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This is the list of episodes for the Kids' WB series Batman Beyond .
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1 | 1 | "Rebirth" | Curt Geda | Story by : Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Alan Burnett & Paul Dini | January 10, 1999 | 001 | 4.16 [1] | |||||||
2 | 2 | Story by : Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | 002 | |||||||||||
Part 1: In 2019, Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, retires due to failing health when his rescue of a kidnapped woman nearly goes wrong and he must resort to almost using a gun—the ultimate sin in his eyes. Twenty years later in 2039, high-school student and former delinquent Terrence "Terry" McGinnis discovers Batman's identity after the aging Bruce Wayne helps him fight off a gang of Jokerz (street punks enamored by the original Clown Prince of Crime). After Terry's father is murdered, Terry seeks Bruce's help to avenge him. Part 2: Terry steals the Batsuit to pursue his father's killer, a professional bodyguard named Mr. Fixx (George Takei), whose employer, Derek Powers (Sherman Howard), the current CEO of Wayne-Powers, is secretly using the company's resources to develop a biological weapon. Bruce Wayne, angered upon discovering the theft, deactivates the suit, but when seeing the now-helpless Terry being punched out reactivates it and after the latter convinces him to allow Terry to continue pursuing Fixx by relating his father's murder to Wayne's own parents (Thomas and Martha Wayne) he does so, and in the end realizing crime and corruption are running rampant around the city, Wayne appears at Terry's house to hire him as a "special assistant". | ||||||||||||||
3 | 3 | "Black Out" | Dan Riba | Robert Goodman | January 30, 1999 | 003 | N/A | |||||||
Terry, having just started to work for Bruce Wayne, faces off against Inque, a notorious shapeshifting mercenary who on the orders of Derek Powers is sabotaging FoxTeca, a company formed by Lucius Fox's son, leading to the villainess to fight both the new and the original Batman. | ||||||||||||||
4 | 4 | "Golem" | Butch Lukic | Hilary J. Bader | February 6, 1999 | 004 | N/A | |||||||
Willie Watt, a high school nerd who has been bullied one too many times, steals a construction robot from his father to scare his chief tormentor, Nelson Nash. But when Batman tries to stop the robot, it becomes bonded to Willie mentally, giving him more power than he ever dreamed of in his life. | ||||||||||||||
5 | 5 | "The Winning Edge" | Yukio Suzuki | Rich Fogel | April 10, 1999 | 005 | N/A | |||||||
"Slappers", illegal steroid patches containing the super steroid Venom, are all the rage with Hill High School's athletes, and Bruce suspects that one of his old enemies, Bane, may have a hand in their production. However, Terry finds that Bane has become a withered old man due to his constant use of the substance and a caretaker scientist named Jackson Chappell is using the drug to suit his own needs. Chappell douses himself with Venom, but he is exposed to too much of the toxin, which leaves him halfway dead and crushed by the broken debris. | ||||||||||||||
6 | 6 | "Dead Man's Hand" | Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | March 20, 1999 | 006 | N/A | |||||||
Terry must deal with both his rejection by his girlfriend, Dana, and a group of Bruce's old enemies, the Royal Flush Gang, who pattern themselves after playing card ranks. After his breakup with Dana, Terry meets a beautiful girl named Melanie who falls in love with him while he returns her affections. | ||||||||||||||
7 | 7 | "Meltdown" | Curt Geda | Written by : Hilary J. Bader & Alan Burnett Story by : Hilary J. Bader | February 13, 1999 | 007 | N/A | |||||||
Wayne-Powers builds a new body for Victor Fries, better known as the original Batman's old opponent Mr. Freeze, in the hope that a similar treatment might reverse Derek Powers' transformation into Blight. Seemingly cured of his need for extreme cold and remorseful of his past actions, Fries tries to redeem himself, but neither the former Batman, Bruce Wayne, nor his former victims completely trust him, and his benefactors have plans of their own. Wayne's protégé, Terry McGinnis, seeks to help Fries in his redemption. | ||||||||||||||
8 | 8 | "Heroes" | Butch Lukic | Rich Fogel | February 20, 1999 | 008 | N/A | |||||||
