🎞️: Batman and Robin teach how to properly do the Heimlich maneuver, originally airing during the ‘Super Friends’ spin-off ‘The All-New Super Friends Hour’ (1977–1978). BatFact: ‘Super Friends’ animator Darrell McNeil recalls this Saturday morning cartoon PSA taught a young girl in Ohio how to properly perform the maneuver when her sister was choking. In a 1978 New York Magazine interview, a fourth grader from a Minneapolis saved the life of a friend choking on a piece of candy by employing the