E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz (consultants)
Based on
Justice League by
Gardner Fox
Written by
Jeffrey Scott
Directed by
Ray Patterson Carl Urbano
Creative director
Iwao Takamoto
Voices of
Jack Angel Marlene Aragon Michael Bell Bill Callaway Ted Cassidy Danny Dark Shannon Farnon Ruth Forman Buster Jones Stanley Jones Casey Kasem Don Messick Vic Perrin Stanley Ross Dick Ryal Michael Rye Olan Soule Jimmy Weldon Frank Welker Louise Williams
Narrated by
William Woodson
Theme music composer
Hoyt Curtin
Composer
Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
16 (32 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer
Don Jurwich
Cinematography
George Epperson Tom Epperson Charles Flekal Ron Jackson Jerry Smith Larry Smith Terry Smith Brandy Whittington Jerry Whittington
Editor
Larry C. Cowan (supervising editor)
Running time
45 minutes (20 minutes per segment)
Production companies
Hanna-Barbera Productions DC Comics
Original release
Network
ABC
Release
September 9 (1978-09-09) – December 23, 1978 (1978-12-23)
Related
Super Friends (1973)
The All-New Super Friends Hour
The World's Greatest SuperFriends
Super Friends (1980)
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
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Challenge of the Superfriends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9 to December 23, 1978, on ABC.[1] The complete series (16 episodes) was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977.[2]
^Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part I: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 275–278. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 802–804. ISBN 978-1476665993.
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