The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

1985

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

7.4 | en | Animation

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1985 to 1986. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.

WATCH FREEFOR 30 DAYS

All Prime Video
Cancel anytime

Watch Now

Seasons & Episodes

EP10 The Death of Superman

Nov. 06,1985

The entire Super Powers Team as well as the entire world gathers to grieve over the tragic death of their most powerful hero. Superman has died due to an over exposure to Kryptonite while on a space mission. Firestorm, who was with Superman at the time is hardest hit and most vulnerable. Darkseid captures him and forces the details behind Superman's demise. Meanwhile, some of the heroes journey to the Fortress of Solitude to sort through Superman's things and they learn from one of the robot guards about a Kryptonian trance and that Superman may still be alive, which is great news considering Darkseid has taken over the Hall of Justice and has captured the rest of the Super Powers Team.

EP9 Escape From Space City

Oct. 30,1985

Darkseid sees great opportunity to take over Star City, the first city in space built by Japanese billionaire Industrialist Dr. Moko. When Batman, Samaraui, and Firestorm journey up to the city, they and Moko's daughter are unaware that Moko has been captured and replaced by a robot duplicate. Meanwhile, Superman and Wonder Woman join Aquaman who has found an odd island which is not only Darkseid's base of operations, but a trap set for them. Batman, Samaraui, Firestorm, and Moko's daughter are forced to flee through Star City with the robot workers being contolled by Kalibak and Desaad. Their only chance is to cut off the power and black out the city.

EP8 The Case of the Stolen Powers

Oct. 16,1985

Felix Faust uses his magic to steal Superman's powers to transfer them to himself. But his cellmate, the Penguin jumps in the way and acquires them for himself. While the Penguin keeps the Super Powers Team busy with his super powered crime wave, Felix Faust conjures up spirits to capture the bird and get the Man of Steel's powers for himself.

EP7 Brainchild

Oct. 16,1985

While attending a science fair with Ronald Raymond (Firestorm), Cyborg is captured by robots and is taken to a starship owned by Brainiac who uses Cyborg as his latest experiment. When Superman and Firestorm arrive, they have to battle a giant robot that Brainiac built to destroy them and Brainiac has transferred Cyborg's mind into the robot.

EP6 The Wild Cards

Oct. 09,1985

A new villain called Ace recruits four young thieves and turns them into Super Villains called the Royal Flush Gang. With their new powers, they are able to capture Superman, Wonder Woman, and Firestorm. Ace is in cohoots with Darkseid, and things really get wild when Batman, Robin, and Cyborg raid their hideout. Batman also discovers that Ace is really his arch foe, the Joker, a rather unlikely foe to team up with Darkseid.

EP5 The Fear

Oct. 02,1985

The Scarecrow is plaguing Gotham City with his fear transmitters, but he has to contend with Batman and Robin, Gotham's Guardians. Batman has always been known as the man with no fear, but when he chases the Scarecrow into a certain alley, he is paralyzed with terror. The alley is none other than Crime Alley where years ago, Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents and guided his destination to becoming Batman. The Scarecrow plans to take advantage of this and captures Robin and Wonder Woman and uses them as bait to set a trap for Batman. The Caped Crusader now has to not only battle the Scarecrow, but his own fear as well.

EP4 The Darkseid Deception

Sep. 25,1985

The Super Powers Team has to search for Col. Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman's love interest who vanishes, but he shortly reappears and returns to Earth with no one knowing that Col Trevor has been captured and replaced by Darkseid who uses a molecular reconfigurator to impersonate Col. Trevor. The masquerade is to get a hold of the TC7 satellite, which Darksied plans to use as part of his plan to mutate the Earth and take it over. As a bonus, Darkseid also abducts Wonder Woman. So our heroes have two people to rescue and a satellite to retrieve.

EP3 The Bizarro Super Powers Team

Sep. 18,1985

Bizarro #1 decides that Bizarroworld needs more heroes than just Bizarro Supermen so he takes a duplicator ray to Earth and finding the right three heroes, he makes Bizarro duplicates of Wonder Woman, Firestorm, and Cyborg. All Bizarro #1 wants to do is take them back to protect Bizarroworld, but Mr. Mxyzptlk has other plans when he arrives on Earth and wants to have fun. He insists that before Bizarro #1 takes them back, they need training as Super Heroes and with their backwards minds, they wreak havoc on Earth. The Super Powers Team realizes that they will have to get rid of the imp in order for the Bizarros to go home.

EP2 The Ghost Ship

Sep. 18,1985

While being pursued by Darkseid in space, Superman, Firestorm, and Cyborg take shelter in a gigantic space ship. They discover a female being who seems to cast her image all over. She is a princess who uses holograms to scare pirates away. Her planet was destroyed and she keeps the population of her people in her locket. Darkseid learns of this and plans to steal the locket. Superman's powers are cut in half due to the orange sun in the galaxy they are in.

