Batman: The Animated Series (1992)

Season 1

Episode 70: Season 1 Episode 70

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 70

Episode 69: Season 1 Episode 69

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 69

Episode 68: Season 1 Episode 68

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 68

Episode 67: Season 1 Episode 67

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 67

Episode 66: Season 1 Episode 66

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 66

Episode 65: Season 1 Episode 65

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 65

Episode 63: Season 1 Episode 63

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 63

Episode 62: Season 1 Episode 62

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 62

Episode 60: Fire From Olympus

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Fire From Olympus

Episode 59: Read My Lips

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Read My Lips

Episode 58: The Demon's Quest (II)

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Demon's Quest (II)

Episode 57: The Demon's Quest (I)

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Demon's Quest (I)

Episode 56: See No Evil

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : See No Evil

Episode 55: Day of the Samurai

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Day of the Samurai

Episode 54: Blind as a Bat

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Blind as a Bat

Episode 53: Robin's Reckoning (II)

aired: Sat, Feb 13, 1993

Robin heads off in hot pursuit of Tony Zucco, the thug who was responsible for his parents' death, despite Batman's forbidding him to do it. Some tricky detective work takes him to the crook's hideout at the old amusement pier -where Zucco has accidentally trapped Batman. Thanks to Robin's timely arrival, Batman and the Boy Wonder capture Zucco. In the process, Robin learns that Batman had tried to keep him away not because he thought that Robin's emotion might get the best of him — but because Batman couldn't stand the thought that Zucco, who had taken so much from Robin, might have taken Robin, too.

Episode 52: Birds of a Feather

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Birds of a Feather

Episode 51: Robin's Reckoning

aired: Sat, Feb 6, 1993

When Batman and Robin bust up an extortion ring trying to damage a high-rise under construction, Batman learns the name of the gang leader. To Robin's surprise, he refuses to let Robin continue the investigating with him, preferring to work alone instead. Miffed, Robin accesses the Batcomputer to learn what Batman wouldn't tell him on their case. To his shock, he finds that the case is connected with Tony Zucco, a gangster who was responsible for the death of Robin's parents during the latter's high-wire act. Robin decides to take matters into his own hands and deal with Zucco on his own, despite Batman's orders not to.

Episode 50: Zatanna

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Zatanna

Episode 49: The Man Who Killed Batman

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Man Who Killed Batman

Episode 48: The Mechanic

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Mechanic

Episode 47: Harley and Ivy

aired: Sun, Jan 17, 1993

After being booted out of the Joker's service, Harley Quinn forms a partnership with Poison Ivy. By day, they're house mates and best pals, by night, they're a deadly duo, billed 'The New Queens of Crime' by the Gotham tabloids. The Joker has a fit when he hears of their "Thelma and Louise"-style crime spree, and sets out to get Harley (and more important, the loot she stole) back. Batman has also figured out where the girls are, and both he and the Joker arrive at Ivy's hideout (a model house built over a toxic waste dump) to have it out with them. In an explosive battle Batman takes out the Joker and his men, but a surprise assist from Officer Montoya helps the Dark Knight finally collar Harley and Ivy.

Episode 46: The Laughing Fish

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Laughing Fish

Episode 45: What is Reality?

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : What is Reality?

Episode 44: Off Balance

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Off Balance

Episode 43: His Silicon Soul

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : His Silicon Soul

Episode 42: Joker's Wild

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Joker's Wild

Episode 41: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

Episode 40: Season 1 Episode 40

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 40

Episode 39: Heart of Steel (I)

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Heart of Steel (I)

Episode 38: Christmas With the Joker

aired: Thu, Nov 12, 1992

The Joker takes over Gotham's airwaves and terrorizes the city during Christmas. He's hiding in a TV studio, holding Commissioner Gordon, Detective Bullock, and Summer Gleason hostage. He challenges Batman to find him before midnight, or else the hostages will have a very un-merry Christmas.

