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I Hope Warner Bros. still has plans to release the 3 remaining Seasons of Superboy in the near future, like the Holidays of 2008 perhaps. Or maybe Warner Bros. may have to sell the show to Shout! Factory who just might be willing to re-release Superboy Season 1 and release Seasons 2-4 without stalling. Please say there is hope for Superboy!
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For those of you who want an interpretation of the Superboy character that isn't as "down on the farm" as Smallville, this show is for you. However, one large caveat exists: Stay away from the first season! The special effects are never spectacular, the plots are more often then not boring, and the acting is sub-par. While Stacy Haiduk plays a great Lana Lang, John Newton's Clark/Superboy and Scott Well's Lex Luthor are wooden, one-dimensional characters who do not draw you into the plotlines.
Obviously, the writers/producers of the show must have felt the same way I do, as after the first season the Clark/Superboy part was recast and given to Gerard Christopher, while Lex Luthor was switched to Sherman Howard, both enormous upgrades. From that point, the show really began to take off.
My advice, then, is to not waste your time on these episodes. If you are a true Superman fan who has never seen this show before, wait for the release of the second season (whenever that will be...hopefully soon). If you remember being enthralled by this show during your childhood (like I was), it probably wasn't this season you remembered in the first place.
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Very good season 1 DVD set just waiting for season 2 to be released, if you are a Superman fan, Super anything then you will enjoy this for sure.
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I can't add anything that hasn't already been said about this series in other reviews except that us Superman fans want more! Where is season 2 and all the other seasons of this excellent TV series?
Please vote to have the powers that be bring the rest of this series out on DVD. I've been waiting for more than a year now to see the next season. Make it happen!
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I remember this show well from the eighties. And what a view of the eighties it presents! Remember all the terrible fashions of the time? Well, they're all here, saved forever.
Robert Haymes Newton plays Clark Kent/Superboy this first season, and his college roommate, T.J. White, son of Perry White, is played by Jim Calvert. Stacy Haiduk plays Lana Lang as a sweetie from Smallville, while Scott Wells plays Lex Luthor as a straightforwardly psychopathic fratboy criminal. Of these, only Stacy Haiduk will make it past season 1; indeed, she will be the only principal character to finish the series.
The plots are just as over-the-top and comic-bookish as I remember, and the characters make it clear they are having lots of fun, again, just as I recall them.
The transfers in this collection, however, are not good. And uneven. They are never better than merely adequate, and some episodes, like "Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk," are just horrible. It's obvious that nobody's been carefully keeping the source materials here. More like, "Hey, we've got a chance to make some cash! Pull those reels out of the closet and send them to the DVD folks!"
All the same, the episodes with commentaries (by Newton and Exec. Producer Ilya Salkind) are great to watch and listen to. These two obviously had a great time working together, because they still do.
I've heard that Season 2 is coming out on DVD soon. I hope they spend a little more time with the color transfers this time. I know remastering is probably a pipe dream, but if you're gonna do something, why not do it well?
Recommended, but only for huge fans of the series.
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