Okay, I'm in my 70s. I grew up on these Superman adventures, or at least the first round of re-runs. When you are 5 or 6, glued to your seat, terrified of what awful things are about to happen to Superman, one does not notice heads in corners, wires on hips. or a host of other goofs. There was a time when "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" actually meant something noble and to be emulated. Lord, how times have changed!
Special effects...Considering the primitive state of the art and the meager production budgets, the technical crew did an outstanding job. I am 70 years old and watched The "Adventures of Superman" as a preschool youngster. In truth we knew deep in our hearts the it was all fantasy and were thrilled if we could pick out the obvious "mistakes" but somehow it just didn't seem to matter. George Reeves was still Superman!
Yeah, I watched him re-runs and even hearing about his death growing up it was hard not to think of him as the real Superman, but then I also thought of Christopher Reeve as the real Superman too. I was torn.
If you're 70, you were born in 1953! Superman t.v. was already on a year, at least! By the time you were 4, the show had ended! You must have watched 're-runs'! p.s I'm 77 & saw the show from Day-One in 1952 & even have a younger brother, born 09/53, who I asked my mother to name him Clark, but declined, But, she did name him Kent, honest!
haven grown up on Superman (68yrs old) It was awesome and wonderful to listen to your video and it brought a number or smiles and giggles along with a great OMG. Thanks for bringing me back.
I loved the old episodes of Superman on tv but I do find those goofs a part of the innocence of the 1950’s tv for kids. Thank you for these downloads, I love them as I look back in my childhood.
At 0:52 to 1:00, that's a 1950's Rolls Royce Silver Dawn, I recognize it! I used to get around in one some years ago, around the 1980's and 1990's, a series B short boot model. I had no idea that they used a Rolls Royce in the Superman show so MANY thanks for this part of the clip. Brings back beautiful memories! I'll finish the clip now. Take care and many thanks again.
At 6.00 - how wonderful are the smiles of Jack Larsen and George Reeves. Two honest smiles from two great men. I will have to watch that episode again one day.
I don’t know what season was what, but I watched this show as a kid, I’m 56, and I remember the day that I stopped watching it. There was a scene where the bad guy shot him with a revolver 5 or 6 times, all thru it, Superman stands tall, chest out and unafraid. Then IT happened, when the bad guy ran out of bullets, he threw the gun at Superman….and he ducked. I was mortified. I was shocked. I was stupefied. I was stunned. And I no longer thought that Superman deserved to be among the ranks of the superheroes if tossing 2lbs of metal at him.
I'm 71 years old. Loved The Adventures of Superman as a kid. I recall watching it in the late 50's. Even at that young age I couldn't understand why Lois, Jimmy or Perry couldn't recognize Clark as Superman when he was not wearing his glasses.
I'm also 71 years old and a .huge Adventures of Superman fan back then and still to this day! I felt like I was in on the secret as a viewer and somebody special. George will ALWAYS be my Superman with Chris Reeve a close second. Wish they would release this series on blu-ray while I can still enjoy the picture quality improvement over the DVD set I own.
Love the channel, just subscribed and always a thumbs up. I grew up as a kid watching Superman, it still plays on TV here in Washington state on the H&I channel Hero's and Icons every Sunday, 4 episodes from 11am to 1 pm. I love the old Superman, NO PC crap at all. Birds in space, that was funny.
I love the scenes of Clark without his glasses (this I think only happens in 2nd season episodes).There is often some trauma attached to those scenes - like the fight on the ship in The Golden Vulture or Superman's amnesia. But mostly it gives George Reeves a third distinctive look that makes his performance memorable. He even has a fourth look when he's in his Superman costume in his apartment while wearing his glasses (Panic in the Sky). Superman wearing glasses, or Clark not wearing his glasses gives the feeling that something is wrong in Superman's life. I don't really care that Jimmy, Lois and Perry don't recognize him. It's a secret that's only between the viewer and Superman.
