haven grown up on Superman (68yrs old) It was awesome and wonderful to listen to your video and it brought a number or smiles and giggles along with a great OMG. Thanks for bringing me back.
Okay, I'm in my 70s. I grew up on these Superman adventures, or at least the first round of re-runs. When you are 5 or 6, glued to your seat, terrified of what awful things are about to happen to Superman, one does not notice heads in corners, wires on hips. or a host of other goofs. There was a time when "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" actually meant something noble and to be emulated. Lord, how times have changed!
At 0:52 to 1:00, that's a 1950's Rolls Royce Silver Dawn, I recognize it! I used to get around in one some years ago, around the 1980's and 1990's, a series B short boot model. I had no idea that they used a Rolls Royce in the Superman show so MANY thanks for this part of the clip. Brings back beautiful memories! I'll finish the clip now. Take care and many thanks again.
I love the scenes of Clark without his glasses (this I think only happens in 2nd season episodes).There is often some trauma attached to those scenes - like the fight on the ship in The Golden Vulture or Superman's amnesia. But mostly it gives George Reeves a third distinctive look that makes his performance memorable. He even has a fourth look when he's in his Superman costume in his apartment while wearing his glasses (Panic in the Sky). Superman wearing glasses, or Clark not wearing his glasses gives the feeling that something is wrong in Superman's life. I don't really care that Jimmy, Lois and Perry don't recognize him. It's a secret that's only between the viewer and Superman.
I read in an article about how Superman episodes were sometimes made back to back in the same day. So that's probably why there were so many flaws that were never re shot.😊
That was brilliant. Thank you for the scenes you just gave me in my mind; just as good as TV. You know, some folks can communicate, and then there are others; you are not the others. I have all the episodes; just never think to watch them, but if I did, you just gave me the names of those to look for. TAS comes on here on Sundays and if I'm around, I tune in or have it in the backgound. That's after Wild Wild West and before Wonder Woman (of course I only know that because someone told me; yes that it). I have to live up to my username, so I enjoy just sitting back in my board shorts, smoking weed, watching Superman and whatever comes on I always loved. I notice the errors and of course the relationships are no mistake. I read or watched somewhere that Superman had some ESP power or something that projected himself differently to different people. It really doesn't matter how or why people don't recognize him, it simply exists and is mandatory for the story to continue. I also like to watch the whole cast. I had a boy crush on Jimmy, not Superman; still do I guess (I'm 60). It's funny to watch when his shirt is open or he is shirtless, because sometimes he has a happy trail sometimes (that's a chest hair line to your gear, for those who don't know), and sometimes they made him shave it. Same with his belly button; sometimes there, sometimes not but usually consistent within the same show. Women's hair on the other hand always changes, so funny. I don't know the show names like you do, and I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. What I am doing is acknowledging your ability to communicate, and wanted you to know that you are not alone. We all appreciate our notice of different aspects of it; some are the same. The collective effort is what we have and what we love about it. I wager in 50-70 years, people won't be talking about the shows that are on TV today or have a clue what their names are.
Don't forget the episode where a gangster is trained to imitate Superman to help set up a giant robbery. The face and voice Reeves affects showed he had range that should have been better exploited.
I loved the old episodes of Superman on tv but I do find those goofs a part of the innocence of the 1950’s tv for kids. Thank you for these downloads, I love them as I look back in my childhood.
Yes, these were the 'early' years of Television shows (the 50s) and the budgets were practically nil, along with maintaining 'fast' filming-schedules. Combine that with the knowledge of Television receivers being of low-quality resolution... and you can see why productions of that era were rife with filming errors and continuity-mistakes. Those early TV Production companies couldn't care less about those errors. They were too busy shooting and producing the next volley of cigarette-ads and cereal commercials to care about doing any reshoots for episodic shows.
@@josephthunderhorse8793 That's funny, but you're right. Okay, now that I used that as an excuse to say this, I love your user name and if Thunderhorse is your real name, then I'm single...lol
@@floridaredneck Yes Thunderhorse is my real name...l am Joseph Thunderhorse ...and thank you for such a nice complement...l too am a Florida resident...and a bit of a redneck also lmao
@@Eyes-of-Horus When I was a kid back in the fifties, a work friend of my Mother's was making Superman capes for all the kids. It had the proper Adventures of Superman S shield and looked so official. She did her homework and found the proper template for the S shield from the show. I noticed details like that as a kid. I loved that cape.
