TV Series · 1992 · TV Series · 1990s
Batman: The Animated Series
Scored from 168 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1990s (630 peers).
Summary
Developed by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski for Fox Kids, this Warner Bros. series sets Bruce Wayne, voiced by Kevin Conroy, in a Gotham City rendered in 'dark deco' — a 1940s-inflected city of zeppelins, art-deco towers and police blimps, painted on black backgrounds. Orphaned by his parents' murder, Wayne works as a detective in cape and cowl, supported by the butler Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Gordon and later Dick Grayson as Robin, against Mark Hamill's Joker, Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, the Riddler and Poison Ivy. Most half-hour episodes are self-contained cases, and many function as character studies of the villains rather than as fights. Running from 1992 to 1995 with orchestral scores led by Shirley Walker, it introduced Harley Quinn to the Batman canon.
Released in 1992, Batman: The Animated Series is an action, adventure and animation television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Episodes run about 22m. Its certificate is TV-Y7.
The calibrated figure is built from 168 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 186 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 629 other television series from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 71 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Batman: The Animated Series lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1990s (630 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 168.
Cohort: TV Series · 1990s
