Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
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| Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show | |
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| Also known as | Super Friends VII |
| Genre | Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi |
| Written by | Alan Burnett Gerry Conway Rich Fogel Cynthia Friedlob Glenn Leopold William M. Marston Al Milgrom John Semper Joe Shuster Jerry Siegel Jeff Segal Marc Scott Zicree |
| Directed by | Oscar Dufau and Gordon Hunt (recording director) |
| Presented by | Hanna-Barbera DC Comics |
| Voices of | Jack Angel Rene Auberjonois Michael Bell William Callaway Constance Cawlfield[2] Danny Dark Fernando Escandon Buster Jones Stan Jones Casey Kasem Stanley Ralph Ross Olan Soule Mark L. Taylor B.J. Ward Frank Welker Adam West |
| Narrated by | William Woodson |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt S. Curtin and Paul DeKorte |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna |
| Co-executive producer(s) |
Jayne Barbera and Jean MacCurdy |
| Producer(s) | Margaret Loesch |
| Supervising producer(s) |
Roger Chiasson Seán Newton Don Patterson Don Spencer |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 8, 1984 – August 31, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Best of Super Friends[3] |
| Followed by | The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1984[4] to 1985[5] 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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[edit] Format
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the first Super Friends series in a new format since 1979's The World's Greatest Super Friends. Continuing the previous three years' policy of producing short stories, this series' format was two stories per half hour, so all the separate stories were ten minutes long each.
[edit] Toyline tie-in
Unlike previous series, this one was produced as a toyline tie-in (which was just becoming a very popular practice at the time). The toys were produced by Kenner. The general story as detailed in the mini-comics that accompanied the figures. The mini-series, published by DC themselves, was that the major heroes of Earth had teamed up to fight Darkseid and his villains. This series followed that storyline, and so was more in line with the very popular Challenge of the Super Friends series, which also featured actual super-villains from the comics as regular adversaries.
One of the most obvious tie-ins was the character of Brainiac, who had been given a radically different look for his toy (despite him appearing in his original form in the opening credits). His look on the show was similarly updated. Another obvious tie in was Lex Luthor in his power suit. Although Luthor appeared in 3 episodes, he wore his power suit in only one. Despite this, there was a Lex Luthor toy with him wearing his power suit. Being produced to promote toys, there were a few other departures from past Super Friends series in order for the series to appear more modern and have a higher profile in a more competitive television market.
[edit] Super Friends/Justice League of America
Fifteen heroes made up the Super Friends/Justice League of America. They were:
According to DC writer/historian Mark Waid, Aquaman's sole appearance in The Legendary Super Powers Show comes via his appearance within the opening credits. The same is true for The Flash and Hawkman.
[edit] Villains
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[edit] Cast
After Olan Soule served as the voice of Batman on the Super Friends since the beginning of the series, he turned the part over to none other than the man who played Batman on the live-action 1960s TV series, Adam West, for the Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show series. For this season, Olan instead played the voice of Professor Martin Stein, one half of Firestorm the Nuclear Man.
[edit] List of episodes
- The Bride of Darkseid (1)[6]
- The Bride of Darkseid (2)[7]
- The Case of the Shrinking Super Friends[8]
- The Mask of Mystery[9]
- Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Magic Lamp[10]
- No Honor Among Thieves[11]
- Uncle Mxyzptlk[12]
- The Village of Lost Souls[13]
- The Royal Ruse[14]
- The Wrath of Brainiac[15]
- The Case of the Dreadful Dolls[16]
- Darkseid's Golden Trap (1)[17]
- Darkseid's Golden Trap (2)[18]
- Reflections in Crime[19]
- The Curator[20]
- The Island of the Dinosoids[21]
[edit] DVD release
- Warner Home Video released The Complete Series of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show on DVD[22] on August 7, 2007.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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| The Complete Series | 16 | August 7, 2007 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Super Friends @ The Cartoon Scrapbook - Opening Themes
- ^ Batman was not the only voice that was recast, so was Wonder Woman, much to the chagrin of Shannon Farnon as well as SuperFriends fans many times over. Wally Burr, the voice director for many years who had also been the voice of the Atom on a few episodes, had left Hanna Barbera to work for Marvel/Sunbow Productions with shows like G.I.JOE and the Transformers and Shannon Farnon discovered that the new voice director wanted her to audition for the role, even though she had been doing Wonder Woman's voice for nearly a decade. Unfortunately, Ms.Farnon lost the role when the voice director recast the part with a girlfriend of his whom he later married. This information was revealed in an interview with Shannon Farnon and the rest of the SuperFriends voice cast in an issue of Starlog magazine in 2004. That woman has been identified as Constance (Connie) Cawlfield, who only ended up voicing Wonder Woman in this series only. I remember watching these shows on Saturday mornings in 1984 and how much I disliked the new voice of Wonder Woman and how Ms Cawlfield's voice just didn't match up with the character like Shannon Farnon did. Wonder Woman also got her costume updated in this series.
- ^ During the 1982-1983 season, ABC continued to run a half-hour long show entitled The Best of the Superfriends. This show consisted of reruns of shows from the previous nine seasons. These episodes were mostly half-hour long episodes (not shorts) featuring the core group of five Superfriends. By the time the 1983-1984 season rolled around, older Superfriends series were well into sydication, and could be viewed on weekday afternoons. Therefore in its ultimate stupidity, ABC decided to drop the Superfriends from the 1983-1984 Saturday morning television line-up. However, during this time Hanna-Barbera continued to produce new episodes of the Superfriends. In fact, 24 of these so-called "Lost Episodes" were animated but not aired in the United States that season. Three of these episodes were aired when the Superfriends returned to Saturday morning ABC television the following year. The remainder of the episodes finally aired in syndication year later as part of the Superman/Batman Adventures
- ^ TV Party - Saturday Mornings 1984
- ^ TV Party - Saturday Mornings 1985
- ^ The Bride of Darkseid (1)
- ^ The Bride of Darkseid (2)
- ^ 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 (1)
- ^ Darkseid's Golden Trap (2)
- ^ Reflections in Crime
- ^ The Curator
- ^ The Island of the Dinosoids
- ^ The Sweatbox Review
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