History Series / LegendsOfTheSuperheroes

* AdaptedOut: This version of the Justice League doesn't have Superman and Wonder Woman as members, as their use was restricted by Superman having [[Film/SupermanTheMovie his own movie just a year before]] and Wonder Woman [[Series/WonderWoman1975 having her own television show airing on CBS]].

* CoconutSuperpowers: One of the biggest pitfalls of the specials is the fact that they're live-action productions in the late 1970's, making it too difficult or expensive to faithfully depict the characters' powers as was done in the comics and cartoons of the time. The most egregious outcomes are the limitations made to Green Lantern and Sinestro, who are never shown using their rings to create constructs and are limited to using them to fire energy blasts and turn invisible/teleport.

'''Legends of the Superheroes''' was a pair of hour-long live-action television specials produced by Creator/HannaBarbera that aired in January, 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}} and were loosely based on Hanna-Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon.

In the first special, "The Challenge", the Justice League (Batman, Robin, the Huntress, Black Canary, Hawkman, Green Lantern, the Flash and Captain Marvel) have one hour to deactivate a doomsday device that is used in the latest plan of the Legion of Doom (Mordru, the Riddler, Giganta, Solomon Grundy, Sinestro, Weather Wizard and Dr. Sivana).

The second special, "The Roast", consisted of the heroes being subjected to a roast hosted by Ed [=McMahon=] and having to endure heckling and taunting by villains, relatives and other heroes.

The specials were notable for having Creator/AdamWest, Creator/BurtWard and Creator/FrankGorshin reprise their respective roles from ''Series/Batman1966'' as Batman, Robin and the Riddler.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In "The Roast", Green Lantern laughs at Ghetto Man's remark about Green Lantern's membership not qualifying as the Justice League allowing people of color.

* BerserkButton: In "The Roast", Ed [=McMahon=] gets Solomon Grundy irate every time he mentions the swamp or anything related to the swamp.

* CoconutSuperpowers: One of the biggest pitfalls of the specials is the fact that they were live-action productions in the late 1970's made it too difficult or expensive to faithfully depict the characters' powers as was done in the comics and cartoons. The most egregious outcomes are the limitations made to Green Lantern and Sinestro, who are never shown using their rings to create constructs and are limited to using them to fire energy blasts and turn invisible/teleport.
* DirtyOldMan: In "The Roast", Dr. Sivana is blatantly using his offer to give the superheroes medical examinations as an excuse to get close to Black Canary and the Huntress. His comment on doing "house calls" while glancing at Black Canary's breasts is particularly telling.
* DirtyOldWoman: Captain Marvel's enemy Aunt Minerva appears accompanied by two muscular men in speedos and tries to get one of the male superheroes to marry her. She ultimately chooses Captain Marvel to be her husband (keep in mind that Captain Marvel's true form is ''a child''), but in the end only gets a kiss and taking on a youthful appearance after saying "Shazam".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "The Challenge", Dr. Sivana tricks the superheroes into drinking a formula he's concocted that makes them lose their powers by pouring it into lemonade, but later he and the other villains drink the same lemonade by mistake and wind up powerless to stop the heroes in the final battle.
* LegionOfDoom: In this continuity, the only members retained from the ''Super Friends'' roster are Solomon Grundy, Sinestro, Giganta and the Riddler, with Dr. Sivana and Weather Wizard joining and Mordru being the leader.

* OppositesAttract: Shrinking superhero the Atom is shown to fall in love with Giganta in "The Roast".
* PaperThinDisguise: "The Challenge" has Solomon Grundy disguise himself as a mechanic, Sinestro disguise himself as a fortune teller and Dr. Sivana disguise himself as a boy selling lemonade to trick the heroes into drinking a formula that will disable their super powers. Grundy blows his cover only by removing his hat in front of the heroes who approach him, while Green Lantern sees through Sinestro's disguise when he notices his power ring. Sivana's disguise is the only one the heroes fail to see through before it is too late.
* PieInTheFace: At the end of Mordru's performance in "The Roast", Batman throws a pie in his face.

* CoconutSuperpowers: One of the biggest pitfalls of the specials is the fact that they were live-action productions made it too difficult or expensive to faithfully depict the characters' powers as was done in the comics and cartoons. The most egregious outcomes are the limitations made to Green Lantern and Sinestro, who are never shown using their rings to create constructs and are limited to using them to fire energy blasts and turn invisible/teleport.

* CoconutSuperpowers: One of the biggest pitfalls of the specials is the fact that they were live-action productions made it too difficult or expensive to faithfully depict the character's powers as was done in the comics and cartoons. The most egregious outcomes are the limitations made to Green Lantern and Sinestro, who are never shown using their rings to create constructs and are limited to using them to fire energy blasts and turn invisible/teleport.

* PaperThinDisguise: "The Challenge" has Solomon Grundy disguise himself as a mechanic, Sinestro disguise himself as a fortune teller and Dr. Sivana disguise himself as a boy selling lemonade to trick the heroes into drinking a formula that will disable their super powers. Grundy blows his cover only by removing his hat in front of the heroes who approach him, while Green Lantern sees through Sinestro's disguise when he notices his power ring. Sivana's disguise is the only ones the heroes fail to see through before it is too late.

* PaperThinDisguise: "The Challenge" has Solomon Grundy disguise himself as a mechanic, Sinestro disguise himself as a fortune teller and Dr. Sivana disguise himself as a boy selling lemonade to trick the heroes into drinking a formula that will disable their super powers. Grundy blows his cover only by removing his hat in front of the heroes who approach him, while Green Lantern sees through Sinestro's disguise when he notices his power ring. Sivana's disguise is the only ones the heroes fail to see through before it is too late

* PaperThinDisguise: "The Challenge" has Solomon Grundy disguise himself as a mechanic, Sinestro disguise himself as a fortune teller and Dr. Sivana disguise himself as a boy selling lemonade. Grundy blows his cover only by removing his hat in front of the heroes who approach him, while Green Lantern sees through Sinestro's disguise when he notices his power ring.

* PaperThinDisguise: "The Challenge" has Solomon Grundy disguise himself as a mechanic and Dr. Sivana disguise himself as a boy selling lemonade. The former blows his cover only by removing his hat in front of the heroes.

* DirtyOldMan: In "The Roast", Dr. Sivana is blatantly using his offer to give the superheroes medical examinations as an excuse to get close to Black Canary and the Huntress.

The first special, "The Challenge", the Justice League (Batman, Robin, the Huntress, Black Canary, Hawkman, Green Lantern, the Flash and Captain Marvel) have one hour to deactivate a doomsday device that is used in the latest plan of the Legion of Doom (Mordru, the Riddler, Giganta, Solomon Grundy, Sinestro, Weather Wizard and Dr. Sivana).

'''Legends of the Superheroes''' was a pair of hour-long live-action television specials produced by Creator/HannaBarbera that aired in January, 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}} and was loosely based on Hanna-Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon.

'''Legends of the Superheroes''' was a pair of hour-long live-action television specials produced by Creator/HannaBarbera that aired in January, 1979 on Creator/NBC and was loosely based on Hanna-Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon.

'''Legends of the Superheroes'' was a pair of hour-long live-action television specials produced by Creator/HannaBarbera that aired in January, 1979 and was loosely based on Hanna-Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon.

* VillainSong: "The Roast" has Mordru sing a take-off of "That's Entertainment" where he describes the disasters he enjoys causing with his magic.