Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series
Created by	Bruce Timm Eric Radomski
Network	Cartoon Network
Production company	Warner Bros. Animation
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television
Original release	March 2, 1998—January 18, 2001
Run time	22 minutes
Starring	Kevin Conroy Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Loren Lester Bob Hastings Robert Costanzo Mark Hamill Arleen Sorkin
Executive producer(s)	Jean MacCurdy Tom Reugger
Producer(s)	Alan Burnett Paul Dini Eric Radomski Bruce Timm
Music composition	Danny Elfman (theme music) Shirley Walker
Writer(s)	Sean Catherine Derek Martin Pasko Paul Dini Michael Reaves Randy Rogel Brynne Stephens
Director(s)	Kevin Altieri Boyd Kirkland Frank Paur Dan Riba Dick Sebast Bruce Timm Eric Radomski Kent Butterworth

Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated superhero television series developed by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation for Fox Kids. It is based on the Batman comic books by DC Comics. It ran from 1992 to 1995, airing 85 episodes that spanned over two seasons. Mid-way through its run, the series was retitled The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

Following the series' original run, a follow-up titled The New Batman Adventures aired on Kids' WB as a continuation of the series from 1997 to 1999, featuring a revamped animation style. Lasting 24 episodes, it has often been included in the same syndicated re-run packages and home media releases as the former show's final season. Together, both series are comprised of 109 episodes in total.

Batman: The Animated Series is also the first to be in the continuity of the DC Animated Universe, which spawned further animated TV series, feature films, comics, and video games with mostly the same creative talent, including the theatrical film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and sequel series Batman Beyond.

The series would re-air on Cartoon Network, as part of their Toonami block from 1998 to 2001. While only 52 episodes of the total 85 aired initially, the rest of the series and New Adventures followed in 2000.

Production

Development

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Music

The main title theme was composed by Danny Elfman and Shirley Walker. The episode scores were mainly composed by Walker.

Episodes

Note: The following list contains air dates for when it originally premiered on Fox Kids and when it ran on Cartoon Network. The episodes are listed in the order they were produced, rather than by their air dates.

Title	Original air date	CN air date
1x01 "On Leather Wings"	September 6, 1992	September 4, 2000
1x02 "Christmas with the Joker"	November 13, 1992	March 7, 1998
1x03 "Nothing to Fear"	September 15, 1992	March 9, 1998
1x04 "The Last Laugh"	September 22, 1992	September 9, 1998
1x05 "Pretty Poison"	September 14, 1992	March 21, 1998
1x06 "The Underdwellers"	October 21, 1992	March 16, 1998
1x07 "P.O.V."	October 21, 1992	March 17, 1998
1x08 "The Forgotten"	October 8, 1992	March 17, 1998
1x09 "Be a Clown"	September 16, 1992	March 17, 1998
1x10 "Two-Face, Part I"	September 25, 1992	March 3, 1998
1x11 "Two-Face, Part II"	September 28, 1992	March 3, 1998
1x12 "It's Never Too Late"	September 10, 1992	March 18, 1998
1x13 "I've Got Batman in My Basement"	September 30, 1992	March 18, 1998
1x14 "Heart of Ice"	September 30, 1992	September 5, 2000
1x15 "The Cat and the Claw, Part I"	September 5, 1992	March 2, 1998
1x16 "The Cat and the Claw, Part II"	September 12, 1992	March 2, 1998

Cast

• Kevin Conroy as Batman
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred Pennyworth
• Loren Lester as Robin
• Bob Hastings as Commissioner James Gordon
• Robert Costanzo as Harvey Bullock
• Mark Hamill as the Joker
• Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn

Legacy

The series is highly praised among critics and fans for its writing, art design, voice acting, orchestral soundtrack, and contemporary reinterpretation of Batman's source material. It was hailed as a groundbreaking superhero show since its release, leading it to win multiple Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programming.

This incarnation of Batman was featured as part of an ensemble cast as a founding member of the Justice League in the TV series Justice League, airing exclusively on and supported by Cartoon Network, which aired from 2001 to 2004. It was then followed by an immediate continuation, Justice League Unlimited, from 2004 to 2006.

This incarnation is also highly referred in the unrelated Teen Titans Go! TV series on Cartoon Network, with the TAS Batman having several cameos (despite TTG having its own wild take on Batman):

• In "Real Orangins," Robin's exit as Batman's sidekick depicts him in the style of TAS, even to the point where Kevin Conroy reprises his role, which is in fact the speaking debut of Batman.
• In "Space House - Part 4," this Batman has a non-speaking cameo as one of Brainiac's captives, as he has been collecting DC heroes and villains from the multiverse.
• In "Intro," Control Freak traps the Teen Titans in the intros of other shows to stop them from starting their own episode, with the BTAS intro being one of them. The Titans and Control Freak are inserted perfectly into the intro without any real tampering, with Batman acting out everything exactly the same way, but instead fights Control and scowls at Robin when the Titans get him in trouble by saying he didn't need Batman's help in a bad way.
• TAS Batman also has a non-speaking cameo in the 2019 DTV movie Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans.