ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 11/23/1967 - 11/30/1967 - 12/07/1967
EPISODE NUMBERS: 105-107, Production Code 1711
PLOT SUMMARIES:
The Londinium Larcenies
After stealing the Queen's collection of snuffboxes from a Londinium museum, Lord Marmaduke Fogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, escape in a thick fog. Ireland Yard calls in Batman & Robin to solve the mystery, and Barbara Gordon is eager to accompany them. The Caped Crusader is interesting in comparing Lord Fogg's aftergrass with that of Wayne Manor. While at the Ffogg Estate, Robin learns from Fogg's daughter, Lady Prudence that her father and her aunt, Lady Peasoup, operate a school for lady crooks under the guise of a girl's finishing school! The unimpressed Ffogg vows to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of Londinium.
Batman and Robin manage to bring The Batmobile and Batcomputer to Londinium (and preserve their secret identities all at the same time) by packing them into crates and passing them off as Dick Grayson's desk and books, and then reassemble them in a Batcave-like space beneath a rented manor. During The Dynamic Duo's visit at the estate with Ireland Yard Superintendant Watson, Barbara Gordon slips off to contact Alfred and have him meet her at the road leading to the estate, where she changes into her Batgirl outfit brought by the butler. Later, upon leaving the Fogg estate, The Dynamic Duo are set upon by Fogg's servants Scudder, Basil, and Digby (disguised as highwaymen) but are aided by Batgirl, who arrives in time to help rout the roughians — and then leaves as suddenly as she arrived! Batman and Robin return to the Londinium Batcave and are ambushed with a noxious fog bomb planted by Ffogg's servants!
The Foggiest Notion
Batman quickly dispenses with the fog bomb with a General Emergency Batextinguisher, then returns with Robin to venerable Ireland Yard to warn Commissioner Gordon and Superintendant Watson of their suspicions of The Lord and his Lady. While there, they are sent a clue that leads them to a pub on the docks called The Three Bells. Barbara Gordon, in the meantime, plans to join Fogg's teaching staff. Down at the docks, The Dynamic Duo find a ship containing priceless mod materials and patterns from Barnaby Street. In the pub, Batman is captured inside by Ffogg and his henchmen while the underage Robin, barred from the pub (overrun by hippies and mod people!) and left outside in The Batmobile to guard the ship, is swept away by Lady Peasoup and her henchwomen after severing the ship's mooring line and setting it free.
Back on the road outside Fogg Estate, The Caped Crusadress, Batgirl, rendezvous with Alfred and, voicing her suspicions about Fogg and Peasoup, proceeds to investigate The Cricket Pavilion, and, having a little more luck, discovers stolen loot stored by Ffogg's. However, she is detected by Lady Prudence, who immediately immobilizes her in a cloud of paralyzing gas. Convinced his sister has secured the ship, Lord Fogg has The Boy Wonder moved to the winch room at The Tower Bridge, where he is tied to the winch that opens and closes the bridge. Batman uses The Batcomputer to locate robin just as the winch starts to rais the bridge and, using his Antimechanical Batray, manages to stop the bridge and rescue Robin from death in the Tower of Londinium. Together, they battle Lord Ffogg, Scudder, Basil and Digby — but Fogg escapes by creating yet another cloud of man-made mist with his pipe of fog!
The Bloody Tower
Escaping Fogg's fog in the winch room, The Dynamic Duo, accompanied by Alfred, race to the Fogg estate to save Batgirl, who is still chained up in the dungeon and about to be finished off by Fogg and Peasoup with some lethal fog pellets. Robin arrives at the estate but is spotted and lured by Lady Prudence to Lord Fogg's hive of African Death Bees. Meanwhile, Fogg and Peasoup discover that the lethal fog pellets have gone stale and they rush off to find some more, allowing Batman time to sneak into the dungeon...but is surprised by the returning Lord, who shoves him downstairs, followed by fresh fog pellets. While both Batman and Batgirl are left to perish in the dungeon threatened by lethal gas pellets, Robin is stung by the deadly queen African bee and left to die in the girls' dormitory.
Lord Fogg, Lady Peasoup and the gang plan to forge ahead with the theft of The Crown Jewels and leave for The Tower Of Londinium. Fortunately — with the help of Alfred and the unexpected arrival of Aunt Harriet in Londinium — the tables finally turn: Robin, with the use of an African Death Bee Antidote Pill, is saved from bee-death and rushes outside to The Batmobile to greet Alf; meanwhile, in the dungeon, Batman disperses the poisonous fog with Anti-Lethal-Fog Batspray, saves Batgirl, and uses her rope to perform an Indian rope trick to escape through an overhead grating. En masse, The Dynamic Trio arrive in time to foil Fogg's plans to swipe the jewels. Following the ensuing Batfight, Ffogg, fearing apprehension, tries to escape using his fog pipe, but The Caped Crusader thwarts this attempt with his Pipe Of Fog Batreverser and he and Superintendant Watson take the entire group into custody.
Later, back at Gotham City Police HQ, The Dynamic Duo leave Gordon's office and sees The Catwoman immediately dive into an elevator...
WRITTEN BY: Elkan Allen, Charles Hoffman
DIRECTED BY: Oscar Rudolph
CAST:
Maurice Dallimore (Watson)
Monte Landis (Basil)
Joseph Abdullah (Fagin)
Gil Stuart (The Bobby)
Glynnis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup)
Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg)
Lyn Peters (Prudence)
Harvey Jason (Scudder)
Larry Anthony (Digby)
Aleta Rotell (Daisy)
Nannette Turner (Sheila)
Stacey Maxwell (Rosamund)
Lynley Lawrence (Kit)
INTERESTING NOTES:
- Rudy Vallee (Lord Marmaduke Fogg) and one of his henchmen Monte Landis (Basil) both had parts in 2 different Elvis Presley movies.
Rudy Vallee portrayed Louis Penlow in "Live a Little, Love a Little"(1968). Monte Landis portrayed Georgie in "Double Trouble"(1967).
- This is the only 3-part third-season episode of Batman, as well as the third overall and last.
- Glynis Johns (Lady Penelope Peasoup) is remembered for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (Buena Vista, 1964).
- Episode guests Monte Landis, Stacey Maxwell and Maurice Dallimore all appeared in various episodes of The Monkees (NBC, 1966-68).
- The interior shots of Superintendant Watson's office in Ireland Yard were done on the same set as Commissioner Gordon's office, with a slight change of apparrel.
- This was the final performance as Aunt Harriet Cooper Madge Blake ever gave.
- Here, Robin is seen actually driving The Batmobile
- We learn here that Alfred Pennyworth drove around Londinium in his second cousin Cuthbert's taxicab.
SCREEN GRABS FROM The Londinium Larcenies
SCREEN GRABS FROM THE FOGEST NOTICE
SCREEN GRABS FROM THE BLOODY TOWER
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