The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
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Network ABC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
DC Comics
Distributor Taft Broadcasting
Original release September 7October 26, 1985
Starring Danny Dark
Adam West
Casey Kasem
B.J. Ward
Mark Taylor
Ernie Hudson
Ken Samson
Bill Woodson
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Larry Latham
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Alan Burnett
Director(s) Oscar Dufau
Tony Love
Rudy Zamora
Bill Hutton
Gordon Hunt (voices)
Animation director(s) Irv Spence
Tim Walker
Bob Goe
Tony Love
Bill Hutton
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is an American animated superhero television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics for ABC's Saturday morning line-up. It ran in 1985, airing 8 episodes that spanned one season. It was the seventh and final Super Friends series after the original 1973 series of the same name. It was canceled by ABC due to steadily declining ratings.[1]

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

The change in title from Super Friends to The Super Powers Team, was at the behest of toy sponsor Kenner, to coincide with their Super Powers Collection line.[2]

According to writer Alan Burnett, "The Fear," was originally written as a pilot for an unproduced Batman series. When those plans fell through, Hanna-Barbera executive Jeffrey Scott convinced the network to accept it as an episode of The Super Powers Team.[3]

Music

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

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 September 7, 1985
1x02 September 14, 1985
1x03 September 21, 1985
1x04 September 29, 1985
1x05 October 5, 1985
1x06 October 12, 1985
1x07 October 19, 1985
1x08 October 26, 1985

Cast

References

  1. ^ Farago, Andrew, McIntyre, Gina (October 29, 2019). Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond, page 104. Insight Editions. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  2. ^ Farago, Andrew, McIntyre, Gina (October 29, 2019). Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond, page 101. Insight Editions. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  3. ^ Farago, Andrew, McIntyre, Gina (October 29, 2019). Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond, page 102. Insight Editions. Retrieved June 17, 2023.