The Terrific Trio, a group of scientists who became superheroes after gaining powers in an experiment gone awry, make their way into Gotham and become media sensations. But Magma, Freon, and the 2-D Man soon learn that the accident that gave them their powers was not really an accident. | ||||||||||||||
9 | 9 | "Spellbound" | Butch Lukic | Robert Goodman | May 1, 1999 | 009 | 3.6/17 [2] | |||||||
A villain known as the Spellbinder uses hypnotic technology to orchestrate a string of robberies, turning his victims into his unwitting accomplices. | ||||||||||||||
10 | 10 | "Shriek" | Curt Geda | Stan Berkowitz | March 13, 1999 | 010 | N/A | |||||||
Derek Powers hires Shriek, a former sound engineer-turned-supervillain, as part of an elaborate scheme to run Bruce Wayne out of his shared control over Wayne-Powers. | ||||||||||||||
11 | 11 | "A Touch of Curaré" | Dan Riba | Hilary J. Bader | May 15, 1999 | 011 | 3.6/14 [3] | |||||||
A deadly assassin named Curaré is sent after D.A. Sam Young, husband of Commissioner Barbara Gordon. Batman's attempts to protect Young lead to conflicts with Gordon, and some surprising revelations about the past. | ||||||||||||||
12 | 12 | "Disappearing Inque" | Curt Geda | Stan Berkowitz | May 8, 1999 | 012 | 3.9/17 [4] | |||||||
Inque is freed by a lovesick worker at the cryogenics plant where she is being held. Trapped in her mutated form, she seeks to attain the chemicals that will allow her to once again regain her human shape, and get revenge on Batman and his predecessor. | ||||||||||||||
13 | 13 | "Ascension" | Yukio Suzuki | Robert Goodman | May 22, 1999 | 013 | 4.0/20 [5] | |||||||
As Derek Powers' Blight persona slowly destroys what was left of his normal life, he turns to his son for help. Paxton Powers seems willing to help Batman bring his father in but unfortunately, deception and greed run in the family. |
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14 | 1 | "Splicers" | Curt Geda | Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer | September 18, 1999 | 014 |
A new body modification trend called splicing, combining human DNA with that of animals, is taking Neo-Gotham's fashion world by storm. While the DA wishes to have it completely outlawed, as it is causing a rise in aggressive behavior, Dr. Abel Cuvier, the creator of the process, insists that the procedure is safe. However, Batman soon discovers that Cuvier is up to no good, as he is working towards attacking the DA in hopes of silencing him. | ||||||
15 | 2 | "Earth Mover" | Dan Riba | Story by : Stan Berkowitz & Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | September 25, 1999 | 015 |
Batman gets involved when a friend of Terry's and her adoptive father are haunted by eerie, man-shaped creatures made out of soil, and soon learns that they have a frightening connection to the girl's biological father, who was thought to have perished in a nuclear accident. | ||||||
16 | 3 | "Joyride" | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | October 2, 1999 | 016 |
A group of Jokerz steals a prototype military vehicle and goes on a rampage of destruction, while Batman and the vehicle's designer try to recover the machine before its malfunctioning reactor goes critical and causes a nuclear explosion that would destroy the city. | ||||||
17 | 4 | "Lost Soul" | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | October 9, 1999 | 017 |
Terry must fight the Batsuit when it is taken over by the virtual soul of dead communications tycoon Robert Vance, a man who has literally become a "ghost in the machine". Without the aid of the suit, he must save the man's grandson from becoming a vessel for Vance's virtual brain. | ||||||
18 | 5 | "Bloodsport" | Dan Riba | Rich Fogel | October 23, 1999 | 018 |
The Stalker, a cybernetically enhanced big-game hunter, comes to Neo-Gotham seeking what he believes is the only prey left on Earth worthy of his skills: Batman. | ||||||
19 | 6 | "Hidden Agenda" | Curt Geda | Story by : Shaun McLaughlin & Hilary J. Bader Teleplay by : Hilary J. Bader | October 16, 1999 | 019 |
The brilliant leader of a crew of Jokerz plots revenge against Max Gibson, a fellow student who outperforms him at school. Terry's efforts to help her are complicated by her efforts to find out the true identity of Batman, whom she is convinced is a student at school, and her erroneous conclusion that Terry is one of the Jokerz. | ||||||
