DVD : Adventures of Superman - The Complete First Season

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- What?
After waiting all these years for the release of this series,
I would hope that it would be re-mastered. However, This is just a release of the syndication version of the series. But when I watched the "Stolen Costume" episode! the copy is so bad and worn out (with the wrong opening titles!) that it makes me wonder what the! And Gary Grossman commentary to boot! Hay Gary! I BET YOUR VERSION IS BETTER THEN THIS ONE! What! Are you kidding!
Thank god I still have my memory of the series from the 50's! Yes it was a round picture tube, but it was uncut and pristine! With the original titles!
And the end titles of Unknown People with the wrong sound track! And poor video! And the 70's Warner Brothers logo! What! I could go on!
But! Who cares!
Warner Brothers Don't!

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- The Mystery of "The Stolen Costume"
I've noticed many people are disappointed with the quality of the episode "The Stolen Costume." I actually expected it to be that bad, as when it was aired on TVLand, it was always in really rough condition, complete with cut opening. There is a reason for this, and it must be understood that Warners did their best with what they had.
Many of us now don't think much of it, but "The Stolen Costume" actually features an ending in which Superman intentionally (if indirectly) places two criminals in a situation in which they MUST die, in order to preserve his secret identity. Needless to say, this episode fell out of favor when the show became syndicated, and became "lost" for quite some time. A very rough print is all that remains of this episode, so actually Warners should be commended for including "The Stolen Costume," if only for completists' sake.
Thank you Warner Bros, you're the greatest!

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- superman season 1 dvd
hi! if your in the late fortys,early fiftys age bracket as i am,these are for you.my own kids ages 8 and 14 think these shows are to "shallow" to be real. they dont like black and white and think the plots are silly. long story short, if your in the previously mentioned age bracket enjoy a walk thru a simple pre-cable,dvd,vhs time.hope this helps.

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- 2nd season to be relased on 1/17/06
TVSHOWSONDVD.COM is saying the 2nd season will be relased on 1/17/06! I can hardly wait as this was my favorite show growing up in the late 1950s and early 19060's.

The rumor mill is saying that season 3 will be out in the fall of 2006.

And I agree that the first year was the best by far. The last couple of years the show became too silly for me.

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- Excellent Quality
I just purchased season 1 of the Superman television show. Commentaries in the documentary support what I have always said....the first season had a film noir quality to it and was more violent than later seasons. As teenagers, my friends and I thought Phyllis Coates was hot. The WB short "The Pony Express" (1940) is a very enjoyable extra; pristine color print. George Reeves did have incredible charisma. Even if he didn't make it as an A picture star, he should have been used better in Hollywood's vast array of "B" films. I wonder what that was about? Anyway, "Superman and the Mole Men" is as flat as a piece of paper. Otherwise, it's an excellent group. I look forward to season 2 (the first with Noel Neil as Lois Lane). They were still in black and white and carried through the more adult approach. The episode with Hugh Beaumont as well as "Five Minutes to Doom" with Dabbs Greer almost rate as teleplays worthy of one of the adult anthology series of that era. I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's hope this first season is successful encouraging the release of the remaining seasons. I too noticed that the print quality of "The Stolen Costume" is shoddy. I remember it being clear when I would watch the series in the 1960s on New York's WPIX.

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