Batman Logo 'The Penguin's Nest'
Story Code '9702-Part 1'

by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Batman Cast

Holy Haute Cuisine! The Penguin and his henchmen Cordy Blue, Maty Dee, and Chickadee, go into business with ‘The Penguin's Nest’, an exclusive restaurant that caters for Gotham's richest citizens. However, this is merely a ruse to collect samples of the patrons’ handwriting, so that when the felonious fowl inevitably returns to prison he can get the infamous forger Ballpoint Baxter to falsify cheques against the millionaires' accounts, which the Penguin will then cash once on his release. The only snag in this scheme is that Baxter is currently out of reach in prison - meaning that the Penguin must ensure that he is arrested too. At the restaurant, the fowl fiend steals an item of jewellery from Aunt Harriet, and then throws a pie into the face of Police Chief O'Hara. However, suspicious that the Penguin is so eager to go to jail, Batman and Robin interced and allow him to go free. At the State Prison, the two heroes check up on the cell which was to have been assigned to the Penguin, and so deduce the feathery felon’s devious scheme; when the Penguin stages the fake murder of one of his own henchmen, the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder apprehend him and take him to the City Jail instead. But Cordy Blue, Maty Dee, and Chickadee spring their Boss from his incarceration, taking with them a hostage: Chief O'Hara…

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), Ted Cassidy (Lurch), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Grace Gaynor (Chickadee), Lane Bradford (Cordy Blue), Vito Scotti (Maty Dee), James O'Hara (Cop), David Lewis (Warden Crichton), Voltaire Perkins (Judge Moot), Marvin Brody (Bailiff), Stanley Ralph Ross (Ballpoint Baxter), Violet Carson (Lady)

Directed by Murray Golden
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane


TX (US):
7th December 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

*Based on 'The Bird's Last Jest' from 'Batman' #36 (August - September 1946), by Alvin Schwartz.