Batman Episode (48) … Second Season – The Yegg Foes in Gotham


Original Air Date - October 20, 1966

Major Villain - Vincent Price as Egghead

Important Guest Stars

Edward Everett Horton as Chief Screaming Chicken
Gail Hire as Miss Bacon
Ben Welden as Foo Young
Gene Dynarski as Benedict
Stephen Dunne as Millionaire Tim Tyler - Baseball
Albert Carrier as Millionaire Pete Savage - Patron of the Arts
Bryon Keith - Mayor


My Thoughts about the Show


As the fiendish device warm up and Egghead's began to scan Bruce Wayne mind, Dick Grayson was looking around and discovered a way to save Bruce's secret identity by changing the voltage from 440 to 220 volts.



He succeeded in saving Bruce's secret identity and at the same time the device did not destroy it. Thanks to the efforts of Dick Grayson.

So, after the device is utterly destroyed and villains escaped except Egghead by showing a Radar Egg and told the three millionaires that any form of vibrations will set it off and the whole place will be splattered millionaires if you don't move a muscle.




Egghead marches in Commissioner Gordon and claimed the top job in the Police Department and named Chief Screaming Chicken his Mayor and fired both Gordon and Mayor Linseed immediately and chaos resulted and warned Batman and Robin about the disaster awaited for them if they don't heed to Egghead demands.




So, Batman and Robin were forced to leave Gotham City and saying goodbye and this is one of Boy Wonder's saddest days in his life as Crimefighter and said Gotham City is my kind of town and off to the Batcave via Wayne Manor. They were forced to leave by Egghead demands.



Good Bye for the Dynamic Duo

The moment that Batman and Robin left Gotham City - A crime wave of epic proportion engulfs Gotham City and the Police are powerless to stop them

Chaos reigns in Gotham City ...


Gotham City Policeman is writing out a ticket to the Driver that not wearing his seat belt.

Then later on during the day, Bruce and Dick stole the original Charter and discovered a clause that Egghead overlooked to see a flaw in Egghead's confident saying criminals of any kind is prohibited in establishing a claim on Gotham City and therefore Egghead is definitely a crook and therefore can't control the city after all. 

They came back to Commissioner Gordon's office and told the good news to him and Mayor Linseed and Gordon told the Mayor all of this havoc is wrecking apart and Batman and Robin gave them the good news and both the Mayor and Gordon was relieved and the Mayor told Batman; that Egghead gave a bounty on your head for $50,000 dollars and warned them to be careful about capturing Egghead.



Back to Batcave and discovered additional clues and what not; they deduces that Egghead and his gang were at the Gotham City Treasury to steal 30,000,000 million dollars in small denominations and they raced there and discovered that Egghead tied up Chief Screaming Chicken and leaving Gotham City to Venezuela.



They save the day and the Money that Egghead stolen and the show came to the close.


Bats

Batman Episode (49) … Second Season – The Devil's Fingers


Original Air Date - October 26, 1966

Major Villain - Liberace as Chandell and Harry (dual roles)



Important Guest Stars

Marilyn Hanold as Doe
Edy Williams as Rae
Sivi Aberg as Mimi


My Thoughts about the Show


Bruce Wayne is out on a Camping Trip and Dick Grayson on a School Holiday dating an attractive blonde and having time off from Crime Fighting and all. In one evening Wayne Manor was attacked by three phantoms all gorgeous ladies into the life of crime that left Commissioner Gordon and his Men frustrated over the lack of clues and all that.


The three Phantoms Strikes

So, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara at the scene of the crime and they decided that it is best handled by Batman and Robin and they called the operator at the Police Headquarters and asked for the Special Hotline to contact the Caped Crusaders and they discovered that both Batman and Robin aren't available. The following night it was the Charity Concert for Wayne Foundation and both Chandell and Aunt Harriet are scheduled to perform and somehow Chandell hits a wrong chord and that the signal for the Phantoms to strike another location and therefore the mysterious criminal had struck twice causing great strain to his notion and demanding Batman in his hour of need.



Hotline and Chandell is being told by Commissioner Gordon that Batman and Robin aren't available.

Then, later that night after Bruce Wayne contacted Dick Grayson that your School Holiday must end and something is fishy in Gotham City and having realized that they were gone for two days indicating a major crime is being planned and Commissioner Gordon is going frustrated by the lack of evidence and Chandell instructed his Phantoms to stake out Wayne Manor for Bruce Wayne to show up.




So, later on both Chandell found out that Bruce Wayne is back at Wayne Manor and that good news so that they can pull off a plan to get the vast fortunes of the Wayne Foundation and the bad news that Batman and Robin are back in action to solve this mysterious crime wave.




First they went to Chandell place to discovered that he was struck by a Root Beer Bottle that he was sharing with Aunt Harriet and Robin found some smelling salts to revive him and to figure out what's going on around here.


