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[announcer] The Adventures of Batman with Robin, Boy Wonder.

Batman and Robin, Dynamic Duo against crime and corruption,

whose real identities as millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne

and his young ward Dick Grayson,

are known only to Alfred, the faithful butler.

Ever alert, they respond swiftly to a signal from the police.

And moments later, from the secret Batcave deep beneath Wayne Manor,

they roar out to protect life, limb and property

as Batman and Robin, caped crime fighters.

Batman and Robin, scourge of Gotham City's kooky criminals:

The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime.

The Penguin, pudgy purveyor of perfidy.

And the cool, cruel Mr. Freeze.

Watch out, villains, here come Batman and Robin.

[narrator] At the Gotham City Treasury, a secret withdrawal is made

by the merry minions of the laugh king of larceny…

The Joker. But now what?

Why is The Joker robbing the City Treasury and giving the money to the mayor?

What kind of joke is this?

Now the plot thickens

as The Joker leaves money for the district attorney.

And the basement of the chief magistrate of Gotham City.

What does this mean?

Later, at stately Wayne Manor…

Holy shockers. Look at this, Bruce.

Joker calls a press conference? Hmm.

Perhaps Batman and Robin should look in on that, eh?

- You know it, chum. - Let's go.

I charge corruption in Gotham City.

I say the mayor, the district attorney and, yes, even the chief magistrate

have been stealing city funds.

- [man 1] What's that? - [man 2] The mayor?

[man 3] The DA stealing?

[crowd] Batman and Robin.

Do drop in, Caped Crusaders.

We wouldn't miss this for anything, Joker.

Please to continue.

All right.

I hereby announce that I am running for mayor of Gotham City.

[chattering]

He's got to be kidding.

I regret to say you were right, Joker.

We found the money just where you said it would be.

Let's check this out with Commissioner Gordon, Robin. Come on.

I regret to inform you, Dynamic Duo, that a large sum of city money

was indeed found in the mayor's wall safe and in the district attorney's desk.

Great guns. This is going too far.

That's not all, Batman.

The Joker said we'd better all get in line,

because as he put it, he's going to be mayor,

so help him Professor Ludendorf.

Ludendorf? Who is that?

- Is that some kind of joke? - Negative. To the Batmobile. Quickly.

Who is Professor Ludendorf, Batman?

Only the most brilliant scientific mind around today.

Holy alliance. And the Joker's got him on his side?

If he does, Robin, we're in for real trouble.

I knew you could do it, Professor Ludendorf.

No, Mr. Joker, please.

With one of these gadgets attached to every voting machine,

I will be elected mayor of Gotham City, ha, ha, by acclaim.

[Joker laughing]

Forget it, Joker.

Get them.

All right, you Cowled Creeps, this is it.

- Batman, what's that? - Argon electrical gas.

- Holy explosive. What do we do? - Move fast.

I owe my thanks to you.

Forget it, professor.

Tell me, do those devices you invented really work?

Unfortunately, yes.

The Joker cannot lose the election.

[Robin] That's not democracy, that's larceny.

It's anarchy. Let's go, Robin.

[narrator] Later, in the warehouse where the voting machines are stored…

Be sure to place one of these little beauties on every machine. Ha-ha-ha!

- [Batman] Hello, Joker, old buddy. - What?

You are now out of politics.

[laughing]

Good work, lads.

Now, you finish bugging the voting machines

while I make plans for these two.

[laughing]

Here's a special election bulletin.

It's a landslide for, ahem,

The Joker.

The Joker is the mayor now?

- I can't believe it. - Oh, no.

[Joker laughing]

I am now the mayor of Gotham City.

The Joker can't make that phony election stick.

He sure can, Robin. Unless we get out of here alive.

As mayor, I will deal with you later. Ha, ha!

I must go now to make my acceptance speech.

[laughing]

Robin, let's take our own poll. This one.

Hold on, Dynamic Duo.

Do you have an appointment? Ha-ha-ha!

- Why, you big painted clown. I— - Cool it, Robin.

You buzzed, Mr. Mayor?

Yes. Arrest Batman and Robin.

- Arrest them? - What for, pray?

