Super Friends, Season 6: Legacy of Super Powers [DVD]

I'm glad these episodes have been issued on DVD!!!As you can see on the DVD cover there is Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Wonder Twins and Gleek. Green Lantern fans beware, though, there isn't a lot of him in this series. His biggest impact during the classic era is in the series Challenge of the Superfriends. These lost episodes are considered to be the more obscure episodes in the series because of the lack of repeated play on television. In fact, these 1983 episodes never aired in America until 1995. They aired on a USA Network show called The Superman-Batman Adventures.That 1995 series consisted of reruns of the 1960's and 1970's superhero cartoons and on some episodes they'd sprinkle in an early '80s short episode of Superfriends. All of these 1983 episodes aired on that USA Network series but even still they're not as familiar to most. This DVD consists of 24 short episodes...8 half hour episodes in all. Each episode contains 3 separate adventures that run roughly seven and a half minutes each.Here are just some of the stand-out episodes in my opinion from this collection...**CONTAINS SPOILERS**Warpland: Superman and Batman are pulled into another dimension where they meet up with an alien race headed up by Super-Frog. The voice of the frog is provided by Frank Welker, giving the super amphibian the same voice he'd provide for Darkseid. The alien's have their headquarters...none other than The Hall of Zoon. Superman is turned into an Eagle while Batman is turned into an actual bat. They battle Super-Frog's forces and once they leave the warp they revert back to their natural selves.Mxyzptlk's Revenge: This episode features Batman and Superman matching wits with the 5th Dimension prankster, Mr. Mxyzptlk. In one memorable scene Superman almost passes out from green bean exposure...Mxyzptlk had placed Superman on a farm where green beans become a substitute for kryptonite. They eventually trick their way out of the 5th Dimension.Revenge of Doom: This episode begins with a couple of inquisitive workers asking Batman and Robin a lot of questions about the Hall of Doom. The two workers turn out to be Lex Luthor and Solomon Grundy in disguise. Suddenly all members of the Legion of Doom have appeared and we're told that the Legion is back in session. Given this is a 7 and a half minute episode not a lot of the members of the Legion have speaking roles even though they're visibly present. Unlike in the Challenge of the Superfriends series, in this episode the Legion of Doom is captured.Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One: Grodd and Giganta make an appearance in this episode where they kidnap Gleek and replace him with an android duplicate. The android was sent there under the notion that all of the Superfriends would be meeting at the Hall of Justice. One by one evil Gleek zaps the Superfriends into oblivion...but who really ends up with the upper hand? You'll have to watch for yourselves.Bulgor the Behemoth: Apache Chief gets the most action in this episode where a writer's creation comes to life after a lightning storm...well, I should say, the writer turns into his own creation. It's up to Apache Chief and Superman to put a stop to the destruction and get the creature transformed back into the writer.The Krypton Syndrome: In this fantasy adventure, Superman is zapped into a time warp where he finds himself near his home planet of Krypton before it exploded. He prevents the explosion of Krypton and saves the lives of millions in the process...but once he returns to his own time he discovers how Earth looks extremely different. He realizes when he saved Krypton from exploding that nobody on Earth knows of a Superman...and therefore his life on Earth never happened. Seeing that the Earth needs a person like 'Superman' to protect it from villains he decides to go back into time again but this time to make sure Krypton explodes.Prisoners of Sleep: In this adventure, a mysterious floating figure known as Sleep starts a nightmarish reign of terror which soon finds Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman enmeshed in the nightmare world with the possibility of never waking up. Thanks to some mortals, the three Superfriends "wake up" just in time.Return of the Phantoms: This episode is something of a sequel to an episode entitled Terror from the Phantom Zone that aired in 1978. In this 1983 cartoon, the three Phantom Zone villains named Hull, Romlock, and Logar, escape once again to cause trouble for Superman and the other people on Earth circa the late 1950's and Superboy. Superman and Superboy join forces in this episode to battle the Phantoms. In the end the villains are zapped back into the Phantom Zone.Video Victims: In this quirky episode, Bizarro plays an arcade game which features arcade versions of several Superfriends. The episode starts out on Bizarro World, the square shaped planet where everyone looks like imperfect zombie duplicates of Superman and Lois Lane. Bizarro returns to Earth and immediately creates trouble. The episode also doubled as a mock of video games in general...including a Pac-Man style character.Those are just the episodes that stand out the most among the others. Brainiac makes an appearance in the "Superclones" episode. El Dorado and Aquaman are the two victims who are cloned. The two create a world of problems for the Superfriends by creating trouble and mayhem all over the country. Later, in a court room, the android clones tell the court that the entire Justice League has turned evil. The real El Dorado and Aquaman free themselves from Brainiac's trap and make their way to the courthouse.There's also an episode where Superman and Wonder Woman are captured by aliens and forced to play spaceball...this episode is called "The Recruiter". It's anyone's guess why the short episodes from 1983 were released first instead of the ones from made during 1980-1982...but there's no complaints from me...this is a step in the right direction at getting all of the short episodes released on DVD.

