Superfriends (1980 TV series)

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This article is about the fifth Super Friends series. For other uses, see Super Friends (disambiguation).
Superfriends
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Network ABC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
DC Comics
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 13, 1980October 31, 1981;
1995
Starring Olan Soule
Casey Kasem
Shannon Farnon
Danny Dark
Bill Callaway
Michael Bell
Liberty Williams
William Woodson
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Kay Wright
Iwao Takamoto
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Jeffrey Scott
Director(s) George Gordon
Bob Hathcock
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Ray Patterson (supervising)
Gordon Hunt (voices)
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Superfriends is an American animated superhero TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics for ABC's Saturday morning line-up. Hanna-Barbera produced 22 episodes in total, but ABC cancelled the series after 14 had aired from 1980 to 1981, with the remaining 8 episodes being withheld until they were picked up by the USA Network in 1995. It was the fifth Super Friends series after the original 1973 series of the same name.

Production

Development

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin, credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Episodes

Episode Number Air date
"Big Foot" / "The Ice Demon" / "The Make-Up Monster" 1x01 September 13, 1980
"Journey Into Blackness" / "The Cycle Gang" / "Dive to Disaster" 1x02 September 20, 1980
"Yuna the Terrible" / "Rock and Roll Space Bandits" / "Elevator to Madness" 1x03 September 27, 1980
"One Small Step for Mars" / "Haunted House" / "The Incredible Crude Oil Monster" 1x04 October 4, 1980
"Voodoo Vampire" / "Invasion of the Gleeks" / "Mxyzptlk Strikes Again" 1x05 October 11, 1980
"The Man in the Moon" / "Circus of Horrors" / "Around the World in 80 Riddles" 1x06 October 18, 1980
"Termites from Venus" / "Eruption" / "Return of Atlantis" 1x07 October 25, 1980
"The Killer Machines" / "Garden of Doom" / "Revenge of Bizarro" 1x08 November 1, 1980
"The Outlaws of Orion" / "Three Wishes" / Scorpio" 2x01 September 26, 1981
"Mxyzptlk's Flick" / "The Sink Hole" / "The Alien Mummy" 2x02 October 3, 1981
"The Evil from Krypton" / "The Creature from the Dump" / "The Aircraft Terror" 2x03 October 10, 1981
"The Lava Men" / "Bazarowurld" / "The Warlord's Amulet" 2x04 October 17, 1981
"The Iron Cyclops" / "Palette's Perils" / "Colossus" 2x05 October 24, 1981
"The Stowaways from Space" / "The Scaraghosta Sea" / "The Witch's Arcade" 2x06 October 31, 1981
"Mxyzptlk's Revenge" / "Roller Coaster" / "Once Upon a Poltergeist" 3x01 1995
"Warpland" / "Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One" / Bulgor the Behemoth" 3x02 1995
"The Krypton Syndrome" / "Invasion of the Space Dolls" / "Terror on the Titanic" 3x03 1995
"Revenge of Doom" / "A Pint of Life" / "Day of the Dinosaurs" 3x04 1995
"Return of the Phantoms" / "Bully for You" / "Superclones" 3x05 1995
"Prisoners of Sleep" / "An Unexpected Treasure" / "The Malusian Blob" 3x06 1995
"Attack of the Cats" / "One Small Step for Superman" / "Video Victims" 3x07 1995
"Playground of Doom" / "Space Racers" / "The Recruiter" 3x08 1995

Cast

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