EP1 The Seeds of Doom

Sep. 11,1985

Cyborg uses his metallic powers to single handedly apprehend Lex Luthor. The Super Powers Team is so impressed, they invite him to join the team, but Cyborg declines. Firestorm, who would like have someone his own age on the team learns about Cyborg, how he came to be and that he only wants to be left alone. The metallic hero reluctantly winds up working with the Super Powers Team when they discover giant seed pods that Darkseid's Parademons have placed all over the Earth. The seeds will sprout and crack the Earth's crust and eventually will change Earth into a second Apokolips. To stop Darkseid's plan, Cyborg reluctantly accompanies Wonder Woman and Firestorm to Apokolips to find the source of the seeds and destroy them. In the end, Cyborg finally joins the team.

7.4 | en | Animation , Sci-Fi | More Info

Released: 1985-09-07 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.batmanytb.com/animated/tsptgg/

Synopsis

Stream Online

The tv show is currently not available onine

Cast

Casey Kasem , Jack Angel , B.J. Ward

Director

Joseph Barbera

Producted By

Watch Free for 30 Days

All Prime Video Movies and TV Shows. Cancel anytime.

Watch Now

Cast

Casey Kasem

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey Scooby-Doo! and the Robots Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! What's New Scooby-Doo? Vol. 10: Monstrous Tails Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!

Jack Angel

Noah I Know That Voice Despicable Me 2 The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow The Lorax The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol Toy Story 3 Heavy Metal Mater Unidentified Flying Mater

B.J. Ward

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase Night of the Living Doo Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost Voltron: The Third Dimension Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island A Flintstones Christmas Carol The Pagemaster

Reviews

voicemaster71 I voted Challenge of the SuperFriends as the best series for the SuperFriends with the All New SuperFriends Hour as second best. But the Super Powers Team beats all of them in terms of story lines and animation quality. In fact, I could consider the Super Powers Team a complete series by itself away from the SuperFriends shows because of new animation and updated character designs to resemble the Kenner toy figures as well as the current 80's look of the heroes designed by Garcia Lopez. With the exception of four shows, most of these episodes were all full half hour stories. The Ghost Ship, Bizarro Super Powers Team, Brainchild, and the Case of the Stolen Powers were shorter in length. We see more characterization in this series. I was already familiar with the newly introduced Cyborg from reading the New Teen Titans comics. Ernie Hudson did a great job as a distraught bionic being who initially wanted nothing more than to be left alone. And his friendship with recent recruit Firestorm is most memorable. His introduction in the Seeds of Doom was well done. Wonder Woman has had another change of voice again. But this time, it was for the better. BJ Ward has voiced over many heroic female characters, so it's no surprise that she would voice over Wonder Woman at some time or another and in this show, her voice actually fits the newer character design. We also get to see Steve Trevor in an active role in the Darkseid Deception. We see the return of Darkseid, Kalibak, and Desaad and we encounter the Parademons in this series. Lex Luthor makes an appearance as does Brainiac and Mr. Mxyztplk. Bizarro returns only this time he's more likable and voiced over by Danny Dark and he is known as Bizarro number one. The Scarecrow also returns and the for the first time ever, which we never saw on the SuperFriends, we see the Joker, The Penguin, Felix Faust, and the Royal Flush Gang. In addition, another element that was never seen on the SuperFriends but included in this show, were Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, Batman and Robin's secret identities along with Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, and Professor Jonathan crane (Scarecrow). In this series, there is only one flaw. While the Wonder Twins, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief have been wisely removed fro this series, the Justice League members, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman were reinstated, but they were barely used. Flash only said some lines in one episode, but we never saw his super speed. And the others were active one episode each with Aquaman appearing in the final episode, Escape From Space City. Oddly enough, Samuraui and El Dorado (in cameo only) were a part of this series while the other ethnic players from the SuperFriends were removed. The two best episodes you'll ever find in this series are: The Death of Superman, an excellent dramatic story and the only one with every single Super Powers member present. Even the Flash and El Dorado. The other one is my all time favorite one. The Fear, which tells the origin of Batman on film for the first time. And even though we're used to seeing him play a comical campy Batman, Adam West has proved in this series that he can portray (at least in voice) a more serious, slightly grimmer Batman, whose new design has the longer ears and the cape billowing over him. I really felt Adam West voicing over Batman really gave the Super Powers Team as well as the previous SuperFriends show some real value and this series needs to be released on DVD.For the most part, the stars of the Super Powers Team are Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Firestorm, and Cyborg while the other heroes are merely in the background more or less. I never could understand "Galactic Guardians" in the title. The Super Powers Team is enough. It's also a shame this particular series did not run a second year. But it is still a great series in terms of animation quality and story lines. I give it two thumbs up.

