Catwoman mind-controls Robin!. The Caped Crusader must stop her before she does who-knows-what with him!.Catwoman mind-controls Robin!. The Caped Crusader must stop her before she does who-knows-what with him!.Catwoman mind-controls Robin!. The Caped Crusader must stop her before she does who-knows-what with him!.
William Dozier
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Steve Franken
- Rudy, the Valet
- (uncredited)
Bennie Goldberg
- Old Criminal
- (uncredited)
Robert Hitchcock
- Man on Dais
- (uncredited)
Clark Ross
- Servant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPuns in this episode: "World's richest and cheapest inventor" Pat Pending is a common abbreviation for "Patent Pending". Rudy, the Valet is a reference to actor/singer Rudy Vallee. New Guernsey is the Batman version of New Jersey. Jersey and Guernsey are both names of milk cows and (primarily) Channel Islands, a group of islands in the English Channel. Mayor Linseed is a pun on John V. Lindsay, mayor of New York City from 1966 until 1973. Governor Stonefellow is a pun on Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York state from 1959 until 1973. Short Island is a play on Long Island, and the West River is a pun on the East River.
- GoofsWhen Catwoman, Robin, and the rest of the gang invade Wayne Manor, Catwoman's goons go straight to the wall safe hidden behind the portrait of Bruce's great-grandfather. Of the six of them, only Robin should know where that safe is, and, as Alfred points out, the drug affecting him blocks his memory.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Salty Nerd Podcast: Batman '66 (S2E40) - That Darn Catwoman (2022)
- SoundtracksCalifornia Nights
(uncredited)
Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling
Performed by Lesley Gore
Courtesy of Mercury Records
Featured review
Lesley Gore performing her last Top 20 hit
"That Darn Catwoman" was intended to be the finale for Julie Newmar's Catwoman, but was moved up in the broadcast schedule due to the presence of Lesley Gore, seen here singing her current (and last) Top 20 hit, "California Nights," one of the earliest successes for composer Marvin Hamlisch. Lesley is cast as the sexy Pussycat, over the hill rock and roll singer (at age 20!) turned Catwoman protégé, testing out the drug cataphrenic on Robin, which works to transform him into the opposite of what he was, now a lascivious criminal who gives Chief O'Hara (Stafford Repp) a shove he'd never forget. Catwoman embarks on a series of robberies to acquire a million dollar fortune for a specific purpose, even emptying the stuffed mattress of inventor Pat Pending (J. Pat O'Malley), whose valet (an unbilled Steve Franken) is named Rudy (as in Rudy Vallee!). The weighing ceremony for Prince Ibn Kereb of Gedallia (David Renard) is where Batman catches up with the gang, but is unable to fight back when it's the drugged Robin throwing punches. A gigantic mouse trap fit for a bat serves as the death trap, with Robin the one cutting the rope to become Batman's murderer! Writer Stanley Ralph Ross outdid himself with this one, extending to the name Ibn Kereb, which is the Arabic phrase for 'son of a b--ch' (the network having rejected the first name he came up with).
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