Adventures of Superman (1952) Season 1
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.
01 Journey with Superman from Krypton to Metropolis, as he joins that Daily Planet staff and meets the fiery Lois Lane.
9/19/1952
02 A terrified Jimmy Olsen calls for help, and Superman speeds to an isolated island where strange things happen in the fog-shrouded night.
Commentary available by TV Producer/Author Gary H. Grossman.
9/26/1952
The Case of the Talkative Dummy 03 As superman hunts for kidnapped armored-car drivers and a stolen fortune, Jimmy, loccked inside a falling safe, hurtles to his doom.
10/3/1952
Mystery of the Broken Statues 04 Lois Lane is kidnapped while on the trail of a suave but deadly criminal mastermind and a hidden priceless gem.
10/10/1952
05 Searching for stolen defense secrets, Clark Kent encounters a brutalized woman, a slain organ-grinder -- and a monkey dressed as Superman.
10/17/1952
06 Superman races to find Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen who wait, helplessly bound, as a sadistic hit man prepares to execute them.
10/24/1952
07 Superman is implicated in the abduction of a young girl who is thought to have information concerning hidden counterfeit plates.
10/31/1952
08 Bravely testifying against a mobster, Lois Lane will die unless Clark Kent finds the weapon that will soon destroy her mind.
11/7/1952
09 Trapped in a mine filling with deadly gas, Lois Lane is beyond the reach of rescuers -- and Clark Kent doesn't know!
11/14/1952
10 An insane scientist, using powerful experimental truth drugs on Perry White, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, learns Superman's true identity.
11/21/1952
11 When a crooked wrestling promoter paralyzes honest athletes, Superman steps in to reverse the damage and rescue an innocent captive.
11/28/1952
12 As Clark Kent pursues the monster killing the few people left in Lois Lane's hometown, the girl reporter becomes its next victim.
12/5/1952
13 After a burglar steals Superman's costume from Clark Kent's closet, a mobster threatens to reveal the Man of Steel's secret identity.
Commentary available by TV Producer/Author Gary H. Grossman.
12/12/1952
14 Unwittingly involved in a hunt for stolen radium, Jimmy is kidnapped and locked in a deathtrap by a fanatical doctor.
12/19/1952
15 Lois and Jimmy follow a trail of murder that could lead to ancient riches -- or to their own deaths.
12/26/1952
16 Lois Lane, chloroformed while investigating strange disappearances, is held prisoner in Madame Selina's wax museum of the living dead.
1/2/1953
17 Captive Lois Lane will be murdered by gangsters unless inventor Horatio Hinkle uses his unique radio-controlled robot to rob banks.
1/9/1953
18 Aided by his ace reporters, Perry White flies to Haiti to search for his sister, the prisoner of a voodoo cult.
1/16/1953
19 Perry White and Jimmy Olsen face death at the hands of three crazed murderers in a crumbling bayou hotel.
Commentary available by Producer/Writer Chuck Harter.
1/23/1953
The Riddle of the Chinese Jade 20 Lois Lane is held hostage by the armed criminal who has stolen a priceless antique and left two people to drown.
1/30/1953
21 On a windswept narrow ledge high above the ground, Lois Lane is chained to a dynamite-wielding daredevil ready to die.
2/6/1953
22 A killer sabotaging the filming of a crime exposé stalks Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson on a Hollywood studio soundstage.
2/13/1953
23 After discovering human footprints that turn into wolf tracks, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are trapped in a raging forest fire.
2/20/1953
24 While hunting down an anonymous crime-boss, the Man of Steel is lured into a lighting-powered deathtrap that stops his heart.
Commentary available by Producer/Writer Chuck Harter.
2/27/1953
25 Clark Kent and Lois Lane visit the world's deepest oil well in Silsby, when strange humanoid creatures appear and terrorize the townspeople.
8/10/1953
26 Convinced the Mole Men are peaceful beings, Superman must save them from a vengeful mob determined to kill the armed visitors.
8/10/1953
