| Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show | |
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| 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) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Joseph Barbera and William Hanna |
| Producer(s) | Margaret Loesch |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
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| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 8, 1984 – August 31, 1985 |
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| Preceded by | Super Friends |
| Followed by | The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians |
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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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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.
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.
Thirteen heroes made up the Super Friends. They were:
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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.
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For this series, Lex Luthor and Brainiac were completely revamped to resemble their comic book counterparts.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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| The Complete Series | 16 | August 7, 2007 |
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