SLEEPY SCENES
Thought it might be fun to compile a list of scenes from as many different sources (TV, film, print, etc) as possible and present them here.
I'd really love it if anybody could contribute any new "sightings" to me, as well. I'll post 'em here and look for 'em personally!
Send 'em here!
Key:
(*) Scene appears here at The Land of Nod
(+) I have the scene on tape. Watch for it.
(?) I *think* I have the scene on tape...somewhere.
Gassing
There's gonna be quite a few of these--'specially males being knocked out by females. Hey, my preference, my site, y'know?
Batman (TV)
(I simply *must* start here. I think this is where it all started for me personally when I was a youngster. The "Batman" TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward was, and continues to be, THE getting-gassed Mecca of our time.) Here are the episodes in order.
"Hi Diddle Riddle/Smack in the Middle"
- The Riddler uses laughing gas on a pavillion full of people. They laugh themselves silly, then collapse unconscious.
- The Riddler uses an aerosol can labeled "SLEEP" on Robin while the Boy Wonder is strapped to a table.
"Fine Feathered Finks/Penguin's a Jinx"
- The Penguin gasses Bruce Wayne with his umbrella. (+)
- The Penguin uses his umbrella to gas an actress and her manager. (+)
- The Penguin uses his umbrella to gas Alfred and two suits of armor containing Batman and Robin (they later turn out to be dummies. No smart comments.) (+)
"The Joker Is Wild/Batman Gets Riled"
- The Joker's henchwench, Queenie, gasses a TV cameraman with a perfume atomizer. (?)
- Queenie presents Batman with a champagne bottle to christen a ship. When it breaks, knock-out gas kayos the crowd. (?)
"The Joker Goes to School/He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul"
- The Joker rigs a vending machine to trap the Dynamic Duo. Their legs are manacled in place while the machine gasses them.
"True or False Face/Super Rat Race"
- False Face disguises himself as Chief O'Hara, then gasses the Chief by blowing on a gimmicked whistle.
- Blaze, henchwoman to False Face, uses a trick cigarette holder to gas a worker at the Gotham mint. (*)
- Blaze tries the cigarette holder trick with Batman, who blows the cloud right back her...knocking her out. (+)
- Blaze embraces Robin, but only to reach a trick hair pin. She then gasses him with it. (*)
- False Face hides inside a vending machine and gasses Batman. (+)
"The Purr-fect Crime/Better Luck Next Time"
- Catwoman gasses Robin with the handle of her whip. (+)
- Catwoman gasses a greedy cohort with the handle of her whip. (+)
"Ring of Wax/Give 'Em The Axe"
- The Riddler leaves a trick candle for a museum guard to discover. When the guard blows it out he is gassed.
"The Bookworm Turns/While Gotham City Burns"
- Batman uses BatGas on The Bookworm's female accomplice, Lydia, to take her to the Batcave (where she wakes to only semi-consciousness and is then gassed again). (+)
- Lydia (tied up and "helpless") tricks Robin into opening up a gas-trapped book. (*)
"Death In Slow Motion/The Riddler's False Notion"
- The Riddler gasses a female box office attendant with a trick bouquet of flowers. (*)
- The Riddler's female assistant, disguised as Bo-Peep, gasses Robin with her shepherd's crook. (*)
- The Riddler gasses Robin with an aerosol can while the Boy Wonder is strapped to a conveyor belt. (+)
- Batman uses BatGas on The Riddler's moll and on Commissioner Gordon to take them both to the Batcave (where they will be re-gassed for the return trip).
"Fine Finny Fiends/Batman Makes The Scene"
- The Penguin uses his umbrella to gas a beauty pageant contestant. (+)
- Finella, the Penguin's female accomplice, uses an umbrella to gas everyone at a benefit. (*)
- Finella has a change of heart and tries to intervene on Batman's behalf. She is accidentally gassed by Penguin's umbrella. (+)
"Shoot A Crooked Arrow/Walk The Straight And Narrow"
- The Archer fires an arrow into stately Wayne Manor, where it releases sleeping gas.
