'The Contaminated Cowl' Story Code '9739-Part 1' by Charles Hoffman

Holy Home Runs! A game of softball at Gotham State Penitentiary is brought to an abrupt end when Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, steals both home base and umpire Warden Crichton’s cap - and then keeps on running. Together with his henchmen, the villain visits BonBon's Boutique, hypnotises the proprietress with the Super Mesmeriser in his top hat, and then steals seven-hundred hatboxes, which he uses to place his entire collection of heisted headwear into storage; it seems that he has lost all interest in stealing hats, and now plans to use them for crimes instead. With the aid of their Batcomputer, Batman and Robin predict that the Hatter's next mad masterplan is to steal Hattie Hatfield's ruby from the Headdress Ball at the Top Hat Room. The Dynamic Duo head off to intercept the Hatter, but the thief has already stolen the ruby while disguised as the Three-Tailed Pasha of Panchagorum; the Caped Crusade and Boy Wonder burst in and attempt to apprehend the Hatter, but he uses an exploding fez to cause a distraction, enabling him to spray Batman's cowl with radioactive spray, turning it bright pink, and then make his escape…

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), Heather Young, (American Operator), Lennie Bremen (Benny), Barbara Morrison (Hattie Hatfield), David Wayne (Jervis Tetch, The Mad Hatter), Jean Hale (Polly), Victor Aames (Skimmer), Leonid Kinskey (Professor Overbeck), Jesslyn Fax (Bonbon), Paul Bryar (Jennings), Gil Stuart (British Operator), Margaret Teele (Russian Operator), Richard Collier (Otto Puffendorfer), Ivy Bethune (Maudie), Charlie Picerni (Stooge #1), Roger Creed (Stooge #2)

Directed by Oscar Rudolph
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane

TX (US):
4th January 1967

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