List of Batman: The Animated Series episodes

A mysterious bat-like creature terrorizes Gotham City, causing the police force to pursue Batman. The Dark Knight must find the real perpetrator to clear his name.

Note: Based on the comic-book story "Challenge of the Man-Bat" (Detective Comics #400, June 1970) & "Man or Bat" (Detective Comics #402, August 1970) by Frank Robbins.

After escaping Arkham Asylum on Christmas Eve, the Joker takes over Gotham's airwaves and terrorizes the city. He challenges Batman and Robin to find his hidden TV studio and free his hostages – Commissioner Gordon, Detective Bullock and Summer Gleeson – before midnight.

Batman encounters the Scarecrow and attempts to foil his scheme to burn down Gotham University, but in the process is exposed to the Scarecrow's fear gas, and is forced to face his guilt over the death of his parents.

The Joker covers Gotham City in a cloud of laughing gas and begins plundering the crazed city. After Alfred is infected with the toxin, Batman has added incentive to stop the Joker and acquire an antidote from him before all of Gotham dies with a smile.

When District Attorney Harvey Dent collapses after a meal with his fiancée Pamela Isley and friend Bruce Wayne, doctors discover that he has been poisoned. Batman must find the culprit and the antidote before Harvey dies.

Batman traces a series of bizarre robberies on the streets of Gotham back to a band of homeless children who have been raised to do the bidding of their master, the Sewer King.

A botched police operation results in the suspension of those involved: Officer Wilkes, Officer Montoya, and Detective Bullock. Interrogated by their superiors, they each tell differing tales of what happened that night.

While investigating the disappearances of Gotham's homeless in an undercover disguise, Bruce Wayne is kidnapped and imprisoned in a chain gang mining camp, suffering from amnesia. Alfred must thus track him down, help him escape, and free the rest of the prisoners.

Mayor Hamilton Hill's neglected son, Jordan, rebels when his father uses his birthday party as a political gathering rather than a normal celebration, stowing away in the truck of the party clown hired by Hill for the party, who unknown to him is the Joker in disguise. It is now up to Batman, whom Mayor Hill distrusts, to rescue the boy before it is too late.

Mobster Rupert Thorne attempts to use Harvey Dent's secret split personality to blackmail him. But when Dent meets with Thorne at a chemical plant, "Big Bad Harv" takes over, and the resulting confrontation leads to an explosion that scars half of Dent's face and his entire body.

Harvey Dent, now under the control of his alternate personality, begins calling himself Two-Face and starts robbing Rupert Thorne's illegal businesses, leading to a final confrontation with the crime boss. Batman must stop his former friend before he and Thorne kill each other.

A mob war between crime bosses Rupert Thorne and Arnold Stromwell leads to a supposed peace talk where Stromwell is set up to be killed in an explosion by Thorne, but Batman saves him at the last moment. Aided by Stromwell's brother (a priest who lost a leg in a childhood accident for which Stromwell carries a pang of secret guilt), Batman tries to persuade Stromwell to give up his life of crime and help the police bring Thorne down by testifying against him.

During a fight with Batman over a stolen Fabergé egg, the Penguin incapacitates Batman with poison gas. The Dark Knight is rescued by a young amateur detective named Sherman Grant and his friend Roberta, who hide Batman in Sherman's basement long enough for him to recover before the Penguin finds them.

Embittered scientist Victor Fries, now calling himself Mr. Freeze, attacks several divisions of GothCorp, each time stealing a piece for a secret weapon he intends to build. Batman investigates the connections and discovers that the start of Freeze's vendetta against GothCorp was a bitter falling out between Fries and GothCorp's CEO, Ferris Boyle (Mark Hamill), during which Boyle almost killed Fries (turning him into Freeze) and presumably killed Fries' terminally ill wife Nora. Batman must find a way to bring Boyle to justice before Freeze carries out his revenge.

Note: This episode won the series a 1993 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.^[1]

Batman encounters a new cat burglar calling herself Catwoman. Around the same time, as Bruce Wayne he meets a woman named Selina Kyle, to whom he is instantly attracted without knowing her secret identity. When Catwoman discovers that a terrorist group known as The Red Claw has built a base in the mountain lion sanctuary she was trying to protect, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

The leader of The Red Claw (known herself only as Red Claw) attacks a military train and steals a viral plague which she intends to release in Gotham City if she isn't paid a ransom. Batman and Catwoman must put aside their differences and work together to stop Red Claw before it is too late.

