The Adventures of Superboy
The Adventures of Superboy is a proposed TV series that was put into production in 1961. It was meant to capitalize on the success of "Adventures of Superman", which went out of production in 1958. Only a pilot episode ("Rajah's Ransom") was produced, although 12 additional scripts had been prepared, had the series been picked up. It featured the first non-comic book portrayals ever of Superboy and Lana Lang and stands as a forerunner of later series "Superboy", which lasted four seasons and "Smallville", which lasted ten seasons. Video and DVD releases. The only  stand-alone releases so far for "The Adventures of Superboy" have been from specialty distributors, such as Video Rarities, which released it on VHS along with "The Adventures of Superpup" and screen test footage as "Superboy and Superpup: The Lost Pilots". This pilot episode has been included in the 62-disc DVD box set of "Smallville: The Complete Series", released by Warner Home Video in November 2011, along with additional bonus features not included in the individual season releases of "Smallville". Other media. A book titled "Superboy and Superpup: The Lost Videos", written by Chuck Harter, was published in 1993  by Cult Movies Press. It looked at both "The Adventures of Superboy" pilot and "The Adventures of Superpup" pilot, as well as the 12 additional "Superboy" scripts that were prepared had the "Superboy" pilot been picked up as a series. A short clip of this pilot can be seen in the documentary "Look, Up In The Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman".