Every kid of the ’90s grew up in front of the family tube for Batman: The Animated Series, a superhero television show that seemed to have been born out of a love affair between German expressionism and good old comic book camp. The show, fathered by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski and given life by Warner Bros. Animation, originally graced the pixel boards in 1995 and ran for a pretty sweet 85 episodes before its conclusion, also in 1995.

Where the Bat Landed

According to The Wrap, Timm was given the bat-signal by Warner Bros. to add more episodes to the beloved series about 4 or 5 years back. The studio presumably wanted to leap back in the Batmobile and speed years into the animated past.

A Reluctant Bat

Bruce Timm, however, was less than keen to pull his Batman cape back on. “They asked if I’d be up for knocking out a few more Batman: The Animated Series episodes,” Timm recalled. “And I was like, ‘Nah. Been there, done that. Got the batsuit.’ I wasn’t itching to twirl back into that world.”

Batman, Take Two

Before long though, our man Bruce found himself lured back to the batsignal anyway. He toyed with the idea of a Justice League series, but ultimately found his alleyway back to Gotham with Batman: Caped Crusader, a romp about a fresher-faced Bruce Wayne still cutting his crime-fighting teeth.

“The more we chewed it over, we began thinking, ‘Huh. That could work. That could really work,'” reminisced Timm. “And then we got straight-up bat-crazy about it.” The first season of Batman: Caped Crusader was initially set for Max, but now finds its equilibrium on Amazon Prime Video.

A Pretty Backed Batmobile

The voice cast has some serious motor under its hood, with names such as Hamish Linklater voicing Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jason Watkins as Alfred Pennyworth, Eric Morgan Stuart voicing James Gordon, with Krystal Joy Brown, Jamie Chung, Christina Ricci, Diedrich Bader, Michelle C. Bonilla, Bumper Robinson, John DiMaggio, Tom Kenny, and Minnie Driver taking care of the rest.

For those batfans who need their fix of nostalgia, Batman: The Animated Series is currently streaming on both Amazon Prime Video and Max. So, here’s to Bruce Timm giving us Batman once, and dare we say it, twice. We’re ever so thankful a bat in the hand turned out to be worth two in the belfry.