Lloyd "Eddie" Ventrix is on the verge of losing his daughter Kimberly (Elisabeth Moss) to his ex-wife Helen due to his past as a con artist. Determined not to lose Kimberly, Ventrix dons a suit stolen from a laboratory where he used to work; it grants the user invisibility but its high toxicity will slowly cause insanity in the wearer. Helen does not know that Kimberly's "imaginary friend" Mojo is the invisible Ventrix; after winning Kimberly's trust, he plans to abduct her. Batman must solve the mysterious crimes and stop Ventrix, even though he cannot see him.

Note: Michael Gross, who provided the voice of Ventrix, later voiced Warren McGinnis in Batman Beyond.

Simon Trent, an older actor best known for his starring role in the classic television series "The Gray Ghost", is on the verge of bankruptcy due to his declining career. In order to pay his rent, he is selling off all his Gray Ghost merchandise. Meanwhile, a series of bombings is occurring which resemble the plot of an episode of "The Gray Ghost". Batman, having been inspired partly by the show to become a crime fighter, goes to Trent for help and they team up to find the bomber.

Guest Star: Adam West, as the voice of Simon Trent.

Batman investigates a cult called the Brotherhood, founded by the "mystic" Nostromos, after hearing several stories from Bruce Wayne's high society friends about the man's ability to predict the future. Batman finds out that Nostromos is a con artist who was rigging near-fatal accidents to gain the confidence of Gotham's upper-class citizens, and he must expose this ruse before it is too late.

Bruce Wayne is framed for the attempted murder of Wayne Enterprises executive Lucius Fox. The real perpetrator is an actor and master of disguise named Matt Hagen, who was disfigured in a car accident years ago. To keep his fame, he secretly started working for Roland Daggett, who wants to take over Wayne Enterprises. Daggett provides Hagen with a regular supply of an addictive face cream known as Renuyu that can temporarily restore Hagen's disfigured face. This allows him to continue to act professionally, but also gives him the ability to reshape his face to resemble other people. After failing to murder Fox due to Batman's interference, Hagen's supply is cut off. When he breaks into Daggett's lab for more Renuyu, Daggett's men drench him in the formula and force him to swallow it, expecting him to die. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne is arrested and taken into custody, charged with the assault on Fox.

Bruce Wayne is released from prison on bail. Hagen survives the assault by Daggett's men, but at a terrible cost: the formula soaked every cell in his body, turning him into a shape-shifting mutant. With his newfound powers, Hagen, now calling himself Clayface, decides to get revenge on Daggett, and Batman must bring Daggett to justice and stop Clayface before innocent people are hurt.

After a man named Charlie Collins accidentally curses at the Joker for bad driving, the Clown Prince of Crime corners him and tells him that he can go free if he does an unspecified "small favor" for the Joker one day in the future. Two years pass, and the Joker finally decides how to use Charlie: to sneak a bomb into the Peregrinator's Club, where Commissioner Gordon is to give a speech at an award ceremony. The small favor is that Charlie simply needs to hold a door open as part of the plan. Because his family is threatened, he reluctantly decides to obey.

Note: This episode features the first appearance of the Joker's accomplice and love interest Harley Quinn in any Batman media.

Detective Bullock is arrested for kidnapping. Batman, who dislikes Bullock but believes him to be an honest cop, investigates and discovers the identity of the real criminal: Killer Croc, who harbors a vendetta against Bullock for capturing him once. Batman must clear Bullock's name before it is too late.

The Scarecrow invents a fear chemical activated by adrenaline and uses it to affect the outcome of athletic events on which he has bet, in order to scare up some quick cash. Batman and Robin must foil his plot.

Temple Fugate becomes the Clock King several years after his company goes bankrupt due to his own error and he experiences a nervous breakdown. Fugate seeks revenge against the man he blames for his misfortunes: Hamilton Hill, who he believes gave him bad advice deliberately because Hill's law firm was on the other side of the court case. Hill is now the mayor of Gotham City, and Fugate plans to discredit him, causing him to lose his re-election bid, then kill him. Batman must stop Fugate from carrying out his revenge and save the mayor's life.

With the help of arsonists, Roland Daggett plans to destroy a poor neighborhood nicknamed "Crime Alley" and use the land to expand his business empire. Batman must stop Daggett's men and save a captured Leslie Thompkins, who helped a young Bruce Wayne cope with the loss of his parents.

Note: Based on the comic-book story "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley" (Detective Comics #457, March 1976) by Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano.

Awkward scientist Jervis Tetch, who is developing brain interface devices for Wayne Industries, is unable to find a way to get close to his crush Alice, the office secretary. When she splits up with her boyfriend, he makes an advance and develops a fast friendship with her until her boyfriend reconciles with her and proposes to her. Enraged, Tetch decides to take matters into his own hands. He dons the mantle of the Mad Hatter, using his mind-control devices to make Alice his and avenge those who have wronged him.

