The Legendary Super Powers Show
| Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show | |
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| Also known as | 'Super Friends VII' |
| Genre |
Adventure Animation Fantasy Sci-Fi |
| Created by |
E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz (consultants) |
| Written by |
Alan Burnett Gerry Conway Rich Fogel Cynthia Friedlob Glenn Leopold William M. Marston Al Milgrom John Semper Joe Shuster Jerry Siegel Jeff Segal Marc Scott Zicree |
| Directed by |
Ray Patterson (Supervising) Oscar Dufau |
| Creative director(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
| Voices of |
Jack Angel René Auberjonois Michael Bell William Callaway Constance Cawlfield Danny Dark Fernando Escandon Buster Jones Stan Jones Casey Kasem Stanley Ralph Ross Olan Soule Mark L. Taylor B.J. Ward Frank Welker Adam West |
| Narrated by | William Woodson |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer(s) |
Hoyt Curtin Paul DeKorte |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Joseph Barbera William Hanna Margaret Loesch (Supervising) |
| Producer(s) | Kay Wright |
| Editor(s) | Michael Bradley David Cowan Mary Gleason Jon Johnson Carol Lewis Catherine MacKenzie Kerry Williams Jerry Winicki Cecil Broughton Daniels Mclean Terry Moore Joe Sandusky Giv Iverson |
| Running time | 30 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 8, 1984 – August 31, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Super Friends |
| Followed by | The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians |
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1984 to 1985 on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the first Super Friends series in a new format since 1979's The World's Greatest Super Friends. Continuing the previous three years' policy of producing short stories, this series' format was two stories per half-hour, so all the separate stories were ten minutes long each. Furthermore, the Wonder Twins were largely supplanted as audience identification figures by Firestorm, a well established teenage superhero in the DC Comics Universe.
Unlike previous series, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was produced to tie-in with the Super Powers Collection toyline produced by Kenner, hence the name change. The general story, as detailed in the mini-comics that accompanied the figures, was that the major heroes of Earth had teamed up to fight Darkseid and his villains.
Thirteen heroes made up the Super Friends. They were:
According to DC writer/historian Mark Waid, Aquaman's sole appearance in The Legendary Super Powers Show comes via his appearance within the opening credits. The same is true for The Flash. This was the first time Wonder Woman was animated with the =w= symbol on her costume instead of the eagle design, this carried over into the final series, Galactic Guardians. Lynda Carter was unable to reprise this role for animation because she was busy with her singing career, commercials for Maybelline cosmetics, and television films. The series was also noteworthy for using Adam West as the voice of Batman, two decades after the end of his live action television series of Batman. West replaced Olan Soule and would continue through the subsequent Galactic Guardians series.
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