Super Friends (1980 TV series)

Super Friends
Also known as	'Super Friends V (season 1) Super Friends VI (season 2)
Genre	Animation Action Adventure Sci-fi
Written by	Haskell Barkin Dick Conway Willie Gilbert Donald F. Glut Mark Jones Elana Lesser Dick Robbins Cliff Ruby
Directed by	Oscar Dufau George Gordon Charles A. Nichols Ray Patterson Carl Urbano
Voices of	Jack Angel Michael Bell Wally Burr William Callaway Danny Dark Shannon Farnon Buster Jones Stan Jones Casey Kasem Michael Rye Olan Soule Frank Welker Louise Williams
Narrated by	William Woodson
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin
Composer(s)	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	22 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Joseph Barbera William Hanna
Producer(s)	Gerard Baldwin
Editor(s)	Jeffrey Scott
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions DC Comics
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting (original) Warner Bros. Television (current)
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 13, 1980 – 1982
Chronology
Preceded by	The World's Greatest Super Friends
Followed by	Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show

Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. It was the fifth incarnation of the Super Friends series following Super Friends (1973 TV series), The All-New Super Friends Hour, Challenge of the Super Friends and The World's Greatest Super Friends.

With Super Friends, the series abandoned the production of half-hour episodes (which was the case for the previous two Super Friends series), in favor of the production of seven-minute shorts. Each hour long episode of Super Friends would feature a half-hour rerun from one of the previous six years along with three new shorts. Meanwhile, the second season from 1981–1982 was a shorter season due to a writers' strike.

These new adventures featured appearances by the core group of the five classic Super Friends (Aquaman, Batman, Robin, Superman and Wonder Woman) along with Zan, Jayna & Gleek. A 1981 episode titled "Evil From Krypton" depicted the Superman's Fortress of Solitude with a somewhat crystalline exterior and without the giant key, reminiscent of its film appearances. There were also guest appearances from members previously depicted in Challenge of the Super Friends as well as the original Hanna Barbera created hero El Dorado (debuting in the second season), who was added to the show to make the Super Friends more culturally diverse.

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