I read in an article about how Superman episodes were sometimes made back to back in the same day. So that's probably why there were so many flaws that were never re shot.😊
That was brilliant. Thank you for the scenes you just gave me in my mind; just as good as TV. You know, some folks can communicate, and then there are others; you are not the others. I have all the episodes; just never think to watch them, but if I did, you just gave me the names of those to look for. TAS comes on here on Sundays and if I'm around, I tune in or have it in the backgound. That's after Wild Wild West and before Wonder Woman (of course I only know that because someone told me; yes that it). I have to live up to my username, so I enjoy just sitting back in my board shorts, smoking weed, watching Superman and whatever comes on I always loved. I notice the errors and of course the relationships are no mistake. I read or watched somewhere that Superman had some ESP power or something that projected himself differently to different people. It really doesn't matter how or why people don't recognize him, it simply exists and is mandatory for the story to continue. I also like to watch the whole cast. I had a boy crush on Jimmy, not Superman; still do I guess (I'm 60). It's funny to watch when his shirt is open or he is shirtless, because sometimes he has a happy trail sometimes (that's a chest hair line to your gear, for those who don't know), and sometimes they made him shave it. Same with his belly button; sometimes there, sometimes not but usually consistent within the same show. Women's hair on the other hand always changes, so funny. I don't know the show names like you do, and I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. What I am doing is acknowledging your ability to communicate, and wanted you to know that you are not alone. We all appreciate our notice of different aspects of it; some are the same. The collective effort is what we have and what we love about it. I wager in 50-70 years, people won't be talking about the shows that are on TV today or have a clue what their names are.
Don't forget the episode where a gangster is trained to imitate Superman to help set up a giant robbery. The face and voice Reeves affects showed he had range that should have been better exploited.
Aah these videos sure bring back memories! I think the biggest reason show producers got away with so many mistakes is 1) the viewing quality back in those days was pretty awful which leads me to 2) most kids were just happy to have that sort of entertainment in the evenings or Saturday mornings that even if they noticed it, it was easily overlooked! 3) as I watch these shows now I do wonder how I never saw any of that before?!? Which leads back to 1, 2. Great channel and I will be a new subscriber!
After Clark jumps out of the car when the bomb explodes, he is wearing a light colored trench coat. Then when he goes up to see Lois, he is wearing a black trench coat. I appreciate you sharing these goofs. Thank you for the video.
@@Eyes-of-Horus When I was a kid back in the fifties, a work friend of my Mother's was making Superman capes for all the kids. It had the proper Adventures of Superman S shield and looked so official. She did her homework and found the proper template for the S shield from the show. I noticed details like that as a kid. I loved that cape.
The father of a friend of mine worked in the studios as a tailor. One of his jobs was to sew George Reeves into his Superman get-up. It was a padded suit that's why he needed sewed into it.
Panic was my favorite. And with the ultra low resolution of 1950s and 60s black and white (and color, for that matter) television, combined with the fact it was a miracle just to get clear over air reception, it was enough just to see the asteroid, let alone a cloth!
Yeah, I think the first time I saw George Reeves Superman was on a tiny black and white set we had in the kitchen. For some reason the color TV with the big antenna would not pick up the channel it was running on at that time. This was like the late 70's I think.
Yes, these were the 'early' years of Television shows (the 50s) and the budgets were practically nil, along with maintaining 'fast' filming-schedules. Combine that with the knowledge of Television receivers being of low-quality resolution... and you can see why productions of that era were rife with filming errors and continuity-mistakes. Those early TV Production companies couldn't care less about those errors. They were too busy shooting and producing the next volley of cigarette-ads and cereal commercials to care about doing any reshoots for episodic shows.
@@josephthunderhorse8793 That's funny, but you're right. Okay, now that I used that as an excuse to say this, I love your user name and if Thunderhorse is your real name, then I'm single...lol
@@floridaredneck Yes Thunderhorse is my real name...l am Joseph Thunderhorse ...and thank you for such a nice complement...l too am a Florida resident...and a bit of a redneck also lmao
In that episode where Clark rolls out of the car with the lunch pail bomb, you can see the film crew in the highly polished side of the car when Clark climbs back up to stand with Lois
As always l guess ...suspended disbelief...but lm 73...l too was a kid watching these episodes and always found a pair of glasses as a pretty flimsy disguise...but l loved the actors so much that l didn't care...it was great fun...and worthwhile entertainment...so l went along with it...thanks again my friend for a fun ride!
I was born in 1952 when Superman first aired, and I started watching Superman in the 60's (in reruns), and frankly, I saw nothing but a "good time" as a kid watching one of my favorite programs!
I was born in 48 so the Adventures of Superman were tops on my TV list. I never noticed the goofs. We had a small screen B&W Admiral TV. It was super expensive and dad had to call the TV repair guy in twice a year. We had a 50 foot antenna tower complete with rotor and we still got bad reception on our 3 channels some times. I agree with the other commenters, George was the best. I recall when they told us he was dead. There was great sadness everywhere. We were loyal believers in George even though we knew it was all pretending. I'm glad back then we didn't know all the facts about George's personal life and his attitude toward doing the Superman series.
Even as a little kid, I asked myself that question! Here was George Reeves in bed, no glasses, same face and voice, and they don't know they're looking at and talking to Superman? As a little kid I thought this makes absolutely no sense!!!
You could take apart pretty much any old TV show or movie from the early days since they weren't done all that well to begin with plus they never figured anyone would ever be able to pause or blow up any of these scenes and the TVs were the old black and whites back then.
