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The New Adventures of Superman
1966 - 1968 6.0 (20 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Animation
Networks
CBS
Created By
Lou Scheimer

The New Adventures of Superman

Overview

The New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1970. The 68 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The Adventures of Superboy and other DC Comics superheroes.

Key Crew

Producer: Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott

Top Cast

Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer

Clark Kent / Superman (voice)

Joan Alexander

Lois Lane (voice)

Jack Grimes

Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo

Ted Knight
Ted Knight

Bob Hastings
Bob Hastings

Jackson Beck
Jackson Beck

Seasons

Season 0 (2007)

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1966)

No overview available.

36 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Force Phantom
1966-09-10

An alien ship uses an energy creature to attack Earth.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 2: Mermen Of Emor
1966-09-10

Scuba divers are captured for sport by malevolent fish beings led by Triton.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 3: The Prehistoric Pterodactyls
1966-09-17

Two giant flying monsters are freed from frozen suspension.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 4: Merlin's Magic Marbles
1966-09-17

Lex Luthor uses a temporal communicator to discover magic powers.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 5: The Threat of the Thrutans
1966-09-24

An alien space probe trapped in Earth orbit uses force to try to return to its home galaxy.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 6: The Wicked Warlock
1966-09-24

A male witch called the Warlock must seize a rare gem that contains powerful magic.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 7: The Chimp Who Made It Big
1966-10-01

The fusion of two irradiated pieces of space debris fatefully changes a chimpanzee named Toto on board a space craft.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 8: The Deadly Icebergs
1966-10-01

Saboteurs have rigged gigantic icebergs with explosives to rob a luxury liner.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 9: Robot of Riga
1966-10-08

Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are kidnapped by alien hunters whose "zoo" is protected by a giant robot.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 10: The Invisible Raiders
1966-10-08

The Sorcerer, a malevolent wizard, uses hirelings using an invisibility field to commit crimes.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 11: Neolithic Nightmare
1966-10-15

Jimmy Olsen falls into an underground pocket populated by malevolent creatures.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 12: The Return of Brainiac
1966-10-15

An alien computer named Brainiac has been capturing different kinds of animals by shrinking them.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 13: The Magnetic Monster
1966-10-22

A magnetic device that melts metal objects is used by alien beings on Earth.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 14: The Toys of Doom
1966-10-22

Phoning in an anonymous tip to lure Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen to an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Metropolis, Toyman captures Lois and Jimmy to help launch a wave of crime and keep Superman away.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 15: The Iron Eater
1966-10-29

A shapeshifting alien creature that emerged from a fallen meteorite who devours metal structures raises havoc.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 16: The Ape Army of the Amazon
1966-10-29

In South America, an exiled military officer named Colonel Vasta and a disgraced scientist named Dr. Rucas control apes with the transmitter on Dr. Rucas' back in a plot to rob an underground treasure.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 17: The Fire Phantom
1966-11-05

A living flame from Earth's core appears and sets off a mammoth forest fire.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 18: The Deadly Dish
1966-11-05

Lex Luthor traps Lois, Jimmy, and Perry White so he can lure Superman into range of a Kryptonite Transmitter.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 19: Insect Raiders
1966-11-12

Criminals who have perfected insect powers must stop Superman from foiling their wave of crime.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 20: Return of Warlock
1966-11-12

The Warlock steals a magic gem to wreak havoc on Superman's friends.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 21: The Abominable Ice-Man
1966-11-19

An ice being freezes tropical Hawaii where Lois Lane is having her vacation.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 22: The Men from A.P.E.
1966-11-19

Lex Luthor, The Warlock, Toyman, and Prankster form the organization A.P.E. (short of Allied Perpetrators of Evil) and combine their powers to defeat Superman.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 23: The Tree Man of Arbora
1966-11-26

A tree being brought to life near a meteor crater consumes enormous quantities of water.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 24: The Image Maker
1966-11-26

A master criminal scientist named Luna (AKA Professor Leo Nula) captures Lois in order to send her into space within his 4D movie as part of his revenge on her for sending him to prison seven years ago.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 25: Superman's Double Trouble
1966-12-03

A mid-ocean earthquake releases a giant lobster and a giant alligator.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 26: The Deadly Super-Doll
1966-12-03

The Sorcerer uses a voodoo doll to stop Superman.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 27: Lava Men
1966-12-10

In Mexico, a volcano creates living beings of lava.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 28: Luthor Strikes Again
1966-12-10

Lex Luthor uses Jimmy Olsen as bait to use Kryptonite laser beam weapons against Superman in a paint factory.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 29: Mission to Planet Peril
1966-12-17

Alien raiders forced to Earth recruit Superman to rescue hostages on their home world.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 30: The Pernicious Parasite
1966-12-17

While breaking into a science lab, a petty criminal named I.C. Harris is exposed to a radioactive isotope and achieves power to drain physical strength from other men.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 31: The Two Faces of Superman
1966-12-24