Batman is committed to Arkham Asylum after exposure to the Scarecrow's fear toxin renders him helpless and hallucinating, but he knows that the Scarecrow is planning to poison Gotham's water supply with the same fear-inducing chemical. Batman must overcome his amplified fears and escape from Arkham before the Scarecrow brings Gotham to its knees.

• Loosely based on "Batman: The Last Arkham" of Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1–4 by Alan Grant, with the substitutions of the Scarecrow for Victor Zsasz and Dr. Bartholomew for Jeremiah Arkham.

• The Scarecrow's scheme in this episode was also a plot point in the film, Batman Begins.

Several rich industrialists are invited to the Eternal Youth Health Spa, only to never be seen again. Their only connection: they had something to do with the destruction of plant life. Bruce Wayne also receives an invitation (one of his greedy directors nearly made the deal to destroy a rainforest before Bruce forced him to shut the operation down). Bruce passes his invitations on to Alfred and his "lady friend" Maggie and they go in his place. When they do not return, Batman investigates, discovering that Poison Ivy runs the spa and that she has been using a formula to turn the industrialists into "human trees", including Alfred and Maggie.

Bruce Wayne wakes up one morning to find that his life has completely changed: his parents are alive, the Batcave does not exist, Alfred does not know anyone named Robin, and Bruce is engaged to Selina Kyle, who is not Catwoman. Batman, a separate individual from himself, continue to fight crime in Gotham City. Bruce gradually begins to accept this new life, but it may be too good to be true.

Baron Jozek, furious at Batman for humiliating him with an intrusion and interrogation while he is at a dinner party with his underworld connections, hires Josiah Wormwood, a master in setting traps, to hunt down Batman and bring back the hero's cape and cowl.

Note: Based on the comic-book story "The Cape and Cowl Death Trap!" from Detective Comics #450 August 1975, written by Elliot S. Maggin.

During a fight with some gangsters at a construction yard, Batman and Robin learn the name of their boss: Billy Marin. While Robin looks forward to going up against Marin, Batman becomes distant and doesn't allow Robin to accompany him on the search for Marin, leading to a falling out at the Batcave. Robin investigates with the Batcomputer and soon realizes that Billy Marin is not the boss' real name. Rather, it is an alias of Tony Zucco, the man who killed his parents John and Mary Grayson. Batman chose not to tell Robin out of concern that he would desire vengeance against Zucco.

• The flashbacks to Robin's origin story are based on Detective Comics Issue #38.^[2]

• This episode won the 1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).^[1]

Angered by Batman's deceit, Robin sets out to find Tony Zucco on his own, while reliving the memories of his parents' deaths and how Bruce took him in as his adopted son at age eight. Eventually, Batman finds Zucco at an old amusement park but breaks his leg during the fight. Robin finally arrives and prepares to kill Zucco in vengeance for making him an orphan at such a young age.

Joker creates a toxin that affects only fish, mutating them into smiling "Joker fish". Then he targets an innocent man who refuses to copyright his Joker fish. The Joker also captures Harvey Bullock, and Batman must rescue him and foil the Clown Prince of Crime's scheme.

• This episode is based on three Batman comics, blended; "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge" from Batman #251 September 1973 by Denny O'Neil with art by Neal Adams, followed by "The Laughing Fish" and "Sign of the Joker!" from Detective Comics #475 and #476, of February/March 1978, both by the writer Steve Englehart with art by Marshall Rogers.

A mysterious ninja is robbing Wayne Enterprises subsidiaries, and Batman discovers that the ninja is his equal in combat. A grudge against Bruce Wayne and skills to match him can only mean one person: Kyodai Ken. A rival and fellow student under Wayne's old sensei in Japan, Ken was thrown out of the dojo after attempting to rob it and being stopped by Wayne. Ken, it turns out, wants revenge.

Batman must stop Roland Daggett's plan to release a viral plague designed by Professor Milo to be introduced into Gotham through its stray cat population. The case gains new urgency when Catwoman becomes infected with the virus while searching for her missing cat Isis. Batman must find an antidote to save the woman who loves him most.

After a prominent judge is injured during a struggle with some thugs demanding money from her in exchange for a mysterious tape, Bruce Wayne decides to take a trip to a Yucca Springs resort where the judge had vacationed and consulted Dr. Hugo Strange, a psychiatrist. Bruce learns that Strange has invented a machine that extracts people's darkest secrets from their minds and transfers them to videotape – but only after Strange records proof of Bruce's secret identity and plans to auction it to three of Gotham's most prominent criminals.

