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Super Friends: Season 1

16 episodes Premiered Sep 8, 1973 Updated Jul 21, 2026

Super Friends season 1 premiered on September 8, 1973. The season features the core super friends, including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, along with additional heroes Aquaman, Batman's sidekick Robin, and the teenage duo Wendy and Marvin, accompanied by their dog Marvel the Wonderdog. The season's primary objective is to defend justice and protect the innocent. The series maintains a consistent narrator throug

Season overview

Super Friends season 1 premiered on September 8, 1973. The season features the core super friends, including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, along with additional heroes Aquaman, Batman's sidekick Robin, and the teenage duo Wendy and Marvin, accompanied by their dog Marvel the Wonderdog. The season's primary objective is to defend justice and protect the innocent. The series maintains a consistent narrator throughout its seasons.

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Episodes

S1·E1

The Power Pirate

Sep 8, 1973 · 45 min

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

S1·E2

The Baffles Puzzle

Sep 15, 1973 · 45 min

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

S1·E3

Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.

Sep 22, 1973 · 45 min

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, b

S1·E4

The Weather Maker

Sep 29, 1973 · 45 min

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 soo

S1·E5

Dr. Pelagian's War

Oct 6, 1973 · 45 min

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

S1·E6

The Shamon 'U'

Oct 13, 1973 · 45 min

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 s

S1·E7

Too Hot To Handle

Oct 20, 1973 · 45 min

An alien from the plant Solar Terrarium moves the Earth out of its orbit and closer to the sun so his people can move from their own freezing planet. However, this causes destructi

S1·E8

The Androids

Oct 27, 1973 · 45 min

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 g

S1·E9

The Balloon People

Nov 3, 1973 · 45 min

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.

S1·E10

The Fantastic Frerps

Nov 10, 1973 · 45 min

King Plasto steals raw plastic powder to create Frerp, a special plastic which he uses to confound the Super Friends. The king has been intercepting every shipment of the powder on

S1·E11

The Ultra Beam

Nov 17, 1973 · 46 min

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 b

S1·E12

The Menace of the White Dwarf

Nov 24, 1973 · 45 min

A strange UFO penetrates Earth's air space. Along its flight path, it has managed to "pull up" and carry along a number of objects. Col. Wilcox explains to the Super Friends that t

S1·E13

The Mysterious Moles

Dec 1, 1973 · 45 min

Important research projects have been closed down, and the Super Friends are called in to find and restore disappearing air conditioning units. The Super Friends' mission leads the

S1·E14

Gulliver's Gigantic Goof

Dec 8, 1973 · 45 min

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

S1·E15

The Planet-Splitter

Dec 15, 1973 · 45 min

Eccentric, ingenious scientist Dr. Laban has stolen the largest diamonds in the world to power his "planet splitter," a device capable of splitting a planet in half, intending to t

S1·E16

The Watermen

Dec 22, 1973 · 45 min

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