When I was younger I preferred Mary Ann over Ginger from Gilligan's Island, it had to be the shorts. Now that I am much older I am a Ginger guy. The same thing happened with Superman, when I was younger it was Phyllis, now older and wiser, it is Noel. She really filled those 50's skirts beautifully.
Hmmm...very interesting. Mary Ann was definitely my pick back in the day. Noel and Phyllis definitely have totally different personalities on screen. Noel's Lois is more chill, happy, and easy going I think.
Two sad days I remember as a youngster. Yankees got beat by the pirates in the 7th game and Superman (George Reeves) died. I was an after-school paperboy and when I opened the bundle there was the headline.
After Clark jumps out of the car when the bomb explodes, he is wearing a light colored trench coat. Then when he goes up to see Lois, he is wearing a black trench coat. I appreciate you sharing these goofs. Thank you for the video.
If any of you are as big a fan of Reeves ...as l am... have not seen the film put out a few years back about George Reeves as Superman with Ben Affleck... it plays out well as the physical and emotional challenges that he went through...being "Superman"
I loved this old show!! I got a kick out of when Superman is getting shot & just stands there taking the bullets, but yet when they throw the gun at him when it's out of bullets, he ducks to avoid getting hit!!! Like...... what?😮😅
Keep in mind that the resolution of B/W tv's in the 1950's was 525 lines. Pretty low by today's standards. So, a lot of these "goofs" wouldn't have been visible. Also, the action would have directed attention away from these goofs. Lastly, they produced this show on a shoestring budget so the effects aren't going to be good, they were good enough.
I was born in 48 so the Adventures of Superman were tops on my TV list. I never noticed the goofs. We had a small screen B&W Admiral TV. It was super expensive and dad had to call the TV repair guy in twice a year. We had a 50 foot antenna tower complete with rotor and we still got bad reception on our 3 channels some times. I agree with the other commenters, George was the best. I recall when they told us he was dead. There was great sadness everywhere. We were loyal believers in George even though we knew it was all pretending. I'm glad back then we didn't know all the facts about George's personal life and his attitude toward doing the Superman series.
Even as a little kid, I asked myself that question! Here was George Reeves in bed, no glasses, same face and voice, and they don't know they're looking at and talking to Superman? As a little kid I thought this makes absolutely no sense!!!
Also it should be mentioned in the episode, “A Ghost For Scotland Yard”, the car’s steering wheel is on the left.(In the UK, the car’s steering wheels are on the right.)
Medical fact (despite this happens in every film or tv show) when you get amnesia you NEVER forget who you actually are! You can forget certain parts of your life but you never forget your name or who you are.
As always l guess ...suspended disbelief...but lm 73...l too was a kid watching these episodes and always found a pair of glasses as a pretty flimsy disguise...but l loved the actors so much that l didn't care...it was great fun...and worthwhile entertainment...so l went along with it...thanks again my friend for a fun ride!
I only seen a few episodes but I do remember one where Clark was trapped in a cave with Lois and a guy passed out one the ground. Kent pushed a large rock aside and it rolled onto the guys leg, Ouch.
As I remember, watching this show back in the 1960s, my parent's TV screen was full of lines and static anyway so, I wouldn't have been able to see the tiny wires or most of the stuff you pick up on. Plus, all the kids running around distracting the TV viewer. Nope.
I've always thought it was a combination of glasses and hairstyle. You'll notice Kent always combs his hair slicked back, while Superman always has that little cowlick drooping down in front. There's also the behavior aspect, which they really did up well in the movies. You can *see* Superman's self-confidence and Kent's self-deprecation. I would also add, I don't really think "hypnotism", super- or otherwise, is necessary. People have a tendency to see what they expect to see.
Many if not most of these goofs would not have been visible on 1950s TV sets because they simply didn't have the resolution to show them. The 35mm film it was shot on IS high definition, but the technicians of the day, knew pretty much exactly what they could get away with, and what wouldn't show on home television sets, so to cut corners and save money, they didn't take pains to conceal something if it wouldn't show, didn't need to be hidden. You would be amazed how much of this stuff would virtually disappear if you could view it on a 1955 model Dumont or Philco or Admiral or whatever.
