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The Power Pirate was the first episode of the first season of the Super Friends series. It introduced the characters Marvin White, who is the son of Daniel and Diana White, and Wendy Harris, who is the niece of Harvey Harris, a famous Gotham City police detective that helped train Batman in the art of criminal investigation. Wonder Dog is also introduced here, and his voice is provided by Frank Welker.

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  • The Power Pirate
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  • The Power Pirate was the first episode of the first season of the Super Friends series. It introduced the characters Marvin White, who is the son of Daniel and Diana White, and Wendy Harris, who is the niece of Harvey Harris, a famous Gotham City police detective that helped train Batman in the art of criminal investigation. Wonder Dog is also introduced here, and his voice is provided by Frank Welker.
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  • 1973-09-08(xsd:date)
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  • Ski Valley and Gotham City, 1976
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  • The Power Pirate was the first episode of the first season of the Super Friends series. It introduced the characters Marvin White, who is the son of Daniel and Diana White, and Wendy Harris, who is the niece of Harvey Harris, a famous Gotham City police detective that helped train Batman in the art of criminal investigation. Wonder Dog is also introduced here, and his voice is provided by Frank Welker. This episode saw the return of Olan Soule and Casey Kasem to the voice roles of Batman and Robin, which they had previously done in The Batman/Superman Hour, The Adventures of Batman, and in two episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies. The Narrator, Ted Knight, also returned from the Filmation series to provide his voice. Bud Collyer, who had provided the voice for Superman in the Filmation shows, had died in 1969, and he was replaced by Danny Dark in this series. Norman Alden replaced Marvin Miller as the voice of Aquaman. Shannon Farnon was also the voice of Wonder Woman, who was previously played by the voice actress Jane Webb in The Brady Kids, making this episode only her second animated appearance. This episode is the pilot of the series and it introduced the first of more lighthearted adventures of the Justice League of America. Although the Filmation series weren't really any darker, they were still more violent and featured more adult content then what was allowed for Broadcasting Standards and Practices by the 1970s. For example, real firearms were used in the Filmation cartoons, whereas the few times you would see a gun in Super Friends, it would be a ray gun almost always. Also, the characters rarely engaged in realistic Hand-to-Hand combat in the show, although in the Filmation cartoons, the superheroes are seen punching the bad guys quite frequently. In one episode in particular, Superman actually kills the villain of the story when he defeats him. With Super Friends, particularly in season one, the violence was toned down dramatically. The "villains" weren't really bad guys. They were barely antagonists, but served more as characters that needed to be taught some kind of moral lesson. In fact most of the bad guys were misguided scientists trying to make the world a better place but going to extreme methods to do so. For the first story, the "villain" is an alien called the Power Pirate, who steals energy from Earth in order to bring it back to his homeworld.
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