Note: Based on the comic stories "The Dead Yet Live" and "I Am the Batman!" from Detective Comics #471 and #472, of August/September 1977 by Steve Englehart. Dr. Strange's scheme in this episode was also used in the plot of Batman Forever.

Several robberies occur at major companies including Wayne Enterprises, and Bruce Wayne, as Batman, discovers the thief is a walking mechanical briefcase. After failing to catch it, Bruce meets with his old friend Karl Rossum, an expert in robotics who lost his daughter to a vehicle accident years ago. He also meets Rossum's assistant, Randa Duane, and Rossum's ultimate creation: a prototype AI known as Holographic Analytical Reciprocating Digital Computer (HARDAC). Bruce invites Duane to dinner. Around the same time, certain important members of the public start acting unlike themselves and distant. Most surprising is when Duane unexpectedly leaves Wayne Manor while Bruce is on the phone, and the Batcave security system turns on Batman.

Batman manages to free himself from the Batcave's security system and bring it back under his control, although he fails to track down Ms. Duane. Barbara Gordon approaches Batman to inform him of her father's sudden change in behavior. A brutal fight between Batman and Detective Bullock ensues, during which Batman damages Bullock and discovers him to be an android, revealing that the real Bullock and James Gordon have gone missing. Batman knows who the culprit is: HARDAC. Batman must stop the evil supercomputer before it completes its replacement plan.

Edward Nygma creates the popular video game The Riddle of the Minotaur for his employer, but his superior Daniel Mockridge fires him after Nygma sues Mockridge for royalties. Nygma vows revenge and adopts the identity of the Riddler. While Batman sympathizes with Nygma's grievance, he and Robin must stop the Riddler before he kills Mockridge in a life-sized version of the Minotaur maze with a working minotaur.

Cameron Kaiser builds a casino hotel themed around the Joker called "The Joker's Wild". From Arkham Asylum, the Joker sees this on the news and is enraged. He escapes from Arkham again with one thought – destroying the casino – unaware that this is exactly what Kaiser wants him to do.

Selina Kyle is kidnapped by the villainous genetic engineer Dr. Emile Dorian and becomes his latest experiment in order to provide his man-cat hybrid named Tygrus with a mate. Batman attempts to rescue Selina, but is captured and used to test Dorian's greatest creation, as Tygrus hunts Batman through the island's jungles.

Batman investigates the appearance of a werewolf-like creature in Gotham, not realizing that the monster happens to be one of Bruce Wayne's associates — Anthony Romulus, ex-Olympic champion. Behind the scheme is twisted chemist Professor Milo.

Note: Based on the comic story of the same name by the writer Len Wein with art by Neal Adams, from Batman #255, April 1974.

Kyodai Ken kidnaps Kairi Tanaga, star pupil of Yoru-sensei, the martial arts instructor who taught both Kyodai and Bruce. The ninja's ransom for her is a scroll which reveals the location of the fabled Death Touch technique.

When a giant bat ransacks a Gotham harbor, Batman suspects Dr. Kirk Langstrom has recreated the forbidden Man-Bat formula and is taking it again. Kirk's wife Francine shares his suspicion of her husband and leaves him. As he investigates, Batman discovers that this Man-Bat is not Kirk after all.

Note: Loosely based on "Man-Bat Over Vegas," initially presented in Detective Comics #429, by Frank Robbins, with several alterations including changes to keep the plot appropriate for the family-friendly rating of the television show.

The Joker, Killer Croc, the Penguin, Two-Face, and Poison Ivy meet at a poker table, each telling a tale of a time when they almost defeated Batman. At the same time, Harley Quinn is about to kill Catwoman after she rescues Batman from the Joker's electric chair, and Batman must save her.

Notes:

• Inspired by a four-issue story arc in Batman (1977) #291–294, entitled "Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed?". In each of the four issues, one of Catwoman, Riddler, and The Joker all recount their claims to have killed Batman. However, the plot for "Almost Got 'Im" is quite different (six stories in the show and four completely different ones in the comic book), with only the Joker as an overlapping antagonist.
• Two-Face's strategy in "Almost Got 'Im" (strapping down Batman to a giant coin and flipping the coin in the air) comes from Batman #81, February 1954.^[3] The concept of the giant penny itself originated in World's Finest Comics #30, September 1947, in a secondary tale featuring a lesser-known villain, the Penny Plunderer.^[4]

Veronica Vreeland is looking for a way to create a splash with her next high society party and arrives at the idea of inviting a famous reformed criminal, the Penguin, who she finds to have comical fish-out-of-water mannerisms. Veronica convinces the Penguin to attend her party, intending him to be a laughingstock, but begins to genuinely like him. For his part, the Penguin falls in love with her until he overhears that he is being used as the butt of a joke.

