Talk:Adventures of Superman (TV series)

message: I think this article needs to be renamed Adventures of Superman (TV series).  First of all, Adventures of Superman is the correct title as noted in the article.  Second, there should be a clear disambiguation with the comic book series.Rhindle The Red 04:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: title

message: Why is it important to deal with the question of Canadian returns of the initial DVD run in the body of the text?  Surely this is an historical footage at best. Likewise, if there's a separate entry for Panic in the Sky (the best, no doubt about it), the comments about Seinfeld, et al, should be after the text, not as an introduction.  
Neat to have all this info about the effects, but it should be... will be... coherently presented.User:Ted Newsom
*Good work, even if you gave away the ending of Panic in the Sky. :) The Canadian DVD problem might have been significant a year ago, but it's old news now, so zapping it makes sense. I think at the time that little news blurb was all there was about the DVD's. I added some stuff, which by now needed some editing. Wahkeenah 15:20, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General Coherence and Presentation

message: ::Hey guys, we've written and posted series history, visual effects, popularity, filming locations, so why don't we include a section on why the series was cancelled? I can think of a few good reasons: First, the show became too campy and then too repetitive in plots (several of the last episodes had Supes saving Lois and Jimmy again and again, the fact that George Reeves was too old to play Superman (since Supes will always be 30-something), or the fact that the youth audience started listening to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and rock and roll as they grew up.
Seriously, we should also include the fact that Robert Shayne, who played Inspector Henderson, was also blacklisted as a Communist during that time. Although he was acquitted, this woulda done some damage to the show's reputation! What do you guys think? --Jonathan.Bruce 07:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Should we include the Series Cancellation?

message: I just got wind of an interview with a John Fredrick (he acted in Ten Commandments and Cleopatra (the 1963 version), who said in an interview with DesMoinesRegister.com (article: Famous Iowans) that he played Superman for 18 unaired episodes in 1958 to 1959. Apparently, he said he was hired to try and bring George Reeves back into the fold. However, a guy at Supermanhomepage.com contacted Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen) and Noel Neill (Lois), and they said they never heard of him or worked with him. Does anyone hear anything about this? Help me out, sounds like he's starting a rumor to get "fame," if that's what he's after. I have great doubts. It's right here: [] --Jonathan.Bruce 08:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Actor?

message: This article should definately be added to the following articles, except that I don't actuallly know how to go about doing that, sadly enough.
Now, the reason should be fairly self-explanatory.  However, there might be some controversey, in that it debuted in some markets in 1952 and others in 1953, according to commentary on the Season 1 DVD. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Epiphone83 (talk • contribs) 06:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --UpDown 12:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: The actual name of the 1st Season Daily Planet exterior is the "Wilson Building".  The Carnation Building was a smaller (less than 5 stories) building; its front doors were used for entrances and exits by "the Planet staff" in "Crime Wave" and "Superman on Earth."  I've updated the text (although it seems to have instantly disappeared), but cannot change the caption on the photo.  MikeH0714 16:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Restored, as per user-page discussion, and also fixed the caption and the photo link. Wahkeenah 23:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations 

message: Many or all of the existing individual episode pages for this series appear to fail the notability guidelines for television episodes, and have been tagged accordingly.  These articles can be improved through the inclusion of real-world information from reliable sources to assert notability. Overly long plot summaries should be edited, to a maximum length of approximately ten words per minute of screen time. Trivia should be integrated into the body of the article, or removed if it is not directly relevant. Quotes and images should only be used as part of a critical analysis of the episode. You might also consider merging any notable information onto the show's "List of episodes" or season pages.  Otherwise, when these pages come up for review in fourteen days, they may be redirected, merged or deleted. If you want any help or further information, then come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage.   Thanks. TTN 23:02, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode notability

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Superman Title Cards.JPG

message: The episode list is a good overview. I recommend that you list your source(s), before sometime slaps a "missing sources" tag on it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 09:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I will.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Overjoyed (talk • contribs) 09:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode list 

message: This article contains a good deal of minute detail about minute detail about the show. It's unsourced, its fancruft and needs to be edited. Some sections like "Locations", "Visual Effects", and "Music" carry undue weight and overwhelm the article in their individual lengths. Encyclopedic information like Cultural Impact, Reviews and Ratings, etc. have never been touched in this article, which is essentially a collection of trivial details about the series. Free free to begin editing the massive amounts of fancruft while trying to fill the gaps about Impact, Ratings etc. Overjoyed (talk) 09:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How did you get involved in writing about this, if you're not interested in the series? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 10:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fancruft, etc. 

