Series synopsis
Super Friends is an American animation sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on ABC on September 8, 1973. It ended on October 26, 1985. It stars Danny Dark, Shannon Farnon, Constance Cawlfield and Adam West.
The most powerful heroes ever--Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman and Robin--join forces with teenagers Wendy and Marvin and their dog, Marvel the Wonderdog, to defend justice and guard the innocent.
Premise
The most powerful heroes ever--Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman and Robin--join forces with teenagers Wendy and Marvin and their dog, Marvel the Wonderdog, to defend justice and guard the innocent.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Danny Dark as Superman (voice)
- Shannon Farnon as Wonder Woman (voice)
- Constance Cawlfield as Wonder Woman (voice)
- Adam West as Batman (voice)
- Olan Soule as Batman (voice)
- Casey Kasem as Robin (voice)
- Mark L. Taylor as Firestorm (voice)
- Michael Bell as Zan (voice)
Supporting cast
- William Callaway as Aquaman (voice)
- William Woodson as Narrator (voice)
- Frank Welker as Toyman (voice)
- Sherry Alberoni as Wendy (voice)
- B.J. Ward as Wonder Woman (voice)
- Louise Williams as Jayna (voice)
- John Stephenson as Colonel Wilcox (voice)
- Ted Knight as Narrator (voice)
- Ernie Hudson as Cyborg (voice)
- René Auberjonois as Desaad (voice)
- Marlene Aragon as Cheetah (voice)
- Ted Cassidy as Brainiac / Black Manta (voice)
Guest cast
- Norman Alden as Aquaman (voice)
- Lucy Lee as Martha Wayne (voice)
- Paul Kirby as Bruce Wayne (voice)
- Andre Stojka as Scarecrow (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 10 seasons with 111 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 2 | ||
| Season 1 | 16 | September 8, 1973 | December 22, 1973 |
| Season 2 | 15 | September 10, 1977 | December 17, 1977 |
| Season 3 | 32 | September 9, 1978 | December 23, 1978 |
| Season 4 | 8 | September 22, 1979 | November 10, 1979 |
| Season 5 | 8 | September 13, 1980 | November 1, 1980 |
| Season 6 | 6 | September 26, 1981 | October 31, 1981 |
| Season 7 | 8 | September 10, 1983 | October 29, 1983 |
| Season 8 | 8 | September 8, 1984 | October 27, 1984 |
| Season 9 | 8 | September 7, 1985 | October 26, 1985 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pajama-Rama Superfriends Retrospective | |
| 2 | The Ballad of Zan and Jayna |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Power Pirate Anthro, an alien from the planet Traum, is stealing Earth's energy resources to power his planet- until the Super Friends stop him. Disguising himself as an inspector from Scotland Yard, he enlists the help of the Super Friends to help him steal the Earth's energy to take back to Traum. |
September 8, 1973 |
| 2 |
The Baffles Puzzle The mysterious Professor Baffles is making money and valuable objects disappear- until the Super Friends unravel his puzzle and stop him. The professor has embarked on a crusade to destroy all literature, art and music with a chemical that he has developed. His two accomplices use Professor Baffles' crusade to extort money from the United States government. |
September 15, 1973 |
| 3 |
Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C. Professor Goodfellow invents the G.E.E.C. (Goodfellow's Effort-Eliminating Computer), which is capable of running everything in the world, freeing people from all physical labor, brainwork and responsibility. When it begins to malfunction, the Super Friends have to convince him that it's not natural for people to be inactive all the time. It takes all the combined efforts of the Super Friends to repair the computer and return the world to its normal state. |
September 22, 1973 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool The Brain Machine: Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin meet up with a misguided genius, Dr. Cranum, and his Brain Machine. Joy Ride: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have to teach some youngsters a lesson about the dangers of joyriding in an airplane. Invasion of the Earthors: The Super Friends match wits and skills in an underground adventure against the mysterious mining monsters known as the Earthors. The Whirlpool: Aquaman and special guest Black Vulcan find themselves facing the force of a shipwrecking whirlpool. |
