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The Worst Episodes of Super Friends

Every episode of Super Friends ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Super Friends!

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 Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool" 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 9/10/1977. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Secret Four / Tiger on the Loose / The Mysterious Time Creatures / The Antidote".

  • The Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool
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    #1 - The Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1977

    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.

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  • The Secret Four / Tiger on the Loose / The Mysterious Time Creatures / The Antidote
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    #2 - The Secret Four / Tiger on the Loose / The Mysterious Time Creatures / The Antidote

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1977

    The Secret Four: Superman, Batman and Robin are outnumbered but not outsmarted when they change the plans of the mysterious Secret Four. Tiger on the Loose: The outer-space Wonder Twins and Gleek point out the error of jumping to conclusions as they tackle an escaped tiger (and try to end the confusion on how the tiger got out in the first place). The Mysterious Time Creatures: The Super Friends defeat Dictor, who uses an aging/reverse aging technology as a weapon to depose the peaceful elected president of their planet with his totalitarian rule of fear and keep him from conquering the universe. The Antidote: An earthquake occurs in India, where the tremors force many cobras out into the open where they bite villagers, exhausting India's antivenom supply. The Red Cross appeals to the Super Friends for help, who deploy Wonder Woman and Apache Chief to India.

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  • Invasion of the Hydronoids / Hitchhike / City in a Bottle / Space Emergency
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    #3 - Invasion of the Hydronoids / Hitchhike / City in a Bottle / Space Emergency

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1977

    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.

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  • Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire
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    #4 - 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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  • The Monster of Dr. Droid / Vandals / Super Friends vs. Super Friends / Energy Mass
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    #5 - The Monster of Dr. Droid / Vandals / Super Friends vs. Super Friends / Energy Mass

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1977

    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.

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  • The Enforcer / The Shark / Planet of the Neanderthals / Flood of Diamonds
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    #6 - The Enforcer / The Shark / Planet of the Neanderthals / Flood of Diamonds

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1977

    The Enforcer: Upon encountering a man named Garth-1 on a South Pacific Island, Wonder Woman and Aquaman head to his home Arcava (an underground city within a deserted South Pacific Island) to help free his people from an evil dictator called the Enforcer. The Shark: The Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna, must save two boys that are trapped underwater by a shark. Planet of the Neanderthals: An evil scientist known as Varko devolves Earth back to a prehistoric planet and brings Neanderthals under his command to the present, which will remain so unless the Super Friends can stop him and retrieve the machine responsible for this from the prehistoric times it was placed in. With the help of Skylab, they build a time tunnel and bring his device back, restoring the world. Flood of Diamonds: Aquaman and Green Lantern head to Africa to save trapped miners in a diamond mine that is slowly flooding.

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  • The Invisible Menace / Initiation / Coming of the Arthropods / River of Doom
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    #7 - The Invisible Menace / Initiation / Coming of the Arthropods / River of Doom

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1977

    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.

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  • Attack of the Giant Squid / Game of Chicken / The Water Beast / Volcano
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    #8 - Attack of the Giant Squid / Game of Chicken / The Water Beast / Volcano

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1977

    Attack of the Giant Squid: Superman and Aquaman find themselves entangled in a deep-sea mystery when they meet the tentacled attack of a giant squid. Game of Chicken: The Wonder Twins and their space monkey Gleek teach some young people the serious dangers of playing the foolish game of "Chicken". The Water Beast: It is the Super Friends' problem when trouble surfaces on the high seas. All are in trouble from the menace of the deep, the marauding Manta and his terrifying water beast. Volcano: Superman and special guest hero, Samurai, face the heat of a volcano in making a dangerous rescue of space aliens too paranoid of the natives to request help.

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  • The Collector / Handicap / The Mind Maidens / Alaska Peril
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    #9 - The Collector / Handicap / The Mind Maidens / Alaska Peril

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1977

    The Collector: Superman and Wonder Woman save priceless treasures and monuments from the greedy grasp of the Collector, who has invented a device that turns objects into photographs and plans to do this to various monuments and artworks to protect the items from decay, destruction and vandalism. Handicap: The Wonder Twins and Gleek help teach a lesson in courage when they rescue a boy from the wreckage of an overturned van. The Mind Maidens: The Super Friends must use all of their superpowers in order to overcome the mental mischief of Medula and her power-hungry plans to eradicate all men so women led by her can rule the world. Alaska Peril: Batman and Robin and special guest Apache Chief head toward the Northern Lakes to save an expedition from a giant snow creature.