20 | 7 | "Once Burned" | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | November 6, 1999 | 020 |
The Royal Flush Gang's Ten returns on a mission to rescue her family, who have been captured by the Jokerz. When Melanie approaches Terry for help, he is forced to decide whether or not to put his relationship with Dana at risk, and if Batman can really trust Ten. | ||||||
21 | 8 | "Hooked Up" | Dan Riba | Robert Goodman | November 13, 1999 | 021 |
When several teenagers including Hill High students end up comatose in the hospital, Batman's subsequent investigation leads him to the Spellbinder, who is getting teenagers addicted to virtual reality fantasies and forcing them to steal for him. | ||||||
22 | 9 | "Rats" | Curt Geda | Rich Fogel | November 20, 1999 | 022 |
Dana, who feels she has been ignored and let down by Terry once too often, begins receiving roses from a secret admirer. When she is abducted by the mystery man, a boy named Patrick Fitz who lives in the sewers because of his rat-like appearance, Batman may be the only one who can save her. | ||||||
23 | 10 | "Mind Games" | Butch Lukic | Alan Burnett | December 4, 1999 | 023 |
Terry has mysterious visions of a young girl asking him for help. His search for her leads him into confrontation with a group of people with incredible psychic powers known as the Brain Trust. | ||||||
24 | 11 | "Revenant" | Kyung-Won Lim | Hilary J. Bader | December 11, 1999 | 024 |
After a series of unexplained events, all the kids in Terry's class think that the ghost of a dead student is haunting their high school. But Batman soon discovers the real cause—Willie Watt, who has developed powerful new psychic/extrasensory abilities. | ||||||
25 | 12 | "Babel" | Curt Geda | Stan Berkowitz | January 8, 2000 | 025 |
Seeking vengeance, Shriek uses his knowledge of sound to take away Neo-Gotham's ability to verbally communicate. His price for returning things to normal is the life of Batman himself while discrediting him as a hero! | ||||||
26 | 13 | "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" | Dan Riba | Story by : Paul Dini Teleplay by : John P. McCann | January 15, 2000 | 026 |
Howard Groote, a hopeless nerd, purchases an illegal android in the form of a beautiful girl to pose as his girlfriend. His plan soon backfires when "Cynthia", programmed to be completely devoted to Howard, becomes dangerously possessive. Note: This was the last episode to use traditional cel animation, before the transition to animation with digital ink and paint.[ citation needed ] | ||||||
27 | 14 | "Eyewitness" | Butch Lukic | Story by : Rich Fogel Teleplay by : Hilary J. Bader | January 22, 2000 | 027 |
When Commissioner Barbara Gordon witnesses Batman killing an opponent in cold blood, Terry finds himself on the run from the law as he tries to discover the real culprit and prove his innocence. | ||||||
28 | 15 | "Zeta" | Dan Riba | Robert Goodman | April 8, 2000 | 028 |
A holomorphic military android has been reported to have gone rogue, and Terry needs to find him before he kills someone. But has the android really gone rogue, or has he just gained a conscience? This episode leads into the spin-off series The Zeta Project . | ||||||
29 | 16 | "The Last Resort" | Curt Geda | Stan Berkowitz | March 4, 2000 | 029 |
A new program for troubled kids is becoming a popular last resort among parents in Gotham, but "the Ranch" is not everything it seems. When Terry's friend Chelsea Cunningham gets sent there, Terry goes to investigate, but ends up biting off more than he can chew. | ||||||
30 | 17 | "Final Cut" | Butch Lukic | Story by : Hilary J. Bader & Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Hilary J. Bader | February 5, 2000 | 030 |
Bruce is out of town and incommunicado when Curaré returns to Neo-Gotham, hunting down the last of her former society after the failure of her last mission marked her for death. Curaré's target, the last surviving member of the League of Assassins, forces Batman to protect him from Curaré's wrath by planting a bomb equipped with a deadman switch somewhere in the city. Things only get more complicated as Max gets herself involved in an already volatile situation. | ||||||
31 | 18 | "Armory" | Kyung-Won Lim | John P. McCann | March 11, 2000 | 031 |
After losing his job as a weapons designer, the stepfather of one of Terry's friends turns to crime to make ends meet as a supervillain called Armory. | ||||||
