Black Widow, The - On episode No.89/90 (aired 3/15/67 & 3/16/67) of the fantasy series BATMAN/ABC/1966-68, veteran movie actress Tallulah Bankhead starred as Mrs. Max Black, widow (a.k.a. "The Black Widow"), a criminal who arrived in Gotham City to commit a series of bank robberies using a paralyzing spray derived from spider venom. She caught crime fighters Batman and the Boy Wonder in a giant spider web filled with two giant black widow spiders. Black Widow was also the nickname of Pauline Spencer (Ruta Lee), a beautiful woman living in the Dunes Retirement Resort in Arizona on the sitcom COMING OF AGE/CBS/1988-89. She earned the title for having married and then lost (through death) many husbands. See also -  AUTOMOBILES: "The Widow Maker"