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Television - Batman - Episodes - #57/58 - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds / The Joker's Provokers
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Marsha, Queen of Diamonds / Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds

ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 11/23/1966-11/24/1966

EPISODE NUMBERS: 57-58, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds:
Chief O'Hara has been drugged into a love-slave of Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, allowing her to rob U. Magnum's of the famous Pretzel Diamond. Gordon puts through a call to The Dynamic Duo on The Red Phone to alert them of the chief's off-kilter behavior, sending them to Police HQ. Meanwhile, The Diamond Queen has O'Hara phone Gordon, who rushes to Marsha's hideout to rescue the chief and apprehend the diamond diva. A dart fired from a statue of Daniel Cupid tipped with a love potion concocted by Marsha's Aunt Hilda, the commissioner is added to Marsha's unending list of love slaves. Under Marsha's spell, Gordon phones The Caped Crusader and lures him into a trap at her lair!

The Dynamic Duo speed to Marsha's love-nest/hideout, where the criminal Queen Of Diamonds shoots a love-potion-tipped arrow at Batman, but The Caped Crusader uses every fiber of his superior Bat-will to fight off the powerful drug. Enraged by this insufferable effrontery, Marsha orders The Grand Mogul her Guardians to destroy Batman and Robin and in the fray, Robin is both drugged and captured. Marsha offers to trade the Boy Wonder for huge batdiamond that powers The Batcomputer in The Batcave. Batman demurs, saying that no stranger can enter the Batcave; Marsha bounds over this hurdle by offering Batman her hand in marriage. This way, she will no longer be a stranger, she will become Mrs. Batman! The next time we see Batman, he walks down the aisle with Marsha toward the church altar!

Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds:
Batman is torn between whether or not to say, "I do," when all of a sudden, Alfred, disguised as British solicitor Ethelbert Soames, arrives with Aunt Harriet. They disrupt the unholy union by claiming Cooper is the one and only Mrs. Batman. Realizing she has been conned, The Diamond Queen and her Grand Mogul immediately make a break for it! Batman and Alfred speed by Batmobile to Marsha's love nest/hideaway with The Bat Antidote Kit to free Robin and the others from the love potion.

The Dynamic Duo trace Marsha to the underground cave of her Aunt Hilda, where they battle Marsha's Guardians while Hilda, armed with powerful antidotes, tries to turn them into a variety of animals. But The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder prove a match for her every spell and The Guardians. An undaunted Marsha then renders the heroes unconscious with knockout drugs. Hilda then applies them with her strongest potion yet, which is supposed to turn them into toads! The next day, Marsha and her Grand Mogul appears in Commissioner Gordon's office bearing caged and caped toads who speak with the voices of Batman and Robin! Marsha threatens to feed the talking toads to her pet cat unless Gordon meets her demands. It turns out, however, to have been a trick: the real Batman and Robin swoop in to disarm The Grand Mogul and haul Marsha off to prison.

WRITTEN BY: Stanford Sherman

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)
Carolyn Jones (Marsha, Queen of Diamonds)
Ben Gage (Clerk)
Charles Stewart (Clergyman)
Joyce Nizarri (Girl)
James O'Hara (Sgt. O'Leary)
Hugh Douglas (Announcer)
Estelle Winwood (Aunt Hilda)
Woody Strode (Grand Mogul)
William McLennon (Victim #2)
Murray Pollack (Victim #3)
Rick DiSante (Victim #4)
Harry Stanton (Victim #1)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- This is the only episode with a cliffhanger where Batman doesn't face death. He instead faces a wedding.

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