The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

1985
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

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EP1 The Seeds of Doom Sep 11, 1985

Cyborg uses his metallic powers to single handedly apprehend Lex Luthor. The Super Powers Team is so impressed, they invite him to join the team, but Cyborg declines. Firestorm, who would like have someone his own age on the team learns about Cyborg, how he came to be and that he only wants to be left alone. The metallic hero reluctantly winds up working with the Super Powers Team when they discover giant seed pods that Darkseid's Parademons have placed all over the Earth. The seeds will sprout and crack the Earth's crust and eventually will change Earth into a second Apokolips. To stop Darkseid's plan, Cyborg reluctantly accompanies Wonder Woman and Firestorm to Apokolips to find the source of the seeds and destroy them. In the end, Cyborg finally joins the team.

EP2 The Ghost Ship Sep 18, 1985

While being pursued by Darkseid in space, Superman, Firestorm, and Cyborg take shelter in a gigantic space ship. They discover a female being who seems to cast her image all over. She is a princess who uses holograms to scare pirates away. Her planet was destroyed and she keeps the population of her people in her locket. Darkseid learns of this and plans to steal the locket. Superman's powers are cut in half due to the orange sun in the galaxy they are in.

EP3 The Bizarro Super Powers Team Sep 18, 1985

Bizarro #1 decides that Bizarroworld needs more heroes than just Bizarro Supermen so he takes a duplicator ray to Earth and finding the right three heroes, he makes Bizarro duplicates of Wonder Woman, Firestorm, and Cyborg. All Bizarro #1 wants to do is take them back to protect Bizarroworld, but Mr. Mxyzptlk has other plans when he arrives on Earth and wants to have fun. He insists that before Bizarro #1 takes them back, they need training as Super Heroes and with their backwards minds, they wreak havoc on Earth. The Super Powers Team realizes that they will have to get rid of the imp in order for the Bizarros to go home.

EP4 The Darkseid Deception Sep 25, 1985

The Super Powers Team has to search for Col. Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman's love interest who vanishes, but he shortly reappears and returns to Earth with no one knowing that Col Trevor has been captured and replaced by Darkseid who uses a molecular reconfigurator to impersonate Col. Trevor. The masquerade is to get a hold of the TC7 satellite, which Darksied plans to use as part of his plan to mutate the Earth and take it over. As a bonus, Darkseid also abducts Wonder Woman. So our heroes have two people to rescue and a satellite to retrieve.

EP5 The Fear Oct 02, 1985

The Scarecrow is plaguing Gotham City with his fear transmitters, but he has to contend with Batman and Robin, Gotham's Guardians. Batman has always been known as the man with no fear, but when he chases the Scarecrow into a certain alley, he is paralyzed with terror. The alley is none other than Crime Alley where years ago, Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents and guided his destination to becoming Batman. The Scarecrow plans to take advantage of this and captures Robin and Wonder Woman and uses them as bait to set a trap for Batman. The Caped Crusader now has to not only battle the Scarecrow, but his own fear as well.

EP6 The Wild Cards Oct 09, 1985

A new villain called Ace recruits four young thieves and turns them into Super Villains called the Royal Flush Gang. With their new powers, they are able to capture Superman, Wonder Woman, and Firestorm. Ace is in cohoots with Darkseid, and things really get wild when Batman, Robin, and Cyborg raid their hideout. Batman also discovers that Ace is really his arch foe, the Joker, a rather unlikely foe to team up with Darkseid.

EP7 Brainchild Oct 16, 1985

While attending a science fair with Ronald Raymond (Firestorm), Cyborg is captured by robots and is taken to a starship owned by Brainiac who uses Cyborg as his latest experiment. When Superman and Firestorm arrive, they have to battle a giant robot that Brainiac built to destroy them and Brainiac has transferred Cyborg's mind into the robot.

