Batman: Smack in the Middle (1966)
Season 1, Episode 2
8/10
.................................Will The Riddler Still Laugh?
15 June 2007
Warning: Spoilers
We have already seen..................................

Yeah, we have seen the first half of the first adventure of this new BATMAN TV Series. Well, now with Robin kidnapped, what will happen next? Well, Molly, who was masquerading as Robin, manages to fall into the Atomic Power Source of the Bat Caves Super Computer. Robin is reunited with Batman and confront Riddler and Gang back at the Moldavian Pavilion of the Gotham World's Fair. Riddler is caught in explosion of 'Laughing Gas', and presumed to have been killed. Or, was he? Now that both halves of the story were presented for our viewing, it seemed that everything made sense. That would include even the "Camp" Humor of the series.

The 'Camp' aspect was soon accepted by just about everybody in its audience. That the stories had these two levels that they operated on, often causes one to overlook the well written scripts that these episodes had. If you don't believe it, just try to go over the stories and subtract anything that was 'Campy' or otherwise humorous. You will have a really good, exciting action story. And this goes especially for any of those here in the "Second Season" of ABC's '65-'66 TV Season.
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