The WORST episodes of Super Friends

Every episode of Super Friends ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 12/4/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
City in a Bottle
star
2.00
2 votes

#1 - City in a Bottle

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/24/1977

The Super Friends travel to a far-off frozen planet to rescue an entire Earth city stolen by the marauding Mongor.

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Stowaways from Space
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2.00
1 votes

#2 - Stowaways from Space

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/31/1981

First, a space satellite returns to Earth with a deadly "Stowaway From Space."

Scorpio
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2.00
1 votes

#3 - Scorpio

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1981

Wonder Woman receives a distress call from a scientist at a research center that is under attack from a giant. Scorpio, a mutant who is half scorpion and half man due to a failed growth serum experiment, learns of Wonder Woman's presence and orders another attack from his bug army to steal the rest of the growth serum. Wonder Woman and The Flash goes after the bugs to save Robin while Batman and the scientist must create an antidote to return the bugs back to normal.

Garden of Doom
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2.00
1 votes

#4 - Garden of Doom

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/1/1980

Next, a professor creates a "Garden of Doom" when he accidentally transforms ordinary tomatoes into huge, man-eating plants.

The Killer Machines
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2.00
1 votes

#5 - The Killer Machines

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/1/1980

When an evil computer takes control of Gotham City's electronic equipment, the Super Friends must find a way to stop "The Killer Machines."

The Man in the Moon
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2.00
2 votes

#6 - The Man in the Moon

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/18/1980

The Super Friends respond when the moon cracks open, revealing a gigantic destructive bird.

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Frozen Peril
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2.00
3 votes

#7 - Frozen Peril

Season 2 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/26/1977

Superman and Aquaman turn the heat on the sinister Sculpin's plans to freeze the world's oceans so he can sell their thawed water to desert countries.

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The Day of the Rats
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2.00
2 votes

#8 - The Day of the Rats

Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/19/1977

An experimental electronic device turns sewer rats mad. Can Batman, Robin and Black Vulcan save Gotham?

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Attack of the Killer Bees
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2.00
2 votes

#9 - Attack of the Killer Bees

Season 2 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/12/1977

Aquaman and special guest superhero Samurai use super teamwork to save an African village from the attack of the killer bees.

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The Shamon 'U'
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2.49
37 votes

#10 - The Shamon 'U'

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1973

Dr. Shamon is using a giant magnetic "U," a laser gun, to draw a solid gold meteorite to the Earth. However, he's unaware of the fact that his "sky-mining" technique has reelased some exotic gases from the space cloud, which, when united with the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, form a green mist and a red mist. The green mist causes animals and plants to grow many times their normal size, while the red mists causes animals and plants to shrink.

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Journey Through Inner Space
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2.67
3 votes

#11 - Journey Through Inner Space

Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/16/1978

Aquaman is exposed to a radioactive substance that turns him into a prehistoric sea creature from which he evolved. In order to cure him, Superman and Wonder Woman, inside the Super Mobile, are shrunk down to microscopic size and sent within the creature's veins to attempt to give it another dose of radiation in the hopes that it will reverse the effects of the radiation and return Aquaman to normal. In the meantime the rest of the Super Friends have to do whatever they can to limit the creature's destructive nature all over the city.

Alaska Peril
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3.00
2 votes

#12 - Alaska Peril

Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/5/1977

Batman and Robin and special guest Apache Chief head toward the Northern Lakes to save an expedition from a giant snow creature.

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Vandals
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3.00
2 votes

#13 - Vandals

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/8/1977

The Wonder Twins and Gleek have a few special tricks up their sleeve when a couple of thoughtless students turn into school vandals.

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Initiation
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3.00
2 votes

#14 - Initiation

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/22/1977

The Wonder Twins and Gleek excel with Exxorian powers when they have to bring a dangerous initiation stunt to a safe ending.

Game of Chicken
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3.00
2 votes

#15 - Game of Chicken

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/29/1977

The Wonder Twins, and their space monkey Gleek, teach some young people the serious dangers of playing the foolish game of "chicken."

The Water Beast
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3.00
2 votes

#16 - The Water Beast

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/29/1977

It's the Super Friends' problem when trouble surfaces on the high seas. All are in trouble from the menace of the deep, the marauding Manta and his terrifying water beast.

The Lionmen
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3.00
2 votes

#17 - The Lionmen

Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/19/1977

A spaceship controlled by mysterious Lionmen probes for minerals and starts an earth shaking process that splits our planet into pieces. Will the Super Friends meet the challenge?

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The Man-Beasts of Xra
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3.00
2 votes

#18 - The Man-Beasts of Xra

Season 2 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/24/1977

Superman, Batman and Robin have to save society from the outrageous genetic experiments of a mixed-up scientist and her half-human half-animal beasts.

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Voodoo Vampire
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3.00
3 votes

#19 - Voodoo Vampire

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/11/1980

Vampiress, the Voodoo Vampire from Africa, goes after the Super Friends and seeks to make them her vampire slaves. It's now up to Wonder Woman and Black Vulcan to go her underground tomb and stop her.

Termites from Venus
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3.00
2 votes

#20 - Termites from Venus

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/25/1980

First, the Super Friends must find a way to halt an unstoppable invasion of destructive "Termites From Venus."

The Incredible Crude Oil Monster
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3.50
2 votes

#21 - The Incredible Crude Oil Monster

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/4/1980

Not for off the Alaska coastline, millions of gallons of crude oil spill out from a ruptured supertanker. Suddenly the crude oil comes alive in the form of a giant monster. Aquaman sees the monster and helps the supertanker to stop the creature by using a harpoon with a net wrapped around to contain the monster. When that plain did not work, the captain called the other Super Friends while Aquaman handled the monster. Hawkman and Hawkgirl arrive, but by the time they got there the oil monster had already taken off to the coast. Later, the oil monster attacks the Alaskan pipeline and grows even larger. Hawkaman and Hawkgirl try to stop the monster but they get covered in oil and get captured and eaten by the monster. Aquaman acts fast and saves the winged avengers by going inside the monster and using his telepathy powers as a radar. After Hawkman gets an idea of how to stop the monster, the three heroes go to a small general store to get all of the detergent soap so they can put the plan in motion. They arrive at the nearby harbor to find the monster feeding on the first storage tank. Aquaman leads the monster to the empty storage tank while Hawkman and Hawkgirl pour the detergent on the monster turning it back into plain crude oil.

Coming of the Arthropods
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3.67
3 votes

#22 - Coming of the Arthropods

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/22/1977

The Super Friends zoom off in an all out struggle against invading insects from a far off planet, for the entire Earth is threatened by the coming of the Arthropods, led by the evil Insecta.

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The Aircraft Terror
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4.00
1 votes

#23 - The Aircraft Terror

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1981

Later, an eerie ray transforms airplanes into gigantic screeching birds in "The Aircraft Terror."

Energy Mass
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4.00
1 votes

#24 - Energy Mass

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/8/1977

Batman and Robin with special guest Atom are called on to save a speeding passenger train that has been taken over by a critical energy mass.

Attack of the Giant Squid
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4.00
2 votes

#25 - Attack of the Giant Squid

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/29/1977

Superman and Aquaman find themselves entangled in a deep-sea mystery when they meet the tentacled attack of a giant squid.