Read an oral history of Batman: The Animated Series

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"As the 1990s dawned, television audiences weren=E2=80=99t used to a dark v=
ersion of the Dark Knight," says Abraham Riesman in introducing his oral hi=
story. "America had briefly gone crazy for the 1960s series Batman, starrin=
g the late Adam West and an array of over-the-top character actors, but tha=
t had been camp at its most frivolous. Oddly enough, it took a kids=E2=80=
=99 cartoon to show TV-watchers the emotional and visual weight of the Cape=
d Crusader. Debuting on Fox Kids as an after-school show in 1992, the Warne=
r Bros.-produced Batman: The Animated Series changed the titular character=
=E2=80=99s mainstream profile forever. It consisted of 110 episodes (the la=
tter 25 of them billed as The New Batman Adventures), spun off into a theat=
rically released film called Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and is now regar=
ded as one of the greatest collection of superhero stories ever told. Here,=
 25 years after it debuted, is the history of the show in the words of its =
creators and stars."