"Batman"
Trial (1994)

Director:

Dan Riba

Writers:

Paul Dini (story)
Paul Dini (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Batman" (1992)

Original Air Date:

16 May 1994 (Season 2, Episode 9)

Genre:

Action | Family | Animation | Mystery | Fantasy | Crime | Drama

Plot:

A district attorney who loathes Batman is forced to defend him in a twisted parody of a trial run by the inmates of Arkham Asylum who have seized control and taken them both prisoner. |

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Double Life | Femme Fatale | Batman | Haunted By Past

Cast

Kevin Conroy	...	Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Bob Hastings	...	Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lloyd Bochner	...	Mayor Hamilton Hill (voice)
George Dzundza	...	Arnold Wesker, the Ventriloquist / Scarface (voice)
Mark Hamill	...	The Joker / Jack Napier (voice)
Aron Kincaid	...	Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
Roddy McDowall	...	Dr. Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter (voice)
Richard Moll	...	Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Diane Pershing	...	Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivey (voice)
Henry Polic II	...	Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow (voice)
Liane Schirmer	...	Lt. Renée Montoya (voice)
Arleen Sorkin	...	Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn (voice)
Stephanie Zimbalist	...	D.A. Janet Van Dorn (voice)

Trivia:

This is the second time Batman is a prisoner in Arkham. The first was in "Dreams in Darkness" when he was temporarily institutionalized due to Scarecrow's fear drug.

Quotes:

D.A. Janet Van Dorn: I see now there's a need for what you do. But I'm still going to work towards a city that doesn't need Batman.
Batman: Me too.

One of the best episodes of the series!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This episode is really cool.Here you get to actually see Many Arkham inmates put their blames,for turning to crime and murder,on Batman.It was great to see many batman villains here.The Joker,Two face,Poison Ivy,The Mad Hatter,The Scarecrow,Harley Quinn,The Riddler,Killer croc and Scarface(with the ventriloquist of course).It was good to even see many inmates we don't know or don't usually see but it proves that they are mass murderers,mad criminals and all kinds of sickos you'd find in this series and the comics.Many people would wonder why croc is here and not in stonegate prison.That is because in the comics,which the producers liked to stick their series with,croc was deemed insane.Anyway Penguin ,who is major enemy of the bat, is not in Arkham because he is not insane so he goes to stonegate prison.This is not like the new children's TV series "The batman" where every criminal would go to Arkham Asylum which was done so that kids can understand and not get lost.Please note that many people underestimate this series.This is a teen/adult series because the dialogue is too mature for a kids series and so are the thematic elements of the show.Anyway back to this episode.The electro shock therapy room was a great touch to this show,and so were the many fight scenes,the criminals point of view to turning to crime and other elements of this episode.I would give this episode a 9/10 rating.