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The Batman

TV·2004–2008·5 seasons, 65 episodes·The CW·Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction·30m·7.7·Created by Duane Capizzi

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Hidden in the shadows, The Batman casts a protective eye while tracking the thugs, thieves and criminal masterminds that claim Gotham City's dark alleys each night. In one magnificent swoop, he descends up on opponents and battles with a fierceness that seems almost inhuman. This is the young Bruce Wayne who assumes the role of Gotham's greatest defender in a fresh retelling of the Dark Knight's beginnings.

With incredible gadgets, awesome animation and a cool new vibe, these 13 exciting episodes from the hit series showcase The Batman taking on your favourite villains – The Joker, The Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Bane – and new crazies you'll love to hate!

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Batman S03E08Fleurs du MalS03E08 · 9.0High-ranking Gotham officials begin to embrace environmental causes after the delivery of mysterious plants, and it becomes clear they're under the influence of ... Poison Ivy.
  2. 02The Batman S03E11ThunderS03E11 · 9.0Maximillian Zeus, a millionaire who is also a Greek history fanatic, takes control of Gotham from the sky after losing to Mayor Grange in a re-election.
  3. 03The Batman S03E13Gotham's Ultimate Criminal MastermindS03E13 · 9.0Hugo Strange creates a AI database called DAVE (Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator), encoded with the minds of Gotham's greatest criminals, in order to better predict their crimes. However, DAVE breaks free and proclaims himself to be "Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind".

Cast

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2004–05Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S01E01The Batman S01E01The Bat in the BelfrySeptember 11, 2004 7.4After stopping a heist by Rupert Thorne, Batman returns to the batcave to learn that all criminals in Arkham Asylum have mysteriously been r
  2. S01E02The Batman S01E02TractionSeptember 25, 2004 8.2Three mob bosses want revenge on Batman because he constantly took down their operations. They call in a very mysterious man named Bane to f
  3. S01E03The Batman S01E03Call of the CobblepotSeptember 18, 2004 8.0After a strange vulture starts to steal diamonds and jewels, Batman decides to find out who's behind this. It turns out that the crook is th
  4. S01E04The Batman S01E04The Man Who Would Be BatOctober 30, 2004 8.2A flock of bats lead Yin and Bennett to Wayne Industries, where Bruce has a scientist named Dr. Langstrom working on a project related to ba
  5. S01E05The Batman S01E05The Big ChillNovember 6, 2004 8.0Using his new ice powers, Mr. Freeze steals the most rarest and valuable diamonds all over Gotham. When him and Batman first cross paths, he
  6. S01E06The Batman S01E06Season's bestThe Cat and the BatOctober 2, 2004 8.5After ensuing in a lengthy chase with his new foe, Catwoman, Batman's utility belt gets swiped. Now, with his belt in the wrong hands, Batma
  7. S01E07The Batman S01E07The Big HeatNovember 13, 2004 7.8Batman meets Firefly, a man who dresses in a heavily-armoured fly ensemble and has a turbo-enhanced jet pack. Firefly breaks into numerous G
  8. S01E08The Batman S01E08Q & ANovember 20, 2004 7.8Arthur Brown, an intelligent man now calling himself the Cluemaster, plans revenge upon the people involved in the ""Think Thank Thunk"" gam
  9. S01E09The Batman S01E09The Big DummyNovember 27, 2004 7.8Arnold Wesker is a ventriloquist who controls Scarface, a living puppet that has a whole other personality. Together, they pull off bank hei
  10. S01E10The Batman S01E10Topsy TurvyFebruary 5, 2005 8.0Joker is out of Arkham. He's going after everyone responsible for getting him arrested, turning them into playing cards ... with the Batman
  11. S01E11The Batman S01E11Bird of PreyFebruary 12, 2005 8.5Penguin is jealous of Bruce Wayne's wealth and breaks into Wayne Manor. He kidnaps Alfred and ransacks the place while Bruce is doing an int
  12. S01E12The Batman S01E12The Rubberface of Comedy (1)April 30, 2005 7.5Joker's back in town and has a new invention, Joker putty, that can morph anything and everything into rubber or putty. Meanwhile, Chief Roj
  13. S01E13The Batman S01E13The Clayface of Tragedy (2)May 7, 2005 8.3Leaving of after the previous episode, Ethan transforms into the monstrous Clayface by Joker's putty. After having the whole town fear and l

