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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5
Year: 2004  |  2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Bat in the Belfry

Original Air Date—11 September 2004
The Joker is making trouble in Gotham City. First, Joker manages to sneak into the notorious Arkham Asylum. Then, the super-villain releases all the patients from one wing of the facility. When Batman arrives on the scene, patients are wandering the streets of Gotham in a daze, and the bridge to the facility has been destroyed. Joker and Batman battle, but the villain escapes. Later, Joker flies a balloon full of poisonous gas over Gotham. Joker threatens to pop the balloon over the city, and Batman tries to stop him.

Season 1, Episode 2: Call of the Cobblepot

Original Air Date—18 September 2004

Season 1, Episode 3: Traction

Original Air Date—25 September 2004
Several crime lords band together and hire an elusive solider of fortune named Bane to take out the Batman. At first glance Bruce doesn't see Bane as a major threat. But this doesn't last long because not long after their first confrontation Bane reveals his secret weapon. Chemically enhanced poison that enhances every aspect of Bane's body. Now Bruce must find an alternative way to stop him. The answer is a mechanic bat-suit.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Cat and the Bat

Original Air Date—2 October 2004
Selina Kyle (Catwoman) attempts to steal a valuable cat statue. Unbenownst to her, the object belongs to Katsu, a Japanese gangster. She fails, and Batman begins to track her. During a brief encounter with Batman, Catwoman steals his utility belt. Catwoman begins to experiment with the belt, which can remotely control many of Batman's valuable tools, such as his Bat Bot and Batmobile. Catwoman still has designs on the rare statue. Batman finds Catwoman by tracing the signal on the Batarang. A short while later, Batman and Catwoman find themselves together on Katsu's property, surrounded by a ninja security force.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Man Who Would Be Bat

Original Air Date—30 October 2004
Batman instantly blamed for the numerous attacks involving a bat-like creature occurring throughout Gotham City. With the police hot on his tail Bruce must subdue the real perpetrator. A lab technician who possesses a serum that allows him to instantly become a giant bat creature.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Big Chill

Original Air Date—6 November 2004

Season 1, Episode 7: The Big Heat

Original Air Date—13 November 2004
A supervillain who calls himself "Firefly" is burning property around Gotham City. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne has his own problems. Wayne Enterprises is about to lose out on a major contract on the children's hospital. After a tangle with Firefly, Wayne misses a city council meeting. Wayne Enterprises misses out, and the contract goes to GothCorp. Alfred and Bruce research GothCorp, and the truth becomes apparent. Firefly has been damaging property owned by GothCorp's competitors. Gothcorp benefits from Firefly's actions. When one of Wayne Enterprises' buildings is attacked, Batman finds himself up against Firefly.

Season 1, Episode 8: Q & A

Original Air Date—20 November 2004

Season 1, Episode 9: The Big Dummy

Original Air Date—27 November 2004
Arnold Wesker is a ventriloquist who controls Scarface, a very bossy puppet with a dominant personality. Together, Wesker and Scarface knock over banks. Wesker wants to retire and live on a ranch, perhaps in Montana or Texas, but Scarface plans to complete one final job. Scarface, along with two thug sidekicks, plans on stealing a large amount of gold from Gotham Bank. Batman tries to stop the crime in progress. Meanwhile, Alfred has been using Internet dating websites to try to find a date for the reluctant hunk Bruce Wayne.

Season 1, Episode 10: Topsy Turvy

Original Air Date—5 February 2005
The Joker kidnaps a judge, towing him away encased in a giant playing card while the police watch. According to Arkham Asylum's records, Joker has been locked him his room all night. Batman confronts Joker outside the asylum, and the villain turns out to be an Arkham orderly. Joker has bigger plans: to encase several of his enemies in playing cards. The Clown Prince of Crime invites hundreds of Gotham City's important people to the theatre for one final performance. During the show, Batman shows up to try to corral the supervillain.

Season 1, Episode 11: Bird of Prey

Original Air Date—12 February 2005

Season 1, Episode 12: The Rubberface of Comedy

Original Air Date—30 April 2005

Season 1, Episode 13: Clayface of Tragedy

Original Air Date—7 May 2005

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Cat, the Bat and the Very Ugly

