I'm 74 years old and I don't care how corny they are or how many bloopers there are, it's a part of my childhood and love them...

George Reeves was, is, and will always be the real Superman to me. And rest in peace, Phyllis Coates.

At 76 years old, this was one of my favorite programs. I was so die-hard Superman that the bloopers never really stopped me from enjoying them. I could see that the walls and mountains he burst through were fake, or that the guns were made of plastic. It was all ok with me. Thanks for sharing.

You said it exactly right. I was born in 1951 and for me, George Reeves will always be the definitive (real) Superman.

I didn't even think about any bloopers when I was 4 years old watching these shows ..I was just loving it..

When I was a little boy I never missed an episode. I'm an old mannow but I do remember how much I loved this program.

George Reeves, the best Superman. I loved this show when I was a kid.

I met Jack Larson ("Jimmy Olsen") at his home in Bel Aire, CA in 1968. What a fine, gracious man he was.

I am 74 and never missed an episode of Superman. The difference in my memory is my buddies and I caught all of the bloopers. We try to explain them or just laughed. We were smart enough to realize Superman' was a character.

So glad to have lived to see shows like this and experienced how life was back then.

It's a total tribute to George Reeves that we just keep watching no matter how many goofs got made. The show always rested on his definitive performance bringing a comic book character to life.

I grew up watching this when I got home from school. Brings back great memories. 😊

Great video! I'm old enough to remember watching "Superman" as a kid while living in an orphanage in East Texas back, of course, in the 50s. 😊

I uae to watch superman everyday after school. I loved it.

George Reeves was MAGNIFICENT!

Superman will always be a classic show, and it never gets old.

One thing I'll say about the 50s Superman - the guy that played Jimmy Olsen really nailed the role. Best Jimmy Olsen portrayal in any Superman incarnation ever (in my opinion).

I love this stuff. I'm just now discovering The George Reeves Superman era.

Great video! I grew up with George Reeves' Superman. He was and still is my Superman on TV. Then came along Chris Reeve in 1978 on the movie screen. I like them both equally. Like 1a and 1b. I'm thinking George and Chris are exchanging stories on their own adventures as Superman.

I hope you all enjoy this compilation of all my Superman goofs videos. I added some Superman facts at the end as an extra.😀

I grew up on this TV show for all its flaws it was still great.

At 78, I can call myself an old fart. I grew up on Action Commics, Adventure Comics both featuring Superman, and the Superman TV show with George Reeves and first Phyllis Coates and then Noel Neill as Lois Lane. I also read Superboy comics. When I entered the Army, Mom and Dad threw out my old comic books. They woulda been worth a fortune today, but they didn't know it then.

You have picked some of the best detail errors for this series. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Having grown up during those times and watching that show, you have to keep in mind that at that time that was state of the art technology and no one was looking at details like that, especially kids. Also, everything was in black-and-white.

thank you for the memories, my 3 brothers and I lived for this growing up... Mole Men and Dive and Conquer were our fave episodes!

Very funny stuff. Phyllis Coates was very attractive.

Never seen this before!! Never even heard about this Superman movie!!! Look like very interesting!!!!

I watched all those episodes and never noticed any of the goofs, and didn't care I loved that show !

there was only one superman, thank you George

A lot of good work went into this compilation. Great work Tvcrazyman!

Watching these goofs were so funny and so entertaining. I still love the oldies l

I watched Superman all the time. This was fun to watch.ThANKS

My favorite show growing up. Thank you for this video.

For me, George Reeves and the crew he worked with defined Superman. Living in Toronto when I was a child,I loved watching the series broadcast out of Buffalo N.Y., on the Commander Tom hosted show.

Great work Tim!! I've noticed many goofs over the years, but missed so many more!! 👍

As someone old enough to have watched these episodes in the 50's , let me say that with the quality of T.V. reception at that time most of these " goofs " would not have been noticeable . Although I do remember some of them .

Saturday morning with a big bowl of Sugar Pops cereal. Mom had nothing to worry about.