September 10, 1977 |
| 2 |
The Secret Four / Tiger on the Loose / The Mysterious Time Creatures / The Antidote The Secret Four: Superman, Batman and Robin are outnumbered but not outsmarted when they change the plans of the mysterious Secret Four. Tiger on the Loose: The outer-space Wonder Twins and Gleek point out the error of jumping to conclusions as they tackle an escaped tiger (and try to end the confusion on how the tiger got out in the first place). The Mysterious Time Creatures: The Super Friends defeat Dictor, who uses an aging/reverse aging technology as a weapon to depose the peaceful elected president of their planet with his totalitarian rule of fear and keep him from conquering the universe. The Antidote: An earthquake occurs in India, where the tremors force many cobras out into the open where they bite villagers, exhausting India's antivenom supply. The Red Cross appeals to the Super Friends for help, who deploy Wonder Woman and Apache Chief to India. |
September 17, 1977 |
| 3 |
Invasion of the Hydronoids / Hitchhike / City in a Bottle / Space Emergency Invasion of the Hydronoids: Aquaman, Batman and Robin meet the menacing Hydronoids in a struggle to save the world from their evil invasion. Hitchhike: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have a serious problem on their hands when they use their Exxor powers to detour the dangers of hitchhiking when a girl doing so is kidnapped. City in a Bottle: The Super Friends travel to a far-off frozen planet to rescue an entire Earth city stolen by the marauding Mongor. Space Emergency: Wonder Woman with special guests Hawkman and Hawkgirl use their special skills in a space emergency. |
September 24, 1977 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Rokan: Enemy from Space From the edge of the Milky Way, a winged creature named Rokan speeds toward Earth. Superman confronts the beast and realizes it is Rokan, a beast from Krypton which was thought to be extinct, and since Rokan is from Krypton, she has the same powers as Superman. Escaping, the creature wreaks havoc on Earth. The Super Friends attempt to stop Rokan by chasing her and her babies away with kryptonite. |
September 9, 1978 |
| 2 |
Wanted: The Superfriends Lex Luthor forms a criminal gang called the Legion of Doom and uses a dream-machine to make the Super Friends commit crimes. |
September 9, 1978 |
| 3 |
The Demons of Exxor The Wonder Twins agree to help Exxor defeat Darkon, a conqueror who has taken over Exxor and made its inhabitants his slaves. With the Wonder Twins captured by Darkon, Batman and Robin must free the twin heroes as the other Super Friends tackle Darkon and his troopers. |
September 16, 1978 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Rub Three Times for Disaster Kareem Azaar is a ruthless thief on the planet Zaghdad who has stolen the Magic Lamp of Olam, which contains the power of an evil genie. Kareem uses the Genie's power to take over the planet and banish the Sultan into the world of the Genie's lamp. When the Super Friends arrive to do battle, Superman and the Wonder Twins wind up in the lamp as well, leaving the other heroes to take on Kareem's forces. |
September 22, 1979 |
| 2 |
Lex Luthor Strikes Back Lex Luthor uses a projector ray (reverse camera) to disguise himself as Lois Lane in order to escape prison. He, with his assistant Orville Gump, hatch an elaborate plot to destroy the Super Friends. Luthor aligns himself with evil fire demons who originate from the Sun. They aid Luthor in capturing the Super Friends and placing them in death traps. The demons then change the color of the Sun from yellow to red, which cause Superman's powers to vanish. However, the Sun demons double-cross Luthor and he is trapped in a fire, so he has no choice but to free the Super Friends in an effort to save himself and Earth. The Super Friends perform rescues and put out the fires. Superman uses the Super-Mobile to chase the fire demons back into the Sun...which causes the Sun to return to its natural color...which restores Superman's powers. Luthor and his assistant are sent back to prison. |
September 29, 1979 |
| 3 |
