> Toss enough random things into a single memory bank, and you start to
> encounter unexpected coincidences. Music cues can be especially
> evocative.
>
> "Challenge of the Super Friends" is (c)1978 by Hanna-Barbera. The
> credited music editors are Sam Horta, Joe Sandusky, and Robert Talboy.
>
> "Battle of the Planets" was also 1978, and was adapted by Sandy Frank
> Productions from "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" (1972). One of the
> changes was a new opening theme song, replacing the vocals of a
> Japanese children's choir -- I'm trying to remember if the new theme
> was based on one of the original cues. It's been over a year since
> I've watched an ep.
>
> The four-second clip of the BotP theme -- the fanfare, specifically --
> appears in the episode "The Time Trap," time reference 8m09s to 8m13s
> in that episode's chapter of the DVD, just as Captain Cold and
> Sinestro lure Green Lantern and Samurai to Camelot, 500 AD. That ep
> is available as "Challenge of the Superfriends [sic]: Attack of the
> Legion of Doom" (Warner Bros. Home Video) in Netflix's catalog.
>
> Anyone aware of this previously being reported?
>
> (If you're wondering, I'm slowly working my way through TV shows I
> haven't seen in 25 years. By the Matrix, the writing of CotSF was
> awful.)
>
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