Batman: The Animated Series was broadcast in almost none of the order it was made in, and everything built on top of it over the next fourteen years assumes you watched it in the right one.
Watch Batman: The Animated Series in production order, not in the order Fox aired it. Production order is what the DVD and Blu-ray sets use and what the standard episode list follows, and it is the difference between an origin story arriving before the character it explains and arriving twenty episodes after. Everything else in this universe then falls into a straightforward line.
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Sixty-five episodes, beginning with On Leather Wings, which was made first and aired second. In this order the villain origins arrive before the villains are treated as familiar.
The theatrical film, made during the series and set inside it. It works best after the first run, when the flashbacks to Bruce before the cowl have something to play against.
Twenty more episodes, eleven of which aired under the title The Adventures of Batman & Robin. Same continuity, same designs, and the end of the Fox run.
Finished in 1997 and shelved until 1998, so it looks like a later film and is not one. It uses the old designs and belongs here, before the redesign.
Starts from scratch with Krypton and Metropolis and needs nothing before it, but it becomes half of the shared universe from its second season onward.
Twenty-four episodes with a new art style, a new Robin and Tim Drake as a third Batman ally. It assumes you know everyone from the Fox run and reintroduces nobody.
Picks up the same Batman and the same Superman with the same voices and expects you to know both. Fifty-two episodes, mostly told as two part stories.
The direct continuation and the payoff for everything above, including characters last seen in single episodes years earlier. Its finale is the end of the whole continuity.
Jumps to 2039 with a teenager in the suit and Bruce Wayne as a voice in his ear. It can be watched at any point after The New Batman Adventures, but it lands hardest last.
Then what? Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker comes after the second season of Batman Beyond and is the one film here that genuinely spoils something if taken early, so leave it until then. Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman and the short Chase Me sit in the redesigned Batman era and can be taken any time after The New Batman Adventures. Static Shock and The Zeta Project are optional: Static Shock is its own show for a season and then starts crossing over, and The Zeta Project runs alongside Batman Beyond. The three films in the last section were made years later in the same style and their place in the continuity has never been settled, so treat them as extras rather than as an ending.
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