32 | 19 | "Sneak Peek" | Dan Riba | Story by : Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | March 25, 2000 | 032 |
A gossip reporter acquires the technology to become incorporeal and becomes the ultimate Peeping Tom. When he discovers Batman's identity, he threatens to reveal it on national television, but soon discovers the technology is having an adverse effect on his body. | ||||||
33 | 20 | "Plague" | Butch Lukic | Rich Fogel | April 15, 2000 | 033 |
Batman reluctantly joins forces with his former enemy, the Stalker, to hunt down a wily criminal named False-Face, who has stolen a dangerous virus for a criminal organization called KOBRA. | ||||||
34 | 21 | "The Eggbaby" | James Tucker | Story by : Hilary J. Bader & Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Hilary J. Bader | April 1, 2000 | 034 |
Terry is forced to take a computer-simulated "baby" with him everywhere—even as Batman—in order to make the grade in Family Studies. Meanwhile, a family of jewel thieves are plying their trade around Neo-Gotham, stealing priceless rubies. Note: Bruce Timm submitted this episode for consideration, and Batman Beyond won the 2001 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program [6] | ||||||
35 | 22 | "April Moon" | Butch Lukic | Story by : Stan Berkowitz & James Tucker Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | April 22, 2000 | 035 |
A bionics designer is forced to give a gang of street punks robotic implants after they kidnap his wife. To stop them, Batman needs a special verbal "kill-phrase" to shut down their implants, but can he convince the designer to give it to him? | ||||||
36 | 23 | "Payback" | Kyoung-Won Lim | Robert Goodman | May 13, 2000 | 036 |
A new vigilante who calls himself Payback begins taking revenge on the tormentors of several troubled teenagers, all of whom are in the same therapy group. When Terry goes undercover in the group to find the culprit, he begins to suspect the doctor running the sessions, but Payback's real identity proves to be someone no one would have expected. | ||||||
37 | 24 | "Sentries of the Last Cosmos" | Dan Riba | John Shirley & Rich Fogel | May 6, 2000 | 037 |
A virtual-reality game designer uses three teenage fans' devotion to the game universe in order to eliminate his enemies and rivals (including one inspired by writers Bruce Vilanch and Gary Gygax). | ||||||
38 | 25 | "Big Time" | James Tucker | Story by : Robert Goodman & Tom Ruegger Teleplay by : Robert Goodman | October 7, 2000 | 038 |
When a friend from Terry's troubled past, Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow, returns, Terry tries to stop him from repeating his mistakes and going back to jail. However, when Charlie ends up helping a gang of crooks rob a Wayne-Powers research lab, he is exposed to a dangerous experimental chemical and mutates into a monstrous giant. | ||||||
39 | 26 | "Untouchable" | Dan Riba | Hilary J. Bader | September 23, 2000 | 039 |
Batman goes up against a new, seemingly-invulnerable foe called the Repeller, who uses technology similar to a prototype that Wayne-Powers' medical division has been developing. | ||||||
40 | 27 | "Where's Terry?" | Yukio Suzuki | Rich Fogel | May 27, 2000 | 040 |
Shriek traps Batman in the abandoned tunnels beneath Neo-Gotham intent on revenge, and Bruce must ally with Max to find him. | ||||||
41 | 28 | "Ace in the Hole" | James Tucker | Hilary J. Bader | August 19, 2000 | 041 |
When Ace goes missing, Bruce remembers the origin of his pet canine. Terry discovers an underground dog fighting organization. Note: This episode, while officially part of the third season, was released as part of the second season DVD box set.[ citation needed ] |
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42 | 1 | "King's Ransom" | Butch Lukic | Rich Fogel | September 16, 2000 | 042 | ||||||
The Royal Flush Gang return, minus Ten, in an attempt to regain their reputation. However, after they are double-crossed by Paxton Powers, both Paxton and the gang seek to increase their bank accounts through Bruce Wayne. | ||||||||||||
43 | 2 | "Betrayal" | Kyung-Won Lim | Story by : Stan Berkowitz & Robert Goodman Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | December 9, 2000 | 043 | ||||||
Big Time returns to Neo-Gotham, causing problems for both Batman and his alter-ego Terry McGinnis, who still feels guilty about what happened to him. | ||||||||||||
44 | 3 | "Out of the Past" | James Tucker | Paul Dini | October 21, 2000 | 044 | ||||||
