At 76 years old, this was one of my favorite programs. I was so die-hard Superman that the bloopers never really stopped me from enjoying them. I could see that the walls and mountains he burst through were fake, or that the guns were made of plastic. It was all ok with me. Thanks for sharing.
Back then we didnt see "Bloopers" it was all action,,,But today we watch these old shows and laugh at how corny they were,,, But hey,,,I have watched "the day the earth stood still,,,Starman,,,,The Time machine,,,,,,and "Outer Limits dozs or times
I, too, grew up watching Superman. You’ve done an excellent job of finding and circling the obvious mistakes during filming. Someone wasn’t watching! But, we little kids were, and being mesmerized by seeing bad guys receiving their come-uppence, and Lois being gaga over Superman’s physique, my five-year-old brain didn’t notice. Too much action!😅
well, Superman had to be able to go through the window roughly 6 foot tall person and come back through the window so the window had to be a certain size. Why not use the same one so you know it works?💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
@@Robocoppat He was ling in a Fan Lloyd Wright house in Belaire (the "upside-down pyramid) and he said he had this house and a place in New York and traveled back-and-forth writing for TV. Other than that, just shit-chat. But I most remember his kindness and cordiality.
I think the biggest goof of all on The Adventures Of Superman...was the realization that the Daily Planet had Perry White....the editor....and Clark Kent, Lois Lane..and Jimmy Olsen, as the only staff on the newspaper! You never saw any other employess at the Planet, but those four! Operating a "great metropolitan newspaper" with just four employees...was a "super" feat ..in and of itself! As I became older....I realized that when Kellogg's took the show over...and "dumbed" it down to make it more "family friendly"..the plots did get more sappier and illogical. Of course, as kids..we were too busy watching Superman snap up the bad guys...to notice the flubs and tackiness of the "special" effects! Still...the black & white episodes were more adult and action packed. George Reeves was what made it work...and he infused his portrayal of Superman in a very memorable way...and I think it was his personality that captivated boys (and girls).....as the Man Of Steel. Goofs and flubs notwithstanding...It will always be a series that is close to my heart. RIP Mr. Reeves!
It's a total tribute to George Reeves that we just keep watching no matter how many goofs got made. The show always rested on his definitive performance bringing a comic book character to life.
Great video! I grew up with George Reeves' Superman. He was and still is my Superman on TV. Then came along Chris Reeve in 1978 on the movie screen. I like them both equally. Like 1a and 1b. I'm thinking George and Chris are exchanging stories on their own adventures as Superman.
I am 74 and never missed an episode of Superman. The difference in my memory is my buddies and I caught all of the bloopers. We try to explain them or just laughed. We were smart enough to realize Superman' was a character.
First of all, I liked this collection of classic goofs from the Superman series. I don't know if you caught this goof in one of your past collections, but I do remember this one from the Superman episode Shot in the Dark. Jimmy Olsen is chased by a couple of bad guys and runs down the steps to a subway station and escapes on a train marked Valley Local. The bad guys slugged the operator of the next train marked Valley Express. The express train is supposed to catch up to the local and crash into it. Though they use the side of an IRT door as a prop, the actual film footage is R-1/ R-9 trains on New York's Independent Subway system. When Superman crashes through the tunnel to stop the accident, the third rail is several feet above the track! The third rail is closer to the running rails and near the wheel sets (aka the trucks). Superman picks up the third rail, breaks it up so the express train can't catch up to the local. They use animated special effects to simulate electricity that's going through Superman as he lifts up the power rail to break it. On my first subway ride in New York in the summer of 1965, I saw the third rail was closer to the running rails than the fake third rail in the episode. The real third rail has a wooden board above it so maintenance people can step on that and not get electrocuted. Moreover, the tunnel lighting was much brighter than the actual subway footage in the film clips.
Having grown up during those times and watching that show, you have to keep in mind that at that time that was state of the art technology and no one was looking at details like that, especially kids. Also, everything was in black-and-white.
I watched the show as a kid over 50 years ago. And I remember some of the scenes in your video very clearly! Like Lois levitating and blocking the moving walls. Those mole men scared the crap out of me.
The reason he ducked was because that was a real gun that it just shot blank rounds, the other guns were plastic and could easily bounce off your chest without damage or hurting
One thing I'll say about the 50s Superman - the guy that played Jimmy Olsen really nailed the role. Best Jimmy Olsen portrayal in any Superman incarnation ever (in my opinion).
