Great Cartoons of the 90s: Batman: The Animated Series - On Leather Wings
I'm just going to come right out and say that Batman: The Animated Series is the best TV based on DC Comics character ever produced. I would also add that the series is better than any of Batman movies with the only possible exception being the original 1989 Tim Burton film. The first episode of the series was entitled On Leather Wings and it aired on the Fox Network on September 6th, 1992. In the episode Batman squares off against one of his popular nemeses from the comics Man-Bat. Bruce Timm states he wanted this series to focus on "mystery, mood, drama as well as super hero action sequences" and that Man-Bat fit into those categories perfectly. In an interview, he says, "Man-Bat was chosen specifically [for the first episode] because he wasn't familiar to very many people outside of comic book fans. Nobody had any preconceived notions about him. It wasn't like the Joker, where you had to deal with people expecting him to be Jack Nicholson or Cesa...