Lydia Limpet

Lydia Limpet was a henchwoman to a villain called Bookworm (Roddy McDowall) in 2 episodes of the live action 1960s tv series "Batman". She was played by actress Francine York. The episodes she appeared in were called "The Bookworm turns" and "While Gotham city burns",  which were first broadcast on the 20th and 21st of April 1966.

Lydia is fairly tall, dark haired young woman, and wears a red and a black catsuit in the episodes

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THE PLOT

Bookworm attempts to kill Batman and Robin and steal priceless books from the Gotham city library. Lydia plants a bomb in a book the Batmovbilke, but the assasination attempt fails when the bomb is ejected from the cart and blows upo in the air. Lydia is caught (though posing as an inocent Bookworm victim) at one point by the dynamic duo and subject unconsciously there to a lie detector test. Later, having set a trap for the Bookworm, the tables are turned when Lydia manages to disable Robin with knockout gas hiden in a book. Robin is tied to a large bell in the Bookworm's death trap. Batman recsues Robin. However,  later they are both trapped in a giant cookbook and the Bookworm and Lydia try to roast the dynamic duo to  death. They also steal the Batmobile.The heroes escape and catch up with the Bookworm's gang as they prepare to use the Batmobile to break into the Gotham library. Lydia hids in a packing crate during the fight which follows, but after the dispatch of the rest of the gang, Robin yanks her out of the box and Lydia is arrested.

CHARACTER OF LYDIA

Lydia Limpet is one of the more villainous of the molls in the TV series - one of a few henchwomen who never shows any softness, doesn't change sides, and takes a very active part in the evil doing. Hard hearted and ruthless, she is quite prepared to murder Batman and Robin with a bomb, connives to deliver Robin into the Bookworm's death trap, and generally assists  the Bookworm in his larcenous schemes. She clearly has a huge crush on the Bookworm, frequently seen staring adoringly at him, which is reminiscent of the comic and cartoon Batman stories later between the Joker and Harley Quinn. Lydia also on the other end of Bookworm's stormy neurotic rages when something happens or is said which he doesn't like. At one point the furious Bookworm picks up a large book to brain Lydia with (but stops to read the volume on "self control" instead). When under arrest in the Commissioner's office, an unrepentent Lydia is carrying a book about famous crimes - which Gordon takes away chides her about.