At 78, I can call myself an old fart. I grew up on Action Commics, Adventure Comics both featuring Superman, and the Superman TV show with George Reeves and first Phyllis Coates and then Noel Neill as Lois Lane. I also read Superboy comics. When I entered the Army, Mom and Dad threw out my old comic books. They woulda been worth a fortune today, but they didn't know it then.
I was surprised to learn that Phyllis Coates was early to mid twenties when playing Lois Lane. She seemed more mature than that and definitely more mature than Noel Neil.
14:26 Great video, really enjoyed it but I think you missed one that worthy of comment: Lois is in cavewoman garb but shes still wearing her earrings ? They're large and very prominent too. Wonder why no one noticed ? Not a kock on you, I mean on the set, lol
Check out the last film about Tombstone, when doc pulled his gun from his holster to shoot Johnny Ringo, it was on his right side, when he put the gun back in holister it was on the leftside
At 28:41 I think that's actually some kind of microphone as there's also a black wire attached to the bottom. These flying scenes appear to have been filmed sideways and George Reeves is actually just standing upright and the camera's sideways position makes it look like he's flying with all the wind and smoke blown at him.
23:40 George Reeves is "Gone With the Wind." Yes, let's not forget he's in the very first scene with Scarlett O'Hara. No superpowers though, he gets killed at Gettysburg.
The actual first "series" of superhero was Batman that ran in theaters back in 1943. Great series, definitely corny, but none-the-less enjoyable. Loved their version of the Batmobile, a 1939 Cadillac😆😆😆. I always thought they were the forerunners who brought forth the Marvel/DC comics to both the big screen and small screen. Marvel and DC claim that they started the "comic book" serials and made them popular, but all these oldies were the ones who made the current movies do so well. If it weren't for us "old timers", DC and Marvel would not have been possible. Moms and Dads (some cases Grandma and Grandpa) bought the original comic books and saw the original releases of these heroes and then passed the comics books and serials stories to the next generations. Love you videos TVCrazyman. On a different note, did you ever participate in ComiCon? Maybe appear in Bakersfield, CA? I think my Husband bought a couple of comic books of yours, after he passed I can't find them.😭😭
Just a little FYI for future consideration: At the 13:40 mark, you show the outside of a police station. That is actually the oldest continuous police station in Los Angeles. It was built in 1926 on York Blvd. in Highland Park. It finally closed down in 1983 and now serves as a Police Museum for the Los Angeles Police Department.
As someone old enough to have watched these episodes in the 50's , let me say that with the quality of T.V. reception at that time most of these " goofs " would not have been noticeable . Although I do remember some of them .
Good point, Brian! My older sister would fiddle with rabbit ears to help eliminate snow, but it was content that made the show so fun to watch................
👍🏻 great video mate. Superman's wife Joi lansing was absolutely gorgeous...but I feel by time the filmed in colour, they became lazy with the stories and effects, like no one wanted to be there. It's the impression I get from watching them. The first 2-3 seasons are my favourite and the best, in my opinion. Superman is great no matter what🦸🏻..p.s Superman has laundry powers😅 it's why he can clean himself off..cheers from England
For me, George Reeves and the crew he worked with defined Superman. Living in Toronto when I was a child,I loved watching the series broadcast out of Buffalo N.Y., on the Commander Tom hosted show.
John and Mary Kent were the adoptive parents of the original (Earth-2) Superman. The Earth-1Superman's (the one we're most familiar with) adoptive parents were Jonathan and Martha Kent.
you brought back so many memories. I've been in such a state of depression that i haven't had any reason to laugh. what you said about jimmy and lois not realizing that clark is Superman and Vice versa, i literally started laughing out loud. it felt good, and i thank you for that 🙏. i always thought that lois wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. maybe she's a real blonde underneath, and that's why she's clueless. consider me a subscriber.
The George Reeves era premiered here in Australia back in the 60s and i would race home if possible from Primary School to try and watch it. School finished at 3.45pm and it came on Tv at 4.00pm by the time i got in the house i would often have missed 10-15minutes unfortunately.
That whole thing about Lous, Jimmy and Perry White not recognizing Superman when he was being Clark Kent Without Glasses on had me scratching my head too until years later when I saw a lecture by a C.I.A. disguise expert who said people don't always remember a Face but mentally use a recognition of a person by their actions and clothes they regularly wear. The lecturer recounted how 1 agent was able to switch articles of clothing and not be recognized by people that were paid to be on the lookout for him (or her). It is a concept that is used in a lot of Spy movies and even action movies these days.
