This time Egghead steals a prehistoric egg from the Museum of Natural Sciences. His intention is to artificially incubate it so that a Neosaur is born and terrorize Gotham City. A rather crazy plan with a ridiculous ending with a Batman disguised as Neosaurus coming out of the gigantic egg.
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Second broadcast is actually the third chapter
kevinolzak26 April 2016
"How to Hatch a Dinosaur" was intended to be the third Egghead/Olga broadcast but ended up second, stealing radium in order to hatch an egg that should give birth to a prehistoric Neosaurus. Jon Lormer is well cast as Professor Dactyl, and this time the one shot librarian working with Barbara Gordon is Mary Benoit as Petula. By the time the egg actually hatches, Egghead and his cohorts rush out to Chief O'Hara's waiting paddy wagon rather than face the wrath of an angry Neosaurus and its 2500 teeth. Audiences would have to wait six weeks for the second chapter, "The Ogg Couple," which would be the farewell for Egghead and Olga.
The Music & Monster Lift The Episode To A Good Level
StuOz7 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Egghead wants to hatch a dinosaur (aka Lost In Space monster).
This is missing some of that colourful dialogue we normally get when Vincent Price (Egghead) shows his face in the series. The episode can hardly be called poor but it just feels a bit empty to me. Thankfully we have two other things to pay attention to:
1: New jazzy Billy May music used at the start (over the stock footage of the batmobile driving out of the batcave and onto the road). This music cue is really some of the most exciting energetic music you will ever hear in 1960s TV (and I have heard it all) but to my surprise this sort of Billy May music gets close to no attention from the 1966 Batman fanbase?? I have never understood that?
2: The monster first appeared in the 1967 Lost In Space episode titled The Questing Beast.
To me atleast, the music and monster make this episode memorable.
This is missing some of that colourful dialogue we normally get when Vincent Price (Egghead) shows his face in the series. The episode can hardly be called poor but it just feels a bit empty to me. Thankfully we have two other things to pay attention to:
1: New jazzy Billy May music used at the start (over the stock footage of the batmobile driving out of the batcave and onto the road). This music cue is really some of the most exciting energetic music you will ever hear in 1960s TV (and I have heard it all) but to my surprise this sort of Billy May music gets close to no attention from the 1966 Batman fanbase?? I have never understood that?
2: The monster first appeared in the 1967 Lost In Space episode titled The Questing Beast.
To me atleast, the music and monster make this episode memorable.
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