Super Friends
Too Hot to Handle
TV Flash files “Too Hot to Handle” as hour 7 of 16 in the TV Flash guide — Super Friends (1973–1985) on ABC, season 1, episode 7, aired 1973-10-20, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E07: listed hour 7 of 16 in the Super Friends guide, hour 7 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1973-10-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Shamon 'U'” (S01E06). Next is “The Androids” (S01E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With temperatures rising all over the Earth, Colonel Wilcox informs the Super Friends that the rise in temperature is more than a mere heat wave. The top scientist have been working around the clock and found out the Earth is drifting out its orbit. Superman goes to India and seeks the help of fellow Justice League of America member The Flash, who was saving the Taj Mahal from an Earthquake. The Flash uses his super speed to put the Earth back into orbit by reversing the magnetic poles of the Earth. The junior Super Friends notice a strange man who's dressed in heavy warm winter clothes. They chase after the strange dressed man and follow him to his hideout inside an active volcano on a Pacific island called Malibah. They find out the man's name is Kolbar and he comes from the planet Solartararium. Kolbar was trying to find another hot planet for his people to live on when their planet cooled off too heavily because of pollution. Superman, Aquaman, the Junior members, and the Flash journey to Solartararium to clean up the planet.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Too Hot to Handle sit in the Super Friends guide?
S01E07 is listed hour 7 of 16 — hour 7 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 7.
When did Super Friends S01E07 air?
Too Hot to Handle aired 1973-10-20 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Which Super Friends format do I start with?
Any Hall of Justice roll call. Multiple 1970s–80s revamps change sidekicks and helpers; the cereal-hour Justice League is the constant.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Hall of Justice roll call: Hanna-Barbera's Justice League for the cereal crowd, complete with Wonder Twins, sidekick debates, and toyetic team-ups. DC's heroes as Saturday-morning committee. How a generation first met the capes, before the movies made the lore feel expensive and grim.
Open on a roll call. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and allies defend Earth from weekly villains in moral-clear Saturday animation: Super Friends (1973–1985 on ABC), from Hanna-Barbera's DC partnership with E. Nelson Bridwell and Carmine Infantino in the mix, multiple format revamps through the 1970s and 1980s. Danny Dark's Superman, Olan Soule's Batman, Casey Kasem's Robin, Shannon Farnon's Wonder Woman call the Hall of Justice to order. TroubAlert as design icon. Wonder Twins powers activate discourse; Marvin…
Filed against
- Danny Dark as Superman (voice)
Danny Dark voiced Superman on Super Friends — Hall of Justice roll call, Hanna-Barbera’s Justice League for the cereal crowd, Wonder Twins and toyetic team-ups. DC’s heroes as Saturday-morning committee. TV Flash files him as 1970s…
- Olan Soule as Batman (voice)
Olan Soule voiced Batman on Super Friends, Hanna-Barbera’s 1970s Justice League for the cereal crowd — Hall of Justice roll call, Wonder Twins debates, toyetic team-ups. DC’s capes as Saturday-morning committee. TV Flash files him as the…
- Casey Kasem as Robin (voice)
Casey Kasem’s Shaggy Rogers made Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! a coward’s poetry — 1960s catalog van, snacks, rubber masks, then Super Friends keeping the countdown voice in the Hall of Justice. TV Flash files him as the hunger that unmasked…
- Shannon Farnon as Wonder Woman (voice)
Shannon Farnon voiced Wonder Woman on Super Friends as Hall of Justice roll-call steel — Hanna-Barbera's Justice League for the cereal crowd, Wonder Twins, sidekick debates, toyetic team-ups. DC's heroes as Saturday-morning committee. TV…