Many of the characters took on different designs for the series, most noticeably The Joker. Many fans of the previous series, Batman: The Animated Series (1992), had trouble accepting the new designs and as a result The New Batman Adventures (1997) is remembered more for the character designs than the episodes.
This is the first time that Nightwing and the Tim Drake version of Robin are used in an animated series.
According to Paul Dini and Chip Kidd's book "Batman: Animated," "The New Batman Adventures" begins approximately three years after the end of Fox's Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
Some fans have nicknamed this series the "red sky seasons" as the skies over Gotham City are almost always colored various shades of red, regardless of the time of day the action takes place.