"Banded together from remote galaxies are thirteen of the most sinister villains of all time - the Legion of Doom! Dedicated to a single object, the conquest of the universe! Only one group dares to challenge this inter-galactic threat - The SuperFriends! "

--Narrator

Contents 1 Summary 2 Principal Cast 2.1 Original Characters 2.2 Guest Appearances 2.3 Recurring Villains 2.4 Other Characters 3 Super Friends Episodes 3.1 The All-New Super Friends Hour 3.2 Super Friends 3.3 Challenge of the Super Friends 3.4 The World's Greatest Super Friends 3.5 Additional Super Friends shorts 3.6 Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show 3.7 Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians 4 Notes 5 Trivia 6 Related Articles 7 External Links

Summary

Super Friends (alternately spelled as "SuperFriends") is the collective name attributed to a series of animated programs produced by Hanna-Barbera between 1973 and 1984. Over the course of a decade, the series ran through several iterations including title changes such as, the All-New Super Friends Hour, Challenge of the Super Friends, the World's Greatest Super Friends, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, and Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.

The Super Friends functioned as a child-friendly version of the Justice League of America. They headquartered themselves inside of the Hall of Justice, a centrally located fortress set within the confines of Metropolis. The heroes routinely monitored global catastrophes with the aid of an automated warning system called the Trouble Alert (or TroubAlert).

Principal Cast

• Danny Dark as the voice of Superman
• Olan Soule as the voice of Batman (seasons 1-4)
• Adam West as the voice of Batman (seasons 5-6)
• Norman Alden as the voice of Aquaman
• Shannon Farnan as the voice of Wonder Woman
• Casey Kasem as the voice of Robin
• Sherry Alberoni as the voice of Wendy Harris (season 1)
• Frank Welker as the voice of Marvin White (season 1)
• Michael Bell as the voice of Zan (seasons 2-4)
• Liberty Williams as the voice of Jayna (seasons 2-4)
• Mark L. Taylor and Olan Soule as the voice of Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond) and Martin Stein (seasons 5-6)
• Ernie Hudson as the voice of Cyborg (Victor Stone) (season 6)

Original Characters

• Apache Chief
• Black Vulcan
• El Dorado
• Samurai

Guest Appearances

• Atom (Ray Palmer)
• Flash (Barry Allen)
• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
• Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
• Hawkman (Katar Hol)
• Hawkwoman (Shayera Hol)
• Plastic Man
• Rima, the Jungle Girl

Recurring Villains

• Darkseid
• DeSaad
• Mister Mxyzptlk
• Legion of Doom

• Bizarro
• Black Manta
• Brainiac
• Captain Cold
• Cheetah (Priscilla Rich)
• Giganta
• Gorilla Grodd
• Lex Luthor
• Riddler
• Scarecrow
• Sinestro
• Solomon Grundy
• Toyman (Jack Nimball)

Other Characters

• Colonel Wilcox
• Hippolyta
• James Gordon
• Jonathan Kent
• Lois Lane
• Martha Kent
• Perry White
• Abin Sur
• Jor-El

Super Friends Episodes

• The Power Pirate
• The Baffles Puzzle
• Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C
• The Weather Maker
• Dr. Pelagrin's War
• The Shamon U
• Too Hot to Handle
• The Androids
• The Balloon People
• The Fantastic Frerps
• The Ultra Beam
• The Menace of the White Dwarf
• The Mysterious Moles
• Gulliver's Gigantic Goof
• The Planet-Splitter
• The Weather Man

The All-New Super Friends Hour

• Invasion of the Earthors
• The Brain Machine
• Joy Ride
• The Whirlpool
• City in a Bottle
• Invasion of the Hydronoids
• Hitchhike
• Space Emergency
• Will the World Collide?
• The Marsh Monster
• Runaways
• Time Rescue
• Day of the Plant Creatures
• Doctor Fright
• Drag Race
• Fire
• SuperFriends vs. SuperFriends
• The Monster of Dr. Droid
• Vandals
• Energy Mass
• Voyage of the Mysterious Time Creatures
• The Secret Four
• Tiger on the Loose
• The Antidote
• Planet of the Neanderthals
• The Enforcer
• Shark Attack
• Flood of Diamonds
• The Mind Maidens
• The Collector
• Handicap
• Alaska Peril
• The Water Beast
• Attack of the Giant Squid
• Game of Chicken
• Volcano
• The Coming of the Arthropods
• The Invisible Menace
• Initiation
• River of Doom
• Exploration: Earth
• The Fifty-Foot Woman
• Cheating
• Attack of the Killer Bees
• The Lionmen
• Forbidden Power
• Pressure Point
• Day of the Rats
• The Tiny World of Terror
• The Man-Beasts of Xra
• Prejudice
• Tibetan Raiders
• The Mummy of Nazca
• Frozen Peril
• Dangerous Prank
• Cable Car Rescue
• The Ghost
• The Protector
• Stowaways
• Rampage