Episode 37: Terror in the Sky

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Terror in the Sky

Episode 36: Season 1 Episode 36

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 36

Episode 35: Season 1 Episode 35

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 35

Episode 34: I Am the Night

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : I Am the Night

Episode 33: Season 1 Episode 33

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 33

Episode 32: Beware the Gray Ghost

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Beware the Gray Ghost

Episode 31: Season 1 Episode 31

aired: Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 31

Episode 30: Tyger, Tyger

aired: Thu, Oct 29, 1992

Selina Kyle is kidnapped and taken to an offshore island by Dr. Emile Dorian, a genetic engineer with a fondness for cats. He has created a man-cat hybrid named Tygrus, and wishes to provide him with a mate. He injects Selina with a serum which makes her a cat woman in body as well as in name.. Batman learns of this and comes to the island to rescue Selina. He is captured and forced into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse (or cat-and-bat). Tygrus, as the cat-man, hunts Batman through the island's jungles. With Selina's help, Batman manages to convince Tygrus that Dorian, whom Tygrus reveres as his father, is wrong to experiment with peoples' lives. Tygrus attacks Dorian to free Selina and causes an explosion which destroys the laboratory. Batman and Selina escape, and Tygrus rescues Dorian. He asks Batman to take Dorian back to justice and gives Selina the antidote for her mutation, though what he wants most is for her to stay with him. Batman and Selina leave, taking Dorian with them, and Tygrus remains in lonely exile.

Episode 29: The Strange Secret Of Bruce Wayne

aired: Wed, Oct 28, 1992

When Judge Vargas, a friend of Gordon's and Bruce Wayne's, is blackmailed by Dr. Hugo Strange, Bruce journeys to Strange's health resort in Yucca Springs to investigate. Strange has invented a machine that can see people's thoughts, and he uses this on Bruce to discover that Bruce is Batman. He then attempts to auction Batman's secret identity to the Joker, Two-Face and the Penguin. Batman turns the tables on Strange by using the mind-reading machine to literally "imagine" a taped scenario of Strange cheating the three villains out of their money. Enraged, the three villains attempt to kill Strange, and Batman saves the day. Robin poses as Bruce Wayne at the end to convince Strange that Bruce is not Batman.

Episode 28: Night of the Ninja

aired: Sun, Oct 25, 1992

Wayne Enterprises' various companies are robbed by a mysterious figure known as the Ninja. Batman- and Robin discover that the Ninja is actually Kyodai Ken, the only man who could beat Bruce Wayne when they studied martial arts together as boys in Japan. Bruce exposed Kyodai's attempt to rob the dojo, which got Kyodai expelled from the place. Now Kyodai is back for revenge. He traps Bruce Wayne, Summer Gleeson and Robin, and challenges Bruce to a martial arts duel. Bruce cannot fight back in front of Summer for fear of exposing his secret identity. It's up to. Robin to arrange a diversion that will allow Bruce to defeat his old enemy.

Episode 27: The Underdwellers

aired: Tue, Oct 20, 1992

Batman encounters mysterious 'wee green people,' who have been committing petty crimes. He saves one from a speeding train and finds it is a small boy who doesn't speak. Batman soon learns that the boy belongs to a gang of forgotten runaways, the 'Under-Dwellers," who live deep within the Gotham sewer system. Their leader is the crazed Sewer King who forces the children to steal food and supplies for him. Batman leads a revolt, defeats the Sewer King, and frees the Under-Dwellers.

Episode 26: Perchance to Dream

aired: Sun, Oct 18, 1992

Bruce Wayne wakes up to find his dearest wish has come true: his parents are not dead, and he is not and has never been Batman. Not only that, but he's engaged to Selina Kyle. At first he's ecstatic, but a number of clues force him to the conclusion that somehow this is all an elaborate charade. His quest to find the truth eventually pits Bruce against Batman in a surreal battle atop a church tower. Batman is unmasked and revealed to be the Mad Hatter, who has put Bruce in a forced dream state. Bruce's only way to wake up is to throw himself from the tower, which he does — and returns to his life as the Dark Knight.

Episode 25: The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy

aired: Tue, Oct 13, 1992

Batman investigates a theft of bearer bonds intended for the starving people of Byelocroatia. One suspect is Baron Waclow Jozek, a European nobleman. He confronts Jozek, who tells him that Josiah Wormwood is responsible for theft. Batman has heard of him; the 'deathtrap specialist", a man who conceives fiendishly elaborate mazes of psychological torture designed to force people to tell him valuable secrets. Jozek contacts Wormwood and sets him a task; to use his talents to get Batman's cape and cowl. Wormwood agrees. Batman, tracking down Wormwood, follows clues that eventually lead him to the wax museum, where the Dark Knight is trapped. Wormwood claims the cape and cowl. He contacts Jozek, who shows up to claim the prize — and who turns out in reality to be Batman. The Dark Knight has outfoxed Wormwood, who now faces a long prison sentence.