Toyman creates a robot doppelganger of The Man Of Steel.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 32: The Imp-Practical Joker
1966-12-24

A carnival is raided by an extra-dimensional prankster known as Mister Mxyzptlk.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 33: Superman Meets Brainiac
1966-12-31

Brainiac raids Earth to gather creatures to repopulate a planet devastated by atomic wars.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 34: Seeds of Disaster
1966-12-31

Alien seed pods grow plants that destroy other objects.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 35: The Malevolent Mummy
1967-01-07

An Egyptian sorcerer in mummified form attacks Lois and Superman.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 36: The Bird-Men From Lost Valley
1967-01-07

Avian beings must raid outside farmlands for survival because a gold raider named Trask and his henchmen hold their populace hostage.

Runtime: 7 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1967)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A.P.E. Strikes Again
1967-09-09

Lex Luthor, the Warlock, and Brainiac reunite as the Allied Perpetrators of Evil in order to destroy the Trouble Televisor which is a machine that can signal Superman whenever a crime is being committed. Superman must stop the villians before they can get to the machine.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 2: The Lethal Lightning Bug
1967-09-09

When lightning strikes a swamp, a monsterous lightning bug is created that threatens to ruin a nearby space launch. Superman goes to investigate the bug and discovers that it re-energizes itself by going back to the swamp. Superman uses this knowledge to stop the bug before it interferes with the space launch.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 3: The Prankster
1967-09-16

The Prankster annoys Superman when a paper safe drops harmlessly on Clark Kent. Superman wants to send him to jail, but is unable to since he cannot prove that the Prankster is behind any of the pranks . Superman decides to get back at the Prankster by playing pranks on him. The Prankster becomes so annoyed that he confesses to his crimes. Superman gets the confession on tape and the Prankster is taken away.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 4: The Saboteurs
1967-09-16

A group of saboteurs plan to dump atomic waste into Metropolis harbor. When the city is evacuated, they plan to rob the city blind. Superman learns of the plan when Lois and Clark are kidnapped aboard a ship carrying atomic waste. Superman foils the plan and brings the saboteurs to justice.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 5: The Wisp of Wickedness
1967-09-23

When an evil alien is turned into a mist by an experiment, the mist arrives on Earth and settles into the hat of a Metropolis motorist. The hat influences the driver into trying to drive his car into a children's playground. Superman stops the car and grabs the motorist. When the hat blows away, the motorist cannot recall why he tried to drive through the playground. Superman lets him go, but when the hat finds another owner the same inexplicable crime almost happens again. Eventually Superman figures out that the hat is behind the problem. He notices the alien mist and freezes it. He then sends it into space where it can do no more harm.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 6: Superman Meets His Match
1967-09-23

A Kryptonite meteor falls to Earth and weakens Superman as its falls into the ocean. When the meteor hits the bottom of the ocean it breaks in two and releases a green creature that has the same powers as Superman. Superman cannot defeat the creature but manages to knock it out. He takes the unconscious creature into space and sends it far away from Earth.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 7: Night of the Octopod
1967-09-30

An octopod machine comes out of a flying saucer and threatens a rocket base near Niagara Falls. Superman dumps the octopod into the water and destroys the space ship that brought it to Earth. Unfortunate, an electric eel re-activates the Octopod and it emerges from the water and attacks a nearby power station. Superman comes to the rescue again and dispatches the Octopod once and for all.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 8: Brainiac's Bubbles
1967-09-30

When a UFO comes to Metropolis, it releases a bubble which captures Lois Lane. Superman comes to the rescue, but he too is caught in a bubble. The bubbles are the work of Brainiac. He has been sent to Earth to capture Lois and take her to a planet. Superman, however, puts a stop to the plan. He escapes from the bubble and rescues Lois.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 9: War of the Bee Battalion
1967-10-07

A growth ray is used on a swarm of bees and the bees grow to enormous size. They are sent to attack Metropolis and Superman must find some way to stop them.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 10: The Toyman's Super-Toy
1967-10-07

The Toyman constructs an enormous remote control robot insect. He test flies it over a zoo and scares the animals. When Superman arrives to stop the insect, the Toyman purposely destroys it. He constructs another and gives it the capacity to produce Kryptonite rays out of its eyes. He sends the robot after Superman, but Superman successfully destroys it by using lead to sheild himself from the Kryptonite radiation.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 11: The Cage of Glass
1967-10-14

Braniac shrinks the city of Metropolis to the size of an ant colony using a shrinking ray. He places a sheild around it that Superman cannot break through. Fortunately, Superman escapes through a ventilation tube. He defeats Braniac and returns Metropolis back to its normal size.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 12: The Atomic Superman
1967-10-14