Good catches. However, you have to remember that TVs of the 1950s had terrible resolution compared to our 4K+ views today. The cables and wires were not visible back then. And no one could record, replay and freeze frames until VCRs came to be common in the 80s.
When I was younger I preferred Mary Ann over Ginger from Gilligan's Island, it had to be the shorts. Now that I am much older I am a Ginger guy. The same thing happened with Superman, when I was younger it was Phyllis, now older and wiser, it is Noel. She really filled those 50's skirts beautifully.
Hmmm...very interesting. Mary Ann was definitely my pick back in the day. Noel and Phyllis definitely have totally different personalities on screen. Noel's Lois is more chill, happy, and easy going I think.
I was the one who contributed the video last year of the car being towed in the Superman group on Facebook. I tried putting up another Superman clip, but nothing was posted, so I said bye-bye. Good vid!
In one of the Batman-Superman comics, the plot narrator says that Perry White is too good a reporter to not have figured out Clark's secret, and the Commissioner Gordon is too good a cop to not have figured out Bruce's secret. But they both keep it to themselves. That made sense to me...
I LOVED this! So I was thinking, since you make comic books too, you should put some intentional "goofs" in them just for the fun of it. Maybe even have contests for your readers to spot them. It would probably make you more money!
As I remember, watching this show back in the 1960s, my parent's TV screen was full of lines and static anyway so, I wouldn't have been able to see the tiny wires or most of the stuff you pick up on. Plus, all the kids running around distracting the TV viewer. Nope.
That always cracked me up, even as a young child - if Lois Lane couldn't tell Clark Kent was Superman then she wasn't such a hotshot reporter...hell, Ray Charles could tell they were the same guy!
Two sad days I remember as a youngster. Yankees got beat by the pirates in the 7th game and Superman (George Reeves) died. I was an after-school paperboy and when I opened the bundle there was the headline.
Oh my..... I am in my sixties now and remember holding some of those Superman comic books in my hand and reading them. Same with Spiderman. I actually had the first issue of Spiderman that was given to me as a young boy and I was afraid to read it because the cover looked so scary. What those would be worth today!
Also it should be mentioned in the episode, “A Ghost For Scotland Yard”, the car’s steering wheel is on the left.(In the UK, the car’s steering wheels are on the right.)
I loved this old show!! I got a kick out of when Superman is getting shot & just stands there taking the bullets, but yet when they throw the gun at him when it's out of bullets, he ducks to avoid getting hit!!! Like...... what?😮😅
Speaking of not recognizing Clark and Superman, there was a lot of that in I Love Lucy. Every time Lucy and Ethel cooked up a corny scheme that required costumes, Ricky and Fred weren’t able to recognize them for the longest time, but eventually they figured it out.
Great job on finding the bloopers! I could tell you one thing in my opinion from someone Who wears glasses, I can't understand why Clark's glasses were not fogged up in the 1st minute in that sauna scene.
Of all the actors who played Superman I loved George Reeves the most. I think it's because I liked his interpretation of Clark Kent more than anyone else's. Always thought Clark Kent's secret identity was Superman...not the other way round! :)
Yeah, I agree with that. I've always thought Clark was who he really was. He gets his morals and values from his adoptive parents so that's really is who he is. There are some Superman fans that think the exact opposite though.
I only seen a few episodes but I do remember one where Clark was trapped in a cave with Lois and a guy passed out one the ground. Kent pushed a large rock aside and it rolled onto the guys leg, Ouch.
If any of you are as big a fan of Reeves ...as l am... have not seen the film put out a few years back about George Reeves as Superman with Ben Affleck... it plays out well as the physical and emotional challenges that he went through...being "Superman"
.....I remember watching "Combat" with Vic Morrow and they were up in a hilly-high area on foot.....(WW2?)...and I could hear traffic , cars,....Seeing the actor's breaths you could tell they were filming in the morning and I just giggled and let it pass.....until ....the camera panned to the right and I saw modern day morning rush hour from the 60's for a split second (??)....unbelievable how it was left in the episode,....wow.
In that time discrepancy instance, I saw the clock at first showing 4:00, not 12:20. It would make sense having a passage of 40 minutes during the process of shooting the scene's takes.
Why didn’t Lois recognize Clark as Superman? Noel Neill stated in the DVD commentary for “Panic in the Sky”, “I wanted to keep my job”. Also another Superman comic book, issue #72, was seen in the first-season episode, “The Birthday Letter”; I recognized it by its cover.
TV CRTs were overscanned on the extremes because the lines would be less than perfectly linear on top and bottom, and on the sides, particularly for inexpensive and old TVs. So they routinely did not show the edges of the screen.
