The All-New Super Friends Hour: Energy Mass (1977)

 

This is the final segment of the fifth episode of The All-New Super Friends Hour, unlike most other Super Friends formats, this one had hour long episodes that were made up of various shorter cartoons. The first segment would be an adventure staring two members (or three in some cases as Batman and Robin would often team with another Super Friend) of the Super Friends. The second would be a morality play staring the Wonder Twins. The third would be a typical half hour Super Friends adventure. The fourth and last segment would feature one of the main Super Friends teaming up with a special DC Comics guest star.

In this cartoon Batman and Robin team up with The Atom to stop a large energy mass from sending a train off the tracks.

This is a very fun episode. It is fun to watch an episode where the villain is neither a man nor a monster but rather just an escaped mass of energy. The design of this mass is a lot of fun with its glowing orange colors and is somewhat reminiscent of the ghost from The Scooby-Doo! Show episode, Watt a Shocking Ghost (1976). The action scenes in this episode are also top notch. It especially works well with the cutting back and forth between Batman and Robin trying to stop the train from the outside and The Atom trying to reach the brakes inside while avoiding the energy mass. This crosscutting makes the cartoon very exciting from start to finish. 

This is an excellent cartoon.