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The All-New Super Friends Hour, Disc 3
- One Dimensional Goodness: The Super Friends and the Good Old Days (14:33) - includes comments from a number of industry professionals, animation historians, and others who talk candidly about Super Friends and its very limited approach to storytelling; specifically, rigid creative boundaries tightened by studio execs and advocacy groups after a wave of backlash from "unacceptable" 60s-era animation that offended while marketing toys to children.
- Origins of the Guest Stars (8:29) - Featurettes talks about the show's dependence of using deeper-cut DC characters for variety's sake.
- The Wonder Twins Phenomenon (12:08) - Everything you wanted to know about Zan, Jayna, and their infamous pet monkey Gleek.
Super Friends! (1978), Disc 2
- The Ballad of Zan and Jayna [Wonder Twin Powers Activate] (4:06) - "80s power ballad" music video celebrates everyone's favorite brother-and-sister duo.
- Pajama-Rama: Super Friends Retrospective (11:55) - This slightly more substantial piece serves as a nostalgic tribute to Saturday mornings of yore and features comments from actors, pop culture authors, and other fans, all appropriately clad in pajamas with their favorite sugar cereals close at hand.
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
- Audio Commentaries - Individual audio commentaries for "The Wrath of Brainiac", "No Honor Among Thieves", "The Mask of Mystery", "The Case of the Dreadful Dolls", and "The Royal Ruse" featuring DC writer Mark Waid (who participates in all five), producer John Semper Jr., writer Glenn Leopold, and writer Rich Fogel.
- Evolution: New Heroes, Viler Villains, and Ethnic Additions (17:44) - Much like the first featurette included here, this retrospective piece offers context and featuring first-hand participants including Gerry Conway (creator of Firestorm), executive editor and DC senior editor Dan DiDio, writer and DC historian Mark Waid, writer Glenn Leopold, and several others, all of whom speak about the noticeable changes made to the show's format, voice cast, and character roster in 1984.
- The Super Powers Collection: The Effect of the Toy Industry on the Super Friends (7:37) - First-hand comments from professionals and historians about the changing landscape of the toy industry as it pertained to kids' entertainment at the time.
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
- Super Friends Redux: Galactic Guardians (11:10) - Mark Waid, writer Rich Fogel, Dan DiDio, DC president Paul Levitz, writer Alan Burnett, and others discuss more changes made for this last incarnation of classic Super Friends including character redesigns, brand-new faces such as Cyborg, continued appeals to the ever-growing toy market, and of course the stories' further trips into darker territory .
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