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 Catwoman.
In the first episode, while feigning submission, Catwoman extracts a sleeping drug from her compact and scratched Batman and Robin on the chest with it. The Dynamic Duo find themselves in an echo chamber where the magnified sound of dripping water is intended to drive them insane.
In the next episode, the Dynamic Duo sings the precise note in order to shatter the glass of the chamber.
Favorite shots:
In these episodes, the favorite move for Catwoman's henchmen appears to be to grab the Boy Wonder's neck and to start choking.
In the first episode, Robin is punched into a wall with a telephone and choked with the telephone wire until he is rescued by Batman.
In the second episode, the Boy Wonder is choked from behind with a towel and placed under a hair drier until he is rescued by Batman.
These are only brief instances of Robin peril and unaccompanied by the Boy Wonder's frequent cries for Batman's help.
At one point in the first episode, Catwoman proposes that her henchwoman Eenie pair up with Robin the Boy Wonder, which elicits facial expressions of apparent disgust from the girl.
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