| rdfs:comment | - The Androids is the eighth episode of the first season of the Super Friends. The episode focused on a NASA's space program at Cape Courageous, a fictional space launch site. In the real world there had only been six manned missions to the moon, but in this episode, apparently being in the near future, there were 19, with the 20th to launch unsuccessfully. We also get to see some android duplicates of various people, including Superman and Wonder Dog. This is one of several times that robots appear in the Super Friends series.
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| abstract | - The Androids is the eighth episode of the first season of the Super Friends. The episode focused on a NASA's space program at Cape Courageous, a fictional space launch site. In the real world there had only been six manned missions to the moon, but in this episode, apparently being in the near future, there were 19, with the 20th to launch unsuccessfully. This episode also shows that a base is on Mars. Even if this episode was supposedly set in the near future, which it can be assumed that it was, this prediction is way off, because even in the 2010s there has yet to be a manned mission to Mars, let alone a base on Mars. But it should be noted that in a world where superheroes exist, it's not that big of a stretch to believe such a thing would be impossible. Doctor Rebos, the villain of the story, is man who believes that the space program should be sabotaged due to the fact that there are more problems on Earth that need to be dealt with before mankind should spread out into the stars. This is a belief held by many people in the real world, who believe that too much money is being spent on the space program and not enough money to help people in the world that are in need. We also get to see some android duplicates of various people, including Superman and Wonder Dog. This is one of several times that robots appear in the Super Friends series. This episode also references the Galaxy Broadcasting System, which is a Galaxy Communications company. GBS was a company that was owned by the same conglomerate that owned the Daily Planet in the 1970s comic books, which is why Clark Kent is seen here working for them. Here, this is the first time it is referenced in the Super Friends Universe, as in the Filmation cartoons, Kent was always seen working for the Daily Planet alone, but that changed when Galaxy Communications purchased the company.
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