Batman Logo 'Fine Feathered Finks'
Story Code '8703-Part 1'

by Lorenzo Semple
Batman Cast

Holy Parasols! That master of fowl play, the Penguin, hatches a plot to get Batman to plan his crimes for him. He instructs his henchmen, Hawkeye and Sparrow, to give out free umbrellas outside the House Of Ali Baba Jewelry Store and a local bank, and when the patrons take their gifts inside, the umbrellas explode and spin; however, despite a perfect distraction, no robberies are carried out. After a worried Police Commissioner Gordon asks Batman and Robin to investigate, the Dynamic Duo discover that the Penguin is now running an umbrella store under that name of K.G. Bird. The Penguin then launches a gigantic umbrella, complete with a multicoloured Batbrella attached to its handle, from his store's roof; the Caped Crusader is convinced that this is a clue to the Penguin’s next crime, and takes it back to the Batcave for examination, unaware that the object contains a hidden transmitter. Unable to find any significance from the Batbrella, Batman heads for the umbrella store as Bruce Wayne, but when he attempts to plant a transistor microphone on the premises the Penguin catches him, and, believing him to be a spy from a rival umbrella store, prepares to throw him into a fiery furnace…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), David Lewis (Warren Crichton), Walter Burke (Sparrow), Lewis Charles (Hawkeye), Robert Phillips (Swoop), Alex D'Arcy (Jewelry Shop Owner), Johnny Jacobs (Assistant Shop Owner), Leslie Parrish (Dawn Robbins), Dan Tobin (I), (Mr. Jay), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Robert Phillips (Swoop, the Cellmate)

Directed by Robert Butler
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane


TX (US):
19th January 1966

Bat-Notes:
*Featuring Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman), Dick Grayson (a.k.a. Robin), Alfred Pennyworth, Aunt Harriet Cooper, Police Commissioner Gordon and Police Chief O’Hara

*Based on "Partners in Plunder!" from Batman #169 (February 1965), written by France Eddie Herron