How was this ever in kids TV?
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comicman117 — 10 years ago(November 22, 2015 05:44 PM)
New episodes tended to be aired daily, because the first season was around 60 episodes, with reruns on Saturday. The remaining seasons aired both new episodes weekly and on weekends, with a final batch of five left over episodes airing for one week in early September of 1995.
There are old promos for the show online for the first batch of 40 episodes. Pretty neat stuff, and they all say "Catch Batman weekday afternoons"
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DarklordRB — 10 years ago(September 02, 2015 01:04 AM)
I think I'm even more impressed that they were still able to keep the guns on the show.
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cyguration — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 05:02 PM)
I hated those laser guns in X-Men
But there were some other shows like Exo-Squad where those laser rifles weren't so cheesy. I'll never forget how they lost most of the squad by the time the series was wrapping up, and their main command ship got blown to bits. That show ended on a real sour, sad, depressing, explosive note, but hot dang was it good.
Batman: TAS didn't play around, though. They didn't bother with laser rifles and used more realistic weapons. And oh man the sound effects for the gunfire and explosions in that show were amazing in surround sound.
I'll never forget that episode where Jim Gordon bit a bullet to the chest in that shootout with The Jazzman. He was such a generic villain, an average criminal with a gun. It was that episode that made you realize as an audience member that sometimes just a single bullet no matter who fires it can end a hero in a heartbeat.
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daredevil1-1 — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 07:27 AM)
Lol it's pretty tame bud, it's not exactly Cannibal Holocaust or anything. Perfect for kids, not too dumbed-down like most other cartoons but not so deep that they'll be lost, we are talking about a show where Catwoman was turned into a giant cat after all.
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brailsford — 9 years ago(November 16, 2016 03:22 PM)
There are several dark episodes, and it was known this show pushed the envelope for what a kids show could show and deal with. It did this surprisingly well and didn't treat 8 year olds like they were mindless drones who can't reason which is why it's still appreciated by adults today.
Flaming doesn't help your point, it engulfs it in a wall of fire no one is going try to go through. -
purple_dave — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 06:31 PM)
1: WB ordered a show for kids, and the producers wrote a show for themselves instead.
2: In original broadcast it actually ran six days a week, so it was so easy to stumble across that it became a huge hit that they couldn't dream of cancelling.
3: Given the steady stream of new episodes, airing a single episode here and there like Never Too Late tended to get lost in the barrage, where if it was limited to one episode per week it would have received a lot more attention for a much longer period of time.
This show basically blitzed us the first season. Episodes were aired in the order they were cleared for broadcast, which resulted in some oddities like two-parters that took a full week to resolve in spite of the 6-day broadcast schedule (the first Catwoman story was broadcast as something like episodes 6 and 12). It took around a full year for the first season to actually finish getting through original broadcast, but the bulk of the first season came out within a span of 2-3 months and was probably very hard to keep up with on the network censor front.
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