World's Greatest Super Friends: Season 4

World's Greatest Super Friends! (Season 4) on DVD Finally gets a Wide Retail Release!
For those fans who missed out on the exclusive Season 4 release of "World's Greatest Super Friends!" from Target, the DVD is now available to order from Amazon (and other retail stores) for a November 12th release date.

Season 4 is comprised of 8 thirty-minute cartoons (about 22 minutes without commercials):

1. "Rub Three Times For Disaster" (Original air date 9/22/79)
2. "Lex Luthor Strikes Back" (Original air date 9/29/79)
3. "Space Knights of Camelon" (Original air date 10/06/79)
4. "The Lord of Middle Earth" (Original air date 10/13/79)
5. "Universe of Evil" (Original air date 10/20/79)
6. "Terror At 20,000 Fathoms" (Original air date 10/27/29)
7. "The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein" (Original air date 11/03/79)
8. "The Planet of OZ" (Original air date 11/10/79)

(1 disc) Total running time approximately 3 hours.

Having already purchased this item from Target, I have to say that the picture and sound...
The Classics and the Super Friends...
This particular season of the Super Friends, out of it's entire 1973-1985 run on Saturday morning, had for so many years been held back from DVD release for whatever reason. A lot of us felt copyright issues had a big influence over the lack of 1979's episodes being available. Apparently the powers that be are fully aware of how sought after this season is that the release has gone through a rather unique process. Available as a Target exclusive several months ago it's now being made available for pre-order on Amazon for a November release (a month AFTER the DVD release of the 1981 short episodes titled "Legacy of Super Powers").

**SPOILERS ARE ABUNDANT**

I love all the episodes! I can't really pick out an absolute favorite but I will lean heavily on the episode titled "Universe of Evil". It's just such a drastically different kind of episode from those have come before and those that came after with the possible exception being the 1985 episode, "The Death of...

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