NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Anti-Matter Monster
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 11/4/1978
In this story the Super Friends have to stop an energy draining monster which exists on computer tape and can appear anywhere at any time. Wonder Woman and Superman, during one scene, go undercover as a science expert and Clark Kent, in an attempt to learn how the energy creature can be destroyed. One of the scientists working in the lab turns out to be the culprit responsible for unleashing the energy creature. The story borrows heavily from the national headlines of the time during the concerns of a looming energy crisis.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Revenge on Gorilla City
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 11/4/1978
Gorilla Grodd attempts to take over Gorilla City (a society of super-intelligent gorillas of which he is one) with a mind-altering vapor that induces fear in its inhabitants. However, King Solovar has protected himself from the vapor and has Grodd banished as he was before for attempting to overthrow him. Brainiac has created a brain-wave amplifier to control anyone in a 100-mile radius. Grodd convinces him to use it to take over Gorilla City. Solovar escapes before its activation and asks the Super Friends for their aid in stopping the Legion of Doom, who now control all the inhabitants of Gorilla City and wreak havoc upon an unsuspecting Africa.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - World Beneath the Ice
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 11/11/1978
The Super Friends must stop the plans of a conqueror named Torhana who seeks vengeance on the people of the surface world by freezing everything in his path. Torhana and his crew travel by ship, freezing oceans and continents and people...
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Swamp of the Living Dead
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/1978
The Legion of Doom makes a deal with an old swamp sorceress and her demon — an equivalent amount of the power of good in exchange for an equivalent amount of the power of evil. In order to gain that power of evil, the Legion decides to give the demon the Super Friends as the power of good. The Super Friends are captured and put to sleep in coffins. However, in the Legion of Doom's greed for more power, they capture the demon, believing he would give them an infinite source of power, and pay the price for it when he uses his powers to escape. Offended by this, he summons his army of zombies to attack them.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Invasion of the Brain Creatures
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 11/18/1978
While in space, Batman and Superman become possessed by brain creatures. The brain creatures ultimately take over the minds of Wonder Woman, Robin, and Aquaman when it appears that the Wonder Twins are successfully defeating Batman and Superman's asteroid attack of Earth. atman and Superman, while under mind control, continue to attack Earth by firing huge asteroids on the surface.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Conquerors of the Future
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 11/18/1978
The Legion of Doom has suddenly started acting heroic, much to the shocking surprise of the Super Friends. When a distress signal is transmitted to the Justice League computer, the Legion of Doom (acting as the Legion of Good) offers to help instead, but this proves to be a ruse in order for them to travel in time to the year AD 3984 to finally conquer Earth, aided by a savage group of futuristic mutants. With the Riddler leaving cryptic clues easily broken by Batman, the Super Friends learn in a much further century about their takeover and travel to 3984 to foil them.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - The Incredible Space Circus
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 11/25/1978
A crooked space circus proprietor, Zarnum, uses a device to turn protected animals that have been illegally captured into beasts to boost attendance at his space circus. Sensing that the Super Friends are on to his scheme, he uses the device to change Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Wonder Twins into space creatures. It is up to the rest of the Super Friends to track down the elusive space circus, rescue the captive Super Friends, and bring an end to the poaching that has been taking place.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - The Final Challenge
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 11/25/1978
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Apache Chief — as well as their sinister adversaries — are sent to another universe to engage in a series of contests where the losers will be eliminated. The other Super Friends and Legion of Doom members search for their missing colleagues.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Batman: Dead or Alive
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 12/2/1978
Batman and Robin head off to a planet named Texarkana after receiving a distress alert that a local villain, the Capricorn Kid, is terrorizing the planet. After defeating the Kid and putting him in jail, the Kid vows revenge. He and his group of outlaws travel to Earth, break into the Hall of Justice, and plot their revenge on all the Super Friends. The Kid's group successfully places each of the Super Friends in dangerous situations and they deliberately force Batman and Robin into freeing each person...but the catch is that each trap is timed and the object of the game is to free all the Super Friends from the various traps before it is too late. In a showdown, Batman and the Kid meet up in an old-fashioned shootout.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Fairy Tale of Doom
