"Super Friends" (1973)TV series 1973-1977

Creator:

Gardner Fox

Release Date:

8 September 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The greatest of the DC Comics superheroes work together to uphold the good with the help of some young proteges.

Plot Keywords:

Superman | Super Power | Batman | Wonder Woman | DC Comics

Cast

Danny Dark	...	Superman (Clark Kent) (voice)
Olan Soule	...	Batman (Bruce Wayne) (voice)
Casey Kasem	...	Robin (Dick Grayson) (voice)
Shannon Farnon	...	Wonder Woman (Diana Prince) (voice)
Norman Alden	...	Aquaman (voice)
Sherry Alberoni	...	Wendy (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Marvin (voice)
Ted Knight	...	Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Stephenson	...	Colonel Wilcox (1973)

Runtime:

60 min (16 episodes) | Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-Y7 (some epiosodes) | USA:TV-G | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Eric Porter Studios

Trivia:

D.C. Comics actually released a SuperFriends comic book in 1976.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Enemies (#3.17)" (1999)

Imagine if it were still on today

I remember this show vividity and it was the second longest running Saturday Morning cartoon show ever devised when it was on the ABC network from 1973-1986. The first part of the series was incredibly horrible from the beginning! Here, you have these superheroes team that never gets to fight any bad guys,but instead they do save the day in which several of the episodes depicted those idiotic characters Wendy and Martin were always getting into some trouble,and it was always up to either Batman or Superman to get them out(the same principal was applied to those pathetic Wonder Twins too,which I hated to the bone!! My friend and I wrote to the network executives at ABC telling them to get those two off the air once and for all!). The two only characters that were interesting were Wonder Dog(from the first season),and Gleep the Space Monkey(from the second and third season). Instead they would go on to fight pathetic villains who were trying to destroy the world or the Superfriends or basically tried to take over the Hall of Justice. The show's couple of season were excellent especially with "The Challenge of the Superfriends"(1978). In this one they do get to tangle with Lex Luthor,and Joker and several other baddies including Brainiac and The Cheetah,and also added new heroes too like Green Lantern and Apache Chief. Another one was "The World's Greatest Superfriends"(1983) which were very good,and in one episode I do recall where they trace Batman's(Bruce Wayne) true childhood and how the night his parents were murdered,and was the only series that introduce a minority as a superhero and it was about time they did something right!! Imagine if this were back on today,it wouldn't have the same effect because it would be kick right off the air(with the domination of the kids' network like the WB and FOX taking over with newer concepts in children's programming..)believe me,it wouldn't last a month!