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TV Series

Series Name:    Adventures Of Superman Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 1952 - 1958 Country:   USA Language: English Genre: Fantasy, Action, Science Fiction Rating: 5.5  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  16 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	George Reeves as Superman/Clark Kent
	Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane
	Noel Neill as Lois Lane
	Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen
	John Hamilton as Perry White
	Robert Shayne as Insp. Henderson

Notes

Originally produced for syndication, this was the first ongoing TV series based upon a superhero, and the first such series to be produced in color (though early seasons were black and white).

Preceded by the 1951 B-movie release Superman and the Mole Men. Its box office success resulted in the TV series being commissioned.

Noel Neill took over the role of Lois Lane from Phyllis Coates in 1953.

After production for 1958 ended, Warner Bros intended for the series to return in 1960 with more episodes. The subsequent deaths of first John Hamilton and later George Reeves led to an aborted plan to continue the series anyway, but focusing on Jimmy Olsen.

During production, the sets were utilized for an attempt at a child-friendly spinoff titled Superpup featuring actors in oversized animal costumes; only a pilot episode was filmed. Later, the same producer produced a pilot for an aborted Adventures of Superboy spin-off.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD Box Set

Adventures Of Superman The Complete First Season - Warner Home Video - USA (2006)

VHS

TV's Best Adventures Of Superman: Volume 1 - Warner Home Video - Canada (1987)

VHS

TV's Best Adventures Of Superman: Volume 3 - Warner Home Video - Canada (1988)

VHS

TV's Best Adventures Of Superman: Volume 2 - Warner Home Video - Canada (1987)

VHS

TV's Best Adventures Of Superman: Volume 4 - Warner Home Video - Canada (1988)

Comments and Reviews

OldMod67 24th Nov 2020		I used to watch reruns of this in England in the 1970s. I don't however recall seeing it in colour and we did have colour tv. Perhaps my memory is a bit off...
BigBadBluesMan 30th Jan 2016
BigBadBluesMan 30th Jan 2016
Neil Forbes 29th Jul 2015		Jim Nabors as an alien from space.... Go-o-o-o-ll-ll-ll-y! That surely does boggle the brainbox!
Record Collector 29th Jul 2015		One of those shows during the school holidays alongside captain marvel and another one that starred Ruth buzzi and jim nabours who were aliens from space
Record Collector 28th Jul 2015		Well if we had a channel dedicated to old shows from the sixties to the eighties that be great
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		It's one of those shows that end up as "schedule filler" when there's nothing else available to fill a timeslot "hole". It could turn up in a weekday afternoon slot, about 3.30 or 4.00pm, or even, as you said, RC, Saturday mornings, anywhere between 7.30 and 11.30. Funny, ain't it, now we have digital TV, these shows seem to be deemed "too old" to be aired today.
Record Collector 28th Jul 2015		One of those Saturday morning shows during school holidays
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		@RC, Surely it was printed, couldn't have been hand-written(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		I remember(the late) Christopher Reeve in a movie called "Broadcast News" where he played a TV station employee with... get this... a fear of heights! A scene in an elevator has him on the floor of the elevator, scared out of his wits! This from the man who played Superman.....?
Record Collector 28th Jul 2015		Yep a very washed out print
23skidoo 28th Jul 2015		@Monolith. You need to compare with other shows of the day. Reeves was no more ridiculous than any number of action heroes on TV and in B-movies of the time. (Cisco Kid is downright embarrassing by today's standards, but it was praised as groundbreaking back in the 50s.) And the fact Reeves was older than average for superheroes by today's standards doesn't mean much because he matched the way the character was written and drawn in the late 40s. The other Reeve, Chris, wore a pair of pajamas too (made even more obvious in his screen test where I believe he wore a Superman Halloween costume) but everyone loves him. Lynda Carter spent most of her time in a swimsuit. Melissa Benoist is about to start her Supergirl TV series and she's wearing a fetish suit complete with thigh boots taken straight from a bondage gear catalogue. It's all relative.
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		Yeah, Monolith! It took ages to wind 'em up! Really made us crank-y!(ha-ha)
Monolith 28th Jul 2015		That was one of those wind-up colour TVs wasn't it Neil?
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		When colour TV finally arrived in Australia in 1975, we got to see this series in colour for the first time. Granted it was on film originally but some American company must've transferred that film-stock to NTSC colour videotape at some stage because the colour quality wasn't all that great. Now, if that film to tape transfer was done in England Europe(parts thereof) or even Australia, where we/they use the German-developed PAL colour system.... We'd have seen a far better colour reproduction indeed! Not that it would've improved the show itself in any way.
Monolith 28th Jul 2015		I've seen bits of this and all I can remember is Reeves walking around showing his underwear, holding his gut in and looking far too old for the role. Oh and the preceding Superman and the Mole Men was a painful watch as well, how the series got started after that is a super feat all by itself. LOL
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		Look....! Up in the sky....! Is it a bird...? Is it a plane...? Nah, it's some dopey clown wearing his underpants outside his leotard....! Ha-ha.

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