Thanks for doing this show. My grandma's 1st Cousin was George Reeves .they grew up in kentucky and never thought he would go to Hollywood. Are family got
In the first episode Superman on Earth, actor Dabbs Greer mentions that a superguy in a red and blue costume catches him. A little fact note for those who didn’t know : Superman's costume in all the B&W episodes were brown and gray, not red and blue until the shows were shown in color.
For the black & white episodes of Adventures Of Superman....the producers created the costume in burgundy and gray. Why? Because those colors made the costume appear better on black & white TV sets. When the series began filming AOS in color...the costume's colors were the actual red,blue and yellow used in the comic books. Of course...viewers who watched it on B&W sets saw the costume as a dark gray and black suit, which was ugly on those sets. Color TV was very expensive for families, and because most programs were not filmed in color in the mid '50's anyway...none of us kids watching AOS didn't mind!
Dear Tvcrazyman: I've watched this more than once and I have to say that you have taken a fun subject and made it even funnier! Or should I say, "More fun!" Thanx, bud! You are very professional!
Season 1 had the best music background music of them all! Those haunting riffs with screeching violins. It was my understanding they had to tone down the violence a bit in future episodes, as this was the fifties...............
I remember watching these episodes on Nick@Nite when I was a kid in the late 80s early 90s. There wasn't much to watch late at night back then either this or watching 30 minute programs of a Euro dude trying to sell his crap.
I'm just reading the post below mine from @254967conwell: I'm the same age (dob-1948) and have the same thoughts about that program. Thank you for summing up, in simple and poignant terms, your experience watching Superman. If I remember correctly, I used to watch it in the afternoons from time to time around 4:00 p.m. back in Columbus, Ohio. I loved it and loved the fact that Superman could be invincible and have bullets fly off his chest! Cool, indeed! (11/15/23--Rohnert Park, CA)
I grew up in Melbourne Australia watching Superman at the Rivoli picture theatre or reading endless comics and Superman Jimmy Olsen , The Chief and Loise Lane were great favourites. No TV until 1955 and I was born in 1939. p.s. Unlike the Brits who got TV in the late 1930s courtesy of John Logie Baird a Scotsman I think.
I grew up watching the reruns of this show. We noticed the bloopers just watching it. However since Color TV came out in 1965, what made the producers of Superman decide to film it in Color ?
I think they were just looking ahead to the future. Color did payoff eventually for the series, I'd say. Most weren't thinking that far ahead back then, I guess, they figured Superman would be around for a long time to come.
15:51 I also just noticed that theres no springboard for Superman in this scene to give him that extra edge. I think the jump was pretty impressive considering he was already in his late 30s !! I still remember back then, on the walk to school, arguing with my friends about how Superman had died. The weird thing about it was it was kind of like the 'Santa Claus' argument as my friends and I watched this show religiously and thought Superman/Kent were REAL. So part of the argument was 'How did Superman die from a gunshot wound of all things ? I mean, we all knew that bullets bounced off Superman and it took Kryptonite to kill him !! Man, those were the days !! What put the final nail in the coffin for me was when my parents dragged me and my siblings to see 'From Here To Eternity' at the drive ins. "Look dad, Sgt Stark is Superm.... oh." :-)
I remember the Superman TV show, I'm 65 years old now and I was five years old when I first seen Superman watching it on our black-and-white TV, didn't get colour TV till about 1969, it brings back fond memories and I appreciate your commentary, unfortunately I didn't get to see the very beginning of it cuz I wasn't born yet, but one thing's for sure watching Superman reruns that were black and white on a colour TV, unfortunately there's still black and white on a colour TV😢🤓😂
As child, I used to dream I could fly using swim strokes to get up about 40 feet in the air. I thoroughly enjoyed Superman as a child. I was more interested in the action than the goofs.
Ma and Pa Kent’s first names being Sarah and Eben in “Superman on Earth” probably came from the 1942 novel “The Adventures of Superman” by George Lowther, which used these names.
The Adventures Of Superman with George Reeves was the very first tv show that I can ever remember watching back then! Because of that, George Reeves will always be my Superman! 🌫️🦅✈️☄️💥
Angel is the best recurring character in any television show EVER. My dad and I would watch the show together and we'd both get so excited whenever Angel showed up.
@@PapagenoMF He (Angel) is the best! What are some of your favorite episodes? Mine are the ones with the character, Vern St. Cloud, the actor Ken Swafford(?) and of course the ones with Angel, getting caught up in get rich quick schemes!