EP8 The Case of the Stolen Powers Oct 16, 1985

Felix Faust uses his magic to steal Superman's powers to transfer them to himself. But his cellmate, the Penguin jumps in the way and acquires them for himself. While the Penguin keeps the Super Powers Team busy with his super powered crime wave, Felix Faust conjures up spirits to capture the bird and get the Man of Steel's powers for himself.

EP9 Escape From Space City Oct 30, 1985

Darkseid sees great opportunity to take over Star City, the first city in space built by Japanese billionaire Industrialist Dr. Moko. When Batman, Samaraui, and Firestorm journey up to the city, they and Moko's daughter are unaware that Moko has been captured and replaced by a robot duplicate. Meanwhile, Superman and Wonder Woman join Aquaman who has found an odd island which is not only Darkseid's base of operations, but a trap set for them. Batman, Samaraui, Firestorm, and Moko's daughter are forced to flee through Star City with the robot workers being contolled by Kalibak and Desaad. Their only chance is to cut off the power and black out the city.

EP10 The Death of Superman Nov 06, 1985

The entire Super Powers Team as well as the entire world gathers to grieve over the tragic death of their most powerful hero. Superman has died due to an over exposure to Kryptonite while on a space mission. Firestorm, who was with Superman at the time is hardest hit and most vulnerable. Darkseid captures him and forces the details behind Superman's demise. Meanwhile, some of the heroes journey to the Fortress of Solitude to sort through Superman's things and they learn from one of the robot guards about a Kryptonian trance and that Superman may still be alive, which is great news considering Darkseid has taken over the Hall of Justice and has captured the rest of the Super Powers Team.
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Released: 07 September 1985 Ended
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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 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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David del Real ____The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985-86)___ ---- TV Animated Show. " SuperFriends " Last Season.--- This season or show (how you like to see it) of the Superfriends had a superior quality in its drawings and animation by a mile. This last incarnation of the Justice League of the eighties had the most definite and precise drawings ever used to that date to depict heroic characters. Even today, we can notice how good work of art if was. Nevertheless, the improvement on the side of the story-lines is not as clear as on the side of the drawings...or maybe it is, it depends a lot on the episode you are referring to and your personal taste.During last season, Firestorm became a regular member of the team of super-powered heroes, same as Cyborg became a regular member in this one and both seasons had evil Darkseid, ruler of a planet named Apokolips that he already had under his boots, as the most powerful adversary of our team of heroes. While Firestorm and Cyborg didn´t seem in my opinion as characters interesting enough despite how powerful they were, mostly Firestorm, having Darkseid as a recurring villain, among other good elements, made the show worthy of its "Galactic Guardians" title.Two historically important Episodes:Episode 4: THE FEAR; it was the first time that the origin of the BATMAN was told in the screen media, that is, outside comics or graphic novels, after that, pretty much every version of the character mentions that origin, pretty much unaltered. Episode 8: THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN; Based on an "out of sequence" story by Jerry Siegel (the original creator of the Man of Steel), it tells the tale of Superman being apparently poisoned by an enormous dose of Kryptonite. In the early nineties, a series of comics and their respective Graphic Novel by the title of "Death of Superman" became among the greatest bestsellers in the field.Thanks for reading.David del Real. 2018.
voicemaster71 I voted Challenge of the SuperFriends as the best series for the SuperFriends with the All New SuperFriends Hour as second best. But the Super Powers Team beats all of them in terms of story lines and animation quality. In fact, I could consider the Super Powers Team a complete series by itself away from the SuperFriends shows because of new animation and updated character designs to resemble the Kenner toy figures as well as the current 80's look of the heroes designed by Garcia Lopez. With the exception of four shows, most of these episodes were all full half hour stories. The Ghost Ship, Bizarro Super Powers Team, Brainchild, and the Case of the Stolen Powers were shorter in length. We see more characterization in this series. I was already familiar with the newly introduced Cyborg from reading the New Teen Titans comics. Ernie Hudson did a great job as a distraught bionic being who initially wanted nothing more than to be left alone. And his friendship with recent recruit Firestorm is