The World's Greatest Super Friends

The World's Greatest Superfriends
Also known as Super Friends IV
Genre Adventure
Animation
Fantasy
Sci-fi
Created by E. Nelson Bridwell
Carmine Infantino
Julius Schwartz (consultants)
Written by Jeffrey Scott
Bob Kane
William M. Marston
Joe Shuster
Jerry Siegel
Directed by Ray Patterson
Oscar Dufau
Carl Urbano
George Gordon
Creative director(s) Iwao Takamoto
Voices of Michael Bell
William Callaway
Danny Dark
Shannon Farnon
Casey Kasem
Olan Soule
Liberty Williams
Narrated by William Woodson
Theme music composer Hoyt Curtin
Composer(s) Hoyt Curtin
Paul DeKorte
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Don Jurwich
Editor(s) Nancy Massie (color key)
Running time 30 minutes (including commercials)
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
DC Comics
Distributor Taft Broadcasting (original)
Warner Bros. Television (current)
Release
Original network ABC
Original release September 22, 1979 – September 27, 1980
Chronology
Preceded by Challenge of the Super Friends
Followed by Super Friends[1]

The World's Greatest Superfriends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 22, 1979 to September 27, 1980[2] on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.

Summary

This particular incarnation of Super Friends relied heavily on folklore and classic fairy tales for plots. One episode in particular, "The Lord of Middle Earth", was inspired by the novel The Lord of the Rings, in which the team journeys to Middle-earth to save the inhabitants from an evil wizard. The series also borrowed from (then) contemporary politics, as the main villain Kareem Azar in "Rub Three Times for Disaster" is almost a carbon copy of the late Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruholla Mussaui Khomenei (1900–1989).

Characters

Episodes

Cast

DC Super Friends

The main title theme for the direct-to-video original animation DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse (2010) is from the World's Greatest Super Friends.

Home Media releases

The complete season four was released on DVD titled "The World's Greatest Super Friends: And Justice for All" as a Target exclusive on April 23, 2013. It was scheduled to be a general retail release ("at all sellers who decide to participate") starting November 12, 2013.[3]

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