Super Friends fans rejoice! Wasting no time since recently releasing Season 5 of "Super Friends" on DVD, Warner Brothers presents us with a DVD release of Season 6, entitled: "Super Friends: Legacy of Super Powers" coming to DVD on October 8th. This is the 1981-1982 season, which had only 6 half hour episodes, broken down into 18 seven minute shorts.Here's what you get.The 1981-1982 Shorts: (Please note that every 3 cartoons listed below make up one half hour episode)01) Outlaws Of Orion02) Three Wishes03) Scorpio04) Mxyzptlk's Flick05) Sink Hole06) Alien Mummy07) Evil From Krypton08) The Creature From The Dump09) Aircraft Terror10) Lava Men11) Bazarowurld12) The Warlord's Amulet13) The Iron Cyclops14) Palette's Perils15) Colossus16) Stowaways From Space17) The Staraghosta Sea18) The Witch's Arcade(1 disc) Total running time: Approximately 2 hours & 12 minutesAt last! Now every season of Super Friends is finally available on DVD for fans to enjoy for years to come. After almost a whole decade of waiting (since "Challenge of the Super Friends" came out in 2004) many thought the whole series would never be available...but now it finally is. This is just amazing news and every fan should shed a sigh of relief and jump up and down with joy.Order your copy of the 1981-82 season on DVD today!COMPLETE SUPER FRIENDS DISCOGRAPHY BELOW:[Season 1]  "Super Friends!" Vol. One  & Vol. Two  - Sixteen 46 Minute Episodes (1973)[Season 2]  "The All-New Super Friends Hour" Vol. 1  & Vol. 2  - Fifteen 21 Minute Episodes & Forty-Five 7 Minute Shorts (1977)[Season 3.1] "Challenge of the Super Friends" - Sixteen 21 Minute Episodes (1978)*[Season 3.2]  "Super Friends": Volume Two  - Sixteen 21 Minute Episodes [Aired along side 'Challenge] (1978)[Season 4]  "The World's Greatest Super Friends!"  - Eight 22 minute episodes - Available from Amazon on 11/12/13 (1979)[Season 5]  "Super Friends": A Dangerous Fate  - Twenty-Four 7 minute shorts (1980-81)[Season 6] "Super Friends": Legacy of Super Powers - Eighteen 7 minute shorts - AVAILABLE on DVD OCTOBER 8th! (1981-82)[Season 7]  "Super Friends": The Lost Episodes  - Twenty-Four 7 Minute Shorts (1983)[Season 8]  "Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show"  - Sixteen 11 Minute Episodes (1984)[Season 9]  "The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians"  - Six 21 Minute Episodes & Four 11 Minute Episodes (1985)* - Amazon only allows 10 links per review, which is why I'm unable to create a link for this