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

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Penguin's Nest:
The Penguin opens an exclusive restaurant called The Penguin's Nest which caters to Gothamite's richest citizens. By a clever ruse, he and his henchmen; Cordy Blue, Maty Dee and Chickadee collects handwriting samples from his very exclusive guests. Upon his inevitable return to Prison, he plans to use these samples with the help of Ballpoint Baxter, to forge checks against the millionaires' accounts. However, Baxter is in prison, so The Penguin somehow has to get himself arrested but unfortunately for him, he just can't do! First, he attempts to snatch a piece of jewelry from Aunt Harriet, who was dining at the restaurant, but Batman and Robin later intercede and allow the wayward wallower to go free despite his attacking Chief O'Hara with a pie in the face.

Since Penguin is obviously eager to return to jail, The Caped Crusader suspects he has something sinister up his sleeve and decide to check his prison cell assignment. Batman and The Boy Wonder divine his scheme and decides to yet again let Penguin off the hook, in hopes he will carelessly tip his hand. Later, The Penguin executes another attempt to be apprehended by staging the fake murder of one of his own henchmen. Batman & Robin haul him away...but to the meager City Jail and not the State Prison where Baxter is. The Dynamic Duo unravel The Penguin's plan, but not before Cordy Blue, Maty Dee and Chickadee springs him from jail. In the process they also kidnap Chief O'Hara and hold him hostage. Penguin locks the chief in a steamer trunk suspended on a water slide over a pool of water. The Penguin lures Batman and Robin to his lair, but they arrive just as the trunk splashes into the water. As The Penguin prepares to throw a switch that will electrify the pool, his gang members level their machine guns at our hapless heroes...

The Bird's Last Jest:
Happily, The Dynamic Duo's quick thinking and fast reflexes foil The Penguin at this dastardly game, and the pair act as his prosecutors at the ensuing criminal trial. There, The Penguin's spirited, self-destructive defense backfires and he is released once more. Batman and Robin's next ploy is to send Alfred to The Penguin's Nest disguised as master forger Quill-Pen Quertch. However, The Penguin catches on and has the faithful butler rolled into a giant pie.

The diabolical dish is driven to Wayne Manor, where The Penguin threatens to bake the butler unless Bruce Wayne forks over a cool million. Luckily, Bruce and Dick duck out to get the cash, transform themselves into The Dynamic Duo, and save the day. The Penguin and his malodorous maitres'd reaches the State Pen just in time to discover to their horror that Ballpoint Baxter has been paroled!

WRITTEN BY: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

DIRECTED BY: Murray Golden

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)
Burgess Meredith (The Penguin)
Grace Gaynor (Chickadee)
Lane Bradford (Cordy Blue)
Vito Scotti (Maty Dee)
James O'Hara (Cop)
Voltaire Perkins (Judge Moot)
Marvin Brody (Bailiff)
Stanley Ralph Ross (Ballpoint Baxter)
Violet Carson (Lady)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Adapted from a comic book story in Batman #36 (August/September 1946), with the same title as episode #61, written by Alvin Schwartz..

- This is the last episode in which the Part 2 teaser sequence features stop-motion clips of events from the previous evening's episode; from the next episode on, the teaser in Part 2 will immediately pick up where the previous episode left off.

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