Challenge of the Super Friends

S01E03: The World's Deadliest Game

The Legion lure Wonder Woman, Black Vulcan, and Hawkman away from Earth by cloaking it and get them to the Toyman's artificial planet within a black hole. While they try and avoid the Toyman's deadly games, the Legion has the Riddler lure the Super Friends to a deathtrap in the Grand Canyon, then to a planet in Orion's belt where a tribe of women try to petrify them. The Riddler's last clue leads them to the black hole planet which is about ready to close for good. Green Lantern and Superman combine their powers to escape and return to Earth where the Legion is collecting a ransom on the missing Super Friends, but the Legion escapes thanks to the cloaking device.

Overview

Challenge of the Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9, 1978, to December 23, 1978, on ABC. The complete series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Warner Bros. Television and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. It continues to air on Boomerang in the United States.

Episodes

Wanted: The Superfriends

S01E01 Wanted: The Superfriends

September 9, 1978 30 min
Lex Luthor uses a dream machine to control the unconscious minds of the Superfriends and make them commit crimes. Not knowing of Lex's influence, the heroes surrender themselves to the authorities. Bizarro and Cheetah have...
Invasion of The Fearians

S01E02 Invasion of The Fearians

September 16, 1978 30 min
Captain Cold strikes a deal with the Fearinans that involve tricking the Super Friends into converting Earth's climate to something closer to Venus'. In return the Fearians take on the Super Friends. They suceed in...
The World's Deadliest Game

S01E03 The World's Deadliest Game

September 23, 1978 30 min
The Legion lure Wonder Woman, Black Vulcan, and Hawkman away from Earth by cloaking it and get them to the Toyman's artificial planet within a black hole. While they try and avoid the Toyman's deadly...
The Time Trap

S01E04 The Time Trap

September 30, 1978 30 min
The Legion use Grodd's new time-travel device to loot the past and trap the Super Friends in 70 million BC (Black Manta and Giganta vs. Aquaman and Apache Chief), Arthurian England in 500 A.D. (Sinestro...
Trial of the Superfriends

S01E05 Trial of the Superfriends

October 7, 1978 30 min
Brainiac, Cheetah, and Scarecrow launch an attack on Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern as they guard a Liquid Light manufacturing plant to steal their power devices. The heroes are captured and the Legion...
Monolith of Evil

S01E06 Monolith of Evil

October 14, 1978 30 min
The Legion find out about the Monolith of Evil from Solomon Grundy, who reveals it brought him to life. The Legion trick Superman, Black Vulcan, and Hawkman to go to the center of the Earth...
The Giants of Doom

S01E07 The Giants of Doom

October 21, 1978 30 min
Bizarro comes up with a scheme to use three elements that will let them become giants. Sinestro already has the first element, then he and Sinestro split the moon open to get the second. Superman,...
Secret Orgins of the Superfriends

S01E08 Secret Orgins of the Superfriends

October 28, 1978 30 min
Lex Luthor learns the origins of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern and takes the Legion ship back in time to alter their origins. Cheetah sabtoages Wonder Woman's attempts in 1941 to become Wonder Woman...
Revenge on Gorilla City

S01E09 Revenge on Gorilla City

November 4, 1978 30 min
After a failed takeover of Gorilla City, Grodd goes to the Legion for help. With the help of Brainiac's brainwave amplifier, Grodd takes over Gorilla City and his old nemesis King Solovar. Solovar flees and...
Swamp of the Living Dead

S01E10 Swamp of the Living Dead

November 11, 1978 30 min
On their day off the Legion terrorize an old woman wandering through their swamp. She summons an evil swamp demon to give them the power to create zombies if they deliver the SuperFriends to it....
Conquerors of the Future

S01E11 Conquerors of the Future

November 18, 1978 30 min
The Legion of Doom becomes the Legion of Good! But it's a distraction while they conquer the Earth of 3984. However, the Super Friends put together the Riddler's cryptic clues and Superman, Flash, and Green...
The Final Challenge

S01E12 The Final Challenge

November 25, 1978 30 min
Wonder Woman and Aquaman are under attack by five of the Legion of Doom (Scarecrow, Riddler, Cheetah, Black Manata, Bizarro) in Black Manta's Manta-ship. Batman, Apache Chief, and Superman come to their aid, but they...
Fairy Tale of Doom

S01E13 Fairy Tale of Doom

December 2, 1978 30 min
The Toyman devises a way to transmit people into books. The Legion uses Brainiac, Cheetah, and Giganta to lure Superman, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman respectively into the storybook tales of Gulliver, Jack and the Beanstalk,...
Doomsday

S01E14 Doomsday

December 9, 1978 30 min
The Legion of Doom launch an attack on an aircraft earlier. Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Apache Chief battle their Legion counterparts Sinestro, Black Manta, and Giganta and capture them when the other Legion of Doomers...
Superfriends, Rest in Peace

S01E15 Superfriends, Rest in Peace

December 16, 1978 30 min
The episode opens with...Batman's funeral! We soon find out that the Legion of Doom have a substance, Noxiam, that allows them to kill any Superfriend. In flashback we see Lex trick Superman into opening the...
The History of Doom

S01E16 The History of Doom

December 23, 1978 30 min
Three aliens come to a ruined Earth. Travelling to the Great Hall of Justice, they find a series of memory tapes chronicling the Superfriends and the Legion of Doom. Although they find some origin tapes,...

Cast

Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem
Jack Angel
Jack Angel
Don Messick
Don Messick
Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin
Henry Corden
Henry Corden
Frank Welker
Frank Welker
Ted Cassidy
Ted Cassidy
Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Montgomery
Buster Jones
Buster Jones
Melanie Chartoff
Melanie Chartoff
Michael Bell
Michael Bell
Bob Holt
Bob Holt

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