The World's Greatest Super Friends

1979
The World's Greatest Super Friends

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EP1 Rub Three Times For Disaster Sep 22, 1979

Thieves on an Arabian-like planet have stolen a magic lamp and accidentally drop it on Earth. The Wonder Twins find it and they end up getting captured as well as the Hall of Justice being demolished. The other Superfriends successfuly stop the thieves and the controlled genie from ruling the planet and save the Wonder Twins.

EP2 Lex Luthor Strikes Back Sep 29, 1979

In an attempt to take over the world, Lex Luthor calls on the help of strange solar creatures from the sun. Lex successfully imprisons all the Superfriends (except the Wonder Twins, who are vacationing on their home planet Exxor), as the solar cretaures turn the sun from yellow to red. The yellow rays of the sun gives Superman his powers, so the red sun makes him no stronger than the average human. However, the solar creaturs have their own agenda and beging to torch the entire planet, and leave Lex to die. In an act of desperation, Lex releases the Superfriends so they can get rid of the solar creatures and return them to the sun. Lex is then captured by the Superfriends.

EP3 Space Knights Of Camelon Oct 06, 1979

After Superman stops a radioactive meteorite from crashing into a prehistoric planet, the blast sends Superman to the medievil planet of Camelon with no memory due to the radioactive particles in the meteor. A group of invaders led by Logan find Superman and cause him to think that he's the Black Knight and plan to use him to overthrow Arthur 7 (the planet's version of King Arthur) and take over Camelon. The other Superfriends arrive to help Arthur 7, only to be captured. After escape, it's a joust with Batman that returns Superman's memory, and all's well that ends well on Camelon.

EP4 The Lord Of Middle Earth Oct 13, 1979

The Wonder Twins and Gleek see trolls running out of a cave during a camping trip. They go to where the trolls are coming from and wind up in Middle Earth, where Zan and Jayna are captured and turned into trolls by the evil wizard Malhavoc, who has enslaved other trolls. Although Gleek summons the other Superfriends to rescue the Wonder Twins and free the trolls, Malhavoc stops them and turns them into trolls (except Gleek). Wonder Woman and Batman escape with the troll's leader and get to a ring that can help defeat Malhavoc. They are successful, the Superfriends ane un-trolled, and the rest of the trolls are free. Suddenly, Gleek wakes up, discovering it's all a dream. Or so he thinks, as he sees another small shadow in the forest...

EP5 Universe Of Evil Oct 20, 1979

Arguably the best Superfriends episode of the franchise, ""Universe of Evil"" finds Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman heading to a dam that's about to crack open. But when cables are fired into the dam from the Batjet and Invisible Jet, they're pulled to help the dam break wide open, creating title waves into near-by villages. We then learn that these are evil Superfriends, or Super Enemies, in a parallel universe. Soon after, both the evil Superman and our good Superman fly to Mount Vesuvious in their respected universes. The sinister villain attempts to cause the volcano to erupt, while our hero tries to prevent the eruption. The evil Superman succeeds, but the eruption sends each Superman into the opposite universe.While the good Superman is hampered and captured by the Super Enemies and locked away at the Hall of Evil, the evil Superman soon realizes what has happened and attempts to take over the good universe. Our Superman escapes and is aided by a scientist at Metropolis Un

EP6 Terror At 20,000 Fathoms Oct 27, 1979

Captain Nimoy demands the ransom of the world's Kryptonite or else the continents will be sunk to the ocean. With Superman and Wonder Woman on Saturn, the rest of the Superfriends recruit the Kandorians from the Fortress of Solitude to stop Nimoy and his band of thugs, which includes Andriod Batman.

EP7 The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein Nov 03, 1979

Superman, Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman fight against Dr. Frankenstein and his creatures. The final product of his experiments results in a evil and terrifying monster made up of the powers belonging to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Drained of their strength and powers, these Superfriends are no match for the monster. So they combine all their remaining strength and channel it into Robin, who becomes a strong and flying Super Robin. Knowing both he and the monster have the same strengths and weaknesses, Robin shields himself and uses Kryptonite to bring him down. All strength and powers are then returned to the Superfriends, and Dr. Frankenstein is apprehended.

