"Batman"
Pretty Poison (1992)

Director:

Boyd Kirkland

Writers:

Paul Dini (story)
Michael Reaves (story)

TV Series:

"Batman" (1992)

Original Air Date:

14 September 1992 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Action | Family | Animation | Mystery | Fantasy | Crime | Drama

Plot:

When Harvey Dent is poisoned with derivative from an extinct flower, Batman must hunt down the assailant who has the antidote, the villainous plant fanatic Poison Ivy. |

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Double Life | Femme Fatale | Batman | Gothic

Cast

Kevin Conroy	...	Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.	...	Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Bob Hastings	...	Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lloyd Bochner	...	Mayor Hamilton Hill (voice)
Robert Costanzo	...	Det. Harvey Bullock (voice)
Melissa Manchester	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Richard Moll	...	Harvey Dent (voice)
Ingrid Oliu	...	Officer Renée Montoya (voice)
Diane Pershing	...	Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Additional Voices (voice)

This Woman Presents Thorny Problems

This episode begins with a flashback from five years ago. It was groundbreaking time for the new Gotham Penitentiary, funded by the Wayne Foundation, and has been the dream pet project of district Attorney Harvey Dent.

Dent is a major part of this story because he winds up as the first victim of "Pam Isley" a.k.a. "Poison Ivy. Miss Isley's nice little rose garden was ruined when the big prison was built and she wasn't happy about it. Now, she has her own way of revenge, using a wild thorny rose - thought to be extinct - as a lethal poison.

I loved the artwork in here: the browns and blacks of the Gotham skyscrapers were awesome. Bruce Wayne's yellow "Cord" automobile was very stylish.

While Ms. Isley was interesting, the better "villain" was her huge fly trap plant, which was genuinely scary and made for some good action scenes as it tried to devour Batman.

This was another attention-getting episode, and I'm sure we'll see more of "Poison Ivy."