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  • The Fifty Foot Woman / Cheating / Exploration: Earth / Attack of the Killer Bees
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    #10 - 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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  • Forbidden Power / Pressure Point / The Lionmen / The Day of the Rats
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    #11 - Forbidden Power / Pressure Point / The Lionmen / The Day of the Rats

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1977

    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?

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  • The Man Beasts of Xra / Prejudice / Tiny World of Terror / Tibetan Raiders
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    #12 - The Man Beasts of Xra / Prejudice / Tiny World of Terror / Tibetan Raiders

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1977

    The Man Beasts of Xra: Superman, Batman and Robin have to save society from the outrageous genetic experiments of a mixed-up scientist and her half-human, half-animal beasts. Prejudice: The Wonder Twins and Gleek have to teach a serious lesson in brotherhood when the ugliness of prejudice gets some young people into trouble. Tiny World of Terror: The Super Friends have to do some big thinking when the world is endangered by a shrinking machine in the hands of a greedy inventor. Tibetan Raiders: The passengers of a disabled aircraft stranded in rural Tibet get instant attention as Superman and the Flash rush to save them from Tibetan raiders.

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  • Frozen Peril / Dangerous Prank / The Mummy of Nazca / Cable Car Rescue
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    #13 - Frozen Peril / Dangerous Prank / The Mummy of Nazca / Cable Car Rescue

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1977

    Frozen Peril: Superman and Aquaman turn the heat on the sinister Sculpin's plans to freeze the world's oceans so he can sell their thawed water to desert countries. Dangerous Prank: The Wonder Twins and Gleek have to save a girl from the perils of a dangerous prank played by some thoughtless companions. The Mummy of Nazca: The Super Friends are called into action when the weird Professor Korloff brings a mysterious mummy to life to steal a cosmic power source for himself. Cable Car Rescue: Wonder Woman and the Atom swing into action to save a cable carload of passengers caught in a high wind over a treacherous terrain.

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  • The Marsh Monster / The Runaways / Will the World Collide? / Time Rescue
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    #14 - The Marsh Monster / The Runaways / Will the World Collide? / Time Rescue

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/1977

    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.

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  • The Protector / Stowaways / The Ghost / Rampage
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    #15 - 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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  • Rokan: Enemy from Space
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    #16 - Rokan: Enemy from Space

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1978

    From the edge of the Milky Way, a winged creature named Rokan speeds toward Earth. Superman confronts the beast and realizes it is Rokan, a beast from Krypton which was thought to be extinct, and since Rokan is from Krypton, she has the same powers as Superman. Escaping, the creature wreaks havoc on Earth. The Super Friends attempt to stop Rokan by chasing her and her babies away with kryptonite.

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  • Wanted: The Superfriends
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    #17 - Wanted: The Superfriends

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1978

    Lex Luthor forms a criminal gang called the "Legion of Doom" and uses a dream-machine to make the Super Friends commit crimes. When the Super Friends are forced to turn themselves in to police headquarters, the guards reveal themselves to be Bizarro and the Cheetah, who send the Super Friends to the sun. The Legion of Doom then uses the Justice League satellite with Luthor's mutation device to turn women into Cheetah clones and men into Bizarro clones, long enough for them commit profitable robberies. The Super Friends return to Earth to reverse the damage done and retake The Hall of Justice. They then disguise themselves as Bizarro and Cheetah clones to stop the Legion of Doom.

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  • The Demons of Exxor
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    #18 - The Demons of Exxor

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1978

    The Wonder Twins agree to help Exxor defeat Darkon, a conqueror who has taken over Exxor and made its inhabitants his slaves. With the Wonder Twins captured by Darkon, Batman and Robin must free the twin heroes as the other Super Friends tackle Darkon and his troopers.

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    #19 - Invasion of the Fearians

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1978

    Captain Cold recruits the Fearians (inhabitants of Venus) to help the Legion of Doom take over the world and destroy the Super Friends. The Fearians say that the Legion has to make the environment suitable for Fearian life forms first, so Captain Cold freezes the world. When the Flash defrosts it, great quantities of steam make the temperature higher. Black Manta sets fire to an island in the Pacific Ocean. When Aquaman uses a great tidal wave to put out the flames, the water floods inland, making more plants grow. And finally, Sinestro sends six comets to Earth. When Green Lantern moves Earth out of its usual orbit to save it, the temperature rises even higher. The Fearians can now enter Earth to make it "Venus II".