The land masses on that globe were also pretty messed up. I think TV screens had rounded corners in the 1950's as they were all tubes and having squared corners on tubes was difficult to make. The man's head likely would not have appeared on the screens of that time.
As we look today, shows like this look cheesy. But as a young boy, it was awesome. Same with a show like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or the original "Star Trek." At the time, they seemed cutting edge!! 😅
What you have to realize is TVs and especially the signal received was at a much lower resolution in those days. Most of it was signal gathered by an antenna and the picture was 'snowy'. There was little cable then, very little and when there was the TVs were still pretty bad resolution. If you watched Hogan's Heroes in the day, the snow on the buildings looked like snow. On TH-cam with 1080 resolution it's plainly paint. So many of these 'goofs' simply weren't visible and they knew that.
Tube TVs back then didn't have the resolution to show cables and we had no available replay. One could argue, they all knew Clark was Superman but they were keeping his identity secret.
Medical fact (despite this happens in every film or tv show) when you get amnesia you NEVER forget who you actually are! You can forget certain parts of your life but you never forget your name or who you are.
I recognize all these where they couldn't see him as the same guy LoL and but this is a treat my favorite bad guy Robert Wilkie was a henchman in the sauna episode wow what a treat
I'm wondering if that tow rope (or the globe string/back cloth etc) would show up on TV screens in the 1950s - there's lots of old TV shows that look much worse now than they did then - restored and higher definition than they were ever intended to be seen.
Although this is something of a modern retcon, the reason for Kent's glasses isn't simply to disguise his face. The lenses are made of leaded glass to help him control his X-ray vision, otherwise he'd go through the day seeing through everything at random times. He began wearing them when his powers started to manifest themselves when he was young and continued wearing them as part of his identity, even after he had learned to completely control his visual abilities. Now, as to why nobody recognizes that Kent and Superman are the same person, well...like all good fiction, sometimes ya just gotta believe 😉
I have never loved a TV show as much as I loved Adventures of Superman when I was five or six. I'm 70 now.
I agree with you whole heartily. I'm 72 now and watched all Superman episodes and bought the comics (10 cents). Wish I had saved all of those comics.
George was the best. Look at charming smile he gives the camera in that last scene.
Classic
Okay, I'm in my 70s. I grew up on these Superman adventures, or at least the first round of re-runs. When you are 5 or 6, glued to your seat, terrified of what awful things are about to happen to Superman, one does not notice heads in corners, wires on hips. or a host of other goofs. There was a time when "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" actually meant something noble and to be emulated. Lord, how times have changed!
Special effects...Considering the primitive state of the art and the meager production budgets, the technical crew did an outstanding job. I am 70 years old and watched The "Adventures of Superman" as a preschool youngster. In truth we knew deep in our hearts the it was all fantasy and were thrilled if we could pick out the obvious "mistakes" but somehow it just didn't seem to matter. George Reeves was still Superman!
Yeah, I watched him re-runs and even hearing about his death growing up it was hard not to think of him as the real Superman, but then I also thought of Christopher Reeve as the real Superman too. I was torn.
If you're 70, you were born in 1953! Superman t.v. was already on a year, at least! By the time you were 4,
the show had ended! You must have watched 're-runs'! p.s I'm 77 & saw the show from Day-One in 1952
& even have a younger brother, born 09/53, who I asked my mother to name him Clark, but declined, But,
she did name him Kent, honest!
haven grown up on Superman (68yrs old) It was awesome and wonderful to listen to your video and it brought a number or smiles and giggles along with a great OMG. Thanks for bringing me back.
I love it. These goofs add to the charm of a great old show. Long live Superman!!🦾
We want a remastered box set with all these extras!
@@jonnyq680 ….indeed.🦾
You are good catching all the goofs! Thanks!!
Appreciate it. 😀
As a kid I never saw these bloopers and now I'm 74 they are super 😂
Right with you on the age. The old TVs didn't have the resolution and we were looking for mistakes.
Same thought. Same age.
I hope you all enjoy my second Superman goofs video. Hopefully, I didn't make any goofs while I was making this video about goofs.😀
You? Never! Seriously, though, love the video as always.
@@jetgoldranger thanks 😀
I also want to know why Superman ducked when they threw an empty gun at him.
@@rf396 Natural reflex??
@@david.m.304 Ahhh but then why stand there fearlessly when they throw shots at his chest? Wouldn't a natural reflex be to flinch then as well?
I am 67 and still watch Superman, but I am amazed that I never noticed what you have. Thank You. I really love what you do here.