For each episode, they always filmed Reeves' Superman flying scenes last, so he had to stay late strung up on wires. Noel Neill and Jack Larson, who play Lois and Jimmy, would always make sure to taunt Reeves about this as they left to go out for the evening while he was hung up, very uncomfortable, held up late for this. One season the actors were each offered the chance to direct one episode. For his, Reeves commissioned a script in which Lois and Jimmy got superpowers, including the ability to fly. See where this is going? Yep. He kept them strung up for hours on those wires filming the flying scenes, insisting on take after take, to be sure it was the perfect shot. Taunting Superman can never be a good idea.
I was born in 1960 and I watched the "Adventures Of Superman" TV series syndicated to a local TV station while I was a young child. So George Reeves was Superman / Clark Kent to me until I had seen the Christopher Reeve as Superman movie in the theater in December of 1978. As far as I am concerned both George Reeves and Christopher Reeve are Superman / Clark Kent to me.
Didn't we hear in later times they re made Superman that when he went to that secret cave and saw the film of his original parents, they had preserved him a special suit from the planet to wear? 😊 That makes more sense. I used to think the powers came from him not the suit. I thought the suit was just something he wore to show he was Superman and the Symbol on his chest represented his planet. I thought with or without the suit he still had those powers and only kryptonite could stop him. They had like 3 kinds of that in 3 different colors that effected him in a certain way and the main green kryptonite was the one that made him weak and the red made him dangerous. 🎉
George Reeves was, is, and will always be the real Superman to me. And rest in peace, Phyllis Coates.
At 76 years old, this was one of my favorite programs. I was so die-hard Superman that the bloopers never really stopped me from enjoying them. I could see that the walls and mountains he burst through were fake, or that the guns were made of plastic. It was all ok with me. Thanks for sharing.
Yes! We did too! Great show for all us kids back there in the early ‘60 s. I hate this guy.
I'm 74 years old and I don't care how corny they are or how many bloopers there are, it's a part of my childhood and love them...
Me too. I've got all the Superman 50's episodes on DVD not to mention almost all the other Superman related shows.
Back then we didnt see "Bloopers" it was all action,,,But today we watch these old shows and laugh at how corny they were,,, But hey,,,I have watched "the day the earth stood still,,,Starman,,,,The Time machine,,,,,,and "Outer Limits dozs or times
The original Lois Lane recently took her very last flight. RiP
I, too, grew up watching Superman. You’ve done an excellent job of finding and circling the obvious mistakes during filming. Someone wasn’t watching! But, we little kids were, and being mesmerized by seeing bad guys receiving their come-uppence, and Lois being gaga over Superman’s physique, my five-year-old brain didn’t notice. Too much action!😅
well, Superman had to be able to go through the window roughly 6 foot tall person and come back through the window so the window had to be a certain size. Why not use the same one so you know it works?💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I didn't even think about any bloopers when I was 4 years old watching these shows ..I was just loving it..
Most 4 year olds do not have the critical thinking abilities of adults.
When I was a little boy I never missed an episode. I'm an old mannow but I do remember how much I loved this program.
You said it exactly right. I was born in 1951 and for me, George Reeves will always be the definitive (real) Superman.
I met Jack Larson ("Jimmy Olsen") at his home in Bel Aire, CA in 1968. What a fine, gracious man he was.
don't leave us hanging. What did you two talk about?
@@Robocoppat He was ling in a Fan Lloyd Wright house in Belaire (the "upside-down pyramid) and he said he had this house and a place in New York and traveled back-and-forth writing for TV. Other than that, just shit-chat. But I most remember his kindness and cordiality.
George Reeves, the best Superman. I loved this show when I was a kid.
Me too I grew up with superman
George Reeves was such a classy actor. He affected me as a child like a father figure would. There was nothing else like him anywhere.
So glad to have lived to see shows like this and experienced how life was back then.
I grew up watching this when I got home from school. Brings back great memories. 😊
George Reeves was MAGNIFICENT!
Great video! I'm old enough to remember watching "Superman" as a kid while living in an orphanage in East Texas back, of course, in the 50s. 😊
I uae to watch superman everyday after school. I loved it.
