Shows like batman the animated series

Batman: The Animated Seriesis an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Mitch Brian, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it originally aired on Fox Kids from September 5, 1992, to September 15, 1995, with a total of 85 episodes. For the final fifteen episodes, the series was given the on-screen titleThe Adventures of Batman & Robin, which was also used for reruns of earlier episodes. The series became the first in the continuity of the shared DC animated universe; spawning further animated TV series, feature films, comic books and video games with most of the same creative talent.

The series was praised for its thematic complexity, film noir aesthetics, darker tone, artistic presentation, and modernization of its title character's crime-fighting origins. IGN.com listedBatman: The Animated Seriesas the best adaptation of Batman anywhere outside of comics, the best comic book television show of all time and the second-best animated series of all time (afterThe Simpsons).Wizardmagazine also ranked it #2 of the greatest animated television shows of all time (again afterThe Simpsons).TV Guideranked it the seventh-greatest cartoon of all time. The widespread acclaim led the series to win four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program.