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Love watching it every Sunday for 2 hours
I’m 70 and saw them when I was a youngster
I loved the old episodes of Superman on tv but I do find those goofs a part of the innocence of the 1950’s tv for kids. Thank you for these downloads, I love them as I look back in my childhood.
I remember these shows when they were First run. My mother used to watch them with me
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At 0:52 to 1:00, that's a 1950's Rolls Royce Silver Dawn, I recognize it! I used to get around in one some years ago, around the 1980's and 1990's, a series B short boot model. I had no idea that they used a Rolls Royce in the Superman show so MANY thanks for this part of the clip. Brings back beautiful memories! I'll finish the clip now. Take care and many thanks again.
🤣 Great Caesar's ghost! That's fun stuff to know about!
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At 6.00 - how wonderful are the smiles of Jack Larsen and George Reeves. Two honest smiles from two great men. I will have to watch that episode again one day.
Yes i watched Superman back in the late 50s and 60s then again in 2010 and still do love you showing these bloopers 🇺🇸🤔
I don’t know what season was what, but I watched this show as a kid, I’m 56, and I remember the day that I stopped watching it. There was a scene where the bad guy shot him with a revolver 5 or 6 times, all thru it, Superman stands tall, chest out and unafraid. Then IT happened, when the bad guy ran out of bullets, he threw the gun at Superman….and he ducked. I was mortified. I was shocked. I was stupefied. I was stunned. And I no longer thought that Superman deserved to be among the ranks of the superheroes if tossing 2lbs of metal at him.
You make me want to watch an episode...you should attach one in the description section.
The Adventures of Superman was a staple in my house when I was growing up. I watched every episode as many time as they would play the reruns. lol
I'm 71 years old. Loved The Adventures of Superman as a kid. I recall watching it in the late 50's. Even at that young age I couldn't understand why Lois, Jimmy or Perry couldn't recognize Clark as Superman when he was not wearing his glasses.
I think it was the hat.
Yeah. Like they were completely blind or just morons.
I'm also 71 years old and a .huge Adventures of Superman fan back then and still to this day! I felt like I was in on the secret as a viewer and somebody special. George will ALWAYS be my Superman with Chris Reeve a close second. Wish they would release this series on blu-ray while I can still enjoy the picture quality improvement over the DVD set I own.
@@Eyes-of-Horus I loved that hat!
Lots of 71 year olds here that were big fans.
I never noticed these goofs before and watched Superman many times. Thank you!
Awesome video! Except for the Clark Kent without glasses, I had missed them all!
Love the channel, just subscribed and always a thumbs up. I grew up as a kid watching Superman, it still plays on TV here in Washington state on the H&I channel Hero's and Icons every Sunday, 4 episodes from 11am to 1 pm. I love the old Superman, NO PC crap at all. Birds in space, that was funny.
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I love the scenes of Clark without his glasses (this I think only happens in 2nd season episodes).There is often some trauma attached to those scenes - like the fight on the ship in The Golden Vulture or Superman's amnesia. But mostly it gives George Reeves a third distinctive look that makes his performance memorable. He even has a fourth look when he's in his Superman costume in his apartment while wearing his glasses (Panic in the Sky). Superman wearing glasses, or Clark not wearing his glasses gives the feeling that something is wrong in Superman's life. I don't really care that Jimmy, Lois and Perry don't recognize him. It's a secret that's only between the viewer and Superman.
I read in an article about how Superman episodes were sometimes made back to back in the same day. So that's probably why there were so many flaws that were never re shot.😊
That was brilliant. Thank you for the scenes you just gave me in my mind; just as good as TV. You know, some folks can communicate, and then there are others; you are not the others. I have all the episodes; just never think to watch them, but if I did, you just gave me the names of those to look for. TAS comes on here on Sundays and if I'm around, I tune in or have it in the backgound. That's after Wild Wild West and before Wonder Woman (of course I only know that because someone told me; yes that it).
I have to live up to my username, so I enjoy just sitting back in my board shorts, smoking weed, watching Superman and whatever comes on I always loved. I notice the errors and of course the relationships are no mistake. I read or watched somewhere that Superman had some ESP power or something that projected himself differently to different people. It really doesn't matter how or why people don't recognize him, it simply exists and is mandatory for the story to continue.
I also like to watch the whole cast. I had a boy crush on Jimmy, not Superman; still do I guess (I'm 60). It's funny to watch when his shirt is open or he is shirtless, because sometimes he has a happy trail sometimes (that's a chest hair line to your gear, for those who don't know), and sometimes they made him shave it. Same with his belly button; sometimes there, sometimes not but usually consistent within the same show. Women's hair on the other hand always changes, so funny.