I think the biggest goof of all on The Adventures Of Superman...was the realization that the Daily Planet had Perry White....the editor....and Clark Kent, Lois Lane..and Jimmy Olsen, as the only staff on the newspaper! You never saw any other employess at the Planet, but those four! Operating a "great metropolitan newspaper" with just four employees...was a "super" feat ..in and of itself! As I became older....I realized that when Kellogg's took the show over...and "dumbed" it down to make it more "family friendly"..the plots did get more sappier and illogical. Of course, as kids..we were too busy watching Superman snap up the bad guys...to notice the flubs and tackiness of the "special" effects! Still...the black & white episodes were more adult and action packed. George Reeves was what made it work...and he infused his portrayal of Superman in a very memorable way...and I think it was his personality that captivated boys (and girls).....as the Man Of Steel. Goofs and flubs notwithstanding...It will always be a series that is close to my heart. RIP Mr. Reeves!
Yeah, where were those other employees at the Daily Planet. 😀
You forget Superman was on the staff, no one else was needed.😁
It's a total tribute to George Reeves that we just keep watching no matter how many goofs got made. The show always rested on his definitive performance bringing a comic book character to life.
I hope you all enjoy this compilation of all my Superman goofs videos. I added some Superman facts at the end as an extra.😀
Space birds lol
Great video! I grew up with George Reeves' Superman. He was and still is my Superman on TV. Then came along Chris Reeve in 1978 on the movie screen. I like them both equally. Like 1a and 1b. I'm thinking George and Chris are exchanging stories on their own adventures as Superman.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I am 74 and never missed an episode of Superman. The difference in my memory is my buddies and I caught all of the bloopers. We try to explain them or just laughed. We were smart enough to realize Superman' was a character.
A lot of good work went into this compilation. Great work Tvcrazyman!
Thanks
thank you for the memories, my 3 brothers and I lived for this growing up... Mole Men and Dive and Conquer were our fave episodes!
Superman will always be a classic show, and it never gets old.
You have picked some of the best detail errors for this series. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
First of all, I liked this collection of classic goofs from the Superman series. I don't know if you caught this goof in one of your past collections, but I do remember this one from the Superman episode Shot in the Dark. Jimmy Olsen is chased by a couple of bad guys and runs down the steps to a subway station and escapes on a train marked Valley Local. The bad guys slugged the operator of the next train marked Valley Express. The express train is supposed to catch up to the local and crash into it. Though they use the side of an IRT door as a prop, the actual film footage is R-1/ R-9 trains on New York's Independent Subway system. When Superman crashes through the tunnel to stop the accident, the third rail is several feet above the track! The third rail is closer to the running rails and near the wheel sets (aka the trucks). Superman picks up the third rail, breaks it up so the express train can't catch up to the local. They use animated special effects to simulate electricity that's going through Superman as he lifts up the power rail to break it. On my first subway ride in New York in the summer of 1965, I saw the third rail was closer to the running rails than the fake third rail in the episode. The real third rail has a wooden board above it so maintenance people can step on that and not get electrocuted. Moreover, the tunnel lighting was much brighter than the actual subway footage in the film clips.
Having grown up during those times and watching that show, you have to keep in mind that at that time that was state of the art technology and no one was looking at details like that, especially kids. Also, everything was in black-and-white.
I watched the show as a kid over 50 years ago. And I remember some of the scenes in your video very clearly! Like Lois levitating and blocking the moving walls. Those mole men scared the crap out of me.
I grew up on this TV show for all its flaws it was still great.
The reason he ducked was because that was a real gun that it just shot blank rounds, the other guns were plastic and could easily bounce off your chest without damage or hurting
One thing I'll say about the 50s Superman - the guy that played Jimmy Olsen really nailed the role. Best Jimmy Olsen portrayal in any Superman incarnation ever (in my opinion).
I believe his name was Jack Larsen ! You are correct! He was awesome !
Marc McClure would like to have a word with you.
At 78, I can call myself an old fart. I grew up on Action Commics, Adventure Comics both featuring Superman, and the Superman TV show with George Reeves and first Phyllis Coates and then Noel Neill as Lois Lane. I also read Superboy comics. When I entered the Army, Mom and Dad threw out my old comic books. They woulda been worth a fortune today, but they didn't know it then.
Man, I can't believe people threw away comics so often back then. I actually got started reading comics by pulling out comics my grandma threw away.
People were dumb back then!
Very funny stuff. Phyllis Coates was very attractive.
I was surprised to learn that Phyllis Coates was early to mid twenties when playing Lois Lane. She seemed more mature than that and definitely more mature than Noel Neil.
