Batman (TV Series) The Funny Feline Felonies (1967) User Reviews

Eartha Kitt As Catwoman Is Outstanding

[StuOz · 28 July 2018]

Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) and The Joker (Cesar Romero) team up!

Another reviewer has described Eartha Kitt's performance as Catwoman as "pitiful"?? Everybody has a right to an opinion but in my lifetime of following this 1966 Batman series I have never heard anyone say a single negative comment about Kitt's performance, so this negative view is totally new to me.

The Joker is fine but at times he seems a bit too childlike.

As always, the jazzy Billy May music cues are a standout.

The Funny Feline Felonies is a total knockout adventure loaded with colourful lines of dialogue and you will be desperate for part two next week!

BEST CAR AWARD GOES TO CATWOMAN'S WHEELS

[tcchelsey · 10/10 · 9 April 2023]

The mean green super muscle car (replete with claws?) has got to be one of the best villain rides ever. Catwoman picks up the Joker in this incredible machine after he is released from prison, although he makes it look (because the warden is watching) that she forced him into the car at gun point. This classic hot rod had to have been designed by the same team that engineered the Batmobile, among many other iconic tv cars. Kitt clearly is having fun with her role (and looking very trim in her sexy costume), as she and the Joker follow a map to a secret stash of gun powder, which they intend to use in a future caper. The only debit here is when the Joker is released from prison (given a $10 dollar bill, which clearly insults him), the cigar he hands the warden DID NOT explode? I was so sure this would be the case, especially when the Joker makes a hasty exit, laughing it up, leaving he and Bruce Wayne alone. Perhaps this scenario was originally planned, then abruptly changed? Character actor David Lewis appeared in several episodes as the warden, a familiar face on many cop shows. There's still lots of campy fun, including a BIFF, BOP fight on a leopard skin bed when the Dynamic Duo tackle both the Catwoman and the Joker's henchmen. Look for some special guests. Dick Kallman plays Little Louie Groovy, a character spoof of eccentric record producer Phil Specter. His talent agent is none other than "Ew! Ew!" funny man Joe E. Ross (CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU). It's too bad he didn't have a bigger bit. Kallman at the time had signed a recording contract in addition to appearing in several movies. He later gave up showbiz to run a successful antique business, unfortunately leading to his being robbed and shot. British actor Ronald Long (a favorite on BEWITCHED) plays finicky Karnaby Katz, and always over the top. This was the final episode of 1967 and another gem. SEASON 3 EPISODE 16 dvd box set.

"You must have flipped your raspberry, Joker"

[kevinolzak · 3/10 · 30 April 2016]

"The Funny Feline Felonies," continues the downward spiral of Cesar Romero's Joker, here inexplicably teamed with Eartha Kitt's pitiful excuse for a Catwoman, shot before her solo appearance in "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill" but broadcast afterwards. The always reliable Romero was not well served this final season, Joker more childlike in his demeanor, while Catwoman couldn't have fared worse under the unlikely casting of Eartha Kitt, catlike in her profession as a night club performer, but all wrong for the costume on screen, Stanley Ralph Ross' new interpretation a complete disaster. Joker's release from prison, and subsequent kidnapping by Catwoman, leads to a caper involving the search for a million pounds of gunpowder to blow a hole in the Federal Depository (Joker's dismissed suggestion of dynamite would have been so much easier), while luring the Dynamic Duo into a typical death trap. Dick Kallman's Little Louie Groovy was a takeoff on Phil Spector (he loses his nightshirt), Joe E. Ross (CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU) putting in an unbilled cameo as his agent, Ronald Long's Karnaby Katz suffering the loss of his crib. It is as jaw droppingly bad as it sounds. David Lewis makes the seventh of his eight appearances as Warden Crichton.

PLOT AND PERFORMANCES OF KINDERGARTEN

[asalerno10 · 5/10 · 26 June 2022]

The Joker is released, but far from reforming, he immediately allies himself with Catwoman and both steal first an ancient scroll, then a hippie singer's nightgown and finally a fashion designer's crib. All of these items contain secret messages that will lead to a hidden gunpowder shipment. I don't know if it will be the fault of the writer or the Director but here the villains behave like kindergarten children and to top it off the plot is quite silly.