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58 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN,THE

Superman may have fought tirelessly for `truth, justice and the American way', but he was, of course, an alien, a survivor of the doomed planet Krypton. He'd been launched into space as an infant by his scientist father Jor El just before the planet exploded and crash-landed on Earth in a field near Smallville, USA, where he was discovered by a childless farm couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, who adopted him and named him Clark.

Because the boy was from a larger world with a red sun, Earth's yellow sun endowed him with super powers of flight, strength, X-ray vision, hearing and invulnerability, his only weakness being Kryptonite - fragments of his old home planet - which invariably fell into the wrong hands. As a man, Clark moved to Metropolis, working as a reporter on the Daily Planet. As Clark, he was bespectacled, meek and mild-mannered, but at the drop of his snap-brimmed hat he became Superman, scourge of the underworld.

Other regulars in the series were naive cub reporter Jimmy Olsen, gruff Planer editor Perry White, Metropolis police chief Insp.

Henderson, and Lois Lane, the Planet's impulsive star reporter, enamoured of Supie but contemptuous of Clark. Lois was played abrasively (in the first 26-week American season) by Phyllis Coates, and toned down for the rest by Noel Neill.

George Reeves died in mysterious surroundings, before the producers were asked to make a seventh season which would have gone ahead, if he had not died. Jack Larsen also has a guest starring role in "Lois And Clark" as an old Jimmy Olsen.

"Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Superman, strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men! Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way!" George Reeves had created the role of Superman in the low-budget 1951 feature film "Superman and the Mole People" (produced by Robert Maxwell and Bernard Luber).

The series had pretty good ratings, partly because of the stories and acting, and partly because of the visual quality achieved by pre-filming (as opposed to live telecast). From the third season, the pre-filming was in colour. Although Superman's origins were basically science fiction the show was mostly crime drama, with a budget of only $15,000 an episode. The special effects on the show were simple but always very efficient, Superman would fly by the use of wires which would be attached to George Reeves. There was only a few episodes which could be considered to be science fiction, these included "The Secret of Superman"; where a scientist creates a drug which he believes can control Superman. "The Runaway Robot" in which Superman must stop a robot which has been programmed by criminals. Finally there was, "The Phoney Alibi" in which a criminal steals an invention which can transport himself through telephone lines to other locations.

Before the series was made a pilot episode called "Superman on the Mole Men" (1951) was made, it was later edited into a two part story, "The Unknown People". After the series was cancelled George Reeves found himself typecast as Superman, unable to find work. In 1959 he was found shot to death, allegedly a suicide, but rumours abound that it might have been a murder. Other shows based on Superman have also been created, which are "LOIS AND CLARK" (1993-97) and "SUPERBOY" (1988-92).

American as cowboys or gangsters, Superman took his place in ITV's early schedules in the time honoured US favourites as Dragnet, Roy Rogers, I Love Lucy, and Rin, Tin Tin. Billed over here without his US prefix, `The Adventures Of Superman has the distinction of IIV's first science fiction show, arriving here in 1956, albeit three years after the series' American debut. American youngsters reared on the spectacular big-screen image of Christopher Reeve as the Man of steel might need some persuading, but to generations of British and American fans Superman will always be George Reeves and yes they believed this man could fly. Week after week they had the message drummed home, as indelibly as the ink on a Daily Planer headline: `Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. What’s that up in the sky . . . it's a bird . . . it's a plane . . . it's Superman.

Reeves, a 6 ft 2%z in, 13 st 13 lb. bachelor who'd succeeded where 200 previous job applicants had failed, was a former

light-heavyweight boxer who'd studied acting alongside Victor Mature and Robert Preston. He'd been in love with Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind and appeared in other movie classics such as Blood and Sand and From Here to Eternity and he'd actually first donned the superhero tights and underpants for a 1951 cinema feature Superman and the Mole Men (re-edited for the TV series as a two-part story The Unknown People).

Though Superman's origins were pure science-fiction, the shows were basically crime melodramas, shot on a low budget of 15,000 dollars each, at the rate of roughly two a week, and frequently called for the Man of Steel to rescue Lois, Jimmy or both from mortal danger and clutches of crazed scientists, gangsters, madmen and pirates. Occasionally there was a sci-fi theme to the story, such as Superman in Exile, when contamination from gamma rays leads Superman into a self-imposed exile; Panic in the Sky, when exposure to Kryptonite in a meteor induces amnesia; Through the Time Barrier, in which a scientist's time machine sends him, a crook, Lois, Jimmy, Perry and Clark back to the Stone Age; and Mr Zero, in which a small man from outer space who can paralyse people by pointing his finger at them falls among thieves.

Special effects were unsophisticated but effective. Reeves took off via wires, hydraulics and springboards, landed by jumping off a ladder and flew by being filmed lying on a glass table, with the Metropolis skyline (actually Hollywood) matted in later. Imagination did the rest.