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Super Friends: The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (DVD)

In 1985, this final version of Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends premiered. Once again headquartered at the Hall of Justice in Metropolis, the Super friends battled such familiar foes as Lex Luthor, Scarecrow and Darkseid. Second only to Challenge of the Super Friends, this animated series was one of the most faithful TV adaptations of DC Comic superheroes ever aired. Like its predecessor, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, Galactic Guardians features Adam West as Batman battling alongside Superman and Robin and showcasing relatively new superheroes Firestorm and Cyborg – as well as members of previous Super Friend incarnations (Samurai, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and The Flash). As for the forces of villainy, the show features Darkseid and his minions Kalibak and DeSaad as the primary protagonists. Other DC villains (the Joker, Lex Luthor, the Penguin, Scarecrow, Felix Faust, Joker, The Penguin, Brainiac, and more) also appeared from time to time.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches; 2.88 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ H3684
Director ‏ : ‎ Larry Latham
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Animated
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 23, 2007
Actors ‏ : ‎ Adam West, Alan Burnett
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Hanna-Barbera Studios
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000TSTEJG
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Jason Ziegler

Plays Like It Should

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024

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Saving the best for last. This final season takes a sophisticated approach as it veers off from the Super Friends by not having a narrator and explores deeper story telling such as going into Batman's psyche with the death of his parents and Firestorm's processing grief over Superman's death.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2007

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This DVD contains 8 half-hour episodes...however, because two episodes were split into 15 minute segments each, the promoters of the DVD are saying there are 10 episodes here. This installment of SUPERFRIENDS was very serious...there was no narration, which will be noticed right away. In all of the episodes of the series, William Woodson was heard as the narrator...his catchphrase "meanwhile...at the Hall of Justice..." became as synonymous with the series as the superhero's themselves. In this installment, which hit Saturday morning TV in 1985, there was no narration and the Hall of Justice had received a make-over. It now looked like an intergalactic headquarters one might find on a far off planet in the galaxy.

The appearances of the characters were more defined as well...more realistically drawn as compared to the "cartoonish" look of the previous versions of SUPERFRIENDS, which i'm not knocking...i like all depictions of the Superfriends during it's classic era, 1973-1985. One important note...the super-hero's were officially calling themselves the Super Powers Team...even the villains who for years had referred to them as "Superfriends" were now calling them "Super Powers Team". There are several episodes in this 1985 series that are years ahead of their time with regard to character study. In one episode, the brilliant "The Fear", Batman is center stage as is the homicidal villain, Scarecrow, who is played more sinister than he was on CHALLENGE OF THE SUPERFRIENDS. New voice actor as well...the previous voice was provided by Don Messick.

"The Fear" tells the story of Batman's origin...it is noted that this episode was the very first time Batman's history was recalled in animated form.

Darkseid, a God from Apokolips, is the main villain of this series...just as he was in the previous installment in 1984, THE LEGENDARY SUPER POWERS SHOW.

In one of the episodes, one of the 15 minute offerings, we have "The Case of the Stolen Super Powers". In that episode we are treated to an appearance by the Penguin and Felix Faust...of course, everyone knows the Penguin is one of Batman's main villains.

The Joker, Batman's #1 enemy, turns up in the episode "The Wild Cards". This episode has to do with a gang that goes by the name of The Royal Flush. This episode and the other episode i just wrote about "The Case of the Stolen Super Powers", mark the only apperances on the Superfriends series of The Joker and The Penguin. The two villains were missing in all of the other versions of the show.

Brainiac makes an appearance on the episode "Brainchild" about Cyborg being captured and used in Brainiac's experiment. Brainiac has created a giant robot and implanted Cyborg's mind into it.

In the weird episode, "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", we do get to hear William Woodson's voice narrating the opening sequence...telling us about the square planet known as Bizarro World...but he isn't heard again throughout the episode. This episode is 15 minutes in length as well. Bizarro turns several of the hero's into Bizarro's...ironically, Superman doesn't make an appearance in this episode although Bizarro is the insane duplicate of Superman.

