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Adventures of Superman - Perry White's Scoop
episode 2.19
USA 1954
produced by Whitney Ellsworth, Robert Maxwell for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by George Blair
starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Steve Pendleton, Robert J.Wilke, Bibs Borman, Jan Arvan, Tom Monroe
screenplay by Roy Hamilton, 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 man in a diving suit is shot in front of the Daily Planet building,
miles away from the sea or any kind of water that would have justified
wearing a diving suit. The Daily Planet's editor Perry White (John
Hamilton) decides it's time to teach his reporters Clark Kent (George
Reeves), Lois Lane (Noel Neill) and Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) a thing or
two about real journalism without constantly relying on the help of
Superman (also George Reeves of course), and he takes on the assignment
himself - even though he has very little to go on. Still, White manages to
track the dead diver's step back to a rooftop watertank in which he finds
a goldfish carrying some kind of cryptic message, which in turn leads to a
freight waggon carrying ... paper. And this is when the baddies (Steve
Pendleton, Robert J.Wilke, Bibs Borman, Jan Arvan) strike: They were all
behind the paper which was hidden by an accomplice/rival of them, and the
paper is of course some very special stuff used for counterfeit money.
Having their hands on the paper, the baddies decide to lock White along
with Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen in the now empty freight waggon and burn
them alive. But of course, in the critical moment Superman arrives to save
his friends and dish out to the villains what had been coming to them.
So yes, in the end, Perry White got his scoop, but not without the help
of Superman.
Mediocre episode, not as cheesy or plain bad as many others, but also
not as good or as campy as the best of the bunch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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