The 1986 Mets are the sports equivalent of Batman. Every time you turn around, someone’s planning another film about them.

Or at least that was my perception.

Nick Davis didn’t see it that way. The director, whom I first interviewed regarding his terrific Ted Williams documentary in 2018, saw a tale dying to be told. And now he has told it for ESPN in the highly enjoyable “Once Upon a Time in Queens,” part of the network’s celebrated “30 for 30” series. It will air in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday nights on ESPN.

“To me, it had never been done as a long-form documentary, the whole epic tale like ‘O.J.: Made in America,’” Davis said. “I felt like this team was so much more than baseball. This team was an embodiment of New York City in all its wildness, excess, glamour, swagger and danger in the mid-1980s. That’s the story I wanted to tell.”