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Superboy Season 1 [7 แผ่น ซับไทย 23.4 GB]
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book
character Kal-El s early years as Superboy. The show ran from 19881992 in syndication.
It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.
Also known as : The Adventures of Superboy
Format : Action / Adventure / Drama
Created by Characters :-
-Jerry Siegel
-Joe Shuster
Developed by : Ilya Salkind / Alexander Salkind
Starring :-
-John Haymes Newton (Season 1)
-Gerard Christopher (Seasons 2-4)
-Stacy Haiduk
Country of origin : United States
No. of seasons : 4
No. of episodes : 100
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Season 1 :-
The first season of the series, which began airing in October 1988, focused on Superboy/Clark Kent (John Haymes Newton), his childhood friend and love interest Lana Lang (Stacy Haiduk) and his college roommate T.J. White (Jim Calvert), son of Daily Planet editor Perry White. Scott James Wells played Superboy s nemesis Lex Luthor. Clark s adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, were portrayed by Stuart Whitman and Salome Jens, respectively.[8]
In an interview with Boys Life prior to the show s debut, Newton also spoke of the importance of overall character development and his focus would both be on Superboy and Clark Kent. "When Clark is not Superboy he ought to be a well-rounded individual. I think people have gotten tired of seeing the nerdy Clark after four movies".
Thirteen episodes were initially filmed for Season 1, beginning with "Countdown to Nowhere". This episode featured Superboy s first public appearance as he prevents a group of saboteurs from selling a powerful laser weapon developed by the U.S. government to an arms dealer. "Countdown to Nowhere" aired in two versions: an "uncut" version in which the story plays in the present day and a second version in which the main story is introduced as a flashback through two additional scenes with Lana, Clark and T.J. The second version contained some scenes cut from the main story in order to fit the flashback lead-ins into the episode. This episode is the first episode of the series chronologically, but was the fifth one that was aired in most markets. It also appears as the fifth episode on the first season DVD set. The first season s story editor was Fred Freiberger, who also s--cripted a few episodes.
The first thirteen episodes of Superboy were rather crude[original research?] compared to later episodes. The producers, not sure whether any additional episodes would be ordered[original research?], did their best to save money on the first thirteen. As a result, the special effects are a bit rougher[original research?] and the episodes have a grittier, real-world feel[original research?] to them. This brought http://siambit.org/pic/a_bout.gif more character-oriented stories[original research?] and stories with more ordinary villains like drug dealers and crime bosses.
After thirteen additional episodes were ordered for the first season, special effects improved[original research?] and the show took on a more professional look. More fantastic enemies were introduced, such as an unnamed gaseous alien, who could possess the bodies of others in "The Alien Solution", a life-force vampire in "Succubus" and long-time Superman villain Mister Mxyzptlk (guest star Michael J. Pollard) in "Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk".
Superboy s nemesis, Lex Luthor, was introduced in "The Jewel of Techechal" (the first episode broadcast) as Clark s classmate at Shuster University. This version of Luthor was more interested in fixing basketball games and humiliating Superboy than anything else. But the season one finale, "Luthor Unleashed", completely changed his character. This episode adapted Lex Luthor s silver age comic book origin, in which Superboy rescues Lex from a lab accident that causes him to lose all of his hair, becoming the familiar bald villain Superman fans have come to recognize. Luthor blames Superboy for his hair loss and gains a new, more intense hatred for the Boy of Steel. From this point on in the series, Luthor is determined to destroy Superboy, rather than just humiliate him.
Season 2[edit source | editbeta]In the second season, drastic changes took place. The producers of the show were not enamored of Newton s portrayal of Superboy. This, combined with a demand for a 20% raise by the actor and his well-publicized DUI arrest resulted in his removal from the show.[9] He was replaced by Gerard Christopher in the lead role. A new direction was made this season with the second season s stories guided by Executive Story Consultants Mark Jones and Cary Bates.[10]
Scott Wells was also replaced as Lex Luthor by Sherman Howard. The change in Luthor s appearance was explained in the second season opener "With This Ring, I Thee Kill". The two-part episode revealed Luthor had plastic surgery to assume the appearance of Warren Eckworth, the wealthy inventor of the "Superboy Gun", which Luthor believed could kill Superboy. The character of T.J. White was written out of the series (he went to work for the Daily Planet) and Andy McCalister, portrayed by Ilan Mitchell-Smith, became Clark s new roommate. Andy McCalister was very different from T.J. and was constantly looking to make money with his get-rich-quick schemes. He also flirted with Lana frequently and his advances were always refused, though Lana did consider Andy a friend.
The villains were amped up in the second season, as additional comic book characters were introduced to the series, many of them appearing for the first time in live-action. Metallo (Michael Callan), Bizarro (Barry Meyers) as well as the Yellow Peri appeared in the second season and Mister Mxyzptlk (Pollard) made a return appearance. Gilbert Gottfried appeared in two episodes as a nasty, wisecracking criminal genius named "Nick Knack" who used toys to commit crimes (A reference to the Toyman). Another villain was a dhampir who found a way through a serum to gain human abilities such as repelling his craving for blood and gaining a tolerance for sunlight. Thus, he became a friend of both Superboy and Lana but would turn vicious without his medicine. The episode "Superboy... Rest in Peace" featured guest star Betsy Russell, who was reunited with series star Gerard Christopher for the first time since the two had worked together previously in the 1985 movie Tomboy. Also notable is the guest star appearance of former James Bond actor George Lazenby and Bond girl actress Britt Ekland as aliens disguised as Superboy s Kryptonian father and mother, Jor-El and Lara, in two episodes, "Abandon Earth" and "Escape to Earth."
