The All New Super Friends Hour 3-Disc Box Set DVD

The All-New Super Friends Hour is the late-1970s ABC Saturday morning DC Comics ensemble show that continues the Super Friends franchise with Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman, and the broader Justice League roster, taking on a rotating cast of supervillains, alien threats, and lesson-of-the-week social-issue plots. The show ran on ABC across 1977 and 1978 with 14 hour-long episodes that bundle multiple short stories together under one weekly umbrella.

What stands out is the show's specific Super Friends format. Each hour packs three or four short superhero stories alongside lighter-weight feature segments, the lessons embedded in the moral-of-the-week segments are made explicit and on-the-nose, and the action sequences keep the Justice League roster spread across multiple plots inside the same broadcast. The animation has the unmistakable late-70s Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning look, the music leans on bold orchestral hero cues, and the writing keeps each segment tight.

It belongs to the long lineage of Super Friends Saturday morning broadcasts on ABC, the same family of weekly ensemble cartoons that built mornings for an entire arc of DC Comics fans through the 70s and 80s. For Justice League collectors whose library includes the broader Super Friends catalog, this All-New run is the deeper middle of the franchise's late-decade output.

Highlights in the set include "The Brain Machine," "The Secret Four," "Invasion Of The Hydronoids," "The Monster Of Dr. Droid," "The Enforcer," "The Invisible Menace," "Attack Of The Giant Squid," "The Collector," "The 50ft Woman," "Forbidden Power," "The Marsh Monster," and "The Protector," episodes that capture both the show's hero-team plots and its bigger feature-length productions. This 3-DVD collection gathers 14 episodes from across the run, a deep archival home for The All-New Super Friends Hour.