Episode 24: Mad As a Hatter

aired: Sun, Oct 11, 1992

The Mad Hatter develops a form of mind control which he implements by placing devices in people's hats. He uses this to impress Alice, a woman he's smitten with, turning all of Gotham into a wonderland to please her every whim. When he learns she's in love with another, the jealous Hatter decides to use his mind control power to do away with her beau. He then kidnaps Alice and takes her to Gotham's Central Park. Batman must fight his way through a bizarre chess board composed of living pieces, all under the Hatter's power.

Episode 23: The Forgotten

aired: Wed, Oct 7, 1992

When indigent men start disappearing from the bowery, Bruce goes undercover as lowlife Gaff Morgan to investigate. He is soon assaulted by several men, hit over the head and shanghaied, and ends up as an amnesia victim forced to work with other kidnapped men in a treacherous and remote mining camp. Despite his memory loss, Bruce's defiant nature causes trouble for his captors, who end up locking him in a sweat box. During this harrowing punishment however, his memory returns, and with newfound strength Bruce is able to escape, transform into Batman and defeat his captors once and for all. Later, as Bruce Wayne, he is also able to offer jobs to several of his kidnapped companions, thereby giving them a new lease on life.

Episode 22: Prophecy of Doom

aired: Mon, Oct 5, 1992

Bruce Wayne becomes concerned when some of his richest friends are seduced into a new age Brotherhood scam by Nostromos, a fraudulent psychic. Bruce joins the Brotherhood in an attempt to debunk Nostromos's claims. Nostromos, predicting the fall of civilization, urges his acolytes to transfer their bank funds to the Brotherhood's coffers. Batman exposes Nostromos's scheme to bilk the members of their money, and captures him after a chase through a planetarium. In the end, Bruce's friends learn an important lesson about where to place their faith.

Episode 21: Vendetta

aired: Sun, Oct 4, 1992

Detective Harvey Bullock is framed for suspected murder and goes to jail. Batman, though he has no great love for Bullock, thinks he's innocent. His investigation reveals that the real criminal is Killer Croc, a mutant hit man who wants revenge on Bullock because Bullock sent him to jail years ago.

Episode 20: I've Got Batman in my Basement

aired: Tue, Sep 29, 1992

While attempting to regain a stolen Faberge Egg from the Penguin, Batman is sprayed with nerve gas by the fowl fellow. Our unconscious hero is rescued by a 12-year-old aspiring detective who hides him in his basement. It's up to the precocious kid to figure out how to revive the comatose crime fighter before the Penguin finds him.

Episode 19: Fear of Victory

aired: Mon, Sep 28, 1992

The Scarecrow has come up with a fear chemical that is triggered by the release of adrenaline. He uses the chemical on Gotham's greatest athletes, then bets against them to rake in the winnings. Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Robin, learns about this scheme after his college roommate, a football star, inexplicably becomes terrified during a game. While trying to help Batman track down the Scarecrow, Robin is infected by the chemical and becomes stricken senseless with fear every time his adrenaline pumps. In the end, Robin is placed in a position in which he must overcome this overwhelming fear in order to prevent Scarecrow from spilling his formula over a stadium filled with spectators

Episode 18: Unknown

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Season 1 Episode 18

Episode 17: Two Face (I)

aired: Thu, Sep 24, 1992

District Attorney Harvey Dent is hiding a deep dark secret, even from his best friend Bruce Wayne. He has a second personality, that of Big Bad Harv, a hard nosed gangster. When crime boss Rupert Thorne learns of Dent's sickness, he tries to blackmail him. Unfortunately, Dent's "bad" side comes to the fore, and he physically attacks Thorne and his men just as Batman arrives on the scene. In the ensuing melee, a chemical explosion sends Dent to the hospital. When Dent's bandages are removed, the left side of his face is scarred and deformed, and his second personality becomes dominant.

Episode 16: Eternal Youth

aired: Tue, Sep 22, 1992

A health spa which advertises a 'back to nature' rejuvenating potion lures Alfred and his friend, Maggie Paige, there. It is in fact being run by Poison Ivy, who is using a new form of chlorophyll to turn people into trees. Batman investigates, and is nearly transformed into a tree himself, before he finally stops Poison Ivy.

