EPISODE NUMBERS: 53-54, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Green Ice:
Mr. Freeze returns to continue his plans for revenge against Batman and Robin for condemning him to live in subzero temperatures and thus terrorize Gotham City. Having broken out of jail in an ice cream truck, Freeze kidnaps Miss Iceland from the finals of The Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant, planning to lower her body temperature to his level and then marry her. Later, he makes an appearance at Police HQ hiding in an air conditioner vent, uses his horrendous Freeze Gun to freeze Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara and their entire office. The Dynamic Duo are alerted to The Commissioner's peril, and they rush by Batmobile to rescue their frigid friends. Moments later, a giant block of ice containing money is delivered to Batman and Robin, sent by Mr. Freeze, which the local newspapers perceive as a bribe, as the first step in the cool, cruel fiend's plot to taint the saintly image of The Batman, rendering Miss Iceland's kidnapping only secondary.

Not long after, Freeze and 2 of his henchmen make an appearance at a party being given at Wayne Manor, and after freezing Bruce Wayne, Dick Greyson, Aunt Harriet and all of the guests in the reflecting pool, Shivers and Chill, two more of Freeze's lackies, arrive dressed as The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder and make a shambled mockery of the pair by losing a battle with Freeze's other men. The fake heroes quickly beat a hasty retreat, followed by Mr. Freeze and his frozen flunkies. Noble butler Alfred Pennyworth, who had been inside the house preparing refreshments all the while during the robbery, arrives in time to spot the guests frozen in the pool, and he quickly activates the pools heater, releasing them. The Dynamic Duo trace The Frosty Felon to his hideout in a cold storage plant next to The Frosty Freezy Company Factory, where they become quick-frozen by Mr. Freeze's trusty freeze gun and then taken to the factory, where thy are slated to become giant Frosty Freezies.

Deep Freeze:
With their virtually-frozen feet, The Dynamic Duo locate the heat exhaust valve and turn it so that recycled exhaust in the heating unit will reverse the refrigerating process and manage to melt their way out through the resulting heat transfer. Returning to Police HQ, Batman and Robin are greeted by a newspaper photograph depicting The Caped Crusader wearing Commissioner Gordon's gold watch, which Freeze stole at the party. The Frigid Fiend is succeeding in his plan as he has finally managed to lead Gotham into believing Batman has weakened to the temptations of bribery! Mr. Freeze, believing that Batman and Robin are out of the way, proceeds with his master plan to blackmail Gotham City. Unless the city fathers pay him $1,000,000,000, Mr. Freeze will bury the city into one huge cake of ice! To prove his intentions are sincere, he demonstrates his power by freezing The Gotham City Reservoir.

Gordon is tempted to contact The Dynamic Duo, but is discouraged by his loss of faith in Batman. Undaunted by their tarnished reputations, Batman and Robin secretly pay a visit to freeze's hideout, where they are captured and about to be frozen solid, just like like Miss Iceland, whom they see encased in a huge block of ice!!! However, The Duo have applied themselves with a protective layer of Antifreeze Activating Solution, and, armed with their Batthermal Underwear, they thwart Freeze's plans and overpower The Frosty Fiend and his frigid flunkies. The Caped Crusader uses a crowbar to free Miss Iceland from her icy tomb, and they discover Freeze nearby, without his Freze Collar, and near certain death. Obviously wanting him alive to pay for his evil, Batman and Robin brings him over to Miss Iceland's ice coffin and encase him within, keeping him breathing until the police finds his frozen neckpiece.

WRITTEN BY: Max Hodge

DIRECTED BY: George Waggner

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)
Dee Hartford (Miss Iceland)
Nicky Blair (Shivers)
Kem Dibbs (Chill)
Charlie O'Donnell (TV Newsman)
James O'Hara (Police Sergeant)
Robert Wiensko (Iceman)
Mike Durkin (Little Boy)
Marie Windsor (Nellie Majors)
Otto Preminger (Mr. Freeze)
Joan Twelve (Bathing Beauty)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Preminger's attitude made him the most despised man on the set. He treated women lewdly and kept irritating the other cast members.

- This is the final appearance of Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze.

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