Super Friends: Live-Action Event Movies (1975–1977) – Rise of the Legion of Doom The boldest part of the Super Friends live-action experiment wasn’t the heroes. It was the villains. Between 1975 and 1977, DC’s made-for-TV Super Friends movies quietly introduced television audiences to the first ever live-action Legion of Doom — a rotating cabal of super-villains assembled exclusively for prime-time event films. These weren’t simple monster-of-the-week antagonists. They were masterminds. Each spe