Bruce Wayne's former love, Talia, returns on his birthday to offer him the chance to be eternally young. However, Bruce and Terry discover a dark secret. Decades ago, after Talia sided with Bruce against her father, Ra's al Ghul was left mortally wounded beyond the Lazarus Pit's ability to heal him. In order to save himself, Ra's al Ghul sacrificed his daughter by using a computer to imprint his thoughts and memories into Talia's body, erasing her consciousness and replacing it with his own. After improving the computer, Ra's al Ghul decides that it is time to move into a new body: Bruce Wayne's. | ||||||||||||
45 | 4 | "Speak No Evil" | Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | November 4, 2000 | 045 | ||||||
Batman reluctantly agrees to aid a genetically enhanced gorilla in finding the poacher who kidnapped his mother. | ||||||||||||
46 | 5 | "Inqueling" | Butch Lukic | Hilary J. Bader | September 30, 2000 | 046 | ||||||
After Inque's latest employer betrays her and blasts her with an experimental weapon that causes her body to slowly dissolve, she is forced to turn to someone whom she has not seen in years: her daughter. | ||||||||||||
47 | 6 | "Unmasked" | Kyung-Won Lim | Hilary J. Bader | December 18, 2001 | 047 | ||||||
Terry recounts to Max one of his earlier adventures as Batman, during which he revealed his face to a child and inadvertently made the boy a target of KOBRA. | ||||||||||||
48 | 7 | "Curse of the Kobra" | James Tucker | Rich Fogel | February 3, 2001 | 048 | ||||||
49 | 8 | Dan Riba | Story by : Rich Fogel Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | February 10, 2001 | 049 | |||||||
Part 1: Terry is sent to Bruce's old friend Kairi Tanaka to brush up on his combat skills, and inadvertently befriends the heir-apparent to the criminal organization KOBRA. Part 2: After the leader of KOBRA kidnaps Max to be his wife, Batman is forced not only to rescue her, but to stop KOBRA's plot to revert the world back to when dinosaurs ruled it... with their gene-spliced dinosaur men as the dominant species. | ||||||||||||
50 | 9 | "The Call" | Butch Lukic | Story by : Paul Dini & Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Rich Fogel & Hilary J. Bader | November 11, 2000 | 050 | ||||||
51 | 10 | Story by : Paul Dini & Alan Burnett Teleplay by : Stan Berkowitz | November 18, 2000 | 051 | ||||||||
Part 1: Bruce's old ally Superman drafts Batman into the Justice League when he suspects there is a traitor among them. Despite Bruce's warning not to join, Terry goes against it and soon discovers a conspiracy against the League, in addition to facing hostility from some of the members. Part 2: To get to the bottom of the problem facing the Justice League, Batman must face off against his own teammates—including Superman himself. He must seek the help from Bruce who knew of an old enemy of theirs, Starro the Conqueror. Though he defeats it and a grateful Superman and the other league members offers him to join the Justice League, Batman refuses, understanding why the original Batman did not join the League full-time in the first place. | ||||||||||||
52 | 11 | "Countdown" | Kyung-Won Lim | Rich Fogel & Paul Dini | April 7, 2001 | 052 | ||||||
Zeta returns to Neo-Gotham City to look for his creator, but falls into the clutches of Mad Stan, who turns him into a walking time-bomb. Batman and Ro must track Zeta down before time runs out. |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Curt Geda | Paul Dini | 003 | December 12, 2000 | |
After having seemingly died nearly four decades ago, the Joker mysteriously reappears in Gotham City. Now fully aware of all of the original Batman's secrets, he begins targeting people close to both Bruce and his successor Terry. Terry starts to investigate and discovers the details of what happened on the night that Bruce battled the Joker for the last time. When the Clown Prince of Crime plans to use a military defense satellite to destroy Gotham City, a climactic showdown begins between the original Batman's successor and his deadliest nemesis. |
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1 | "Darwyn Cooke's Batman Beyond" | Darwyn Cooke | Darwyn Cooke | April 23, 2014 | |
Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis confront a very familiar foe. |
Batman Beyond has had multiple crossovers with other shows in the DC animated universe.