Episode 15: The Last Laugh

aired: Mon, Sep 21, 1992

The Joker employs a lethal mind altering laughing gas to transform the citizens of Gotham into total fools. If Batman doesn't stop the Clown Prince of crime, everyone will soon go totally mad, including his friend and butler, Alfred.

Episode 14: The Clock King

aired: Sun, Sep 20, 1992

Temple Fugate, a maniacally punctilious man whose life and business are ruled by the clock, is persuaded by then-attorney, Hamilton Hill, to shatter precedent and deviate fifteen minutes from his rigid, self-imposed schedule. Chaos for Fugate results as a result of this, culminating in a court case going against Fugate and for Hill's firm. Fugate is financially ruined, and swears revenge on Hill. Five years later, after Hill becomes Mayor, strange things begin happening in Gotham, all having to do with time. Synchronized traffic lights go awry, subway trains collide, etc. These disasters are a result of Fugate (who now calls himself the Clock King) attempting to discredit Mayor Hill. He finally kidnaps Hill and ties him to the minute hand of the Gotham Clock Tower. Unless Batman can rescue him, when the clock strikes midnight Hill will be crushed.

Episode 13: P.O.V.

aired: Thu, Sep 17, 1992

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : Joker's Favor

When Bullock botches a sting operation, he and the other officers involved, Montoya and rookie Wilkes, are questioned by Internal Affairs. Bullock's face saving story is so at odds with the other testimony that the I.A. investigator believes no one and suspends them all, pending further investigation. Eager to clear her name, Montoya follows up on some clues which lead her to the location of the gangsters they were after during the sting. With Batman's help she cracks the case and exonerates everyone involved, teaching Bullock a thing or two about the importance of teamwork.

Episode 12: Appointment in Crime Alley

aired: Wed, Sep 16, 1992

Every year at the same time, Batman makes a pilgrimage to meet Dr. Leslie Thompkins, the woman who took care of the young Bruce Wayne after his parents were brutally murdered in Park Row. But this time a series of dangerous distractions keeps the Batman occupied, causing him to miss his appointment. This is. too bad, because Roland Daggett, a ruthless land developer and entrepreneur, has hired arsonists to make sure that the part of Park Row called Crime Alley goes up in flames to make way for his new condo development. And Dr. Thompkins is taken prisoner by the arsonists when she stumbles across their plans. Unless Batman can reach Crime Alley in time, the buildings — and Dr. Thompkins — will go up in smoke.

Episode 11: Be a Clown

aired: Mon, Sep 14, 1992

Mayor Hill's son feels overlooked and unloved when his father throws him an elaborate birthday party that is more a political media event than a real celebration. Meanwhile, the Joker infiltrates the party dressed as a clown in order to plant a bomb. The Mayor's son, a budding magician, becomes so enamored of the clown's tricks that he steals away in the clown's truck when the Joker leaves. When Batman tracks down the Joker to a closed amusement park, the wily villain plays on the kid's naiveté and uses him to trap the Batman. In the end, Batman saves himself and the boy, and defeats the Joker atop a runaway roller coaster. Sadder, but wiser, the boy returns to his father, who now realizes how neglectful he was of his son's feelings.

A horrifying villain, who goes by the name of Scarecrow, is spreading fear gas and wreaking havoc on Gotham State University. Batman investigates to discover that the culprit is really Professor Jonathan Crane, who was kicked out of the university years ago for conducting fear experiments and has returned as Scarecrow to get revenge. Under the influence of a treacherous fear gas, Batman must fight this wily strawman and his worst fear at the same time.

Episode 10: Nothing to Fear

aired: Mon, Sep 14, 1992

A horrifying villain, who goes by the name of Scarecrow, is spreading fear gas and wreaking havoc on Gotham State University. Batman investigates to discover that the culprit is really Professor Jonathan Crane, who was kicked out of the university years ago for conducting fear experiments and has returned as Scarecrow to get revenge. Under the influence of a treacherous fear gas, Batman must fight this wily strawman and his worst fear at the same time.

Episode 9: Pretty Poison

aired: Sun, Sep 13, 1992

D.A. Harvey Dent becomes romantically involved with a mystery woman named Pamela Isley. When Dent is poisoned after a dinner date, Batman investigates and makes the horrifying discovery that the poison was administered through Pamela's lipstick. He tracks the woman down and discovers that she is really Poison Ivy, a plant-crazed villainess who harbors a secret vendetta against the D.A. Batman ends up in Poison Ivy' s lethal greenhouse, fighting for the life of his best friend, as well as his own.

