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Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt is a 2003 TV movie reuniting the cast of the Batman TV show. It stars Adam West, Burt Ward and also Jack Brewer and Jason Marsden, who play the young Adam West/Batman and Burt Ward/Robin in flashbacks.

Adam West and Burt Ward, as themselves, go in search of the Batmobile after it is stolen, and along the way find themselves forced to consult their memories to decipher clues left by the criminals, evidently people they had known from filming the Batman television series. Memories include affairs, one of which led to Burt being chased by a knife-bearing lover, medicine Burt was forced to take so his genitals would not be so visible in his tights, and Adam meeting the actress who played Batgirl and accidentally placing a hand on her breast during filming. As it turns out, the villains who stole the Batmobile were the performers who had once played the Riddler and Catwoman.

• The movie also stars Frank Gorshin who played the Riddler, Julie Newmar who played Catwoman for the first two seasons of the show and Lee Meriwether who played Catwoman in the Batman theatrical film. Gorshin and Newmar appear as themselves, while Meriwether appears as a waitress.
• Betty White and Lyle Waggoner both have cameos in the movie.
• Lyle Waggoner originally auditioned for the part of Batman in the series but eventually lost out to Adam West. Some of his actual audition tape footage can be seen in the movie.
• The most noticeable surviving cast member not to appear in the movie is Yvonne Craig who played Batgirl in the third season of the show. When asked by a fan at a convention why she didn't appear in it she replied that she didn't like the script and politely turned it down.
• Jason Marsden who plays the young Burt Ward/Robin has done a few voice roles in the recent DC Warner Bros Cartoons such as Justice League and Batman Beyond.
• Due to licensing problems involving the original TV series, the makers of this film were only allowed to use footage from the 1966 Batman feature film. As a result, Lee Meriwether's rendition of Catwoman is the only one seen in archive footage in this film (even during a musical sequence intended to pay tribute to Newmar). Zambia-born actress Julia Rose plays the young Julie Newmar and gets to briefly don the Catwoman costume.
• Adam West's daughter, Nina West, has a cameo as a psychotic actress who tries to kill Burt Ward after a one-night stand. This incident is mentioned in Ward's autobiography, My Life in Tights.

• Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt at the Internet Movie Database
• Some more information and trivia
• Return To The Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt @ BYTB: Batman Yesterday, Today and Beyond