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 the Mad Hatter.
In the first episode, Robin is quickly overpowered and thrown into an x-ray machine. Being left to fight alone, Batman soon joins the Boy Wonder in the machine, where they are irradiated.
In the second episode, the Dynamic Duo are rescued from the x-ray machine by a friendly professor at the Atomic Energy Laboratory, where it is located.
In the first episode, Robin gets into trouble during a fight when he is thrown onto a bar and beaten. Fortunately, Batman rushes to his rescue.
At the Atomic Energy Laboratory, Robin is separated from Batman when the Caped Crusader removes his contaminated cowl. The Boy Wonder tries to stop the Mad Hatter from stealing the cowl but is forced to let go after a kick in the shin.
