Batman Logo 'The Great Train Robbery'
Story Code '1723-Part 2'

by Stanley Ralph Ross
Batman Cast

Holy Highway Robbery! Shame and his posse hold up an ammunition store and arm themselves to the teeth. Calamity Jan is concerned for her mom, recently captured and held in custody, and asks Shame to exchange her for Batgirl; her fiancée reluctantly agrees, and sends Chief Standing Pat to Police headquarters to announce the swap. Batman and Robin accept, and arrange for Frontier Fanny to be transferred to the Central American Pavilion at the Gotham City World Fair, which is to be closed up for the swap. Unknown to the Dynamic Duo, Shame and his gang are lying in wait inside the exhibition; luckily Batman sees the cowboy crooks, and uses a chemical capsule to make their weapons twenty-times heavier. Having freed herself from the clutches of the villains, Batgirl joins the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder and assists in battling the baddies. But Shame manages to grab a gun and shoot a piñata, which knocks out the three crime fighters and allows him and his henchmen to escape. Having woken up, Batman, Batgirl and Robin head for Commissioner Gordon's office, where Batgirl informs them of Shame's plan to commit a Great Train Robbery; after Batman realises this refers to a train consignment of old money that is to be burnt at the Treasury Department, the Dynamic trio immediately speed off to intercept the train. Meanwhile, Shame has stopped the train by severing the tracks with an acetylene torch; he uses a diamond drill to break into the carriage, sprays its occupants with Fear Gas and then makes off with the cash…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Yvonne Craig ( Barbara Gordon / Batgirl), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), Cliff Robertson (Shame), Victor Lundin (Chief Standing Pat), Hermione Baddeley (Frontier Fanny), Dina Merrill (Calamity Jan), Barry Dennen (Fred), Brian Sullivan (Fortissimo Fra Diavlo), Dorothy Kirsten (Leonora Sotto Voce), Jerry Mathers (Pops The Doorman [Cameo]), Arnold Stang (Peter [Gun Shop Owner])

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


TX (US):
8th February 1968

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, and introducing Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl)