Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - The Complete Series

Love the 2 DVDs

I wish this version of the Superfriends lasted longer, as I remember it aired on the same time as wrestling and I couldn't get into this seasons' show. Firestorm & Darkseid made their TV/Movie medium debuts, the episodes were a bit longer but cut down to 2 stories, and this was the last appearance of Black Vulcan, Apache Chief & The Wonder Twins, and Aquaman wasn't even in one episode except for the opening, like wise the Flash and Green Lantern was briefly in one episode "The case of the shrinking Superfriends". I guess they didn't have time to create any stories involving them. If they was given an hour like before, it may have worked. BTW I had to buy this new disc set because a couple of episodes I can't play in my DVD player though my old set there's no scratches on it and have cleaned the discs.

Great Show Glad to have a copy.

I started watching the cartoons on disc one yesterday.

Although I grew up watching the  Super Friends  and  Challenge of the Super Friends  (the absolute best!), I had never seen these "Legendary Super Powers" episodes. By the time this series debuted in 1984 I had discovered Japanese animation in shows like  Robotech  and  Star Blazers , and the complex plots, story arcs and real human emotions of Japanese cartoons left the poor outdated Superfriends looking like the flat, colorform characters that they were.I was wild about the Super Powers action figures however, and collected as many of those figures as I could. So I always had a lingering curiosity about the animated series that had spawned the legendary figure line. This was, after all, the series were Jack Kirby's  Fourth World  characters made their first animated appearance. The set had to have some merit.The animation and storylines are just as bad as I suspected. Hanna Barbara was really cutting corners, and much of the animation is of the "static head with just the mouth moving" -style. At first I thought they were unwatchable, but after getting into the rhythm and enjoying the nostalgia of the whole series I started to enjoy them.Having Darkseid as the main villain is both a blessing and a curse. One the one hand, he provides a necessary challenge for the assembled Superfriends, and someone to plan storylines against. On the other hand, it is hard to take Darkseid, Lord of Apocalypse and seeker of the Anti-life Equation, as a "Curses! Foiled again" -type of villain whose main goal in life is not the subjugation of all free will in the universe but instead to get Wonder Woman to marry him. Really.Cartoons aside, what really made this set for me was the bonus features and commentaries by DC Historian Mark Waid ( Kingdom Come ) and some of the episode writers. The point is brought up as to how far behind the cartoons were from the comics; this was the era when the comic world was being revolutionized by  Watchmen  and  Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , but the TV Superman and Batman were still sanitized and impotent "good guys." Writers for the Superfriends would try and sneak in some character development and edge, but by the time the censors were through with their scripts all that remained was the bland, flavorless product we can still see today.The ethnic characters, Black Vulcan, Samurai, Apache Chief and El Dorado, are also much discussed. I didn't realize that there was a rule that one of the ethnic characters must always save the day in each episode, while the main DC heroes of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were just constantly captured and put into peril. The writers are the first to admit that the handling of the ethnic characters was awkward, but felt that even those few first steps opened the door for other, better characters later on.

This series is different than I remembered. Of course, this is from the 80s so they were running out of ideas. Still a lot of memories and fun.

The first of the two "Super Powers" shows, and the last two incarnations of the long-running Super Friends show, "Legendary Super Powers" and "Super Powers: Galactic Guardians" were the first entries in the series (1973-1986) to actually attempt to truly emulate the comics featuring more detailed character designs and a noticeable increase in production values.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.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 "Legendary Super Powers" show did it even better.

This is season one of the Super Powers era of the Super Friends. I didn't really watch it back in the day as I was getting a little too old for cartoons at that point. Now I realize that you're never too old for cartoons :) Anyway, this was a really good iteration of the Super Friends. With the addition of Firestorm and Darkseid, amongst others, it's actually a shame this only got two seasons.

Cumple lo que publica y excelente relacion calidad precio, estoy satisfecho con la compra.

Very awesome case. I did not know it was Empressed. I am searching for more Superfriends complet seasons I Already own "The All New Super Freinds Hour Vol 1 & 2, Super Friends! Complete Season 5 & 6 & of course the one I got from you.

If you wanna see Darkseid smitten by Wonder Woman, watch this series.

Great tv shows.