The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
| The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians | |
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The title card for The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians series
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| Also known as | 'Super Friends VIII' |
| Genre |
Adventure Animation Fantasy Sci-Fi |
| Created by |
E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz (consultants) |
| Developed by |
Dave Gibbons Gil Kane Alan Moore |
| Written by |
Alan Burnett John Loy Antoni Zalewski |
| Directed by |
Ray Patterson (Supervising) Oscar Dufau Tony Love Rudy Zamora Bill Hutton |
| Creative director(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
| Voices of |
Jack Angel René Auberjonois William Callaway Danny Dark Ernie Hudson Casey Kasem Michael Rye Mark L. Taylor B.J. Ward Frank Welker Adam West |
| Narrated by | Eugene Williams |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Larry Latham |
| Editor(s) |
Roy Braverman (sound effects editor) Paul Vitello (sound editor) |
| 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 7, 1985 – September 6, 1986 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1985 to 1986. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
In the fall of 1985, the final version of Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends premiered. The Super Friends (now called the Super Powers Team, as to tie-in with the Super Powers Collection toyline then being produced by Kenner) were once again headquartered at the Hall of Justice (which had been redesigned for this series to appear more pentagon-like and seemingly larger) in Metropolis, and battled such familiar foes as Darkseid, Lex Luthor and Scarecrow.
Amidst those changes, another change in the series was the absence of a narrator in every episode. In the original series from 1973, Ted Knight was the program's narrator. William Woodson became the narrator beginning with 1977's All-New Super Friends Hour. Woodson would remain the voice of the series through the final episode of 1984's Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. Starting with this incarnation, there was no narration for the majority of the episodes. There is a very brief voice-over by Woodson at the start of the episode, "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", telling us about Bizarro World, but isn't heard afterward. Furthermore, the majority of the original recurring characters of the series were eliminated outside of Samurai and El Dorado while the DC Comics teenage superheroes, Firestorm and Cyborg, wholly replaced the Wonder Twins for the purposes of target audience identification figures. The animation was also improved most notably Superman and Batman who looked more like their DC Comics versions.
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