Burgess Meredith "The Virginian" (twice), "Wagon Train", "Branded", "The Wild Wild West", "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters", "Laredo", "Bonanza", and "Daniel Boone". In 1963, he appeared as Vincent Marion in a five-part episode of the last season of the Warner Bros. ABC detective series "77 Sunset Strip". He starred three times in "Burke's Law" (1963–1964), starring Gene Barry. Meredith also played the Penguin in the television series "Batman" from 1966 to 1968, and in the 1966 film based on the TV series. His role as the Penguin was so well-received, the show's writers always had a script featuring the Penguin ready whenever
The Lurker at the Threshold to the fictional book "Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in No Humane Shape", Misquamacus teaches "Sorceries" to Richard Billington and imprisons Ossadagowah, a spawn of Tsathoggua, in a ring of stones. The same character later reappears in the early 19th century as Quamis, a servant of Alijah Billington and the guardian of his son Laban. Quamis, described as a Narragansett Indian, is a worshipper of Nyarlathotep. The character Misquamacus is also the villain of the 1976 novel "The Manitou" (which was made into a film starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith and Michael Ansara in 1978),