Adventures of Superman (1952)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
George Reeves
Clark Kent
Noel Neill
Lois Lane
Jack Larson
Jimmy Olsen
Robert Maxwell
Creator / Producer
Whitney Ellsworth
Creator / Producer / Writer
John Hamilton
Perry White
Robert H. Justman
Producer
Joe Shuster
Characters
Bill Kennedy
Announcer
Jerry Siegel
Characters
Robert Shayne
Inspector Henderson
Phyllis Coates
Lois Lane
Ben Welden
'Leftover' Louie Lyman
Phil Tead
Prof. Pepperwinkle
Herb Vigran
Arnold Woodman
Thomas Carr
Director
George Blair
Director
Harry Gerstad
Director
Lee Sholem
Director
Philip Ford
Director
Lew Landers
Director
Howard Bretherton
Director
Robert Leslie Bellem
Writer
Jackson Gillis
Writer / Screenplay
Ben Peter Freeman
Screenplay
David T. Chantler
Screenplay / Writer
Monroe Manning
Screenplay
Eugene Solow
Screenplay
Dick Hamilton
Screenplay
Robert Maxwell
Screenplay
Leroy H. Zehren
Writer
Jonathan Hale
Colonel Brand
Maurice Cass
Meldini
Herbert Rawlinson
Rozan
Jack Kruschen
First Airport Robber
Victor Sen Yung
Harry Wong
Myron Healey
Paul Craymore
Henry Kulky
Crusher (uncredited)
John Banner
Bronsky
Patrick Aherne
Murray
Tris Coffin
Mr. Stoddard
Maudie Prickett
Mrs. Matilda Tazey
Bobby Barber
Tony the Masseur
Olaf Hytten
Jarvis
Stanley Andrews
Sam Garvin
Joe Kirk
Gangster with Binoculars (uncredited)
Lois Hall
Mrs. Winters
Marshall Reed
Inspector Hill
Raymond Hatton
Jonathan Crag / Craymore
Rhys Williams
Macy
Ray Bennett
Stan Hacker
Percy Helton
Hamlet
Barbra Fuller
Sally
Leon Askin
Joseph Ferdinand
Dale Van Sickel
Baker / Slim's Partner
Ted Hecht
Abdul Ben Bay
Mabel Albertson
Kate White
Dabbs Greer
Joe Winters
Paul Burke
Ace
Trevor Bardette
Bet-a-Million Butler
Anthony Caruso
Luigi Dinelli
Myrna Fahey
Miss Dunn
Peter Brocco
Dr. H.L. Ort / Crackers
Lane Bradford
Capt. Chris White
Frank Jenks
Lazy
Henry Corden
William Johnson / Legbo
George Eldredge
John Salem / Thomas Wingate
Dennis Moore
Officer Riley
Robert Rockwell
Jor-El (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Marion Cummings
Jim Hayward
Tim Mallory
Roy Gordon
Postello
Russell Johnson
Man on Phone in Montage (archive footage)
Selmer Jackson
Col. Jack Redding / Gen. Summers
Ric Roman
Nate
Rudolph Anders
Dr. Rudolf Albrecht
Don Dillaway
Fred Harris
George "Spike" Hamilton
Dr. Simon Jerrod
Dean Cromer
Mickey
Jeffrey Silver
Teenaged Clark Kent (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Brakeman
Robert Tafur
Vice-President Oberon
Judy Nugent
Ann Carson
Paul Fix
Ollie / Fingers / Gangster in Montage (archive footage)
Kay Morley
Elaine Carson
Raymond Greenleaf
Dr. Anderson
James Brown
Jim Carson
Lyn Thomas
Ann - a Phony Nurse
Sam Flint
Eben's Doctor (uncredited) / Warden
Cyril Delevanti
King of Sartania
Laurie Mitchell
Ruby
Jack Reitzen
Ali Zing / Philippe Gonzalez
Everett Glass
Prof. La Serne
Hal Taggart
Informant (uncredited)
John Phillips
Man at the Election Booth
Milton Kibbee
Harry Hansen
Charles Williams
Tim / Yo Yo
Fred Sherman
Dr. Oscar Jessup / Inspector Sims
Dan Seymour
Lou Cranek / Gangster in Montage (archive footage)
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Carmody
Ray Montgomery
Tyler / Jeff
Helen Wallace
Woman on Phone in Montage (archive footage) / Mrs. Olsen, Jimmy's Mother
Philip Van Zandt
Nick Marone / Regan
Joseph Mell
The Professor
John Eldredge
Walter Canby / Mr. X / Burt Burnside / Jonas Rockwell
Billy Gray
Alan Harper
Larry J. Blake
Steve Martin / Rausch, the Henchman
Wayne Heffley
Duke Barlow
Keith Richards
Rutherford Jones / Steve Barton / A Henchman
Ruta Lee
Claire - High School Girl
John Harmon
Clicker / Skinny
Joseph Vitale
Cap
Ralph Sanford
George - Customer / Buckets
Chuck Connors
Sylvester J. Superman
Norma Varden
Mabel McCredy
Leonard Mudie
Prof. Jody / Brockhurst the Magician / Capt. Blood / Leland Masters
Eve Brenner
Betty
Eve Brent
Woman
John Doucette
Joe / Foster / Slugger
Maurice Marsac
Marcel Duval / Orresto el Centro Jones
Sol Gorss
Sailor (uncredited)
