Thursday, February 20, 2014
Superboy: TV Series
Superboy - The Complete First Season
I will keep this brief. I tried to watch 1st episode. For years this was impossible. I do not know how I missed this one, except maybe because 1988-1992 I was very busy with school etc. Then legal battles over owner ship of the creative properties and characters kept the videos out of publication. The complete 4 season series was recently released....
WOW This has to be the worst incarnation of the Superman world. 'Nuff Said...
I will wait for YOUTUBER to post for free as I love to watch the bad stuff... Many sleepless nights watching bad movies etc But I cannot justify this curiosity for any amount of coinage...
WIKI
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictionalDC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.[4]
The Superboy series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilyaand Alexander Salkind, the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.[5] This series and the release of the 1988Superman animated series on CBS coincided with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Superman character that year. Ironically, the series came about a year after DC Comics had "erased" the character of Superboyfrom their continuity in The Man of Steel reboot by John Byrne. Nevertheless, the show went on in October 1988 with John Haymes Newtonplaying the lead role of Superboy/Clark Kent, along with Stacy Haiduk as love interest Lana Lang and Jim Calvert as Clark's college roommate T.J. White.
I will keep this brief. I tried to watch 1st episode. For years this was impossible. I do not know how I missed this one, except maybe because 1988-1992 I was very busy with school etc. Then legal battles over owner ship of the creative properties and characters kept the videos out of publication. The complete 4 season series was recently released....
WOW This has to be the worst incarnation of the Superman world. 'Nuff Said...
I will wait for YOUTUBER to post for free as I love to watch the bad stuff... Many sleepless nights watching bad movies etc But I cannot justify this curiosity for any amount of coinage...
WIKI
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictionalDC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.[4]
The Superboy series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilyaand Alexander Salkind, the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.[5] This series and the release of the 1988Superman animated series on CBS coincided with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Superman character that year. Ironically, the series came about a year after DC Comics had "erased" the character of Superboyfrom their continuity in The Man of Steel reboot by John Byrne. Nevertheless, the show went on in October 1988 with John Haymes Newtonplaying the lead role of Superboy/Clark Kent, along with Stacy Haiduk as love interest Lana Lang and Jim Calvert as Clark's college roommate T.J. White.
Cast
Season 1
- John Haymes Newton - Superboy/Clark Kent[19]
- Stacy Haiduk - Lana Lang[20]
- Jim Calvert - T.J. (Trevor Jenkins) White
- Scott James Wells - Lex Luthor
- Michael Manno - Leo
- George Chakiris - Professor Peterson (Seasons 1 - 2)
- Roger Pretto - Lt. Zeke Harris
- Stuart Whitman - Jonathan Kent
- Salome Jens - Martha Kent
Seasons 2-4
- Gerard Christopher - Superboy/Clark Kent[21][22]
- Stacy Haiduk - Lana Lang[23]
- Ilan Mitchell-Smith - Andy McCalister (Season 2)[24]
- Peter Jay Fernandez - Matt Ritter (Seasons 3 - 4)
- Robert Levine - C. Dennis Jackson (Seasons 3 - 4)
- Gilbert Gottfried - Nick Knack (Season 2, 2 episodes)
- Sherman Howard - Lex Luthor
- Tracy Roberts - Darla
- Barry Meyers - Bizarro
- Stuart Whitman - Jonathan Kent
- Salome Jens - Martha Kent
- Darren Dowler - Alien Ship Commander (Episode - West of Alpha Centauri) and Nazi Leader (Episode - Golem) Dowler was the only supporting actor allowed to play multiple roles on the series.
- Danny Dyer - Hank
- Robert Hope - Stunt Coordinator
1950 Superman Serial
Not as good as the 1948 version. Far from being the best. Although I thought interesting note - small part of henchman played by Wally West but no relation to kid Flash LOL
WIKI
Plot
Lex Luthor, the Atom Man, invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Supermanmanages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.' Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom" (which bears a similarity to the Phantom Zone of the comic books). Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 Avenging Waters (also directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet[1]). The serial features several elements re-used in laterSuperman features: the Man of Steel is exposed to synthetic Kryptoniteduring a public function, as he is in the motion picture Superman III. When he escapes from "The Empty Doom", the headline of the Daily Planetproclaims: Superman Returns, the title of the 2006 Superman movie.
Cast
- Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent
- Noel Neill as Lois Lane
- Lyle Talbot as Lex Luthor/The Atom Man
- Tommy Bond as Jimmy Olsen
- Pierre Watkin as Perry White
- Jack Ingram as Foster (dapper henchman)
- Don C. Harvey as Albor (lab henchman)
- Rusty Wescoatt as Carl (beefy henchman)
- Terry Frost as Baer (medium henchman)
- Wally West as Henchman Dorr
- Paul Stader as 'Killer' Lawson
- George Robotham as Earl, TV truck cameraman-driver
Superman: Doomsday LIVE ACTION Fan Film
This is ridiculous snips of various movies and video games and maybe a little original footage to creat illusion of new movie... Decent Editing though. A die hard fan might like....
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