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

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Impractical Joker:
Following clues from The Joker's vandalization of key-like objects around Gotham, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder head to Angus Ferguson's rare key exhibition. There, Joker steals The Jeweled Key Of Kaincardine with the aid of his new invention, a mysterious little spark-spewing box which leaves The Dynamic Duo completely helpless while he escapes with The Key. Ferguson is furious. Later, Batman and Robin follow a televised clue by The Joker and they trace The Homicidal Harlequin to a fur salon, where they encounter the pasty-faced clown and his henchmen.

Batman & Robin capture the mysterious device dropped by the departing Joker, which turns out to be nothing but from a sparkly diversion to help Joker practice hypnotic suggestion! Back in The Batcave, The Batman uses The Batcomputer and a phone book to find Joker's hideout. The Dynamic Duo proceed by Batmobile to the place--resulting in instant capture by The Joker, who places Robin inside a spray wax machine while Batman is strapped to a giant key duplicator!

The Joker's Provokers :
The Caped Crusader removes his duplicate house key from his utility belt and uses it to jam the key duplicator's mechanism, releasing him. He quickly Bat-pummels Joker's minions, rescues a now wax-immobilized Robin from the wax spray machine, returns him to The Batcave and restores him to normal with the aid of Bat Wax-solvent. Meanwhile, Joker has perfected a new little box that acts as a time machine, with which he hopes to cause the expected havoc by controlling time. He also plans to place a hallucinogen in the city's water supply so that all of Gotham will be in thrall to him.

Alfred helps out the heroes by arranging to pose as his lookalike cousin Egbert, the night watchman at Gotham Reservoir. After switching places with Egbert, Alfred manages to victimize The Joker and his gang with his own insidious time machine, freezing and reverting them in time! Batman and Robin arrive just in time to wrap everything up when Alfred unknowingly switches off the device. Later, Aunt Harriet runs out of gas and seeks assistance from Alfred who's posing as Egbert. Just then, The Dynamic Duo show up and aids Harriet.

WRITTEN BY: Charles Hoffman, Jay Thompson

DIRECTED BY: James B. Clark

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)
Cesar Romero (The Joker)
Kathy Kersh (Cornelia)
Louis Quinn (Latch)
Valerie Szabo (Little Girl)
Christopher Cary (Ferguson)
Larry Burrell (Commentator #1)p Clyde Howdy (Commentator #2)
Howard Duff (Himself [window cameo])
Larry Anthony (Bolt)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Kathy Kersh was Burt Ward's bride at the time of this episode's production.

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