Sid Tomack
Ruffles / Curtis
Jack Daly
Dogcatcher / Mr. Perkins / Witness in Montage (archive footage)
Dick Rich
Toots
Richard Reeves
Little Jack / Bad Luck Brannigan / Stacey Tracy / Frenchy / Babe
George E. Stone
Big George / Duke Taylor
William Challee
Mack (uncredited) / Max
Douglas Henderson
Noodles
John George
Dwarf in Pool Hall (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Reward Seeker (uncredited) / Voter (uncredited)
Louis Mercier
LaRue
Howland Chamberlain
Fisher / Dr. Albert Schumann
Mauritz Hugo
Luke Palmer / Tiger / Slim
John Baer
Kreuger (unconfirmed)
Dick Gordon
Scientist (uncredited) / Reporter (uncredited) / Onlooker at Customs (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Scientist (uncredited)
Milton Wood
Mr. Bergeret
Cecil Elliott
Elsa
Paul E. Burns
Lu Song
James Craven
John Greer
Gloria Saunders
Lily
Lou Lubin
Small Henchman
Ted Ryan
Large Henchman
John Maxwell
Studio Police Chief
Jane Adams
Babette DuLoque
Billy Nelson
Sully / Louie
Lou Krugman
Jacques Olivier
Al Eben
Big Ed Bullock
Lewis L. Russell
W.T. Wayne
John Kellogg
Turk
William E. Green
Governor
Houseley Stevenson
Pop Polgase
Edmund Cobb
Lafe Reiser
June Foray
Doll (uncredited)
Virginia Christine
Mrs. Frank
Frank Ferguson
Mr. Frank
Damian O'Flynn
Dr. Ralph Harper / J. W. Gridley
Doris Singleton
Gloria Harper
Steve Conte
Thug #2
Fred Essler
Scientist Jan Moleska (uncredited)
Peter Mamakos
Happy King
Joseph Forte
Prof. Adams
Robert Carson
Allen
Gregg Barton
Sheriff
Tom London
Peter Thomas
Tito Vuolo
Charles Meredith
Roy Barcroft
Virginia Carroll
Mickey Simpson
Hayden Rorke
Buddy Baer
Orville Sherman
Sid Melton
Rick Vallin
Elisha Cook Jr.
Jack Pepper
Pierre Watkin
Richard Benedict
Robert Easton
Byron Foulger
Diana Darrin
Milton Frome
Lawrence Dobkin
Paul Cavanagh
Murray Alper
Peter Whitney
Rolfe Sedan
James Seay
George Chandler
Charles Maxwell
Frank Richards
Claude Akins
Syd Saylor
Steve Pendleton
Beverly Washburn
Ann Doran
John Beradino
Harry Tyler
Albert Carrier
Louis Jean Heydt
Steven Geray
George J. Lewis
John Charles Daly
Robert J. Wilke
Maurice Jara
Vic Perrin
Frank Reicher
Billy Curtis
Leonard Penn
Lilyan Chauvin
Gregg Martell
Jimmie Dodd
William Forrest
Aline Towne
Allene Roberts
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 19, 1952
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes104
Running Time25m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
Wiki.
Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created in 1938. The show was 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. Cereal manufacturer Kellogg's sponsored the show. The first and last airdates of the show, which was produced for first-run syndication rather than for a network, are disputed, but they are generally accepted as September 19, 1952, and April 28, 1958. 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.
George Reeves played Clark Kent / Superman, with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson. Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in the first season, with Noel Neill, who had previously played Lois Lane in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), stepping into the role in the later seasons. In the series, Superman battles crooks, gangsters, and other villains in the city of Metropolis while masquerading "off duty" as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent. In most of the series' episodes, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Clark's colleagues in the office, find themselves in dangerous situations that only Superman's timely intervention can resolve.
The opening theme is known as The Superman March. In 1987, select episodes of the show were released on VHS. In 2006, the series became available in its entirety on DVD to coincide with the DVD release of Superman Returns, the first Superman feature film in almost two decades. The feature Hollywoodland (2006) dramatized the show's production and the death of George Reeves.