season....................................................SIDE NOTE:There has been a lot of talk from many fans about the possibility of a "Complete Series" box set being released by Warner Bros. Though there's been no official word yet from WB (this may depend on how well the latest individual seasons sell) and while most of us dislike the idea of double dipping, this series is so well loved that, the idea of having every season released together in one huge set is a very popular idea..."if it's done right".1. Packaging - This is #1 on my list because, if it isn't any good, it will hurt sales tremendously. This would be a 21 disc set (22, if we get a bonus disc) so the way in which the discs are stored in the case is of extreme importance. I'm not a fan of discs being stored in cardboard sleeves (a seemingly popular format by studios these days) because of how easily the discs wind up getting scratched every time you pull them out and put them back in the case. Having the box look like the Hall of Justice would be a nice touch, though I wouldn't mind it being similar, in size and shape, to the complete Justice League DVD box set, since that series was the future offspring of Super Friends and it would be nice to store them both together, side by side.2. Bonus Disc - WB released a great documentary about Lou Scheimer & Filmation on their "DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures" DVD. I would love to see them do something similar about the Super Friends, here, as a bonus disc. Unfortunately, many of the original creators, writers, and voice actors are no longer with us...but some are still around (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, etc.). It would be fascinating to hear how the series came to be and more about that first season in '73 and why it took 3 years to retool things for season 2, in '77, after the first season did so poorly. Or why the series stopped in '85 after 9 seasons? etc. etc. etc. Someone must know something.3. Replace flipper disc - The 2nd disc from "Challenge of the Super Friends" had information on both sides (instead of cover art) which is commonly known as a "flipper" disc. This was due to the bonus features that were included that took up extra room. It's the only flipper disc that was used in the entire Season sets run. It would be nice if Warner Bros. finally replaced this disc with a one-sided disc that had cover art, and possibly move the bonus features from the older edition to the new bonus