Batman Logo 'The Dead Ringers'
Story Code '9721-Part 2'

by Lorenzo Semple
Batman Cast

Holy Punctuations! At the abandoned Parnassus Music-Roll Co., Harry has captured Batman and Robin and tied them to a conveyor belt that leads into a machine that will perforate them into player-piano rolls. However, by mentally visualising the chords that will make the cutting device punch only the outlines of their bodies, the Dynamic Duo out-shout the piano feeding into the device with bad singing. Now free, the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder overpower Harry and his gang of Piano Movers; but after the villains reveal that their ringleader is a criminal mastermind named Fingers, Harry is sprung from jail by his crooked attorney, Alfred Slye. Batman is convinced that Chandell and Fingers are one and the same, and deduces the pianist’s plan to do away with Bruce and Dick and marry Aunt Harriet; the Caped Crusader and his trusty chum decide to set a trap for Chandell by faking the deaths of Bruce and Dick in an explosion in the darkroom set up in the front hall of Wayne Manor. Meanwhile, Harry, Doe, Rae, and Mimi realise that Chandell is planning to marry Aunt Harriet and then abandon them to go straight, and so decide to turn the tables on him; they knock out Chandell using the bewitching bagpipes so that Harry can take his brother’s place, but then Mr. Slye arrives and informs Harry that he cannot claim the Wayne Fortune until the will is settled in eleven years. The lawyer then presents Harry with a bill for $100,000, telling his client that unless he pays it by midnight he will return to jail. Harry is furious, and instructs his girlies to knock the attorney out too; he then ties Chandell and Slye to the conveyor belt leading to the music roll machine - unless the Dynamic Duo can find them in time, the two captives face a perforating demise…

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), Liberace (Chandell / Fingers / Harry]), Marilyn Hanold (Doe), Edy Williams (Rae), Sivi Alberg (Mimi), James Millhoullin (Alfred Slye), Diane Farrell (Sally), Jack Perkins (Piano Mover [Henchman])

Directed by Larry Peerce
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane


TX (US):
27th October 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