The BEST episodes of Super Friends
Every episode of Super Friends ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 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.
#1 - History of Doom
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/23/1978
Earth lies in ruins with no life as three aliens investigate the Hall of Justice and Justice League records. A computer malfunction leads them to the Hall of Doom, where they discover Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom accidentally caused Earth’s destruction while trying to destroy the Super Friends with a solar flare. The aliens reverse the damage and prevent future destruction by placing the Moon in the flare’s path, leaving both Luthor and the heroes baffled.
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#2 - Universe of Evil
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1979
In a parallel universe, the Super Friends are super villains. When Mount Vesuvius erupts in both worlds, Superman and his evil counterpart are blown into opposite worlds. While Superman has to fight his evil comrades and find a way back to his own world, his evil counterpart battles the real heroes and begins his plan to conquer the Earth.
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#3 - The Island of the Dinosoids; Uncle Mxyzptlk
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1984
The Super Friends find themselves trapped on an island of dinosaur-like creatures. When Superman is turned by red kryptonite into a bratty superpowered toddler, Mxyzptlk arrives to cause trouble with this opportunity.
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Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/28/1978
Lex Luthor uncovers the origins of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern and sends the Legion of Doom back in time to erase them. Cheetah replaces Wonder Woman, Luthor steals Green Lantern’s identity, and baby Kal El’s rocket is diverted from Earth. After several teammates are captured, Batman discovers evidence of the altered timeline. Using the Justice League computer, the heroes travel back, undo Luthor’s tampering, and restore their friends.
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Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1977
In order to solve the world's food shortage, Dr. Pisces engineers a giant squid whose ink enlarges other sea creatures but soon events spiral out of control. A dispute over a parking spot leads to a game of chicken between two teens in motorboats. Manta unleashes a water beast in an attempt to control the world's maritime commerce. Superman and Samurai attempt to save mistrusting aliens whom have crash landed inside a volcano. Batman & Robin teach the dangers of showing off. Superman teaches a scissors sorcery magic trick, Wonder Woman teaches the importance of vision loss.
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#6 - The Power Pirate
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1973
Anthro, an alien from the planet Traum, is stealing Earth's energy resources to power his planet- until the Super Friends stop him. Disguising himself as an inspector from Scotland Yard, he enlists the help of the Super Friends to help him steal the Earth's energy to take back to Traum.
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#7 - The Lord of Middle Earth
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1979
What starts off as a camping trip for the Wonder Twins turns into a nightmarish adventure in Middle Earth when the Super Friends must battle a black magic sorcerer named Mal Havok who has taken over the troll kingdom. Mal Havoc uses his magic to turn the Super Friends into trolls. With their powers reduced, Batman and Wonder Woman accompany the troll king on a mission to free Middle Earth of the evil sorcerer.
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#8 - Space Knights of Camelon
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1979
While protecting a prehistoric planet from a meteor, Superman ends up hit by the meteor's nuclear core, crash lands on the medieval planet of Camelon, and loses his memory. A bunch of rebels led by Logan take him in as their black knight in a plan to overthrow King Arthur 7. It's up to the Super Friends to help Superman remember and defeat the rebels.
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#9 - Battle of the Gods
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/9/1978
The Super Friends engage in a space battle when Wonder Woman receives a telepathic message from Aphrodite to help save a planet. Hera, envious of Aphrodite’s praise for mortals, convinces Zeus to test the heroes against mythological demons. Batman and Robin face a Sphinx, Aquaman guards the golden fleece, Superman fights a minotaur, and Wonder Woman battles Medusa. The Wonder Twins turn to stone after seeing Medusa, but Gleek helps free them. By the end, the Super Friends prove worthy of Aphrodite’s praise.
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#11 - The Krypton Syndrome; Invasion of the Space Dolls; Terror on the Titanic
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1983
When Superman accidentally returns to Krypton's past, he wrestles with the idea of saving the doomed planet in "The Krypton Syndrome." Then, the Wonder Twins thwart the impending "Invasion of the Space Dolls." Lastly, "Terror on the Titanic" occurs when a huge slime monster raises the legendary ship from the bottom of the sea.
