The worst episodes of Batman
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
After lifting the Queen's priceless collection of snuffboxes from a Londinium museum, Lord Marmaduk Ffogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, escape unnoticed in thick fog which he creates with his large meerschaum pipe. Batman, Robin, and Batgirl are asked to help solve the robberies.
- 02
Catwoman disrupts a luncheon honoring Gotham's ten best-dressed women by detonating a Hair-Raising Bomb to frazzle the hairdos of all the ladies there. She tries to steal some Gernreich dresses from the fashion show.
- 03
Riddler, scheming to take over the fight game in Gotham City, poses as a prizefighter and challenges Batman. The evil Siren is on hand to assist.
- 04
The Penguin teams up with newly-broke racehorse owner Lola Lasagne to rig the outcome of the Wayne Handicap race. They try to close a deal with a glue-factory owner to swap one of his broken-down nags for Lola's magnificent horse Parasol.
- 05
Louie plots to control the minds of Gotham's flower children. Robin is subdued after sniffing Louie's alba vulgaria poison lilac and Batman is vanquished by a vase.
- 06
Batman and Robin voice their suspicions of his Lordship and his sister, Lady Peasoup, to Superintendent Watson and Commissioner Gordon. While Barbara sets off to the estate, Batman and Robin receive a clue that leads them to "The Three Bells" pub near the docks.
- 07
The terrible team of Egghead and Olga, Queen of Cossacks, steals the golden Egg of Ogg and the Silver Scimitar of Toras Bulbul.
- 08
Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires
Minerva, glamorous owner of a mineral spa, uses her Deepest Secret Extractor on a customer to learn the combination to the Wayne Foundation vault.
- 09
Chandell, the musical virtuoso, visits Gotham City for a piano concert. But unknown to the public, Chandell is being blackmailed into a life of crime by his twin brother Harry, who retains most of the profits. Chandell intends to buy off Harry forever, and he knows just where to get the funds - from the Wayne family fortune. With Batman and Robin out of town, he suspects the robbery will be a piece of cake. However, Batman has been listening to Chandell's concert remotely, and after detecting an anomalous chord, summons Robin back to Wayne Manor to investigate.
- 10
It's How You Play the Game (2)
With his special truck finished, Shame goes to work on his final caper - the theft of four prize cattle worth over one million dollars. Batman and Robin deduce his plan, but realize they are too late to stop him and too slow to catch him. With little left to go on, the Dynamic Duo employ their "bat-logic" to try to figure out his next move.
- 11
Catwoman and the Sandman have teamed up, and they're after the fortunes of J. Pauline Spaghetti, a rich insomniac. Catwoman pulls a publicity stunt, getting the Sandman (under the guise of "Dr. Somnambula") an invitation to Spaghetti's penthouse - and her financial records.
- 12
Siren gets Commissioner Gordon under her spell and then goes after Bruce Wayne, whom she directs to give her the Wayne family fortune and jump from a skyscraper. Her hope is that Batman will come to Bruce's rescue, so she can enslave him and discover his secret identity.
- 13
Penguin has infected a bin full of money with deadly Lygerian Sleeping Sickness Germs and a parcel of it has already gone out to the National Bank. He then immunizes himself and his crew against the disease, destroying the rest of the vaccine so that nobody else can be innoculated.
- 14
Shame escapes from prison, thanks to Calamity Jan, Frontier Fanny, and a 300-horsepower Sherman tank. The Terrific Trio deciphers a coded note and figures out that the robbers are planning on hitting the Gotham Opera House during "Girl of the Golden West" that night.
- 15
Batman and Robin escape Chandell's trap. Once back in the Batcave, they deduce his plan to get the Wayne family fortune by killing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, then marrying the rightful heir, Aunt Harriet. In order to trap the villain, Bruce and Dick fake their own deaths. However, Harry has also figured out his brother Chandell's scheme, and desiring the Wayne fortune for himself, concocts a plan to masquerade as his twin brother.
- 16
A clue leads Batman to Catwoman's lair, where he informs her of Sandman's plans to elope with J. Pauline Spaghetti and keep her fortunes to himself. Enraged by the Sandman's trickery, Catwoman sets out after him.
- 17
Batman and Alfred, in a cab, and Robin in the Batmobile, head for Ffogg's estate to rescue Batgirl.
- 18
Shame is back, and is using stolen vehicle parts to assemble a truck so fast even the Batmobile won't be able to catch him. Bruce Wayne tricks him into stealing his limo, which he (as Batman) and Robin use to track down his hideout.
- 19
The Green Hornet and Kato are in Gotham City to bust a counterfeiting stamp ring. Believed to be arch-criminals by nearly everyone, their midnight visit to Colonel Gumm at the Pink Chip Stamps Factory stirs alarm. Even Batman and Robin believe they are out for a piece of the action.
- 20
Zelda the Great's mad Albanian inventor tries to trap Batman and Robin.
- 21
Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, is after the giant diamond that powers the Batcomputer. With her love darts, she puts both Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara under her spell (and into her custody). When the Dynamic Duo show up, they too are injected with her love potion, and Batman must agree to marry Marsha if he ever wants his friends to be returned.
- 22
Colonel Gumm moves out of the Pink Chip Stamps Factory, taking its owner Pinky Pinkston along as a hostage. A message hidden by Miss Pinkston in a bowl of alphabet soup directs Batman and Robin to the International Stamp Exhibition. Though the Green Hornet and Kato will be attending to try to expose Colonel Gumm, Batman and Robin believe they are out for personal profit.
- 23
Walk the Straight and Narrow (2)
Batman and Robin escape their previous peril and are back in action seeking to foil the Archer and his gang. After pulling off a counterfeit job, the villains head for their boat, planning to take their loot safely to Switzerland. The Dynamic Duo set off in the Bat boat to try to stop their escape.
- 24
Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds (2)
Hoping to obtain the Batcave's bat-diamond, Marsha searches for a new potion to use on the Caped Crusaders. Batman and Robin do some searching of their own and arrive at the criminal's hideout. But after Marsha douses them with her concoctions, the villainess seems to have a unique bargaining chip - two tiny caped toads - with which to gain Commissioner Gordon's help in locating the Batcave.
- 25
The Puzzler, a villain with a fondness for both Shakespeare and aviation, indicates he is after the fortunes of Artemus Knab. He convinces the billionaire to invest in his puzzle balloon business, but when the Dynamic Duo find that Knab seems too intelligent to fall for a phony scheme, they look deeper for the criminal's true intentions.
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