Adventures of Superman

With George Reeves, Noel Neill, John Hamilton, Bill Kennedy. The Man of Steel fights crime with help from his friends at the Daily Planet.

Adventures of Superman (TV Series 1952–1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

The first Superman TV series, running from 1952 to 1958 and starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel. The supporting cast included Phyllis Coates and later Noel Neill as Lois Lane, Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson. Those actors that are still alive often have cameos in more modern Superman projects. This show is the way most children in the 1950s were introduced to Superman, and also the main reason that Jimmy Olsen got his own comic book.

Revisit the 1950s series 'Adventures of Superman' starring George Reeves as the title hero and be sure to check out these must-watch episodes.

Nowhere near as creative as the comics that spawned it, the TV show still had a heroic presence.

Faster than a speeding bullet… More powerful than a locomotive… Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound… Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.Of course, we all know the famous introduction and mythical backstory of Superman. The superhero is an American icon. But the character was not always such a sure bet for entertainment success. In the early 1940s, a cartoon Superman hit movie screens in animated shorts. At the end of the decade, Superman was live-action, in the form of two film serials. In 1951, the Superman radio serial was ending its 11-year run when B-movie producer Robert L. Lippert released a low-budget Superman film starring George Reeves. In the fall of 1951, a television series went into production. Yet, production stopped shortly thereafter and the product sat in a can for a year. When the syndicated Adventures of Superman premiered in 1952, its success surprised the cast, especially 38-year-old star George Reeves. If not for the star's tragic death in 1959, we might have gotten more than six seasons. Here are some things you might not know about Supes' first television series.

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Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO-Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. It was sponsored by cereal manufacturer Kellogg's. The show, which was produced for first-run television syndication rather than a network, has disputed first and last air dates but are generally accepted as September 19, 1952 and April 28, 1958.[1] The show's first two seasons (episodes 1–52, 26 titles per season) were filmed in black-and-white; seasons three through six (episodes 53–104, 13 titles per season) were filmed in color but originally telecast in black and white. Superman was not shown in color until 1965 when the series was syndicated to local stations.[2][3]