Bam! Pow! Zlopp! Liberace shines in ‘Batman’ boxed set

Bam! Pow! Zlopp! After nearly five decades, “Batman: The Complete Television Series” is finally available on Blu-Ray and DVD.

(Wait, Zlopp!? Who do you have to punch to make the Zlopp! sound?)

The boxed set comes with remastered versions of all 120 episodes of the camp classic, which aired on ABC from 1966-68, as well as three hours of bonus footage.

Everything you remember from your childhood is there. The ridiculous wall “climbing.” The fight scenes that make those in any production of “West Side Story” look brutally realistic. The sweet, sweet Batmobile, complete with a Gotham City license plate that meant at some point, Batman would have spent an afternoon cooling his heels at the Gotham DMV.

This version was the reason I spent so much of my youth playing Batman with friends.

It’s also why I spent hours tied to a chair as Batgirl, events that until now I had somehow repressed.

Anyway, while you get all 120 episodes, the boxed set may be worth it just for the second season’s two-parter “The Devil’s Fingers/The Dead Ringers,” which featured “special guest villain Liberace.”

The Las Vegas legend played international ladies man Chandell, a famed concert pianist, as well as his butch, cigar-chomping twin brother, Harry, who was blackmailing Chandell into a life of crime. Harry knew Chandell had used a player piano during a performance at the White House because he’d hurt his fingers and that releasing that information would somehow ruin Chandell’s career.

At the conclusion of “The Devil’s Fingers,” Harry had left Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) loosely tied with thin rope and placed on a slow-moving conveyor belt leading into a ridiculous looking machine that perforates paper into player piano rolls.

How could they possibly escape? Would they simply stand up and walk away or roll off to safety? Oh no. The Dynamic Duo just start screaming gibberish as they’re fed into the perforator, which later spits them out.

Robin: How come we didn’t get punched full of holes?

Batman: Because of the notes I selected. They were calculated to make the punches fall precisely around the outlines of our bodies. I visualized the chords in my mind.

Robin: Holy perfect pitch!

Batman: Yes. It’s useful sometimes.

The “Dark Knight” movies were fantastic, but this will always be the Batman I remember.