First of all, I liked this collection of classic goofs from the Superman series. I don't know if you caught this goof in one of your past collections, but I do remember this one from the Superman episode Shot in the Dark. Jimmy Olsen is chased by a couple of bad guys and runs down the steps to a subway station and escapes on a train marked Valley Local. The bad guys slugged the operator of the next train marked Valley Express. The express train is supposed to catch up to the local and crash into it. Though they use the side of an IRT door as a prop, the actual film footage is R-1/ R-9 trains on New York's Independent Subway system. When Superman crashes through the tunnel to stop the accident, the third rail is several feet above the track! The third rail is closer to the running rails and near the wheel sets (aka the trucks). Superman picks up the third rail, breaks it up so the express train can't catch up to the local. They use animated special effects to simulate electricity that's going through Superman as he lifts up the power rail to break it. On my first subway ride in New York in the summer of 1965, I saw the third rail was closer to the running rails than the fake third rail in the episode. The real third rail has a wooden board above it so maintenance people can step on that and not get electrocuted. Moreover, the tunnel lighting was much brighter than the actual subway footage in the film clips.

👍🏻 great video mate. Superman's wife Joi lansing was absolutely gorgeous...but I feel by time the filmed in colour, they became lazy with the stories and effects, like no one wanted to be there. It's the impression I get from watching them. The first 2-3 seasons are my favourite and the best, in my opinion. Superman is great no matter what🦸🏻..p.s Superman has laundry powers😅 it's why he can clean himself off..cheers from England

This video was brilliant. The best superman one I’ve ever see . Well done. It was amazing.

love it - reminds me of my childhood

TV was so new and fascinating back then we weren’t conscious of goofs.

Everytime Clark removes his glasses he is next to Lois. And Lois never sees how Clark without glasses looks like Superman.

That whole thing about Lous, Jimmy and Perry White not recognizing Superman when he was being Clark Kent Without Glasses on had me scratching my head too until years later when I saw a lecture by a C.I.A. disguise expert who said people don't always remember a Face but mentally use a recognition of a person by their actions and clothes they regularly wear. The lecturer recounted how 1 agent was able to switch articles of clothing and not be recognized by people that were paid to be on the lookout for him (or her). It is a concept that is used in a lot of Spy movies and even action movies these days.

I was born in 1960 and I watched the "Adventures Of Superman" TV series syndicated to a local TV station while I was a young child. So George Reeves was Superman / Clark Kent to me until I had seen the Christopher Reeve as Superman movie in the theater in December of 1978. As far as I am concerned both George Reeves and Christopher Reeve are Superman / Clark Kent to me.

Ahhh The oldies -I loved watching this show

I loved them then and now

The Adventures Of Superman with George Reeves was the very first tv show that I can ever remember watching back then! Because of that, George Reeves will always be my Superman! 🌫️🦅✈️☄️💥

you brought back so many memories. I've been in such a state of depression that i haven't had any reason to laugh. what you said about jimmy and lois not realizing that clark is Superman and Vice versa, i literally started laughing out loud. it felt good, and i thank you for that 🙏. i always thought that lois wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. maybe she's a real blonde underneath, and that's why she's clueless. consider me a subscriber.

That was the Golden Age of Television!

Where fun time before and after school 🍻🍾 top work folks

Loved the video. You forgot to mention Commando Cody played by George Wallace. One of my favorites.

In the first episode Superman on Earth, actor Dabbs Greer mentions that a superguy in a red and blue costume catches him. A little fact note for those who didn’t know : Superman's costume in all the B&W episodes were brown and gray, not red and blue until the shows were shown in color.

I think the biggest goof of all on The Adventures Of Superman...was the realization that the Daily Planet had Perry White....the editor....and Clark Kent, Lois Lane..and Jimmy Olsen, as the only staff on the newspaper! You never saw any other employess at the Planet, but those four! Operating a "great metropolitan newspaper" with just four employees...was a "super" feat ..in and of itself! As I became older....I realized that when Kellogg's took the show over...and "dumbed" it down to make it more "family friendly"..the plots did get more sappier and illogical. Of course, as kids..we were too busy watching Superman snap up the bad guys...to notice the flubs and tackiness of the "special" effects! Still...the black & white episodes were more adult and action packed. George Reeves was what made it work...and he infused his portrayal of Superman in a very memorable way...and I think it was his personality that captivated boys (and girls).....as the Man Of Steel. Goofs and flubs notwithstanding...It will always be a series that is close to my heart. RIP Mr. Reeves!

