Adventures of Irvingman: Superman on Earth - Superman Season 1 Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- We begin the George Reeves TV era with Superman's origin story: how he came to Earth, how he grew up, and how he came to be a reporter in Metropolis.
Thank you for doing this, the black and white episodes are my favorites. Happy Thanksgiving!
On January 14, 1957: George Reeves appeared as Superman on I LOVE LUCY ("Lucy And Superman" #166) on the CBS Television Network.
For whatever reason, George Reeves is not listed in the credits at the end of the episode.
Remembering George Reeves (January 5, 1914 - June 16, 1959)
Remembering George Reeves who died on this day. June 16, 1959
After Clark tells Lois "Maybe I'm a Superman." The look on Phyllis' face is priceless!!!! Lol!!!!!!!!!!
This was the last episode filmed in the first season circa October 15, 1951. The scene to which you refer was Phyllis Coates's last..
The narrator, Jack Narz(who also did the narration when "Superman and the Mole Men" was reworked as the 2-part episode "The Unknown People") was a radio announcer in Los Angeles at the time. A few years later, around the time the series went color, he would become a game show emcee, a gig he would become famous for, along with his brother, Jim, who would be known as "Tom Kennedy". Jack's Wikipedia article has more details, so I'd go there to give it a look.
I always imagined that Sarah (Martha) went back to the spot where the ship exploded and found some sharp metal pieces in the debris that had the ability to cut through Clark's blanket and the "S" symbol was already on the blanket. The S-Shield is the Kryptonian symbol for "hope". Nice!!!
The entire process was explained in the comic books. Clark ripped the blankets and focused his x-ray vision on the material,weakening it and enabling Sara to cut it .
This was the last episode filmed in 1951.You can tell because the flying scene is more refined than earlier episodes .
I like the radio play that skips the whole Martha and Jonathan Kent. He arrives as an adult! 🦸♂️
In the 1978 film, it is possible Clark had time to get some schooling or other experience, but he mainly impresses Perry with his "snappy, punchy prose style" and for being the fastest typist Perry has seen in 40 years in the business. :)
The man who Superman saves is Dabs Greer......he went on to play Rev. Alden on Little House on the Prairie..... his most famous role!
Not forget the movie THE GREEN MILE as the older Tom Hanks. .
The 1978 film is still, to me, the one genuinely great superhero film to date, and part of what it does so well is gently kid certain elements of this (by then well known) origin story, while also respecting them and taking them seriously.
It's far and away my favorite of the films.
I love that movie. It was about action, adventure and fun. Hey! even Lex Luthor was fun and nobody called the movie campy. Besides the great cast and script. Nothing dark and melodramatic.There was a good story, not just blown up cars or buildings. Not just special effects and CGI like it is today. However I like the follow up movie more.In this 1978 film, I don't buy the idea of Superman flying around earth to turn the clock back and save Loise. I find it too far fetch.
If you look hard enough at the Krypton Council., one of them is wearing a Captain Marvel uniform. SHAZAM!.
How does Clark wind up getting a closet full of costumes in a later episode?.
Actually, in the comics, they had multiple Earths, and several had a Superman. Earth 1 had Kal-El, son of Jor-El and Lara and was adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But the original was the Earth 2 Superman. He was Kal-L, son of Jor-L and Lora, and was adopted by John and Mary Kent. This Superman came from a Krypton where they did have powers. One even remarked in a early story that Earth people didnt even have x-ray vision. Over time, different writers changed things, so there have been multiple changes to the origin over the years. Having been a comic fan for many years, i remember reading these different versions, thought I'd let you know that there have been alternate versions.
I know it's been rebooted several times. As much as possible I will always refer to the earliest ones. I used to have a reprint of the first issue he ever appeared in, and as I recall it used the red sun/blue sun {fervidly resisting the urge to lapse into Dr. Seuss} thing. It also said his skin was so hard it could resist anything except a really big cannon shell, and he didn't actually fly, he could leap tall buildings in a single bound, so high it appeared he was flying. That stuff evolved pretty quickly.
So in the context of this series, when I refer to the comics I'll mean the ones that came before and were concurrent with the series.
My reprint of Action Comics #1 is buried at the moment but I did look up a version hosted by the CGC and having titanic strength and jumping was credited as something his race just had. Additionally it was the origin given for the radio drama and the Fleischer Studios cartoon (which is the first time could fly because they thought he looked silly just jumping around), so this isn't all that new. I don't know when the yellow sun got the credit off-hand.
@@dwashbur What Jim Simpers said isn't entirely accurate. This will clear things up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_and_Martha_Kent#Golden_and_Silver_Age_versions.
The first half of the episode is a near verbatim visual remake of the opening episode of the 1940 radio series. In that first story arc "Superman vs The Wolfe", the elder Kent's are nowhere to be heard. They enter the picture in 1942 when the origin story gets retold as....Sarah and Eben Kent, so again the radio series is used as the source here.
