______The World´s Greatest SuperFriends_____
Season One. Episode EIGHT.
------The Planet of Oz-----
MXTPLX and the Planet of Oz:
With "The Planet of Oz" we had one of the most memorable episodes of the old 70's and 80´s Superfriends where the villain MXTPLX transports three of them; Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman to the "The Planet of Oz" in order to make them get the necessary ingredients for a special formula during this story inspired in the old 1900´s "The Magical Wizard of Oz" novel by Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow.
MXTPLX: A small individual with God-like powers and that somehow finds entertaining to use his abilities to get Superman and the Superfriends in general into trouble even when 99% of the time it does not even represent a benefit for him (this episode is actually the exception to the rule). An interesting thing about him is that he cannot be beaten by strength, but always by cunning; by making him say his strange name backwards which turns him back to that 5th dimension he says he comes from; that is the reason why he wants the formula for in this episode; to become immune to the effect of saying his name backwards...
A very nice episode and sadly the last one of this particular series of the Superfriends. Everybody has his personal taste, but chances are that if you like the Superfriends, at least one of your favorite episodes comes from "The World´s Greatest Superfriends", which had between its peculiarities a slightly different order of presenting the heroes at the start of every show and to have paid a deserved tribute to some classics of literature.
David del Real.
2018.
------The Planet of Oz-----
MXTPLX and the Planet of Oz:
With "The Planet of Oz" we had one of the most memorable episodes of the old 70's and 80´s Superfriends where the villain MXTPLX transports three of them; Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman to the "The Planet of Oz" in order to make them get the necessary ingredients for a special formula during this story inspired in the old 1900´s "The Magical Wizard of Oz" novel by Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow.
MXTPLX: A small individual with God-like powers and that somehow finds entertaining to use his abilities to get Superman and the Superfriends in general into trouble even when 99% of the time it does not even represent a benefit for him (this episode is actually the exception to the rule). An interesting thing about him is that he cannot be beaten by strength, but always by cunning; by making him say his strange name backwards which turns him back to that 5th dimension he says he comes from; that is the reason why he wants the formula for in this episode; to become immune to the effect of saying his name backwards...
A very nice episode and sadly the last one of this particular series of the Superfriends. Everybody has his personal taste, but chances are that if you like the Superfriends, at least one of your favorite episodes comes from "The World´s Greatest Superfriends", which had between its peculiarities a slightly different order of presenting the heroes at the start of every show and to have paid a deserved tribute to some classics of literature.
David del Real.
2018.