most memorable. His introduction in the Seeds of Doom was well done. Wonder Woman has had another change of voice again. But this time, it was for the better. BJ Ward has voiced over many heroic female characters, so it's no surprise that she would voice over Wonder Woman at some time or another and in this show, her voice actually fits the newer character design. We also get to see Steve Trevor in an active role in the Darkseid Deception. We see the return of Darkseid, Kalibak, and Desaad and we encounter the Parademons in this series. Lex Luthor makes an appearance as does Brainiac and Mr. Mxyztplk. Bizarro returns only this time he's more likable and voiced over by Danny Dark and he is known as Bizarro number one. The Scarecrow also returns and the for the first time ever, which we never saw on the SuperFriends, we see the Joker, The Penguin, Felix Faust, and the Royal Flush Gang. In addition, another element that was never seen on the SuperFriends but included in this show, were Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, Batman and Robin's secret identities along with Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, and Professor Jonathan crane (Scarecrow). In this series, there is only one flaw. While the Wonder Twins, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief have been wisely removed fro this series, the Justice League members, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman were reinstated, but they were barely used. Flash only said some lines in one episode, but we never saw his super speed. And the others were active one episode each with Aquaman appearing in the final episode, Escape From Space City. Oddly enough, Samuraui and El Dorado (in cameo only) were a part of this series while the other ethnic players from the SuperFriends were removed. The two best episodes you'll ever find in this series are: The Death of Superman, an excellent dramatic story and the only one with every single Super Powers member present. Even the Flash and El Dorado. The other one is my all time favorite one. The Fear, which tells the origin of Batman on film for the first time. And even though we're used to seeing him play a comical campy Batman, Adam West has proved in this series that he can portray (at least in voice) a more serious, slightly grimmer Batman, whose new design has the longer ears and the cape billowing over him. I really felt Adam West voicing over Batman really gave the Super Powers Team as well as the previous SuperFriends show some real value and this series needs to be released on DVD.For the most part, the stars of the Super Powers Team are Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Firestorm, and Cyborg while the other heroes are merely in the background more or less. I never could understand "Galactic Guardians" in the title. The Super Powers Team is enough. It's also a shame this particular series did not run a second year. But it is still a great series in terms of animation quality and story lines. I give it two thumbs up.
klhawki I, too, loved this show because for the first time, the characters on this series were far more realistic than any series previously made of this genre. All too often, cartoons of this nature tended to be far too one-dimensional to be truly entertaining. The plots and scripts from action cartoons of this genre from the 60's and 70's had virtually effort put into them by the writers. The D.C and Marvel-based cartoons from those earlier eras were really nothing more than carbon-copies of other similar shows from the Saturday morning lineups. Shows such as "The Herculoids", "Space Ghost", "The Avengers", and others were entertaining to a degree, but they all had one thing in common- they lacked realistic and good character-driven plots that could keep viewers interested from week to week. It was a pleasant surprise to many of us to see this trend slowly end with the newest incarnations of the Justice League in the late 70's and 80's. For the first time, the "Galactic Guardians" shows in 1985 were a refreshing change from what we were used to seeing from the standard fare Saturday morning shows in the 1960's and 70's. The characters were not nearly as one-dimensional, and the plots actually had some thought put behind them. For cartoon lovers like myself, it was a time to finally rejoice in watching superheroes in a cartoon that actually were "human", and had something of substance that we could, and would, want to relate to. The other thing that needs to be said, is the work of outstanding voice-over legends in the business like Michael Bell, Michael Rye, Danny Dark, and others that were the best at what they did. Without great voice talents like those, no cartoon can truly be successful and "legendary" like this one is.
Op_Prime Along with 'Challenge of the Super Friends' & 'Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show', this was one of the best Super Friends show. The stories were at their peak, being very creative and adventourous. It was classic eighties cartoons, like The Real Ghostbusters and Inspector Gadget. Catch the reruns on Cartoon Network.