Adventures of Superman - Panic in the Sky

episode 2.12

USA 1953
produced by
Whitney Ellsworth, Robert Maxwell for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by Thomas Carr
starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Jonathan Hale, Jane Frazee, Clark Howat, Thomas Moore
screenplay by Jackson Gillis, based on the comicbook created by Jerry Schuster, Joe Siegel, published by DC Comics

TV-series
Superman, Adventures of Superman, Superman (George Reeves)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A meteor is threatening to hit the earth, Metropolis to be precise, so Superman (George Reeves) flies up to ram it out of its trajectory and into an orbit around the blue planet. But returning to earth, Superman has lost all of his memory, and it's more or less a coincidence that - as Clark Kent - he makes it back to his appartment, totally oblivious to his superhuman abilities. However, the gravitation of the orbiting meteor causes all kinds of natural desasters, and now earth would be in desperate need of Superman to destroy the thing, but Superman has perished ... well, he's still here, but has no idea about his powers - until Clark finds a set of Superman costumes in a secret compartment in his closet, finds out he has superpowers, puts two and two together, turns into Superman and flies up to the meteor with some explosive to blow it up - and the explosion seems to trigger his memory, since he's suddenly back to normal again.

The premise of this episode is of course childish as can be, but somehow it finds just the right balance of drama, comedy and suspense to work nevertheless, with a bit of camp value thrown in just for good measure. By no means a perfect episode of course, but entertaining.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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