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
Created by E. Nelson Bridwell
Carmine Infantino
Julius Schwartz (consultants)
Developed by Dave Gibbons
Gil Kane
Alan Moore
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
Creative director(s) Iwao Takamoto
Presented by Hanna-Barbera
(Warner Bros. Television)
DC Comics
Voices of Jack Angel
René 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
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 and created by Dave Gibbons, Gil Kane and Alan Moore.

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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. 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.

List of episodes

Cast

DVD release

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete Series 16 August 7, 2007

See also

References

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