Space Knights of Camelon While protecting a prehistoric planet from a meteor, Superman ends up hit by the meteor's nuclear core, crash lands on the medieval planet of Camelon, and loses his memory. A bunch of rebels led by Logan take him in as their black knight in a plan to overthrow King Arthur 7. It is up to the Super Friends to help Superman remember who he is and defeat the rebels. |
October 6, 1979 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Big Foot / The Ice Demon / The Make-Up Monster Big Foot: Apache Chief and few of his fellow braves are captured by alien creatures resembling the legendary Bigfoot. Batman and Robin try to help, but are also captured. After they escape and defeat the creatures, the Super Friends learn that they were merely trying to seek information to repair their spacecraft. The Ice Demon: While on a skiing vacation, the Wonder Twins literally bump into a pair of reckless teenagers and wind up in an ice cave inhabited by an Ice Demon. Only Superman can save them. Luckily, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are nearby. The Make-Up Monster: A disgruntled make-up man on the set of a movie discovers a formula that allows him to make himself up into any powerful monster he chooses. With the formula, he wreaks havoc and wrecks the movie studio and only the Super Friends dare to challenge him. |
September 13, 1980 |
| 2 |
Journey into Blackness / The Cycle Gang / Dive to Disaster Journey into Blackness: While monitoring the galaxy from his impenetrable Fortress of Solitude, Superman notices a black hole that is going to suck up the Earth. Superman attempts to stop it, but gets himself pulled into the black hole. The Cycle Gang: The Highway Angels, a motorcycle gang, start tormenting a senior citizen and his grandson. When the Wonder Twins try to help they have a hard time dealing with the cycle gang and the danger at hand. Wonder Woman sees the twins and gives them assistance. Dive to Disaster: Several miles off the coast of Hawaii, a routine Navy mission becomes a nightmare when a submarine's controls short circuits and the nuclear reactor starts to overload. Black Vulcan and Aquaman try to help, but are attacked by nuclear mutated sea creatures. |
September 20, 1980 |
| 3 |
Yuna the Terrible / Rock and Roll Space Bandits / Elevator to Nowhere Yuna the Terrible: A group of archaeologists accidentally releases Yuna the Terrible and her barbarian warriors. Batman and Robin responds to a distress call but get captured by Yuna's warriors. Wonder Woman and Apache Chief respond to the Batman's distress call. Rock and Roll Space Bandits: A group of Rock and Roll Space Bandits paralyze the Super Friends and invade a major city on Earth using their hypnotic music. The Wonder Twins come to the rescue, but get hypnotized. Wonder Woman helps the rest of the Super Friends get free and they rush off to stop the musical menaces. Batman uses a device to stop the sound waves. Elevator to Nowhere: Streaking in the Invisible Jet, Wonder Woman and the Atom answer a distress call on the emergency scanner from a Dr. Wells. Wells' call was actually a trap to get Wonder Woman and the Atom to test out his new time machine. |
September 27, 1980 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Outlaws of Orion / Three Wishes / Scorpio The Outlaws of Orion: When chasing a burglar in Gotham City, Batman and Robin are captured by Pack and Stardust, Bounty Hunters from Orion. Batman attempts to call for help using the Justice League beeper, but he did not realize the Bounty Hunters know help is coming and are ready to ambush them. Three Wishes: The Wonder Twins find a magic lamp, the evil Space Genie of it gives them three wishes, which lead to trouble. However with the last wish, they never used the lamp. Scorpio: Wonder Woman receives a distress call from a scientist who was working on a way to end world hunger by a substance that makes vegetables grow to huge proportions. However, the scientist also says that an earlier failed experiment on a scorpion make it grow and gave it the power of speech. |
September 26, 1981 |
| 2 |
