646f9e108c Louie the Lilac has cornered the flower market in Gotham City, hoping to gain control over the entire &quot;flower generation.&quot; He kidnaps the organizer of their planned flower-in, Princess Primrose, and brainwashes her with his Stupefying Aromatic Spray. Batman and Robin follow a clue to the villain&#39;s lair only to be captured by Louie and fed to his giant man-eating lilacs. With the Caped Crusaders out of the way, Louie heads back to the flower-in to continue his evil plan. Alfred, meanwhile, has been alerted to Batman and Robin&#39;s situation, and goes looking for Batgirl to aid in the fight. &quot;Louie, the Lilac&quot; introduced a new villain in the person of Milton Berle, a purple clad gangster out to corner the flower market soto control Gotham City&#39;s population of flower children. Princess Primrose (Schuyler Aubrey) is their designated leader, falling victim to Louie&#39;s hypnotic boutonnière, to the dismay of her friend Dogwood (Jimmy Boyd) and former high school classmate Barbara Gordon (Yvonne Craig), who thinks the Princess has &#39;flipped a petal or two.&#39; Barbara gets a good portion of screen time, trapped in her apartment by Lilac henchman Arbutus (Richard Bakalyan, previous henchman of Frank Gorshin&#39;s Riddler and Victor Buono&#39;s King Tut), but her appearanceBatgirl is simply brief and pointless. Most surprising is Uncle Miltie&#39;s total lack of humor in playing the character perfectly straight, rendering this Special Guest Villainmore of a common crook unworthy of Batman, though he&#39;d return in &quot;Louie&#39;s Lethal Lilac Time.&quot; Crippling the episode even further is the already outdated depiction of the flower children, this broadcast following by only a few weeks the fabled Summer of Love spearheaded by The Beatles and SGT. PEPPER. Everything in this PACKED episode is just outstanding: Louie the Over-Actor, the flower children, the extras in the park, the park itself, the Billy May music, the man-eating lilacs (I love a good monster show), the women, the Batgirl song at the end, the teaser of next week&#39;s episode…this is just a 25 minute joy.<br/><br/>They say the third season was low-budget but this all looks rather movie-like to me, not of the production standard of season one I admit, but I walked away from this episode feeling like I had just seen a 25 minute energy-charged movie! A true winner!<br/><br/>I really don&#39;t agree with people who put down season threeI think all 26 episodes of season three have something of interest.
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