Batman: The Animated Series work together in solving the case of missing valuable cat statues while Batman is away. Some of the other antagonists that appeared in the series included characters such as Poison Ivy, Catwoman, the Riddler, the Mad Hatter, Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Man-Bat, the Penguin, the Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Bane, the Ventriloquist and his dummy Scarface, Hugo Strange and Tony Zucco. Other "good guy" characters featured in the show not previously mentioned include Alfred Pennyworth, Harvey Bullock, the Gray Ghost (an original character created by the series to portray Bruce Wayne's childhood hero and crime-fighting inspiration), Lucius Fox and
Alan Napier Sherlock Holmes, in an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". In the 1950s, he appeared on TV in four episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and guest starred on Dale Robertson's NBC western series "Tales of Wells Fargo". In 1965, he was the first to be cast in the "Batman" TV series, as Bruce Wayne's faithful butler Alfred, a role he played until the series' cancellation in 1968. I had never read comics before [I was hired for "Batman"]. My agent rang up and said, 'I think you are going to play on "Batman,"' I said 'What is "Batman"?'