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Super Friends
Super Friends
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Super Friends

7.6 / 10
1973
9 seasons
109 episodes
AnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

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Trailer

ABC Super Friends 1973 promo

Cast

Danny Dark

Casey Kasem

Shannon Farnon

Olan Soule

Michael Bell

William Woodson

Louise Williams

William Callaway

Frank Welker

Norman Alden

Marlene Aragon

Ted Cassidy

Seasons

Super Friends premiered on September 8, 1973. Seasons were generally released annually with some breaks in between. Aside from Season 1, each season had its own name, title card, title sequence, and slightly varying theme song along with differing characters. However, each season kept the 3 core super friends, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman as well as the same narrator throughout.

  • The Power Pirate

    1.The Power Pirate

    7.0
    08-09-197345m

    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...

  • The Baffles Puzzle

    2.The Baffles Puzzle

    7.2
    15-09-197345m

    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...

  • Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.

    3.Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.

    7.0
    22-09-197345m

    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, b...

  • The Weather Maker

    4.The Weather Maker

    7.7
    29-09-197345m

    Glaciers are melting, gigantic whirlpools are forming, and there are icebergs in the South Pacific. When the Super Friends chart these drastic changes in the weather, a pattern soo...

  • Dr. Pelagian's War

    5.Dr. Pelagian's War

    7.3
    06-10-197345m

    A marine scientist fights pollution by creating natural disasters to force three industrialists to stop polluting. The nation's three leading industrialists receive a warning from...

  • The Shamon 'U'

    6.The Shamon 'U'

    6.8
    13-10-197345m

    Dr. Shamon is using a giant magnetic "U," a laser gun, to draw a solid gold meteorite to the Earth. However, he's unaware of the fact that his "sky-mining" technique has reelased s...

  • Too Hot To Handle

    7.Too Hot To Handle

    8.0
    20-10-197345m

    An alien from the plant Solar Terrarium moves the Earth out of its orbit and closer to the sun so his people can move from their own freezing planet. However, this causes destructi...

  • The Androids

    8.The Androids

    7.7
    27-10-197345m

    A misguided scientist uses androids to try to sabotage the space program, but the Super Friends stop him. As the Super Friends watch the launch of Apollo 20, neither they nor the g...

  • The Balloon People

    9.The Balloon People

    6.8
    03-11-197345m

    A family of aliens from the planet Balunia leave their polluted planet for a home on Earth. After their flying saucer lands, the balloon people are befriended by the Super Friends....

  • The Fantastic Frerps

    10.The Fantastic Frerps

    8.0
    10-11-197345m

    King Plasto steals raw plastic powder to create Frerp, a special plastic which he uses to confound the Super Friends. The king has been intercepting every shipment of the powder on...

  • The Ultra Beam

    11.The Ultra Beam

    6.8
    17-11-197346m

    A pair of scientists, believing that gold is the root of all evil, set out to destroy it with a blue beam until the Super Friends stop them. A blue ray emitting an ultra-beam has b...

  • The Menace of the White Dwarf

    12.The Menace of the White Dwarf

    7.7
    24-11-197345m

    A strange UFO penetrates Earth's air space. Along its flight path, it has managed to "pull up" and carry along a number of objects. Col. Wilcox explains to the Super Friends that t...

  • The Mysterious Moles

    13.The Mysterious Moles

    7.7
    01-12-197345m

    Important research projects have been closed down, and the Super Friends are called in to find and restore disappearing air conditioning units. The Super Friends' mission leads the...

  • Gulliver's Gigantic Goof

    14.Gulliver's Gigantic Goof

    7.3
    08-12-197345m

    Using his micro-wave reducer, mad Dr. Hiram Gulliver shrinks all adults- including the Superfriends- to two inches tall to help the population problem (by saving resources)... and...

  • The Planet-Splitter

    15.The Planet-Splitter

    7.7
    15-12-197345m

    Eccentric, ingenious scientist Dr. Laban has stolen the largest diamonds in the world to power his "planet splitter," a device capable of splitting a planet in half, intending to t...

  • The Watermen

    16.The Watermen

    7.7
    22-12-197345m

    A strange spacecraft has been forced to land on Earth after a meteor hit the fuel tank of the craft. In an attempt to return from the planet Sagittarius, the craft begins gathering...

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