The BEST episodes of Super Friends season 3
Every episode of Super Friends season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Super Friends season 3!
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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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 - 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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#4 - 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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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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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.
#7 - Superfriends: Rest in Peace
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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#8 - 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 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Batman: Dead or Alive
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/2/1978
Batman and Robin travel to the planet Texarkana after a distress alert reports the villain Capricorn Kid terrorizing locals. After defeating and imprisoning him, the Kid vows revenge and returns to Earth with his gang, breaking into the Hall of Justice. They trap each Super Friend in dangerous situations, forcing Batman and Robin to rescue them against the clock. The story culminates in an old-fashioned shootout between Batman and the Capricorn Kid.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Wanted: The Superfriends
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1978
Lex Luthor forms a criminal gang called "The Legion of Doom" and uses a dream-machine to make the Super Friends commit crimes. When the Super Friends are forced to turn themselves into police headquarters, the guards reveal themselves to be Bizarro and Cheetah who send the Super Friends to the sun while the Legion of Doom uses the Super Friends' own Justice League satellite with Luthor's mutation device to turn women into Cheetah clones and men into Bizarro clones and commit profitable robberies. The Super Friends return to Earth to reverse the damage done and retake The Hall of Justice.
#14 - The World's Deadliest Game
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.
#15 - Attack of the Vampire
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/14/1978
After a century of sleep, Dracula awakens in the Transylvanian Alps and spreads a glowing powder that turns people into vampires. Batman and Robin are captured at his castle, and Wonder Woman and Aquaman battle swarms of victims. In Vienna, Superman confronts Dracula and is transformed. As the plague spreads, the remaining heroes regroup in Switzerland and seek a rare South American bat in the Andes whose cave gases may cure the curse and stop Dracula.
#16 - Conquerors of the Future
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.
#17 - Rokan: Enemy from Space
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1978
From the edge of the Milky Way, a winged creature named Rokan speeds toward Earth. Superman confronts the beast and realizes it’s Rokan, a beast from Krypton which was thought to be extinct and since Rokan is from Krypton she has the exact same powers as Superman. Escaping, the creature wreaks Havoc on Earth. The Super Friends attempt stop to stop Rokan by chasing her and her babies away with Kryptonite.
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#18 - 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.
#19 - Invasion of the Brain Creatures
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/18/1978
While in space, Batman and Superman are possessed by brain creatures, who soon control Wonder Woman, Robin, and Aquaman. Under their influence, Superman hurls asteroids at Earth, causing fissures, fires, and floods. Wonder Woman overcomes the mind control, and with a magnetic cloud, the creatures are expelled from all the heroes. She then devises a plan to send an electrical current through Earth, forcing the brain creatures to flee and freeing Superman, Batman, and Aquaman.
#20 - The Giants of Doom
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/21/1978
Bizarro builds a giant ray that enlarges him, Sinestro, Toyman, and Captain Cold to 100 feet, allowing each to seize a continent. After being exiled to Saturn, the Super Friends escape and learn Bizarro overlooked a key detail. The Justice League computer reveals elements left behind that let Superman, Green Lantern, the Flash, and Batman use the same ray. Now giants themselves, the heroes battle their towering foes to save the world.
#21 - Trial of the Superfriends
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/7/1978
Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern guard liquid light at the Astro Chemical Research Plant. Cheetah steals the Lasso of Truth, Brainiac takes Green Lantern’s ring, and Scarecrow grabs the utility belts. The villains stage a kangaroo trial at the Hall of Doom, using the stolen gear as false evidence. Brainiac forces the heroes to battle android doubles, and they must outwit their own weapons to escape before it is too late.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Terror from the Phantom Zone
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/28/1978
Three Kryptonian villains escape the Phantom Zone and expose Superman to Red Kryptonite, causing him to age rapidly. The other Super Friends are captured, and the Justice League computer determines that Blue Kryptonite may reverse the effect. Though deadly to Bizarro, it could save Superman. He pilots the Supermobile to the remains of Krypton to retrieve it, then uses a stolen ray device to send the villains back to the Phantom Zone.
#24 - Fairy Tale of Doom
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/2/1978
Toyman develops a device that can project anyone into the pages of a storybook. He forces Hawkman to chase him into Jack and the Beanstalk, Cheetah forces Wonder Woman to chase her into Alice in Wonderland and Brainiac forces Superman to chase him into Gulliver's Travels and the three villains trap the three Super Friends in the three treacherous fairy tales.
#25 - Monolith of Evil
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/14/1978
Solomon Grundy convinces the Legion of Doom to find a "Monolith of Evil" which gave him his powers. But when four of the Legion's members can't retrieve it, The Riddler tricks the Super Friends into fetching it for them. However, Riddler is in for a surprise when the Super Friends learn the truth of the Monolith's powers and use it to put The Riddler and the rest of the Legion of Doom in their place - as the Monolith itself is not inherently evil, but acts upon the thoughts (evil or good) of whoever controls it.