The World's Greatest Superfriends
| The World's Greatest Superfriends | |
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| Also known as | 'Super Friends IV' |
| Genre |
Adventure Animation Superhero fiction |
| Created by |
E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz (consultants) |
| Written by |
Jeffrey Scott Bob Kane William M. Marston Joe Shuster Jerry Siegel |
| Directed by |
Ray Patterson Oscar Dufau Carl Urbano George Gordon |
| Creative director(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
| Voices of |
Michael Bell William Callaway Danny Dark Shannon Farnon Casey Kasem Olan Soule Liberty Williams |
| 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) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Don Jurwich |
| Editor(s) | Nancy Massie (color key) |
| 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 22, 1979 – September 27, 1980 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Challenge of the Super Friends |
| Followed by | Super Friends |
The World's Greatest Superfriends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 22, 1979 to September 27, 1980 on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
This particular incarnation of Super Friends relied heavily on folklore and classic fairy tales for plots. One episode in particular, "The Lord of Middle Earth", was inspired by the novel The Lord of the Rings, in which the team journeys to Middle-earth to save the inhabitants from an evil wizard. The series also borrowed from (then) contemporary politics, as the main villain Kareem Azar in "Rub Three Times for Disaster" is almost a carbon copy of the late Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruholla Mussaui Khomenei (1900–1989).
The main title theme for the direct-to-video original animation DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse (2010) is from the World's Greatest Super Friends.
The complete season four was released on DVD titled "The World's Greatest Super Friends: And Justice for All" as a Target exclusive on April 23, 2013. It was scheduled to be a general retail release ("at all sellers who decide to participate") starting November 12, 2013.
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