Well said. George Reeves was amazing as Superman... and he got it right from the very start. He really knew his character.

I've said this same thing for years. The 1978 Superman movie I thought was a disservice to Superman. It made Clark look like an idiot and made it out like Superman/Clark had a mental issue with split personalities. George Reeves always played it like he was one up on the rest, keeping a secret, yet having fun in his confidence. He was no idiotic Clark Kent.

@@tommissouri4871 I couldn't agree more. I only saw the Christopher Reeve movie just once, and I was not impressed. I've never seen any other incarnation of Superman, and frankly, I don't care to. George Reeves is the Superman I grew up with, and he nailed it perfectly. He'd be amazed to see the loyal fan base that he has after all these decades.

Much as I like George Reeves' depiction, both the TV show and the movie were adaptations of the original source material, the Superman comic books. Chris Reeve did a vastly better job of capturing the Clark Kent of the comics than George did -- though I think George's Superman came closer to the comics than Chris's gee-whiz version.

@@bobbuethe1477 Have you seen how Kirk Allyn played the roles, or heard how Bud Colyer (on radio and in voice-over) did? They were closer to the idea of the comics than George Reeves played it, yet didn't make Clark Kent look like an idiot as in Chrisopher Reeve's characterization. George Reeves played both roles as "cool", which I'm not sure was appropriate but is the take that actor was known for.

Me too!

Spot on, brother!!!

"...everyone else plays Clark as a simpleton and fool..." Source?

@@r0bw00d source? The movies. Watch them. Edit: to be fair Chris Reeve played Kent as a buffoon. I loved it as a kid and showed Reeve’s skill as an actor but everyone else played it differently.

@@Brakdayton Yes they did, hence why I asked for the source.

I have to correct your assessment there. Christopher Reeve intentionally played Clark as bumbling and awkward to offset against superman. This wasn’t the 50s anymore and a pair of glasses just wasn’t going to cut it on the big screen. You literally see Clark becoming superman before your eyes when he drops Lois back to her balcony and then knocks at the door as Clark. Glasses or no glasses he is literally two completely different people. Following reeve, yes I agree that there has never been another actor come anywhere close to either reeve or reeves. But I think you’ll find the layer actors are copying reeve without properly understanding “why” he played Clark as he did. It was his height change, his voice change, it was as complete a transformation as it’s possible to physically achieve with your only prop being a pair of glasses. I think you’re being a bit unfair to what Chris reeve really achieved in doing that. Certainly from an acting pov

So did I. I LOVED the colors of his costume.

George Reeves as Superman was... well... SUPER. I surely wish I could have met him.

Me too

@@jimnolt-TAC I second that, Jim.

I third that.SUPERMAN !

Both opening and closing

absolutely got you so hyped to see the next one

that just brought me back to being 7 years old.

Yes the music especially when he would take off and fly. Full Orchestra . Always loved the harp playing.

He was always my Mother's favorite Superman

Thanks, Steve. George made it look soooo easy.

109 eh? I wonder what that is in Kryptonian years?

Taken away from us way too soon and a few years before I was even born.

You can say that again, Thomas!

maybe even on Mars!

@@roberti8116 Cornsilk! It's the best!

The world won't exist in 3023

Indeed

Amen, brother.

Christopher Reeve is the best. He can separate Clark and Superman's identity. Clark is mild mannered and clumsy while Superman is on different level.

​@@direkramseychikboy9102 Agreed. Chris played a bumbling comedic Clarke Kent, while his alter ego was just the opposite. Pefect disguise.

They did keep the dork factor with Taylor on Superman & Lois

Lois sometimes seemed to suspect, and even be trying to set him up to give himself away...

I was able to see it twice each week. Monday at 7 on WCAU-TV and Wednesday at 6 on WGAL. Yes, those were the days.

I yearn for those days of old, with the greased-down hair, and unadulterated by modern technology.

There were many times when Lois seemed to suspect...and there's even one episode where she dreams that Superman proposes to her, and that she joyfully accepts, but later confides to him that she's afraid she has feelings for Clark. At which point - he tells her th secret - and since it's her dream, that would suggest she either suspects it's true or wants it that way. When she wakes from her dream, she calls Clark "Superman" and then asks if any of her dream was true. In another episode, she sets up a situation where Clark has to interview Superman, and it's pretty clear she's doing it to set a trap.

Used to tie one end of a bath towel around my neck (cape) and jump offa public park slides and the roof of the house so I could 'fly' for a second or so!

Wow Clark, now that you have contact lenses, do you know who you look like?

Amen.

Some of the best shows were where George, playing Kent, was the real genius in crime solving. He used his brains rather than superpowers.

Absolutely!

But undoubtedly the most fun he had was in 'The Face and the Voice', where he got to play a dumb thug who impersonated Superman. Dual roles like that are always fun for the actor, a chance to get out of character.

@@majkus Agreed.

That pretty much matches my own feelings, Clayton.

