646f9e108c Nora Clavicle, a women's rights activist, uses her influence to have Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and the whole police force fired and replaced with women. She cuts ties with Batman and Robin, then launches her plan to blow up Gotham City with explosive-packed mice and collect on the insurance. The Terrific Trio look for a way to neutralize her mechanical hordes before it's too late.
During a luncheon honoring Commissioner Gordon for his many years of servicepolice commissioner, Mayor Linseed shocks everyone when he announces that he is terminating the Commissioner and replacing him with women's rights activist Nora Clavicle. Miss Clavicle's first act is to fire all the male police officers, including Chief O'Hara and replacing them with mini-skirted policewomen, including Mrs. Linseed, who is named the new police chief. Batman becomes suspicious and when he, Robin and Batgirl investigate they are captured by Miss Clavicle and her henchwomen and ties them into lethal Siamese human knots. She then reveals that she purchased an insurance policy against the destruction of Gotham City. She then unleashes mechanical mice, which are armed with explosives and are set to go off at sundown. Can the Terrific Trio untie themselves and get rid of the mice before it's too late?
By season 3 "Batman" was really running out of steam. It had lost its twice a week slots, so no more regular "Bat trap" cliff hangars, and budgets had been dramatically reduced. All the producers had was the new addition of Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) to the show to help rescue sagging ratings - which didn't work. In this environment, viewers who still bothered to tune in were confronted by a whole raft of season 3 stinkers, of which "Nora Clavicle" is one of the grimmest examples.<br/><br/>As to what makes this episode so bad, it's hard to know where to start. It has a plot hinging on women being too terrified to do anything about an invasion of mechanical mice, said mice eventually being "pied pipered" into Gotham river by Batman and co dancing about playing tin whistles! There is confusion in the writingto the motivations of the villainess. She is an extreme feminist, fighting for women's rights/she is just a straightforward selfish and greedy crook, using a "cause" cynically to loot Gotham to make herself rich. Which is it? The lazy, incoherent script never deals with this. The portrayal of the useless, gossipping, shopping obsessed policewomen, who make up the new Gotham police force after Nora gets herself made commissioner, is something which looks antediluvian, even for 1968, and its sheer crassness might stun a dedicated male chauvinist. In mitigation, it could have been said that Nora chose deliberately to recruit only certain sorts of unsuitable women for the job, so her gang would have little trouble from them when it came to looting the city - however, we aren't told that by the script, so it comes across justa blanket piece of clunking "satire" saying "Hey guys! This is funny - see how girlies make terrible cops"! But it's not all a one way street. We see a man, one who has managed to become mayor of a big city, is incapable of cleaning a shirt, or of cooking for himself when his wife goes on strike. Gotham should rename itself "Stereotype city". And, most terrible of all, the sheer ill disguised cheapness of the thing. A lot of season 3 is shot on indoor studio sound stages that the makers can no longer be bothered to make look like anything but indoor studio sound stages. "Nora Clavicle" has its share of sound stage pantomime like scenes, the worst being the one at Gotham river side, which features a painted backdrop of supposed buildings which would shame a kindergarten school play. To cap it all, this wretched little episode, uniquely, doesn't even have a Bat fight! Not content with parading the reactionary concept across the screen that women are not suited to being good cops (had the guys not heard of Batgirl then?), these producers and writers were too priggish to even let them fight, in an episode where the situation demanded that they should. <br/><br/>Is there anything to be ventured to attempt a defence of this episode? Well, Barbara Rush, who plays Nora, is a good enough actress, but she's too serious a player to adapt comfortably into the "Batman" atmosphere (something which happened with a few other guest villains, suchMichael Rennie) - this is not her forte. She's also cursed with probably the worst script of her career, portraying a baddie whose motivations are inconsistent. Nora's statuesque "Greek goddess" henchwomen are a sight to behold, but the ridiculous script asks us to believe these nasty gun toting women and their cunning boss can be captured (off screen - naturally) by 2 old men, Alfred and Gordon, along with the inept Chief O'Hara (who couldn't catch a cold!). The human knot is an interestingly unique "death trap", which leads the series into slightly "kinky" areas - which one might speculate the maker's were not really aware of. <br/><br/>So, despite a few little hints at the potential of a "Nora" story, in sum this is a really horrible episode. One where the makers had clearly forgotten" camp" does not mean simply "stupid", the attempt to mine humour from extreme stereotypes comes acrossjaw droppingly outrageous, and it appears nobody cared any more about having quality in any aspect of the "entertainment" they were presenting to audiences.
Women take over Gotham City.<br/><br/>Firstly, I should say I totally understand some viewers being a little bothered by this episode. So please don't bombard me with "not useful" votes. This adventure does seem a tiny bit out of character in the Batman series. Many women would view thisthe most sexist 25 minutes of television ever. However, one thing needs to be remembered here: this is Batman.<br/><br/>This series does not make statements about the human condition. This is not Star Trek or The Outer Limits. It is Batman. A series that is adventure for the kids and a show that is meant to be humour/adventure for the adults. However, maybe I am wrong, if someone has proof that I am wrong (maybe Adam West has spoken up about this episode) please let me know about it and I will correct this review.<br/><br/>Perhaps this episode could be describeda 1968 version of South Park or The Simpsons?


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