I think it's very cool that you do your own comics. I am an artist myself and producing my own book is something I've always dreamed of doing. When I see you flip through your comics one thing I notice is many of your backgrounds are overly simple. I think adding more detail into some areas would help your work tremendously
Thanks, I'm always looking to improve, of course I also have the handicap of having to do all the work myself so I'm limited on how much time I can put on any given panel. I can't afford to pay anybody, at least not until I start to sell more books. Right now I'm working on cartoon book so it's easier to draw. It features my Kung Fu Cat Claw, and I'm working on another novel about a hero who time travels to a pre-flood world as described in the Bible but it's also sort of a sword fighting fantasy world filled with dragons, kings, and monsters. So less drawing there, just writing a lot.
I'm wondering if that tow rope (or the globe string/back cloth etc) would show up on TV screens in the 1950s - there's lots of old TV shows that look much worse now than they did then - restored and higher definition than they were ever intended to be seen.
Reversing video left to right was (is) often done in TV and movies. In some of the ones involving old steam engine trains in westerns, they gave the locomotive the number "8" specifically so it could still look correct if reversed. Sharp eyed railfans could usually spot when the footage had been reversed, but most couldn't.
In that time discrepancy instance, I saw the clock at first showing 4:00, not 12:20. It would make sense having a passage of 40 minutes during the process of shooting the scene's takes.
I don’t know what season was what, but I watched this show as a kid, I’m 56, and I remember the day that I stopped watching it. There was a scene where the bad guy shot him with a revolver 5 or 6 times, all thru it, Superman stands tall, chest out and unafraid. Then IT happened, when the bad guy ran out of bullets, he threw the gun at Superman….and he ducked. I was mortified. I was shocked. I was stupefied. I was stunned. And I no longer thought that Superman deserved to be among the ranks of the superheroes if tossing 2lbs of metal at him.
I'm enjoying this series, I think you may have missed the goof in Episode 2, "The Big Squeeze. Pay close attention to the door of the vault after Superman removes it to free Hugh Beaumont. The door almost falls over but the film cut away & when it goes back, the obviously flimsy fake door has been re-positioned.
I recognize all these where they couldn't see him as the same guy LoL and but this is a treat my favorite bad guy Robert Wilkie was a henchman in the sauna episode wow what a treat
2:02 So we're gonna discuss why he is not recognized as superman without his glasses BUT WE ARE TOTALLY GOING TO IGNORE THE WEIRDNESS OF........................ PYJAMAS BUTTONED UP TO THE TOP BUTTON CMON !!!
Somebody goofed with the clock. Because of retakes/redo's all clocks we see in movies or TV are usually stopped. Thais is very apparent when there is a grandfather clock in the video. The pendulum is never moving. Noticed this in a few Perry Mason's when at a clients home, etc.
There’s a phenomenon in which people confuse or don’t recognize certain people outside their normal context; they may look familiar and eventually recognize them. That’s how I’ve tried to look at the no glasses scenes. When the show went to color you can see the backward S in the flying footage. The rounded corners on TV pictures tubes in the fifties may have hidden stray head lol Lots of wires in Panic In The Sky. That cloth in the globe footage really bugs me, as do the birds chirping on the asteroid. Now, did you notice Superman turns the dial and throws switches on the bomb Prof. left out of his instructions? Panic In The Sky also shows the short sleeve T shirt version of Superman’s costume under Clark’s coat when he gets back to his apartment. There are lots of scenes in the B&W seasons you can see the sweat on Superman’s costume. Panic In The Sky bloopers about the asteroid wildly zooming around our solar system. And the asteroid falling straight towards Metropolis - of all the places in the world and it’s going hit Metropolis? And the Professor urging Superman to stay away from the asteroid knowing it would destroy Earth? And did you notice Superman calling him Professor Roberts when he gets his memory back? That’s the first time we hear his name in the episode.
TV CRTs were overscanned on the extremes because the lines would be less than perfectly linear on top and bottom, and on the sides, particularly for inexpensive and old TVs. So they routinely did not show the edges of the screen.
How about the episode where Superman rips the vault door off the safe, sets it against the wall,lets go of it and it starts to fall. They cut away and then cut back again and the doors leaning against the wall again?.
The way you bring up all these points leads me to feel you think Superman isn't real❓ Of course he's real and is actually George Santos's secret identity 😅😂🤣
In The Big Squeeze when Superman 🦸♂️ rescues Dan Grayson from the fur vault after he accidentally locks 🔒 himself in when Superman 🦸♂️ was leaving the door 🚪 was falling down in the next scene it was back in place.