Super Friends

• The Demons of Exxor
• Rokan: Enemy from Space
• Battle at the Earth's Core
• Sinbad and the Space Pirates
• The Pied Piper from Space
• Attack of the Vampire
• Terror from the Phantom Zone
• The Beasts are Coming
• The Anti-Matter Monster
• World Beneath the Ice
• Invasion of the Brain Creatures
• The Incredible Space Circus
• Batman: Dead or Alive
• Battle of the Gods
• Journey Through Inner Space
• The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends

Challenge of the Super Friends

• Wanted: The Super Friends
• Invasion of the Fearians
• The World's Deadliest Game
• The Time Trap
• Trial of the Super Friends
• Monolith of Evil
• The Giants of Doom
• Secret Origins of the Super Friends
• Revenge on Gorilla City
• Swamp of the Living Dead
• Conquerors of the Future
• The Final Challenge
• Fairy Tale of Doom
• Doomsday
• Super Friends, Rest in Peace
• The History of Doom

The World's Greatest Super Friends

• Rub Three Times for Disaster
• Lex Luthor Strikes Back
• Space Knights of Camelon
• The Lord of Middle Earth
• Universe of Evil
• Terror at 20,000 Fathoms
• The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein
• The Planet of Oz

Additional Super Friends shorts

• Mxyzptlk's Revenge
• Roller Coaster
• Once Upon a Poltergeist
• Warpland
• Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One
• Bulgor the Behemoth
• The Krypton Syndrome
• Invasion of the Space Dolls
• Terror on the Titanic
• The Revenge of Doom
• A Pint of Life
• Day of the Dinosaurs
• Return of the Phantoms
• Bully for You
• Superclones
• Prisoners of Sleep
• An Unexpected Treasure
• The Malusian Blob
• Attack of the Cats
• One Small Step for Superman
• Video Victims
• Playground of Doom
• Space Racers
• The Recruiter

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show

• The Bride of Darkseid (Part I)
• The Bride of Darkseid (Part II)
• The Case of the Shrinking Super Friends
• The Mask of Mystery
• Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Magic Lamp
• No Honor Among Thieves
• Uncle Mxyzptlk
• The Village of Lost Souls
• The Royal Ruse
• The Wrath of Brainiac
• The Case of the Dreadful Dolls
• Darkseid's Golden Trap (Part I)
• Darkseid's Golden Trap (Part II)
• Reflections in Crime
• The Curator
• Island of the Dinosoids

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

• The Seeds of Doom
• The Ghost Ship
• The Bizarro Super Powers Team
• The Darkseid Deception
• The Fear
• The Wild Cards
• Brain Child
• The Case of the Stolen Powers
• Escape from Space City
• The Death of Superman

Notes

• The title of this franchise has been known by several alternate spellings, including: Super Friends, SuperFriends and also as Super-Friends.

• Although they were commonly known as the Super Friends, the team also referred to themselves as the Justice League of America. Each member of the team had a Justice League communicator device with the JLA banner emblazoned upon it.

• Many episodes of the series included public service announcements tacked onto the conclusion of each episode. These epilogues traditionally featured only one or two Super Friends and warned younger viewers against societal ills such as talking to strangers and smoking.

• The Super Friends franchise spawned a DC Comics comic series aptly titled, The Super Friends. The series ran for forty-seven issues and was collected into a trade paperback in 2001, with a cover illustration by Alex Ross (based upon original concept art by Alex Toth). Although the Super Friends comic series took place outside the accepted DC Comics continuity of the time period, it is noted for introducing several canon DC Characters, namely the members of the Global Guardians.

Trivia

• Cartoon Network produced a series of Super Friends lampoon shorts as a means of marketing their action/adventure line-up. In one animated short, Aquaman and Wonder Woman meet the Powerpuff Girls.

• The Super Friends have also been lampooned on popular programs such as South Park, the Family Guy, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and Robot Chicken.

• Wendy and Marvin, originally characters created specifically for the Super Friends, recently made their canon comic book debut in the pages of Teen Titans (Volume 3) #34.

• Late actor Ted Knight (no relation to Starman (Ted Knight)), more popularly known for his roles in the movie Caddyshack and the television sit-com Too Close for Comfort provided the voice of the Narrator on the Super Friends.

• In the third chapter of the Secret Origins pilot movie of the Justice League animated series, the Flash issues a nod to older fans by referring to the newly formed Justice League as a "bunch of Super Friends".

• Despite the fact that the series focused on high-flying heroes and evil, diabolical menaces, there has never been an overt scene of direct physical violence.

Related Articles

• Justice League of America
• Super Friends (comic book series)

External Links

• Super Friends article at Wikipedia
• Super Friends article at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
• Super Friends entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• The All-New Super Friends Hour entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• Challenge of the Super Friends entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• The World's Greatest Super Friends entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

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