It exaggerates situations and plays them for laughs, though the characters take the absurd situations very seriously. Ostensibly a crime series, the style of the show is intentionally campy and tongue-in-cheek. These cliffhangers are resolved early in the follow-up episode with Batman and Robin getting themselves out of every trap. The cliffhangers between multiple-part stories consist of villains holding someone captive, usually Batman or Robin, with the captive(s) being threatened by death, serious injury, or another fate. Each third season story ends with a teaser featuring the next episode's guest villain, except for the series finale. The third and final season, which aired one episode a week and introduced Yvonne Craig as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, consist of self-contained stories. The titles of each multi-part story usually rhyme. Every story is a two-parter, except for two three-parters featuring villainous team ups (the Joker and the Penguin, then the Penguin and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds) in the second season. Throughout each episode, Batman and Robin follow a series of seemingly improbable clues (also known as "bat logic") to discover the supervillain's plan, then figure out how to thwart that plan and capture the criminal.įor the first two seasons, Batman aired twice a week on consecutive nights. The "Dynamic Duo" typically comes to the aid of the Gotham City Police upon the latter being stumped by a supervillain, who was accompanied in his/her appearances by several henchmen and an attractive female companion. Although the lives of their alter-egos, millionaire Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson are frequently shown, it is usually only briefly, in the context of their being called away on superhero business or in circumstances where they need to employ their public identities to assist in their crime-fighting. The series focuses on Batman and Robin as they defend Gotham City from its various criminals.
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