For making threatening gestures to a public official,

and for illegal parking.

[Joker laughing]

Come now. You can't make those charges stick.

Oh, no?

Meet the new district attorney.

- [both] The Riddler. - The new chief magistrate of Gotham City.

Overruled. Overruled. Ha, ha.

- The Penguin. - Holy crime city.

- I will not go along with this. - And neither will I.

[both laughing]

I sentence you to 30 days in the pokey. Ha, ha.

Take them away.

In 30 days, I'm afraid there won't be any Gotham City left.

Sure, and they'll have stolen it all away.

[narrator] It looks bad, very bad indeed

with all our friends in jail and all their enemies running the city.

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion, coming up next.

[narrator] When the Clown Prince of Crime becomes mayor of Gotham City,

Chief O'Hara, Commissioner Gordon and even Batman and Robin end up in jail.

What? Batman and Robin incarcerated?

Not for long. To the Batcave.

[all chuckling]

Well, my friends, what do you say now?

My hat's off to you, Joker.

Stealing the election was sheer genius. Ha, ha!

Yeah, as long as the Dynamic Duo stays locked up.

Don't worry. I've got their all-purpose utility belts.

I do hope I make no errors now.

It's the Batcopter.

Go, man, go!

Commissioner, you and Chief O'Hara stay and pretend to go along

with The Joker's mad plans. We'll be seeing you.

Good work, Alfred.

Now let's find out what's going on in the phony mayor's office.

By activating our confiscated utility belt radios,

we'll hear every word.

Good. I want complete police protection tonight when my friends and I pay a visit

to the City Treasury.

- [Robin] City Treasury, eh? - Check. To the Batcopter.

Can't I even carry the sacks myself?

Why not let us do it for you?

- You. - Them.

[blows whistle]

Look, Batman, we're surrounded.

O'Hara, shoot Batman and Robin. That's an order.

Let's get out of here.

[gunshot fires]

How about that? I missed.

Power is a corrupting force, Robin, especially in the hands of crooks.

So I don't think Penguin and Riddler will wait for Joker's next scheme.

- They'll try and go off on their own? - Right.

Let's make sure Professor Ludendorf is safe.

He's the only witness to the Joker falsifying the election.

[narrator] As usual, the Caped Crusader has called the turn.

I can't release all my crooks to you.

Nonsense. I'm the chief magistrate.

Have them report to me at this address.

Fellow crooks, I want you to take one of these jet umbrellas

and go perform one massive assault wave of robbery.

Then return here with the loot. Ha, ha!

Where did everybody go?

So the Penguin and the Riddler have gone into business for themselves.

The fools.

Commissioner, bring me the Batmobile.

Batman, look. Hoods on Penguin jet umbrellas.

The Penguin is back in business.

We'll follow them to his hideout.

Come fly back to Papa.

My little loot-laden jail birds.

[sonar echoing]

[dings]

[laughing]

- Hello, Penguin. - Watch him, Robin.

[Penguin shouts]

Hold it right there.

Well, well. Three birds with one net.

A robin, a penguin, and a bat.

[laughing]

Follow me, Robin.

The Joker's been trying to figure out this riddle, Batman.

What makes a plant die?

[Batman] What kind of plant would interest him?

[Robin] Uh, a defense plant, maybe?

[narrator] At this very moment, at the top-secret Gotham Defense Plant…

Look, Mr. District Attorney,

if these secret plans fall into the wrong hands…

Your plant will die, eh? Ha, ha.

When I see these plans, I'll be richer than—

The Batmobile.

- Two down. - And one to go.

It's a good thing I found you before Batman and Robin did, Professor Ludendorf,

because your testimony can have me kicked out as mayor.

- [Batman] And so it will, Joker. - [Joker] Batman?

[gasps]

Gas.

O'Hara, this is the mayor.

Get down to the police firing range pronto.

You need target practice.

[laughing]

You'll be shot by the chief of police

while I will be attending the opening of a play.

Let's both take a little shooting practice.

We can pretend that the targets are Penguin, Riddler,

and His Honor, The Joker.

[Gordon] You can't miss with sights like these.

