The scene at the Women's Division of Gotham City Penitentiary that concludes this story demonstrates why Season 1 far surpassed those that followed; marking one of the very few occasions a defeated adversary of the Caped Crusader was ever seen in prison uniform.
Julie Newmar regrettably never filled the snug-fitting striped pants suit fetchingly modelled here by the late Anne Baxter, on which Newmar would have worked her usual magic while graphically demonstrating at a glance the high stakes game the Princess of Plunder had been playing when caught, caged and denied the wet-look working clothes Selina Kyle poured herself into when she embraced the life of an outlaw.
As Zelda swings her trim little hips walking away back down a long corridor and out of the series (eventually to be supplanted by the egregious Madame Olga in Season 3), and Bruce Wayne tucks the rose she has just presented him with into his buttonhole - while a melancholy cornet solo plays the episode out - the series reaches heights it would seldom achieve again.
Julie Newmar regrettably never filled the snug-fitting striped pants suit fetchingly modelled here by the late Anne Baxter, on which Newmar would have worked her usual magic while graphically demonstrating at a glance the high stakes game the Princess of Plunder had been playing when caught, caged and denied the wet-look working clothes Selina Kyle poured herself into when she embraced the life of an outlaw.
As Zelda swings her trim little hips walking away back down a long corridor and out of the series (eventually to be supplanted by the egregious Madame Olga in Season 3), and Bruce Wayne tucks the rose she has just presented him with into his buttonhole - while a melancholy cornet solo plays the episode out - the series reaches heights it would seldom achieve again.