005: "Dr. Pelagian's War"
12/01/19 • 53 min
"Dr. Pelagian's War"
Aired: October 6, 1973
A Nemo-esque environmentalist demands the world's industrialists change their polluting ways or face the consequences. And then it's a race against time as the Super Friends must "convince" three holdouts.
While the last episode didn't meet with Dan Greenfield of 13th Dimension's approval, he has to admit that this may be the best of the first five stories and it does have a lot going for it. Together, they discuss the origin of the name Pelagian, the darker tones this episode takes while also having some of the best humorous bits to date, the importance and strength of Aquaman in this first season, and his unexplained relationship with Pelagian.
John references The Ultimate Super Friends Companion by Will Rodgers. Check it out for yourself by purchasing a copy via Amazon.
Dan Greenfield is the editor and co-creator of 13thDimension.com, a website devoted primarily to comics and pop culture, past and present. To him, the basic food groups are Batman, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek (the Original Series), James Bond, the Beatles and the Stones. But if he had to he'd be able to subsist on Batman alone. Channel 11 in New York was his favorite syndicated channel as a kid -- you can guess why -- followed closely by Channel 5. Channel 9 didn't really enter into it unless he was home sick and there wasn't much else on. He's married to his remarkably patient wife Wendy and his best sidekick is his son, Sam. They have two cats,Lex and Zod.
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"Dr. Pelagian's War"
Aired: October 6, 1973
A Nemo-esque environmentalist demands the world's industrialists change their polluting ways or face the consequences. And then it's a race against time as the Super Friends must "convince" three holdouts.
While the last episode didn't meet with Dan Greenfield of 13th Dimension's approval, he has to admit that this may be the best of the first five stories and it does have a lot going for it. Together, they discuss the origin of the name Pelagian, the darker tones this episode takes while also having some of the best humorous bits to date, the importance and strength of Aquaman in this first season, and his unexplained relationship with Pelagian.
John references The Ultimate Super Friends Companion by Will Rodgers. Check it out for yourself by purchasing a copy via Amazon.
Dan Greenfield is the editor and co-creator of 13thDimension.com, a website devoted primarily to comics and pop culture, past and present. To him, the basic food groups are Batman, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek (the Original Series), James Bond, the Beatles and the Stones. But if he had to he'd be able to subsist on Batman alone. Channel 11 in New York was his favorite syndicated channel as a kid -- you can guess why -- followed closely by Channel 5. Channel 9 didn't really enter into it unless he was home sick and there wasn't much else on. He's married to his remarkably patient wife Wendy and his best sidekick is his son, Sam. They have two cats,Lex and Zod.
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004: "The Weathermaker"
"The Weathermaker"
Aired: September 30, 1973
A series of freak weather events around the Florida panhandle keeps the Super Friends busy as they must answer a series of weather-related emergency calls. But what is causing it? Batman and Robin are kept on the move as they track down the perpetrator, Dr. Thinkwik.
This may turn out to be the shortest episode of the podcast. Despite John's saying he enjoyed the story, he couldn't really explain why and Dan Greenfield of 13th Dimension wasn't giving him anything to work with as he didn't care for the episode. They do discuss the ever changing powers of Wonder Woman in the series, the tell, don't show aspect of many scenes in this first season, and they debate Wonder Dog vs. Gleek.
John references The Ultimate Super Friends Companion by Will Rodgers. Check it out for yourself by purchasing a copy via Amazon.
Dan Greenfield is the editor and co-creator of 13thDimension.com, a website devoted primarily to comics and pop culture, past and present. To him, the basic food groups are Batman, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek (the Original Series), James Bond, the Beatles and the Stones. But if he had to he'd be able to subsist on Batman alone. Channel 11 in New York was his favorite syndicated channel as a kid -- you can guess why -- followed closely by Channel 5. Channel 9 didn't really enter into it unless he was home sick and there wasn't much else on. He's married to his remarkably patient wife Wendy and his best sidekick is his son, Sam. They have two cats,Lex and Zod.
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Filmation Files: Aquaman - "Menace of the Black Manta"
Aquaman
"Menace of the Black Manta"
September 9, 1967
We take a slight detour from our look at the Super Friends with the precursor to the series, the Filmation cartoons. The DC Universe was covered on television from 1966-1969 on CBS television with most of the major heroes given their own venue to shine, and among them was Aquaman.
John and Dan discuss the first episode shown in his adventures. It's completely different from their look at Filmation's Batman and that's not a bad thing. They talk about the frenetic pace of the story, Bob Haney, the writer of the episode as well as of the comic book at the time, and how cool a villain Black Manta is.
Join us in a few weeks as we return with a new Super Friends review, "The Shaman U" and follow that up with a look at one of the Filmation Justice League of America stories.
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