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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 justice and guard the innocent.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Super Friends Season 1 Episode 5 - Dr. Pelagian's War
    5.6/10(87 votes)

    S1:E5

    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 August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 4 - Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire
    5.7/10(73 votes)

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Super Friends Season 3 Episode 19 - World Beneath the Ice
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E19

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Super Friends Season 3 Episode 20 - Swamp of the Living Dead
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E20

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Super Friends Season 6 Episode 5 - The Iron Cyclops / Palette's Perils / Colossus
    6.0/10(54 votes)

    S6:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 1 - The Power Pirate
    6.1/10(157 votes)

    S1:E1

    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, he enlists the help of the Super Friends to help him steal the Earth's energy to take back to Traum.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 14 - Gulliver's Gigantic Goof
    6.1/10(79 votes)

    S1:E14

    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 August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 10 - The Fifty Foot Woman / Cheating / Exploration: Earth / Attack of the Killer Bees
    6.1/10(73 votes)

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 3 - Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.
    6.2/10(109 votes)

    S1:E3

    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 August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 15 - The Protector / Stowaways / The Ghost / Rampage
    6.2/10(70 votes)

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 2 - The Baffles Puzzle
    6.3/10(113 votes)

    S1:E2

    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 August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 11 - The Ultra Beam
    6.3/10(77 votes)

    S1:E11

    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 August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 14 - The Marsh Monster / The Runaways / Will the World Collide? / Time Rescue
    6.3/10(71 votes)

    S2:E14

    The Marsh Monster: Superman, Batman and Robin move into action when an inventor's valuable plans are put in peril by the terrorizing tactics of a mysterious Marsh Monster. The Runaways: The far from home Wonder Twins and Gleek try to rescue some misguided teenagers who face trouble when they decide to become runaways. Will the World Collide?: The Super Friends exhibit all their bravery against the super sinister scheme of the vengeful Professor Fearo and the threat of a world collision. Time Rescue: A scientist finds trouble when a time machine puts him 2,000 years into the future and he is captured by desert slavers. Superman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl come to his rescue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 4 - The Weather Maker
    6.4/10(92 votes)

    S1:E4

    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 to emerge. They discover that scientist Dr. Thinkwik hopes to shift the Gulf Stream from its regular position to warm his Arctic country, Glacia, but the Super Friends stop him and help him find another way.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 6 - The Shamon 'U'
    6.4/10(87 votes)

    S1:E6

    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 exotic gases from the space cloud, which, when united with the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, form a green mist and a red mist. The green mist causes animals and plants to grow many times their normal size, while the red mists causes animals and plants to shrink.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 8 - The Androids
    6.4/10(82 votes)

    S1:E8

    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 government know that the astronauts aboard have been replaced by androids. Apollo 20 crashes to Earth. Dr. Rebos threatens to sabotage the manned launch to Mars unless the government calls a complete halt to its space program.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 9 - The Balloon People
    6.4/10(80 votes)

    S1:E9

    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. However, the news reports of these unusual guests prompt ambitious scholar Noah Tall to devise a plan to capture the balloon people. When they're kidnapped, the Super Friends must rescue them.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 7 - The Invisible Menace / Initiation / Coming of the Arthropods / River of Doom
    6.4/10(69 votes)

    S2:E7

    The Invisible Menace: Superman and Aquaman discover a deep down mystery of sinister submarines and sea life as they battle the Invisible Menace. Initiation: The Wonder Twins and Gleek excel with Exxorian powers when they have to bring a dangerous initiation stunt to a safe ending. Coming of the Arthropods: The Super Friends zoom off in an all out struggle against invading insects from a far off planet, for the entire Earth is threatened by the coming of the Arthropods, led by the evil Insecta. River of Doom: Flying over jungle rain forests, Wonder Woman and Rima search for some missing scientists who are about to become victims of the River of Doom.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Super Friends Season 1 Episode 16 - The Watermen
    6.5/10(73 votes)

    S1:E16

    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 from sea water to fuel the ship. Aliens from the water planet steal the silicon from Earth's oceans, upsetting the ecological balance and creating a red tide and famine among ocean creatures.