Seeking to prove that he is the superior mind, the Riddler lures Batman into a riddle-solving contest inside the virtual reality of a self-made computer game to save Commissioner Gordon's life. While solving the riddles and escaping the Riddler's traps, Batman learns that he can manipulate the virtual reality landscape much like the Riddler does.

On the anniversary of the death of Bruce's parents, Batman accompanies Leslie Thompkins to Crime Alley to place roses on the spot where they were gunned down. Meanwhile, Commissioner Gordon is on a stakeout to arrest Jimmy "The Jazzman" Peake during a drug smuggling operation. Batman had promised to be there but arrives late to find the police caught in a gun battle. He helps defeat the gangsters and arrest the Jazzman, but not before Gordon is severely wounded. The incident traumatizes Batman, and he contemplates giving up his crime-fighting career. However the Jazzman has escaped prison intending to carry out his vendetta against Gordon, who had sent him to prison six years before.

While following Count Vertigo's trail, Batman encounters Talia al Ghul, the daughter of the head of the Society of Shadows, who was sent by her father to prevent the capture of a sonic drill that the Count stole. After his identity is accidentally revealed to Talia, Batman is unsure as to where her true loyalties lie.

Note: This episode is a direct adaptation of "Into the Den of the Death-Dealers" from Detective Comics #411, May 1971 by Denny O'Neil with art by Bob Brown.

When small-time gang member Sidney "Sid the Squid" Debris (played by Matt Frewer) seemingly kills Batman by accident, his newfound reputation vaults him into the upper stratum of the criminal element in Gotham. He meets the Joker and Rupert Thorne, neither of whom believe his claim that everything happened by pure luck. Sidney soon begins to realize that his reputation is a greater liability than an asset.

Clayface is falling apart, literally. His clay-like body, formed by accident in "Feat of Clay", is no longer stable. A scientist he knew from his movie star days is working on a remedy, but Hagen is forced to steal money to pay for the expensive components of the remedy – and one of his targets is Wayne Biomedical Labs.

Matthew Thorne (Joseph Campanella), who lost his medical license and was subsequently forced into becoming the "crime doctor" by his older brother, crime boss Rupert Thorne, must perform delicate surgery on Rupert. He can't do it alone and kidnaps Dr. Leslie Thompkins to assist. Batman discovers Leslie's disappearance and rushes to track her down – and has an additional interest in Matthew because he was a medical school classmate of Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas.

When the glamorous magician Zatanna is framed for a robbery during her act, Batman swings to her defense. Zatanna is grateful, though a little puzzled, by the Dark Knight's commitment to proving her innocence. Still, the two heroes unite and use the skills her father Zatara taught them to expose and combat the culprit: an evil illusionist named Montague Kane.

Thanks to an accident during a high-speed chase, the Batmobile is virtually demolished. When Batman takes the car to his mechanic Earl Cooper, the Penguin discovers the repair shop and tampers with the Batmobile, putting it under his control.

Note: The Penguin's scheme in this episode was adapted from a part of the plot for the movie Batman Returns.

When the Joker fires Harley for her incompetence, she tries going on a crime spree of her own, joining up with Poison Ivy, and the two become Gotham's Queens of Crime, much to the Joker's displeasure.

When Commissioner Gordon is framed with allegations of taking bribes from Rupert Thorne, his daughter Barbara pleads with Batman to attend a rally on the commissioner's behalf. But when Batman disappears after finding the person behind the frame-up, Barbara takes the law into her hands as Batgirl.

Robin discovers that Gil Mason is in league with the underworld and goes to investigate him. He encounters Batgirl, and together they learn that Mason is working with Two-Face to take out Gordon and have Batman (as Matches Malone) captured.

The Penguin steals an experimental helicopter from an air show, causing an explosion that temporarily blinds Bruce Wayne. Batman knows he won't be able to wait until his vision returns to apprehend the Penguin, and he must find a way to do so without using his eyes.

When Robin is abducted from his college campus, Batman begins a fruitless search... until he is astounded by the sudden appearance in the Batcave of Ra's al Ghul. Ra's reveals that his daughter Talia has been abducted under circumstances similar to Robin's, suggesting that the same people are responsible, leading to an uneasy truce between Batman and "The Demon".

Note: A direct adaptation of "Daughter of the Demon" from Batman #232, June 1971, and "The Demon Lives Again" Batman #244, September 1972, both by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams.

