Season Guide
The New Batman Adventures Season 1
Season 1 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 1 of The New Batman Adventures premiered 1997-09-13 and ran 13 episodes through 1998-07-11.
Episodes
1
SummaryThree 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…
2
SummaryYoung orphan Tim Drake becomes Batman's new ward when he becomes involved in one of Two-Face's deadly plots.Our TakeVery good, not the series' peak, but an hour that reminds you…
3
Summary After the events in “SubZero” Mr. Freeze has been forced to be bound to a new robotic body. His wife Nora has been revived, but believing him dead, she…
4
Summary The Scarecrow develops a new toxin that, rather than inducing fear, eliminates it, making average people incredibly reckless and dangerous, including Batman. Our Take A solid Scarecrow outing with…
5
Summary In an effort to further distance himself from Batman, Nightwing tries to go it alone to stop a smuggling ring and gets unexpected help from the seductive Catwoman, who…
6
Summary Arnold Wesker is released from Arkham, completely free of his Scarface persona. But Scarface’s old gang, needing their old boss back, begin working to drive Wesker back to his…
7
SummaryCrime boss Edward "King" Barlowe dies and in his will leaves his arch rival, the Joker, a large fortune of $250 million. The Joker immediately goes on a shopping spree,…
8
SummaryRobin fights to protect a young girl with amnesia named Annie who is being stalked by her "father", who turns out to be Clayface. Having created the girl from his…
9
Summary Batman pursues a former model, who is now looking for revenge and calling herself “Calendar Girl”. Our Take A decent villain-of-the-week setup that never quite clicks. Calendar Girl has…
10
Summary Batman and Robin assist occultist Jason Blood when Klarion the Witch boy takes control of Blood’s alter ego, Etrigan the Demon. Our Take This one leans hard into the…
11
SummaryDuring a fight with the Scarecrow, Batgirl is ambushed on a rooftop and falls to her death. Having watched his daughter's demise, Jim Gordon blames Batman for her fate and…
12
Summary A lovelorn pyrotechnic engineer, Garfield Lynns, gets dumped by a big time singer named Cassidy. Lynns becomes the supervillain Firefly, bent on burning the woman who burned him. Our…
13
SummaryBaby Doll becomes enamored of Killer Croc, and the pair forms a very unlikely yet very successful criminal duo. However, their partnership soon falls apart when Baby Doll learns that…