Superboy definitely captured the feel of the Christopher Reeve Superman films since the father-and-son Alexander and Ilya Salkind - the producers of the first 3 Superman films - were behind it.
Partly because the rights were tied up for years between WB and Viacom, and also partly because WB wanted *Lois & Clark* to be the official Superman franchise during the '90s. It took a long time for this show to finally resurface.
I did some fan edits on my channel sticking Gerard into the CW Multi-verse trailers. Not that great, I don't have the best programs, but I was just having a little fun with it.
Still wondering to this day why they haven’t touched any Superboy Actors for cameos ever….only series that hasn’t had anyone show up on another series (at least main cast members)
@@reactorleak7432 From what I know, WB wanted to distance itself as much as possible from Superboy the series. They played a part in getting it canceled, because Superboy would've went on to have a 5th season and there was talks of a movie. WB went in their own direction with Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman, and for the next 25 or so years Superboy was never released on DVD or shown in reruns.
This series was very good all four seasons. The only thing it suffered is not having a big-budget and if it had a big budget the effects would probably been way better. For what they had they did a good job
The acting was a bit hokey in the scene with the girl trapped in the bubble the guy yelling "Call somebody Call Sombody can sombody call somebody. It would have been more beleivable if they said somebody get some help or call 911 or somthing anything besides just "call somebody" LOL.
What an awesome compilation! I love so many of these changes. One of my favorites is at 25 minutes in from the Alleyway. It was like a classic comic book change. And the revolving door change in the werewolf ep. a nod to Superman the Movie.
@James Tamburo You might know that back then there was a lot of legal mess between Warners, the Salkinds, DC Comics, and the Siegel and Shuster families over the rights to Superman. Superboy was careful to not even use the name "Superman" on the show. But also, Warners wanted to put out their own Superman series and didn't want two different Super shows competing on the airwaves, that was Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
I'm not afraid to say this was the best Superman liveaction production until the movies in the new 10s. The leads were competent and the villains (Luthor, Metallo) pretty charismatic. There were a lot of awesome episodes: the one where Super "dies" and hallucinates about his identity, the one where he travels to meet Superboys from other realities, Metallo's trial, when he becomes evil and helps Metallo, when he meets his kryptonian fake parents, and many more... Man, those were the days...
I like the second Superboy better I grow up watch the second Superboy I found out about the first Superboy when I was 17 years old Turing 18 soon in 2006
I'll bet it was, 'cause only a very young kid could think of this actor as a "boy"! Which years was it on the air and how long was its run? Maybe he just outgrew the role???
Gerard Christopher would have Been Perfect for Lois & Clark they Should have Spun him off the Superboy Show Seriously never really Cared for John Haymes Newton as Clark aka Supboy it was Gerard Christopher it was A shame the Lois&Clark Proudcers when Gerard came into Audtion for Lois &Clark he nailed it! And then they Found out he came From the Superboy Series back in the late 1980s up into that Year in 1992 when it ended its 5 Year run! They were tripping Dean Cain was Okay but Sincerely Gerard Had that Presences and that Same Deamnor like A Superman Rendition Should anyways the Superboy is Series Classic Gold!!👍🏽Shout out to Gerard Christopher my Number#1 favorite Superboy/Superman
It seems Gerard had a lock on playing Clark/Superman on L&C until the producers went through his resume closely or asked him about his prior experience. Once they learned he had previously played the character--he was out.
Everything is true being a very big fan of this show. Although somehow i prefer John H Newtons portrayal more. I felt he looked more like Chris Reeves at the time and he was not such a nerdy Clark. He seemed more of a conflicted hero.Gerard his first season was over the top nerdy more so than Chris Reeves. I did like that Gerard toned down the campiness after season 2.
@@robwett1 now it makes me wonder if it’s because he played Clark already, or if it was because he was Clark on a non-WB affiliated show and was told he couldn’t because of that….,
Gerard Christopher would've made a great Superman. But WB wanted a unknown actor(Dean Cain). But if they went for Gerard, it would made the world wonder if Lois & Clark is a sequel to Superboy.
I really enjoyed this show back when it was new. I never missed an episode. With that being said, I actually really liked the way John Newton portrayed Clark and Superboy. He definitely played the character with more of a bad-boy persona which I thought was super fun. Now don’t get me wrong, I also really liked Gerard Christopher’s portrayal of Clark and Superboy in the later seasons. When Gerard first took over for Newton, he played Clark way too nerdy to the point where he was almost Screech Powers from Saved by the Bell. Luckily he only acted like that for one season and then his version of Clark evened out, thank god. I also want to point out that Gerard Christopher got progressively more buff as the seasons progressed. By the last season he was extremely well built and truly looked like Superman was riped right out of the pages of a comic book. Gerard’s acting also greatly improved with each season. I totally think the show could’ve gone on longer but the studio execs wanted to make a Superman show that focused on Lois and Clark’s relationship. That’s the real reason why Superboy was canceled. They wanted to make the Adventures of Lois and Clark. But I have to thank the person who put this little compilation together. It’s always great seeing all of Clark’s transformation scenes into Superboy.
My friend you have written literally the same thing i wrote to a reply here. Exactly how i felt about John Newton then Gerards portrayal got better as seasons progressed.
