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COLLECTION · Series · 1978

Challenge of the Super Friends

**Challenge of the Super Friends** is an American animated TV series that aired from September 9, 1978, to December 23, 1978, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera for Warner Bros. Television, the series is based on DC Comics' Justice League and associated characters, created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox, and Mike Sekowsky. It's the third installment in the Super Friends franchise, following the original series in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. The show continues to be broadcast on Boomerang in the U.S.

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* 6.9 (28)ActionAdventureAnimationFantasyScience Fiction
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Studios
ABC
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
09/09/1978
Score
6.9 / 10 (28)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
3 episodes
Episode 1. Saturday, Sleeping Bags and SuperFriends: A Retrospective
30 min

A brief retrospective on the impact of the series by several people involved in more recent incarnations of these Saturday morning heroes and villians.

Episode 2. Wanted: The Super Friends - Commentary by Geoff Johns and Mark Waid
1978-09-09 · 30 min

Lex Luthor creates a Dream Machine that causes the SuperFriends to steal the world's treasures overnight; Bizarro and Cheetah turn people around the world into Bizarros and Cheetahs. Includes commentary by noted comic book writers Geoff…

Episode 3. History Of Doom - Commentary by Geoff Johns and Mark Waid
1978-12-23 · 30 min

Three aliens come to a ruined Earth. Travelling to the Great Hall of Justice, they find a series of memory tapes chronicling the Superfriends and the Legion of Doom. Although they find some origin tapes, they find nothing on the calamity…

Season 1
Season 1
16 episodes · 1978
Wanted: The Superfriends
Episode 1. Wanted: The Superfriends
1978-09-09 · 30 min

Lex Luthor uses a dream machine to control the unconscious minds of the Superfriends and make them commit crimes. Not knowing of Lex's influence, the heroes surrender themselves to the authorities. Bizarro and Cheetah have taken the place…

Invasion of The Fearians
Episode 2. Invasion of The Fearians
1978-09-16 · 30 min

Captain Cold strikes a deal with the Fearinans that involve tricking the Super Friends into converting Earth's climate to something closer to Venus'. In return the Fearians take on the Super Friends. They suceed in trapping the Super…

The World's Deadliest Game
Episode 3. The World's Deadliest Game
1978-09-23 · 30 min

The Legion lure Wonder Woman, Black Vulcan, and Hawkman away from Earth by cloaking it and get them to the Toyman's artificial planet within a black hole. While they try and avoid the Toyman's deadly games, the Legion has the Riddler lure…

The Time Trap
Episode 4. The Time Trap
1978-09-30 · 30 min

The Legion use Grodd's new time-travel device to loot the past and trap the Super Friends in 70 million BC (Black Manta and Giganta vs. Aquaman and Apache Chief), Arthurian England in 500 A.D. (Sinestro and Captain Cold vs. Green Lantern…

Trial of the Superfriends
Episode 5. Trial of the Superfriends
1978-10-07 · 30 min

Brainiac, Cheetah, and Scarecrow launch an attack on Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern as they guard a Liquid Light manufacturing plant to steal their power devices. The heroes are captured and the Legion place them on trial,…

Monolith of Evil
Episode 6. Monolith of Evil
1978-10-14 · 30 min

The Legion find out about the Monolith of Evil from Solomon Grundy, who reveals it brought him to life. The Legion trick Superman, Black Vulcan, and Hawkman to go to the center of the Earth and recover the Monolith. The rest of the Super…

The Giants of Doom
Episode 7. The Giants of Doom
1978-10-21 · 30 min

Bizarro comes up with a scheme to use three elements that will let them become giants. Sinestro already has the first element, then he and Sinestro split the moon open to get the second. Superman, Batman, and Robin capture them. The…

Secret Orgins of the Superfriends
Episode 8. Secret Orgins of the Superfriends
1978-10-28 · 30 min