The Dynamic Duo. We almost—

Commissioner, this is Professor Ludendorf,

who can prove The Joker rigged the voting machines.

We're off to the theater.

And so, fellow citizens, thank you for—

We're a little late, so good night, folks.

[thuds]

Professor Ludendorf showed us all how The Joker stole the election.

And thanks to you, Gotham City has good clean city government again

for four more years.

[narrator] It's a cool misty morning in Gotham Harbor.

Jumping Jehoshaphat.

Gotham Harbor Patrol. Emergency.

Sighted iceberg in the harbor.

And there's a Viking ship with real Vikings frozen inside the iceberg.

[narrator] Frozen Vikings?

What frigid fun does Mr. Freeze,

the coolest, cruelest villain of them all, have in mind?

[narrator] A short time later,

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson view the frigid fantasy.

- Incredible. - Fantastic.

Unbelievable, if you ask me.

Young man, as a curator of the Gotham Museum, I am an authority.

And I say it is highly possible that those Vikings are still alive.

I smell something rotten here, Bruce.

Possibly, Dick. Very possibly.

[Freeze] Everything is ready.

This time, we'll put the Caped Crusaders on ice.

If it's not a fake, Robin, it's one of the great scientific discoveries of the age.

But if it is a fake—

It can only be the work of Mr. Freeze, right?

[narrator] But what's this?

The frozen Vikings come to life?

Good job, Eric. Get in.

Holy heat wave. The iceberg's gone and so are the Vikings.

Just what I expected. It's Mr. Freeze, all right.

[narrator] Wrong is right, for at that moment in an abandoned ice factory…

Sure glad you can make warm spots in this icebox, Mr. Freeze.

[laughing]

Embedding you and your men in the iceberg convinced everyone.

You are really Vikings come to life after a thousand years. Ha, ha.

Yeah. Now when we plunder Gotham City as the Vikings of old, no one will stop us.

Not even the Dynamic Duo,

because of your, uh, ha, ha, rare scientific value.

[both laughing]

[all shouting]

Hey, out of the way!

The Vikings attack!

- Rob. - What is going—?

[man] Stop or I'll shoot!

Don't shoot.

These men are historical wonders and must be preserved. Let them alone.

Vikings, come back.

[narrator] Now the Caped Crusaders,

racing to the scene of the crime, hit the icy street.

Holy sliding pond.

[Batman] The Batchute. Quick.

[narrator] Inches from disaster, the Batmobile stops.

While across town in the Gotham Department Store,

the Vikings strike again.

[Vikings shouting]

[Batman] Gotham Department Store. Roger.

To the elevators. Hurry!

Right on the button.

Batman and Robin.

Let's get them.

My specimens.

What are those fools doing to you?

Quick, Eric. Over here.

- Batman, they're getting away. - [Batman] Come on.

Wait. Got a better idea.

The Dynamic Duo are in the other elevator. Cut the power.

[thuds]

[laughing]

The end of the Dynamic Duo.

[Batman] Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Freeze.

[Robin] We used our own elevator.

You caped creeps, stand aside or—

Creeps?

You— You're not real Vikings, are you?

Don't move, Dynamic Duo.

[Robin] Holy ice cube, Batman.

We can't follow them and they've got Fosdick.

We'll find them in the Batcopter.

My guess is, they'll be on their way out the way them came in.

Batman, look what's coming through the fog bank.

- The copter's set for hover. Ready? - Ready.

[both] Geronimo!

[narrator] With eyes only for his quarry,

the Boy Wonder races into Mr. Freeze's infamous cold room.

An immediate victim of quick freeze.

Fifty degrees below zero.

Cast off!

That's Freeze's submarine.

This should stop him cold.

The engines. Heating up.

I can't stand heat.

Mr. Freeze.

This will cool you off, frozen face.

[Fosdick] Now I know why they call you the Boy Wonder.

Are you sure you don't mind making a side trip to the museum, Batman?

No, not at all, professor.

Glad we could provide you with a, uh, specimen for your scientists to study.

I only hope he doesn't spoil before we get there.

Oh, there's no chance of that.

[all laughing]

[theme music playing]