The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
| The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians | |
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 The title card for The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians series |
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| Also known as | Super Friends VIII |
| Genre | Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi |
| Created by | E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz (consultants) |
| Developed by | Dave Gibbons Gil Kane Alan Moore |
| Written by | Alan Burnett John Loy Antoni Zalewski |
| Directed by | Larry Latham Ray Patterson |
| Creative director(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
| Presented by | Hanna-Barbera (Warner Bros. Television) DC Comics |
| Voices of | Jack Angel René Auberjonois William Callaway Danny Dark Ernie Hudson Casey Kasem Michael Rye Mark L. Taylor B.J. Ward Frank Welker Adam West |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Joseph Barbera and William Hanna |
| Producer(s) | Larry Latham |
| Editor(s) | Roy Braverman (sound effects editor) and Paul Vitello (sound editor) |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 7, 1985 – September 6, 1986 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1985[1][2] to 1986. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
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[edit] Summary
In the fall of 1985, the final version of Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends premiered. The Super Friends (now called the Super Powers Team) were once again headquartered at the Hall of Justice (which had been redesigned for this series to appear more dome-like and seemingly, larger) in Metropolis, and battled such familiar foes as Darkseid, Lex Luthor, and Scarecrow.
Amidst those changes, another change in the series was the absence of a narrator on every episode. In the original series from 1973 Ted Knight was the program's narrator. William Woodson became the narrator beginning with 1977's All-New Super Friends Hour. Woodson would remain the voice of the series through the final episode of 1984's Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. Starting with this 1985 incarnation there was no narration of any of the episodes. There is a very brief voice-over by Woodson at the start of the episode, "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", telling us about Bizarro World but afterward he isn't heard throughout the rest of the episode.
The story lines in many of the 1985 episodes were also a bit more dramatic compared to previous installments. The only episodes that featured a good dose of the old Super Friends style and charm were "The Bizarro Super Powers Team" and "The Case of the Stolen Powers".
Except where noted as a short, each episode was 30 minutes long. The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians lasted only one season on ABC, marking the end of Hanna-Barbera's 12-year run of the Super Friends.
[edit] Characters
[edit] The Super Powers Team
In the episode titled "The Fear", Batman's origin is told for the first time outside of the actual comics. The episode was written by Alan Burnett, later a story editor on Batman: The Animated Series.
This series also marked the first ever appearance of Cyborg in an animated television series.
B.J. Ward stars voicing Wonder Woman's voice with the start of the new series.
The Flash appeared only in "The Death of Superman" episode (the last to premiere), and never used his powers. El Dorado, even if he was not part of the official roster, also made a cameo in "The Death of Superman", and never used his powers or even spoke any lines.
[edit] New Gods of Apokolips villains
[edit] Individual villains
- Lex Luthor
- The Joker
- The Royal Flush Gang
- Scarecrow
- Brainiac
- Felix Faust
- The Riddler
- The Penguin
- Mr. Mxyzptlk
- Bizarro
- Mr. Kltpzyxm (Mr. Mxyzptlk Bizarro)
- Bizarra (Bizarro Wonder Woman)
- Cyzarro (Cyborg Bizarro)
- Firezarro (Firestorm Bizarro)
Lex Luthor only appeared briefly at the beginning of "The Seeds of Doom". Both The Joker and The Penguin made their first (and only) Super Friends appearances in two different episodes. While Batman and Robin appeared in Joker's debut episode, they were not present in Penguin's.
[edit] Voice cast
- Jack Angel - Flash/Barry Allen, Hawkman, Samurai
- René Auberjonois - Desaad
- Peter Cullen - Felix Faust
- Danny Dark - Superman, Bizarro
- Ernie Hudson - Cyborg
- Stan Jones - Lex Luthor
- Casey Kasem - Robin
- Robert Morse - Penguin
- Stanley Ralph Ross - Brainiac
- Michael Rye - Green Lantern
- Andre Stojka - Scarecrow
- Mark L. Taylor - Firestorm
- B.J. Ward - Wonder Woman
- Frank Welker - Darkseid, Kalibak, Joker/Ace, Mister Mxyzptlk
- Adam West - Batman
[edit] Episodes
[edit] DVD release
- Warner Home Video released The Complete Series of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians on DVD[3] on October 23, 2007.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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| The Complete Series | 8 | October 23, 2007 |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians at the Internet Movie Database
- The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians at TV.com
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- 1985 American television series debuts
- 1986 American television series endings
- 1980s American animated television series
- American Broadcasting Company network shows
- Television programs based on DC Comics
- Batman television series
- Superman television series
- DC animation
- Super Friends
- Space adventure television series