I don't know the show names like you do, and I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. What I am doing is acknowledging your ability to communicate, and wanted you to know that you are not alone. We all appreciate our notice of different aspects of it; some are the same. The collective effort is what we have and what we love about it. I wager in 50-70 years, people won't be talking about the shows that are on TV today or have a clue what their names are.
Don't forget the episode where a gangster is trained to imitate Superman to help set up a giant robbery. The face and voice Reeves affects showed he had range that should have been better exploited.
@@jonnyq680 "I look like Superman, I walk like Superman, why can't I talk like Superman?" Was great! That Bronx attempt.
Aah these videos sure bring back memories!
I think the biggest reason show producers got away with so many mistakes is 1) the viewing quality back in those days was pretty awful which leads me to 2) most kids were just happy to have that sort of entertainment in the evenings or Saturday mornings that even if they noticed it, it was easily overlooked!
3) as I watch these shows now I do wonder how I never saw any of that before?!? Which leads back to 1, 2.
Great channel and I will be a new subscriber!
Great show…great reviews.
So funny! Thanks for pointing out these wonderful goofs.
I have watched almost everyone of his super man movies and I really haven't noticed any one of what you said at all I just loved it
After Clark jumps out of the car when the bomb explodes, he is wearing a light colored trench coat. Then when he goes up to see Lois, he is wearing a black trench coat. I appreciate you sharing these goofs. Thank you for the video.
As a kid I never noticed these goofs. All I cared about was Superman doing his thing. 😊
When I was a little guy in the 50s I had a red bathrobe. I used to tie it around my neck and go "flying" around the backyard.
@@Eyes-of-Horus... Was that you?
@@Eyes-of-Horus When I was a kid back in the fifties, a work friend of my Mother's was making Superman capes for all the kids. It had the proper Adventures of Superman S shield and looked so official. She did her homework and found the proper template for the S shield from the show. I noticed details like that as a kid. I loved that cape.
On the TV's of the time, most of these goofs would be invisible.
Gotta respect how that show set the standard for following superhero tv shows.
very well done! Keep up the good work.
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I WAS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD AT THIS TIME AND BELIEVED EVERYTHING WAS REAL... I STILL DO ❣️🥴
I still love watching superman, since 1959
Very enjoyable. Thank you. My cable company has not had Superman on in YEARS!! I hate them for that!
This is why I rely on DVDs although I probably have way too many sets. 😀
The father of a friend of mine worked in the studios as a tailor. One of his jobs was to sew George Reeves into his Superman get-up. It was a padded suit that's why he needed sewed into it.
I love ❤️ it,what your showing is totally awesome 😎👏🏼👏🏼😎😎👍👍
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I enjoy these ' look what i found" videos.. keep em coming ☮️❤️👍
Panic was my favorite. And with the ultra low resolution of 1950s and 60s black and white (and color, for that matter) television, combined with the fact it was a miracle just to get clear over air reception, it was enough just to see the asteroid, let alone a cloth!
Yeah, I think the first time I saw George Reeves Superman was on a tiny black and white set we had in the kitchen. For some reason the color TV with the big antenna would not pick up the channel it was running on at that time. This was like the late 70's I think.
@@tvcrazyman Quick! Put aluminum foil on the rabbit ears!
Lois Lane had to be the most oblivious journalist ever not to know Clark was Superman
Yes, these were the 'early' years of Television shows (the 50s) and the budgets were practically nil, along with maintaining 'fast' filming-schedules. Combine that with the knowledge of Television receivers being of low-quality resolution... and you can see why productions of that era were rife with filming errors and continuity-mistakes. Those early TV Production companies couldn't care less about those errors. They were too busy shooting and producing the next volley of cigarette-ads and cereal commercials to care about doing any reshoots for episodic shows.
Exactly right...they would have been distraught..if they had spelled " Kellogs" wrong lol😂
@@josephthunderhorse8793 That's funny, but you're right. Okay, now that I used that as an excuse to say this, I love your user name and if Thunderhorse is your real name, then I'm single...lol
@@floridaredneck Yes Thunderhorse is my real name...l am Joseph Thunderhorse ...and thank you for such a nice complement...l too am a Florida resident...and a bit of a redneck also lmao
In that episode where Clark rolls out of the car with the lunch pail bomb, you can see the film crew in the highly polished side of the car when Clark climbs back up to stand with Lois
The one with the steamers is hilarious. 🤣
Yeah, I would have loved to hear what Perry White John Hamilton had to say after the scene was over.
At 5.00 the clock on the wall shows 16.00, not 12.20. So that makes sense, since they have been working that scene about 40 minutes.
As always l guess ...suspended disbelief...but lm 73...l too was a kid watching these episodes and always found a pair of glasses as a pretty flimsy disguise...but l loved the actors so much that l didn't care...it was great fun...and worthwhile entertainment...so l went along with it...thanks again my friend for a fun ride!
