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Disc One:
- Audio Commentary on "Rebirth" featuring producers Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Glen Murakami, and director Curt Geda.
- Audio Commentary on "Shriek" with producers Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Glen Murakami, director Curt Geda, and screenwriter Stan Berkowitz.
- Music of the Knight (SD, 15:00) featurette which includes an introduction by producer Bruce Timm where he discusses the significance of the score music and it's importance to the series production. The extra also includes a sequence of short clips from the series with isolated score music.
- Inside Batman Beyond: Meet the Series Creators (SD, 9:42) is a fun humor-filled extra featuring a sit-down discussion with the series showrunners, including producers Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami, Alan Burnett, and Paul Dini. The creative team discusses the development of the series from its initial inception. The panel features moderation by Jason Hillhouse.
- Trailers (HD, 3:54) for The Death and Return of Superman and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
Disc Two:
- Audio Commentary on "Splicers" by producers Bruce Timm & Glenn Murakami, storyboard artist James Tucker, iconic voice-director Andrea Romano, and Terry McGinnis (aka "Batman Beyond") voice-actor Will Friedle.
Disc Three:
- Audio Commentary on "The Eggbaby" by producer Bruce Timm, director James Tucker, producer Glen Murakami, voice-director Andrea Romano, and voice-actor Will Friedle.
- Inside Batman Beyond: The Panel (SD, 11:51) is a panel discussion featuring series producers Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami, Alan Burnett, and Paul Dini as the creative team discusses the second season and changes made to the production since its debut season. The group talk about the addition of some new characters and some of the most successful episodes produced during season two and why they found these storylines to be essential to the series and its development.
Disc Four:
- Inside Batman Beyond: Season 3 Panel (SD, 9:30) is a sit-down discussion featuring producers Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami, Alan Burnett, and Paul Dini discussing the development of the third (and final) season of the series. The producers discuss some of their favorite moments during season three and their surprise when it came to the series final episode (which remained unaired for quite some time until it was broadcast on Cartoon Network as a special during syndication). The series was never officially given a cancellation notice but it was never picked up for a season four (thus ending the production run). There are insightful tidbits of information from the creative team that are well worth exploration by series fans.
- The disc also contains an assortment of featurettes discussing the third season outing. There is a "Play All" (SD, 19:52) option on the menu or viewers can select individual featurettes to play one-by-one.
- Inside Batman Beyond Season 3: Close- Up On... is a short featurette with a sit-down panel including producers Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, directors Butch Lukic and James Tucker, and voice-actor Will Friedle (Terry McGinnis/Batman) as they delve further into their favorite moments from the third season of the series and what resonated with them the most during the series run.
- Inside Batman Beyond Season 3: Out of the Past (SD, 4:32) is a fun (if brief) featurette including a sit down panel with Bruce Timm, Will Friedle, Paul Dini, and director James Tucker as the creative team discusses "The Legend of Batman" musical in a fan-favorite episode and the idea behind the creation of a full-length musical episode for during the series run.
- Inside Batman Beyond Season 3: The Call (SD, 6:19) is a sit-down discussion featuring producer Bruce Timm, Will Friedle, Paul Dini, and director Butch Lukic as the creative team discuss the two-parter entitled "The Call" and their reactions to the production. It's a particularly interesting piece that offers plenty of insights into the views of the creative team.
- Inside Batman Beyond Season 3: The Call – Part 2 (SD, 4:12) is a follow-up piece to the sit-down discussion featuring Bruce Timm, Will Friedle, Paul Dini, and director Butch Lukic.
- Inside Batman Beyond Season 3: Curse of the Kobra (SD, 4:48) is a sit-down discussion featuring series producers and showrunners Bruce Timm, Will Friedle, Paul Dini, and James Tucker as they discuss the events which unfold in the action-packed two-part production.
Disc Five:
- On the exclusive bonus disc featured in the complete series collection, there are a number of enticing supplemental features for series fans to appreciate. The bonus features disc includes the following:
- Nostalgic Tomorrow – A Batman Gathering (HD, 53:19) is a new roundtable discussion featuring the widest group of creatives involved in the production of Batman Beyond to date: producer Bruce Timm, iconic Batman voice-actor Kevin Conroy, Terry McGinnis voice-actor Will Friedle, director James Tucker, producer Glen Murakami, voice-director Andrea Romano, and series screenwriters Bob Goodman & Stan Berkowitz.
- This is the most exciting new supplemental feature to be included on the release. There are some truly insightful memories shares from during the development of the Batman Beyond series. Topics range from the original working titles of the series (which included the likes of "Tomorrow Knight") to the initial reactions from Batman fans and the executive-led pitch which ultimately brought Bruce Timm and company into the creation of the show. A must-see for series fans.
- Knight Immortal (HD, 34:50) is a new and awe-inspiring tribute to the iconic hero with a cape: Batman! The piece delves into the history of Batman and the character's origins in the comics to the ongoing development of the character throughout television, film, and animation. From the original Adam West Batman to Christopher Nolan's darker take with The Dark Knight Trilogy, the legacy of pop-culture's beloved hero is discussed.
- Tomorrow Knight: Batman Reborn (SD, 10:31) is an engaging featurette delving into the dynamic relationship between the elder Batman (Kevin Conroy) and the younger Batman (Will Friedle).
- Gotham: City of the Future (SD, 5:34) is a piece exploring the futuristic landscape of the city Batman calls home.
- The High Tech Hero (SD, 5:44) is a featurette in which the series producers discuss the new futuristic take on Batman (from the creation of a high-tech suit to the assortment of impressive gadgets).
- Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (HD, 1:30:26) is a feature-length documentary about the development of comic books and the rise of DC Comics. The documentary is enormously insightful into the pioneers of comic books as a medium beloved by countless fans. Delving into comic-book history, the film is never afraid to both acknowledge the heights of the industry as well as the pitfalls encountered (such as the embarrassing courtroom trials against comic-book publishers and creatives for "warping" the minds of America's youth). An enormously entertaining documentary, Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics is a fantastic documentary that every fan should appreciate viewing. It has a wide assortment of interviews with comic-book creatives (from Sandman creator Neil Gaiman to Stan Lee and countless others). Narrated by Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, folks!) the documentary receives its high-definition disc debut on the Batman Beyond set (following a standalone DVD from 2010).
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