"A Death Worse Than Fate" finds Zelda the Great (Anne Baxter) convinced by a live broadcast featuring Robin and Bruce Wayne that the money she had stolen before is genuine and not counterfeit, so she agrees to set free Dick Grayson's Aunt Harriet (Madge Blake), on the same corner as Frankie Darro's newsman. A match book planted by Zelda leads the Dynamic Duo to the secret hideout of Eivol Ekdal (Jack Kruschen), who plans to catch them inside his latest creation, 'an indestructible doom trap,' and if they actually find a way to escape, certain death awaits in a pair of hoods waiting to use their machine guns (one of whom is played by Victor French). The hoods wind up blasting each other to kingdom come, thanks to Zelda's timely warning of danger, while Ekdal's hasty retreat isn't quick enough to avoid the Batarang. Bruce Wayne's visit to Zelda in prison is a welcome coda to an unusual two part excursion from the pen of Lorenzo Semple Jr., directed by veteran actor/director Norman Foster, whose only other two parter is the debut of David Wayne's Mad Hatter. One last note of trivia: the doctor who treats Aunt Harriet after her safe return is played by an unrecognizable Douglass Dumbrille, at age 76 the second oldest actor to appear on the show during its three seasons on the air (Burt Mustin the eldest), in the last of his over 200 roles on screen.