I preferred John Newton also. I think the "Nerdy" clark was to try to tie in more with the movies and it was a decision more of the directors and script than the actor. The issue with it attempting to tie into the movie is that we don't know when in the movie Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent decided to be a "fumbling nerd". It was sometime after he left the fortress of solitude, and entered the adult world. This series already doesn't really follow that timeline as we never saw Clark in the movie go to college, unless we're assuming he did so in the timeframe between leaving the fortress of Solitude and the time he started working at the Planet. During that timeframe, anything could have happened.
I watched this when I was around 10 or 11 when it first aired, and while I remember it was entertaining enough there was really nothing that made it stick in my memory.
Awesome, I used to watch a lot of Superman and Superboy series, Superman was in black and white at the time with Steve Reeves. I remember watching Superboy with my kids when I first watched it. Lois and Clark was next. Love them all…❤️😊
Yo estaba enamorado de Lana(Stacy Haiduk), mi tipo de mujer....La primera temporada era genial, mas seria, las demás algunos capítulos rayaban en lo infantil, otros si eran buenos, me gusto las temáticas de universos alternos, la entidad extraterrestre que poseía cuerpos fue de mis preferidos mucho suspenso para la tv de ese tiempo, no se porque no continuo John Haymes Newton, lo hacia muy bien, Gerard no me termino de convencer, aunque se esmeraba por hacer el clásico Clark timido, La musica de Kevin Kinner era genial!!! ahora veo que perdi algunos capitulos que no recordaba, sigue en mis buenos recuerdos de adolescencia. Gracias por subir esta compilación.
It always amazes me that this show that looks like it had a budget of $5.00 managed to get the suit so right, while other, big budget shows/movies somehow blow it.
Henry Cavill's Supersuits are absolutely gorgeous, and Brandon Routh's costume (which is a really nice retro-inspired design) is actually very rich and colorful when you see it in natural light instead of the weird sepia tone lighting *Superman Returns* employed. It's Dean Cain's Supersuit that looks like total garbage compared to the *Superboy* costumes, especially since it came literally a year later. They made that poor guy look like a cheap cosplayer when his Superman costume should have been the next step forward from the Salkind era.
The suit was basically a repro of Reeve's movie suit. They made alterations later on for Gerard Christopher. If you notice in some of the later episodes, the 'S' on his chest is bigger, and his cape has a kind of layered look on the shoulders based on the then current "Man of Steel" comic design by artist John Byrne.
@@maximusprime3459 Both Newton and Christopher are wearing the S-shields used for the official Superman merchandise. They aren't wearing customized emblems like the other Superman actors, which does separate their suits a little from Reeve's.
I really Liked John Newton as Clark Kent/Superboy. He played the character of Clark with a lot more confidence than Gerard Christopher. There was almost a bit of a Bad-boy streak in his performance which I thought was a welcomed change to how Clark was typically portrayed as. My only real complaint was the fact that the hair and makeup people parted his hair incorrectly. His hair was parted to the left as Clark and to the right as Superboy which is wrong. Super boy’s hair should be parted to the left and Clark’s should be parted to the right. The reason being, if his hair is parted to the right as Superboy then the S-Curl is backwards. That’s the whole reason as to why they always parted Superman’s hair to the left and this was especially true during the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
I think there was some copyright reason they couldn't call him Superman. I always thought Gerard Christofer was perfect for the part. He almost landed the role on Lois and Clark as well, but lost out to Dean Cain.
The film/TV rights to Superman were split at the time between WB, Cannon Films, and the Salkinds, which is why they did *Superboy* with a college-age Clark Kent. When WB got the rights to Superman back in full, *Superboy* was cancelled, as was the Salkinds' original pitch for *Superman Returns* (which would have been written by Cary Bates and Mark Jones, both comic book and *Superboy* regulars.) Simply put, WB was done with the Salkinds, which is why nothing of theirs was carried over into future projects. It should also be mentioned that *Lois & Clark* originated as a 1989 proposal from DC Comics itself called *Lois Lane's Daily Planet.* And apparently the show that emerged was a substantial reworking of DC's original pitch, with WB and ABC both pushing for an 8pm time slot and a much bigger onscreen presence for Superman than what was originally planned.
Grown me absolutely understands why, back in the day, an aunt of mine enjoyed tuning into John Hayme Newton's beautiful body/performance every weekend.
@@ELFAMOSOIRVING no distespect to Gerard C .he won me over by mid season 2 but if i had a wish it would have been able to see John Newton in seasons2-4. Just imagine how his superboy would have been against Sherman Howards Luthor. Someone commebted that JN looked angry when Superboy and only smiled once in a while. I think ylthats what made him intimidating to crimimals. He took no rubbish from them. In my gavorite episode Bringing down the house he picked up by the neck and almost killed that rocker had Lana not begged him to not eventhough the rocker was about to rape torture Lana. He reminded me of the Eradicator before the Eradicator.
Excellent series about Superboy. For me, the work that Gerard Christopher did was more remarkable than that of John Haymes Newton in the first season. Well, it was very similar to Christopher Reeve's performance. For many, including me, the best Superman in history. Also noteworthy is the presence of Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang.