Great job as always!
Superman was my favorite show when I was a kid (born 1952).
I was born in 1952 when Superman first aired, and I started watching Superman in the 60's (in reruns), and frankly, I saw nothing but a "good time" as a kid watching one of my favorite programs!
I was born in 48 so the Adventures of Superman were tops on my TV list. I never noticed the goofs. We had a small screen B&W Admiral TV. It was super expensive and dad had to call the TV repair guy in twice a year. We had a 50 foot antenna tower complete with rotor and we still got bad reception on our 3 channels some times. I agree with the other commenters, George was the best. I recall when they told us he was dead. There was great sadness everywhere. We were loyal believers in George even though we knew it was all pretending. I'm glad back then we didn't know all the facts about George's personal life and his attitude toward doing the Superman series.
Love this channel. Hi from Plymouth, UK.
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Even as a little kid, I asked myself that question! Here was George Reeves in bed, no glasses, same face and voice, and they don't know they're looking at and talking to Superman? As a little kid I thought this makes absolutely no sense!!!
You could take apart pretty much any old TV show or movie from the early days since they weren't done all that well to begin with plus they never figured anyone would ever be able to pause or blow up any of these scenes and the TVs were the old black and whites back then.
There are instances of Supes in flight, where his "S" reverses itself a couple of times to facilitate him changing direction in flight😎
I love the reruns of the adventures of Superman when I was a little boy in the 70’s. Now I love scientific episodes then gangster episodes.
Good catches. However, you have to remember that TVs of the 1950s had terrible resolution compared to our 4K+ views today. The cables and wires were not visible back then. And no one could record, replay and freeze frames until VCRs came to be common in the 80s.
If they only made shows that good today
When I was younger I preferred Mary Ann over Ginger from Gilligan's Island, it had to be the shorts. Now that I am much older I am a Ginger guy. The same thing happened with Superman, when I was younger it was Phyllis, now older and wiser, it is Noel. She really filled those 50's skirts beautifully.
Hmmm...very interesting. Mary Ann was definitely my pick back in the day. Noel and Phyllis definitely have totally different personalities on screen. Noel's Lois is more chill, happy, and easy going I think.
I was the one who contributed the video last year of the car being towed in the Superman group on Facebook. I tried putting up another Superman clip, but nothing was posted, so I said bye-bye.
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love watching these goof videos keep it up.
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It's the Super hypnosis that keeps them from recognizing him
In one of the Batman-Superman comics, the plot narrator says that Perry White is too good a reporter to not have figured out Clark's secret, and the Commissioner Gordon is too good a cop to not have figured out Bruce's secret. But they both keep it to themselves. That made sense to me...
I LOVED this! So I was thinking, since you make comic books too, you should put some intentional "goofs" in them just for the fun of it. Maybe even have contests for your readers to spot them. It would probably make you more money!
Hmm...interesting idea, but they might find goofs I didn't even mean to put in there.😀
As I remember, watching this show back in the 1960s, my parent's TV screen was full of lines and static anyway so, I wouldn't have been able to see the tiny wires or most of the stuff you pick up on. Plus, all the kids running around distracting the TV viewer. Nope.
When I was a little kid, I couldn't figure out why they didn't see that Kent was Superman. 🤔🤫 Reeves played Clark Kent so well. 👍
That always cracked me up, even as a young child - if Lois Lane couldn't tell Clark Kent was Superman then she wasn't such a hotshot reporter...hell, Ray Charles could tell they were the same guy!
Probably would have been easier for him, because he was used to going on a person's voice to recognize them.
Two sad days I remember as a youngster. Yankees got beat by the pirates in the 7th game and Superman (George Reeves) died. I was an after-school paperboy and when I opened the bundle there was the headline.
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A fold in the sky is usual in my part of the world a reminder its a new day. 😄
The original and the best!
Great narratives of all these goofs!! LOL
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Many7 screens during this time frame were ROUND. Even the rectangular ones had serious radiuses in the corners.
Oh my..... I am in my sixties now and remember holding some of those Superman comic books in my hand and reading them.
Same with Spiderman.
I actually had the first issue of Spiderman that was given to me as a young boy and I was afraid to read it because the cover looked so scary.
What those would be worth today!
Well, at least you can say you held Spider-man 1 in your hand. Most Spider-man fans will never get that opportunity, unless they are super rich.😀
Also it should be mentioned in the episode, “A Ghost For Scotland Yard”, the car’s steering wheel is on the left.(In the UK, the car’s steering wheels are on the right.)
