THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER FRIENDS PODCAST: Episode 3

Live the G.E.E.C. life!

Now, we’re cooking with gas.

Batcave Podcast host John S. Drew and I are back with another episode of The World’s Greatest Super Friends Podcast and this one’s a doozy: Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C., which first aired Sept. 22, 1973.

This Super Friends ep was easily the most entertaining of the first three and features the series’ first guest superhero appearance when — spoiler alert — Plastic Man shows up briefly as a sort of ductile deus ex machina.

Here’s John’s description of the ep:

Professor Goodfellow has developed the means to make humanity’s life so much more simpler — the G.E.E.C. — a computer system that will run the world and handle all the tasks that occupy humanity and keep them from reaching their full potential. He offers it for free to the world when the US government passes on getting involved. At first, it all seems fine, until a malfunction causes worldwide havoc. While Superman and Aquaman race to rescue as many people as possible, Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman must infiltrate the G.E.E.C complex and shut the computer down.

You can click here to listen to the podcast episode or check it out on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or other places you get awesome podcasts.

MORE

— THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER FRIENDS PODCAST: Episode 1. Click here.

— THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER FRIENDS PODCAST: Episode 2. Click here.

Author: Dan Greenfield

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  1. The show in question was ABC & Filmation’s biggest failure, “Uncle Crock’s Block”, an unfunny one-hour live-action comedy show. The show was the biggest ratings disaster of the 1975-76 season. The show was cancelled mid-season and the Super Friends was rushed in as a mid-season replacement. As a result of “Uncle Crock’s Block” ABC permanently severed all ties from Filmation. The studio never had another series on ABC ever again. As a person who remembers “Uncle Croc’s Block”, as flawed as first season Super Friends was, ABC made the right call. “Uncle Crock’s Block” was *SO* much worse!

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