'A Death Worse Than Fate' Story Code '8705-Part 2' by Lorenzo Semple

Holy Hostages! With Aunt Harriet held prisoner in Zelda’s clutches, Bruce Wayne, Robin and Commissioner Gordon deliver the ransom money through live television, and convince the villain that the money she stole from the bank was in fact real. Aunt Harriet is safely returned, along with a clue in her pocket: a matchbook advertising Ekdal's Gnome Bookstore. Unaware that this is a ruse to draw them into a trap, Batman and Robin head off to the bookstore, only to become trapped in Ekdal's Inescapable Doom Trap - a transparent cage made out of Jet Age plastics that rapidly begins filling with deadly gas…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), Anne Baxter (Zelda), Frankie Darro (Newsman), Jack Kruschen (Eivol Ekdal), Barbara Heller (Hillary Stonewin), Jim Drum (Officer Clancey), Stephen Tompkins (Bank Guard), Victor French (Hood #1), Bill Phillips (Hood #2), Jerry Doggett (Announcer), Douglas Dumbrille (Doctor)
Directed by Norman Foster
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane

TX (US):
10th February 1966

Bat-Notes:
*Featuring Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman), Dick Grayson (a.k.a. Robin), Alfred Pennyworth, Aunt Harriet Cooper, Police Commissioner Gordon and Police Chief O’Hara

*Working title: 'Zelda Takes the Rap'