a5c7b9f00b The Catwoman targets the fashion industry by first terrorizing a banquet honoring Batgirl and then attacking a fashion show. During the attack on the fashion show, Catwoman captures Batgirl and takes her back to her hideout where she threatens to kill her with a pattern cutter. She then tells Batman that if he attempts to rescue her that it will leave the visiting Queen Bess of Bellgravia vulnerable for attack. Now the Caped Crusader must find a way to save Batgirl and prevent any harm to Queen Bess. Catwoman is now played by Eartha Kitt!<br/><br/>In my 1970s childhood this episode was owned on audio tape and I must have listened to that recording atleast 100 times! A knockout adventure loaded with comedy and drama, the dialogue really sparkles and the jazzy Billy May music used over the Bruce and Dick costume change at the start is so thrilling!<br/><br/>Granted, we get more of those season three cheap sets, but you will be so busy looking at sexy Eartha Kitt that you will hardly notice! After the previous clunky three-parter set in &quot;Londinium&quot;…Catwoman&#39;s Dressed To Kill is just so welcome! &quot;Catwoman&#39;s Dressed to Kill&quot; was, like all but one Catwoman appearance before it, scripted by Stanley Ralph Ross, but you wouldn&#39;t know it from the presentation. Julie Newmar, busy filming &quot;Mackenna&#39;s Gold&quot; on location, was unavailable this third season, so in casting a new Catwoman the producers selected Eartha Kitt chiefly for her ability to speak French, though that would not come into play until her team up with Cesar Romero&#39;s Joker. Filmed afterwards but broadcast before, this sorry entry continues the downward slide from the Ffogg-bound triple header, a great villainess reduced to a pouting jealous snit over Batgirl&#39;s selection&#39;Gotham City&#39;s Best Dressed Crime Fightress.&#39; One would think that Batgirl would at least have more to do, but sadly she&#39;s justhelplessshe was in Londinium, easily captured by Catwoman and saved by the timely intervention of Alfred&#39;s amusing &#39;oldest living hippie.&#39; Even the climactic fight sizes upthe season&#39;s worst,Eartha Kitt simply stands and watches the mêlée without once budging from her self proclaimed throne, offering up a pitiful hiss at Batgirl before departing. Eartha may have seemed like purrfect casting in regard to her catlike qualitiesa slinky singer (and short stature opposite Yvonne Craig), but it takes more than a great figure to capture the essence of the character, and her whining, one note interpretation remains torturous to watch in the absence of the beloved, multi dimensional Julie Newmar. And if she was such a great singer, why does her high pitched squeal grate on the ears like fingernails on a chalkboard?
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