"The Zodiac Crimes" is the seventy-first episode of the Batman television series. It first aired on ABC January 11, 1967 in its second season and repeated June 14, 1967. The first of a three-part story, it was dubbed a "Batman special", simultaneously celebrating the show's one-year anniversary and helping to open ABC's "second season." It featured both Cesar Romero as The Joker and Burgess Meredith as The Penguin (dubbed as an "Extra Special Gue...
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"The Zodiac Crimes" is the seventy-first episode of the Batman television series. It first aired on ABC January 11, 1967 in its second season and repeated June 14, 1967. The first of a three-part story, it was dubbed a "Batman special", simultaneously celebrating the show's one-year anniversary and helping to open ABC's "second season." It featured both Cesar Romero as The Joker and Burgess Meredith as The Penguin (dubbed as an "Extra Special Guest Villain").
The Joker pays a visit to Commissioner Gordon's office @ Police HQ and swipes a Rare Art Map. Alerted, Batman and Robin deduce that The Clown Prince Of Crime is plotting to commit 12 crimes based loosely on astrological signs of the zodiac and that he committed the first Zodiac Crime already by stealing the Rare Art Map, whose initials stand for the sign of The Ram (Aries!). Meanwhile, back at his hideout Joker clues the recently arrived (rather, packaged and shipped!) Penguin into his nefarious astrological plan. He then gives a...
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