Click here to watch Mystery in Wax from the 1950s Adventure of Superman. Andrea and I have the first Season of the Adventures of Superman at home and I watched this one last weekend and I knew it was an episode of the week. The plot is one of the creepier stories you’ll see. A sculptrist claims…
Click here to watch “The Magnetic Telescope” from the 1940s Superman Cartoons. Superman battling a comet? Does it get any better than this? Of course not. Beats all the gangsters Superman takes on in the 1940s radio show and 1950s TV show. This is one time when there’s no doubt. “This is a job for…
Superman v. the Flash in a race around the World. Does it get any better than that? How about throwing in the Weather Wizard for good measure. This Superman episode is the first of many on Superman: The Animated Series to feature guest stars. Among the heroes to grace Superman were the Spirit, the Green…
There is nothing quite like Superman in Animation. The classic Max Fleischer cartoons feature the same voice actors as from The Adventures of Superman radio show, but the movie far exceeds the radio show in excitement. In animation, Superman can be bigger than life and if drawn well, we can buy it. Radio, it can…
“Superman: The Animated Series” was the most thorougly sci-fi versiion of Supmerman until Smallville. Battles happened quite frequently on other planets. Aliens on earth frequently came up. Rather than the petty thugs of the 1940 radio version and 1950 TV Version, Superman was given enemies that were in challenge. In later seasons, this included Darkseid,…
Okay, not every episode we’ll feature will be from Lois and Clark but the first season in particular was full of so many fascinating shows. This one has three great features to command your attention: 1) A fascinating plot: Lex Luthor tests the limits of Superman’s Powers leading to the use of: 2) Famous phrases…
Thoughts: This was the First episode of the Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, the 1990s TV show. Taking a story like the origin of Superman and retelling it in a fresh and interesting way is a challenge, but the folks at ABC were hugely successful. I like how this epiosde really showed…