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This marks the first appearance of Egghead on the program. While no such character exists in the DC universe, Egghead was a longtime Marvel character who fought various members of the Avengers.

In this episode Edward Everett Horton portrays Chief Screaming Chicken. This was a sly nod to his character Roaring Chicken on the TV show F Troop (1965). During their network runs the two shows appeared back to back on Thursday nights.

Egghead's gang members Benedict, Foo Yung and Miss Bacon all have egg related names. Additionally, the two men are balding, although not completely bald like Egghead himself.

Egghead calls the mind-reading machine he puts Bruce Wayne in an electro thought transfer. In The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode The Foxes and Hounds Affair from 1965, Vincent Price guest stars as Victor Marton of Thrush, trying to get at a similar mind-reading device: the electronic thought translator.

The second day of filming on Monday, August 29 1966 was planned for work at Fox Hills on Stage 9 with the Chicken Shack Interiors, followed by filming on New York Street for the Jewelry store, rear steps of City Hall and two Gotham City street scenes. However, filming on the movie Caprice (1967) pre-emptied the Batman unit from using New York Street and they had to return three days later to film the scheduled scenes.

The title is a play on the title A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Actor Ben Welden appeared as Egghead's henchman. He also played a henchman several times on the Superman tv series thus making him the only actor to be arrested by tv's Batman and Superman.