"The Penguin Declines" is episode #73 of Batman, the conclusion of a three-part story in its second season on ABC. Its original telecast occurred on January 18, 1967 with a rerun June 21, 1967. It guest-starred Cesar Romero as Joker and Burgess Meredith as Penguin.
Batman and Joker's former moll Venus are chained in a water pit where a giant clam has already swallowed Robin! Using every ounce of his superhuman Batstrength, Batman bursts free of h...
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"The Penguin Declines" is episode #73 of Batman, the conclusion of a three-part story in its second season on ABC. Its original telecast occurred on January 18, 1967 with a rerun June 21, 1967. It guest-starred Cesar Romero as Joker and Burgess Meredith as Penguin.
Batman and Joker's former moll Venus are chained in a water pit where a giant clam has already swallowed Robin! Using every ounce of his superhuman Batstrength, Batman bursts free of his chains, rushes over to the clam and pries it open long enough to rescue Robin from the maw of the menacing mollusk! Freeing Venus, the trio make their escape, while Joker, needing more assistance with his remaining two Zodiac Crimes, has his flunkies Uranus and Mars smuggle Penguin out of prison in a prison laundry truck by way of Operation Laundry Bag. (Serious dissension soon builds between the two superfoes.)
Using a mixture of his own insidious creation, Jokerjelly (concentrated strawberry gelatin which resembles strawberry jelly, but...
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