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  • Battle at the Earth's Core
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    #20 - Battle at the Earth's Core

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1978

    While sailing with Captain Pierre Marcel, the Wonder Twins and Gleek get sucked in a whirlpool. After receiving a distress call from the Wonder Twins, the rest of the Super Friends search for the twins, only to get pulled in the whirlpool themselves. They emerge in a Wonder Land that is below the Earth's crust. The Super Friends must now search for the Wonder Twins and rescue them.

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  • The World's Deadliest Game
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    #21 - The World's Deadliest Game

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1978

    The World's Deadliest Game: Brainiac uses a cloaking device to make the Earth appear to vanish. When Wonder Woman, Hawkman and Black Vulcan are in deep space trying to find it, the Toyman sends a phony distress message that leads them to his sinister black hole planet of toy traps. The Riddler then uses his super-riddles to lead the other Super Friends on a wild goose chase that sends them to their doom. However, the efforts of Superman and Green Lantern foil their attempt and save Hawkman, Black Vulcan and Wonder Woman.

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  • Sinbad and the Space Pirates
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    #22 - Sinbad and the Space Pirates

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1978

    Traveling from space, three pirate ships make their way towards Earth. When Captain Sinbad and his Space Pirate crew reach Earth they start stealing treasures from South America. After receiving a message on the Justice League TroubAlert, Superman and Wonder Woman confronts Captain Sinbad and his Space Pirate crew. Captain Sinbad then hurls city buildings toward a mountain range allowing the pirates to escape the two Super Friends. The Super Friends regroup to strategize and later streak off to confront the Space Pirates. While trying to stop a Space Pirate boat, Wonder Woman gets hit with a stun laser and taken captive aboard one of the ships. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice, the JLA satellite monitor picked up Wonder Woman, causing Zan to convince Jana to go after her. When Zan and Jana find Wonder Woman, they get trapped by the Space Pirates and a mind-controlled Wonder Woman and are made Sinbad's slaves.

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  • The Time Trap
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    #23 - The Time Trap

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/1978

    Gorilla Grodd invents an inter-spacial time conveyor to allow anyone to travel through the time portal. Black Manta and Giganta trap Aquaman and Apache Chief in 70,000,000 BC and rob the diamond mines of South Africa. Sinestro and Captain Cold trap Green Lantern and Samurai in AD 500 and rob King Arthur's treasure. Grodd and Solomon Grundy trap Batman and Robin in ancient Rome and rob the treasures of Julius Caesar. The Legion of Doom learn a hard lesson in underestimating the Super Friends when they are foiled once more.

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  • The Pied Piper from Space
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    #24 - The Pied Piper from Space

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/1978

    Traveling from a distant corner of the universe, a fleet of unidentified ships head towards Earth to hypnotize all children and gather them to Monument Valley, Arizona. The Super Friends start to take action after the Wonder Twins became hypnotized and a call from the Justice League TroubAlert. After the Super Friends tried to stop the children from entering a spaceship, a UFO arose to destroy a nearby city. Batman and Robin stayed with the children as Superman and Wonder Woman stopped the UFO and the disasters it caused, only to get trapped inside the space craft as it heads to the Anti-Matter Universe. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice, the Wonder Twins escape by using hypnotic mind control on Aquaman to release themselves. Batman and Robin arrive back at the Hall of Justice to stop a nearby power source overload and snap Aquaman out of a mindless slumber.

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  • Trial of the Super Friends
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    #25 - Trial of the Super Friends

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/7/1978

    Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern guard the liquid light in the Astro-Chemical Research Plant. However, the Cheetah secretly steals Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, Brainiac steals Green Lantern's power ring and the Scarecrow steals Batman and Robin's utility belts. The three villains escape, and the Hall of Doom captures and puts the four heroes on a kangaroo court trial. Sinestro uses the power devices stolen by the three villains as evidence to prove the Super Friends are guilty. Brainiac punishes them by making them fight his android duplicates of them, and the captured Super Friends must save themselves from their own devices before it is too late.

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