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8 | "Shadows" | Tim Maltby | Rich Fogel | April 7, 2001 | |
The destruction caused by a fight between Zeta and Infiltration Unit 7 causes Batman to believe that Zeta is endangering his companion Ro. |
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40 | "Future Shock" | Vic Dal Chele | Stan Berkowitz | January 17, 2004 | |
Virgil Hawkins/Static is sent 40 years into the future, where he has to help the Batman of that era, Terry McGinnis, save a captured superhero: Static's future self. |
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12 | "The Once and Future Thing Part 1: Weird Western Tales" | Dan Riba | Dwayne McDuffie | January 22, 2005 | |
Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern chase Chronos into the past, where they team up with some of the greatest DC heroes of the Old West. After defeating stolen future tech in that era, they again follow Chronos to the future. Warhawk from the Batman Beyond era is revealed to be Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's son. Guest starring: Bat Lash, Jonah Hex and other DC characters from the Old West. This episode also teases with the idea of Wonder Woman and Batman having a relationship. | |||||
13 | "The Once and Future Thing Part 2: Time Warped" | Joaquim Dos Santos | Dwayne McDuffie | January 29, 2005 | |
Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman chase Chronos into the Neo-Gotham City of Batman Beyond , just in time to face a battle with a group of Jokerz beside that era's Justice League. The time travelers are taken to the Justice League Unlimited refuge. An older Bruce Wayne reveals the street gang they fought together was enhanced by Chronos, who led them to kill the rest of the League of that era. The combined heroes defeat the retooled Jokerz, and Batman traps Chronos in a time loop, right before he started his first time travel. This episode has homages to Crisis On Infinite Earths. | |||||
26 | "Epilogue" | Dan Riba | Dwayne McDuffie | July 23, 2005 | |
In the future of Batman Beyond , Amanda Waller reveals to an older Terry McGinnis she created the project "Batman Beyond" to continue Bruce Wayne's work. Though initially Terry believed that he was a clone of Bruce Wayne, Amanda Waller states that Bruce Wayne is instead Terry's biological father. The truth being revealed to Terry allows him to let go of his anger and fear. He calls his long-time girlfriend Dana in preparation to ask her to marry him. Note: The episode acts as the Justice League season finale, as a crossover, and as the final Batman Beyond episode. It contains many references to prior episodes of Justice League, Batman Beyond and Batman: The Animated Series such as the death of Terry's father, Ace from the episode Wild Cards, the future Justice League, much of Terry's rogues gallery, the Gray Ghost and Andrea Beaumont. The final scene also bears a resemblance to the first scene of "On Leather Wings" (the first episode of Batman: The Animated Series), as the creative team thought this could possibly be the final JLU episode, fully bringing the universe full circle. |
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The New Adventures of Batman is an animated series that aired on CBS from February 12 to May 28, 1977, featuring the DC Comics superheroes Batman and Robin, and Batgirl. The series was a Filmation and DC Comics production in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Bruce Walter Timm is an American artist, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for contributing to building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, most notably as the head producer behind Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), Batman Beyond (1999–2001), Justice League (2001–2004), and Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006).
The DC Animated Universe is a shared universe centered on a group of animated television series based on DC Comics and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It began with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992 and ended with Justice League Unlimited in 2006. The associated media franchise also includes theatrical and direct-to-video feature films, as well as shorts, comic books, video games, and other multimedia adaptations.
Paul McClaran Dini is an American screenwriter and comic creator. He has been a producer and writer for several Warner Bros. Animation/DC Comics animated series, most notably Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), and the subsequent DC Animated Universe. Dini and Bruce Timm co-created the characters Harley Quinn and Terry McGinnis.
The New Batman Adventures is an American animated superhero television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, which aired on Kids' WB from September 13, 1997 to January 16, 1999. Produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation, it is a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995) and the third series in the DC Animated Universe. It was followed by Batman Beyond (1999–2001). The series was revamped from BTAS, replacing its art style with streamlined designs to allow for more consistent animation and maintain similarity with the simultaneously running Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), with episodes airing on Kids' WB under the title The New Batman/Superman Adventures.
The Adventures of Batman is an animated television series produced by Lou Scheimer's Filmation studios. It showcased the 12-minute Batman segments from The Batman/Superman Hour, sometimes broken up by and surrounding another cartoon from Filmation's fast-growing stream of superhero stars. A re-branded 30-minute version premiered on CBS on September 14, 1968, as Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder. This version was repackaged without the Superman and Superboy segments.
Fatman on Batman is a podcast and video series in which hosts, filmmaker Kevin Smith and writer Marc Bernardin explores their geeky interests, originally focusing on the DC comic property Batman. The podcast was retitled Fatman Beyond after Smith's weight loss. The show is part of the SModcast Podcast Network.
Mr. Freeze, a supervillain in DC Comics and an adversary of the superhero Batman, has been adapted in various forms of media, including films, television series, and video games. The character has been portrayed in film by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (1997), and in television by George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach in the 1966 Batman series, and Nathan Darrow in Gotham. Michael Ansara, Clancy Brown, Maurice LaMarche, and others have provided the character's voice in animation and video games.