I remember the Superman TV show, I'm 65 years old now and I was five years old when I first seen Superman watching it on our black-and-white TV, didn't get colour TV till about 1969, it brings back fond memories and I appreciate your commentary, unfortunately I didn't get to see the very beginning of it cuz I wasn't born yet, but one thing's for sure watching Superman reruns that were black and white on a colour TV, unfortunately there's still black and white on a colour TV😢🤓😂

Some of the Superman clips you showed were hilarious! And, Batman was a "crime fighter".

As child, I used to dream I could fly using swim strokes to get up about 40 feet in the air. I thoroughly enjoyed Superman as a child. I was more interested in the action than the goofs.

I'm just reading the post below mine from @254967conwell: I'm the same age (dob-1948) and have the same thoughts about that program. Thank you for summing up, in simple and poignant terms, your experience watching Superman. If I remember correctly, I used to watch it in the afternoons from time to time around 4:00 p.m. back in Columbus, Ohio. I loved it and loved the fact that Superman could be invincible and have bullets fly off his chest! Cool, indeed! (11/15/23--Rohnert Park, CA)

Been watching for 65 years. Including every Saturday and Sunday on the Heroes and Icons channel (24.3) over the air

I loved superman when i was a kid i still enjoy watching it. But the glasses make him look different always was a little odd

I was too young to notice any of the gaffes you've highlighted but, boy!, were there ever a lot of them! And serious ones too!

For each episode, they always filmed Reeves' Superman flying scenes last, so he had to stay late strung up on wires. Noel Neill and Jack Larson, who play Lois and Jimmy, would always make sure to taunt Reeves about this as they left to go out for the evening while he was hung up, very uncomfortable, held up late for this. One season the actors were each offered the chance to direct one episode. For his, Reeves commissioned a script in which Lois and Jimmy got superpowers, including the ability to fly. See where this is going? Yep. He kept them strung up for hours on those wires filming the flying scenes, insisting on take after take, to be sure it was the perfect shot. Taunting Superman can never be a good idea.

23:40 George Reeves is "Gone With the Wind." Yes, let's not forget he's in the very first scene with Scarlett O'Hara. No superpowers though, he gets killed at Gettysburg.

I was born in 1965. Thanks to a TV channel in Memphis, TN I saw this version of Superman in re runs every Sunday in the mid 70s.

John and Mary Kent were the adoptive parents of the original (Earth-2) Superman. The Earth-1Superman's (the one we're most familiar with) adoptive parents were Jonathan and Martha Kent.

Just a little FYI for future consideration: At the 13:40 mark, you show the outside of a police station. That is actually the oldest continuous police station in Los Angeles. It was built in 1926 on York Blvd. in Highland Park. It finally closed down in 1983 and now serves as a Police Museum for the Los Angeles Police Department.

I've been a loyal ROCKFORD FILES fan for over 40 years. I've caught so many goofs on those shows but still watch it!

Dear Tvcrazyman: I've watched this more than once and I have to say that you have taken a fun subject and made it even funnier! Or should I say, "More fun!" Thanx, bud! You are very professional!

Thanks for doing this show. My grandma's 1st Cousin was George Reeves .they grew up in kentucky and never thought he would go to Hollywood. Are family got

The Adventures of Superman tv series 1950's style is cool,fun and entertaining.

Great video❤ love behind the scenes and goofs like this

The first 2 seasons were great serious tough and gritty after that things got a little silly But as a kid I loved George's Superman

Good observations and reaearch!

George Reeves could not be replaced to all us kids. He WAS Superman. Just like the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Any other actor would be the fake one.

The George Reeves era premiered here in Australia back in the 60s and i would race home if possible from Primary School to try and watch it. School finished at 3.45pm and it came on Tv at 4.00pm by the time i got in the house i would often have missed 10-15minutes unfortunately.