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2005Aired 8.1Season avg
  1. S02E01The Batman S02E01Season's bestThe Cat, the Bat and the Very UglyMay 14, 2005 8.8During a museum robbery, a partnership is formed between Catwoman and Penguin. But when Penguin double-crosses Catwoman before she can doubl
  2. S02E02The Batman S02E02RiddledMay 21, 2005 8.5A mysterious villain known as the Riddler challenges Yin, secretly helped by Batman, to a number of riddles. Things are not what they seem f
  3. S02E03The Batman S02E03Fire & IceMay 28, 2005 8.3Firely and Mr. Freeze team up to put their devastating plan into action: permanently putting Gotham City in a never-ending winter. Once the
  4. S02E04The Batman S02E04The Laughing BatJune 4, 2005 8.8The Joker decides to take on the role of "Batman" and doses Bruce with Joker venom to create an arch-rival of his own.
  5. S02E05The Batman S02E05SwampedJune 11, 2005 8.5Killer Croc, a half-man, half reptile plans to submerge all of Gotham in water in order to facilitate his plundering of the city.
  6. S02E06The Batman S02E06PetsJune 18, 2005 8.5Penguin discovers a sonic device that allows him to turn Man-Bat into his personal slave. Meanwhile, Alfred must deal with a raccoon which h
  7. S02E07The Batman S02E07JTVJuly 9, 2005 7.3Joker pirates the airwaves of Gotham in order to broadcast his crimes on TV as entertainment. When Detective Yin's overzealous new partner t
  8. S02E08The Batman S02E08MeltdownJune 25, 2005 7.8Ethan Bennett is captured and put on trial for his crimes as Clayface. He's released on probation but finds the temptations of a criminal li
  9. S02E09The Batman S02E09The Butler Did ItAugust 20, 2005 7.3Spellbinder, a three-eyed mystic, with the ability to induce both hypnosis and visions, sets his sights on stealing the valuable Eye of Sark
  10. S02E10The Batman S02E10Ragdolls to RichesJuly 16, 2005 7.3Ragdoll, a triple-jointed contortionist, crosses paths with Batman and Catwoman while continuously trying to steal priceless artifacts. Also
  11. S02E11The Batman S02E11Strange MindsSeptember 3, 2005 7.3Joker takes Detective Yin hostage, but once captured he refuses to tell of her whereabouts. Convinced it's the only way to learn Yin's locat
  12. S02E12The Batman S02E12Grundy's NightAugust 27, 2005 8.8Solomon Grundy, a legendary zombie, emerges from a swamp on Halloween to wreak havoc on Gotham. But Batman and Alfred discover that there is
  13. S02E13The Batman S02E13Night and the CitySeptember 10, 2005 8.5Joker, Penguin, and Riddler battle over control of the city, until finally deciding to settle their differences by giving all of Gotham over

