Episode

Super Friends: Journey into Blackness / The Cycle Gang / Dive to Disaster

Name: Super Friends: Journey into Blackness / The Cycle Gang / Dive to Disaster
Released: 1980-09-20
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Danny Dark, Casey Kasem, Shannon Farnon, Olan Soule, Michael Bell

Super FriendsSuper Friends - A Dangerous Fate1980-09-20

Overview

Journey into Blackness: While monitoring the galaxy from his impenetrable Fortress of Solitude, Superman notices a black hole that is going to suck up the Earth. Superman attempts to stop it, but gets himself pulled into the black hole. The Cycle Gang: The Highway Angels, a motorcycle gang, start tormenting a senior citizen and his grandson. When the Wonder Twins try to help they have a hard time dealing with the cycle gang and the danger at hand. Wonder Woman sees the twins and gives them assistance. Dive to Disaster: Several miles off the coast of Hawaii, a routine Navy mission becomes a nightmare when a submarine's controls short circuits and the nuclear reactor starts to overload. Black Vulcan and Aquaman try to help, but are attacked by nuclear mutated sea creatures.

Details

Series: Super Friends
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 2
Air date: 1980-09-20
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

Journey into Blackness / The Cycle Gang / Dive to Disaster is Episode 2 in Super Friends - A Dangerous Fate of Super Friends. It aired on 1980-09-20. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 1: Big Foot / The Ice Demon / The Make-Up Monster 1980-09-13 | 60 min Big Foot: Apache Chief and few of his fellow braves are captured by alien creatures resembling the legendary Bigfoot. Batman and Robin try to help, but are also captured. After they escape and defeat the creatures, the Super Friends learn that they were merely trying to seek information to repair their spacecraft. The Ice Demon: While on a skiing vacation, the Wonder Twins literally bump into a pair of reckless teenagers and wind up in an ice cave inhabited by an Ice Demon. Only Superman can save them. Luckily, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are nearby. The Make-Up Monster: A disgruntled make-up man on the set of a movie discovers a formula that allows him to make himself up into any powerful monster he chooses. With the formula, he wreaks havoc and wrecks the movie studio and only the Super Friends dare to challenge him.

Episode 3: Yuna the Terrible / Rock and Roll Space Bandits / Elevator to Nowhere 1980-09-27 | 60 min Yuna the Terrible: A group of archaeologists accidentally releases Yuna the Terrible and her barbarian warriors. Batman and Robin responds to a distress call but get captured by Yuna's warriors. Wonder Woman and Apache Chief respond to the Batman's distress call. Rock and Roll Space Bandits: A group of Rock and Roll Space Bandits paralyze the Super Friends and invade a major city on Earth using their hypnotic music. The Wonder Twins come to the rescue, but get hypnotized. Wonder Woman helps the rest of the Super Friends get free and they rush off to stop the musical menaces. Batman uses a device to stop the sound waves. Elevator to Nowhere: Streaking in the Invisible Jet, Wonder Woman and the Atom answer a distress call on the emergency scanner from a Dr. Wells. Wells' call was actually a trap to get Wonder Woman and the Atom to test out his new time machine.

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