The Super Friends animated series, produced by creative team of William Hannah and Joseph Barbera in 1973, features the adventures of the long-running DC Comics book series started in 1960s, well-known as “The Justice League of America”, compose of all time heroes Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman
plus their apprentice training to become superheroes Wendy Harris, Marvin White and their caped-pet Wonderdog. The early Saturday morning hour-long tv series of action-adventures Super Friends putting down criminals, saving people lives and stopping terrible disasters, in a child-friendly version show with some lesson of educational values like environmental issues, moral dilemmas and other thought-provoking conflicts. The Super Friends routinely monitoring the world from their headquarter called Hall of Justice with an automated warning system the “Trouble Alert” signals someone need their help, they fight injustice, right that which is wrong and serve all mankind.
The show in later years featured many follow-up spin-offs and revivals until 1986 such as The All-New SuperFriends Hour (1977 - Wendy, Marvin & Wonder dog replaced by planet Exxor Wonder Twins Zan & Jayna and their space-monkey Gleek), Challenge of the SuperFriends (1978 - now features the team Justice League of America versus super villains group in DC Comics The Legion of Doom), The Worlds Greatest SuperFriends (1979), SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984), The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985).
The SuperFriends animated TV series first season by Hannah-Barbera Production was premiered on September 1973 and lasted until August 1974 with total of 16 episodes, now on DVD.
SuperFriends Voice Casts:
- Danny Dark ............... Superman / Clark Kent voice
- Olan Soule ............... Batman / Bruce Wayne voice
- Casey Kasem ............... Robin / Dick Grayson voice
- Shannon Farnon ............... Wonder Woman / Diana Prince voice
- Norman Alden ................ Aquaman voice
- Sherry Alberoni ............... Wendy Harris voice
- Frank Welker ............... Marvin White voice
- Ted Knight .............. Narrator