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2005–06Aired 8.5Season avg
  1. S03E01The Batman S03E01Batgirl Begins (1)September 17, 2005 7.8The story of how the Commissioner's daughter became Batgirl and how her best friend becomes Poision Ivy is told.
  2. S03E02The Batman S03E02Batgirl Begins (2)September 24, 2005 7.8Continuing where we left off in the first part, Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl in order to save the commissioner, but does Batman really wan
  3. S03E03The Batman S03E03A Dark Knight to RememberOctober 1, 2005 8.7When the Batman takes a blow to the head during a fight with the Penguin, Gotham is left without its defender while an amnesiac Bruce Wayne
  4. S03E04The Batman S03E04A Fistful of FeltOctober 8, 2005 7.7After his most recent crime spree, Arnold Wesker is taken to Arkham and apparently "cured" by Dr. Hugo Strange. A new career as a children's
  5. S03E05The Batman S03E05RPMNovember 5, 2005 8.5A new villain, Gearhead, makes his first appearance robbing a charity race, and Batman soon finds himself forced to upgrade the Batmobile to
  6. S03E06The Batman S03E06BrawnNovember 12, 2005 8.5The Joker is on a rampage when he gets hold of Bane's injection system and turns himself into a rampaging beast.
  7. S03E07The Batman S03E07The Laughing CatsNovember 19, 2005 8.5When a rare Black Siberian Leopard is stolen, Batman and Batgirl suspect Catwoman and go to protect the second Black Siberian Leopard. But w
  8. S03E08The Batman S03E08Season's bestFleurs du MalNovember 26, 2005 9.0High-ranking Gotham officials begin to embrace environmental causes after the delivery of mysterious plants, and it becomes clear they're un
  9. S03E09The Batman S03E09Cash for ToysFebruary 4, 2006 8.5When Wayne Industries shuts down Cosmo Krank, a toymaker with a spotty safety record, the demented villain takes revenge by trying to shut d
  10. S03E10The Batman S03E10The ApprenticeFebruary 11, 2006 8.5Inspired by the Batman/Batgirl partnership, the Joker decides to recruit his own sidekick and gain a partner in crime.
  11. S03E11The Batman S03E11ThunderFebruary 18, 2006 9.0Maximillian Zeus, a millionaire who is also a Greek history fanatic, takes control of Gotham from the sky after losing to Mayor Grange in a
  12. S03E12The Batman S03E12The Icy DepthsMay 6, 2006 8.5The Penguin, Mr. Freeze, and Alfred's old school chum are all on the trail of a sunken treasure in Gotham Harbor.
  13. S03E13The Batman S03E13Gotham's Ultimate Criminal MastermindMay 14, 2006 9.0Hugo Strange creates a AI database called DAVE (Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator), encoded with the minds of Gotham's greatest criminals,

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2006–07Aired 8.9Season avg
  1. S04E01The Batman S04E01A Matter of FamilySeptember 23, 2006 8.5After a young circus performer named Dick Grayson loses his parents to a criminal named Tony Zucco, Bruce Wayne adopts the young boy. Once B
  2. S04E02The Batman S04E02Season's bestTeam PenguinSeptember 30, 2006 9.0After watching a movie about criminal masterminds, Penguin gets the idea to form a team of Gotham's greatest villains in order to finally ta
  3. S04E03The Batman S04E03ClayfacesOctober 7, 2006 8.5After the Joker's plan to make all the dogs laugh like hyenas is thwarted by Clayface (Ethan Bennett), he plans to prove himself to Batman b
  4. S04E04The Batman S04E04The Everywhere ManNovember 4, 2006 9.0When evidence from a series of art thefts by the Everywhere Man, a new costumed villain with the power to replicate, implicates Bruce's clos
  5. S04E05The Batman S04E05The BreakoutNovember 11, 2006 9.0After Batman apprehends Black Mask, his henchmen plan to spring him from Gotham P.D. so that Black Mask can activate his doomsday device. Wh
  6. S04E06The Batman S04E06Strange New WorldNovember 18, 2006 9.0Hugo Strange infects the population of Gotham City with a virus that transforms them into zombies, and only Batman and Robin are left to fin
  7. S04E07The Batman S04E07ArtifactsFebruary 3, 2007 9.0A thousand years into the future, the citizens of new Gotham must uncover the history of the Batman in order to stop a new Mr. Freeze.
  8. S04E08The Batman S04E08SecondsFebruary 10, 2007 9.0The Bat Team goes up against an unstoppable thief who knows their every move.
  9. S04E09The Batman S04E09Riddler's RevengeFebruary 17, 2007 9.0The Riddler and Batman are dropped at the bottom of Gotham Harbor ... and the Riddler reveals his origins.
  10. S04E10The Batman S04E10Two of a KindFebruary 24, 2007 9.0When Harleen Quinzell is cancelled from her television program, Joker takes an interest and decides to groom her as his new partner in crime
  11. S04E11The Batman S04E11RumorsMarch 3, 2007 9.0The villains of Gotham City are disappearing, each one defeated and captured by an invisible vigilante named Rumor. Batman and Robin must de
  12. S04E12The Batman S04E12The Joining (1)April 28, 2007 9.0Bruce discovers that Wayne Industries is distributing alien technology across the world, and gains the aid of a mysterious new ally.
  13. S04E13The Batman S04E13The Joining (2)May 5, 2007 9.0Martian Manhunter's prediction of an alien invasion by The Joining has come true. As Batman tries to stop them on his own, he learns that ev

