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Adventures of Superman season 1
Season 1 · Classic DC · Sep 19, 1952 · 26 episodes
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Plot
Season 1, 26 episodes, first aired Sep 19, 1952.
About the show
"Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet is really the greatest superhero of them all who "fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way!"
Trailer
The Adventures of Superman - TV Promo - 1957
Episodes
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Episode 1: Superman on Earth
Journey with Superman from Krypton to Metropolis, as he joins that Daily Planet staff and meets the fiery Lois Lane.
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Episode 2: The Haunted Lighthouse
A terrified Jimmy Olsen calls for help, and Superman speeds to an isolated island where strange things happen in the fog-shrouded night. Commentary available by TV Producer/Author Gary H. Grossman.
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Episode 3: The Case of the Talkative Dummy
As superman hunts for kidnapped armored-car drivers and a stolen fortune, Jimmy, loccked inside a falling safe, hurtles to his doom.
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Episode 4: Mystery of the Broken Statues
Lois Lane is kidnapped while on the trail of a suave but deadly criminal mastermind and a hidden priceless gem.
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Episode 5: The Monkey Mystery
Searching for stolen defense secrets, Clark Kent encounters a brutalized woman, a slain organ-grinder -- and a monkey dressed as Superman.
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Episode 6: Night of Terror
Superman races to find Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen who wait, helplessly bound, as a sadistic hit man prepares to execute them.
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Episode 7: The Birthday Letter
Superman is implicated in the abduction of a young girl who is thought to have information concerning hidden counterfeit plates.
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Episode 8: The Mind Machine
Bravely testifying against a mobster, Lois Lane will die unless Clark Kent finds the weapon that will soon destroy her mind.
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Episode 9: Rescue
Trapped in a mine filling with deadly gas, Lois Lane is beyond the reach of rescuers -- and Clark Kent doesn't know!
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Episode 10: The Secret of Superman
An insane scientist, using powerful experimental truth drugs on Perry White, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, learns Superman's true identity.
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Episode 11: No Holds Barred
When a crooked wrestling promoter paralyzes honest athletes, Superman steps in to reverse the damage and rescue an innocent captive.
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Episode 12: The Deserted Village
As Clark Kent pursues the monster killing the few people left in Lois Lane's hometown, the girl reporter becomes its next victim.
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Episode 13: The Stolen Costume
After a burglar steals Superman's costume from Clark Kent's closet, a mobster threatens to reveal the Man of Steel's secret identity. Commentary available by TV Producer/Author Gary H. Grossman.
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Episode 14: Treasure of the Incas
Unwittingly involved in a hunt for stolen radium, Jimmy is kidnapped and locked in a deathtrap by a fanatical doctor.
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Episode 15: Double Trouble
Lois and Jimmy follow a trail of murder that could lead to ancient riches -- or to their own deaths.
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Episode 16: Mystery in Wax
Lois Lane, chloroformed while investigating strange disappearances, is held prisoner in Madame Selina's wax museum of the living dead.
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Episode 17: Runaway Robot
Captive Lois Lane will be murdered by gangsters unless inventor Horatio Hinkle uses his unique radio-controlled robot to rob banks.
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Episode 18: Drums of Death
Aided by his ace reporters, Perry White flies to Haiti to search for his sister, the prisoner of a voodoo cult.
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Episode 19: The Evil Three
Perry White and Jimmy Olsen face death at the hands of three crazed murderers in a crumbling bayou hotel. Commentary available by Producer/Writer Chuck Harter.
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Episode 20: The Riddle of the Chinese Jade
Lois Lane is held hostage by the armed criminal who has stolen a priceless antique and left two people to drown.
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Episode 21: The Human Bomb
On a windswept narrow ledge high above the ground, Lois Lane is chained to a dynamite-wielding daredevil ready to die.
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Episode 22: Czar of the Underworld
A killer sabotaging the filming of a crime exposé stalks Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson on a Hollywood studio soundstage.
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Episode 23: Ghost Wolf
After discovering human footprints that turn into wolf tracks, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are trapped in a raging forest fire.
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Episode 24: Crime Wave
While hunting down an anonymous crime-boss, the Man of Steel is lured into a lighting-powered deathtrap that stops his heart. Commentary available by Producer/Writer Chuck Harter.
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Episode 25: The Unknown People (1)
Clark Kent and Lois Lane visit the world's deepest oil well in Silsby, when strange humanoid creatures appear and terrorize the townspeople.
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Episode 26: The Unknown People (2)
Convinced the Mole Men are peaceful beings, Superman must save them from a vengeful mob determined to kill the armed visitors.
Order
In-universe 1952 · DC Classic DC
- Release order6 of 343Previous: Superman and the Mole-MenNext: Adventures of Superman season 2
- Adventures of Superman story order2 of 7Previous: Superman and the Mole-MenNext: Adventures of Superman season 2