Season 3[edit source | editbeta]With the third season, the series saw more changes. The show s title officially became The Adventures of Superboy and the setting shifted from Shuster University to The Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters in Capitol City, Florida, where Clark and Lana were interns. The Bureau is depicted as a government agency which investigates paranormal activities and aliens, including Superboy (this format change pre-dates the concept of the television series The X-Files).
Andy McCalister was dropped from the series, though Ilan Mitchell-Smith would make a final guest appearance in the episode "Special Effects", which features Andy working as an intern at a movie studio. The new supporting cast consisted of Clark and Lana s co-worker at the Bureau, Matt Ritter (Peter Jay Fernandez) and the Bureau chief C. Dennis Jackson (Robert Levine).
The tone of the series changed dramatically as darker stories were produced and the overall look of the series took on many characteristics of film noir. A few journalists at the time suggested that this darker look was largely due to the success of Tim Burton s Batman movie from a year prior. Many stories dealt with more mature themes, a change new producers Julia Pistor and Gerard Christopher implemented. In "Rebirth", Superboy is confronted with the possibility that he may have accidentally taken a human life and gives up his Superboy identity in guilt. "Carnival" shows a satanic individual named Deville trying to acquire Superboy s eternal soul by tempting him to give in and kill a man who is implied to be a rapist. "Mindscape" deals with Superboy s deepest fears as an alien life-form brings those fears to life in Superboy s nightmares while simultaneously draining his life energy. "Roads Not Taken" shows the different paths Superboy s life may have taken, as Superboy travels to alternate earths where his life is very different. He meets a version of himself who killed Luthor in a fit of rage and another who has become a despotic ruler of earth. The alternate version of Superboy who took Luthor s life was shown wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses which bears some resemblance to the Conner Kent version of Superboy as he first appeared in the "Death of Superman" storyline. The third season ended with the two-part episode "The Road to Hell" with former TV Tarzan Ron Ely guest-starring as an adult, retired Man of Steel from an alternate reality.
Season 4[edit source | editbeta]The fourth season maintained the darker look and feel of the third one and was the first in which no major cast changes took place. Noel Neill and Jack Larson (who portrayed Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen on the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman) made guest appearances in the episode "Paranoia" as employees of the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters. The trend of more mature stories also continued in episodes such as "To Be Human", in which Bizarro becomes human, only to be forced to give up his humanity to save Superboy s life and "Into the Mystery", in which a mystical, ghostly woman, apparently an angel of death, leads Superboy to his dying aunt s bedside. A memorable Luthor tale, "Know Thine Enemy", appeared in this season, featuring Superboy re-living Luthor s tortured memories of childhood via "psychodisk" while Luthor threatened to destroy all life on Earth.
The series demise[edit source | editbeta]The fourth season was the series last. A finale for the fourth season was filmed in which Superboy died at the hands of Luthor. The episode was intended to end on a cliffhanger, with the story being resolved in a series of TV movies. Soon after the episode "Obituary for a Superhero" was filmed, a lien was filed by Warner Bros. against the series. The show s ratings were still high and the Salkinds were planning a fifth and sixth season for the show, but the series concluded in 1992 with the two-part episode entitled "Rites of Passage". The planned Superboy finale episode, "Obituary for a Superhero", was reworked and aired within the season, with Superboy showing up alive at the end, having faked his death to lure the killer out of hiding.
The lien was placed as a result of Warner Bros. wanting all the film and television rights to Superman back under their umbrella. Warner had leased the TV and film rights to Superman, along with Superboy and Supergirl, to the Salkinds in 1978 and they produced the first three Christopher Reeve-led Superman films. However, after finding no success with either Superman III in 1983 or Supergirl in 1984, the Salkinds sold the Superman rights to Cannon Films, who released Superman IV: The Quest for Peace three years later. They did not, however, sell the Superboy or Supergirl rights, which enabled them to begin developing the Superboy series for television. Since the rights to produce a series were still theirs and Warner Bros. did not have a stake in any Superboy series, the Salkinds were free to choose any syndicator they desired and found one in Viacom. 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 series has not re-aired on American television since its initial syndicated run. As a result of the settlement, Superboy is the only Superman-related property that Time Warner does not have full rights to. Instead Ilya Salkind shares ownership with Warner Bros. Television, who holds international distribution rights, and Viacom successor-in-interest CBS Television Distribution, who would distribute any reruns in the United States.[11]
After Warner Bros. put the lien in place and regained the film and television rights from the Salkinds, the company produced Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. It is believed Warner put the lien in place only to open the door for Lois & Clark, not wanting two Superman-related TV series on the air at the same time[citation needed] (later on, Warner Bros. would produce other Superman-related television shows such as Superman: The Animated Series and Smallville in 2001 to 2003).
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