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2007–08Aired 8.7Season avg
  1. S05E01The Batman S05E01The Batman/Superman Story (1)September 22, 2007 8.5Batman and Superman find themselves teamed up when Lex Luthor begins his operations in Gotham City to take down his arch-nemesis, and employ
  2. S05E02The Batman S05E02The Batman/Superman Story (2)September 29, 2007 8.5Batman and Robin must battle Superman, who is under Lex Luthor's mind control, as the villain plans to launch a wave of robots and take over
  3. S05E03The Batman S05E03Season's bestVertigoOctober 6, 2007 9.0Batman welcomes another member of the Justice League to Gotham as he teams up with Green Arrow when Vertigo, a villain who can affect people
  4. S05E04The Batman S05E04White HeatOctober 13, 2007 9.0Perpetual loser Firefly tries to upgrade his powers with the aid of his new girlfriend Blaze, but is exposed to radioactive phosphorous and
  5. S05E05The Batman S05E05A Mirror DarklyNovember 3, 2007 9.0Batman and Robin team up with the Flash to thwart Mirror Master's plans to trap everyone in their own mirror image.
  6. S05E06The Batman S05E06Joker ExpressNovember 10, 2007 9.0Gotham citizens are bursting into hysterical laughter and dumping stolen goods into the river, and Batman is soon on the trail of the Joker.
  7. S05E07The Batman S05E07Ring TossDecember 8, 2007 9.0Green Lantern seeks out Batman's help in locating renegade Green Lantern Sinestro, but when the villain comes to Earth, the Penguin ends up
  8. S05E08The Batman S05E08The Metal Face of ComedyDecember 15, 2007 9.0With the help of a hacker, Joker's mind is downloaded into a computer, enabling him to control the new WayneTech Nanobots. This creates a ne
  9. S05E09The Batman S05E09Attack of the Terrible TrioFebruary 2, 2008 9.0A trio of college misfits use stolen mutagens from Dr. Kirk Langstrom to transform themselves into animal forms and get revenge on those who
  10. S05E10The Batman S05E10The End of the BatmanFebruary 9, 2008 9.0Wrath and Scorn, two twins of the Dynamic Duo, are helping the villains of Gotham City. But what happens when both Batman and Wrath uncover
  11. S05E11The Batman S05E11What Goes Up...February 16, 2008 8.5When Black Mask hires Hawkman's arch-nemesis the Shadow Thief to break him out of Arkham and assist in the theft of a meteorite, Batman must
  12. S05E12The Batman S05E12Lost Heroes (1)March 8, 2008 9.0The super-powered members of the Justice League begin disappearing one by one. Only Batman and Green Arrow are left to investigate and disco
  13. S05E13The Batman S05E13Lost Heroes (2)March 8, 2008 6.8The heroes fight their android counterparts to recover the Justice League's powers, while the Joining prepares for its final assault on Eart

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