O2D I'm not really sure what they were going for here. It seems like they wanted this to be their version of The New Scooby-Doo Movies but it seems like they couldn't get the rights to use any of the characters. They have the Thief Of Zagdad and Dr. Frankenschtein. The Middle Earth episode seems like it was written by someone who had only seem that awful Hobbit cartoon from 1977 or South Park's parody of it. Despite all that, the stories are actually better than most of the Super Friends series. Except the time when Zan and Jayna wake up their stupid monkey because he was snoring. Zan says "You must have been having some dream!". Because he was snoring? ugh

voicemaster71 I was in the second grade when the World's Greatest SuperFriends kicked off the Saturday morning lineup. I loved the intro and originally, this was an hour long show and it was followed up by another Super Hero variety series starring Plastic Man. Unfortunately, in terms of new episodes, Hanna Barbera only made 8 new ones. I guess to compensate, they blended them in with reruns of the All New SuperFriends Hour of 1977 replacing some of the 30 minute episodes of that year with these new shows. My favorites consist of the premiere episode: Rub Three Times For Disaster, Lex Luthor Strikes Back which has nods to the Superman movie, and the Space Knights of Camelon. These shows mostly were inspired by books of great literature, like Aladdin, King Arthur and the Kights of the Round Table, the Hobbit, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Frankenstein, and the Wizard of Oz. And Mr. Mxyzptlk returns at the end of the season, just like he did before. I didn't care for the Lord of Middle Earth, but I did love the Universe of Evil with the SuperFriends evil counterparts. The only problem I had with the last three episodes were absentee SuperFriends. However, it's interesting to meet the Kandorians from the Bottle City of Kandor in Terror at 20,000 Fathoms, and we actually get to see Robin go from sidekick to super powered Super Hero in SuperFriends Meet Frankenstein. Although this series doesn't meet up to the likes of its predecessor, Challenge of the SuperFriends, this is still a memorable series.Since the IMDb has no page for this one, I have to comment on what followed. From 1980 to 1983, the SuperFriends had episodes that were 7 minutes in length. These are the 80's shorts. The 1980 segments ran with reruns in a show called the SuperFriends Hour. These new shorts were combined with 30 minute reruns. Then they made a shorter set of shorts in 1981 and SuperFriends became a half hour show from then on. That year, they introduced as Hispanic Super Hero named El Dorado, who I thought was real cool. They made one more set in 1983, but wouldn't you know it, they didn't air here in America because ABC chose to replace the SuperFriends with pathetic shows like the Monchichis, Rubik the Amazing Cube, and the Littles. It wouldn't be until the 1990's when we would finally see these lost episodes on the butchered and edited Superman/Batman Adventures syndication package that has been running on USA, Cartoon Network, and now Boomerang. Some of these lost episodes are real good, but some others are quite dreadful. I strongly feel that following the World's Greatest SuperFriends series, the show went downhill. But I think it got better when it tied in with the Super Powers lineup of the mid 80's.

DgrWoman My all time favorite episode is The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein. All I can say is that it was THE one all time favorite episode of that show, being that Mary Shelley, the original author of Frankenstein, would be stunned and very pleased that the nice people would do a good job in updating the Frankenstein legend for short attention spans. In my opinon, it would also encourage the young people to read the original book at their library or at the bookstore.

Op_Prime They had a great thing with Challenge of the Super Friends. Though this show had some interesting stories, this show was not nearly as creative as the Challenge show. Some of the shows were stale and campy and was not able to capture the sense of creativity and adventure Challenge did. It was kind of a let down.