Where Are the Superfriends 1980 – 1982 Episodes?
With the recent Warner announcement regarding the release of Superfriends: The Lost Episodes, you’d think the Superfriends releases would be near complete.
Not by a long shot.
Aside from the less than stellar 1973 debut season featuring Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, Warner has not announced plans for the original 42 episodes that made up Season 1 and Season 2 of the 1980 – 1982 shorts.
After two solid seasons (Challenge of the Superfriends and World’s Greatest Superfriends) of producing full half-hour long episodes of the Superfriends in various incarnations Hanna-Barbera returned to producing shorts in 1980.
The Superfriends Hour featured reruns from the previous seasons, along with three new 7-minute long shorts. ABC would continue this format for the next three years, until 1984 when Super Friends – The Legendary Super Powers Show premiered.
These new adventures featured regular appearances by the core group of five Superfriends plus Zan, Jayna & Gleek. Viewers were also treated to cameos by Justice League members who appeared on Challenge of the Superfriends. We also saw special appearances by brand new characters, such as Atom, El Dorado, Hawkgirl & Rima.
The 42 episodes that make up this run of the show are some of my favorites and I hope they eventually make their way to DVD. The episodes are:
| Season 1 1. Bigfoot 2. Ice Demon 3. Makeup Monster 4. Journey Into Blackness 5. Cycle Gang 6. Dive To Disaster 7. Yuna The Terrible 8. Rock And Roll Space Bandits 9. Elevator To Nowhere 10. One Small Step For Mars 11. Haunted House 12. The Incredible Crude Oil Monster 13. The Voodoo Vampire 14. Invasion Of The Gleeks 15. Mxyzptlk Strikes Again 16. The Man In The Moon 17. Circus Of Horrors 18. Around The World In 80 Riddles 19. Termites From Venus 20. Eruption 21. Return Of Atlantis 22. The Killer Machines 23. Garden Of Doom 24. Revenge Of Bizarro | Season 2 |
I’ve got a lot of these episodes saved from old broadcasts, so I’ll have to start reviewing them.
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I’m also anxious to have these shorts on DVD. They are what introduced me to the Superfriends when I was a kid in the ’80′s and I would love to have them. I hope someone gives out info soon.