After freeing Talia from her father's clutches and escaping from an avalanche, Batman and Robin follow their only clue – the word "Orpheus". After discovering that "Orpheus" is Al Ghul's private satellite that passes over the Sahara, the duo travel to his desert stronghold. There, Batman learns that Al Ghul is planning to detonate bombs in all the Lazarus Pits throughout the world, killing everyone in the path of the eruptions.

Note: A direct adaptation of "Daughter of the Demon" from Batman #232, June 1971, and "The Demon Lives Again" Batman #244, September 1972, both by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams.

When a robotic Batman impersonator appears in Gotham City, the real Batman deduces that Karl Rossum (from "Heart of Steel") is involved and confronts the inventor of HARDAC, who knows nothing of any surviving robots produced by the supercomputer. After the robotic Batman experiences an identity crisis and realizes it is not the real Batman, its programming takes over and it begins restoring HARDAC's program so the computer can resume its campaign to replace humans with robots.

Believing himself to be the reincarnation of Zeus, Maximillian Zeus steals an experimental electrical weapon, planning to use it to rule from his very own "Mount Olympus" high above Gotham City.

A new gang has made its debut by committing slickly-executed crimes masterminded by gang leader Scarface, but Scarface turns out to be a puppet handled by his "dummy", the Ventriloquist.

Wealthy socialite Veronica Vreeland returns from Central America, bringing tiny handmade dolls for all her friends. According to native legend, once placed under a pillow, the dolls do the sleeper's worrying for them. However they are actually made by the Mad Hatter and contain a tiny microchip that plants hypnotic suggestions inside the sleepers' brains.

En route to an upstate prison, Killer Croc escapes and leads Batman on a dangerous chase through the wilderness. After throwing Batman temporarily off his trail, the reptile-man takes refuge with a group of retired circus freaks and befriends them under false pretenses. When Batman arrives, Croc and the performers band together to capture him.

Note: Loosely based on "A Vow from the Grave" by Denny O'Neil. This episode adapted the comic book story with the inclusion of a separate Killer Croc story.

Someone has put a hit out on Gotham's toughest cop, Harvey Bullock. After surviving several near misses, Bullock realizes he has no choice but to ask his arch-rival Batman to help him discover who is behind the murder attempts. During their investigation, Bullock learns that his gruff and mean-spirited manner has created enemies in the unlikeliest people.

Notes:

• Based on the comic of the same name from Detective Comics #651, October 1992, by Chuck Dixon.
• This episode won the 1996 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition.

Gotham's new district attorney Janet Van Dorn is no fan of vigilante Batman, but both end up captured by Batman's greatest enemies after a prison riot in Arkham Asylum. They are then put on trial by the Joker (judge) and Two-Face (prosecutor) with the Ventriloquist as bailiff and a plainly biased jury of Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, the Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, the Scarecrow, and the Riddler. Though clearly a kangaroo trial, Van Dorn is told that if she serves as Batman's defense attorney and proves that Batman is not the cause of these villains' criminal behavior, they will both be set free. But the villains have little intention of following through on their deal….

• Henry Polic II, the Scarecrow's voice actor, was recuperating from throat surgery during the episode's production, so his character has no dialogue.
• Van Dorn mentions in this episode that Harley Quinn was once a doctor at Arkham before the Joker corrupted her mind, a backstory which is later shown in The New Batman Adventures episode "Mad Love."

A mystic Egyptian scroll donated to the Gotham Museum by Bruce Wayne is stolen by Ra's al Ghul. Batman and Talia must join forces to prevent her mentally unstable father from unlocking the scroll's mystic secrets of life and death. Their quest takes them to a hidden temple deep beneath the Egyptian desert where the Dark Knight is forced into a terrifying battle with an ancient Egyptian sorceress.

Poison Ivy has not only been released from Arkham Asylum but she's also married her doctor and settled down to help him raise his two sons. It would appear that Ivy has gone straight and that her old days as a criminal are over, but wealthy bachelors are being struck down by an unknown toxin, leaving Batman questioning Ivy's innocence.

Three wealthy, bored youths seek new thrills by becoming master criminals. As "the Fox, the Shark, and the Vulture" (masters of land, sea, and air), the Terrible Trio pick Gotham clean until they come to the attention of Batman.

The Joker steals an atomic bomb and it is up to Batman and Robin to find and stop him. Since there is no time to spare, the duo enlist the help of Harley Quinn to track Joker down.

The Clock King returns to continue his vendetta against Mayor Hill. This time, the time-obsessed criminal hopes to murder Hill with the help of a stolen invention that allows him to warp time and travel at super speed. Securing a second device from its creator, Batman and Robin takes on the Clock King in a furious high-speed battle for the mayor's life.

