'The Great Escape' Story Code '1723-Part 1' by Stanley Ralph Ross

Holy Six-Shooters! Crooked cowboy Shame breaks out of jail with the assistance of his fiancée, Calamity Jan, her mother, Frontier Fanny, and a Sherman tank. When the wild westerner announces his intention to steal a “rock and roll” from the “Gotham City Stage”, Batman and Robin consult the Batcomputer for clues, and realise that the ‘rock’ actually refers to a diamond, while the ‘roll’ means a bankroll; although they are unable to determine the relevance of ‘Gotham City Stage’, Batgirl works it out, and arranges to meet the Dynamic Duo at a street in downtown Gotham. Meanwhile, Shame and his posse, Chief Standing Pat and Fernado Ricardo Enrique Dominquez, visit the stage at the Gotham City Opera House and steal a diamond pendant and the $20,000 bankroll from singers Leonora Sotto Voce and Fortissimo Fra Diavlo. They are interrupted by the arrival of the crime fighting trio, and a battle quickly breaks out; however, Fanny and Jan spray the three heroes with Fear Gas, reducing them to cowering cowards…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Yvonne Craig ( Barbara Gordon / Batgirl), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), Cliff Robertson (Shame), Victor Lundin (Chief Standing Pat), Hermione Baddeley (Frontier Fanny), Dina Merrill (Calamity Jan), Barry Dennen (Fred), Brian Sullivan (Fortissimo Fra Diavlo), Dorothy Kirsten (Leonora Sotto Voce), Jerry Mathers (Pops the Doorman [Cameo]), Arnold Stang (Peter [Gun Shop Oowner])

Directed by Oscar Rudolph
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane

TX (US):
1st February 1968

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, and introducing Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl)