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 - Secret Origins of the Superfriends
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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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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#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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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#9 - The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1979
When Dr. Frankenstein steals the powers of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman and transfers them into his latest creation, it's up to Robin to stop the Super-Monster.
#10 - 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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Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1978
Brainiac uses a cloaking device to make the Earth look like it disappeared and when Hawkman, Wonder Woman and Black Vulcan are in space trying to find it, Toyman sends a phony distress message that leads them to his sinister black hole planet of toy traps while The Riddler uses his super-riddles to lead the other Super Friends on a wild goose-chase that sends them to their doom. However, the efforts of Superman and Green Lantern foil their attempt and save Hawkman, Black Vulcan and Wonder Woman.
#12 - The Time Trap
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/1978
Gorilla Grodd invents a time conveyor to allow anyone to travel through time. Black Manta and Giganta trap Aquaman and Apache Chief in 70,000,000 B.C and rob South Africa's diamond mines, Sinestro and Captain Cold trap Green Lantern and Samurai in 500 A.D and rob King Arthur while Grodd and Solomon Grundy trap Batman and Robin in Ancient Rome and rob Caesar, the emperor. The Legion of Doom learn a hard lesson in underestimating the Super Friends when they are foiled once more.
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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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Anti-Matter Monster
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/4/1978
In this story the Super Friends have to stop an energy draining monster which exists on computer tape and can appear anywhere at anytime. Wonder Woman and Superman, during one scene, go undercover as a science expert and Clark Kent, in an attempt to learn how the energy creature can be destroyed. One of the scientists working in the lab turns out to be the culprit responsible for unleashing the energy creature. The story borrows heavily from the national headlines of the time during the concerns of a looming energy crisis.
#16 - The Beasts Are Coming
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/1978
An experimental satellite from Kennedy Space Center crashes, releasing deadly radiation. Soon Death Valley is overrun by giant desert beasts. While some heroes investigate the wreckage and battle mutated lizards and earthworms, Wonder Woman traces the source to the fallen satellite. Radiation transforms her, and later the Wonder Twins, into giant creatures. As earthworms threaten California’s coast, the Super Friends must stop the monsters and restore their teammates to normal.
#17 - Sinbad and the Space Pirates
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1978
Three space pirate ships led by Captain Sinbad arrive on Earth and plunder treasures in South America. After a Justice League alert, Superman and Wonder Woman confront them, but Sinbad escapes by hurling buildings aside. During a second clash, Wonder Woman is stunned and captured. At the Hall of Justice, Zan and Jana attempt a rescue but are enslaved alongside a mind controlled Wonder Woman. Disguised as Clark Kent, Superman infiltrates the pirate ship to save them.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Menace of the White Dwarf
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1973
A strange UFO penetrates Earth's air space. Along its flight path, it has managed to "pull up" and carry along a number of objects. Col. Wilcox explains to the Super Friends that the UFO snatched up a total of 14,000 tons. Superman soon learns that his old arch-enemy Raven is behind these strange occurrences. The evil scientist Raven has escaped from prison to take revenge.
#21 - Doomsday
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.
#22 - The Final Challenge
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/25/1978
Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Black Manta, Cheetah, Scarecrow, Riddler, Batman, Apache Chief, Bizarro and Superman are sent to another universe to engage in a series of contests where the losers will be eliminated while the other Super Friends and Legion of Doom search for their missing colleagues.
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Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/18/1978
Under a ruse that The Legion of Doom has changed from evil to good, they travel far into the year 3984 to finally conquer the earth. With the Riddler leaving cryptic clues easily broken by Batman, the Super Friends learn in a further century about their takeover and go to 3984 to foil them.
#24 - The Weather Maker
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1973
Glaciers are melting, gigantic whirlpools are forming, and there are icebergs in the South Pacific. When the Super Friends chart these drastic changes in the weather, a pattern soon begins to emerge. They discover that scientist Dr. Thinkwik hopes to shift the Gulf Stream from its regular position to warm his Arctic country, Glacia, but the Super Friends stop him and help him find another way.
#25 - Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1973
Professor Goodfellow invents the G.E.E.C. (Goodfellow's Effort-Eliminating Computer), which is capable of running everything in the world, freeing people from all physical labor, brainwork and responsibility. When it begins to malfunction, the Super Friends have to convince him that it's not natural for people to be inactive all the time. It takes all the combined efforts of the Super Friends to repair the computer and return the world to its normal state.