Batman: "King Tut's Coup"/"Batman's Waterloo": At first I thought the two college students were crooks planning to conk the professor on the head to change him into Tut on purpose. But somehow they suffered from the same condition when they were struck on the heads. Although that was basically to set up the "Hail, hail, the gang's all here" gag, so I can accept it.
Interesting visual seeing Bruce and Dick slide down the Batpoles in Roman garb. Et tu, Bruce?
Ahh, this is the one with movie Catwoman Lee Meriwether as Bruce's love interest. I guess they liked the chemistry the two had in the movie. By the way, the recent Batman '66 comic brings Lisa Carson back as a foe for Batgirl, when she decides she really is the reincarnation of Cleopatra after all.
Plus we also get both Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand) and Lloyd Haynes (Lt. Alden) as Tutlings. That's three Star Trek guests in one episode.
This is one of those celebrity cameos by celebrities whose fame didn't really survive the era. Suzy Knickerbocker? Some sort of style/glamour columnist, apparently.
Nice gag with the crime scene being left just as the cops found it -- complete with the victim still hanging uncomfortably from the noose. By this point, the show was getting more jokey with its writing, with sight gags and punch lines like this.
I was wondering about the custom of the costume ball with the men wearing masks and the women simply holding them in front of their faces. Why the difference? Then I thought that maybe it's because the women are wearing makeup and the masks would smudge it.
Weird to have Tut quoting Marc Antony's Caesar eulogy over Batman when we earlier saw Bruce Wayne dress up as Caesar. Quite a coincidence, though maybe deliberate on the writers' part. Also interesting that the closing narration contains two of the series' episode titles -- "A Death Worse Than Fate" and "Batman's Waterloo." The first is not meant as an episode title in this context, but it still is one. I wonder if that's the only time that's happened.
It's interesting how similar this version of Batman is to the modern version in some basic ways. Sure, it's a goofier interpretation, but the modern Batman is just as prone to extreme feats of physical endurance like slowing his respiration to survive drowning, and just as utterly devoted to his crimefighting mission. It is basically the same character, despite the differences.
I'd forgotten that they seeded the idea of Gordon having a daughter Barbara before they introduced the character. Rather an awkward insertion, though.
And we get a surprisingly risque ending for '67, with Bruce implicitly spending the night with Lisa. Milk and cookies, you say....?
Wonder Woman: "Time Bomb": Oh, look, it's a Space: 1999 episode. Oh, wait, there's an "Earth: 2155" caption over a shot of Moonbase Alpha. Okay. Oh, and the time machine sounds like the bridge of the Enterprise. Any other SF shows you want to rip off, guys?
Man, Adam is the most inept future-saver in the history of saving the future. He can't even find the people he needs to turn to for help. Rather tedious plotting there.
Oh, hey, and let's pass off one of the most iconic Los Angeles locations, the Griffith Observatory, as being in Washington, DC! Yeah, that's sure to work!
Still, the idea of a historian going back in time to get rich off of her knowledge of the, err, future of the past is clever, and Cassandra's plan is much better worked out than anything Adam does (though Joan Van Ark is a rather shrill performer, I fear). And I love that throwaway revelation that there's a nuclear holocaust coming by 2007. Gee, would changing the future really be so bad? (Hey, maybe that's why 2155 Earth looks like Moonbase Alpha.)
Interesting throwaway line establishing that magic-lasso confessions are not admissible in court. I think I might've actually wondered about that once or twice.
But I hate it when fiction makes up imaginary elements and sticks impossible mass numbers on them. "Cabrium-90?" Only a few elements have isotopes with a mass of 90 -- strontium, yttrium, zirconium. Any undiscovered element would have a much, much higher mass number.
"An entire city was half-destroyed?" That sentence needed another draft.
Why does Wonder Woman, who can run faster than the speed of sound, keep relying on much slower transport like motorcycles and horses?
Hey, the mine foreman was Ivan Naranjo, who would play Tonto on Filmation's Lone Ranger cartoon a couple of years later. Nice that the episode included a diverse guest cast without the characters being defined by their race (although the electronics warehouse guy did make a Charlie Chan joke about himself, even though he was Japanese).