EP8 Planet Of Oz Nov 10, 1979

Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Superman are swept away by a tornado and magically transported to a Wizard of Oz planet, courtesy of Mxyzptlk. Superman is changed into the Tinman, Wonder Woman into the Cowardly Lion, and Aquaman into the Scarecrow. After battles with crazy foes in the strange land, it's the quick-thinking Superman that sends Mxyzptlk back to the fifth dimension, and the Superfriends back home.
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Released: 22 September 1979 Ended
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Country: United States of America
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The World's Greatest Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 22, 1979 to September 27, 1980 on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.

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O2D I'm not really sure what they were going for here. It seems like they wanted this to be their version of The New Scooby-Doo Movies but it seems like they couldn't get the rights to use any of the characters. They have the Thief Of Zagdad and Dr. Frankenschtein. The Middle Earth episode seems like it was written by someone who had only seem that awful Hobbit cartoon from 1977 or South Park's parody of it. Despite all that, the stories are actually better than most of the Super Friends series. Except the time when Zan and Jayna wake up their stupid monkey because he was snoring. Zan says "You must have been having some dream!". Because he was snoring? ugh
gorf Superfriends was one of the first superhero shows I saw as a kid. I was probably three or four years old. My favorite character was Robin, probably because he was the youngest superhero. Sometimes, my older brother and cousins and I used to reenact the episodes in the playroom. It felt so magical and epic, watching the goodhearted superheroes save people's lives, defeat the bad guys and visit strange worlds. Sometimes the episodes were a bit scary as well, with giant monsters and weird villains, but the episodes always had a happy ending. The episodes I remember the best are the ones from "The World's Greatest Superfriends", like "The Lord of Middle Earth" and "Superfriends meet Frankenstein". I miss good, clean shows like Superfriends, where the heroes behaved like heroes and inspired kids to do good. They didn't torture or kill the villains. The villains didn't have to skin people alive for us to know that they were evil. Shows like Superfriends and He-Man had positive messages and moral characters. What do the most popular shows these days have? Yelling and screaming, weirdness for the sake of weirdness, crude jokes, disturbing images...Fortunately, most of the episodes have been released on DVD. I can finally watch them again, with my own kids. Who knows, maybe they'll reenact the episodes in their own playroom?
Charlie Untz One of my favorite episodes during this era was the Universe of Evil and I wish they had written a sequel for it to pit the SuperFriends against the Super-Enemies. Would be great to see a sequel. I was a little boy when this episode came out and am now buying some of the Superfriends DVD seasons on DVD. The episode shows Superman being switched with his alternate reality twin and is forced to escape from evil twin duplicates of his Superfriends allies and is forced to turn to a scientist for help. Wish This would happen in Smallville (sort of)and it did sort of when Lex was split in two in last season's "Onyx". I also wish the Superfriends was still being produced.
comic207 What I remember most about this series was "bitter disappointment." The extended members of the JLA (Flash, Green Lantern, etc.) were all but gone, leaving the main team of Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman with the Wonder Twins and that damn Gleek! I was getting bored. Most of the episodes involved darker menaces, but they made up one-dimensional throwaway villains that I couldn't care less about.There were a couple of bright moments, such as the one where the SuperFriends powers were stolen for a Super-Frankenstein Monster. To stop him, the remaining portion of the heroes energies were transferred into Robin, who used it to single-handedly defeat the monster and save his comrades. This was great because it finally featured Robin as more of a sidekick dependent on Batman, which was the way he had been portrayed in the comics for years. There was another which introduced the mirror universe, with the evil Super Enemies. But did they have to add the mustaches and eyepatches like if they didn't wear them they couldn't possibly be evil? ;)All in all, I avoid this series most of the time.