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Television - Batman - Episodes - #67/68 - The Sandman Cometh / The Catwoman Goeth
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The Sandman Cometh / The Catwoman Goeth

ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 12/28/1966-12/29/1966

EPISODE NUMBERS: 67-68, Production Code N/A

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Sandman Cometh:
Batman and Robin are alerted when Mooney, a policewoman working undercover as a member of The Catwoman's mob, vanishes shortly after warning Gordon that Catwoman is planning to join forces with a European criminal known as The Sandman for committing a crime. Later, Catwoman pretending to fall asleep on a mattress display in a store window is spirited away by one of Sandman's cronies and later turns up on a TV newscast, where she cleverly advertises the talents of a sleep expert names Dr. Somnambula, a.k.a. Sandman, in hopes of gaining the attention of J. Pauline Spaghetti, a rich insomniac.

Sandman's scheme is a success, and he is summoned to Spaghetti's penthouse; there, while examining her eyes, he gasses her asleep. Working fast, he snaps photos of J. Pauline's financial ledger just as The Dynamic Duo arrive to rescue her from the man they--but not J. Pauline!--believe to be The Sandman. While Spaghetti proves to them that she wasn't in danger, Sandman escapes. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder later trace The Sandman to his GHQ at the abandoned Morpheus Mattress Factory on Derwin Alley. Upon entering the deserted factory, they are quickly seized by Sandman and his henchmen Snooze and Nap. The Batman is bound to a mattress under a giant button stitcher, while Robin is ordered to push the button which activates the machine. The Sandman decides to give Robin to Catwoman as a present and splits.

The Catwoman Goeth:
As the giant needle does its deadly duty, and beckons ever closer to The Caped Crusader, he removes his utility belt, and uses it to hook it onto the machine's control switch and shut it off in time. Meanwhile, Robin, having been delivered to The Catwoman by The Sandman, is forced at gunpoint into her tricky electrifying maze. Abandoning the purloined Batmobile, The Sandman prepares to doublecross The Catwoman and elope with J. Pauline Spaghetti and her millions. Returning to The Batcave, The Batman locates his missing Batmobile with The Batmobile Tracking Map and, with Alfred's able assistance, recovers it, but with no trace of The Boy Wonder. Moments later, The Commissioner phones and informs The Darknight Detective that J. Pauline has withdrawn $200 million from the bank and has eloped with Sandman to J. Pauline Spaghetti Island.

Meanwhile, Robin has reached the middle of The Catwoman's maze, where he encounters Policewoman Mooney. Batman locates Catwoman's lair at Catacombs Condominium, Subterranean Suite 6 and informs her of her betrayal by Sandman. An incensed Catwoman leads Batman to her maze, from which he emerges in no time with Robin and the missing policewoman. As Chief O'Hara and his men apprehend Catwoman, The Dynamic Duo drive The Batmobile to the secluded Batmarina, where they defect to The Batboat and speed for Pauline's island. As Pauline shows Sandman around her now abandoned noodle factory, Batman and Robin appear and engage Sandman, Snooze and Nap with a fierce fisticuffs, ending with Sandman plummeting into a noodle vat! The Duo soon discover to their surprise that J. Pauline Spaghetti, a seven-year-long insomniac, has finally fallen sound asleep on her own 2 feet! Later, at Wayne Manor, Aunt Harriet shows Alfred, Bruce and Dick her plans to make a shrubbery in the form of a maze.

WRITTEN BY: Ellis St. Joseph, Charles Hoffman, Ellis St. Joseph

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)
Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Jeanie Moore (Catarina/Policewoman Mooney)
Richard Peel (Snooze)
Tony Ballen (Nap)
Gypsy Rose Lee (Female Newscaster)
C. Lindsay Workman (Tuthill)
Ray Montgomery (Officer Dan Dietrich)
James Brolin (Officer Reggie Hogan)
Valerie Kairys (Kitty)
Barbara Kelly (Woman)
William Dyer (Policeman)
Michael Rennie (The Sandman)
Pat Becker (Cattie)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- This is the first episode to feature team-ups of villains, following the pattern of the 1966 Batman movie, which featured four supervillains.

- The footage of The Dynamic Duo driving The Batmobile to a secluded Batpier and swicthing to The Batboat is edited from the 1966 Batman: The Movie. This is the second and final appearance of The Batboat on the Batman television series.

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