I didn't realize that. Thanks!
If Krypton was so much more advanced then Earth, long before the planet exploded, shouldnt they have had multiple rockets already built in case of an emergency evacuation?
Does anyone recognize the street shown at 8:32?
8:18 From a Superman RPG I once read, Clark used his heat vision to help his mother unravel his baby blankets and she knitted them into a uniform for him. These days the costume is skin-tight so his natural force field, how he's invulnerable, will protect it but not the cape which needs regular replacement.
At least his mother doesn't have to keep repairing it like Captain Nice.
No, his cape is just as invulnerable. Superman would, at times, wrap others in it to protect them from explosions, bullets, etc.
This is what one saw in the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s until the superman movie in 1978 was done
This is the first that everyone knows that was done first that you got to see years before you got to see any other superman in the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s years that was you had at the time
I think I know where Batgirl got her famous arm poses from!
7:43 "Besides, you have a great responsibility, because you have great power, and concomitant with great power is the mantle of a tantamount great level of responsibility."
4:06 Don't hold your super-breath. :D
I am a Christian and also play piano and guitar. I love your testimony.
I never saw this episode.
Got to love the inconsistent details of Superman's story that writers keep coming up with. The Kents are either both dead, only one dead or both alive depending on the reboot, the rocket pod being a plot point or blowing up(in the Reeve films it contained various useful recordings from Jor-El & the means to make his Fortress, sometimes it has his suit), how Krypton was destroyed(now I believe it was intentionally done by Brainiac) and that's not getting into the multiple backstories for Supergirl, Superboy or the 50 million versions of Power Girl's origin. Plus how & why Lex is evil tends to vary.
Strangely Reeves was in his 40s at the time, but appears to be playing a version of Clark Kent who is only in his 20s, going by his recent choice to leave Smallville and inexperience with the world around him.
George Reeves would unfortunately see this as his last major role, not only from the strict contracts the studio had actors under to keep them "available", his inability to get other reliable work or fund personal projects due to typecasting, and his death soon after- which was ruled "suicide" but is exceptionally questionable(along with the often-told rumor that he believed he was Superman & tried to fly from a high place). It goes to the perceived "Superman curse" as Kirk Alyn was also unable to get work from the role typecasting, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed, and Dean Cain is now a tremendous jerk(which may be partly due to his failure to get another major role, he mostly does small parts), though misfortunes from the role or production are overall rare.
The black and white episodes were the best. Drama crime, shoot outs. Murder. The color ones were less serious. Maybe the color ones attracted kids attention better, besides the sponsor was Kellogg's cereal once Superman was in color.
The Superman curse , probably started by Batman.
Dean Cain is a well-spoken, intelligent conservative. If anyone is a jerk, it is you and Irvingman.
Boy, you sure told us.
Dean Cain was a has-been when Lois and Clark folded. He decided to be a pompous conservative jerk to get attention.
George Reeves turned 37 in January,1951. Production on the television series began that July.
Only people in the Chicago area saw Superman on 9-19-52.
I liked the Black and White episodes much better more serious and some people were actually killed . The color versions were more silly then serious like professor Periwinkle and his silly inventions Thanks Irvingman for saving the day as always :) lol
The arm pose is the super hero pose.
Clark likes to dangle Lois on a string. He has the answer to her question, then side tracks her else where when something comes up.Its like.a.game. Hang with Lois as Clark, Wow Lois as Superman.
Casanova has nothing on me!!!!.
" How do you like my super hero pose, Batman?" " Looks great Batgirl, where did you learn it from?". "Superman! ".
2:21 That would explain why the people on their home planet are able to speak fluent English. I now wonder if they were able to communicate in other languages over there, too. Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Gregorian, etc.
Hot take: Kryptonians are just regular humans who are built different chemically.
😂if Jor El was a well respected scientist, why didnt the Council believe him?
In the TV Series Smallville, young Clark (Tom Welling) is never seen wearing a Superman costume and that is in synch with this story!!!! Superboy is not seen wearing his costume. As we know Sarah (Martha) presents him with the costume when he is an adult and not during his teen years!!!! (Of course that is not in synch with the comics but I guess we can't have our cake and eat too!!!!)
Come to my hometown of superman
Metropolis Illinois statues and museum for superman
Sprinkling system bypass valve is legitimate for filling up the rocket that two people could fit in ಠ_ಠ
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Gee... up until now, I thought it was a quaint newspaper instead of great.
I'm glad I'm not the only one...
Cut and sewed with sunlight laser beams? Who knows.
Maybe putting it under a red darkroom safelight makes it cuttable?
Krypton was also bigger than Earth. So, Superman is operating on a planet with lower gravity.
On January 14, 1957: George Reeves appeared as Superman on I LOVE LUCY ("Lucy And Superman" #166) on the CBS Television Network.