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.

Embittered scientist Victor Fries, 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, 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.

Lloyd Ventrix is on the verge of losing his daughter Kimberly 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.

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, and begins selling Gray Ghost merchandise to pay rent. 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.

After a man named Charlie Collins accidentally curses at the Joker for bad driving, Joker corners him and tells him that he can go free if he does an unspecified "small favor" 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.

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.

Batman is committed to Arkham Asylum after exposure to the Scarecrow's fear toxin, 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 hallucinations 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.

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.

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]

Joker creates a toxin that affects only fish, mutating them to have smiling faces similar to his. 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 Joker's scheme.

• This episode is based on three Batman comics, blended; "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge" from Batman #251 September 1973 by Dennis 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.

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 the in-house psychiatrist Hugo Strange. 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.

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.

When a giant bat ransacks a Gotham harbor, Batman suspects that 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.

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]

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.

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.

Talia al Ghul and Robin are both kidnapped, forcing Batman and Ra's al Ghul into an uneasy truce to rescue them.

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 Lazarus Pits throughout the world, killing billions of people in an attempt to restore natural balance.

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.

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."

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