Batman

Appearing as trumped up replicas of Robin Hood, Archer, and his band of arch, mounted ruffians, Crier Tuck, Big John, and Maid Marilyn, storm stately Wayne Manor, gas everyone in it, and loot the place.

The cowled Crusader and Boy Wonder resourcefully spring out of the way, at the very last moment, on their Batsprings. During the confusion, Maid Marilyn has dropped Archer's ego-boosting applause machine, and Archer and his men runneth away. Batman and Robin ponder what's next.

The simultaneous theft of a department store catalogue, a catamaran, and three mittens alerts Gordon, O'Hara, Batman and Robin that Catwoman is loose again. The Dynamic Duo arrange a trap by asking gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to plant a story about a canary on display at the Natural History Museum. But Jack in league with Catwoman, tips her off that Batman hopes she'll go for the bird.

Batman and Robin discover Catwoman is now masquerading as rich old Minerva Matthews. "Minerva" tries to purloin two catgut-strung stradivarius violins from Zubin Zucchini, but "Zubin" turns out to be Robin in disguise. Batman and Robin try to coax Catwoman in from the ledge where she has taken refuge. Will this cat land on her feet?

Minstrel, a new villain, complete with lute, throws the Gotham Stock Exchange's computerized stock quotations into chaos, sending the market into near disaster. Batman and Robin rally as Minstrel beams in on a TV newscast to demand $ 1000 per week per exchange member in lieu of sending the market into utter pandemonium. Extortion!

Happily, three adhesive batbombs distract Minstrel's gang long enough for the duo to escape. Batman manages to capture Amanda, one of minstrel's goons, and bug her purse before letting her go. Thus, Batman and Robin discover that he plans to topple the exchange unless his plan is accepted within an hour.

Batman and Robin battle nefarious King Tut who plots to take over Gotham City with an ancient potion. When two of deluded King Tut's Tutlings, Royal Lapidary and Amenophis Tewfik, break into a Man or Distinction's mansion and purloin only a string of amber beads, Commissioner Gordon calls Batman and Robin to help solve this enigmatic caper.

Batman swings in on his Batrope and rescues Robin just as the plank runs out. Robin explains that Gordon's temporary secretary, buxom Miss Cleo Patrick, is really working for Tut and plans to slip the Commissioner a scarab mickey. Batman phones Gordon but gets O'Hara who has taken over for a few minutes while Gordon has stepped out.

Infamous Ma Parker and her four fiendish children, Machine Gun, Mad Dog, Pretty Boy, and Sexy Legs, raid Gotham's Ladies Auxiliary's Mother of the Year Awards and hold up the entire gathering.

Batman, suspecting foul play, stops the Batmobile, finds the bomb in the engine, and tosses it into a field where it explodes. He and Robin rush back to the prison but Crichton, covered by Ma and her men, assures the Dynamic Duo that everything is in order.

Evil Clock King watches on a monitor as one of his rigged antique clocks spews gas at Hummert's Jewelry Shop while his gang of Second Hands bound in and loot the place.

Batman and Robin topple and smash the hourglass to escape their awful fate. Meanwhile, Aunt Harriet is shopping for a clock for Bruce's birthday, not knowing that Clock King has planted one for her to buy. Unfortunately, the clock Harriet buys contains the automatic energy directional control switch, and the gang must retrieve it from Wayne manor.

In broad daylight, Egghead and his yeggs, Benedict, Foo Yung, and lithe Miss Bacon, steal Gotham's charter from its City Hall display case.

Bruce, Dick, Savage and Tyler escape the bomb's sensitive field by hoisting themselves to the door on a pipe. But in the meantime, the city's ownership has reverted to screaming chicken and thereby to Egghead, who in turn fires all city officials and opens the metropolis to the underworld.

While Liberace-like Chandell tickles the ivories for Aunt Harriet at Wayne Manor, three phantom Scottish lovelies, in reality Doe, Rae, and Mimi, blast all with super bagpipe tones, then hold Chandell up for his famed jewels and later ransack the house.

Batman and Robin shout chords that cause the perforations to outline their figures rather than puncture them. They then rout the Piano Movers and capture Harry. The cops grill Harry who explains that a criminal named Fingers is behind it all. Then Harry's lawyer, Mr. Slye, springs him on a technicality.

Suspiciously endearing himself to the citizens of Gotham by foiling a robbery, saving a runaway baby carriage and donating money to charity, the Penguin announces he is running for mayor of Gotham City. His support is so overwhelming that Batman decides he must enter the race.

Batman tumbles into the vat of acid, but luckily Alfred has fashioned his suit of acid-proof fabric. As his bonds dissolve, he rescues Robin and they head to a TV debate showdown with Penguin. A special bulletin tells viewers that the loot for an upcoming jewelers' convention is being ransacked by criminals at the Gotham convention hall.

Mr. Freeze kidnaps shapely Miss Iceland from the Gotham City Beauty Contest to freeze her down to his 50 degrees below zero atmosphere and marry her.

Clever Batman and Robin turn the exhaust nozzles in the bottom of the containers, thus reversing the exhaust process and melting their icy doom. All of Gotham is distressed with the evidence that Batman has succumbed to the villain's bribes. Freeze, meanwhile, commences his crowning caper -- The Blackmail of Gotham City.

Joker vandalizes a number of key objects around Gotham, and Commissioner Gordon calls Batman and Robin to solve the Cad's enigmatic clues.

Just before the sharp cutting blade slices into him, Batman is able to wrench a key from his utility belt and jam the key duplicator's mechanism, causing it to release him so he can rescue Robin from the spray wax. Meanwhile, Joker plans to take over Gotham City using a time Machine and hallucinogens in the city's reservoir.

Batman and Robin foil Marsha, Queen of Diamonds' attempt to steal the Batcomputer's power source.

The wedding is halted in the nick of time by Alfred, disguised as an English solicitor, and Aunt Harriet, as the one and only Mrs. Batman. Marsha storms out of the church, and Batman with Alfred, who has brought the Bat-Antidote Kit, race to Robin's aid. When the antidote has taken effect, the Duo return to the Batcave.

Batman and Robin reckon something's up when Shame, the black-stetsoned hombre with a face like the inside of a tom pocket steals Grimaldi Smith's hot racing car in the middle of the Gotham City 500. Actually, Shame has stolen vital parts from a number of hot cars around the city to add to his special truck designed to outrun the Batmobile.