"Batman, how could you have opened a vault, to which you didn't even know the combnation, in three seconds flat?"
"With my Three Seconds Flat Bat Vault Combination Unscrambler, Commissioner."
At last we come to the final episode and... well, Minerva's first two millionaire victims are one William Dozier and "millionaire television producer" Howie Horwitz, but that's just an in-joke for those in the know. There's otherwise no acknowledgement whatsoever that this is the final episode. Was there still some uncertainty when this was made about whether the show was going to be picked up for another season by NBC?
This is rather good, though, and a decent finale, although it doesn't hit the real heights. Zsa Zsa Gabor is charismatic, sexy and funny as one-off baddie Minerva, and the script has a bit of fun- one of Charles Hoffman's better efforts. The episode may be a little rushed, and Batgirl underused, but that's not so much the fault of the episode as the format for this season.
And... that's it. Batman is gone with neither a bang nor a whimper but a very ordinary episodes. I suppose that's how things were in 1968. But I have every intention of following certain aspects of the series' afterlife.
Fornow, though, I'll continue with Deadwood, and start something else...
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