Batman Beyond Season 1

Right now you can watch Batman Beyond Season 1 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 616 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Will Friedle anchors it with a performance that grounds the bigger ideas in something human. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Batman Beyond Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. What makes Batman Beyond Season 1 work is that the ideas never crowd out the people having them. Season 1 of Batman Beyond includes 13 episodes. It aired from January 1999 to May 1999. This season stars Will Friedle and Kevin Conroy. Will Friedle and Kevin Conroy lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1999. Batman Beyond Season 1 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Batman Beyond Season 1 a chance. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Will Friedle grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

🎬 Batman Beyond Season 1 — Episode Guide

Rebirth (1)

1999-01-10

In 2019, Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, retires due to failing health when his rescue of a kidnapped woman nearly goes wrong and he must resort to almost using a gun—the ultimate sin in his eyes. Twenty years later in 2039, Terrence "Terry" McGinnis discovers Batman's identity after the aging Bru...

Rebirth (2)

1999-01-10

Terry steals the Batsuit to pursue his father's killer, a professional bodyguard named Mr. Fixx (George Takei), whose employer, Derek Powers (Sherman Howard), the current CEO of Wayne-Powers, is secretly using the company's resources to develop a biological weapon. Bruce Wayne, discovering the theft...

Black Out

1999-01-30

Terry discovers how hard his new job as Batman is when he squares off against his first super-powered foe, Inque -- a shape-shifting woman sabotaging Foxteca for Derek Powers. Things go from bad to worse when he accidentally leads her right into the Batcave. Stockard Channing and Shannon Kenny make ...

Golem

1999-02-06

Willie Watt, a nebbishy student at Terry's high school, is pushed around by everyone -- including his construction-worker dad, who insists that he needs to toughen up. Aching for revenge against Nelson, the jock that torments him, Willie steals a remote-controlled heavy-lifting robot (or "golem"), a...

Meltdown

1999-02-13

Derek Powers' body is continuing to deteriorate. Desperate, he has Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze) revived, and creates a new body for him under the pretense of medical research. Finally cured, Fries is repentant, but Bruce Wayne doesn't trust him. Batman halfheartedly shadows Freeze, convinced that he ha...

Heroes

1999-02-20

The Terrific Trio, a group of scientists who became superheroes after gaining powers in an experiment gone awry, make their way into Gotham and become media sensations. But Magma, Freon, and 2-D Man soon learn that the accident that gave them their powers was not really an accident. The Trio are ins...

Shriek

1999-03-13

Max Shreeve, a sound engineer working for Derek Powers, develops a suit that amplifies sound waves into awesomely destructive force. Powers is uninterested in the suit until Bruce Wayne interferes with his plans for Wayne-Powers once too often. On Powers' orders, Shreeve makes an attempt on Wayne's ...

Dead Man's Hand

1999-03-20

Terry must deal with both his rejection by his girlfriend, Dana, and a group of Bruce's old enemies, the Royal Flush Gang, who pattern themselves after playing card ranks. Things look up for Terry when he meets a girl named Melanie who seems to share his problems.

The Winning Edge

1999-04-10

Terry's late nights as Batman are starting to take a toll on his personal life when he can barely stay awake during the day. When he discovers that several jocks are using "slappers" -- patches that deliver the super-steroid Venom -- he investigates, only for his mother to catch him carrying the dru...

E10

Spellbound

1999-05-01

Gotham's teenagers fall prey to the "evil eye" mind control techniques of a mysterious villian named Spellbinder, who causes them to hallucinate and do his bidding as unwitting accomplices. How can Batman defeat a foe who can control what he sees, hears, and feels? Jon Cypher makes his first appeara...

E11

Disappearing Inque

1999-05-08

When Aaron, Inque's caretaker, is fired because of his infatuation with her, he cuts the power to her restraints. Injured and unable to regain her human form, she tries to coerce him to help her until he proves quite willing -- so long as she can make him like her. When Batman tries to stop her, she...

E12

A Touch of Curaré

1999-05-15

Sam Young, Gotham's district attorney and Commissioner Barbara Gordon's husband, is targeted for assassination by Curaré, a silent and deadly member of the Society of Assassins. Armed with a molecule-thin sword that can slice through anything, she presents a formidable enough challenge for Barbara t...

E13

Ascension

1999-05-22

Batman is becoming increasingly frustrated with Blight, Derek Powers' radioactive form. Powers is also frustrated as he wrestles with controlling his power, and puts his son Paxton in charge of Wayne-Powers. His identity as Blight is revealed moments later, and he goes into hiding until he can find ...

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