Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
Also known as	Super Friends VII
Genre	Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Written by	Alan Burnett Gerry Conway Rich Fogel Cynthia Friedlob Glenn Leopold William M. Marston Al Milgrom John Semper Joe Shuster Jerry Siegel Jeff Segal Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by	Oscar Dufau
Presented by	Hanna-Barbera DC Comics
Voices of	Jack Angel Rene Auberjonois Michael Bell William Callaway Constance Cawlfield Danny Dark Fernando Escandon Buster Jones Stan Jones Casey Kasem Stanley Ralph Ross Olan Soule Mark L. Taylor B.J. Ward Frank Welker Adam West
Narrated by	William Woodson
Composer(s)	Hoyt S. Curtin and Paul DeKorte
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
Producer(s)	Margaret Loesch
Running time	30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 8, 1984 – August 31, 1985
Chronology
Preceded by	Super Friends
Followed by	The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
External links
Official website

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1984^[2] to 1985^[3] on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.

Format

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the first Super Friends series in a new format since 1979's The World's Greatest Super Friends. Continuing the previous three years' policy of producing short stories, this series' format was two stories per half hour, so all the separate stories were ten minutes long each.

Toyline tie-in

Unlike previous series, Super Friends: The Legenary Super Powers Show was produced to tie-in with the toyline of the same name produced by Kenner. The general story, as detailed in the mini-comics that accompanied the figures, was that the major heroes of Earth had teamed up to fight Darkseid and his villains.

Super Friends/Justice League of America

Thirteen heroes made up the Super Friends. They were:

According to DC writer/historian Mark Waid, Aquaman's sole appearance in The Legendary Super Powers Show comes via his appearance within the opening credits.^{[citation needed]} The same is true for The Flash and Hawkman. This was the first time Wonder Woman was animated with the =w= symbol on her costume instead of the eagle design, this carried over into the final series Galactic Guardians, which led to Justice League in 2001, where she wears a modified version of the =w= symbol.

The series was also noteworthy for using Adam West as the voice of Batman, two decades after the end of the 1960s live action Batman series. West replaced Olan Soule and would continue through the subsequent Galactic Guardians series.

Villains

For this series, Lex Luthor and Brainiac were completely revamped to resemble their comic book counterparts.^{[citation needed]}

List of episodes

• The Legendary Super Powers Show episodes

Cast

• Jack Angel - Samurai
• Rene Auberjonois - Desaad
• James Avery -
• Michael Bell - Zan, Gleek
• Gregg Berger -
• Arthur Burghardt -
• Howard Caine -
• Mary McDonald Lewis - Wonder Woman
• Danny Dark - Superman
• Fernando Escandon - El Dorado
• Pat Fraley -
• Liz Georges -
• Buster Jones - Black Vulcan
• Stanley Jones - Lex Luthor
• Casey Kasem - Robin, Mirror Master
• Mary McDonald-Lewis -
• Mickie McGowan -
• Stanley Ralph Ross - Brainiac
• Michael Rye - Apache Chief, Green Lantern
• Olan Soule - Professor Martin Stein (Beginning with this version, Adam West replaced Soule as the voice of Batman)
• Mark L. Taylor - Ronald Raymond/Firestorm
• B.J. Ward - Jayna
• Frank Welker - Darkseid, Dollmaker, Kalibak, Mister Mxyzptlk
• Adam West - Batman
• William Woodson - Narrator

DVD release

• Warner Home Video released The Complete Series of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show on DVD^[4] on August 7, 2007.

See also

• Super Powers Collection

References

External links

• Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show at Big Cartoon DataBase
• Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show at the Internet Movie Database
• Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show at TV.com