The BEST episodes written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Hi Diddle Riddle
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7.61
795 votes

#1 - Hi Diddle Riddle

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 1

While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.

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Beautiful Dreamer (1)
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7.53
15 votes

#2 - Beautiful Dreamer (1)

The Green Hornet - Season 1 - Episode 7

Seems that wealthy and prominent members of the community have been executing crimes and then forgetting that they ever happened. Eventually the District Attorney and The Green Hornet find that Peter Eden, owner of the Vale of Eden, has been leaving ""suggestions"" in these people's subconscious dreams after receiving treatments from the Vale of Eden.

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Smack in the Middle
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7.29
582 votes

#3 - Smack in the Middle

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 2

The Riddler fashions a mold of the face of the unconscious Robin. He contacts Batman with two more riddles. The Riddler tells Batman if he can solve the riddles, he'll know where Robin is.

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The Chase of Fire Raid
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7.25
64 votes

#4 - The Chase of Fire Raid

The Rat Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 1

The British 8th Army sends their desert expert -- Jack Moffitt -- to the Rat Patrol for one very special mission. But Sergeant Troy (the American head of the unit) is very uneasy about this new addition. Moffitt tells Troy that the Germans have buried ammunition and petrol at an abandoned oasis which only the Afrika Korps knows about. It's up to the Rat Patrol to find this oasis and destroy the cache before the Germans can reach it. Dietrich -- familiar with the Rat Patrol's tricks -- devises a trap wherein he will follow the Patrol to the oasis. The Rat Patrol gets delayed, though, by a broken axle and, in the end, it is a race between them and Dietrich to see who will reach the supplies first.

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The Penguin's a Jinx
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7.11
329 votes

#5 - The Penguin's a Jinx

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 4

Bruce Wayne escapes the Penguin’s deathtrap and returns to the Batcave. What he doesn’t know is that one of the Penguin’s clues, an umbrella, has a listening device.

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Beautiful Dreamer (2)
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7.08
13 votes

#6 - Beautiful Dreamer (2)

The Green Hornet - Season 1 - Episode 8

Part two picks up with a GREEN HORNET visit and proposition for Peter Eden, owner of the Vale of Eden. After Peter uses Vanessa Vane to double-cross the Hornet, the Hornet re-visits Peter and uses his own dream machine on Peter to foil the last crime for the evening.

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The Joker Goes to School
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7.04
147 votes

#7 - The Joker Goes to School

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 15

At Woodrow Roosevelt High School, a vending machine gives out money. Dick Grayson is there to witness it. Batman learns the vending machines are operated by a company bought by the Joker after being released from prison. The Joker and his gang are aided by Susie, a cheerleader at the school. In the course of their investigation, Batman and Robin are captured and placed in electric chairs. If a “one armed bandit” comes up the wrong way, they’ll be electrocuted.

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The Bird's Last Jest
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7.01
96 votes

#8 - The Bird's Last Jest

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 28

Attempting to save Chief O’Hara from drowning inside a metal trunk, Batman and Robin find themselves under fire from the Penguin’s henchmen. Batman instructs Alfred to pose as famous forger Quill-Pen Quertch (complete with false fingerprints), but the Penguin recognizes Alfred as soon as he puts on his glasses. The evil Bird-man and his cronies then visit stately Wayne manor brandishing a giant Butler-pie.

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Fine Feathered Finks
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6.99
396 votes

#9 - Fine Feathered Finks

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Penguin plots to manipulate Batman into inadvertently devising capers for him.

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He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul
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6.94
137 votes

#10 - He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 16

A power failure prevents Batman and Robin from being electrocuted. Meanwhile, a recording Batman made confirms that cheerleader Susie is one of the Joker’s confederates. Robin, in his Dick Grayson identity, attempts to infiltrate the gang. Meanwhile, the Joker’s main plot is finally revealed. Members of the high school basketball team receive answers to final exams from the rigged vending machines. The Joker appears, claiming to be a concerned citizen. The team’s starters will be suspended as the Joker bets big money on the team’s next opponent. Batman, however, has other ideas.

