King Tut (Victor Buono) is back for a final appearance in I’ll Be a Mummy’s Uncle. Written by Stanley Ralph Ross, it first aired on 22 February, 1968.

Tut is in town and has a real estate scheme, he wants to get his hands on some rare minerals. Where are they? Buried under Wayne Manor, under the batcave!!!

Unable to stop the purchase of the land, Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) have to find a way to stop Tut from excavating and discovering the cave and their secret identities. Summoning Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) to help, things go badly, as Tut’s mining team stumbles into the cave, and Tut deduces what its location means and that Bruce Wayne must be Batman!!

Will a convenient knock on the head stop him from spilling all the beans?

It’s a fairly run-of-the-mill episode, but Ross has a knack for turn of phrase, and making fun plays on words, ‘prose and cons’ stands out wonderfully. I like Buono’s Tut, it’s got a bit of a W.C. Fields thing going on, and he’s wonderfully sarcastic and playful with both his gang and our heroes.

The real thing I wonder is, why would Bruce Wayne even have the land for sale if he knew it held the batcave? It’s not like he needed the money, and he’s usually pretty clever. In this one, he’s deductions are hilarious, and I love the way he orates and pontificates as he puzzles things out.

The Joker’s Flying Saucer was written by Charles Hoffman and was first broadcast on 29 February, 1968. This sadly marks the final appearance of Cesar Romero’s Joker.

There are reports of flying saucers over Gotham, and Barbara Gordon sees a strange Martian, Verdigris (Richard Bakalyan) in her library. Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) summons Batman to investigate.

It seems Joker has a plan for worldwide domination, using flying saucers and the threat of an alien invasion! And his ally, Verdigris, who is not really a Martian, has planted a bomb in the batmobile which explodes in the batcave!

Batgirl finds herself captured, as does Alfred (Alan Napier), and the odds seem against our heroes for a moment.

Joker’s saucer seems to work, and once again, why isn’t he making it rich with the technology he’s using to travel the solar system?

And I couldn’t help but laugh at the pronunciation of ‘titanium.’ There’s a stolen clip from the original Invaders From Mars movie, and thanks to some handy work by Alfred, our heroes are able to deliver the necessary fisticuffs to put Joker down once and for all (at least as far as the series is concerned).

Next week we finish off this iconic series, so tune in one last bat-time, same bat-channel. Hard to believe it’s all over.