The Bride of Darkseid

The Bride of Darkseid
Premiere date	September 8, 1984
Starring	Danny Dark Adam West Casey Kasem Connie Cawlfield Mark Taylor Olan Soule Buster Jones Frank Welker Rene Auberjonois Bill Woodson
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Jeff Segal Alan Burnett
Director(s)	Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"The Bride of Darkseid" is the first episode of Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show season one. It aired on September 8, 1984 on the ABC. It was written by Jeff Segal and Alan Burnett, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Darkseid, the tyrannical ruler of the planet Apokolips, kidnaps and brainwashed Wonder Woman to be his wife.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Crook #1	Unavailable
Crook #2	Unavailable
Black Vulcan	Buster Jones
Narrator (voice only)	Bill Woodson
Firestorm/Ronald Raymond	Mark Taylor
Lois Lane	Unavailable
Clark Kent/Superman	Danny Clark
Wonder Woman	Connie Cawlfield
Minerva
Professor Martin Stein	Olan Saule
Batman	Adam West
Robin	Casey Kasem
Darkseid	Frank Welker
Kalibak	Frank Welker
Radio announcer (voice only)	Frank Welker
DeSaad	Rene Auberjonois
Hera

Organizations

• Super Friends
• Daily Planet

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Metropolis
      • Daily Planet building
    • Mount Jupiter
    • Fairmont University
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Greece (mentioned)
• Krypton (mentioned)
• Apokolips
  • Star Command

Objects

• Daily Planet globe
• Stargate
• TroubAlert
• Kryptonite
• Mind Probe
• Wonder Woman's magic lasso

Vehicles

• Wonder Woman's invisible plane
• Batcopter

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 8, 1984 on ABC

Behind the scenes

• Olan Soule is replaced as Batman by Adam West, who is famous for playing the live-action version in the 60s Batman TV series, as well as in the Hanna-Barbera-produced Legends of the Superheroes specials. Soule, however, is still kept in the cast, now as Professor Stein.
• Shannon Farnon is replaced as Wonder Woman by Connie Cawlfield, but only for the season. Unlike Soule, Farnon does not get to play another character.

Errors

• The TroubAlert is just a simple red alert system.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • August 7, 2007: Warner Home Video releases Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series on DVD.