Prior to this the Great Chandell is romancing Aunt Harriet 

Note: This is one of Madge Blake most prominent performances on Batman and she did a great job of acting here.


Left to Right ... The Phantoms

Edy Williams as Rae

Marilyn Hanold as Doe
Sivi Aberg as Mimi


After careful deduction the Dynamic Duo headed to a Paper Roll Factory to confront Harry and his Phantoms and a strong Bat-Fight followed and somehow they were brought down by a Paper Roll from the ceiling that Harry let go on purpose to knock out the Caped Crusaders and fed them to a Paper Roll Cutting Machine. What's horrible device that our beloved heroes are being fed to!





Bats



Episodes #49 and #50 are the two highest rated shows in Batman's History and many people wanted to see Liberace and this is one of his fondest memories of his career being a part of the Batman experiences. It was a masterpiece of Madge Blake's performance and she did one incredible job here. 

Batman Episode (49) … Second Season – The Dead Ringers


Original Air Date - October 27, 1966

Major Villain - Liberace as Chandell and Harry (dual roles)

Important Guest Stars

Marilyn Hanold as Doe
Edy Williams as Rae
Sivi Aberg as Mimi


My Thoughts about the Show




Following Batman's orders he instructed Robin to sing the exact notes so that the paper roll machine can cut through the outlines of their bodies so that they can escape.




Batman and Robin finally caught up with Harry and his Phantoms and Harry told the girls to leave first and Batman's bop him with his batarang and took him to Police Headquarters to be grilled for more questions than he bargain for and he was soundly rescued by his Lawyer that took control of this situation.




So, after that and all this going on; Batman suspected a rotten deal here using player rolls, conspiracy to commit murder, trying to get a hold of the vast fortune of Wayne Foundation and a plot to marry Aunt Harriet and all this  prompt Batman to ask Robin about the Chandell's performance at the White House and using Robin's memory and all that and thinking about it and all that making Batman to think about the greater scoop of things here.




In order to trap Chandell's he created a scene inside Wayne Manor that Dick Grayson's had an accident in his Darkroom and headlines (false one) to force Chandell to play his hand to the Police and to our Caped Crusaders.



And back to Wayne Manor, even Aunt Harriet suspected that it was Harry as disguise of Chandell and when Harry's kissed her hands and a light bulb moment and she told Alfred to bring her Blackberry Brandy to calm her nerves and all and told Alfred a Girl can tell and that's where she decided to do something about it.



So, the caper in motion as the Evil Harry and his twin brother Chandell have already in place and during a moment of a quick rehearsal ... Aunt Harriet pulls out a gun and promptly orders Harry to go to the Police Headquarters and turn yourself in and that's whe Doe came in to stop Aunt Harriet altogether! 



This is not something to see Aunt Harriet here taking charge of anything and let alone have a Gun in her hands here.

So, with all this going on and Batman and Robin already place a homing device on Aunt Harriet to keep tabs on her whereabouts and saved Aunt Harriet from certain death along with Alfred too and with Alfred help they went inside the crate that Aunt Harriet is supposed to be and Harry using a Machine Gun and gunning her down and all the sudden the Caped Crusaders exploded into action and stop the deadly dealings of Chandell and his rotten brother Harry.



After all this, and a day later after the dust is settled, at Police Headquarters ... Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Commissioner Gordon, and Chief O'Hara greeted Aunt Harriet with a Citizen Police Award for outstanding service and Commissioner Gordon proudly gave her that award and Aunt Harriet accepted and wondering what happen to Chandell and Gordon gave her a note written to Aunt Harriet to apologize and make amends to.

Aunt Harriet realize that and understood everything.

At the end inside Jail, and all the Piano Movers, the Phantoms one by one, and Harry got real upset about being in Jail and warns everybody ... I'm getting out of this joint and all that. And, Chandell was singing away and playing his Piano like nothing happen and being in Jail a fitting end of this diabolical caper that was originated by his evil twin brother Harry.



Bats



This is Madge Blake's finest performance in this series of shows and I was delighted in seeing her in a more established role that makes her demanding and strong. Great Show from start to finish and this is one of the highest rated shows in Batman history.

59 Come Back, Shame
60 It's How You Play the Game – Cliff Robertson as Shame



65 The Puzzles Are Coming
66 The Duo is Slumming – Maurice Evans as The Puzzler



89 Black Widow Strikes Again
90 Caught in the Spider's Den - Tallulah Bankhead as the Black Widow



Dear Everyone,


My next review #52, Dizzoner the Penguin will be up late Monday Night and I got 35 shows left to do minus the ones that listed on top and those six shows starring Cliff Robertson as Shame, Maurice Evans as the Puzzler, and Tallulah Bankhead as the Black Widow are the ones that I'm not doing at all.

That's leaves me 35 shows to review and again, I'm not doing the third season of Batman because 70% of the show not worth the effort to review at all. I totally dislike the third season alone. I should be done by the end of this year; plus or minus 20 days.

This is going to be my last review thread in this forum.