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Super Friends: Season 4

The World's Greatest SuperFriends 1979
TV-Y7

  • 1979-09-22T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 35m
  • 8h (8 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Super Friends first aired on ABC on September 8, 1973, featuring well-known DC characters Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and was based on the Justice League of America (JLA) and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. The name of the program (and the JLA members featured with the Super Friends) have been variously represented (as Super Friends and Challenge of the Super Friends, for example) at different points in its broadcast history.

8 episodes

Season Premiere

1979-09-22T04:00:00Z

4x01 Rub Three Times for Disaster

Season Premiere

4x01 Rub Three Times for Disaster

  • 1979-09-22T04:00:00Z1h

Kareem Azaar is a ruthless thief on the Planet Zaghdad who has stolen the Magic Lamp of Olam, which contains the power of an evil genie. Kareem uses the Genie's power to take over the planet and banish the Sultan into the world of the Genie's lamp. When the Super Friends arrive to do battle, Superman and the Wonder Twins wind up in the lamp leaving the other heroes to take on Kareem's forces.

1979-09-29T04:00:00Z

4x02 Lex Luthor Strikes Back

Lex Luthor uses a projector ray (reverse camera) to disguise himself and his assistant Orville Gump as SuperFriends in an elaborate plot to destroy them. Luthor aligns himself with evil fire demons who originate from the sun. They aid Luthor in capturing the Superfriends and placing them in death traps. The demons then change the color of the sun from yellow to red which cause Superman's powers to vanish. However, the sun demons double-cross Luthor and he has no choice but to free the Superfriends in an effort to save himself and Earth (so he can continue to take it over, of course!). Superman uses the Super-Mobile to chase the fire demons back into the sun...which causes the sun to return to its natural color...which restores Superman's powers. Luthor and his assistant are sent back to prison.

NOTE: Orville Gump is based on Otis, the character played by Ned Beatty in the 1978 Superman movie.

1979-10-06T04:00:00Z

4x03 Space Knights of Camelon

While protecting a prehistoric planet from a meteor, Superman ends up hit by the meteor's nuclear core, crash lands on the medieval planet of Camelon, and loses his memory. A bunch of rebels led by Logan take him in as their black knight in a plan to overthrow King Arthur 7. It's up to the Super Friends to help Superman remember and defeat the rebels.

1979-10-13T04:00:00Z

4x04 The Lord of Middle Earth

What starts off as a camping trip for the Wonder Twins turns into a nightmarish adventure in Middle Earth when the Super Friends must battle a black magic sorcerer named Mal Havok who has taken over the troll kingdom. Mal Havoc uses his magic to turn the Super Friends into trolls. With their powers reduced, Batman and Wonder Woman accompany the troll king on a mission to free Middle Earth of the evil sorcerer.

1979-10-20T04:00:00Z

4x05 Universe of Evil

4x05 Universe of Evil

  • 1979-10-20T04:00:00Z1h

In a parallel universe, the Super Friends are super villains. When Mount Vesuvius erupts in both worlds, Superman and his evil counterpart are blown into opposite worlds. While Superman has to fight his evil comrades and find a way back to his own world, his evil counterpart battles the real heroes and begins his plan to conquer the Earth.

1979-10-27T04:00:00Z

4x06 Terror at 20,000 Fathoms

The evil Capatin Nimoy plots to use nuclear warhead missiles to sink continents below the sea where he plans to rule. Nimoy is aided by an android duplicate of Batman to help him out, but with Superman and Wonder Woman away on a space mission, the SuperFriends are aided by Superman's tiny Kandorian friends from the bottle city of Kandor.

When Dr. Frankenstein steals the powers of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman and transfers them into his latest creation, it's up to Robin to stop the Super-Monster.

Season Finale

1979-11-10T05:00:00Z

4x08 The Planet of Oz

Season Finale

4x08 The Planet of Oz

  • 1979-11-10T05:00:00Z1h

A tornado transports the Hall of Justice to Oz where Mister Mxyzptlk, who has once again escaped from the 5th Dimension, informs the Super Friends that they must find The Wizard to get home. Along the way they encounter the Wicked Witch of the Worst Kind in a gingerbread house who turns Superman into the Tin Man, Wonder Woman into the Cowardly Lion and Aquaman into the Scarecrow.

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