The episode opens with Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) saving herself, for a delightful change, from Joker (Cesar Romero) and Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) and gears up to send the Dynamic Trio after the supervillains (once again). The Joke’s on Catwoman was written by Stanley Ralph Ross and first aired on 4 January, 1968. The villains continue their…
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Batman (1967) – The Ogg Couple, and The Funny Feline Felonies
Egghead (Vincent Price) and Olga (Anne Baxter) are back in The Ogg Couple. Written by Stanford Sherman this episode was first aired on 21 December, 1967. The episode was initially written to be part of a three-part episode tying in with The Ogg and I, and How to Hatch a Dinosaur but was re-edited to…
Batman (1967) – The Bloody Tower, and Catwoman’s Dressed to Kill
Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward) and Batgirl’s (Yvonne Craig) Londinium adventure comes to a close with this episode, wrapping up the trio of stories that were written by Elkan Allen from a story Allen wrote with Charles Hoffman. It debuted on 7 December, 1967. Batman, Robin and Alfred (Alan Napier) escaped the bridge winch…
Mission: Impossible (1967) – The Traitor, and The Psychic
We’re coming up on the end of the first season of Paramount Picture’s Mission: Impossible, and the wonderful Eartha Kitt guest stars in the penultimate episode, The Traitor. Written by Edward J. Lasko this IMF assignment first aired on 15 April, 1967. When an American agent turns traitor and hides out in a foreign embassy,…
Erik the Viking (1989) – Terry Jones
Monty Python alum Terry Jones writes and directs (as well as making an appearance) in the next film in DK Canada’s highly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies book as I continue to explore the chapter on Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales. Tim Robbins is the titular Erik, a Viking who isn’t sure about the looting…
Miami Vice (1985) -Whatever Works, and Out Where the Buses Don’t Run
Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) find more darkness under the glitz and glamour as I dive into this week’s pair of episodes of Miami Vice. First up is Whatever Works. Written by Maurice Hurley, the episode first debuted on 4 October, 1985. Sonny’s Ferrari Daytona Spyder gets seized by police…
The Mind Reels 