'Zelda the Great' Story Code '8705-Part 1' by Lorenzo Semple

Holy Annual-Activities! Every April Fool's Day, a mysterious thief robs one of Gotham City's banks of exactly $100,000. Unknown to the authorities, the culprit is Zelda The Great, a world-famous magician and escape artist who uses her takings to pay Eivol Ekdal, an Albanian mastermind who devises each of her escape devices. Hoping to trap the crook this year, Batman plants a story in a newspaper which claims that the stolen money was counterfeit. After reading the article, Ekdal refuses to give Zelda his latest device, the Inescapable Death-Trap, until he is paid, and he sends Zelda to steal a rare gem on display in a local jewellery store - unaware that this is another fake story planted by Batman…

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):
9th 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: 'The Inescapable Doom Trap'

*Based on 'Batman's Inescapable Doom-Trap!' from Detective Comics #346 by John Broome. (Although Eivol Ekdal appeared in the story, the villianous magician was a man named Carnado)