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#12 - The Rise and Fall of the Superfriends
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/23/1978
The Super Friends are visited by Mr. Mxyzptlk who comes complete with a script for a movie that he wants the Super Friends to star in. The imp uses his 5th dimensional mind control to cause the Super Friends to act out the script...but Superman is not affected by the mind control but he nonetheless goes along with everything in an elaborate plot to trick Mxyzptlk into saying his last name backwards. In one scene a zombie Lois Lane shows up in a wedding dress wearing a kryptonite wedding ring.
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#14 - The Death of Superman
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1985
While he and Firestorm were in a mission in space, Superman suffers a massive kryptonite poisoning and dies; from all the corners of the galaxy, people come to show their respects for the fallen "Man of Steel".
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Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/9/1978
The Legion of Doom deserts Sinestro, Black Manta and Cheetah after a failed mission and the three villains decide to kill the Legion of Doom for betrayal. Until the Super Friends find out this is just a ploy to get them distracted.
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#16 - The Case of the Shrinking Superfriends; The Mask of Mystery
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1984
The junior Super Friends find themselves under attack at the Hall of Justice by Lex Luthor and his shrink ray. A novice kid superhero proves a hindrance for the SuperFriends, but must take action when Lex Luthor steals his secrets.
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#17 - The Case of the Dreadful Dolls; The Royal Ruse
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1984
The Dollmaker uses a magic clay to mind-control the Super Friends into commit crimes for him. An alien princess requests the Super Friends' help to free her world from Darkseid, only to fall into her trap.
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Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/1978
The Legion of Doom makes a deal with a swamp sorceress and her demon: an equal exchange of good and evil power. They capture the Super Friends as the source of good and put them to sleep in coffins. Greedy for more power, the Legion imprisons the demon, who escapes and summons zombies to attack. Forced to free the heroes, the sorceress advises defeating the zombies, but then reveals she and the demon are the same being, balancing the power herself.
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#19 - The Mysterious Moles
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1973
Important research projects have been closed down, and the Super Friends are called in to find and restore disappearing air conditioning units. The Super Friends' mission leads then into a strange new subterranean world discovered by a pair of spelunkers. They are forced to fight the creatures of that world, animated trees and rocks.
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Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/16/1978
The Legion of Doom unearths a crystal called "Noxium", created by one time member Dr. Natas. The Crystal can kill all of the Super Friends using emulations of their weakness such as Kryptonite, Yellow Power or lethal energy only to find out too late they were in hiding and had really killed off their clones.
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#21 - Invasion of the Fearians
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1978
Captain Cold enlists the Fearians of Venus to help the Legion of Doom conquer Earth. They demand a climate like their own, so Captain Cold freezes the planet. When the Flash reverses it, rising steam heats the world. Black Manta burns an island, and Aquaman’s tidal wave spreads water and plant growth. Sinestro hurls comets, and Green Lantern shifts Earth’s orbit, raising temperatures further. With conditions set, the Fearians prepare to remake Earth into Venus II.
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#22 - The Ultra Beam
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1973
A pair of scientists, believing that gold is the root of all evil, set out to destroy it with a blue beam until the Super Friends stop them. A blue ray emitting an ultra-beam has been extracting tiny electrical particles called quarks, turning all the gold remaining in the earth into a useless residual metal. The Super Friends tour various mining regions hoping to find an answer to this phenomenon when they see the mysterious blue jet and the ultra-beam.
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#24 - Invasion of the Hydronoids; Hitchhike; City in a Bottle; Space Emergency
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1977
An aquatic alien force is threatening Earth, A girl is kidnapped while hitchhiking, an Earth city is shrunken and abducted by aliens, a space shuttle's botched docking with a space station disastrously cripples their power systems.
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#25 - Gulliver's Gigantic Goof
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1973
Using his micro-wave reducer, mad Dr. Hiram Gulliver shrinks all adults- including the Superfriends- to two inches tall to help the population problem (by saving resources)... and also to rule over them (he will remain full-sized to watch over the mini population of the world). The Green Arrow joins the Superfriends to stop him and to return things to normal.
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