"Hot Off The Griddle/The Cat And The Fiddle"
- Catwoman watches as Batman unwittingly cuts into a pipe that contains "Catatonia gas". (+)
- Catwoman takes the place of an elderly woman (also played by Julie Newmar). At the woman's front door, Catwoman knocks her out with gas from her glove. (+)
"The Clock King's Crazy Crimes/The Clock King Gets Crowned"
- A trick clock releases sleeping gas into a store.
- Helpless on a floor coated with super-slick watch oil, Batman and Robin are gassed by the Clock King's henchmen.
"An Egg Grows In Gotham/The Yegg Foes In Gotham"
- Egghead, disguised as a chauffeur, gasses some of Gotham's millionaires in a limo.
"Marsha, Queen of Diamond's/Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds"
- Marsha throws down a ring which releases "diamond dozing gas".
"Puzzles Are Coming/The Duo Is Slumming"
- The Puzzler's henchmen pop balloons at a public gathering, releasing a paralyzing gas into the air.
"The Sandman Cometh/The Catwoman Goeth"
- The Sandman uses a trick stethescope to gas a wealthy millionairess.
- The Sandman uses his stethescope to gas Robin.
"Zodiac Crimes/Joker's Hardtimes/Penguin Declines"
- Venus, the Joker's assistant, is disguised as a statue at a museum. She throws a goblet containing a knock-out powder at Batman and Robin. (+)
"Penguin Is A Girl's Best Friend/The Penguin Sets A Trend/The Penguin's Disasterous End"
- Marsha, Queen of Diamonds uses a hypnotic, love-inducing powder on a group of guards. (+)
"Catwoman Goes to College/Batman Displays His Knowledge"
- Catwoman sprays Batman and Robin with drugged perfume from an atomizer.
"Black Widow Strikes Again/Caught In The Spider's Den"
- The Black Widow uses a paralyzing gas from an aerosol on Batman.
"Louie The Lilac"
- Louie the Lilac uses a hypnotic spray from his boutonniere on a young woman.
- Robin falls victim to the narcotic scent of a plant that Louie's moll conveniently drops near him.
"Surf's Up! Joker's Under!"
- A surfing champion is gassed by a telephone receiver.
"The Londinium Larcenies/The Foggiest Notion/The Bloody Tower"
- Batgirl is paralyzed when gas is released into the room she is investigating.
"Catwoman's Dressed To Kill"
- Catwoman gasses Batgirl with an atomizer.
- Catwoman gasses a group of royal retainers with an atomizer.
"Louie's Lethal Lilac Time"
- Louie hypnotizes Batgirl with a spray of his boutonniere.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV)
Unknown episode
- While a scientist is in bed, his bedside phone rings and releases knock-out gas. He is then kidnapped.
"Time Bomb"
- A female agent working with Crane entices a guard to come over and assist her with car repair. When he leans in to check the engine with her, she gasses him with an atomizer. (+)
"The Silent Saboteurs"
- A female agent gets the drop on her guard. She tosses him a gas bomb disguised as a lipstick. (+)
The Bionic Woman (TV)
"Kill Oscar" (multi-part)
- Fembots (robots in female form) are being utilized by a scientist to exact revenge on Oscar Goldman. They come equipped with small gas guns that they use to knock-out victims--namely Jaime and Oscar (+)
"Fembots in Las Vegas" (multi-part)
- Callahan's fembot double gasses her with an aerosol spray. (*)
- A fembot disguised as a NASA technician gasses a room with a small gas gun. (?)
Viper (the original TV series)
Unknown episode
- Villains led by a female mastermind break into a guarded mansion and knock-out the guards by rolling a cannister of gas down the hallway. (+)
Lois and Clark (TV)
Unknown episode
- Racquel Welch plays a female InterGang assassin. In order to complete a contract she has to reach a man being guarded in a hospital. She releases sleep gas into the ventilation system. (*)
Unknown episode
- Morgan Fairchild plays a cosmetics tycoon who gasses Lois with an atomizer. (?)