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The Penguin's Nest
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6.86
97 votes

#11 - The Penguin's Nest

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 27

Penguin has opened a fancy restaurant called The Penguin’s Nest. There every order has to be written down by the customers on a piece of paper. He then plans to get himself arrested and hand over the handwritten notes to a forger doing time by the name of Ballpoint Baxter. Suspecting a scheme, Batman urges the police not to send The Penguin back to his permanent cell. Unable to reach Ballpoint, The Penguin and his culinary cohorts escape from jail, taking Chief O’Hara along as a hostage.

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Zelda the Great
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6.83
219 votes

#12 - Zelda the Great

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 9

The Dynamic Duo arrange a trap for an elusive annual bank robber, but the female magician they’re hunting is on to them with a new scheme of her own.

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The Joker's Epitaph
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6.70
90 votes

#13 - The Joker's Epitaph

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 48

The Joker is now Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank, due to an unsuccessful plan of Batman’s. He installs his robots as tellers, and despite his criminal past, seems to be running things in perfect order. The Dynamic Duo realize they will have to trick him into making a mistake in order to remove him. They go to work on a plan to gain control of his robots. But that plan is jeopardized when, due to an odd turn of events, Batman’s true identity Bruce Wayne is declared mentally ill and hauled off in a straight-jacket.

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The Joker's Last Laugh
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6.67
91 votes

#14 - The Joker's Last Laugh

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 47

Counterfeit money is being distributed by respectable citizens in Gotham City. Batman and Robin investigate, and find one of the Joker’s lifelike robots substituting for a bank teller. They are certain who is behind the crime. But to get actual proof, Batman plans to visit the villain as Bruce Wayne and trick him into disclosing his operation. When his scheme suddenly backfires, it appears he will instead have to appoint the Joker as Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank.

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The Penguin Goes Straight
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6.55
117 votes

#15 - The Penguin Goes Straight

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 21

After his recent release from jail, The Penguin has started his own protective agency and is thwarting small time hoodlums everywhere he goes. Batman & Robin decide to send in an undercover Alfred to spy on the newly reformed Penguin and his recently acquainted high society friends. However, the Penguin has anticipated Batman and Robin’s every move and manages to give them a makeover into wanted men instead of him.

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Not Yet, He Ain't
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6.47
119 votes

#16 - Not Yet, He Ain't

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 22

Already wanted for a robbery they didn’t commit, Batman and Robin fake their own deaths with a little help from Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara. They even allow the Penguin to take hold of the Batmobile, now renamed ’Birdmobile’ in order to keep track on them via a hidden camera.

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A Death Worse Than Fate
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6.45
189 votes

#17 - A Death Worse Than Fate

Batman - Season 1 - Episode 10

Told that her loot is genuine money after all, Zelda is forced to lure Batman and Robin into a possibly unsolvable deathtrap, with hitmen waiting outside to shoot them if they escape.

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The Devil's Fingers
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5.84
98 votes

#18 - The Devil's Fingers

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 15

Chandell, the musical virtuoso, visits Gotham City for a piano concert. But unknown to the public, Chandell is being blackmailed into a life of crime by his twin brother Harry, who retains most of the profits. Chandell intends to buy off Harry forever, and he knows just where to get the funds – from the Wayne family fortune. With Batman and Robin out of town, he suspects the robbery will be a piece of cake. However, Batman has been listening to Chandell’s concert remotely, and after detecting an anomalous chord, summons Robin back to Wayne Manor to investigate.

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The Dead Ringers
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5.78
95 votes

#19 - The Dead Ringers

Batman - Season 2 - Episode 16

Batman and Robin escape Chandell’s trap. Once back in the Batcave, they deduce his plan to get the Wayne family fortune by killing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, then marrying the rightful heir, Aunt Harriet. In order to trap the villain, Bruce and Dick fake their own deaths. However, Harry has also figured out his brother Chandell’s scheme, and desiring the Wayne fortune for himself, concocts a plan to masquerade as his twin brother.

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