I watched his program religiously when I was a kid. My favorite scene was, when on a ship, a criminal took a swing at Superman, and Superman ducked, the criminal struck the wall of the ship, crumpling in pain.

i enjoy your eye for detail

Again! This is a children’s show. Superman, in a child’s eyes, 👀 can do anything! From levitating Lois Lane to hold back a moving wall, to turning around a nuclear 💥 explosion, and Superman is known everywhere in the world. 🌍 thanks 🚩

best superman vid doc.

You're forgetting that this is the first five years of Television. Viewers were used to radio & stage performances, where they (willingly) ignored props and low tech effects, especially in fantasy type stories. In fact, I suspect there was a conscious choice to keep in certain pieces of evidence that this was all created in a studio. You actually wouldn't have wanted people in this era to be too convinced, or else they might be a little scared to watch the series- or more importantly... be weary of letting their children watch such a realistic fantasy. This was 50s TV., you just can't view it with a modern perspective.

I grew up in Melbourne Australia watching Superman at the Rivoli picture theatre or reading endless comics and Superman Jimmy Olsen , The Chief and Loise Lane were great favourites. No TV until 1955 and I was born in 1939. p.s. Unlike the Brits who got TV in the late 1930s courtesy of John Logie Baird a Scotsman I think.

15:51 I also just noticed that theres no springboard for Superman in this scene to give him that extra edge. I think the jump was pretty impressive considering he was already in his late 30s !! I still remember back then, on the walk to school, arguing with my friends about how Superman had died. The weird thing about it was it was kind of like the 'Santa Claus' argument as my friends and I watched this show religiously and thought Superman/Kent were REAL. So part of the argument was 'How did Superman die from a gunshot wound of all things ? I mean, we all knew that bullets bounced off Superman and it took Kryptonite to kill him !! Man, those were the days !! What put the final nail in the coffin for me was when my parents dragged me and my siblings to see 'From Here To Eternity' at the drive ins. "Look dad, Sgt Stark is Superm.... oh." :-)

At 28:41 I think that's actually some kind of microphone as there's also a black wire attached to the bottom. These flying scenes appear to have been filmed sideways and George Reeves is actually just standing upright and the camera's sideways position makes it look like he's flying with all the wind and smoke blown at him.

I grew up watching the reruns in the 60s… I ❤the show as a kid … still do

For over 60 years I've wondered why Superman ducked when the crook threw his gun at him, or at least why the actor and director decided to play it that way. Perhaps, since it was the stunt man, he was more focused on not getting hurt.😊

This was one of my best shows

Ma and Pa Kent’s first names being Sarah and Eben in “Superman on Earth” probably came from the 1942 novel “The Adventures of Superman” by George Lowther, which used these names.

I've said before regarding the Mind Machine episode: The reason Superman ducks (rather his stunt double): The gun was firing blanks, but it was a real metal gun, not a rubber fake one. Since there were no cuts in the shot it meant that a real metal gun was thrown at the stunt man. Therefore he could not let it bounce off his chest! Hence he ducks!

I have to agree that Clark taking off his glasses and nobody recognizing Superman had to be written in as an ongoing gag. In the earlier shows, at least his hair and facial expressions were different as Clark Kent. In the later episodes, they didn't even bother to change those as Clark Kent grew from "mild-mannered" to a more of a leader persona.

I still find it funny that Superman stands still when being shot at and bullets bounce off of him, but he ducks when someone throws a gun at him.

@Tvcrazyman. Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed it and it brought back many good memories for me!

You've smashed it again awesome video as always bud 😀

Having seen 10 little Indians in a day play High School, ultimately, I loved growing up seeing the stage play format aspect of, The Adventures of Superman, advantages!

I remembered when the editor Perry White would yell atJimmy Olsen” Don’t call me Chief” ! White ‘s catch phrase was Great Caesar Ghost !

In a narrated edition of Terror in the Sky, both Jack Larson and Noel Neil both stated the reason they did not recognize Clark Kent as Superman was "We wanted to keep our jobs".

Great stuff.

I think it was very brave of them to film some of the seasons in color since few owned a color tv set and many stations didn't even broadcast in color.

This show was for kids. Kids dont think, they just watch. No child is going to wonder how a stiff Lois can stop the walls from closing.

Enjoyable video!

Fun watching!