SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show

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Although short SuperFriends episodes were produced by Hanna-Barbera from 1980-1983, SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the first new format SuperFriends series since 1979's The World's Greatest SuperFriends. 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. Also, in spite of appearing in the opening credits, Aquaman doesn't make an appearance in any single episode of this series.''''Unlike previous series, this one was produced as a toyline tie-in (which was just becoming a very popular practice at the time). The toys were produced by Kenner, and the general story as detailed in the mini-comics that accompanied the figures and the mini-series published by D.C. themselves was that the major heroes of Earth had teamed up to fight Darkseid and his villains. This series followed that storyline, and so was more in line with the very popular Challenge Of The SuperFriends series, which also featured actual super-villains from the comics as regular adversaries. One of the most obvious tie-ins was the character of Brainiac, who had been given a radically different look for his toy (despite him appearing in his original form in the opening credits). His look on the show was similarly updated.''''Being produced to promote toys, there were a few departures from past SuperFriends series in order for the series to appear more modern and have a higher profile in a more competitive television market. The most notable change was the addition of Adam West to the voice cast, who was chosen to return to his most famous role by voicing Batman instead of Olan Soule, who had done Batman's voice for previous SuperFriends episodes and Scooby-Doo guest appearances.moreless
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S 1 :  Ep 16 Aired 10/27/84
S 1 :  Ep 15 Aired 10/27/84
S 1 :  Ep 14 Aired 10/20/84
S 1 :  Ep 13 Aired 10/20/84
S 1 :  Ep 12 Aired 10/13/84

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  • Okay, this is the 1st of the 2 shows that Alan burnett was involved in and really good for being from the 80s!

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    By sporkman5353, Oct 16, 2007 Report Abuse
    This show was the 1st superhero show that Alan Burnett did, i think, and he soon became involved with other shows and all in all, this show was influential and was sort of an inspiration to the greatness Of batman the animated series. As for the quality of the show itself, it was pretty good, considering it was a superhero show from the early 80's. While some episodes where just plain ridiculous, like Island of the dinosoids, episodes like Reflections in crime was mirror masters 1st appearance and the show also debuted darkseid and alot of the new gods from Apokolips.

    The show had an ongoing storyline as darkseid trying to destroy the earth, although his crush on Wonder Woman was pretty lame. This show featured 2 other ongoing villains. The first was Braniac, who appeared in a new design and as a better character beggining in this show, although he grew to be better. In addition Mr. Myxptlk (or however its spelled) appeared multiple times. Myx was an average character and was the same as he was in other incarnations of the show.

    Overall this show is a step higher than most of its predescessors and worth the 20 dollars the dvd costs!moreless

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