Super Friends
The Mysterious Moles
TV Flash files “The Mysterious Moles” as a desk essential hour — Super Friends (1973–1985) on ABC, season 1, episode 13, aired 1973-12-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 16 in the Super Friends guide, hour 13 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1973-12-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Menace of the White Dwarf” (S01E12). Next is “Gulliver's Gigantic Goof” (S01E14).
Essential hour: “The Mysterious Moles”. The Mysterious Moles is underground-title committee work. Wonder Twins debates extra-textual; the hour still a generation's first Justice League, before the lore felt expensive.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Important research projects have been closed down, and the Super Friends are called in to find and restore disappearing air conditioning units. The Super Friends' mission leads then into a strange new subterranean world discovered by a pair of spelunkers known as the Moles. They are forced to fight the creatures of that world, animated trees and rocks. The Junior Super Friends investigates and discovers that although Dr. Mole wanted to do the right thing and report their findings to the authorities, his wife deliberately refused. She feared if anyone comes to the world, they could not only steal the diamonds, but also ruin the subterranean world like they're doing to their planet. Only with Superman's intervention in preventing the escape, Mrs. Mole decides to do the right thing.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Mysterious Moles sit in the Super Friends guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 16 — hour 13 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did Super Friends S01E13 air?
The Mysterious Moles aired 1973-12-01 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…