Adventures of Superman

Right, where television was fundamentally just trying to figure out the basic physics of putting superpowers on the screen.

And that brings us right back to Adventures of Superman in '52.

The gray and brown suit.

Exactly.

The actor was the draw.

You went to see a Humphrey Bogart picture.

But Adventures of Superman proved this terrifying new concept to studio executives.

Which was what?

Like, holy fruit salad, Batman, right? But the truly old-school fans of Hollywood superheroes, many of you will also think of the name of George Reeves, the first man behind the S who graced America's TV screens in the 1950s.

Reeves was already an old hand at Hollywood by the time he became the iconic Superman in 1951, but his role as the iconic caped survivor wouldn't end up being the most memorable part of his legacy.

His death would be.

George Reeves kicked off his acting career in LA in 1939 when he scored the role of Stuart Tarleton, one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in Gone With the Wind.

He got a few bit parts, went through another divorce, then ended up on what seemed like the same endless tumble that so many other actors were going through at the time.

By 1951, Reeves knew he had to expand his options.

When the call came in for a new TV series, Adventures of Superman, he wasn't sure what to do, 'cause TV at the time, it was kinda seen as, like, the lowest of the low.

Like, completely gross.

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Flat Squirrel Podcast is also home to Lighting the Bat Signal, a Batman fan journey, which applies the signature Digging for Kryptonite approach to the Dark Knight, as well as another exciting episode in The Adventures of Superman, now in its final year covering the classic George Reeves series.

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He's another one of the cronies.

He has 194 credits, but he guested in three episodes of George Reeves' Adventures of Superman.

And as far as I've found, this is the first guy... person to do both a Superman and a Batman.

So,

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Today we are wrapping up the first season of The Adventures of Superman, with episodes 21 through 24.

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He was an American actor, librettist, and producer.

He was famous to most people as being Jimmy Olsen in the 1950s Superman series, but...

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