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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

1985

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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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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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Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
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.
daltonml-1 I grew up watching the "Superfriends" on Saturday mornings, and I loved it. Yet after a while, the Wonder Twins idea began to tire me out. Despite I also loved the reruns on numerous cable networks, it remained dismal. I hoped that there was a way to have a real "Superfriends" cartoon show without the Wonder Twins.Finally, in 1985, I got my answer. "Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians" premiered on ABC. The show was a true to form version of the DC Comics characters I loved: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and so forth. And no Wonder Twins in sight. Hooray!The stories were often dramatic and emotional, such as "The Fear", an excellent toned down version of Batman's origin, with a few scary moments involving The Scarecrow, who was the guest villain in the episode, and a rare appearance of Batman and Robin in their secret identities of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, not to mention Alfred, their butler. Another episode, which was sadly the final one, "The Death Of Superman" really hit a bullseye with its theme. This was aired years before the "Doomsday/Death Of Superman" comic book storyline came out. But in this case, it wasn't Doomsday that killed Superman. You have to see this episode to find out."Super Powers Team" did have two very amusing episodes I found quite funny. "Case Of The Stolen Powers" was the first. In this one, The Penguin (Batman's foe, making his only appearance in "Superfriends") accidentally gets Superman's powers after a magic spell cast by Felix Faust, enemy of Wonder Woman. Then chaos erupts. The second one, "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", involved Bizarro creating Bizarro-clones of Firestorm, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman, who are so stupid, they're just impossible to not laugh at.However, what concerned me about this show is why it only lasted one year. It would've been great to see characters such as Green Arrow, Dr. Fate, or maybe Captain Marvel to appear in this show, had it lasted for another year or two. Perhaps they could've even introduced new villains, too. This show even gave The Joker his first and only "Superfriends" appearance ever in the episode "The Wild Cards". But it never happened. We had to wait until "Justice League Unlimited" on Cartoon Network in 2004 for that to happen. Hey, it was worth the wait.Now I hear "Super Powers Team" is coming to DVD this October. I can't wait for this one to hit shelves. I'm getting it! Why? This show remains true to the "Superfriends" like no other.
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.
Cinema_Lover Now this is how you make an animated series based on superheroes. "Super Powers Team: The Galactic Gaurdians" aired in 1985-'86 and it was the last SuperFriends show based on the Justice League of America from the 1973-1986 run. In my opinion, this was also head and shoulders the best. The animation is greatly improved from any earlier SuperFriends show. The characters act like mature adults, and a few of them even have some distinct personalities that separate them from the rest of the JLA. There were also no stupid teenage tag along like Wendy & Marvin or Zan & Jayna on this show. And thankfully, no stupid animals like Wonder Dog or Gleek. A new character Cyborg is introduced, he is an African American teenager, but he is not a silly background extra that screws up and gets captured repeatedly so Superman and Green Lantern could come save the day the way the previous non-White heroes (Black Vulcan/Lightning, Samurai, and Apache Chief) did on the other shows. Cyborg is a great character that is not a cardboard cut out of Superman. Firestorm is back from the "Super Powers" series from the previous year, and he too is in top form. Wonder Woman acts, well like a woman and we see her life more fleshed out. Superman even behaves more adult like and does not have the ridiculous God-like powers he had in the 70s. The Batman in this show is more in line with the comic book character.Here Batman behaves like a very mature grown man, a man that is tormented over his compulsion to go out and fight crime. He is also a detective in this show like he should be, and not a blundering buffoon that pulls out all kinds of stupid gadgets from that little utility belt. 'The Fear' is a stand out episode that illustrates the difference in Batman in this show from the previous SuperFriends. It is ironic that this Batman is the most serious, since he is voiced by Adam West who played the idiot Batman in the 1960s TV series. Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Samurai don't get a whole lot of time devoted to them, but at least they don't do anything embarrassing. The JLA team primarily butts heads with the villainous Darkseid and his cronies Dessad and Kavlik, but the Joker and Scarecrow turn up in two episodes as well. I always get the feeling that the two "Super Powers Team" series from the mid 80s doesn't have the incredibly loyal Gen Xer following that 1978's "Challenge of the SuperFriends" enjoys because Darkseid and Dessad were too comic book heavy for mainstream viewers. The plots could be a bit comic book heavy as well. That and I think children were just burned out on SuperFriends by 1985, the whole thing had been around for 12 years at that point. "Challenge" was a great and memorable show no doubt, and DC comic book villains like Lex Luthor and Black Manta were there, but the Legion of Doom tended to formulate rather childish plans to knock off the SuperFriends and rule the planet. Nevertheless a kid today will probably look at this show and still laugh at it while finding a ton of problems with it (because there are problems). "The Super Powers Team" is not nearly as rounded out as the current Justice League animated series. But I remember being blown away by how far the whole SuperFriends deal had come since the stupid early years of the 70s when Wonder Dog or the annoying space monkey Gleek would hang around the Hall of Justice with those kids. A long way indeed. Watch this show, "SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Team", and "Challenge of the SuperFriends". They are the 3 best ones, with "The All-New SuperFriends Hour" and "The Worlds Greatest SuperFriends" being not all that bad and entertaining at times. The worst one remains the original "SuperFriends" from 1973-1977.