CLASSIC TELEVISION THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
TV SERIES (1952-1958)
The Adventures Of Superman was a TV series in the 1950's which was based on the Superman comic book character.
The series lasted for six seasons.
The main characters were:
Superman/Clark Kent played by George Reeves
Lois Lane played by Phyllis Coates for the first season
Lois Lane played by Noel Neill for the second through the sixth season.
Perry White played by veteran character actor John Hamilton.
Jimmy Olson played by Jack Larsen.
Inspector Bill Henderson played by Robert Shayne
There were 106 episodes filmed. Two of the episodes were a film entitled Superman And The Mole Men (also known in the episodes as The Unknown People). It was a 60 minute movie and was shown in two parts during the first season.
The episodes were as follows:
First Season (28 Episodes)
Superman On Earth
The Haunted Lighthouse
The Case Of The Talkative Dummy
Mystery Of The Broken Statues
The Monkey Mystery
Night Of Terror
The Birthday Letter
The Mind Machine
Rescue
The Secret Of Superman
No Holds Barred
The Deserted Village
The Stolen Costume
Mystery In Wax
Treasure Of The Incas
Double Trouble
The Runaway Robot
Drums Of Death
The Evil Three
Riddle Of The Chinese Jade
The Human Bomb
Czar Of The Underworld
Ghost Wolf
Crime Wave
The Unknown People, Part 1
The Unknown People, Part 2
Five Minutes To Doom
The Big Squeeze
Second Season (26 Episodes)
The Man Who Could Read Mines
Jet Ace
Shot In The Dark
The Defeat Of Superman
Superman In Exile
A Ghost For Scotland Yard
The Dog Who Knew Superman
The Face And The Voice
The Man In The Lead Mask
Panic In The Sky
The Machine That Could Plot Crimes
Jungle Devil
My Friend Superman
The Clown Who Cried
The Boy Who Hated Superman
Semi-Private Eye
Perry White's Scoop
Beware Then Wrecker
The Golden Vulture
Jimmy Olsen, Boy Editor
Lady In Black
Star Of Fate
The Whistling Bird
Around The World With Superman
Third Season (13 Episodes)
Through Them Time Barrier
The Talking Clue
The Lucky Cat
Superman Week
Great Caesar's Ghost
Test Of A Warrior
Olsen's Millions
Clark Kent, Outlaw
The Magic Necklace
The Bully Of Dry Gulch
Flight To The North
The Seven Souvenirs
King For A Day
Fourth Season (13 Episodes)
Joey
The Unlucky Number
The Big Freeze
Peril By Sea
Topsy Turvy
Jimmy The Kid
The Girl Who Hired Superman
The Wedding Of Superman
Dagger Island
Blackmail
The Deadly Rock
The Phantom Ring
The Jolly Roger
Fifth Season (13 Episodes)
Peril In Paris
Tin Hero
The Town That Wasn't
The Tomb Of Zaharen
The Man Who Made Dreams Come True
Disappearing Lois
Money To Burn
Close Shave
The Phony Alibi
The Prince Albert Coat
The Stolen Elephant
Mr. Zero
What Ever Goes Up
Sixth Season ( 13 Episodes)
The Last Knight
The Magic Secret
Divide And Conquer
The Mysterious Cube
The Atomic Captive
The Superman Silver Mine
The Big Forget
The Gentle Monster
Superman's Wife
Three In One
The Brainy Burro
The Perils Of Superman
All That Glitters
The first two seasons were filmed in black and white while the third through the sixth season were filmed in color.
There were several actors that appeared in several of the episodes:
Herb Vigran
Milton Frome
Ben Weldon
Philip Tead as Professor Pepperwinkle
I will be doing blogs on the above actors later on.
The producers of the 1951 series were Robert Maxwell and Bernard Luber. The balance of the series was produced by Whitney Ellsworth.
I was just in second or third grade when this series first came out. I remember a friend of mine from St. Matthias grammar school telling me about this show. I remember that he said that it came on at 5PM ( I was home from school by then). I also remember that it was sponsored by Kellogg..
This was a wonderful series and I always enjoyed it. I now have the entire series in my film and TV collection and can watch it whenever I want.
The series was aimed at the 7 to 15 year old age group. I guess that myself and many of my friends are still kids at heart since we all love this series.
I usually do not like movie versions of TV shows but I have to, admit that the Christopher Reeve Superman films were great. Too, bad he had to die in a terrible accident.
Louie The Movie Buff
The Adventur