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 12/2/1978
The Toyman develops a device that can project anyone into the pages of a storybook. He forces Hawkman to chase him into Jack and the Beanstalk, the Cheetah forces Wonder Woman to chase her into Alice in Wonderland and Brainiac forces Superman to chase him into Gulliver's Travels. The three villains trap the three Super Friends in the treacherous books. However, when Batman, Robin, Green Lantern and Black Vulcan catch on, they trick Sinestro, Giganta and Captain Cold into helping them rescue their teammates by claiming that their fellow Legion of Doom members are still trapped inside the books.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Battle of the Gods
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 12/9/1978
At the start of the episode, the Super Friends are involved in an intense outer space battle. Moments into the battle, Wonder Woman gets a telepathic message from Aphrodite to help save the planet from a disturbance. Afterwards, all of the Super Friends show up and Aphrodite praises them on their great work and good will. An envious Hera gets into an argument with Aphrodite on Mount Olympus, which triggers the wrath of Zeus. Hera criticizes Aphrodite for praising "mortals" such as the Super Friends and she suggests to Zeus that the Super Friends are not as powerful as Aphrodite claims.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Doomsday
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 12/9/1978
The Legion of Doom deserts Sinestro, Black Manta and Cheetah after a failed mission. The three villains decide to kill the Legion of Doom for their betrayal, until the Super Friends find out this is just a ploy to get them distracted.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Journey Through Inner Space
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 12/16/1978
Aquaman is exposed to a radioactive substance that turns him into a prehistoric sea creature from which he evolved. In order to cure him, Superman and Wonder Woman, inside the Supermobile, are shrunk down to microscopic size and sent within the creature's veins to attempt to give it another dose of radiation in the hopes that it will reverse the effects of the radiation and return Aquaman to normal. In the meantime the rest of the Super Friends have to do whatever they can to limit the creature's destructive nature all over the city.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Super Friends: Rest in Peace
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 12/16/1978
The Super Friends mourn the death of Batman (a.k.a. Bruce Wayne) and have gone into hiding after the Legion of Doom unearth a crystal called "Noxium", created by one-time member Dr. Natas. The crystal emulates the weaknesses of each member of the JLA such as kryptonite, Yellow Power and lethal energy. It can then kill all of the Super Friends. The Legion of Doom then plans to take over the world after they have disposed of the Super Friends and the crystal, only for it to be found and disposed of in deep space, allowing the Justice League to stop the Legion, who finds out too late they were in hiding and had really killed off their android clones.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 12/23/1978
The Super Friends are visited by Mister Mxyzptlk, who comes complete with a script for a movie that he wants the Super Friends to star in whether they want to or not. The imp uses his Fifth Dimensional magic to cause the Super Friends to act out the script...but Superman is not affected by it. He nonetheless goes along with everything in an elaborate plot to trick Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards — by using his heat vision to change the last word on the script.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - History of Doom
Season 3 Episode 32 - Aired 12/23/1978
The Earth is in ruins after an unexplained catastrophe occurs. Both the Super Friends and the Legion of Doom have been destroyed, as well as the human and animal population of Earth, rendering it dead.
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5.2/1061 votesLoading...#17 - Dr. Pelagian's War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1973
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 computerized albatross: "Listen to the voice of Dr. Pelagian, you have one hour to stop pollution of the seas before the sea strikes back!" The Super Friends must get the stubborn industrialists to meet with Dr. Pelagian before his tactics endanger the country.
Director: Charles Nichols
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5.4/1035 votesLoading...#18 - The Iron Cyclops / Palette's Perils / Colossus
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1981
The Iron Cyclops / Palette's Perils / Colossus" October 24, 1981 The Iron Cyclops: Superman finds a mysterious purple ray that is lifting objects in downtown Metropolis. Batman uses the Justice League computer from the Hall of Justice to try to control the beam while Black Vulcan and the Atom joins Superman in Metropolis. They find out that the Iron Cyclops who is projecting the ray lives on a planet which has no gravity and he wants to steal the Earth's. Palette's Perils: Wonder Woman and El Dorado responds a series of art gallery robberies in Metropolis. Colossus: Colossus, a reckless and destructive cosmic barbarian many times larger than the Earth, turns his attention to Earth's solar system. Apache Chief charges into action using a shrink ray to reduce the Colossus to ordinary Earth mortal size; Colossus then plummets to Earth.
