King Tut (Victor Buono) is back, it seems that the academic recovery restored in his previous appearance didn’t take, and he’s back with a dangerous new plan. Written by Robert C. Dennis and Earl Barret, this first part of the two-part story first aired on 28 September, 1966.

He’s focused on stealing some amber jewels that contain a long-extinct species of scarab. Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) are trying to figure out the plan after some self-taught reading of hieroglyphics and they come to a troubling discovery.

It seems Tut is working on a long-forgotten concoction which requires the scarabs. It’s a formula that would turn anyone who imbibes it into a willing slave.

Tut has a number of employees working with him including an Apothecary (Sid Haig!) and Cleo (Marianna Hill). Cleo is working undercover in Gordon’s (Neil Hamilton) office!

After a confrontation, and a deduction of what Tut is up to, Batman plants Robin in an Egyptian statue, one seen on Tut’s previous visit. The Pharoah reclaims it, and Batman tracks it, but maybe not quickly enough, because Robin finds himself in a round of fisticuffs he escapes into a room, to find himself dangling over a pit filled with crocodiles (that look incredibly fake).

Tut is definitely an interesting character, his emotions, all his emotions, run very close to the surface, but his plan is definitely a threat to all of Gotham if he’s able to pull it off and Batman and Robin are unable to stop him.

Oh! And the window cameo in this episode is… the Green Hornet (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee)!

Tut’s Case is Shut aired the following night on 29 September, 1966.

Batman arrives just in time to scale the building and burn through the window bars to save his young ward, after escaping the pair are finally able to completely piece together Tut’s plan. He understands the formula and what it can do.

Unfortunately, they haven’t counted on Cleo, she doses O’Hara (Stafford Repp) who begins succumbing to every suggestion and he begins cavorting along the ledge of the building. Batman and Robin work to save him, as they come up with their plan to stop Tut.

And for Batman, it all comes down to six glasses of buttermilk.

He’s coated his stomach so that way when Gordon attempts to dose him, he pretends to succumb to the drug and lets Tut’s men guide him to Tut’s hideaway, with a captured Robin in tow. But, of course, Batman is only pretending and he springs into action foiling Tut’s plan with the help of the Boy Wonder, and the Dynamic Duo serve justice and save the day before all of Gotham can be dosed with Tut’s mind-control drug.

This one was light and fun, and I loved seeing Hornet and Kato pop up, and the fact that Robin thought that they were dressed oddly.

Next time we get another new villain to the series, and there are more adventures to come!