| Superboy | |
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| Information | |
| Title: | Superboy |
| Format: | Live-action |
| Genres: | Superhero |
| Running time: | 30 min. |
| country: | USA |
| Network: | Syndication |
| Seasons: | 4 |
| Episodes: | 100 |
| Production | |
| Production company: | Cantharus Productions N.V. Lowry Productions [1] |
| Producers: | Ilya Salkind; Buck Allen |
| Principal cast: | John Haymes Newton; Gerard Christopher; Stacy Haiduk; Jim Calvert; Ilan Mitchell-Smith; Peter Jay Fernandez; Robert Levine |
| Air dates | |
| First aired: | October 8th, 1988 |
| Last aired: | May 17th, 1992 |
Superboy (later retitled The Adventures of Superboy) is an American television program produced by Ilya and Alexander Salkind from 1989 until 1992. The program aired for four seasons in syndication. John Haymes Newton played the eponymous role of Superboy opposite Stacy Haiduk's Lana Lang. By Season two, Newton was replaced with actor Gerard Christopher, who continued the role of Superboy throughout the remainder of the series. Although the pilot episode featured a snapshot of life in Smallville, the bulk of the series took place at the fictitious Shuster College in Florida. The series featured several well-known comic book personalities including Lex Luthor, Pete Ross, Metallo and Bizarro, as well as brand new characters such as T.J. White (the nephew of Daily Planet editor Perry White).
In 1992, Warner Bros., the parent company of DC Comics, filed a lien against the Salkinds in an effort to maintain licensing control of all of their Superman-related properties. Although Superboy was a Salkind production of a Time Warner property, it was distributed in the United States by Viacom, which later merged with Paramount in 1994. Because of the number of different companies involved in Superboy, and due to legal issues between Salkind and Time Warner that took time to settle, the Superboy television series has not re-aired on American television since its initial syndicated run. Though Time Warner owns all the footage to every other Salkind production of a Superman property exclusively, it shares ownership of the Superboy footage with Viacom/Paramount and Salkind.
Episodes
Season One
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1x01 | The Jewel of Techacal | October 8th, 1988 |
| 1x02 | A Kind of Princess | October 15th, 1988 |
| 1x03 | Back to Oblivion | October 22nd, 1988 |
| 1x04 | The Russian Exchange Student | October 29th, 1988 |
| 1x05 | Countdown to Nowhere | November 5th, 1988 |
| 1x06 | Bringing Down the House | November 12th, 1988 |
| 1x07 | The Beast and Beauty | November 19th, 1988 |
| 1x08 | The Fixer | November 26th, 1988 |
| 1x09 | The Alien Solution | December 3rd, 1988 |
| 1x10 | Troubled Waters | December 10th, 1988 |
| 1x11 | The Invisible People | January 21st, 1989 |
| 1x12 | Kryptonite Kills | January 28th, 1989 |
| 1x13 | Revenge of the Alien (Part 1) | February 4th, 1989 |
| 1x14 | Revenge of the Alien (Part 2) | February 11th, 1989 |
| 1x15 | Stand Up and Get Knocked | February 18th, 1989 |
| 1x16 | Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk | February 25th, 1989 |
| 1x17 | Birdwoman of the Swamps | March 4th, 1989 |
| 1x18 | Terror from the Blue | March 11th, 1989 |
| 1x19 | War of the Species | March 18th, 1989 |
| 1x20 | Little Hercules | April 15th, 1989 |
| 1x21 | Mutant | April 22nd, 1989 |
| 1x22 | The Phantom of the Third Division | April 29th, 1989 |
| 1x23 | Black Flamingo | May 6th, 1989 |
| 1x24 | Hollywood | May 13th, 1989 |
| 1x25 | Succubus | May 20th, 1989 |
| 1x26 | Luthor Unleashed | May 27th, 1989 |
Season Two
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 2x01 | With This Ring, I Thee Kill | October 7th, 1989 |
| 2x02 | Lex Luthor: Sentenced to Die | October 14th, 1989 |
| 2x03 | Metallo | October 21st, 1989 |
| 2x04 | Young Dracula | October 28th, 1989 |
| 2x05 | Nightmare Island | November 4th, 1989 |
| 2x06 | Bizarro... the Thing of Steel | November 11th, 1989 |
| 2x07 | The Battle With Bizarro | November 18th, 1989 |
| 2x16 | Run, Dracula, Run | February 3rd, 1990 |
Season Three
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 3x01 | The Bride of Bizarro (Part 1) | October 6th, 1990 |
| 3x02 | The Bride of Bizarro (Part 2) | October 13th, 1990 |
Season Four
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 4x01 | A Change of Heart (Part 1) | October 6th, 1991 |
| 4x02 | A Change of Heart (Part 2) | October 13th, 1991 |
Notes & Trivia
- The character of Superboy was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. He first appeared in the third story in issue #101 of More Fun Comics in January, 1945 titled "The Origin of Superboy".
- Episode 2x06, "Bizarro... the Thing of Steel" introduced the character of Bizarro, played by Barry Meyers.
Home Video
See also
Adventures of Superman
Superboy
Lois & Clark
Smallville
Superman (1988)
Superman: The Animated Series
External Links
References
- ↑ Lowry Productions was involved with the series on seasons 3-4 only.
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