I love this stuff. I'm just now discovering The George Reeves Superman era.
Awesome!
Welcome to the club!
Sorry you’ve been deprived for so long!
I grew up with superman loved it
This video was brilliant. The best superman one I’ve ever see . Well done. It was amazing.
Thank you very much!
14:26 Great video, really enjoyed it but I think you missed one that worthy of comment: Lois is in cavewoman garb but shes still wearing her earrings ? They're large and very prominent too. Wonder why no one noticed ? Not a kock on you, I mean on the set, lol
Check out the last film about Tombstone, when doc pulled his gun from his holster to shoot Johnny Ringo, it was on his right side, when he put the gun back in holister it was on the leftside
Never seen this before!! Never even heard about this Superman movie!!! Look like very interesting!!!!
At 28:41 I think that's actually some kind of microphone as there's also a black wire attached to the bottom. These flying scenes appear to have been filmed sideways and George Reeves is actually just standing upright and the camera's sideways position makes it look like he's flying with all the wind and smoke blown at him.
Ahhh The oldies -I loved watching this show
Great work Tim!! I've noticed many goofs over the years, but missed so many more!! 👍
Thanks 👍
23:40 George Reeves is "Gone With the Wind." Yes, let's not forget he's in the very first scene with Scarlett O'Hara. No superpowers though, he gets killed at Gettysburg.
The actual first "series" of superhero was Batman that ran in theaters back in 1943. Great series, definitely corny, but none-the-less enjoyable. Loved their version of the Batmobile, a 1939 Cadillac😆😆😆. I always thought they were the forerunners who brought forth the Marvel/DC comics to both the big screen and small screen. Marvel and DC claim that they started the "comic book" serials and made them popular, but all these oldies were the ones who made the current movies do so well. If it weren't for us "old timers", DC and Marvel would not have been possible. Moms and Dads (some cases Grandma and Grandpa) bought the original comic books and saw the original releases of these heroes and then passed the comics books and serials stories to the next generations.
Love you videos TVCrazyman.
On a different note, did you ever participate in ComiCon? Maybe appear in Bakersfield, CA? I think my Husband bought a couple of comic books of yours, after he passed I can't find them.😭😭
No, I've never been in CA. Thanks
The Adventures of Superman tv series 1950's style is cool,fun and entertaining.
Just a little FYI for future consideration: At the 13:40 mark, you show the outside of a police station. That is actually the oldest continuous police station in Los Angeles. It was built in 1926 on York Blvd. in Highland Park. It finally closed down in 1983 and now serves as a Police Museum for the Los Angeles Police Department.
As someone old enough to have watched these episodes in the 50's , let me say that with the quality of T.V. reception at that time most of these " goofs " would not have been noticeable . Although I do remember some of them .
Good point, Brian! My older sister would fiddle with rabbit ears to help eliminate snow, but it was content that made the show so fun to watch................
Loved the video. You forgot to mention Commando Cody played by George Wallace. One of my favorites.
Watching these goofs were so funny and so entertaining. I still love the oldies l
TV was so new and fascinating back then we weren’t conscious of goofs.
👍🏻 great video mate. Superman's wife Joi lansing was absolutely gorgeous...but I feel by time the filmed in colour, they became lazy with the stories and effects, like no one wanted to be there. It's the impression I get from watching them. The first 2-3 seasons are my favourite and the best, in my opinion. Superman is great no matter what🦸🏻..p.s Superman has laundry powers😅 it's why he can clean himself off..cheers from England
For me, George Reeves and the crew he worked with defined Superman. Living in Toronto when I was a child,I loved watching the series broadcast out of Buffalo N.Y., on the Commander Tom hosted show.
John and Mary Kent were the adoptive parents of the original (Earth-2) Superman. The Earth-1Superman's (the one we're most familiar with) adoptive parents were Jonathan and Martha Kent.
My favorite show growing up. Thank you for this video.
I watched Superman all the time. This was fun to watch.ThANKS
Been watching for 65 years. Including every Saturday and Sunday on the Heroes and Icons channel (24.3) over the air
I loved them then and now
you brought back so many memories. I've been in such a state of depression that i haven't had any reason to laugh. what you said about jimmy and lois not realizing that clark is Superman and Vice versa, i literally started laughing out loud. it felt good, and i thank you for that 🙏. i always thought that lois wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. maybe she's a real blonde underneath, and that's why she's clueless. consider me a subscriber.
