EPISODE NUMBERS: 102-103, Production Code 1705

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Ogg and I
Incognito as a deliveryman, Egghead kidnaps Commissioner Gordon from his office at Police HQ with the aid of Olga and a getaway baloon! They spirit Gordon away to his hideout, where Egghead isues a ransom demand of a $0.10 tax for every eaten egg in Gotham City. Realizing the only way to locate Egghead and Gordon is by splitting up, The Dynamic Duo converge upon The Bessarovian Embassy, while Batgirl joins ranks with Alfred Pennyworth to follow The Commissioner's trail by the strong scent of his aftershave lotion (Wellington #4, from Sumatra!), which they hope and pray to find emanating from Egghead's digs. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin have opened a ialogue with Bessarovian ambassador Omar Orloff, who is convinced that Olga will swipe the giant Samovar Of Genghis Khan, which is being held at the embassy for safekeeping. The Duo agree, and they hide inside The Samovar to ambush Olga. While Egghead is out collecting his egg tax at Gilligan's Restaurant, Olga and her Cossacks raid the embassy and steal The Samovar, with The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder tucked away safely inside.

Later, at the hideout, The Dynamic Duo burst forth from The Samovar only to be immediately gassed by The Cossack Queen. Robin and Commissioner Gordon regain consciousness to learn to their consternation that they are being made into borscht by Ambassador Orloff, who is revealed to be one of Olga's Cossacks, while The Caped Crusader is targeted by Olga a one of her future husbands (as queen she's entitled to 6 husbands, and Egghead is slated to become one of them)! Outside the hideout Batgirl and Alfred finally locate the scent of Gordon's aftershave and arrive in time to rescue The Dynamic Duo and The Commissioner and make borscht out of the cossacks themselves! Just as it sems the heroes have won, Egghead reveals his secret weapon: 2 chickens who for weeks have been placed on a diet of onions. Egghead and Olga toss the chickens' eggs at Batman, Robin and Batgirl, each of which explode and emit clouds of tear gas! As The Dynamic Trio become awash in a warm sea of tears, Egghead, Queen Olga and her Cossack beat a hasty retreat.

How to Hatch a Dinosaur
Egghead, Queen Olga and The Cossacks raid The Gotham City Radium Center and rob 2 lbs. of radium. Later, as Barbara Gordon visits her friend Professor Dactyl at The Gotham Museum, Egghead and Olga grab a giant fossilized 40 million year-old Neosaurus egg, unbeknownst to Barbara or Dactyl! Barbara alerts her dad of the egg's theft, and he in turn alerts The Dynamic Duo. As The Caped Crusader and The Dominoed Daredoll ponder the problem, Egghead plans to hatch the egg with the radium and release the monster on a rampage of Gotham City! At the same time, Batman and Batgirl remember Professor Grimes' article on revitalizing fossils ("Revitalizing Fossil Forms By The Use Of High-Energy Radioactive Energy Sources," which appeared in an issue of The Southeastern Regional Journal Of Applied Radiology) and, uncovering Egghead's plot, use their Batgeiger counters to track down the radium to Egghead's hideaway. Leaving Batgirl and Robin to enter the front way, Batman sneaks around to the back entrance.

Entering the hideout, Batgirl and Robin are quickly captured and forced to watch as Egghead succeds in hatching the egg. Egghead then tries to offer the pair as a snack to the hatched beast, but the moster advances towards him instead! Egghead, Olga, and her Cossacks turn chicken and gladly turn themselves in to the waiting paddy wagon outside. As Batgirl and Robin prepare to take on the monster, they are uprised to see it remove its head and reveal the weclome countenance of Batman, who, knowing that it was impossible to hatch the egg, decided to use Egghead's scheme against him. So, he donned a Neosaurus costume, secretly entered the egg, and made it look like Egghead had really hatched a monster!

As Bruce, Dick, O'Hara and Gordon chow down on Barbara's birthday cake, she recieves a call from her surfer friend, Skip Parker...just as The Joker and his cohorts Riptide and Wipeout arrive at Gotham Point by Jokemobile...

WRITTEN BY: Stanford Sherman

DIRECTED BY: Oscar Rudolph

CAST:
Vincent Price (Egghead)
Anne Baxter (Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks)
James O'Hara (Policeman)
Pat Becker (Technician)
Alfred Dennis (Omar Orloff)
Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan)
Violet Carlson (Old Lady)
Billy Corcoran (Boy Scout)
James Lanphier (Indian Man)
Mary Benoit (Petula)
John Lormer (Professor Dactyl)
Donald Elson (Tender)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- We learn here that Alfred once worked for The Earl Of Chutney, and Olga used to be a dishwasher at a Bessarovian restaurant.

- The late Alan Hale Jr.'s portrayal of Gilligan in this episode is in reference to another show for which he is famous: the 1964-67 CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island (as Jonas Grumby, The Skipper!).

- The late Anne Baxter, debuting here as Olga, Queen Of The Cossacks, portrayed Zelda The Great in the series' first season. Her final TV role was that of Victoria Cabot on Hotel (ABC, 1983-88), which also starred Batman guest star James Brolin.

- The Neosaurus costume was hand-me-down wardrobe from the January 11, 1967 "The Questing Beast" episode of Lost In Space (CBS, 1965-68), which aired on CBS Wednesday nights opposite Batman from January 1966 to August 1967. Since Twentieth Century-Fox TV was involved with both productions, many of the sound effects heard on Batman are the same as Irwin Allen's science fiction adventure.

SCREEN GRABS FROM THE OGG AND I

SCREEN GRABS FROM HOW TO HATCH A DINOSAUR

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