Yes, he really was that. I've spoken with many people who knew him, included his ex-wife. No one I ever spoke with had anything negative to say about him.

@@jimnolt-TAC I can well believe that.

@@Scottie_S I did, it was amazing.

@@thefurrybastard1964 Yes, it was! There is one thing I took form the movie and also from the information of the time: "You don't pull the trigger twice to kill yourself".

@@Scottie_S The best scene for me is when the little boy wants to see bullets bounce off Superman, and he has to talk him out of it.

I had the same thought as I assembled these clips. Work was work, but there seemed to be so many instances when George thoroughly enjoyed what he was doing. And to this day, that makes all they did so enjoyable to watch.

@@jimnolt-TAC, even though the special effects were explained by others, it is also true that George Reeves was VERY athletic, a fabulous SUPERMAN!

Comments like yours help to keep me going! Thanks.

please!

When I had lunch with Whit Ellsworth in 1980 he said he was surprised that people are still watching the show. I wonder what he'd think now.

@@jimnolt-TAC I think he'd thought that everybody has gone daffy...in a good way though.

Thanks for the nice comments, Albert. I do appreciate that

@@jimnolt-TAC You deserve them!

Could be. I never thought of it that way, but could be.

Great clips- how fitting to have “All that Glitters” as the last clip. In looking at all of the different clips, I was thinking about Season 1 Episodes 3 “The Case of the Talkative Dummy” where Clark steps away and Lois questions Inspector Henderson and wonders where Clark is going and Henderson replies “Maybe he runs into an alley and takes his glasses off and turns into Superman”.

this is the way it was done in the comics for years, until DC decided to reduce the numbers of super powers Superman had, removing super hypnosis, intelligence, and other slightly more mystical powers- leaving him with the set we are more familiar with today.

Metropolis was one of those cities that people could not recognize a person when they removed their glasses. It’s called “Metro-Syndrome.”

There was a comic book story, "The Master Hypnotist of Metropolis," early in Julie Schwartz's run as editor on Superman comics after Mort Weisinger retired in 1970. It held that the Kryptonian-glass lenses in Clark's glasses hypnotized everybody into thinking that Clark didn't look like Superman at all. The story didn't quite explain how Clark also looked different in photos and on video. The thing is, the disguise works because stories about Superman require it to do so.

Except for Phyllis Coates. Way to abrasive and bitchy.

thanks

And once the show went color after the first two seasons, they were really cooking on all cylinders. Jim Nolt, you're the best!

The great Jack Narz of game show fame!!

@@Bigbadwhitecracker Yes! Concentration in the 70s...and brother of fellow game show host Jim Narz (known to us as Tom Kennedy).

I still smile when I hear the steam locomotive sound as the diesel locomotive passes in he color version of the titles!

Thanks. Of course, that was the point... we were in on his secret, a secret no one else could figure out. And with his wink, he'd let us know that.

@@jimnolt-TAC, this is a delightful presentation! I smiled and/or laughed several times! Clark Kent/Superman surely could dance delicately around the truth! Sometimes he reminded them that he is MILD MANNERED/CLUMSY as Mr. Kent!

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I agree. She was a real babe .I also appreciate the fact that unlike so may female actresses in her day, she spoke with a normal neutral American accent as opposed to the Mid-Atlantic accents spoken by many actors of the time.

The two that stand out to me are "The Magic Secret" and "The Perils of Superman". Does anyone know what episode it was when Superman said, "Inspector, you're going to find a lot of missing people in that basement".

@@02chevyguy Clark Kent, Outlaw.

I know exactly what you mean. A friend will visit here on Tuesday evening, and we'll spend a few hours reliving those wonderful times by watching some episodes on DVD.

George Reeves would be astounded to know the influence he had on us. So very astounded.

I remember Ray Heatherton, The Merry Mailman; Captain Jack McCarthy, whom I met in person at The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, as he told stories about each county that marched in the Parade. . And finally Officer Joe Bolton; later Chief Joe Bolton.He hosted The 3 Stooges Comedy show and Cartoon- Show.

Could not agree more. 😀

Amen, brother!

100% agree. I couldn't stand how they made Christopher Reeves "Superman" such a doofus! George's "Clark Kent" was smooth as silk!

For some reason, Superman told everybody he had a secret identity. Ghod only knows why he did that. If he hadn't, everybody would have assumed he was Superman all the time. Clark revealed his identity to the world toward the end of the Man of Steel run.

That's the same way I feel, Bob.

Damn straight brother 🦸

It’s kinda the same way in Gotham, virtually the entire GCPD couldn’t piece together that Bruce Wayne is Batman.

Thanks so much, Dennis.

Correct. most people don't know that George Reeves was murdered. All swept under the rug.

Given that every comic shows that to be the case, that's nothing special.

Thanks so much. Not a day goes by that I don't think of George Reeves.

@@jimnolt-TAC did you ever met George reeves before