Mxyzptlk's Flick / The Sink Hole / The Alien Mummy Mxyzptlk's Flick: Batman, Robin, and the Wonder Twins are thrown into a movie by Mr. Mxyzptlk. The Sink Hole: Wonder Woman arrives to help a sheriff from the hills of West Virginia and investigate why a giant Cobra is creating sink holes. The Alien Mummy: While accompanying Professor Naska and his students on a field trip to Ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico, El Dorado is attacked by Alien Invaders. When El Dorado scares them off, an angered Alien Mummy attacks El Dorado and the others. Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice, Superman and Wonder Woman receive a U.F.O. alert and head out to Mexico. When the two Super Friends arrive see The Alien Mummy has El Dorado and the others have been put under mind control. When Superman and Wonder Woman confront the Alien Mummy, he turns both of them into golden statues. |
October 3, 1981 |
| 3 |
The Evil from Krypton / The Creature from the Dump / The Aircraft Terror The Evil from Krypton: Zy-Kree, an escapee from the Phantom Zone seeks revenge on Superman by turning the Earth's sun red and thus depowering the man of steel while hiding in the Fortress of Solitude. It is up to Green Lantern and Aquaman to help their friend defeat the evil Kryptonian who has the same powers as Superman. The Creature from the Dump: A junk creature forms after two kids hanging around a dump inadvertently make a mysterious chemical reaction occur. When Batman gets infected by the chemicals he also turns into a junk creature. The Junior Super Friends try to find a way to get Batman back to normal. The Aircraft Terror: A meteor hits an aircraft and turns it into a winged beast. When the Wonder Twins respond to a Trouble Alert they find out the aircraft creatures has the ability to turn other aircraft into living beasts. Batman & Robin trail these beasts from the Batjet try to stop the attack by taking out the ringleader of the beasts. |
October 10, 1981 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Mxyzptlk's Revenge / Roller Coaster / Once Upon a Poltergeist Mxyzptlk's Revenge: A doorway appears inside the Hall of Justice. Superman and Batman wonder where it originated from and where it leads. Then the voice of Mxyzptlk is heard and Superman realizes who's responsible. The door opens up, sucking everything inside, including Batman and Superman. Roller Coaster: Three kids ride a condemned roller coaster that gradually falls apart. The Wonder Twins and Gleek, exiting a movie theater, respond to the crisis. After Zan accidentally breaks a rusted power control and realizing that they need additional help in the rescue attempt they send Gleek to the Hall of Justice and find Atom. Once Upon a Poltergeist: At the Wayne Building in Gotham City, a confused spirit of a Mohawk Indian terrorizes the area due to his belief that the building sits on top of an ancient burial site. Batman, Robin, and Apache Chief battle the spirit but its power is greater. |
September 10, 1983 |
| 2 |
Warpland / Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One / Bulgor the Behemoth Warpland: Superman and Batman are pulled into a space warp where they come across a strange planet inhabited by aliens known as Zoons. Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One: Wonder Woman and Green Lantern think the Legion of Doom will strike since the entire Justice League is going to meet in the Hall of Justice the next day. Jayna and Zan are put in charge of security during the night. Giganta sets a trap and captures Gleek with bananas and takes him to Gorillia Grodd. A mechanical duplicate of Gleek arrives at the Hall of Justice to use his killer laser eyes on the Justice League and help Grodd and Giganta take over the Hall of Justice. Bulgor the Behemoth: A writer turns into the creature he created after a lightning bolt electrocutes an electrical tower nearby. Apache Chief and Superman are on hand to stop the behemoth from continuing his destructive ways. |
September 17, 1983 |
| 3 |
The Krypton Syndrome / Invasion of the Space Dolls / Terror on the Titanic The Krypton Syndrome: Superman travels through a time warp and is taken back to the hours leading up to Krypton's explosion. He saves the planet by stopping the solar flares using the Super-Mobile core and then returns to the present to find Earth a very different place. Robin confronts him and has no idea who Superman is and then remarks that the Justice League was defeated by the Legion of Doom, he is the only one alive. He soon realizes that by saving Krypton that it erased his time on Earth and that nobody had ever heard of Superman before. Invasion of the Space Dolls: Space dolls try to take over the world but run out of batteries. Terror on the Titanic: Two divers find the Titanic which has become inhabited by a mutated form of Algae. Aquaman and Black Vulcan respond to the danger. After a lightning blast from Black Vulcan, the Titanic comes alive, and begins to destroy everything in its path. Ultimately the ship sinks back into the ocean after slamming into a jagged iceberg. |