Original Air Date—14 May 2005

Season 2, Episode 2: Riddled

Original Air Date—21 May 2005

Season 2, Episode 3: Fire and Ice

Original Air Date—28 May 2005

Season 2, Episode 4: The Laughing Bat

Original Air Date—4 June 2005

Season 2, Episode 5: Swamped

Original Air Date—11 June 2005

Season 2, Episode 6: Pets

Original Air Date—18 June 2005

Season 2, Episode 7: Meltdown

Original Air Date—25 June 2005

Season 2, Episode 8: JTV

Original Air Date—9 July 2005

Season 2, Episode 9: Ragdolls to Riches

Original Air Date—16 July 2005

Season 2, Episode 10: The Butler Did It

Original Air Date—20 August 2005

Season 2, Episode 11: Grundy's Night

Original Air Date—27 August 2005
Legend says that swamp giant Solomon Grundy will return to Gotham City on a Halloween with a lunar eclipse. Supposedly, Grundy will return to get revenge on the descendants of Gotham's founding fathers. On Halloween night, the eclipse begins, and Batman receives word that Grundy is wreaking havoc in Gotham. The caped crusader is skeptical about the legend. Still, he must battle this dangerous villain who is bent on terrorizing certain residents of the city.

Season 2, Episode 12: Strange Minds

Original Air Date—3 September 2005
Joker takes Detective Yin hostage; he is captured he refuses to reveal her location. Batman must use a device created by Professor Hugo Strange to enter the Joker's mind in search of an answer.

Season 2, Episode 13: Night and the City

Original Air Date—10 September 2005

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Batgirl Begins: Part 1

Original Air Date—17 September 2005

Season 3, Episode 2: Batgirl Begins: Part 2

Original Air Date—24 September 2005

Season 3, Episode 3: A Dark Knight to Remember

Original Air Date—1 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 4: Fistful of Felt

Original Air Date—8 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 5: RPM

Original Air Date—5 November 2005

Season 3, Episode 6: Brawn

Original Air Date—12 November 2005

Season 3, Episode 7: The Laughing Cats

Original Air Date—19 November 2005

Season 3, Episode 8: Fleurs de Mal

Original Air Date—26 November 2005

Season 3, Episode 9: Cash for Toys

Original Air Date—4 February 2006

Season 3, Episode 10: Thunder

Original Air Date—11 February 2006

Season 3, Episode 11: The Apprentice

Original Air Date—18 February 2006
Joker takes on an apprentice who is a school mate (class clown) of Batgirl. In the end, when given the opportunity to kill batman and bat-girl the apprentice boy, can't go through with it. Batman and girl save the boy for boiling vats of acid and the boy knocks out joker with his own weapon.

Season 3, Episode 12: The Icy Depths

Original Air Date—6 May 2006

Season 3, Episode 13: Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind

Original Air Date—13 May 2006

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: A Matter of Family

Original Air Date—23 September 2006
When the circus comes to Gotham, ruthless crime boss Tony Zucco demands protection money from the Flying Graysons, a family of trapeze artists. They refuse to pay and Zucco exacts revenge, leaving Dick, the youngest Grayson, an orphan. Having experienced a similar tragedy himself, Batman is driven to take down Zucco and in the process discovers an unexpected bond with Dick.

Season 4, Episode 2: Team Penguin

Original Air Date—30 September 2006
After countless humiliations at the hands of the Batman, Penguin realizes that while he may not be able to take down the Dark Knight alone an all-star team of Gotham's most dangerous villains might just do the trick. While trying to stop this powerful force Batman must deal with team building issues of his own as Batgirl and Robin meet for the first time.

Season 4, Episode 3: Clayfaces

Original Air Date—7 October 2006
Shape-shifting villain Clayface turns himself in, promising to give up his criminal ways and hoping to earn a second life for his alter ego, Ethan Bennett. But when a new Clayface takes to the streets of Gotham, Ethan wants to prove his worth as a hero by helping take down this threat. Having been burned in the past by a seemingly reformed Ethan, Batman isn't sure his friend can be trusted.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Everywhere Man

Original Air Date—4 November 2006
When evidence from a series of art thefts by a new costumed villain with the power to replicate implicates a close friend, Batman believes there must be another explanation. Now the Dark Knight must unmask the identity of this rogue called the "Everywhere Man" and prove his friend's innocence.

Season 4, Episode 5: Strange New World

Original Air Date—18 November 2006
Professor Hugo Strange unleashes a deadly toxin on all of Gotham, turning its entire population into zombie-like creatures. With the fate of the city in his hands, Batman must overcome incredible odds to find an antidote before the condition is rendered permanent.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Breakout

Original Air Date—11 November 2006
The brutal and notorious crime lord Black Mask is captured by the Batman, but can jail hold him when his criminal organization attempts to break him out? Robin and Batgirl must stop Black Mask's escape on their own while Batman attempts to locate and disarm a weapon of mass destruction.