I loved this old show!! I got a kick out of when Superman is getting shot & just stands there taking the bullets, but yet when they throw the gun at him when it's out of bullets, he ducks to avoid getting hit!!! Like...... what?😮😅
Speaking of not recognizing Clark and Superman, there was a lot of that in I Love Lucy. Every time Lucy and Ethel cooked up a corny scheme that required costumes, Ricky and Fred weren’t able to recognize them for the longest time, but eventually they figured it out.
Keep in mind that people drand a lot more back then.
Great job on finding the bloopers!
I could tell you one thing in my opinion from someone Who wears glasses, I can't understand why Clark's glasses were not fogged up in the 1st minute in that sauna scene.
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Of all the actors who played Superman I loved George Reeves the most. I think it's because I liked his interpretation of Clark Kent more than anyone else's. Always thought Clark Kent's secret identity was Superman...not the other way round! :)
Yeah, I agree with that. I've always thought Clark was who he really was. He gets his morals and values from his adoptive parents so that's really is who he is. There are some Superman fans that think the exact opposite though.
Wow, i grew up watching superman and NEVER picked up on any of these bloopers. 😃🤷♂️
I only seen a few episodes but I do remember one where Clark was trapped in a cave with Lois and a guy passed out one the ground. Kent pushed a large rock aside and it rolled onto the guys leg, Ouch.
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If any of you are as big a fan of Reeves ...as l am... have not seen the film put out a few years back about George Reeves as Superman with Ben Affleck... it plays out well as the physical and emotional challenges that he went through...being "Superman"
.....I remember watching "Combat" with Vic Morrow and they were up in a hilly-high area on foot.....(WW2?)...and I could hear traffic , cars,....Seeing the actor's breaths you could tell they were filming in the morning and I just giggled and let it pass.....until ....the camera panned to the right and I saw modern day morning rush hour from the 60's for a split second (??)....unbelievable how it was left in the episode,....wow.
In that time discrepancy instance, I saw the clock at first showing 4:00, not 12:20. It would make sense having a passage of 40 minutes during the process of shooting the scene's takes.
Why didn’t Lois recognize Clark as Superman? Noel Neill stated in the DVD commentary for “Panic in the Sky”, “I wanted to keep my job”. Also another Superman comic book, issue #72, was seen in the first-season episode, “The Birthday Letter”; I recognized it by its cover.
TV CRTs were overscanned on the extremes because the lines would be less than perfectly linear on top and bottom, and on the sides, particularly for inexpensive and old TVs. So they routinely did not show the edges of the screen.
The land masses on that globe were also pretty messed up.
I think TV screens had rounded corners in the 1950's as they were all tubes and having squared corners on tubes was difficult to make. The man's head likely would not have appeared on the screens of that time.
As we look today, shows like this look cheesy. But as a young boy, it was awesome. Same with a show like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or the original "Star Trek." At the time, they seemed cutting edge!! 😅
What you have to realize is TVs and especially the signal received was at a much lower resolution in those days. Most of it was signal gathered by an antenna and the picture was 'snowy'. There was little cable then, very little and when there was the TVs were still pretty bad resolution.
If you watched Hogan's Heroes in the day, the snow on the buildings looked like snow. On TH-cam with 1080 resolution it's plainly paint.
So many of these 'goofs' simply weren't visible and they knew that.
Tube TVs back then didn't have the resolution to show cables and we had no available replay. One could argue, they all knew Clark was Superman but they were keeping his identity secret.
One goof the show never made is...showing how HOT Lois Lane always was.🤤
I bought that comic new back then. And yes most TVs were very small so bloopers were not so visible
Fun fact: Although the earth is not flat, it IS resting on a big piece of cloth.
Medical fact (despite this happens in every film or tv show) when you get amnesia you NEVER forget who you actually are! You can forget certain parts of your life but you never forget your name or who you are.
Interesting. I did not know that.
I recognize all these where they couldn't see him as the same guy LoL and but this is a treat my favorite bad guy Robert Wilkie was a henchman in the sauna episode wow what a treat
I'm wondering if that tow rope (or the globe string/back cloth etc) would show up on TV screens in the 1950s - there's lots of old TV shows that look much worse now than they did then - restored and higher definition than they were ever intended to be seen.
Although this is something of a modern retcon, the reason for Kent's glasses isn't simply to disguise his face. The lenses are made of leaded glass to help him control his X-ray vision, otherwise he'd go through the day seeing through everything at random times. He began wearing them when his powers started to manifest themselves when he was young and continued wearing them as part of his identity, even after he had learned to completely control his visual abilities. Now, as to why nobody recognizes that Kent and Superman are the same person, well...like all good fiction, sometimes ya just gotta believe 😉
3:25 In space no one can hear you scream 😱 but they can hear birds in the trees