Super Friends
Super Friends first aired on ABC on September 8, 1973, featuring well-known DC characters Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and was based on the Justice League of America (JLA) and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
The name of the program (and the JLA members featured with the Super Friends) have been variously represented (as Super Friends and Challenge of the Super Friends, for example) at different points in its broadcast history.
Michael Bell | Zan | |
Casey Kasem | Robin | |
William Woodson | Narrator | |
Olan Soule | Batman | |
William Callaway | Aquaman | |
Shannon Farnon | Wonder Woman | |
Danny Dark | Superman | |
Louise Williams | Jayna | |
Frank Welker | Spider Creature | |
Stan Jones | Lex Luthor | |
Vernee Watson-Johnson | University Scientist | |
Pat Fraley | Sir James | |
Bob Holt | Captain Nemoy | |
Stanley Ralph Ross | Malhavoc | |
Michael Rye | Ogor | |
Marlene Aragon | Wicked Witch | |
James Reynolds | African Leader |
Director | Oscar Dufau | |
George Gordon | ||
Ray Patterson | ||
Carl Urbano | ||
Writer | Bob Kane, William Moulton Marston, Jeffrey Scott, Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel | |
Producer | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Don Jurwich, Iwao Takamoto |
Kareem Azaar is a ruthless thief from planet Zaghdad and has stolen the Magic Lamp of Olam, which contains the power of an evil genie. Kareem uses the Genie's power to take over the planet and banishes the Sultan to the world inside the Genie's lamp. When the Super Friends arrive to do battle, Superman and the Wonder Twins also wind up in the lamp, leaving the other Super Friends to take on Kareem's forces.
Lex Luthor escapes from prison to kill the Super Friends, but things get disastrously out of his control.
After losing his memory in a massive space explosion and crashing on a futuristic medieval planet, Superman is manipulated into becoming a conqueror while his fellow Super Friends struggle to stop him.
The SuperFriends are turned into trolls and enslaved by an magical subterranean tyrant.
Superman and his evil other-dimensional counterpart inadvertently exchange their realities.
Captain Nemoy plans to submerge several continents. The Super Friends call upon the aid of the defenders of the shrunken and bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor to stop him.
Dr. Frankenstein steals the powers of the SuperFriends for his monster to use.
Mister Mxyzptlk abducts Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman to his version of Oz and manipulates them to find the wizard for his own ends.