Chad and Jeremy in Gotham City

The second season of BATMAN can be heavy sledding, but it does offer that wonderful diptych "The Cat's Meow"/"The Bat's Kow-tow" with Julie Newmar as Catwoman (her formerly silken delivery now channeling kooky Paula Prentiss half the time); Chad and Jeremy (whose voices Catwoman steals and holds for ransom; Jeremy Clyde looks uncannily like a long-haired Peter Cushing), Don Ho (obligatory Bat-climb cameo); Joe Flynn as a dance instructor, Steve Allen as TV announcer Allan Stevens and an unbilled Christina Ferrare (MARY MARY BLOODY MARY) as a squealing Chad and Jeremy fan. Catwoman, disguised as Miss Klutz, gives Dick Grayson dancing lessons until a sneeze -- caused by a vase of dogwood -- unmasks her. Neil Hamilton's Commissioner Gordon has his pompous prattle stolen by Catwoman's voice snatching device as well, but he gets it back in time for his closing line to Madge Blake, "Mrs. Cooper, you took the words right out of my mouth." All this and Robin persistently ruining Batman's opportunities for illicit romance with Catwoman (whose appeal he's still too young to understand), it's perfect, absolutely perfect.