September 24, 1983 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Bride of Darkseid Firestorm makes his debut as a superhero and is invited to join the Super Friends. Darkseid pursues Wonder Woman to be his and is able to capture her when Firestorm accidentally shuts off the Hall of Justice's force field. |
September 8, 1984 |
| 2 |
The Wrath of Brainiac / Reflections in Crime The Wrath of Brainiac: Brainiac develops android duplicates of Superman and Wonder Woman in an attempt to seek revenge on the Super Friends. He enlists the reluctant help of Darkseid, who was tricked into following the android Wonder Woman right into Brainiac's star-ship. Reflections in Crime: Mirror Master traps Superman in the 6th dimension: the dimension behind mirrors. As he tries to warn him teammates through mirrors, he is too late as Batman & Robin are trapped as well. |
September 15, 1984 |
| 3 |
No Honor Among Thieves / Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Magic Lamp No Honor Among Thieves: Lex Luthor disrupts Darkseid's quiet time on Apokolips with a plan to destroy the Super Friends. One by one the Super Friends are lured into traps and zapped to Darkseid's palace. Luthor plans on stealing the powers from the Super Friends. Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Magic Lamp: In this segment a small-time thief named Benny finds an ancient lamp during a robbery. Batman and Apache Chief apprehend the crook... but observing from a distance is Mxyzptlk. He decides to get into the act by playing the part of a genie... who zaps the crook away... and from that point forward the two go on a crime spree. |
September 22, 1984 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Seeds of Doom After single-handedly capturing Superman's perennial nemesis Lex Luthor, the bionic Cyborg is invited to join the Justice League of America—but surprisingly turns down the offer. Anxious to have someone his own age as a fellow Team member, the nuclear-powered Firestorm seeks out Cyborg to learn the reason for his reticence. But it will take the intervention of Darkseid and his Parademons, to say nothing of some horrific-looking sea pods, to make Cyborg change his mind. |
September 7, 1985 |
| 2 |
The Ghost Ship / The Bizarro Super Powers Team The Ghost Ship: With Darkseid and his minions in hot pursuit, Superman, Firestorm and Cyborg temporarily take shelter in a huge derelict space vessel. It turns out that the three Galactic Guardians have boarded a ghost ship, controlled by a fugitive princess who uses hologram images to ward off pirates and to protect the people of her planet—who live in miniaturized form in a locket around her neck. Darkseid hopes to exploit the princess, and to take sinister advantage of Superman's weakened state! The Bizarro Super Powers Team: Bizarro #1, the weird yet funny Superman doppelganger from Htrae (Bizarro World), uses his duplicator ray to create Bizarro versions of Wonder Woman, Firestorm and Cyborg. These "opposite clones" are then called upon to protect Bizarro World from its many enemies. Unfortunately, the prankish Mr. Mxyzptlk plans to harness the powers of the three Bizarro superheroes in order to wreak havoc upon the earth. |
September 14, 1985 |
| 3 |
The Darkseid Deception Little does Wonder Woman suspect that the man she assumes to be her mortal boyfriend Steve Trevor is actually the evil Darkseid, who has rearranged his molecular structure in order to impersonate Steve. It's all part of a master plan to steal the deadly TC7 satellite and transform everyone on earth into hideous mutants. The Galactic Guardians set out to rescue the real Steve and thwart Darkseid—a task made doubly difficult when Wonder Woman herself is kidnapped! |
September 21, 1985 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | ABC |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 8, 1973 |
| Last aired | October 26, 1985 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Status | ended |