The Adventures of Superboy

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Title: The Adventures of Superboy
Year: 1961
Directors: George Blair
Writers: Vernon E. Clark (writer) Whitney Ellsworth (writer)
Actors: Johnny Rockwell | Bunny Henning | Ross Elliott | Monty Margetts | Charles Maxwell | Robert Williams | Richard Reeves | Yvonne White | Stacy Harris | Jimmy Bates | Ray Walker | True Ellison
Rating: 8.1 | 54 votes
Languages: English
Color: Black and White
Country: USA
Genres: Action | Short
Plot:
1):
Jimmy, Clark Kent and Lana Lang’s friend, is ashamed that his father works as a doorman at the Smallville theater. His opinion changes when Superboy is able to thwart a robbery with Jimmy’s father’s help.
Trivia:
  • This pilot was filmed after the death of George Reeves, who had already agreed to do another season of "Adventures of Superman" (1952).
  • Although only the pilot was made, 12 additional episodes were written. The screenplays for which are included in the book, “Superboy and Superpup: the Lost Pilots”.
Comments:
1) The notion of making any more episodes of the TV series THE ADVENTURESof SUPERMAN ended with the death of series Star, George Reeves, in thesummer of 1959. The copyright owner of the Superman empire (which hadincluded comic books,newspaper strip,radio show, movie serials,featurefilms, animated cartoons as well as all sorts of merchandising)came upwith this pilot for a TV series featuring "the Adventures ofSuperman,when he was a boy"! The idea had done well in the comicbooks,so why not on the small screen?

Apparently the publisher, NATIONAL COMICS(ALSO KNOWN AS DC COMICS) hadleaked out this info, as it was soon reported in the TV sections of thedaily newspapers. They even mentioned it in the letter columns of theircomics and sent a mailing(post card) to readers that they should watchfor Superboy on Television.

The series never materialized. It's unfortunate that it did not. Afterhaving viewed the Pilot film one finds a decent, family oriented storywhich was not ashamed to endorse an ethical and law abiding way oflife. In short,although it featured the presence of the young Superman,it was a story that could be anyone's story happening anywhere. It wasat least as good as so much of the series Television that was around in1961.
Action, Short

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