The Penguin contaminates all the printed money with Lygerian Sleeping Sickness in order to claim them himself but is dangerously frustrated by Bruce Wayne's countermove. The Penguin taints the ink at the U.S. Mint with Lygerian Sleeping Sickness. As word of the infected money gets out, citizens of Gotham City empty their cash right onto the streets - and into Penguin's pockets. But when Bruce Wayne spreads word of the infected bills worldwide, the Penguin realizes his ill-gotten gain is worthless and threatens a more devilish plot if the warning is not retracted. "Penguin's Clean Sweep" marked the final appearance of Burgess Meredith's Penguin on the series, certainly better served this last season than Cesar Romero's Joker (Meredith actually does one last cameo as The Penguin in THE MONKEES "Monkees Blow Their Minds"). With henchmen named Dustbag and Pushbroom, and Monique Van Vooren as Miss Clean, the overstuffed bird intends to contaminate all the money in Gotham City with Lygerian Sleeping Sickness, using his collection of Lygerian fruit flies to accomplish the task, thus sweeping up every piece of green paper dumped on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, Bruce Wayne's influence leaves Penguin with millions in worthless paper, no bank or merchant in the world willing to deal with his ill gotten gains. Unbilled cameos this time include John Vivyan (MR. LUCKY) as a bank manager, and former MLB player John Beradino, fittingly cast as a doctor. Penguin (Burgess Meredith) makes trouble at the mint.<br/><br/>There is no question that this episode does not compare to the sort of quality we got in season one or even season two. But we are talking about 1966 Batman here, one of TV's most popular shows ever made. One of the biggest cult hits ever! So with that in mind I can partly turn a blind eye to the various flaws in this adventure and just go along with it. <br/><br/>The thing that bothered me more than anything else was the terrible make-up job on Meredith. His big nose never looked right (mainly in close ups) and it was just too fake looking. Perhaps the high definition picture quality was to blame for this?<br/><br/>Some interesting plot points in this episode, I would call it good but not great.
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