Season 3: 1978
| # | Title | Original Airdate(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Wanted: The Super Friends" | September 9, 1978 (1978-09-09) |
| Lex Luthor forms a criminal gang called "The Legion of Doom" and uses a dream-machine to make the Super Friends commit crimes. When the Super Friends are forced to turn themselves into police headquarters, the guards reveal themselves to be Bizzaro and Cheetah who send the Super Friends to the sun while the Legion of Doom commit profitable robberies. | ||
| 2 | "Invasion of the Fearians" | September 16, 1978 (1978-09-16) |
| Captain Cold recruits the Fearians (inhibitants of Venus) to help the Legion of Doom take over the world and destroy the Super Friends. The Fearians say that the Legion has to make the environment suitable for Fearian life-forms first so, Captain Cold freezes the world and when Flash defrosts it, great quantities of steam making the temperature higher, Black Manta sets fire to an island and when Aquaman uses a great tidal wive to put out the flames, the water floods inlands, making more plants grow and finally, Sinestro sends comets to the Earth and when Green Lantern moves the earth out of its usual orbit place to save it, the temperature rises even higher. The Fearians can now enter Earth. | ||
| 3 | "The World’s Deadliest Game" | September 23, 1978 (1978-09-23) |
| Brainiac uses a cloaking device to make the Earth look to disappear and when Hawkman, Wonder Woman and Black Vulcan are in space trying to find the earth, Toyman sends a phony distress message that leads them to his sinister planet of toy traps while The Riddler uses his super-riddles to lead the other Super Friends on a wild goose-chase that sends them to their doom. | ||
| 4 | "The Time Trap" | September 30, 1978 (1978-09-30) |
| Gorilla Grodd invents a time conveyor to allow anyone to travel through time. Black Manta and Giganta trap Aquaman and Apache Chief in 70,000,000 B.C and rob the diamond mines of South Africa, Sinestro and Captain Cold trap Green Lantern and Samurai in 500 A.D and rob King Arthur while Grodd and Solomon Grundy trap Batman and Robin in Ancient Rome and rob Caesar, the emperor. | ||
| 5 | "Trial of the Super Friends" | October 7, 1978 (1978-10-07) |
| Batman,Robin,Wonder Woman and Green Lantern guard the liquid light in the Astro Chemical Research Plant. Cheetah secretly steals Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, Brainiac steals Green Lantern's power ring and Scarecrow steals Batman and Robin's utility belts. The villains escape and the Hall of Doom puts the four heroes on a kangaroo trial and Sinestro uses the power devices stolen by the three villains as proof to prove the Super Friends are guilty. Brainiac punishes them and the other Super Friends must save them before its too late. | ||
| 6 | "Monolith Of Evil" | October 14, 1978 (1978-10-14) |
| Solomon Grundy convinces the Legion of Doom to find a "Monolith of Evil" which gave him his powers. But when four of the Legion's members can't retrieve it, The Riddler tricks the Super Friends into "helping" them retrieve it. | ||
| 7 | "The Giants Of Doom" | October 21, 1978 (1978-10-21) |
| Bizzaro creates a "giant ray" that turns anyone into 100-foot giants and uses it to make himself, Sinestro, Toyman and Captain Cold giants and each of them take over a continent in the world. | ||
| 8 | "Secret Origins of the Super Friends" | October 28, 1978 (1978-10-28) |
| Lex Luthor decides to travel back in time and prevent Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman from existing. Cheetah cheats in a tournament and becomes Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor becomes Green Lantern and the Legion of Doom prevents Kal-El from becoming Superman. The other Super Friends must put things back to normal before the Legion takes over the world. | ||
| 9 | "Revenge On Gorilla City" | November 4, 1978 (1978-11-04) |
| Gorilla Grodd uses Brainiac's brain-wave amplifiers which can control anyone in a 100-mile radius and uses it to take over Gorilla City (a society of super-intelligent apes). Solovar, king of Gorilla City, escapes and asks the Super Friends for their aid in stopping Grodd. | ||
| 10 | "Swamp of the Living Dead" | November 11, 1978 (1978-11-11) |
| The Legion of Doom makes a deal with an old swamp sorceress and her demon - An equivalent amount of the power of good in exchange for an equivalent amount of the power of evil. In order to gain that power of evil, the Legion decides to give the demon the Super Friends as the power of good. | ||
| 11 | "Conquerors of the Future" | November 18, 1978 (1978-11-18) |
| The Legion of Doom travels far into the future to finally conquer the universe. | ||
| 12 | "The Final Challenge" | November 25, 1978 (1978-11-25) |
| Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Black Manta, Cheetah, Scarecrow, Riddler, Batman, Apache Chief, Bizzaro and Superman are sent to another universe to engage in a series of contests and the losers will be eliminated while the other Super Friends and Legion of Doom search for their missing colleagues. | ||
| 13 | "Fairy Tale Of Doom" | December 2, 1978 (1978-12-02) |
| Toyman develops a device that can project anyone into the pages of a storybook. He forces Hawkman to chase him into Jack and the Beanstalk, Cheetah forces Wonder Woman to chase her into Alice in Wonderland and Brainiac forces Superman to chase him into Gulliver's Travels and the three villains trap the three Super Friends in the three treacherous fairy tales. | ||
| 14 | "Doomsday" | December 9, 1978 (1978-12-09) |
| The Legion of Doom deserts Sinestro, Black Manta and Cheetah after a failed mission and the three villains decide to kill the Legion of Doom for betrayal. | ||
| 15 | "Super Friends: Rest in Peace" | December 16, 1978 (1978-12-16) |
| The Legion of Doom uses a crystal called "Noxium" to kill all of the Super Friends. | ||
| 16 | "History Of Doom" | December 23, 1978 (1978-12-23) |
| Three mystical beings visit earth and try to reverse the damage caused by the Legion of Doom which destroyed the entire Earth. |
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