Some Background: "Catwoman goes to College/Batman shows his Knowledge" was a late season 2 episode. It originally aired on February 22 and February 23, 1967 and was the last Batman Episode where Julie Newmar performed as Catwoman. Stanley Ralph Ross wrote the script which concerns Catwoman's attempts to steal "Batagonian Cats-eye Opals" which, while valuable, supposedly bring bad luck to anyone who steals them. When Batman has foiled Catwoman by switching hard candies for the jewels, she decides to try to get even. She invites Batman to meet her at a Model Home to discuss the terms of her surrender.

Okay, now before any more of the captures are discussed, here are a few astonishing facts about the model home scene. First, remember that this was 1967, literally decades before creative post production editing, chroma key, or any other exotic special effect. Even more amazing, this incredible scene, which is composed of one, seven minute tracking shot, was DONE IN ONE TAKE! Julie, in an interview with Joel Eisner, stated that they filmed the scene toward the end of the day. Last November at the Collect-o-con show when I told her about my plans to try to "re-create" the scene for Adam, Julie said "I remember that!"

Okay, so far Julie has slinked down a staircase, played with a mink stole around her neck and slide a foot down the railing as if it is a barre bar. In another interview, Julie mentions that much of what she performed as Catwoman was dancing, or forms of dancing. Such a move requires timing, grace, athleticism and that little indefinable something which I'll call playful vamp.

Batman attempts to cart Catwoman off to justice, being ever the straight-arrow, no-nonsense type. Catwoman has other ideas. When Batman states that they should go, Catwoman says "Must we? I was thinking we could get to knooooowwww each other." Batman feebly states "I think we already know each other well enough," but it is clear that he is quickly being drawn in by Catwoman's overwhelming presence and sensuality.

Don't run away Batman...

I won't bite!

Seemingly, Batman falls victim to Catwoman's charms. He says "You're very beautiful Catwoman. Your propiquity could cause a man to forget himself." To which Catwoman replies "I don't know what that means, but it sure sounds nice." Of course, Julie was and is an intelligent, highly articulate woman who peppers everyday conversation with Webster-worthy words such as "insipid", "innocuous," "vapid," and "mutually beneficial," so a word like "propiquity" might be part of her regular vocabulary.

It is next to impossible to describe the impact of Julie's next dance step. She could have loomed even closer to him, she could have touched him or kissed him but what she did carried ten times more of a wallop than any of those actions.

Just after her incredibly sexy pose, Catwoman offers her propostion. She says "Batman, let's throw caution to the winds! I mean, after all, we are two adult human beings and we're both interested in the same things. Happiness. I mean, I could give you more happiness than anyone in the world." Batman asks her how she proposes to do that and she replies "By being your partner in life. I mean, it's me and you against the world. Oooooh." Batman asks "What about Robin?" and in an offhanded way, Catwoman shrugs and says "Oh, I'll have him killed. Painlessly of course. Well, he is kind of a bore with his 'holy this' and 'holy that.'"

By this time, we viewers find out that the whole scene was set up by Catwoman so that she could get Batman close enough to her to inhale her poisonous "Eau de Chat" perfume. Foiled again she tries to use the art of Cat-rate on the Caped Crusader and he tells her that since Karate is a defensive art form, it requires that he reciprocate, and he won't. In the end Catwoman calls on her goons Brown, Penn, and Cornell and her pal French Fredie the fence vanquish Batman.

It was climactic action toward the end of a Batman episode, shot very much "on the fly." Yet, lightning was caught in a bottle that day in early 1967, as the producers came away with one of the sexiest moments in the history of television.