The best episodes of Batman
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Using resurrected scarab beetles, King Tut concocts an ancient mind control potion, abu raubu simbu tu. Chief O'Hara is the first under his spell, followed shortly by Commissioner Gordon, and when Batman himself is tricked into taking the drug, Tut's plan to control all of Gotham City by tainting the water supply seems close to succeeding.
- 02
While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.
- 03
The mayoral campaign seems to keep going the Penguin's way, but Batman is still confident despite the polls.
- 04
Catwoman offers to free Batman if he joins her. He agrees but secretly takes a Universal Batantidote before Catwoman uses cataphrenic. Batman goes with the gang to visit Little Al at the Old Criminal's Home to buy the plans to the Mint, and manages to phone an anonymous tip to the cops leading to the capture of Robin and Pussycat. Catwoman then talks Batman into taking her to the Batcave.
- 05
Joker sweet-talks Baby Jane into forgiving him, as well as into giving him the entire Renaissance Collection from the Museum. He demands ten million dollars for the paintings, only to find that he's been duped by Batman and some clumsy paintings of Alfred's.
- 06
Catwoman makes her return known with a string of robberies. Hoping to lure her into a trap, Batman plants a news blurb giving the whereabouts of a rare canary, but Catwoman is tipped off and arrives prepared. Batman and Robin follow a lead to Catwoman's hideout, the Pink Sandbox, but soon discover that this villain has been waiting for them.
- 07
Catwoman disguises herself as a wealthy recluse - Minerva Matthews - to exchange a quarter million dollars for two Stradivarius violins. Once the instruments are safely in her hands, the villain reveals her true identity and demands the cash back. But Catwoman is surprised to learn that her business partner - Zubin Zucchini - is also not who he appears to be.
- 08
Penguin has opened a fancy restaurant called The Penguin's Nest. There every order has to be written down by the customers on a piece of paper. He then plans to get himself arrested and hand over the handwritten notes to a forger doing time by the name of Ballpoint Baxter. Suspecting a scheme, Batman urges the police not to send The Penguin back to his permanent cell. Unable to reach Ballpoint, The Penguin and his culinary cohorts escape from jail, taking Chief O'Hara along as a hostage.
- 09
The Riddler schemes to have his henchwoman, disguised as Robin, to have her kill Batman in the Batcave.
- 10
The duo crashes the Joker's headquarters.
- 11
King Tut has relapsed into his kingly ways, this time showing a marked interest in scarab beetles and apothecary potions. Robin infiltrates their hideout to discover their true intentions, relaying what he hears to Batman, but their plan is put in jeopardy when Robin's presence is detected.
- 12
When Penguin runs for Mayor of Gotham city, Batman is persuaded to run against him.
- 13
The Joker escapes with a certificate from Wayne naming him as vice president of the bank. Commissioner Gordon asks Batman to nab Bruce Wayne for handing control of the bank over to the Joker.
- 14
Joker becomes a pop art icon when he disfigures a prominent artist's work and then wins an art contest by leaving his canvas blank. His plot becomes clear when he then enrolls pupils for an art course, accepting millionaires only, Bruce included.
- 15
When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play (2)
The Riddler warns others of the time bomb placed in a museum statue.
- 16
The Joker snatches a visiting maharajah.
- 17
The Riddler swipes the box-office receipts at a silent-film festival.
- 18
Attempting to save Chief O'Hara from drowning inside a metal trunk, Batman and Robin find themselves under fire from the Penguin's henchmen. Batman instructs Alfred to pose as famous forger Quill-Pen Quertch (complete with false fingerprints), but the Penguin recognizes Alfred as soon as he puts on his glasses. The evil Bird-man and his cronies then visit stately Wayne manor brandishing a giant Butler-pie.
- 19
Dr. Shivel aka Mr. Freeze has returned and is seeking revenge on Batman, who accidentally spilled a freeze solution on him, being forced to live in a -50 climate. He is committing crimes involving diamonds, or "ice," in different forms. He freezes the duo, who look like goners.
- 20
Mr. Freeze exchanges a kidnapped baseball pitcher for Batman.
- 21
The Mad Hatter has escaped from prison, and is on a quest to add Batman's cowl to his collection of hats.
- 22
With the world busy mourning the loss of Batman and Robin, the Mad Hatter has no trouble snatching a valuable ruby from the Golden Buddha of Bergama's forehead. However, when rumor spreads that Batman and Robin are still alive, the Mad Hatter's scheme appears jeopardized.
- 23
The Joker and the Penguin team up on a crime wave based on signs of the zodiac. The pair, aided and abetted by a woman known as Venus, keep Batman and Robin on the run.
- 24
Catwoman's stooge, Pussycat, drugs Robin with cataphrenic and recruits him into Catwoman's gang. Catwoman plans to raise a million dollars to buy the plans to the Gotham City Mint. She and the gang, assisted by Robin, rob Wayne Manor and several other places to get cash.
- 25
Riddler has pulled another heist leaving another clue. The Duo race to the penthouse of a wealthy exiled South American dictator whom Riddler has trapped in a puzzle cage with explosives at his feet.
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