message: The image ADV Stars 02.jpg is from "Beware the Wrecker". Which episode is ADV Stars 01.jpg from? I'm guessing it's "Blackmail", but not sure. I don't know the color episodes as well as I do the black-and-whites. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 10:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: To Overjoyed:  (also posted on your talk page) Point of information: Is there a reason you choose not to rewrite the article from scratch, exactly as you want it to read, instead of making 88 individual edits to the page in three days? Your changes to the page, while substantive and substantial, are almost impossible to follow from edit to edit. I hope it is useful to suggest that you gather your thoughts and all your research about a page, then rewrite the whole article in one edit. That way people can see exactly what has changed without having to track minor (and frequently reversed) changes through nearly a hundred different edits. Thank you. Monkeyzpop (talk) 20:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overjoyed's edits 

message: I believe this article is a far as one can go with it and should be nominated for a featured article. Please comment. TimmyTruck (talk) 07:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination for Featured Article 

message: Please remember the "lead" or intro to the article is intended as something of a summary to the entire article. Don't delete material from the lead simply because it is mentioned elsewhere in the article. Some material in the lead will be found elsewhere. This is typical of Wiki articles. TimmyTruck (talk) 08:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The material I deleted is (a.) not focal enough to be part of the lead and (b.) virtually word-for-word repeated in a much more suitable place later in the article.  There is no need for two virtually identical paragraphs in the same article, and the Hollywoodland reference is far more appropriately placed where the latter reference has it. IMHO. Monkeyzpop (talk) 09:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting Material Found "Elsewhere" in Article 

message: I'm wondering why the side-by-side images of the "Look Up in the Sky" moment from the show are critical to this article and exactly what do they demonstrate/illustrate/prove? Both images are small and of poor quality to begin with and look almost exactly alike. I don't understand why they are incuded here. Could someone explain? Also, I'm having the same problem with the image of Lois Lane making an exit through a door. What is this image intended to illustrate/prove/demonstrate? A single television article cannot be filled with countless images of every frame of the show. In order to "balance" text and images per Wikipedia's suggestions and guidelines, I wondering if images of the cast be deleted in order to accomodate images that are (IMHO) useless and vague. For my own part, I believe readers would be more interested in having access to images of the cast rather than doorways and vague crowd scenes. We could just as easily include images of the speeding train, the tall building leapt at a single bound, Perry White's office, Jimmy Olsen's blue sweater vest, and countless other elements, but to what purpose?  Please discuss the rationales for including images of vague crowd scenes and people walking through doors. I'd really like to know because they're quite inexplicable to me. TimmyTruck (talk) 19:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to the List of Episodes page. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 15:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adventures of Superman: Images 

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message: According to the Grossman book, once the producers had 104 episodes, they felt they had enough for syndication and the show was cancelled at that point. A year later, they were taking steps to revive the cancelled series, but Reeves' death put an end to that. Had the series been revived and had Reeves not died, this article would read differently, obviously. But either way, it had been cancelled after 104 shows. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 04:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancelled? 

message: Lex Luthor is Superman's arch-nemesis who has always tried to destroy Superman with a harmful radioactive substance known as Kryptonite. Luthor was never mentioned in the Adventures of Superman TV series. What do you think happened to that bald villain? AdamDeanHall (talk) 21:36, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He had been defeated in one of the serials that preceded the TV show. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:10, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Lex Luthor? 

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thread_title: File:Adventures of Superman (TV series), Look Up in the sky takes.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: Curious, the article is Adventures of Superman but as I post this there is no picture of Superman in the article. Just sayin' 5Q5 (talk) 17:15, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good Point! The best source for a pic would be "Stamp Day for Superman", since it is public domain. RJ4 (talk) 03:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no picture of Superman?? 

message: There are huge problems with this article that render it unencyclopedic. The lack of citing and the essay-like POV comments throughout are the two biggest issues. Another, I suspect, is that it uses essentially one source, a 1976 book that until my edit now was heavily promoted throughout despite only being cited twice. No article can be encyclopedic if it relies almost entirely on a single source. Compounding matters, some of the material here directly contradicted major published sources such as Total Television and the Brooks/Marsh The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, among others. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Citing, POV, etc.

message: Copying a version of the comments I just posted on the obscure "List of Adventures of Superman episodes" talk page:
I have two problems with the 1965 date at the end of the first lede paragraph, a date which does not appear in either of the two web cits. Firstly, reruns of the show were certainly being syndicated (in B&W) before 1965, and perhaps a blanket statement to the contrary was not intended. I grew up in LA in the 1960s and got hooked on the reruns in 1961; the contemporary TV listings in the LA Times will confirm airings in that year. Secondly, my family got a color set early in 1965, and subsequent airings in that decade were still in B&W in that far-from-backwoods market. I first saw episodes in color on a visit back to LA in 1980-1981, at which time the station airing them made a big deal of the fact that they could now be seen in color. So it appears that the color masters were not dug out of the vaults and aired until way later than 1965, but that is only my uncitable own-experience OR. However, under "Media information/Copyright dates", this article now says "During the first decade of reruns, when all episodes were still shown in black and white ...", which is true enough as far as it goes and, according to simple arithmetic, directly contradicts that odd mention of 1965, AFAIK a year of no significance in the show's history. 66.81.105.232 (talk) 17:06, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, IP address. I've left a comment on this matter at Talk:List of Adventures of Superman episodes#Color/B&W data missing.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:47, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bogus 1965 date in lede 

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message: "...the most potent element incorporated into the show from the established mythology was green kryptonite; the other versions (red, white, blue, gold, etc.) didn't appear."
Technically true, but misleading. The show went off the air in April 1958. Red kryptonite was introduced in the comic books in late '58, and the other varieties followed. None of them were part of "the established mythology" while the show was running. WaxTadpole (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
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