Shoot a Crooked Arrow (1) - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When the Archer robs Wayne Manor's safe, an unconscious Dick Grayson shifts positions on the floor between takes. At first, he's lying with both hands folded over his chest. A few shots later, his left arm is stretched out over his head. (00:01:30)
Shoot a Crooked Arrow (1) - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: In Commissioner Gordon's office, just as Gordon tells Dale that with Batman and Robin on their side no harm will befall the money, the top of the set is visible at the top right corner of the screen. (00:06:25)
Shoot a Crooked Arrow (1) - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: The arrow Archer fires into the window frame in Commissioner Gordon's office is, depending on the camera shot, angled up, then down, up, down and up again. (00:07:30)
Shoot a Crooked Arrow (1) - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: At Archer's underground hideout, Batman and Robin are strung up by their thumbs, but in fact the stunt wires lead to their cloaked backs. (00:21:40)
Shoot a Crooked Arrow (1) - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Batman and Robin are ensnared by Archer's net, Batman says he will get his batknife to free them. When Archer shoots them down with the arrow, they are apparently unconscious but with no explanation of what knocked them out while stuck in the net.
Walk the Straight and Narrow (2) - S2-E2
Revealing mistake: At the start, while Archer and his goons are riding toward Batman and Robin who are tied to the stakes, when the Dynamic Duo use their Bat-springs the stunt wires lifting them are visible. (00:03:05)
Walk the Straight and Narrow (2) - S2-E2
Revealing mistake: When the armored truck with the ten million is hit, during this scene we can see stunt wires for some of the arrows used by Archer and his goons. (00:09:00)
Walk the Straight and Narrow (2) - S2-E2
Visible crew/equipment: After Archer and his goons have hit the armored truck, when the security guard pulls out the bag of money from the back of the truck and shows it to his partner, the chalk T-mark is visible on the ground between their feet. (00:10:20)
Walk the Straight and Narrow (2) - S2-E2
Visible crew/equipment: At stately Wayne Manor, when Bruce and Dick are practicing their archery, two white tape marks are visible on the grass; one for Dick and the other for Alfred. (00:23:05)
Hot Off the Griddle (1) - S2-E3
Revealing mistake: During the fight in the museum, one of Catwoman's henchmen slams into the wall beside a window. The set wall buckles and caves in, leaving the bottom edge of the window bent and jutting out. A few shots later, though, both wall and window have repaired themselves. (00:14:00)
The Minstrel's Shakedown (1) - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Alfred brings the lunch tray down to the Batcave, Batman is holding a soldering iron, working on the electronic bug. When the shot cuts to a close-up, the soldering iron vanishes, and he's holding a clear plastic probe instead. (00:10:15)
The Minstrel's Shakedown (1) - S2-E5
Plot hole: When Batman and Robin explain to the board members at the stock exchange that Minstrel will not be a threat because they dealt with Penguin, Archer, Clock King, King Tut, and Catwoman, in broadcast order, there is a 6-episode difference between Minstrel and Clock King who has never been seen before. To the first-time viewer, they were probably wondering who Clock King is.
Visible crew/equipment: While Batman and Robin are tied to the spit and rotating, when Batman says, "If we could just shake this turn spit pole loose," in the next shot note the shadow of a crew member moving their arm up, at the lower right corner of the screen. (00:03:35)
Visible crew/equipment: When Minstrel and his henchmen race down the stairs, the sound pole rigging shadow is moving at the very top of the screen. (00:04:00)
Continuity mistake: While Batman is telling Octavia that she can go free, his hands are either straight down at his sides or clasped together at chest level, depending on the shot. (00:06:15)
Continuity mistake: Between takes at the end of the final fight scene, most of the chairs shift positions around the table, the wooden partition screen that fell over during the scuffle has somehow folded itself, and a white cloth that was draped over one of the chairs has disappeared. (00:22:00)
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Minstrel is cornered by the Dynamic Duo, he pulls out his sparking remote unit. After being told it won't work, as O'Hara cuffs him, the unit that was in his hand disappears.
Factual error: King Tut is said here to have been a 4th Dynasty ruler. Just as in the previous Tut episode, Egyptian history seems to have entirely escaped Batman's writers. They previously mis-identified Tut's namesake as a 14th Dynasty ruler, and this time around, guessed wrong again. In fact, Tutenkamen's brief rule was part of the 18th Dynasty. (00:03:30)
Continuity mistake: As Tut prepares to re-animate the scarab beetles, his apothecary henchman stands to his immediate right, close enough to touch his shoulder. But when the shot cuts to a wider angle, the man is standing a foot away. (00:08:45)
Other mistake: When Tut's henchman slowly reads that Bruce Wayne will donate his talking sphinx to the Black Museum at Scotland Yard from a newspaper, a close-up shows he is reading it upside down.
Answer: It's wasn't unusual for multiple actors to play one character on this show. The villains on the TV Batman were played by guest stars, not regular cast members. George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach played the part at various times. They may simply have only wanted to play the part once or twice, or they were later tied up with other projects, making it necessary to cast someone else. Other characters, like Catwoman, were also played by more than one actress.
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