EPISODE NUMBERS: 59-60, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

Come Back, Shame:
Shame, a conniving cowboy of crime, and his western gang comprised of Okie Annie, Messy James, and Rip Snorting, plan to build a superpowered truck, which will outrace even The Batmobile. Needing some additional parts for the truck, they swipe a racing car right in the middle of The Gotham City 500 Road Race! Shame returns to his hideout at the abandoned Westernland Amusement Park, where he befriends a small boy names Andy, who imitates a cowboy. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin have figured out Shame's scheme and plants a story with DJ Hot Rod Harry about the new parts added to the Wayne Limousine. Shame listens to said broadcast on Andy's radio and prepares to hijack the limo, with Oakie Annie as bait!

Taking a drive in the limo, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Alfred encounter a cow in the middle of the road. The three get out of the limo to move the cow when Shame and his pernicious posse emerge from the bushes armed to the teeth and they make off with the car. Long after Shame and crew have vanished, The Batcycle, which had been following them for a mile behind them, arrives carrying The Alfred cycle. Using a circuitous route, Alfred rides to The Batcave and Bruce and Dick follow suit in The Batcycle. Later on, The Dynamic Duo trace the vehicle to Westernland by way of The Infrared Batdust, with which the Wayne limo's tires were cleverly coated but can only be detected by The Batmobile's specially tinted windshield. After a battle, The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder are knocked senseless by a falling chandelier. Shane leads them outside and stakes them out in the middle of the road and releases a herd of stampeding cattle in their direction, with intentions of trampling The Duo!

It's the Way You Play the Game:
The vibrations of the stampeding cattle cause the stake holding Batman's wrists to shake loose from the ground, and, leaping to his feet, he takes off his cape and, matador-style, guides the stampede away from himself and Robin. Returning to The Batcave, The Caped Crusader again contacts Hot Rod Harry who refers them to used car salesman Laughing Leo--who is also a secret informant of Shame's criminal posse! At Laughing Leo's lot, located on the corner of Surf Avenue and 20th Street, The Dynamic Duo are unable to get a straight answer from Leo. They depart, and, feeling something is wrong, Leo reports back to Shame that Batman and Robin have survived. Shame is put into a funk so deep he shoots up nearly his entire garage!

Shame anticipates The Dynamic Duo's return and prepares a double-barrel ambush! As predicted The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder do return to Westernland where they are greeted by a hail of bullets--and Robin is shot in the heel by Shame! Batman rushes The Boy Wonder back to The Batcave for treatment; there Alfred reports that he, as Bruce Wayne, is scheduled to appear at the rodeo this afternoon. Alfred's reminder manages to crack the case: Shame plans to steal the four prize Black Angus bulls, each worth $300,000, that will be on display! However, by the time The Dynamic Duo reach the rodeo, Shame and his posse are long gone with the bulls in his supertruck. Figuring the bulls have to be fed, Batman tracks the gang to The K.O. Corral down at the stockyards, where, after a blazing gunfight, Batman and Robin corral the entire gang of desperadoes and take them to the hoosegow.

WRITTEN BY: Stanley Ralph Ross

DIRECTED BY: Oscar Randolph

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)
Joan Stanley (Okie Annie)
Timothy Scott (Messy James)
John Mitchum (Rip Snorting)
Milton Frome (Laughing Leo)
Jack Carter (Hot Rod Harry)
Eric Shea (Andy)
Kathryn Minner (Little Old Lady)
James McHale (Guard)
Cliff Robertson (Shame)
Joan Staley (Okie Annie)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Cliff Robertson would later be involved with another superhero, Spider-Man. He portrayed Peter Parker's Uncle Ben Parker in 2002's Spider-Man & 2004's Spider-Man 2.

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