Super Friends
The Androids
TV Flash files “The Androids” as hour 8 of 16 in the TV Flash guide — Super Friends (1973–1985) on ABC, season 1, episode 8, aired 1973-10-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 16 in the Super Friends guide, hour 8 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1973-10-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Too Hot to Handle” (S01E07). Next is “The Balloon People” (S01E09).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After a rocket came plunging back to Earth and crashed, Colonel Wilcox informs the Super Friends that the astronauts are missing. When Colonel Wilcox and the Super Friends investigated the scene they found a tape recording from a man named Dr. Rebos that said all further space exploration must cease including the top secret Venus probe mission. Conveniently, Clark Kent has been given a television assignment on the Venus space probe in which he attends with Wendy and Marvin. Wonder Dog forgot has pass and stays outside where he's confronted by a man who wants to take his picture. The man is actually Dr. Rebos who is talking picture so he can make an android double of Wonder Dog to infiltrate the space station and destroy the mission. Colonel Wilcox called Wonder Dog a traitor for his sabotage causing Wendy and Marvin to walk out in disgust. The teens figure it could not have been Wonder Dog after recalling the events of the day and decide to do same investigating. Meanwhile, the Super Friends guard the space center unbeknownst to them that Dr. Rebos is watching them to make an android Superman. The Super Friends encounter more confusion when Dr. Rebos makes a robot of Superman, and orders him to destroy the Mars space station. While the real Superman fights his android double, it's up to the rest of the Super Friends pull the plug on Dr. Rebos and his androids.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Androids sit in the Super Friends guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 16 — hour 8 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did Super Friends S01E08 air?
The Androids aired 1973-10-27 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…