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Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)

Challenge of the Super Friends poster
Directed by
Carl Urbano, Ray Patterson
Genre
animation, sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 32 episodes
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 28 voters

How it feels

A team of superheroes from DC Comics fight supervillains in each episode. The heroes work together to stop schemes by a group of villains called the Legion of Doom.

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What happens

Challenge of the Superfriends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9 to December 23, 1978, on ABC. The complete series (16 episodes) was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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