    Director:Charles August Nichols
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 1 - The Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool
    6.5/10(88 votes)

    S2:E1

    The Brain Machine: Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin meet up with a misguided genius, Dr. Cranum, and his Brain Machine. Joy Ride: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have to teach some youngsters a lesson about the dangers of joyriding in an airplane. Invasion of the Earthors: The Super Friends match wits and skills in an underground adventure against the mysterious mining monsters known as the Earthors. The Whirlpool: Aquaman and special guest Black Vulcan find themselves facing the force of a shipwrecking whirlpool.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 3 - Invasion of the Hydronoids / Hitchhike / City in a Bottle / Space Emergency
    6.5/10(77 votes)

    S2:E3

    Invasion of the Hydronoids: Aquaman, Batman and Robin meet the menacing Hydronoids in a struggle to save the world from their evil invasion. Hitchhike: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have a serious problem on their hands when they use their Exxor powers to detour the dangers of hitchhiking when a girl doing so is kidnapped. City in a Bottle: The Super Friends travel to a far-off frozen planet to rescue an entire Earth city stolen by the marauding Mongor. Space Emergency: Wonder Woman with special guests Hawkman and Hawkgirl use their special skills in a space emergency.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 5 - The Monster of Dr. Droid / Vandals / Super Friends vs. Super Friends / Energy Mass
    6.6/10(69 votes)

    S2:E5

    The Monster of Dr. Droid: Superman and Wonder Woman go on an electrifying adventure when they meet the marauding monster of Dr. Droid. Vandals: The Wonder Twins and Gleek have a few special tricks up their sleeve when a couple of thoughtless students turn into school vandals. Super Friends vs. Super Friends: The Super Friends find themselves in critical combat against each other when they become captives of Tyrannic, the ruler of the underseas world of Oceana. Energy Mass: Batman and Robin with special guest the Atom are called on to save a speeding passenger train that has been taken over by a critical energy mass.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Super Friends Season 2 Episode 11 - Forbidden Power / Pressure Point / The Lionmen / The Day of the Rats
    6.6/10(67 votes)

    S2:E11

    Forbidden Power: Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman must save the world from the mysterious mutants of the space sphere and its forbidden power. Pressure Point: The Wonder Twins and Gleek travel into the hot desert to cool the dangerous canyon jumping stunts of some reckless motorcyclists. The Lionmen: A spaceship controlled by mysterious Lionmen probes for minerals and starts an earth-shaking process that splits our planet into pieces. Will the Super Friends meet the challenge? The Day of the Rats: An experimental electronic device turns sewer rats mad. Can Batman, Robin and Black Vulcan save Gotham from the Day of the Rats?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Super Friends Season 4 Episode 6 - Terror at 20,000 Fathoms
    6.6/10(63 votes)

    S4:E6

    The evil Captain 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 Super Friends are aided by Superman's tiny Kryptonian friends from the bottle city of Kandor.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Super Friends Season 7 Episode 2 - Warpland / Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One / Bulgor the Behemoth
    6.6/10(61 votes)

    S7:E2

    Warpland: Superman and Batman are pulled into a space warp where they come across a strange planet inhabited by aliens known as Zoons. Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One: Wonder Woman and Green Lantern think the Legion of Doom will strike since the entire Justice League is going to meet in the Hall of Justice the next day. Jayna and Zan are put in charge of security during the night. Giganta sets a trap and captures Gleek with bananas and takes him to Gorillia Grodd. A mechanical duplicate of Gleek arrives at the Hall of Justice to use his killer laser eyes on the Justice League and help Grodd and Giganta take over the Hall of Justice. Bulgor the Behemoth: A writer turns into the creature he created after a lightning bolt electrocutes an electrical tower nearby. Apache Chief and Superman are on hand to stop the behemoth from continuing his destructive ways.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Dr. Pelagian's War" is the worst rated episode of "Super Friends". It scored 5.6/10 based on 87 votes. Directed by Charles August Nichols and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/1973. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire".