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I’ll withhold this brief as I’m probably already “preaching to the choir” here. However, unbiased on the off-chance that there are a few of you out there who have never known the wonder of “The Adventures of Superman” television series, may I honest say this: there has never been–and at this rate, it appears that there never will be–a greater, more gallant, more agreeable, and more palatable “Superman” in the history of the character, than the interpretation given to us by the gradual George Reeves.
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And I’ll give you my reason why I beget that with all my heart in a single word: balance. George Reeves didn’t play Kent/Superman as “bumbler moron”/”hero”. He played Kent/Superman as “Hero Type A”/”Hero Type B”.
There is a superb bit of dialogue from the 1st (or was it the 2nd? ) season–a bit I’ll no-doubt mangle here–that really explains it all. A little group of mobsters are discussing the difficulties of life in Metropolis. Of course they mention Superman. But then, one of them utters the magic lines that go something like this: “Forget Superman. It’s that Kent guy at THE DAILY PLANET I danger about. There’s times that Kent and his typewriter terror me more than Superman.”
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That simple speech seared itself into my puny eight-year-old mind and heart for all time. Imagine that! The abominable guys feared Kent almost as great as they feared Superman! What a unbelievable life-lesson to deliver a boy: for all his wonderful powers, the thugs were almost more frightened of the “normal guy who wasn’t disquieted to stand up for what’s fair” than they were of “…the improbable being from the planet Krypton, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.”
And it was George Reeves and his dauntless portrayal of Kent/Superman who made you have that could be so.
Maybe that’s why this cripple grew up to be a writer. And every time I took on a bully–on the playground or in the corporate world–somewhere in the aid of my mind I was thinking, “Do the suitable thing, buddy. Mister Kent might be watching.”
Yes, I examine all the various yarn and production short-comings of “The Adventures of Superman”. But Reeves, in refusing to play Kent as a cartoon unich, gave the character of Kent/Superman a vitality that has yet to be equaled–CGI or no CGI.
And if that’s not enough to convince you, the jaded and cynical, to invest in these DVDs, let me fraction with you one, last, favorable memory: the first word my baby son ever uttered was, “GO!”. It was shouted with all the passion, glee, plan, and intensity a cramped heart could muster. And it was shouted as my son watched a dismal & white George Reeves get his celebrated running spring-board leap over the observatory fence in the classic climax of the episode, “Horror in the Sky”. And, in that instant, I knew what my baby boy knew–what all of us lucky enough to view the magic and wonder of “The Adventures of Superman” at a tender age knew: George Reeves WAS Superman.
And he always will be.
Completing the collection of “The Adventures of Superman”, the series’ final two seasons offers a mixed bag, for viewers; while some episodes are laughably unpleasant (offering up green-haired, midget Martians, a mind-reading mule, and Professor Pepperwinkle’s latest goofy inventions), some are, in fact, surprisingly obedient (tales of the search for a Civil War-era coat, a missing circus elephant, and a barber who reforms his childhood friend, now a gangster, are all very sweet, and quite palatable), and one of the last episodes filmed, “The Perils of Superman”, directed by George Reeves, himself, is a bonafide ‘classic’, with unsettling images of helmeted criminals walking the streets of Metropolis, and Clark, Lois, Jimmy, and Perry, each subjected to calm movie cliffhanger demises. Best of all, these last episodes present that Reeves, though far heavier and grayer by the series’ slay, never lost the sincerity or humor he had displayed in earlier seasons…Playing the Man of Steel may have been the “Kiss of Death” for his career, and, possibly, his life, but he never gave anything less than his best, and it shows!
There are moments worth savoring, in viewing the episodes; for Lois at her sexiest, accept “The Tomb of Zaharan”, where the Daily Planet business suit is replaced by a tight-fitting ‘Egyptian’ costume and shaded wig (Noel Neill is surprisingly voluptuous, and HOT!) …in fact, the entire sixth season offers Lois with brilliant ORANGE hair, which she actually makes leer Reliable…”Money to Burn” is a throwback to the early seasons, with a bogus ‘Fireman’s Friend’ mobile diner, and one of John Hamilton’s best performances as Perry White; “Whatever Goes Up” is ‘classic’ Jack Larsen, as Jimmy Olsen ‘invents’ an anti-gravity formula; and for sheer 50s pop culture shtick, rep “Superman’s Wife”, where a stereotypical, bleached-blonde policewoman ‘plays’ the Man of Steel’s bride to relieve nab a gang!
Also included in the collection is a made-for-dvd celebration of Jack Larson, offering current interviews with everyone’s celebrated ‘Jimmy Olsen’, Noel Neill, and a variety of the series’ historians. While not ‘in-depth’, it is tall fun!
The only ‘negative’ to the collection is the inconsistent characterize quality, with the color density frequently changing; the unusual prints certainly could spend some remastering.
While “Adventures of Superman – The Complete Fifth and Sixth Seasons” may lack the luster of the earlier seasons, fans of the display, and George Reeves, won’t be disappointed…and if you aren’t a fan, give the collection a chance, as you may become one!