"Challenge of the SuperFriends" (1978)TV-Serie

Drehbuchautoren:

Staffeln:

1 | 2

Premierendatum:

8. September 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Trickfilm | Action | Familienfilm | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The Justice League of America battles the plots of the supervillian team, the Legion of Doom.

Plot Keywords:

DC Comics | Justice League | Superheroine | Superhero | Based On Comic

Nutzerkommentare:

An Effective Time Machine Back To The Age Of 11

Besetzung

Danny Dark	...	Superman / ... (16 Folgen, 1978)
Shannon Farnon	...	Wonder Woman (16 Folgen, 1978)
Stan Jones	...	Lex Luthor / ... (16 Folgen, 1978)
Casey Kasem	...	Robin / ... (16 Folgen, 1978)
Michael Rye	...	Green Lantern / ... (16 Folgen, 1978)
Olan Soule	...	Batman / ... (16 Folgen, 1978)
Jack Angel	...	Hawkman / ... (15 Folgen, 1978)
William Callaway	...	Aquaman, Bizarro / ... (14 Folgen, 1978)
Ted Cassidy	...	Black Manta / ... (14 Folgen, 1978)
Vic Perrin	...	Sinestro (14 Folgen, 1978)
Marlene Aragon	...	Cheetah (10 Folgen, 1978)
Buster Jones	...	Black Vulcan (10 Folgen, 1978)
Stanley Ralph Ross	...	Gorilla Grodd / ... (10 Folgen, 1978)
Dick Ryal	...	Captain Cold (9 Folgen, 1978)
Don Messick	...	Scarecrow / ... (8 Folgen, 1978)
Frank Welker	...	Toyman (8 Folgen, 1978)
Jimmy Weldon	...	Solomon Grundy (7 Folgen, 1978)
Michael Bell	...	The Riddler (6 Folgen, 1978)
Ruth Forman	...	Giganta (5 Folgen, 1978)

Länge:

30 Min (16 episodes)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Altersfreigabe:

USA:TV-Y7

Firma:

DC Comics

Dies und das:

Originally when Black Vulcan first appeared in "The All-New Super Friends Hour" (1977), his costume covered his legs. Starting in this series, Black Vulcan's costume no longer covers his legs leaving them bare.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: In "Trial of the Super Friends", Black Manta and Bizarro are in two places at once. They appear at the trial in the Hall of Doom, while at the same time, they're at the government base stealing the "liquid light".

Dialogzitate:

[A lava beast rises from a pit of magma and grabs Superman]
Superman: His grip is like an oven of liquid rock!

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An Effective Time Machine Back To The Age Of 11

Yes, this is easily the best of all the different visions of Hannah-Barbara's "Super Friends" shows. The first with Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog was quaint but unless you were under the age of 9 just too friendly. The second version with Zan, Jayna (rrrowr!) and Gleek the Space Monkey had a darker, more edgier tone with actual destruction, but would always stumble at the last minute and go for cuteness.

This one was the essence of why kids love super hero cartoons distilled down into a raw, somewhat darkly toned vision where the VILLAINS are the key. The Super Friends were the squares here, with Lex Luthor and his 12 partners in crime stealing the show episode after episode. My favorites were always Black Manta and Solomon Grundy: They were both somewhat frightening characters with pretty nasty background stories. Solomon Grundy was some guy who died face down in the swamp and was infected by an evil energy field or something like that -- an overgrown swamp weed.

You can get the entire series on an excellent DVD box set that has the magical ability to transport you back to the age of 11, hunched in front of the set on Saturday morning with your bowl of Crunchberries. One almost finds themselves rooting for the forces of darkness in this, realizing the adage about action/adventure superhero tales that you need a good villain. The show also had some pretty morbid story ideas, my favorite being the "Swamp of the Living Dead" episode where the Legion makes a pact with a devilish sort of being who unleashes a horde of zombies to battle the Super Friends.

You also get time travel, inter-dimensional travel, background stories of both the good and bad guys, peril and destruction and doom in every episode. The lack of cuteness in the form of juvenile superhero wannabees is replaced by a sense of urgency to hurry up and save the world & you won't miss it. And the hand-drawn animation style has a kind of warmth and humanity to it that is annoyingly absent from more modern day equivalents. You only get to be 11 once, might as well do it right.

10/10