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ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN: The Complete First Season Studio: Warner Bros. Year: 1952 - 1953 Rated: NR Length: 11 hours, 2 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audio: Dolby Digital English Mono English, French, Spanish Subtitles Closed Captioned (Bonus Material not Closed Captioned) Special Features: Theatrical Feature Superman and the Mole Men, Documentary, Audio Commentaries, Original Commercials, Bonus Short Subject Suggested Retail Price: $39.99 USD Background With the possible exception of I Love Lucy, no television series has enjoyed greater longevity than the Adventures of Superman. Produced in the summer of 1951 (some months before Lucy went before the cameras), Superman has thrilled...

Another Superman is dead. Not the Superman of my childhood, George Reeves, who was found shot dead by a German Luger in 1959. Although there was no note or other indication that Reeves had killed himself, the police ruled it a suicide. The actor, too identified with his TV role, had become depressed over his inability to find work. It was a sad end for an actor who 20 years earlier had made a tiny splash as one of the charming Tarleton twins courting Scarlet O’Hara. I was fourteen, and my friends and I thought it was funny. Superman killed...