The Flash (TV)
Unknown episode
- David Cassidy (yes, Keith Partridge!) plays a thief double-crossed by his female partner. She knocks him out with a gas aerosol. (+)
Sledge Hammer (TV)
Unknown episode
- A military transport is stopped by bikini-clad women playing volleyball in the road. When one of the women tosses the ball at a surprised soldier, it falls to the ground and releases knock out gas. (+)
Space:1999 (TV)
Unknown episode
- A woman frees some men from their cell after she gasses their guard with a sleep aerosol.
Unknown episode
- A female botonist is "possessed" by an evil force. She uses the fragrance of a mutated flower to knock out two men.
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
- Soviet agent Triple X (Barbara Bach) knocks out James Bond by blowing sleep powder from a hollowed cigarette into his face. (+)
Batman (film)
- The Joker (Jack Nicholson) gasses an entire museum (whether or not it was sleeping gas or something more lethal was not established). (+)
The Man With One Red Shoe (film)
- An agent disguised as a dentist enters a dentist's office and uses a sleep aerosol to gas the female receptionist, the dentist and a female patient.
S.H.E. (film)
- Cornelia Sharpe stars in this made-for-TV espionage movie. One of her items of equipment is a sleep aerosol she refers to as "sleep squirt". She uses it to gas a male and female guard (*+)
Unknown film
- Starring Christoper Lambert and Kim Griest, this pair robs a bank at night after pumping gas into the building to knock out the security men. (+)
Unknown film
- Another awful frat-house movie. In one scene the evil administrator is watching a frat party with binoculars from his car. A trio of female students sneaks up with a large tank marked "Ether" and runs a hose through a back window of the car. The result is predictable. (+)
Diamonds Are Forever (film)
- James Bond is gassed in a hotel elevator.
Acapulco Heat (TV)
Unknown episode
- A festival-costumed female tosses a cueball-sized ball to a security guard, who opens it out of curiosity. He is knocked out by the ensuing cloud of sleeping gas. (+)
- Later in the episode, the villain's other henchwoman knocks out a security guard with sleeping gas from a lighter. (+)
The Prisoner (TV)
- At the opening of every episode of this British import, we see the protagonist resign from MI-5 and return home to pack a suitcase...not seeing that he has been followed. Suddenly, clouds of gas billow from the keyhole to his front door, filling his flat and knocking him out.
Get Smart (TV)
Unknown episode
- Max accidentally sets off his home security system and gasses himself and Agent 99. (+)
Unknown episode
- Max reads his horoscope from a book at a newsstand. A small puff of gas from the book puts him to sleep. (+)
Unknown episode
- Seigfried seemingly defects to CONTROL, but reveals his true colors at a meeting of CONTROL officials. He throws pellets to the floor which explode into gas and knock everyone out. (+)
Wonder Woman (TV)
"Fausta"
- Maj. Steve Trevor is gassed by Fausta (disguised as a cleaning woman) in his office. (*)
"Message from Space"
- Wonder Woman is gassed by a Nazi agent.
"The Return of Wonder Woman"
- Steve Trevor and a group of officials are gassed in a private jet.
"I Do, I Do"
- Diana Prince is gassed in a sauna.
"The Deadly Toys"
- Wonder Woman is *perhaps* gassed when a box is opened and several toy butterflies come flying out. Never really very clear about that.
"The Screaming Javelin" (not positive of title)
- Diana Prince is gassed when she opens a parcel of flowers she has received from a villain.
Unknown episode
- Diana Prince is gassed in the back of a taxicab.
Unknown episode
- Wonder Woman is *almost* gassed by a mysterious, black-garbed female intruder.
"Seance of Terror" (again, not sure of title)
- Wonder Woman is gassed when a mannequin drops a medallion.
Cripes! This is going to be a looong project. This is a decent start (and we're not even nearly out of gassings on live-action TV!). I've got scads more to stick on the list, but I gotta rest my hands. Feel free to contribute!