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 villains are Penguin and Marsha Queen of Diamonds.
In the first episode, after a fight, Penguin blinds the Dynamic Duo by shining a spotlight on their faces, allowing his henchmen to capture them in a net. Batman and Robin are then tied to a catapult which is intended to propel them to their doom some distance away.
In the second episode, Batman precisely calculates where they are anticipated to land and remotely directs the Batmobile to be there beforehand to catch them with a lifesaving net.
Batman and Robin then find themselves in medieval suits of armor and in pursuit of Penguin, who trips them up with a series of rolling garbage cans. After gassing the downed duo, Penguin turns them over to a junkyard, who put the heroes in a trash compactor.
In the third episode, the Dynamic Duo use their portable air tanks in their utility belts to counteract the hydraulic pressure of the trash compactor and to create an air pocket to allow them to survive.
