Batman: "Black Widow Strikes Again"/"Caught in the Spider's Den": Do spiders have dens? Anyway, for what it's worth, Marvel's Black Widow was introduced about three years before this episode. But it's a generic enough name that it's surely coincidental, considering the differences. At this point, surely Miss Tallulah Bankhead was much better known than Natalia Alianovna Romanovna. (And this was the final role of her distinguished career.)
We also get a cameo by gangster-movie star George Raft as the sketchy guy in the bank, plus a couple of Trek guests -- Meg Wyllie (the Keeper) as the robotic granny and Walker Edmiston (various uncredited voices) as a teller.
This is one of the few villains in the series for whom we know both a nickname and a real name, by virtue of their being essentially the same -- Mrs. Black, Widow.
It strikes me that Black Widow's gimmick is similar to Marsha's and Siren's in that it involves a woman putting men under her mind-control spell. But since Miss Bankhead wasn't the young sex symbol she used to be, they had to revise it to an electronic box instead of something more seductive. I wonder if maybe it was conceived for a younger actress.
Nice touch that Robin actually saved Batman and himself. I was expecting the usual thing where Batman was faking all along.
Reprogramming criminals' brains to reform them? Creeeeepy, Batman. Isn't that how Identity Crisis got started?
Wonder Woman: "Skateboard Wiz": Oh, this is a pretty dull one. From time travelers to illegal gamblers... oy. And I almost didn't recognize Eric Braeden with the mullet and porn 'stache.
But that was a very nice outfit Diana had on in the beginning. I love the hat. She also looked pretty great in her bathing suit. I think that's the first time she's been more covered up (well, slightly) after changing into Wonder Woman.
Weird that they don't seem to have looped the dialogue in the beach scenes, so it was barely audible over the crashing surf, when the dialogue in some other outdoor scenes was clearly looped.
I love the bit where WW jumps up to the window of the burning house and the smoke is billowing in reverse. Yeah, that's convincing...
Of course, the "high" point of the episode is Wonder Woman changing into a skateboard outfit and skateboarding after the fleeing car. What the hell? She's freakin' Wonder Woman! Why does she need a helmet and pads? And how exactly does it benefit her to ride on a small piece of wood? She wasn't even pushing against the ground to make the board go faster, but just coasting under gravity in a way that was somehow fast enough to catch up to a car... once it was stopped by a truck in its way. They keep giving Wonder Woman climaxes that involve her riding vehicles or horses and rendering her actual superpowers effectively irrelevant. It's really stupid, and this is probably the culmination of the trend. I'd call this a shark-jumping moment if the show hadn't already jumped several sharks by now.
