Robin the Boy Wonder is the eager, youthful sidekick of Batman, the Caped Crusader, the vigilante crime-fighting alias of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Introduced in 1940 as orphaned acrobat Dick Grayson in the DC comic book series Batman, Robin was played by Burt Ward in the 1966 television series on ABC.
As played by Burt Ward, Robin has a cute, boyish face, clean-cut, brown hair, and a compact, athletic physique which fits perfectly with his character's acrobatic background. His colorful outfit, with his dark green mask, gloves, and booties, his bright, red shirt, his shiny, yellow cape, his tight, green panties, and his form-fitting, flesh-color leggings, certainly catches the audience's attention.
Due to his youth, inexperience, and smaller size, the Boy Wonder is clearly the weak link in the Dynamic Duo, which their opponents often seek to exploit. Robin is also cocky, enthusiastic, and overly eager to prove his independent crime-fighting abilities, especially to Batman. He is often in trouble and in need of rescue.
This week's villain is Egghead.
In the first episode, Egghead kidnaps three millionaires, including Bruce Wayne, in order to prevent Gotham City's lease payment to Chief Screaming Chicken and in order to utilize his mind-reading device to identify which one of them is Batman.
In the next episode, Dick Grayson overloads Egghead's mind-reading device, allowing the millionaires to escape.
Favorite shots:
For fans of Robin peril, this is a memorable pair of episodes.In the first episode, in the middle of a fight, Egghead's two bald, middle-aged henchmen corner the Boy Wonder, grab a wing, and pin him against a wall. Chief Screaming Chicken rushes over, grabs a tuft of Robin's hair, and threatens to scalp him. After Batman shames the chief into retracting his knife arm, Egghead replaces the threat with an acid-filled egg over the Boy Wonder's head. Fortunately, Robin manages to free himself by stomping on the henchmen's feet, forcing them to release his ram.
In the second episode, in one of my favorite scenes of the series, one of Egghead's henchmen breaks a drum over Robin's head and tosses the stunned crimefighter towards his boss. Egghead then wraps an arm around the young sidekick and proceeds to slam eggs repeatedly over the top of Robin's head until Batman rescues the Boy Wonder.
The scene in which the cute, clean-cut, athletic Boy Wonder is being held by the bald, middle-aged villain Egghead, helpless to prevent him from administering a repeated egg shampoo, is priceless. Fortunately, Robin was forced to endure this indignity only briefly, as he was soon rescued by Batman. Afterwards, seeing the beautiful Boy Wonder in his bright, red shirt, his shiny, yellow cape, his tight, green panties, and his form-fitting, flesh-color leggings with his hair dripping with raw eggs and running down his face, is a terrific bonus.
This blog is intended to promote the appreciation of Burt Ward's portrayal of Robin in the 1966 television series "Batman". You may purchase both episodes at the following link:
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