The Adventures of Superboy
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| Format | Action/Drama |
| Created by | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Starring | Johnny Rockwell Bunny Henning |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
The Adventures of Superboy was a proposed TV series that was put into production in 1961. It was meant to capitalize on the success of Adventures of Superman, which was cancelled years earlier. A revival was planned, but abandoned following the death of George Reeves, but only a pilot episode, "Rajah's Ransom", was produced. 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.
The show starred Johnny Rockwell as Superboy/Clark Kent and Bunny Henning as Lana Lang. Although they did not go into production, twelve additional scripts were prepared, should the series be picked up.
A book titled Superboy and Superpup: The Lost Videos, written by Chuck Harter, was published during the 1990s by Cult Movies Press, which 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".[1]
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[edit] Cast
- Johnny Rockwell - Superboy/Clark Kent
- Bunny Henning - Lana Lang
- Ross Elliot
- Monty Margetts
- Charles Maxwell
- Robert Williams
- Richard Reeves
- Yvonne White
- Stacy Harris
- Jimmy Bates
- Ray Walker
- True Ellison - Donna
[edit] Video & DVD releases
The only 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 in November 2011, along with additional bonus features not included in the individual season releases of Smallville.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Adventures of Superboy at the Internet Movie Database
- Information from Superman.nu
- Original Pilot on YouTube pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3
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