The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) and Lola Lasagne (Ethel Merman) are still up to no good and are working to make sure that they win an incredibly large amount on a horse race. They’ve schemed and gotten almost all the other horses out of the way, but they still have to have enough for a bit of a race, run by Bruce Wayne (Adam West) one they can control.

A Horse of Another Color was written by Charles Hoffman and had an original airdate of 12 October, 1967.

Bruce and Dick Grayson (Burt Ward) try to concoct a plan to stop the villains once and for all, and it will include Dick serving as a jockey on Lola’s horse, while The Penguin rides his own, and thrown into the race on Bruce Wayne’s latest stallion, is Batgirl (Yvonne Craig)!

It’s a delightfully goofy episode, and the horse race is intercut with stock footage from other horse races as our heroes attempt to stop Penguin and bring him to justice (again).

Merman doesn’t seem to have as much to do in this episode, Burgess Meredith still chews the scenery brilliantly, and I love his physical performance as well as his vocal one.

The stories seem to be moving faster, most of them adapting to the new single episode format, and upping the drama and the narrative as a consequence. The episode ends with Batgirl’s alter-ego Barbara, and her father Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) witnessing the appearance of King Tut (Victor Buono) in her library! Which means he’ll be back for the next episode!

The Unkindest Tut of All features, surprise, King Tut as the villain! Written by Stanley Ralph Ross this episode first debuted on 19 October, 1967.

King Tut seems to be up to all manner of no good, making false predictions to keep the law busy in Gotham City, including the rumor of an escape of supervillains from the penitentiary. This he does to distract everyone from his real plan to steal an ancient statue that could give him unlimited power.

Along the way he almost outs Bruce Wayne as Batman when he bugs the batmobile and tracks it back to the batcave, which is under Wayne Manor! Only some fast thinking on Batman’s part keeps his secret identity safe, and with some bat-tech, he is able to convince everyone that a dummy sitting in the batmobile, interacting with the public, is the real Batman.

Batman, Robin and Batgirl are able to beat Tut soundly, and this time, he doesn’t get his memory restored to that of the professor that his is alter-ego, and then we are given a glimpse of the next episode’s villain, Louie, The Lilac played by Milton Berle!

I like the way that Bruce and Barbara flirt, and then Batman and Batgirl do the same, not realizing who the other is.