This series was the first time Olan Soule and Casey Kasem performed as the voices of Batman and Robin. When "The New Adventures of Batman" was produced in 1977, Adam West and Burt Ward reprised the roles they had originally played in the live action TV series. Soule and Kasem would return several times to reprise their roles in 1972's "The New Scooby-Doo Movies", 1973's "Super Friends", 1977's "The All-New Super Friends Hour", 1978's "Challenge of the Super Friends", 1979's "The World's Greatest Super Friends", and starting in 1980 Soule voiced the character in the 7 minute shorter episodes that were produced through 1983. These 1980–1983 episodes aired under the generic "Super Friends" title. Kasem would go on to voice Robin with Adam West as Batman in 1984's ' and 1985's '.