Part One,
Fall. 1969.
O’Hara (Stafford Repp) knew his limits constitutionally, but there was no good reason to stop drinking yet since he was practically still obeying the speed limit, no matter how tight the corners were that he was pulling on shale to keep up with the Penguin’s grimacing goons, because this was the great experiment... No pompous Cowled know it all bat-bugger (Adam West) needs to solve impossible riddles after the fact anymore, not when Clancy O’Hara, the greatest law man ever, can just wait outside Gotham Penitentiary, for one of these crazy criminals to escape, follow them to their secret pun blanched hideout, then spy on the damned hooligans while they put their dirty scheme together, keeping an eye on them, while they’re still brainstorming, 2 steps ahead of the Joker(Caesar Romero), the Riddler or Bookworm (Roddy McDowell).
The Chief’s thoughts are ablaze with the four Fs “Faith begorra! Follow! Photograph! Film!” And when he’s absolutely sure, unless there’s a modicum of doubt, beat a confession out of a henchman with a lead pipe, maybe take out a few teeth, then mother McKinty, the entire dastardly design will unspool, and it will be Clancy O’Hara who will have the right knack to talk down to Batman and solve the next set of puzzles first, and then maybe the Commissioner will give him the medal for meritorious honour of answering the Riddler’s (John Astin) riddles or the Puzzlers’ (Maurice Evans) puzzles before that bratty boy wonder (Burt Ward) makes him look like an ignorant Irish idiot again.
This is when things start to get weird though, Clancy skids his police car to a stop near the ridge of Finger look out, James Dean (James Dean) was a pussy, where the police chief could get some dreary hairy eyeballs on his pompous prey, the Penguin, who is scaling down the alpine backside of the rear end of Stately Wayne Manor, with a grappling umbrella, which is nothing but a Bat sanctuary Wild Life preserve, that playboy millionaire Bruce Wayne (Adam West, again, wait? That could be important. Put a pin in it.) likes to Hunt-out with dynamite. No one respects anyone that pretty. Wayne deserves a rude awakening from someone who looks like a leg of mutton, like Chief O’Hara does, if womanizing Millionaire Bruce Wayne is in cahoots with that avian scourge the Penguin, then maybe Clancy can beat some answers to the King of Crime’s Riddles, out of a handsome millionaire spending far too much time courting a meek dainty librarian who is not far too young for the chief?
Skating down a Gaping Chasm after a felonious fowl? Pull the other one it’s got bells on, Clancy finishes his flask, gets behind the wheel, steps on the accelerator and aims for the front door of stately Wayne Manor. Which is exactly what he does, sure it’s 15 minutes later at 75 mph, but his police vehicle, mildly armoured, it is designed to bust through walls, people and other cars. Siren blaring, fender caving in against the vault face Wayne calls a 12 inch thick door, O’Hara rolls out of his crumpled police vehicle, still relentlessly trying to penetrate the primary orifice of Stately Wayne Manor, shooting at the edifice “That’s what you fecking get for sneaking up on me you bollocking gobshite!!”
Fall. 1969.
O’Hara (Stafford Repp) knew his limits constitutionally, but there was no good reason to stop drinking yet since he was practically still obeying the speed limit, no matter how tight the corners were that he was pulling on shale to keep up with the Penguin’s grimacing goons, because this was the great experiment... No pompous Cowled know it all bat-bugger (Adam West) needs to solve impossible riddles after the fact anymore, not when Clancy O’Hara, the greatest law man ever, can just wait outside Gotham Penitentiary, for one of these crazy criminals to escape, follow them to their secret pun blanched hideout, then spy on the damned hooligans while they put their dirty scheme together, keeping an eye on them, while they’re still brainstorming, 2 steps ahead of the Joker(Caesar Romero), the Riddler or Bookworm (Roddy McDowell).
The Chief’s thoughts are ablaze with the four Fs “Faith begorra! Follow! Photograph! Film!” And when he’s absolutely sure, unless there’s a modicum of doubt, beat a confession out of a henchman with a lead pipe, maybe take out a few teeth, then mother McKinty, the entire dastardly design will unspool, and it will be Clancy O’Hara who will have the right knack to talk down to Batman and solve the next set of puzzles first, and then maybe the Commissioner will give him the medal for meritorious honour of answering the Riddler’s (John Astin) riddles or the Puzzlers’ (Maurice Evans) puzzles before that bratty boy wonder (Burt Ward) makes him look like an ignorant Irish idiot again.
This is when things start to get weird though, Clancy skids his police car to a stop near the ridge of Finger look out, James Dean (James Dean) was a pussy, where the police chief could get some dreary hairy eyeballs on his pompous prey, the Penguin, who is scaling down the alpine backside of the rear end of Stately Wayne Manor, with a grappling umbrella, which is nothing but a Bat sanctuary Wild Life preserve, that playboy millionaire Bruce Wayne (Adam West, again, wait? That could be important. Put a pin in it.) likes to Hunt-out with dynamite. No one respects anyone that pretty. Wayne deserves a rude awakening from someone who looks like a leg of mutton, like Chief O’Hara does, if womanizing Millionaire Bruce Wayne is in cahoots with that avian scourge the Penguin, then maybe Clancy can beat some answers to the King of Crime’s Riddles, out of a handsome millionaire spending far too much time courting a meek dainty librarian who is not far too young for the chief?
Skating down a Gaping Chasm after a felonious fowl? Pull the other one it’s got bells on, Clancy finishes his flask, gets behind the wheel, steps on the accelerator and aims for the front door of stately Wayne Manor. Which is exactly what he does, sure it’s 15 minutes later at 75 mph, but his police vehicle, mildly armoured, it is designed to bust through walls, people and other cars. Siren blaring, fender caving in against the vault face Wayne calls a 12 inch thick door, O’Hara rolls out of his crumpled police vehicle, still relentlessly trying to penetrate the primary orifice of Stately Wayne Manor, shooting at the edifice “That’s what you fecking get for sneaking up on me you bollocking gobshite!!”