner Gordon, The Dynamic Duo, knowing Freeze's predilection for "ice," speed to The Exchange by Batmobile, but their attempt to nab Freeze is foiled when gang members Chill, Nippy and Mo release 5 Batman and Freeze decoys. After the resulting confusion in The Exchange by The Dynamic Duo between The Batmen and Misters Freeze gives the true Freeze and his lackies carte blanche to scram, The Caped Crusaders next try to prevent Freeze from stealing The Ghiaccio Circolo (Circle of Ice) Diamond, which belongs to the visiting Princess Sandra of Molino (a/k/a Sandra Carlson of Brooklyn). Freeze sets The Princess' curtains on fire with his flame-gun and darts out with the hot rock while Batman and Robin battle the flames. In a flash The Duo are out the window and down The Batrope to intercept Freeze at his Amalgamated Ice-Cream Company truck below, but the cold-hearted criminal zaps them into human icicles with his horrible ice-gun and gets away!!

Rats Like Cheese:
A very frigid Batman and Robin are immediately rished to Gotham City Hospital where they are thawed out with the help of the miraculous Super-Hypotherm-De-Icifier Chamber Mark VII, which reverses the freezing process. Freeze, meanwhile, has captured Paul Diamante (Spanish for "diamond," natch), the star pitcher of The Gotham City Eagles baseball team, just before the big game. Immediately upon learning of The Caped Crusader's surviving his freeze gun, Freeze offers to exchange Diamante for Batman. The hostage exchange happens via helicopter at the ballpark, where Batman is knocked unconscious and spirited away by helicopter. Robin, ordered by Batman not to interfere, has planted a homing device on the senior crimefighter and follows him to the Freeze hideout but is captured by his men. There, after dinner, Freeze demonstrates the pinpoint control of his house-freezing system: he slowly changes the temperature of his hideout so The Duo will be frozen to death. He isolates Robin in a small spot of warmth and begins to deep-freeze Batman. Luckily, Batman has remembered to wear his super-thermo-B-long underwear, preventing him from the extreme cold long enough to sock Mr. Freeze in the jaw and reverse the temperature controls. The tables are turned, Freeze and his men are put on ice, and justice prevails once more! Later, at a private party in Wayne Manor, Bruce and Dick are too eager to turn down a helping of baked Alaska, which was earlier on served to them (as the Dynamic Duo) in Freeze's hideout!

WRITTEN BY: Max Hodge

DIRECTED BY: Robert Butler

CAST:
Don Hannum (Art Rogers)
Shelby Grant (Princess Sandra)
Troy Melton (Chill)
Guy Way (Nippy)
Roy Sickner (Mo)
Robert Hogan (Paul Diamante)
William O'Connell (Mr. Perkins)
John Zaremba (Kolevator/Butler)
Ken Del Conte (Al Scott)
Dan Terranova (Dr. Vince)
John Wills (Newscaster)
Bill Hudson (Photographer)
Teri Garr (Girl)
George Sanders (Dr. Schimmell, Mr. Freeze)

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