klhawki I, too, loved this show because for the first time, the characters on this series were far more realistic than any series previously made of this genre. All too often, cartoons of this nature tended to be far too one-dimensional to be truly entertaining. The plots and scripts from action cartoons of this genre from the 60's and 70's had virtually effort put into them by the writers. The D.C and Marvel-based cartoons from those earlier eras were really nothing more than carbon-copies of other similar shows from the Saturday morning lineups. Shows such as "The Herculoids", "Space Ghost", "The Avengers", and others were entertaining to a degree, but they all had one thing in common- they lacked realistic and good character-driven plots that could keep viewers interested from week to week. It was a pleasant surprise to many of us to see this trend slowly end with the newest incarnations of the Justice League in the late 70's and 80's. For the first time, the "Galactic Guardians" shows in 1985 were a refreshing change from what we were used to seeing from the standard fare Saturday morning shows in the 1960's and 70's. The characters were not nearly as one-dimensional, and the plots actually had some thought put behind them. For cartoon lovers like myself, it was a time to finally rejoice in watching superheroes in a cartoon that actually were "human", and had something of substance that we could, and would, want to relate to. The other thing that needs to be said, is the work of outstanding voice-over legends in the business like Michael Bell, Michael Rye, Danny Dark, and others that were the best at what they did. Without great voice talents like those, no cartoon can truly be successful and "legendary" like this one is.

Cinema_Lover Now this is how you make an animated series based on superheroes. "Super Powers Team: The Galactic Gaurdians" aired in 1985-'86 and it was the last SuperFriends show based on the Justice League of America from the 1973-1986 run. In my opinion, this was also head and shoulders the best. The animation is greatly improved from any earlier SuperFriends show. The characters act like mature adults, and a few of them even have some distinct personalities that separate them from the rest of the JLA. There were also no stupid teenage tag along like Wendy & Marvin or Zan & Jayna on this show. And thankfully, no stupid animals like Wonder Dog or Gleek. A new character Cyborg is introduced, he is an African American teenager, but he is not a silly background extra that screws up and gets captured repeatedly so Superman and Green Lantern could come save the day the way the previous non-White heroes (Black Vulcan/Lightning, Samurai, and Apache Chief) did on the other shows. Cyborg is a great character that is not a cardboard cut out of Superman. Firestorm is back from the "Super Powers" series from the previous year, and he too is in top form. Wonder Woman acts, well like a woman and we see her life more fleshed out. Superman even behaves more adult like and does not have the ridiculous God-like powers he had in the 70s. The Batman in this show is more in line with the comic book character.Here Batman behaves like a very mature grown man, a man that is tormented over his compulsion to go out and fight crime. He is also a detective in this show like he should be, and not a blundering buffoon that pulls out all kinds of stupid gadgets from that little utility belt. 'The Fear' is a stand out episode that illustrates the difference in Batman in this show from the previous SuperFriends. It is ironic that this Batman is the most serious, since he is voiced by Adam West who played the idiot Batman in the 1960s TV series. Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Samurai don't get a whole lot of time devoted to them, but at least they don't do anything embarrassing. The JLA team primarily butts heads with the villainous Darkseid and his cronies Dessad and Kavlik, but the Joker and Scarecrow turn up in two episodes as well. I always get the feeling that the two "Super Powers Team" series from the mid 80s doesn't have the incredibly loyal Gen Xer following that 1978's "Challenge of the SuperFriends" enjoys because Darkseid and Dessad were too comic book heavy for mainstream viewers. The plots could be a bit comic book heavy as well. That and I think children were just burned out on SuperFriends by 1985, the whole thing had been around for 12 years at that point. "Challenge" was a great and memorable show no doubt, and DC comic book villains like Lex Luthor and Black Manta were there, but the Legion of Doom tended to formulate rather childish plans to knock off the SuperFriends and rule the planet. Nevertheless a kid today will probably look at this show and still laugh at it while finding a ton of problems with it (because there are problems). "The Super Powers Team" is not nearly as rounded out as the current Justice League animated series. But I remember being blown away by how far the whole SuperFriends deal had come since the stupid early years of the 70s when Wonder Dog or the annoying space monkey Gleek would hang around the Hall of Justice with those kids. A long way indeed. Watch this show, "SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Team", and "Challenge of the SuperFriends". They are the 3 best ones, with "The All-New SuperFriends Hour" and "The Worlds Greatest SuperFriends" being not all that bad and entertaining at times. The worst one remains the original "SuperFriends" from 1973-1977.

AladdinsGenie The Super Powers show was one of my favoite show that there was on in the 80's next to Transformers. I though that this show was a lot better then any of the other Super Friends show. I which they had keep it on for a little longer. Cause they could use super heros like. Green Arrow, Dr. Fate,Capt. Marvel and villins in the show like Mantis,Steppenwolf & Mr. freeze like they did with the toys. One of my fav. episo was The Fear were they told Batman's story and a nother fav. was The Death of Superman. My fav. super powers members were and still are.BATMAN FIRESTORM ROBIN AQUAMAN/FLASH GREEN LANTERN HAWKMANTodays JLA is good but it's not like the old one. Batman & Superman were good friend in the old Superfriends/Super Powers show and today they don't really like each other. And also the way they have Aquaman on the new JLA. I really don't like. So the old is better then the new.