The penultimate episode of Batman introduces us to two new criminals and gives us a glimpse of Batman’s regular rogues gallery (but don’t look to close, because it’s someone else in their costumes). Written by Stanley Ralph Ross, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra first aired on 7 March, 1968. Dr. Cassandra (Ida Lupino) and her cohort,…
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Batman (1968) – I’ll Be a Mummy’s Uncle, and The Joker’s Flying Saucer
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,…
Batman (1968) – The Joke’s on Catwoman, and Louie’s Lethal Lilac Time
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…
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) – How to Hatch a Dinosaur, and Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under!
Stanford Sherman doles out another tale involving Egghead (Vincent Price) and Olga (Anne Baxter), and it first aired on 9 November, 1967. I don’t know if the series wrote itself into a corner with the previous episode, but this one picks up with Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward) and Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) all free,…
Batman (1966) – The Joker Trumps an Ace, and Batman Sets the Pace
The Joker (Cesar Romero) in The Joker Trumps an Ace. Written by Francis M. Cockrell and Marian B. Cockrell this episode was first broadcast on 6 April, 1966. The Joker is on a strange crime wave, and he’s doing a lot of it with mirrors, enough so to even baffle Batman (Adam West) and Robin…
Batman (1966) – The Joker Goes to School, and He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul
The Joker (Cesar Romero) is back as Lorenzo Semple Jr. pens The Joker Goes to School. Originally airing on 2 March, 1966, we get a peek inside one of Gotham City’s high schools, the very one that Dick Grayson aka Robin (Burt Ward) attends. And there’s something going on there. It seems the vending machines…
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) – Jay Oliva
Flash (Justin Chambers) has his hands full after the timeline is changed around him in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. Based on the graphic novel, Flashpoint by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert, this animated feature, though featuring great voice work by its all-star cast suffers from the same thing most of the other adaptations suffer…
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) – Jay Oliva
The second installment of The Dark Knight Returns continues the adaptation of the iconic 80s graphic novel. Redefining Batman for a whole new generation, and putting the dark in Dark Knight, the story continues its exploration of an older (now no longer retired) Batman/Bruce Wayne (Peter Weller – who still can’t separate his Batman and…
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012) – Jay Oliva
The Dark Knight Returns is an iconic graphic novel, a story that redefined Batman in the 80s, and was, perhaps, the one adaptation that I was looking forward to most. I liked that the creative team knew to tell the story properly, they had to take their time with it, setting everything up, which meant…
The Mind Reels 