Episode guide
Super Friends: Season 1
16 episodes · premiered Sep 8, 1973
Super Friends premiered on September 8, 1973. Seasons were generally released annually with some breaks in between. Aside from Season 1, each season had its own name, title card, title sequence, and slightly varying theme song along with differing characters. However, each season kept the 3 core super friends, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman as well as the same narrator throughout.
- Episode 1: The Power Pirate Sep 8, 1973 · 45m Anthro, an alien from the planet Traum, is stealing Earth's energy resources to power his planet- until the Super Friends stop him. Disguising himself as an inspector from Scotland Yard…
- Episode 2: The Baffles Puzzle Sep 15, 1973 · 45m The mysterious Professor Baffles is making money and valuable objects disappear- until the Super Friends unravel his puzzle and stop him. The professor has embarked on a crusade to destroy…
- Episode 3: Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C. Sep 22, 1973 · 45m Professor Goodfellow invents the G.E.E.C. (Goodfellow's Effort-Eliminating Computer), which is capable of running everything in the world, freeing people from all physical labor, brainwork…
- Episode 4: The Weather Maker Sep 29, 1973 · 45m Glaciers are melting, gigantic whirlpools are forming, and there are icebergs in the South Pacific. When the Super Friends chart these drastic changes in the weather, a pattern soon begins…
- Episode 5: Dr. Pelagian's War Oct 6, 1973 · 45m A marine scientist fights pollution by creating natural disasters to force three industrialists to stop polluting. The nation's three leading industrialists receive a warning from a…
- Episode 6: The Shamon 'U' Oct 13, 1973 · 45m Dr. Shamon is using a giant magnetic "U," a laser gun, to draw a solid gold meteorite to the Earth. However, he's unaware of the fact that his "sky-mining" technique has reelased some…
- Episode 7: Too Hot To Handle Oct 20, 1973 · 45m An alien from the plant Solar Terrarium moves the Earth out of its orbit and closer to the sun so his people can move from their own freezing planet. However, this causes destructive heat…
- Episode 8: The Androids Oct 27, 1973 · 45m A misguided scientist uses androids to try to sabotage the space program, but the Super Friends stop him. As the Super Friends watch the launch of Apollo 20, neither they nor the…
- Episode 9: The Balloon People Nov 3, 1973 · 45m A family of aliens from the planet Balunia leave their polluted planet for a home on Earth. After their flying saucer lands, the balloon people are befriended by the Super Friends…
- Episode 10: The Fantastic Frerps Nov 10, 1973 · 45m King Plasto steals raw plastic powder to create Frerp, a special plastic which he uses to confound the Super Friends. The king has been intercepting every shipment of the powder on its way…
- Episode 11: The Ultra Beam Nov 17, 1973 · 46m A pair of scientists, believing that gold is the root of all evil, set out to destroy it with a blue beam until the Super Friends stop them. A blue ray emitting an ultra-beam has been…
- Episode 12: The Menace of the White Dwarf Nov 24, 1973 · 45m A strange UFO penetrates Earth's air space. Along its flight path, it has managed to "pull up" and carry along a number of objects. Col. Wilcox explains to the Super Friends that the UFO…
- Episode 13: The Mysterious Moles Dec 1, 1973 · 45m Important research projects have been closed down, and the Super Friends are called in to find and restore disappearing air conditioning units. The Super Friends' mission leads then into a…
- Episode 14: Gulliver's Gigantic Goof Dec 8, 1973 · 45m Using his micro-wave reducer, mad Dr. Hiram Gulliver shrinks all adults- including the Superfriends- to two inches tall to help the population problem (by saving resources)... and also to…
- Episode 15: The Planet-Splitter Dec 15, 1973 · 45m Eccentric, ingenious scientist Dr. Laban has stolen the largest diamonds in the world to power his "planet splitter," a device capable of splitting a planet in half, intending to tow half…
- Episode 16: The Watermen Dec 22, 1973 · 45m A strange spacecraft has been forced to land on Earth after a meteor hit the fuel tank of the craft. In an attempt to return from the planet Sagittarius, the craft begins gathering silicon…