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The classic Superman TV series, Adventures of Superman, returns to DVD in this brand new 5 disc set from Warner Home Video. Due in stores January 17, 2006 this boxset will have run time of 683 mintues and carries a $39.98 price tag.
The original smash hit from the 1950’s was the first TV series featuring the beloved DC Comics superhero, helping mold the iconic character that still exists today. Adventures of Superman: The Complete Second Season is a 5- disc collector’s set featuring all 26 episodes in addition to commentaries and a never-before-seen documentary on the return of Noel Neill as Lois Lane.
“With the recent success of Adventures of Superman: The Complete First Season, Warner Home Video is pleased to deliver this heroic super hero and cultural 1950’s icon back to his beloved fans with the second season,” said Rosemary Markson, Executive Director, Television Marketing. “Superman plays an integral part of television history and WHV is excited to provide fans with classic footage and never-before-seen extras.”
In addition to the entire 26 episodes, Adventures of Superman: The Complete Second Season contains the following never-before-seen special features:
Commentaries on 2 key episodes
The First Lady of Metropolis --Featurette about Noel Neill reprising her Superman and the Mole Men role as “Lois Lane” in the second season of Adventures of Superman; includes interviews with Noel Neill, Jack Larson, Gary Grossman and Jan Alan Henderson (RT 7:00)
Stamp Day For Superman --Specially produced short episode of the show that was distributed to school in 1954 to promote the U.S. Treasury Department’s Saving Stamp program; includes introduction by Jack Larson and Gary Grossman (RT 21:00)
Whether trouble takes form of a plummeting asteroid, deadly radiation, or mad scientists none of them are a match for the Man of Steel. George Reeves returns to DVD as the steel-bending, building leaping and sometimes glasses wearing super hero in this exciting 26 episode set. Noel Neill also joins the series as Lois Lane, the Daily Planet reporter who sometimes suspects that maybe, just maybe, Clark Kent is not who he says he is.
Superman,the brainchild of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, following years of rejections as a syndicated comic strip, made his debut in comic books in 1938 and was an overnight success. From that point on, the story of Superman’s fantastic life has been a fixture in American society and continues to live on to this day in print, television and motion pictures including the upcoming theatrical release “Superman Returns” starring Kate Bosworth and Brandon Routh set to debut in Summer 2006.
All 26 episodes of the second season will be featured in the 5-disc set including:
Disc 1:
1. Five Minutes to Doom
2. The Big Squeeze
3. The Man Who Could Read Minds
4. Jet Ace
5. Shot in the Dark
6. The Defeat of Superman
Disc 2:
7. Superman in Exile
8. A Ghost for Scotland Yard
9. The Dog Who Knew Superman
10. The Face and the Voice
11. The Man in the Lead Mask
12. Panic in the Sky
Disc 3:
13. The Machine That Could Plot Crimes
14. Jungle Devil
15. My Friend Superman
16. The Clown Who Cried
17. The Boy Who Hated Superman
18. Semi- Private Eye
Disc 4:
19. Perry White’s Scoop
20. Beware the Wrecker
21. The Golden Volture
22. Jimmy Olsen, Boy Editor
23. Lady in Black
24. Star of Fate
Disc 5:
25. The Whistling Bird
26. Around the World with Superman