disc.4. Complete episode guide - This may be pushing things, but after so many fans were confused by the way WB released each season (out of order) individually, a complete episode guide, chronicling every season and episode in correct order, would be a great addition to the box set, in either a soft or hardcover edition.Any other trinkets, such as toys cars or figures, might be nice, but not all that essential. Just my two cents. Whatever the case, if they do it, let's hope they do it right...

The media could not be loaded.  This tv series gives me fond memories of the cartoons I use to watch as a kid. Not bad for the 1970s and 1980s.

スーパーマン、バットマン&ロビン、ワンダーウーマン、アクアマン…など、DCコミックスのお馴染みのヒーローたちが協力して事件を解決する姿を描いたハンナ＝バーベラ製作のアニメ・シリーズ”Super Friends”(1973-1986)。シリーズは、各シーズン、タイトルを変えて断続的に米ABCの土曜日朝枠で放映されて来た。しかし、1980年から1983年まで放映された”Super Friends”の後、米ABCは、シリーズ放映中止の決断を下す。ただし、放送中止決定の後も、ハンナ=バーベラは制作を続行し(ABCの承諾と援助を得て)、放映未定の30分8話分(全24エピソード)を完成させた。これらのエピソードは、放映未定の「幻のエピソード」となりかけたが、約10年後の1995年に、”The Superman/Batman Adventures”シリーズとして、晴れて陽の目を見ることとなった。本シーズンでは、スーパーマン、バットマン&ロビン、ワンダーウーマン、アクアマンに加え、変身能力を持つ双子のワンダー・ツインズ(ザンとジェイナ、そして、マスコットの宇宙猿グリーク)が登場。さらにエピソードによって、DCコミックスのヒーロー、サムライ(「カゼノヨウニハヤク！」、「トウメイニンゲン！」、「ヒガモエ！」など、例によって片言の日本語がおかしい)、エルドラド、フラッシュ、アトム、ブラック・ヴァルカン、グリーン・ランタン、ホークマン、ホークレディなどもゲスト的に登場するという趣向だ。本DVDセットは、その「幻のエピソード」全24エピソードを2枚のディスクに収めたもの。【Disc1】:●"Mxyzptlk's Revenge"ホール・オブ・ジャスティスの建物内に不思議なドアが現れ、スーパーマンとバットマンは、そのドアを通り、5次元の世界に迷い込んでしまう。実は、そのドアは、ミスター・ムクジプトルプが仕掛けたものだった…。●"Roller Coaster"夜の遊園地で、3人の若者が、運行停止になっていたジェット・コースターに乗る。ところが、コースターは暴走を始め止まらなくなる。近くを通りかかったワンダー・ツインズは、何とか彼らを助けようとし…。●"Once Upon a Poltergeist"ゴッサム・シティにあるウェイン・ビルディングが、大きく揺れ、謎の怪奇現象に襲われる。現場を調査したバットマンとアパッチ・チーフは、ビルが建っている敷地が、モホーク族が眠る墓地だということを突き止め…。●"The Krypton Syndrome"宇宙を飛行中のスーパーマンは、タイムワープで、爆発寸前のクリプトン星に辿り着く。クリプトンを爆発から救い、地球に戻ったスーパーマンだったが、そこは、依然とは全く違う地球だった…。●"Invasion of the Space Dolls"宇宙からやってきた人形型の宇宙人が、地球を征服しようとする。スーパー・フレンズは、何とか彼らの弱点を見つけ出そうとするのだが…。●"Terror on the Titanic"2人のダイバーが、海底に眠るタイタニック号を発見する。やがて、タイタニック号は意思を持ったかのように動き出し、海を荒らし始め…。●"The Revenge of Doom"建設業者が、ホール・オブ・ドゥームを復活させようとしているのを不審に思ったバットマンとロビンは、それが、レックス・ルーサーを始めとする悪党たちの企みだと知る。ルーサーたちは、バットマンとロビンを捕え…。●"A Pint of Life"怪我を負って輸血が必要な少年が病院に運ばれてくる。輸血には、彼の父親であるマークス博士の血液が必要だが、博士は、研究調査のためアマゾン遠征中だった。ワンダー・ツインズとアクアマンは、博士のいるアマゾンへ急行する…。●"Day of the Dinosaurs"ある日、ホール・オブ・ジャスティスが、大きな揺れとともに、地底の世界にまで落ちてしまう。ワンダーウーマンとサムライは、その地底世界が、有史前の姿であることに驚く。二人が、さらにその世界を探検すると、異なる二つの種族が対立していることを知り…。●"Playground of Doom"巨大な子どもの姿をした3人の宇宙人が、地球に降り立ち、街のものを破壊し始める。何とか、彼らの破壊を止めさせようと、スーパー・フレンズは妙案を思いつく…。