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Television - Batman - Episodes - #37/38 - Hot Off the Griddle / The Cat And The Fiddle
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Hot Off the Griddle / The Cat And The Fiddle

ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 9/14/1966-09/15/1966

EPISODE NUMBERS: 37-38, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Hot Off The Griddle:
Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara and The Dynamic Duo suspect that The Catwoman has returned to open a school for cat burglars. She tips them off to her presence after her Catmen: John, Charles, and Thomas snatch a catalogue, a catamaran and three mittens. Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum, in order to snare the lovely cat. However, Jack is secretly in league with Catwoman and he tips her off. Consequently, Batman and Robin are ambushed at their Museum stakeout by the cat burglars, paralyzed by Catwoman's tranquilizer darts and thrown out the window. They are saved from certain doom by a safety net, which they set up just in case the bird was dropped out the window.

The Dynamic Duo manage to capture one of Catwoman's thugs who along with a new single called "The Catusi" by Benedict Arnold & The Traitors leads them to a nightclub called The Pink Sand Box, which is Catwoman's new hideout. There they are quickly deposited by a revolving booth into a room with a metal floor. This floor turns red-hot, forcing our heroes to dance the hot-foot! Hoping to cool the floor, The Caped Crusader bursts an overhead water pipe--only to unwittingly release Catatonic, a gas which reders him and The Boy Wonder unconscious. They recover outside, strapped to aluminum grills, their bodies greased with margarine and two giant magnifying glasses poised directly over them, with the intent of roasting them alive in the midday sun!

The Cat And The Fiddle:
As luck would have it, a well-timed solar eclipse ocurs just as the sun is about to barbecue our heroes. They shift the magnifying glasses with their feet so that the returning sun will now burn off their bonds. Back at the Batcave, The Dynamic Duo deduce The Catwoman's next objective and rush to The Gotham State Building and discover a momentous sale of Zubin Zucchini's 2 rare stradivarius violins for $250,000 each is to occur on the 102nd floor. See, The Gotham State Building's 102nd floor is the only place in Gotham City with the proper altitude and humidity to inspect the violins, which haven't been out of their cases in 30 years and might crack in the improper atmosphere, and The Catwoman covets them for the 8 pieces of catgut attatched to them! Meanwhile, The Foul Feline has overcome rich old recluse Minerva Mathews with gas and, disguised as Matthews, replaces her as the purchaser of the violins. The incognito Catwoman goes to the 102nd floor, disabling the elevators behind her and greedily trying to snatch the 2 violins from Zucchini, only to find that he is actually Robin in disguise! He is immediately overpowered by Catmen John, Charles, and Thomas, and crooked gossip columnist Jack O'Shea, who reveals their mode of escape: a getaway rocket!

On the first floor, Batman, on learning Catwoman has disabled the elevators, attatches his new Batjets to one of the stalled elevators; the thrust is enough to send The Caped Crusader and the elevator to the top floor in no time. He arrives in time to rescue the outnumbered Boy Wonder, just as he is about to be tossed out the window by O'Shea and The Catmen. The Duo dispose of the men, and Batman finds Catwoman outside on the ledge, attempting a getaway with the money and violins, of course, but is impaired by vertigo! Batman secures one end of his Batrope, tosses the other end to a frightened Catwoman, and tells her to drop the violins and money and tie thr rope around her waist. Suddenly O'Shea recovers and shoves Batman out the window! The Boy Wonder sends O'Shea back into dreamland with a generous right cross and, finding The Caped Crusader has grabbed hold of his Batrope and he and Catwoman are hanging onto each other for dear life, single-handedly pulls them to safety. In Gordon's office, prior to her being taken to the pen, Catwoman rewards Batman with a simple rub on the cheek.

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross

DIRECTED BY: Don Weis

CAST:
Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper)
William Dozier (Narrator)
Adam West (Bruce N. Wayne/Batman)
Burt Ward (Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin: The Boy Wonder)
Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth)
Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara)
Neil Hamilton (I) (Commissioner James W. Gordon)
Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Edy Williams (Hostess)
George N. Neise (Cramer)
David Fresco (Zubin Zuccini)
James Brolin (Ralph Staphylococcus)
Jack Kelly (Jack O'Shea)
Buck Kartalian (John)
Charles Horvath (Thomas)
George Barrows (Charles)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- George Barrows is best known for his title role of Ro-Man/Great Guidance in the 1953 Sci-fi thriller Robot Monster.

- The character of Zoltan Zorba was originally known as Alan A. Aardvark, but when Sam Jaffe was selected to portray the role, it was changed to Zorba as a sort of takeoff on his role of Dr. Zorba on the 1961-66 ABC medical drama Ben Casey.

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SCREEN GRABS FROM EPISODE 2

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