The Zodiac Crimes The Zodiac Crimes "The Zodiac Crimes" is the 71st episode of the "Batman" television series. It first aired on ABC January 11, 1967 in its second season and repeated June 14, 1967. The first of a three-part story, it was dubbed a ""Batman" special", simultaneously celebrating the show's one-year anniversary and helping to open ABC's "second season." It featured both Cesar Romero as The Joker and Burgess Meredith as The Penguin (dubbed as an "Extra Special Guest Villain"). The Joker pays a visit to Commissioner James Gordon's office at Police HQ and swipes a rare art map. Alerted, Batman and
Burgess Meredith He would later play two more roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, "Night Gallery". Meredith was the narrator for "" in 1983. The actor appeared in various other television programs, including the role of Christopher Norbert III, in the 1962 episode "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town" of the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, "The Eleventh Hour" starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He also guest starred in the ABC drama about psychiatry, "Breaking Point" in the 1963 episode titled "Heart of Marble, Body of Stone". Meredith appeared in various western series, such as "Rawhide" (four times),