●"Space Racers"宇宙空間のパトロールをしていたワンダー・ツインズは、スピード違反をする不良2人を見つける。ワンダー・ツインズは、彼らに規則を守るように説教をするが、2人はそれを一向に聞き入れず…。●"The Recruiter"宇宙フットボールに出場する有能な選手を探している宇宙人が、スーパーマンとワンダーウーマンに目をつけ誘拐する。宇宙フットボールのルールはただ一つ。負けたチームのメンバーは消されるというものだった…。【Disc2】:●"Warpland"スーパーマンとバットマンは、宇宙空間に浮かぶ不思議なワープの入り口に入ってしまい、ズーンと呼ばれる宇宙人たちが住む星に辿り着く。ズーンたちは、スーパーマンとバットマンを捕え、彼らを鷹とコウモリの姿に変えてしまい…。●"Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One"翌日に、ホール・オブ・ジャスティスで、ジャスティス・リーグ一堂が会するのを控え、ワンダー・ツインズは、警備を強化するのだが…。●"Bulgor the Behemoth"ある嵐の夜、アニメ番組の脚本を書いていた作家が、自身が創作した怪物バルガーに変身してしまう。街に出た怪物は、破壊の限りを尽くし…。●"Prisoners of Sleep"地下の工事現場で、謎のメタル球体が発見され、スーパーマンとバットマンが調査を開始する。すると、球体の中から、閉じ込められていた”Sleep”が解き放たれ、スーパーマンとバットマンを夢の世界へ連れて行ってしまう…。●"An Unexpected Treasure"若者2人が、立ち入り禁止地区に入り、地下に古代のUFOがあるのを発見する。2人が機器をいじっているうちに、UFOは飛行を開始する。それを目撃したホークマンとホークレディは、何とかUFOを止めようとするが…。●"The Malusian Blob"宇宙空間に浮かぶゴミを回収していたスペース・シャトルが、誤って、液体状の生物も回収してします。その生物は、シャトルを覆い、やがて地球にもやって来る…。●"Return of the Phantoms"ファントム・ゾーンに閉じ込められ、宇宙空間をさ迷っていた3悪人が、誤って解き放たれてしまう。彼らは、自分たちをファントム・ゾーンに閉じ込めたスーパーマンに復讐するために、過去の世界へと向かい…。●"Bully for You"学校でいじめられている少年は、街でバットマンが落とした万能ベルトを発見する。少年は、そのベルトを使い、いじめっ子たちに復讐しようとするのだが…。●"Superclones"悪党ブレイニアックが、アクアマンとエルドラドの細胞の破片を手に入れ、彼らのクローンを作り出す。ブレイニアックは、そのクローンを使って、早速、悪事を働き…。●"Attack of the Cats"ある研究所で、実験ミスから博士たちが猫人間に変身してしまう。凶暴化した彼らは、街に飛び出す。バットマンとロビンは、彼らを止めようとするも、自分たちも引掻かれ、猫人間に変身してしまう…。●"One Small Step for Superman"山で、飼い犬と遊んでいた少年は、クマに襲われてしまう。少年は助かるが、飼い犬を失った痛手から悲しみ沈む。それ以降、彼は歩けなくなってしまう。歩けないのが身体的な問題ではなく、心の病によるものだと見抜いたスーパーマンは、一計を案じる…。●"Video Victims"悪党のビザーロは、スーパーマンとワンダーウーマンをヴィデオ・ゲームの中の世界に閉じ込めてしまう。2人は、何とかゲームの世界から抜け出そうと試みるのだが…。本DVDセットのマスターは、新たにテレシネ、レストアされたマスターではなく、ヴィデオ・マスター(おそらく1インチかD2をデジタル・ベータカムに落としたもの)を使っているようだ。徹底したレストアがされていないので、細かいパラやキズが残り、場面によって、色調もちょっとくすんだ感じではあるものの、製作年を考えれば、十分な画質だろう。モノラル音声も、特に大きな問題はない。英語字幕も収録。特典として、2回までPDFファイルでダウンロード可能なコミック・ブック”The Mindless Immortal”と”Wendy and Marvin Meet the JLA”が収録。また、"Batman:The Brave and the Bold" (30秒) と"Green Lantern:First Flight" (3分)の予告編も収録されている。ケースは、2枚のディスクをすっきり収納出来るマルチ・ケースを採用。アウターケース付。本DVDセットは、北米盤で、パッケージ裏にも、R-1と明記されているが、実際は、R-1、2、3、4仕様なので、日本のR-2プレーヤーで、問題なく視聴可能だ。脚本、作画もかなり粗く、質的にはどのエピソードも優れているとは言い難いが、ファンには楽しいセットだ。

Good show to watch if you love superheroes. The picture and sound is good and still hold up today. This show is more for children to watch over and over and over again.

memories, waking up early on Saturday mornings, lost in the super-hero universe with honor and respect.

I always liked super friends. It was the only way I could see my favourite heroes as a kid on television. The stories are kid friendly and take me back.