We get a great window cameo (Hey! It’s Sammy Davis Jr.!) to an introduction to a new baddie, The Clock King (Walter Slezak), Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) have their hands full in this two-parter written by Bill Finger and Charles Sinclair.

The first episode, The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes first aired on 12 October, 1966.

The Clock King is fascinated by all things temporal, especially art, so when Gordon (Neil Hamilton) calls the Dynamic Duo for help after an antique clock sets off a deadly gas that allows for a major theft, the pair have to be ready for anything.

But no one expected that the Clock King would next appear as a pop artist with the intent of stealing some clock-themed paintings. The Clock King sets a trap for the Caped Crusaders at the site of the theft, and the pair follow through on it, tracking down Clock King’s hideout, which just so happens to be where Sammy Davis is practicing!

The pair walk into yet another trap and find themselves sans utility belts in a slowly filling hourglass!

The pop-art thing is a little on the nose because the series itself has by this time become the perfect personification of pop-art. There aren’t quite as many camp lines and moments as in the previous episode, but there’s a fun sequence at a drive-in where a young woman thinks Robin is dreamy, and the pair chow down on bat-burgers!

But how are they going to get free of the giant hourglass?

The Clock King Gets Crowned aired on 13 October, 1966 and while Batman and Robin are escaping the hourglass by rocking it back and forth, and then rolling it around the floor and through a window, Aunt Harriet (Madge Blake) reveals to Gordon and O’Hara (Stafford Repp) that today is Bruce Wayne’s birthday and she’s inviting them to a party this evening at Wayne Manor.

The Clock King, believing Batman is dead, hears about the party, and in fact, has a camera placed in a clock gift for Bruce. They plan to break in and steal all of Bruce’s antique pocket watches, but one of Clock King’s thugs mistakenly used one of the switches that were meant for an atomic trigger on the clock gift for Bruce.

They have to escalate their plans, recover the switch, take over the city and pull off a major heist.

Will Batman and Robin be able to stop them? Will they be able to figure out what Clock King’s final plan is? And will the birthday party go off without a hitch?

There’s a great sequence where Clock King is in the manor, and Batman and Robin are in the bat-cave, and William Dozier’s narration keeps delivering “meanwhile” after “meanwhile.”