Anxious to take up her old ways as Catwoman, Selina Kyle joins the Ventriloquist to humiliate socialite Veronica Vreeland. But the real victim is Catwoman herself, who Scarface has secretly set up to take the fall for another robbery.

Batman comes face-to-face with his most powerful adversary yet: the chemically-enhanced assassin Bane. Originally hired by Rupert Thorne to kill Batman, Bane plans to control Thorne's criminal empire once Batman is destroyed.

A washed-up actress named Mary Dahl has become bitter and insane after falling into obscurity and suffering from a disorder that prevents her body from growing to adulthood, thus biologically cursed with perpetual childhood. She kidnaps her former TV family co-stars, resentful of their continued success, and holds them prisoner on the abandoned soundstage of her old show. While Robin works fast to free the actors from Baby-Doll's explosive death trap, Batman pursues the tiny fiend through a deadly carnival funhouse.

The Red Claw organization kidnaps Alfred, seeking a code for arming a weapon of mass destruction that Alfred knows from his days as a British secret agent.

Ra's al Ghul remembers a time in his past (the Wild West of the 1880s) in which Jonah Hex stopped his plan to destroy the transcontinental railroad using a war blimp.

Note: This was Elizabeth Montgomery's final role before her death on May 18th, 1995.

Vowing to turn over a new leaf, the Riddler is hired to work for a toy company. But Batman suspects that the Riddler is still obsessed with outsmarting and defeating him.

Just before Harvey Dent is to undergo a surgical operation to fix the damage to his face in the hopes that it will give him the mental stability he needs to move on from his Two-Face persona, he is kidnapped by a gang with an unknown leader. Batman and Robin split up to find who abducted Bruce Wayne's old friend, suspecting that the Penguin or Rupert Thorne may be behind the kidnapping.

Harley Quinn is released back into society after being given a clean bill of mental health by Arkham Asylum. However, a simple misunderstanding at a clothing store snowballs into chaos. Batman and Robin attempt to help her before she lands herself back in confinement.

Lyle Bolton, the new head of security at Arkham, is fired for his atrocious mistreatment of the inmates. Six months later, Bolton becomes the vigilante Lock-Up and decides to put behind bars those who he feels are responsible for the city's ruin.

Using microchips stolen from the Mad Hatter, the Joker brainwashes famous comedians into committing ludicrous and embarrassing crimes to ruin their reputations. The comedians had served as the judges who tossed the Joker out of the Gotham Comedy Competition the year before, and the Clown Prince of Crime wants revenge.

Mr. Freeze is sprung from Arkham by aging billionaire Grant Walker, who is looking to freeze and recreate the world according to his design. Batman and Robin infiltrate the billionaire's underwater city and combat both high-tech robots and Mr. Freeze himself, who has decided to do Walker's bidding and cover the earth in a new ice age.

While Bruce is in Europe on a Wayne Enterprises business trip, the theft of a jade cat statue occurs at Gotham State University. Barbara Gordon investigates as Batgirl, only to run into Catwoman, who claims she is also investigating and that the theft was not her style. The two team up to find the statue, with Robin tailing them, and Roland Daggett is revealed to be involved.

Three holiday-themed vignettes:

(1) Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn kidnap Bruce Wayne and use his credit cards for a shopping spree.

(2) While shopping for a gift for her father, Barbara Gordon spots a group of shoplifters that turn out to be independent portions of Clayface's body.

(3) Batman and Robin race to stop the Joker from killing the crowd at the Gotham City New Year Celebration.

Notes:

• Based on the comic The Batman Adventures Holiday Special.
• This episode takes place after the episodes "Sins of the Father", which introduces Tim Drake, and "Growing Pains," which brings Clayface back after his apparent death in "Mudslide."

Young delinquent Tim Drake becomes Batman's new ward after getting caught up in one of Two-Face's deadly plots.

Mr. Freeze has taken a turn for the worse; the embittered villain now seems devoted merely to destroying things that other people value.

Arnold Wesker is released from Arkham Asylum, free of his Scarface persona thanks to extensive therapy. However, Scarface's old gang needs their boss back, and plots from behind the scenes to revive Wesker's split personality.

To further distance himself from Batman, Dick Grayson tries to go it alone as Nightwing to stop a smuggling ring and gets unexpected help from the seductive Catwoman, who seems to take a liking to him.

The Scarecrow develops a new toxin that, rather than inducing fear, eliminates it, making ordinary people reckless and dangerous. Batman has been exposed to it, and it's now up to Robin to save his mentor and foil Scarecrow's plot.

Crime boss Edward "King" Barlowe dies, and to everyone's surprise, his will leaves a fortune to his hated rival the Joker: $250,000,000. No longer needing to resort to robbery for funds, the Joker immediately goes on a legal shopping spree, even searching for a replacement for Harley Quinn, but realizes too late that almost all of the money is fake.