I'm glad you got a laugh out of it. Thanks for subscribing.😀
The George Reeves era premiered here in Australia back in the 60s and i would race home if possible from Primary School to try and watch it. School finished at 3.45pm and it came on Tv at 4.00pm by the time i got in the house i would often have missed 10-15minutes unfortunately.
This was really good. Thanks. I've never seen this series but it looks like so much fun.
I appreciate it.
there was only one superman, thank you George
I even have a replica of the watch he wore as Clark Kent.A Gallet decimal chronograph watch.
I was too young to notice any of the gaffes you've highlighted but, boy!, were there ever a lot of them! And serious ones too!
I saw as a kid I wouldn't have noticed the goofs either, but I clearly remember the wires.
That whole thing about Lous, Jimmy and Perry White not recognizing Superman when he was being Clark Kent Without Glasses on had me scratching my head too until years later when I saw a lecture by a C.I.A. disguise expert who said people don't always remember a Face but mentally use a recognition of a person by their actions and clothes they regularly wear. The lecturer recounted how 1 agent was able to switch articles of clothing and not be recognized by people that were paid to be on the lookout for him (or her). It is a concept that is used in a lot of Spy movies and even action movies these days.
Interesting.
Thanks for doing this show. My grandma's 1st Cousin was George Reeves .they grew up in kentucky and never thought he would go to Hollywood. Are family got
Awesome! That would be pretty neat to be kin to somebody like George Reeves!
This was one of my best shows
love it - reminds me of my childhood
In the first episode Superman on Earth, actor Dabbs Greer mentions that a superguy in a red and blue costume catches him. A little fact note for those who didn’t know : Superman's costume in all the B&W episodes were brown and gray, not red and blue until the shows were shown in color.
brown and gray ? What colors had the comic book version's costume been ?
@@menacelurkingyet8345 red and blue
For the black & white episodes of Adventures Of Superman....the producers created the costume in burgundy and gray. Why? Because those colors made the costume appear better on black & white TV sets. When the series began filming AOS in color...the costume's colors were the actual red,blue and yellow used in the comic books. Of course...viewers who watched it on B&W sets saw the costume as a dark gray and black suit, which was ugly on those sets. Color TV was very expensive for families, and because most programs were not filmed in color in the mid '50's anyway...none of us kids watching AOS didn't mind!
@@jamesperry2322 burgundy is a deep reddish brown color as well!
Some of the Superman clips you showed were hilarious!
And, Batman was a "crime fighter".
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Awesome!😀😀😀😀
Dear Tvcrazyman: I've watched this more than once and I have to say that you have taken a fun subject and made it even funnier! Or should I say, "More fun!" Thanx, bud! You are very professional!
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Season 1 had the best music background music of them all! Those haunting riffs with screeching violins. It was my understanding they had to tone down the violence a bit in future episodes, as this was the fifties...............
I watched all those episodes and never noticed any of the goofs, and didn't care I loved that show !
Where fun time before and after school 🍻🍾 top work folks
I remember watching these episodes on Nick@Nite when I was a kid in the late 80s early 90s. There wasn't much to watch late at night back then either this or watching 30 minute programs of a Euro dude trying to sell his crap.
I'm just reading the post below mine from @254967conwell: I'm the same age (dob-1948) and have the same thoughts about that program. Thank you for summing up, in simple and poignant terms, your experience watching Superman. If I remember correctly, I used to watch it in the afternoons from time to time around 4:00 p.m. back in Columbus, Ohio. I loved it and loved the fact that Superman could be invincible and have bullets fly off his chest! Cool, indeed! (11/15/23--Rohnert Park, CA)
Great video❤ love behind the scenes and goofs like this
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This is good stuff! That sure was a special era, wasn't it? Thanks for posting
I grew up in Melbourne Australia watching Superman at the Rivoli picture theatre or reading endless comics and Superman Jimmy Olsen , The Chief and Loise Lane were great favourites. No TV until 1955 and I was born in 1939. p.s. Unlike the Brits who got TV in the late 1930s courtesy of John Logie Baird a Scotsman I think.
@Tvcrazyman. Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed it and it brought back many good memories for me!
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I grew up watching the reruns of this show. We noticed the bloopers just watching it. However since Color TV came out in 1965, what made the producers of Superman decide to film it in Color ?
I think they were just looking ahead to the future. Color did payoff eventually for the series, I'd say. Most weren't thinking that far ahead back then, I guess, they figured Superman would be around for a long time to come.
Thanks. Great to see, it has been so long. Cheers!
