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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
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Community: 16 Have Seen
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Selected CastGeorge 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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