Cyborg is introduced in the first episode, "The Seeds of Doom", as a reluctant super-hero who ultimately becomes one of the Superfriends by the end of the episode. Lex Luthor appears in this episode as does Darkseid. Cyborg is played in the first few episodes as a renegade of sorts...but he strikes up a friendship with Ronald Raymond/Firestorm.

One of the most recalled episodes from this series is the final episode, "The Death of Superman"...a wonderful episode! This is a great installment of the series...which turned out to be it's last.

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Aaron Nicewonger

The BEST and final version of the Super Friends

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2013

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There seem to be a few people out there who wan to discount this show merely an animated toy commercial.
But those same people forget that popular and well-loved shows ("G.I. Joe" and "Transformers", to name 2 out of many) were animated toy commercials.

ALL of the Super Friends shows, and basically ANY television show, were marketing schemes. They're designed to get kids to buy toys, lunch boxes, flooring books, halloween costumes, and toys. If you don't think that then you're naive.

"Legendary Super Powers" and "Super Powers: Galactic Guardians" were the first shows to actually attempt to truly emulate the comics featuring detailed character designs and a noticeable increase in production values.
Specifically "Super Powers: Galactic Guardians", using the current DC comics character designs from José Luis García-López.

They were the first time since the late 1960s (i.e. "Aquaman", "The NEW Adventures of Superman", and "Batman With Robin the Boy Wonder", which contained real comic villains and more action-oriented stories) that parent groups loosened their death-grip on cartoon programming to include more adult themes like the murder of Batman's parents and the death of. Superman. And the inclusions of more menacing villains like Darkseid and the redesigned Brainiac.

When those shows wanted to appeal to the teenage demographic, they didn't include The Wonder Twins teaching about peer pressure; or Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog. They included Firestorm, a character with actual development and emotional content, with a unique perspective. Just watch the episode "The Death of Superman", for proof of that.

When they wanted to include racial diversity, they didn't use pointless and awful stereotypes like El Dorado. They included actual comic book characters like Cyborg, who had depth and actual characterization.

This show also featured action, dynamic camera angles, and not the same old left to fight flat repetitive motion Hanna-Barbara had become famous for throughout the 70s. Gone away was the constraining "Scooby-Doo" formula and style. The "Super Powers" show was a return to form for Hanna-Barbara, a renaissance of actual plotting, individual characterization, and action that hadn't been seen since shows like Johnny Quest, Birdman, and Space Ghost. Only, the "Super Powers" show did it even better.

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Skyhawk

Great cartoon series

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2014

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This is a great Cartoon DVD. It was from an era that saw the legends in Cartoon voice-over work doing some of their final works, like Danny Dark, who in my mind WAS Superman, as much as Kevin Conroy is Batman today in the animated series.
The list of incredibly talented Voice Over legends are in this series, and this is what helps make it a must-buy in my opinion.
There's Frank Welker, Adam West, Danny Dark, BJ Ward, Rene Auberjonois, Peter Cullen, Jack Angel, and the PHENOMENAL voice of the recently passed Michael Rye- who magnificently voiced Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
Great voice-work done in this series.
The plots were really good for this era, too. As compared with the 1960's, where there were no plots at all, this is vastly superior in Animation Artwork and plotlines.
This is really the prequel to the Justice League series that we saw that came out 10 years ago.
My only problem with this series, is that there weren't more of these episodes made. There are only about 10 episodes overall, and not the standard number that one would expect to come out of this genre of cartooning. It would have been nice to extend this series for another 2 years, and get more work and extra episodes to continue on with the storylines.

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Christian Verona

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2017

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Awesome

William

Good show

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2019

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Good show to watch if you love superheroes. The picture and sound is good and still hold up today. This show is more for children to watch over and over and over again.

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Demetrios Angelis

A Good Series to Watch and Own!

Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2015

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This series is the progressive and successive transition episodes from the "Super Friends" series to the "Justice League" series. The stories are longer, more complete with slightly better animation (but still not nearly advanced as today's). Still, this series manages to stay wholesome for children to watch without supervision.

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Genre	Kids & Family, Action & Adventure
Format	Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Animated
Contributor	Larry Latham, Alan Burnett, Adam West
Language	English
Number Of Discs	2

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