I wonder how many of these wire, cable goofs were seen by TV viewers in the 1950s on the original TV broadcasts? A lot of goofs are visible now to us because we have a high def video look into the film, but back when the film was played back over the broadcast network and on 1950s televisions, things were not nearly as clearly seen and the producers and directors counted on that. Likewise, on Star Trek, TOS, we can see lots of things now that simply were too fleeting and blurry back on a 1960s SD television broadcast.
At 5:13 it looks like Superman spilled his lunch on his belly. As for goofs, our tv's weren't high definition, there was no pause or rewind, and the prepubescent target audience were too fascinated by our hero to notice.
In some Superman episodes, they show the Daily Planet newspaper. What ever happened to these newspapers? On Superman on Earth, the headline reads "Superman Saves Mechanic". Does any collector have a few of these newspapers made for the show?
The answer is easy. IT IS IN THE SCRIPT. Lois doesn't recognise him- -it is in the script. Birds singing on Mars-- it is in the script. Superman has goofy lines and is at the Daily Planet before Lois' plane lands coming from Venzuela---tis in younder script
I see a mistake here, I apologize if I'm wrong, but in panic in the sky, you did point out the time lapse of the 50s show compared to the comics explaining about why people don't recognize him as Superman, but the problem with this is, if he lost his memory and can't remember anything, how can he remember how to hypnotize someone, or even remember that he was hypnotizing anyone to save his identify in the first place.
You may have done this one already but we watched one yesterday where Ward Clever was an short time ex-con htat had made his life great again. He worked at a furrier. He locks himself in and Superman has to pull off the vault door and Superman puts it against a wall and it keeps wanting to fall down. Next frame where Superman leave the vault door is leaning quite well against a wall. We kinda lauged at it. I'm 68 and I still watch on Sundays.
I added that one to my fifth season Superman goofs because I missed it the first time around at about five minutes into it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uIskiynSEZ4.html . That was a great episode!
@@tvcrazyman Hard to accept Ward as a "bad guy". The other great thing was the message at the end about how people can make mistakes and pay the price and they should be allowed to move on and if they're good people, like Ward was, be forgiven. Sadly, it isn't like that at all. Felons carry that noose around their neck the rest of their lives. Hell, even Martha Stewart has travel restrictions. We have a very unjust justice system. Sadly, I never see it changing. Too much money to be made off the "system".
The reason no one recognizes Clark without his glasses as superman is because it's not in the script. The reason Perry White can hypnotize Lois Lane is because it was in the script. If they wanted Perry speaking with a Jamaican accent and smoking the OJ he would have been. This indicates the real power is in the script.
Great show in those days the tv we’re not that great , being young you would have not seen,a lot those things. Today you supper size everything that’s way you know
they dont recognize him because its a FANTASY!!!!!!!. its not supposed to be like real life. as for the mistakes, it was early days of TV. all those shows had numerous blunders. the honeymooners, lucy and all the rest.
When things like this happen in these fantasy shows I don't even analyze it. I mean it's a fantasy show after all, just go with the flow and pretend like when you were a kid and enjoy it. Little kids often don't even notice this, kids back when I was one in the early 60s anyway. If I'm going to analyze a show that's not real every time I watch it, I'd rather not watch it, LOL. I had friends that did this at movies with me, I don't go to the movies with these friends anymore, wink.
Got to talk about something. Might as well talk about your favorite shows. 😀 I'll probably do a Superman facts series later as long as it does pretty decent. People seem to love goofs more than facts though.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned so far is the costume construction. After watching the series on DVD, I noticed in several scenes during the black & white seasons that the "S" emblem sewn to the chest had fraying corners literally starting to dangle free. Even with the limited budget of the time, you'd think just a few minutes with a needle & thread would be an easy fix.
Special effects...Considering the primitive state of the art and the meager production budgets, the technical crew did an outstanding job. I am 70 years old and watched The "Adventures of Superman" as a preschool youngster. In truth we knew deep in our hearts the it was all fantasy and were thrilled if we could pick out the obvious "mistakes" but somehow it just didn't seem to matter. George Reeves was still Superman!
Yeah, I watched him re-runs and even hearing about his death growing up it was hard not to think of him as the real Superman, but then I also thought of Christopher Reeve as the real Superman too. I was torn.
If you're 70, you were born in 1953! Superman t.v. was already on a year, at least! By the time you were 4, the show had ended! You must have watched 're-runs'! p.s I'm 77 & saw the show from Day-One in 1952 & even have a younger brother, born 09/53, who I asked my mother to name him Clark, but declined, But, she did name him Kent, honest!