Season 4, Episode 7: Artifacts

Original Air Date—3 February 2007
Twenty years from now, Gotham City is terrorized by a dangerous villain from its past. The city must discover how to defend itself from this threat without the Batman.

Season 4, Episode 8: Two of a Kind

Original Air Date—24 February 2007
After Batman takes down Punch and Judy, Joker takes an interest in the TV pop psychologist Harley Quinn and decides to groom her as his new partner in crime.

Season 4, Episode 9: Seconds

Original Air Date—10 February 2007
After a seemingly ordinary criminal continues to get the better of Batman and his partners it is discovered that he has the ability to travel back in time by several seconds. Batman is now faced with the seemingly impossible task of stopping a foe that knows his every move before even Batman himself does.

Season 4, Episode 10: Riddler's Revenge

Original Air Date—17 February 2007
The Batman discovers what role he played in the origin of the villainous Riddler. Can Batman save both himself and and his foe from certain death at the bottom of the ocean?

Season 4, Episode 11: Rumors

Original Air Date—3 March 2007
A new vigilante, one playing for keeps, comes to Gotham with his sights set on taking down the city's major villains permanently. Now Batman finds himself in the unusual position of having to protect some of his greatest enemies from this deadly threat.

Season 4, Episode 12: The Joining: Part 1

Original Air Date—28 April 2007
Gotham City's newest detective, John Jones, hints that he may know Batman's true identity. The Batman must uncover this mysterious figure's secrets and determine whether he is a friend or a foe. The answers are as shocking as they are unexpected--and lead to even bigger developments. Part one of two.

Season 4, Episode 13: The Joining: Part 2

Original Air Date—5 May 2007
Gotham City faces its greatest threat yet--an alien invasion! After failing to save the city on his own, the Batman learns that even the greatest heroes have to sometimes rely on help.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Batman/Superman Story

Original Air Date—22 September 2007
Lex Luthor teams with the rogues of Gotham City in a scheme to place Metropolis' Man of Steel under his control.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Batman/Superman Story: Part II

Original Air Date—29 September 2007
Batman and Robin must free Superman from Lex Luthor's control via Poison Ivy's hypnotic spores.

Season 5, Episode 3: Vertigo

Original Air Date—6 October 2007
When Count Vertigo starts trouble in Gotham City, Justice Leaguer Green Arrow teams up with Batman to defeat his arch-foe.

Season 5, Episode 4: White Heat

Original Air Date—13 October 2007

Season 5, Episode 5: A Mirror Darkly

Original Air Date—3 November 2007
The Flash speeds to Gotham City and teams with Batman and Robin against his foe, Mirror Master. Can the Central City rogue outwit the Darknight Detective? Can Alfred make a lunch large enough to satisfy Flash's appetite?

Season 5, Episode 6: Joker Express

Original Air Date—10 November 2007
How is the Joker mind-bending Gotham's citizens into committing crimes for him? Batman, Robin and Batgirl go underground to derail Joker's plot.

Season 5, Episode 7: Ring Toss

Original Air Date—8 December 2007
Nearing defeat by his arch-foe Sinestro, Green Lantern sends his power ring to fellow Justice Leaguer Batman. Unfortunately the ring is instead intercepted by the nefarious Penguin.

Season 5, Episode 8: The Metal Face of Comedy

Original Air Date—15 December 2007
A strange mishap causes the Joker's personality to be downloaded into a nanite entity, and the digitized Joker is an even greater threat than the real deal.

Season 5, Episode 9: Attack of the Terrible Trio

Original Air Date—2 February 2008
Trouble comes in threes when Batman and Batgirl must deal with a trio of delinquent college students who are using the Man-Bat formula to become monstrous beasts.

Season 5, Episode 10: The End of the Batman

Original Air Date—9 February 2008
The Batman meets his opposite number in the form of the Wrath and his partner Scorn. Includes appearances by Joker, Penguin, Scarface/Ventriloquist and Killer Croc.

Season 5, Episode 11: What Goes Up...

Original Air Date—16 February 2008
The Batman teams up with fellow Justice Leaguer Hawkman to foil a plot hatched by their foes Black Mask and Shadow Thief.

Season 5, Episode 12: Lost Heroes: Part One

Original Air Date—8 March 2008
When the most powerful members of the Justice League are abducted, Batman, Robin and Green Arrow must discover the mystery surrounding their disappearance.

Season 5, Episode 13: Lost Heroes: Part Two

Original Air Date—8 March 2008
The Joining attempts a second invasion of Earth with a plan to steal the powers of the newly formed Justice League. Only the non-powered heroes Batman and Green Lantern stand between them and world conquest.

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