Note: Based on the famous comic book story of the same name.

Robin fights to protect a young girl with amnesia named Annie. She is being stalked by her "father", who turns out to be Clayface. Having created the girl from his own body to scout out the city, he now intends to reabsorb her, but in her time apart from him she has forgotten her mission and developed her own personality.

Baby-Doll becomes enamored of Killer Croc, and the pair forms an improbable yet very successful criminal duo. However, their partnership falls apart when Baby-Doll learns that Croc is only using her to further his criminal career.

A lovelorn pyrotechnic engineer, Garfield Lynns, gets dumped by a big-time singer named Cassidy. Lynns takes on the identity "the Firefly", bent on burning the woman who burned him.

Stuntwoman and adrenaline junkie Roxanne Sutton becomes the rocket-riding thief Roxy Rocket to find new heights of danger and excitement.

During a fight with the Scarecrow, Batgirl is ambushed on a rooftop and falls to her death. Having witnessed his daughter's demise, Jim Gordon blames Batman for her fate and vows revenge, recruiting Bane in the process. A nightmare scenario begins for Batman as he is hunted down, but is it one he can wake up from?

A model who is considered past her prime and can no longer find work is now looking for revenge on the fashion industry, hiding her face behind a mask and calling herself Calendar Girl.

Note: Based on the comic-book story "Who Dies For The Manikin?" (Detective Comics #506, September 1981) & "Dressed To Die!" (Detective Comics #507, October 1981) by Gary Conway. The antagonist Manikin had her name changed to Calendar Girl and was given a crime theme based around the holidays, which is taken from another comic book villain, Calendar Man.

A genetic engineer goes overboard in creating bigger livestock and loses all his money. A year later, an army of mutant farm animals terrorizes Gotham City.

Batman tries to help Catwoman, who is being chased by a cat cult due to a statue she stole.

A series of thefts is committed by circus animals in a town where Nightwing's old circus is performing. Is it an old friend training the animals to steal or someone else?

When on patrol on his own, Robin runs into Nightwing, and he tells Robin the story of how he and Batman grew apart. The story relates how Batgirl discovered the real identities of Batman and the original Robin, and what later went wrong with Barbara's and Dick's relationship.

Batman and Robin assist occultist Jason Blood when Klarion the Witch Boy takes control of Blood's alter-ego, Etrigan the Demon.

Note: This episode was the final performance of actor Stephen Wolfe Smith (Klarion), who died shortly afterward.

A group of Gotham City youths tells their stories about what they believe the Dark Knight to be like. With varying art and storytelling styles, this episode acknowledges the works of Bill Finger, Dick Sprang, and Frank Miller.

Note: Loosely based on "The Batman Nobody Knows!" from Batman #250 (July 1973) by Frank Robbins and Dick Giordano and contains a direct adaptation of part of the comic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.

Livewire, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn join forces to wreak havoc in Gotham. With Batman and Superman away, Batgirl and Supergirl must team up to stop them and bring them to justice.

Harley reflects on her first meeting with the Joker as she plots to eliminate her main competition for his attention – Batman.

Note: Adaptation of the Eisner Award-winning 1993 comic book of the same name by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm.

Bruce Wayne, along with other wealthy denizens of Gotham, fall in love with their ideal mates, who all have green eyes. Bruce uncharacteristically decides to marry and give up being Batman forever.

Exposure to a weird mixture of chemicals including the Joker's laughing gas changes straitlaced newsman Jack Ryder into the crazed Creeper. He plans to kill the Joker out of revenge, and develops an unrequited crush on Harley.

Notes The Creeper (vol. 2) comic series (October 2006 – March 2007) incorporated some of the plot points of this episode into his newly revised origin story. Before 2006, Creeper had no association with the Joker except for being confused for him in Joker #3 (1975).

When a new vigilante uses lethal force to battle Gotham's criminals, Batman must figure out his true identity.

Batman and Superman team up to take on their respective archenemies, the Joker and Lex Luthor.

Superman comes to Gotham to fill in for Batman, who has mysteriously disappeared, and works with Robin to locate the Dark Knight.

Ra's al Ghul plans to jerk off Superman's Bonner in order to fully heal, so Batman steps in to stop him.

Static works with Batman and Robin to stop the Joker from recruiting Bang Babies.

Static teams up with the Caped Crusader once again to help a girl who's manipulated by Harley and Ivy to steal shipments of gold with her metahuman abilities.

After assisting Batman and Robin with a mission to stop Timecode, Static is accidentally 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.