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The last two seasons of Super Friends featured Apokolips. It was shown in various episodes of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
The Bat-Cave was first seen in animation in various episodes of The Batman/Superman Hour, Super Friends, and The New Adventures of Batman. In these cartoons, the Batcomputer is present as usual.
On the Challenge of the Super Friends episode "Wanted: The Super Friends"[1] Batman and Robin retreat to the Batcave to formulate a counter stratagem for the Legion of Doom's latest evil scheme, mutating everyone on earth to turn into analogs of Bizarro or Cheetah. Robin notes that the Batcomputer is low on power and calls for Alfred (who unbeknownst to the Dynamic Duo has himself been turned into a Bizarro clone) to bring "another nuclear power pack."
Bizarro World makes its first television appearance in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, in the episode "The Bizarro Super Powers Team". It is seemingly populated by countless Bizarro-Supermen, led by the original Bizarro.
The Fortress has several appearances in the Super Friends animated series. A 1981 episode titled "Evil From Krypton" depicted a Fortress with a somewhat crystalline exterior and without the giant key, reminiscent of its film appearances. In a 1986 episode titled "The Death of Superman", the Fortress more closely resembles the pre-Crisis comic-book version, including a giant yellow key whose use required the combined efforts of Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Cyborg.
Gorilla City appeared in the Challenge of the Super Friends episode "Revenge on Gorilla City."
The Legion of Doom's headquarters was the Hall of Doom, a facility located in an anonymous swamp. The Hall of Doom was capable of being lowered below or raised above the swamp water's surface, and could also be flown through the air via rockets if needed, even remotely controlled. It also had laser defense weapons and at times was altered to time travel to the past or future.
The Hall of Justice is the fictional headquarters[2] of the Super Friends, in the eponymous animated series. The Hall appeared in the very first episode of the Super Friends series, which premiered on September 8, 1973. It was originally drawn by Al Gmuer, background supervisor for Hanna-Barbera for more than 30 years. The building's design is based on the Union Terminal building in Cincinnati, Ohio, once a train station, now a museum.[3]
The Hall, located in Metropolis, serves as the central meeting point for the Super Friends. The Hall contains the Trouble Alert, a computerized monitoring station that would warn the heroes of a new threat. The Hall also houses a giant computer that the Super Friends use to analyze clues.[4] By the mid-1980s, The Hall of Justice had a major remodel, at the same time the Super Friends changed their superhero team name to the "Super Powers Team."
In the episode "Universe of Evil", the evil Super Enemies from a parallel universe meet in a 'Hall of Evil'. It was identical in appearance to the Hall of Justice, with the addition of a gargoyle-style head above the front entrance.
The most significant appearance outside of comics is in an episode of Super Friends called "Terror At 20,000 Fathoms." When an undersea villain plots to sink various continents to rule over them while Superman and Wonder Woman were off planet, the remaining Super Friends request the aid of the Kandorians who help stop the evil scheme. Like in the comics, Kandor and its inhabitants were reduced in size by Brainiac.
Depictions of Krypton on Super Friends are generally similar to those of the pre-Crisis comic books.
The World's Greatest Super Friends episode "The Lord of Middle Earth" was inspired by the Lord of the Rings novels, in which the team journeys to Middle-earth to save the inhabitants from an evil wizard.
In the 1978 series Super Friends there is an episode entitled "Terror from the Phantom Zone" in which a comet's collision causes the Phantom Zone to release three Kryptonian villains. The villains go on a crime spree and banish the Super Friends to the Phantom Zone but keep Superman on Earth...exposing him to red kryptonite which causes him to age quickly. The villains get great enjoyment showing off "old Superman" to the world...Superman then manages to figure out with help from the Justice League computer that blue kryptonite may reverse the aging process because blue kryptonite is harmful to backwards Bizarro and therefore should be helpful to Superman. Superman finds the blue kryptonite and is aged back to normal and then goes on his quest to rescue the other Superfriends from the Phantom Zone and ultimately send the three villains back into the Phantom Zone. This episode can be found on the DVD collection "Super Friends: Volume Two", which features 16 Super Friends cartoons from 1978.
The Super Friends version of the Phantom Zone is described as, "Far beyond the boundaries of the Milky Way. In the uncharted void of deep space. An incredible 5th dimension of space and time, lies parallel to the universe that we know. This interesting interstellar warp which holds the most sinister and ruthless criminals in the galaxy is the infamous Phantom Zone." The molecular structure of any person exiled in the zone appears white and black. Batman's devices and the Wonder Twins' Exxor Powers are useless within the Phantom Zone.
In the Challenge of the Super Friends episode "Doomsday", Superman faces Krypton's banished Black Knight Nartan and his Kryptonite energy monster in the universe of Qward after he is blown there by anti-matter robots. Sinestro shows himself to be able to transport himself and others there.[5][6]
Themyscira has been shown on the Super Friends, most notably in the Challenge of the Super Friends episode "Secret Origins of the Superfriends," in which the Legion of Doom discover the origins of Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, and travel back in time to stop them from becoming superheroes. The name "Paradise Island" was used in this show.
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