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5.5/1053 votesLoading...#19 - Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1977
Doctor Fright: Superman and Wonder Woman show no fear when they meet up with the terrifying Doctor Fright. Drag Race: The Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna, and Gleek have to teach a lesson about the dangers of street drag racing. Day of the Plant Creatures: The Super Friends must call on their skills to overcome the perils of monstrous plant creatures. Fire: Batman, Robin and special guest Rima battle a raging forest fire and find two escaped juvenile convicts who end up saving a family's lives.
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5.9/1073 votesLoading...#20 - Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1973
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 and responsibility. When it begins to malfunction, the Super Friends have to convince him that it's not natural for people to be inactive all the time. It takes all the combined efforts of the Super Friends to repair the computer and return the world to its normal state.
Director: Charles Nichols
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5.9/1056 votesLoading...#21 - Gulliver's Gigantic Goof
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1973
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 rule over them (he will remain full-sized to watch over the mini population of the world). The Green Arrow joins the Superfriends to stop him and to return things to normal.
Director: Charles Nichols
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5.9/1054 votesLoading...#22 - The Fifty Foot Woman / Cheating / Exploration: Earth / Attack of the Killer Bees
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1977
The Fifty Foot Woman: A woman named Professor Amy Zhan makes a super strength potion, which turns her into a 50-foot woman. Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman must look up to the incredible femme fatale and find a way to bring this 50-foot woman back to normal size. Professor Amy Zahn tries to make Batman 50 feet tall, but is stopped when her assistant sprays her with the antidote. Cheating: The Wonder Twins and Gleek teach a lesson in honesty when a double-crossing cross-country runner has a misadventure in cheating. Exploration: Earth: A sinister space probe from planet Zeno visits Earth to capture people and objects for scientific study. The Super Friends must stop "Exploration Earth". Attack of the Killer Bees: Aquaman and special guest superhero Samurai use super teamwork to save an African village from the attack of the killer bees.
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5.9/1050 votesLoading...#23 - The Protector / Stowaways / The Ghost / Rampage
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/1977
The Protector: Batman, Robin and Aquaman put to sea in an effort to end the pirating and pillaging of Captain Shark and his immobilizing ray. Stowaways: The Wonder Twins activate their special powers to save a couple of girls who try an ill-advised adventure as stowaways and almost become flotsam and jetsam. The Ghost: The Super Friends tackle the supernatural when the Ghost, a villain from the past, is freed from his imprisonment and wants to take revenge on Superman and Wonder Woman for imprisoning his spirit by threatening the world with his ghostly fate if they do not surrender themselves to him. Now the other Super Friends members must save Superman and Wonder Woman before it is too late. Rampage: In India, Superman and Green Lantern have their hands full when a huge, wild white elephant tears through jungles and villages on a rampage looking for its baby.
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6.1/1079 votesLoading...#24 - The Baffles Puzzle
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1973
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 all literature, art and music with a chemical that he has developed. His two accomplices use Professor Baffles' crusade to extort money from the United States government.
Director: Charles Nichols
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6.1/1052 votesLoading...#25 - The Ultra Beam
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1973
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 extracting tiny electrical particles called quarks, turning all the gold remaining in the earth into a useless residual metal. The Super Friends tour various mining regions hoping to find an answer to this phenomenon when they see the mysterious blue jet and the ultra-beam.
Director: Charles Nichols
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The Worst Episodes of Super Friends
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The most powerful heroes ever--Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman and Robin--join forces with teenagers Wendy and Marvin and their dog, Marvel the Wonderdog, to defend...
Genres:AnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Anti-Matter Monster" is the worst rated episode of "Super Friends". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/4/1978. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Revenge on Gorilla City".