I loved superman when i was a kid i still enjoy watching it. But the glasses make him look different always was a little odd
15:51 I also just noticed that theres no springboard for Superman in this scene to give him that extra edge. I think the jump was pretty impressive considering he was already in his late 30s !! I still remember back then, on the walk to school, arguing with my friends about how Superman had died. The weird thing about it was it was kind of like the 'Santa Claus' argument as my friends and I watched this show religiously and thought Superman/Kent were REAL. So part of the argument was 'How did Superman die from a gunshot wound of all things ? I mean, we all knew that bullets bounced off Superman and it took Kryptonite to kill him !! Man, those were the days !! What put the final nail in the coffin for me was when my parents dragged me and my siblings to see 'From Here To Eternity' at the drive ins. "Look dad, Sgt Stark is Superm.... oh." :-)
I remember the Superman TV show, I'm 65 years old now and I was five years old when I first seen Superman watching it on our black-and-white TV, didn't get colour TV till about 1969, it brings back fond memories and I appreciate your commentary, unfortunately I didn't get to see the very beginning of it cuz I wasn't born yet, but one thing's for sure watching Superman reruns that were black and white on a colour TV, unfortunately there's still black and white on a colour TV😢🤓😂
As child, I used to dream I could fly using swim strokes to get up about 40 feet in the air. I thoroughly enjoyed Superman as a child. I was more interested in the action than the goofs.
I still have dreams where I'm flying all the time 😀
Ma and Pa Kent’s first names being Sarah and Eben in “Superman on Earth” probably came from the 1942 novel “The Adventures of Superman” by George Lowther, which used these names.
i enjoy your eye for detail
best superman vid doc.
The Adventures Of Superman with George Reeves was the very first tv show that I can ever remember watching back then!
Because of that, George Reeves will always be my Superman! 🌫️🦅✈️☄️💥
I was born in 1965. Thanks to a TV channel in Memphis, TN I saw this version of Superman in re runs every Sunday in the mid 70s.
I grew up watching the reruns in the 60s… I ❤the show as a kid … still do
Saturday morning with a big bowl of Sugar Pops cereal. Mom had nothing to worry about.
Good observations and reaearch!
I've been a loyal ROCKFORD FILES fan for over 40 years. I've caught so many goofs on those shows but still watch it!
Angel is the best recurring character in any television show EVER. My dad and I would watch the show together and we'd both get so excited whenever Angel showed up.
@@PapagenoMF He (Angel) is the best! What are some of your favorite episodes? Mine are the ones with the character, Vern St. Cloud, the actor Ken Swafford(?) and of course the ones with Angel, getting caught up in get rich quick schemes!
For each episode, they always filmed Reeves' Superman flying scenes last, so he had to stay late strung up on wires. Noel Neill and Jack Larson, who play Lois and Jimmy, would always make sure to taunt Reeves about this as they left to go out for the evening while he was hung up, very uncomfortable, held up late for this.
One season the actors were each offered the chance to direct one episode. For his, Reeves commissioned a script in which Lois and Jimmy got superpowers, including the ability to fly. See where this is going?
Yep. He kept them strung up for hours on those wires filming the flying scenes, insisting on take after take, to be sure it was the perfect shot.
Taunting Superman can never be a good idea.
I was born in 1960 and I watched the "Adventures Of Superman" TV series syndicated to a local TV station while I was a young child. So George Reeves was Superman / Clark Kent to me until I had seen the Christopher Reeve as Superman movie in the theater in December of 1978. As far as I am concerned both George Reeves and Christopher Reeve are Superman / Clark Kent to me.
In the 50's Superman radio episodes aired in Australia at 5pm voiced by Leonard Teale. I loved it.
Didn't we hear in later times they re made Superman that when he went to that secret cave and saw the film of his original parents, they had preserved him a special suit from the planet to wear? 😊 That makes more sense. I used to think the powers came from him not the suit. I thought the suit was just something he wore to show he was Superman and the Symbol on his chest represented his planet. I thought with or without the suit he still had those powers and only kryptonite could stop him. They had like 3 kinds of that in 3 different colors that effected him in a certain way and the main green kryptonite was the one that made him weak and the red made him dangerous. 🎉
Great stuff.
Awwwww! Over too soon! Well done!
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That was the Golden Age of Television!
Enjoyable video!
I love these shows so much that these things that are wrong don't bother me. i still love them !!!
I too am not recognized (even by my wife) when I take my glasses off.