Episode 8: The Cat And The Claw, Part II

aired: Fri, Sep 11, 1992

The terrorists put their plans into motion, stealing a virulent strain of plague which they use to hold the city for ransom. Meanwhile Catwoman infiltrates the terrorists' under mountain headquarters, not realizing what she's getting into. When Batman follows her there, they're both captured, trussed up, and left to die as victims of the viral plague. However, by working as a team, not only do they destroy the plague before it can do any harm, they also prevent the terrorists from fleeing the area before the authorities arrive. Unfortunately, despite Catwoman's assistance, Batman is compelled to turn her over to the police. Though he's grown quite fond of Selina, she is a thief and the law is the law.

Episode 6: It's Never Too Late

aired: Wed, Sep 9, 1992

An aging mob boss, Arnold Stromwell, is about to be rubbed out by a rival boss, Rupert Thorne. Batman saves Stromwell from Thorne's men and keeps the crime boss one step ahead of his enemies. In the process, Stromwell learns his drug dealings have caused his son to end up in a drug rehab center. By the end of the evening, after a reunion with his brother, a priest, and an emotion-wrenching recollection from their childhood, Stromwell turns state's evidence and vows to make amends.

Episode 5: Feat of Clay (II)

aired: Tue, Sep 8, 1992

Clayface learns that Daggett is going to appear on TV to hype his new product, the same chemical that was his downfall, as a skin conditioner. After a skirmish with Batman in Lucius Fox's hospital room, Clayface takes the disguise of a woman and joins the audience of Summer Gleeson's show. Batman is there, however, and a free-for-all in the Galaxy Broadcasting Building results. Batman eventually defeats Clayface by zapping him with an electric current. Clayface supposedly 'dies' — however subsequent experiments in the Batcave with a fragment of Clayface's clay-like substance shows that electricity has no effect on it. Clayface was first and foremost an actor, after all — and his death scene was played so convincingly that it fooled even Batman.

Episode 4: Feat of Clay (I)

aired: Mon, Sep 7, 1992

Matt Hagen, a popular actor renowned for his 'Man of a Thousand Faces' ability to play any part, has a terrible secret — he's addicted to a strange chemical formula developed by Roland Daggett's labs. This chemical gives him the ability to alter his facial features without makeup, keeping his matinee idol looks so that his public doesn't know he was horribly disfigured in an accident years ago. But in return for the stuff, Daggett has him play 'roles" that aren't entirely legal. Hagen is Daggett's puppet, and resents it mightily. When Daggett has Hagen impersonate Bruce Wayne in order to obtain documents from Lucius Fox, Wayne's right hand man, a chain of events is started that results in Fox being wounded and Bruce Wayne arrested for assault. Hagen, attempting to break free from Daggett's control, is seized by Daggett's henchman and force-fed a large amount of the chemical enough to completely alter his genetic structure and turn him into Clayface an amorphous figure.

Episode 3: Heart of Ice

aired: Sun, Sep 6, 1992

Brilliant cryogenics expert Dr. Victor Fries was hard at work on a freezing process to save his wife's life when the heartless corporation underwriting the project pulled the plug, literally. The freezing chamber exploded, destroying the doctor's wife and transforming Fries himself permanently into a pathetic creature only able to survive in sub-zero temperatures. He returns a year later as Mr. Freeze, thirsting for revenge against the sleazy CEO who destroyed his life. Batman's sympathy is with Freeze, but first he has to stop him from committing murder by destroying a building filled with innocent people in order to carry out his vendetta.

Episode 2: On Leather Wings

aired: Sat, Sep 5, 1992

When a horrifying bat creature terrorizes Gotham City, the authorities conclude it must be Batman and put out an all-points bulletin on the Dark Knight. Meanwhile, Batman's investigation leads him to the laboratory of Kirk Langstrom, a prominent zoologist, who has been experimenting with a formula that turns him into the ManBat creature. Not only does Batman have to capture Man-Bat in order to save Langstrom, but also to set the police straight and clear his name.

Episode 1: The Cat And The Claw (I)

aired: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) : The Cat And The Claw (I)