The All-New Super Friends Hour

The All-New Super Friends Hour
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Network	ABC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera DC Comics
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting
Original release	September 10—December 10, 1977
Run time	45 minutes (5-22 minutes per segment)
Starring	Danny Dark Olan Soule Casey Kasem Shannon Farnon Norman Alden Michael Bell Liberty Williams Bill Woodson
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Dick Conway Willie Gilbert Owen Harris Elana Lesser Duane Poole Dick Robbins Cliff Ruby John Stong Jeff Maurer
Director(s)	Charles A. Nichols Wally Burr (voices)
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The All-New Super Friends Hour, also known as Super Friends, is an American animated superhero television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics for ABC's Saturday morning line-up. It ran in 1977, airing a total of 15 episodes that spanned one season. It was the second Super Friends series after the original 1973 series of the same name.

In a continuation of the aforementioned show, the Super Friends are joined by Zan and Jayna, junior superheroes with actual superpowers (unlike the Junior Super Friends), along with their pet monkey, Gleek, and a slew of guest heroes such as Apache Chief and Black Vulcan.

The episodes are divided into multiple segments, which follow a basic format each week. The first segment feature two of the heroes teaming up in a mini story. The second are a spotlight of the Wonder Twins, who are summoned to help out teenagers engaging in dangerous behavior. The third is a "primary" segment of the week, featuring all of the Super Friends (including the Wonder Twins) in a longer adventure, alongside a special guest star. Additionally, there is a series of additional short spots that appear in between segments, with the main cast giving basic safety lessons, basic health and first aid advice, magic tricks, craft projects, and a two-part riddle of each episode.

The entire series has been released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Segments

• Super Friends
• Wonder Twins
• Safety tips
• Health advice
• Magic tricks
• Crafts
• Riddle

Music

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

Episodes

Episode	Original air date
1x01 "The Brain Machine" "Joy Ride" "Invasion of the Earthors" "The Whirlpool"	September 10, 1977
1x02 "The Secret Four" "Tiger on the Loose" "The Mysterious Time Creatures" "The Antidote"	September 17, 1977
1x03 "Invasion of the Hydronoids" "Hitchhike" "City in a Bottle" "Space Emergency"	September 22, 1977
1x04 "Doctor Fright" "Drag Race" "Day of the Plant Creatures" "Fire"	October 1, 1977
1x05 "The Monster of Dr. Droid" "Vandals" "Super Friends vs. Super Friends" "Energy Mass"	October 8, 1977
1x06 "The Enforcer" "The Shark" "Planet of the Neanderthals" "Flood of Diamonds"	October 15, 1977
1x07 "The Invisible Menace" "Initiation" "Coming of the Arthropods" "River of Doom"	October 22, 1977
1x08 "Attack of the Giant Squid" "Game of Chicken" "The Water Beast" "Volcano"	October 29, 1977
1x09 "The Collector" "Handicap" "The Mind Maidens" "Alaska Peril"	November 5, 1977
1x10 "The Fifty Foot Woman" "Cheating" "Exploration: Earth" "Attack of the Killer Bees"	November 12, 1977
1x11 "Forbidden Power" "Pressure Point" "The Lionmen" "The Day of the Rats"	November 19, 1977
1x12 "The Man Beasts of Xra" "Prejudice" "Tiny World of Terror" "Tibetan Raiders"	November 24, 1977
1x13 "Frozen Peril" "Dangerous Prank" "The Mummy of Nazca" "Cable Car Rescue"	November 26, 1977
1x14 "The Marsh Monster" "The Runaways" "Will the World Collide?" "Time Rescue"	December 3, 1977
1x15 "The Protector" "Stowaways" "The Ghost" "Rampage"	December 10, 1977

Cast

• Olan Soule as Batman
• Casey Kasem as Robin
• Shannon Farnon as Wonder Woman
• Danny Dark as Superman
• Norman Alden as Aquaman
• Michael Bell as Zan and Gleek
• Liberty Williams as Jayna
• Bill Woodson as the Narrator (uncredited)

Legacy

• A few characters who first appear in this series, including Apache Chief and Black Vulcan, were spoofed by themselves on the Adult Swim TV series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
• In 2006, the Adult Swim website parodied the Wonder Twins segments as a short-form series The New Adventures of the Wonder Twins, with "Joy Ride," "Initiation," and "Drag Race" being direct adaptations.

In popular culture

• The final scene of the Clerks: The Animated Series episode "Leonardo Leonardo Returns and Dante Has an Important Decision to Make," is a spoof of the safety tips introduced in this Super Friends series, confirmed by Kevin Smith in the DVD audio commentary for the episode.
• In the Family Guy episode "Family Goy," the show's intro is spoofed with Peter as Superman, Lois as Wonder Woman, Brian as Batman, Stewie as Robbin, and Chirs as Aquaman. Meg, who doesn't have a particular spotlight in the intro, is seen standing in the living room in place of the Wonder Twins and Gleek.

Merchandise

Home media

On January 8, 2008, Warner Home Video released the first seven episodes on DVD as The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One. They followed this with The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two, containing the remaining eight episodes, on January 27, 2009.

On September 10, 2024, Warner Home Video included the season on the 21-disc DVD set of Super Friends!: The Complete Collection, and in an upscaled 1080p version on a sixteen-disc Blu-ray set of the same name.

Reading material

In 1976, DC Comics published an ongoing series under the title of The Super Friends, which lasted until 1981, totaling 47 issues. In the seventh issue, the Wonder Twins were added when the Junior Super Friends were written out.