Lex Luthor learns the origins of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern and takes the Legion ship back in time to alter their origins. Cheetah sabtoages Wonder Woman's attempts in 1941 to become Wonder Woman at Aphrodite's request,…

Revenge on Gorilla City
Episode 9. Revenge on Gorilla City
1978-11-04 · 30 min

After a failed takeover of Gorilla City, Grodd goes to the Legion for help. With the help of Brainiac's brainwave amplifier, Grodd takes over Gorilla City and his old nemesis King Solovar. Solovar flees and recruits Batman, Robin, Flash,…

Swamp of the Living Dead
Episode 10. Swamp of the Living Dead
1978-11-11 · 30 min

On their day off the Legion terrorize an old woman wandering through their swamp. She summons an evil swamp demon to give them the power to create zombies if they deliver the SuperFriends to it. They do so by luring the heroes one by one…

Conquerors of the Future
Episode 11. Conquerors of the Future
1978-11-18 · 30 min

The Legion of Doom becomes the Legion of Good! But it's a distraction while they conquer the Earth of 3984. However, the Super Friends put together the Riddler's cryptic clues and Superman, Flash, and Green Lantern travel to the future to…

The Final Challenge
Episode 12. The Final Challenge
1978-11-25 · 30 min

Wonder Woman and Aquaman are under attack by five of the Legion of Doom (Scarecrow, Riddler, Cheetah, Black Manata, Bizarro) in Black Manta's Manta-ship. Batman, Apache Chief, and Superman come to their aid, but they all disappear as the…

Fairy Tale of Doom
Episode 13. Fairy Tale of Doom
1978-12-02 · 30 min

The Toyman devises a way to transmit people into books. The Legion uses Brainiac, Cheetah, and Giganta to lure Superman, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman respectively into the storybook tales of Gulliver, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Alice in…

Doomsday
Episode 14. Doomsday
1978-12-09 · 30 min

The Legion of Doom launch an attack on an aircraft earlier. Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Apache Chief battle their Legion counterparts Sinestro, Black Manta, and Giganta and capture them when the other Legion of Doomers leave their…

Superfriends, Rest in Peace
Episode 15. Superfriends, Rest in Peace
1978-12-16 · 30 min

The episode opens with...Batman's funeral! We soon find out that the Legion of Doom have a substance, Noxiam, that allows them to kill any Superfriend. In flashback we see Lex trick Superman into opening the krypton-steel box. Then the…

The History of Doom
Episode 16. The History of Doom
1978-12-23 · 30 min

Three aliens come to a ruined Earth. Travelling to the Great Hall of Justice, they find a series of memory tapes chronicling the Superfriends and the Legion of Doom. Although they find some origin tapes, they find nothing on the calamity…

Season 2
16 episodes
Episode 1. Rokan: Enemy from Space
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 2. The Demons of Exxor
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 3. Battle at the Earth's Core
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 4. Sinbad and the Space Pirates
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 5. The Pied Piper from Space
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 6. Attack of the Vampire
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 7. The Beasts Are Coming
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 8. Terror from the Phantom Zone
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 9. The Anti-Matter Monster
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 10. World Beneath the Ice
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 11. Invasion of the Brain Creatures
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 12. The Incredible Space Circus
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 13. Batman: Dead or Alive
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 14. Battle of the Gods
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 15. Journey Through Inner Space
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 16. The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends
30 min

No synopsis

Cast by season
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem
Jack Angel
Jack Angel
Don Messick
Don Messick
Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin
Henry Corden
Henry Corden
Frank Welker
Frank Welker
Ted Cassidy
Ted Cassidy
Buster Jones
Buster Jones
Melanie Chartoff
Melanie Chartoff
Michael Bell
Michael Bell
Bob Holt
Bob Holt
Bob Hastings
Bob Hastings
Stan Jones
Stan Jones
Jimmy Weldon
Jimmy Weldon
Danny Dark
Danny Dark
William Callaway
William Callaway
?
Stanley Ralph Ross
Shannon Farnon
Shannon Farnon
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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