Superman drinks an explosive and discovers that it causes him to breathe fire. Superman heads to the planet Mercury where he begins to live with other fire breathing creatures. Eventually the explosive wears off and Superman returns home.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 13: Luthor's Loco Looking Glass
1967-10-21

Lex Luthor develops a matter transfer machine that looks like a mirror. He sends it to the Daily Planet where Jimmy Olsen accidently falls into it. Jimmy is transported to an abandoned amusement park where he is soon surrounded by Lex Luthor's sharks. He alerts Superman using his signal watch. Superman arrives, rescues Jimmy, and captures Lex Luthor.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 14: The Warlock's Revenge
1967-10-21

The Warlock gets out of prison when his sister uses a magic ruby on a broom. The Warlock takes the Ruby and decides to get revenge on Superman. He attacks Lois Lane and conjures a magic creature to defeat Superman. Superman, however, gets the best of the creature and captures the Warlock.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 15: The Halyah of the Himalayas
1967-10-28

In Himalaya Mountains, a plane crash awakens a creature called the Halyah that has been asleep for a hundred years. The creature attacks a number of people before it is stopped by Superman.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 16: Luthor's Fatal Fireworks
1967-10-28

Lex Luthor kidnaps Jimmy Olsen and puts him in a hot-air balloon. Luthor shoots fireworks at the balloon in an attempt to alert Superman. When Superman arrives, Lex Luthor shoots at him with fireworks laced with Kryptonite. Superman, however, out thinks Luthor and captures him in the end.

Runtime: 7 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1968)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Luthor's Lethal Laser (1)
1968-09-14

Lois and Jimmy are trapped in a rocket by Lex Luthor. They are sent to the moon where Lex Luthor has constructed a secret base. Lex aims an enormous laser at Earth and threatens the leaders of the world. He tells them that if he is not given control of the world, he will melt the ice caps and flood the world's coasts.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 2: Luthor's Lethal Laser (2)
1968-09-14

Superman heads to the moon to stop Luthor's plan to take over the world. He rescues Lois and Jimmy, but Luthor reveals that he is working with Brainiac. The two supervillians try to destroy Superman by shrinking him and exposing him to kryptonite gas. Fortunately, Superman escapes their trap and stops the villians.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 3: Can a Luthor Change His Spots? (1)
1968-09-21

When Lex Luthor turns up at the Daily Planet, he claims to be reformed. He is made science editor by Perry White. Jimmy sneaks into Luthor's laboratory in the Daily Planet and discovers a lightning machine. Luthor claims he built it as a security system for the building. Jimmy, however, continues to distrust Luthor. He becomes even more convinced when he sees Luthor robbing a bank vault and endangering Perry White.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 4: Can a Luthor Change His Spots? (2)
1968-09-21

As Luthor appears to be robbing the bank vault, Superman arrives to stop him. He rescues Perry White, but leaves when Luthor claims he was only involved as part of a demonstration. Jimmy still is not convinced of Luthor's good intentions. He follows Luthor and discovers his real scheme. Luthor wants to launch the Daily Planet building into outer space. Unfortunately, Luthor captures Jimmy and ties him up. Superman must figure out a way of rescuing Jimmy and stopping Lex Luthor before he can launch the building.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 5: The Team of Terror (1)
1968-09-28

An evil alien named Satana arrives on Earth from the planet Quanta. She attempts to steal energy from a nuclear power planet in order to use it to attack her home planet. Superman manages to stop her. Later Satana meets with the Warlock and the two decide to work together. She uses a substance called plasto to make his wand's magic ruby radiate kryptonite rays. The two villians decide to use the wand to destroy Superman.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 6: The Team of Terror (2)
1968-09-28

The Warlock and Satana decide to trap Superman by capturing Lois and Jimmy. When Superman arrives to rescue them, the Warlock attacks Superman with Kryptonite rays. Superman, however, manages to stop the Warlock. He, then, turns his attention to Satana. Satana creates an army of monsters to attack him. Superman makes short work of the monsters and captures the evil Satana.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 7: Rain of Iron (1)
1968-10-05

Lois meets a man named Vamore who is known to be a friend of the escaped criminal Professor Dujy. As Lois follows Vamore to a remote island, Superman must protect Metropolis from a wave of dangerous iron spheres that threaten to destroy the city.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 8: Rain of Iron (2)
1968-10-05

Superman tracks the iron spheres to their source. They come from space, but are being bounced off an asteroid from a remote island in the Pacific. Professor Dujy and Vamore live on the island. When Superman comes to stop them, they try to take Lois hostage. Superman rescues Lois and sends Professor Dujy and Vamore to prison.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 9: The Mysterious Mr. Mist (1)
1968-10-12

Clark Kent and Lois Lane head to Perry White's farm for a picnic. Unfortunately, a strange mist follows them to the farm. The mist is capable of transforming itself into a person when it inhabits clothing. It reveals that it is dangerous when it attacks Lois.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 10: The Mysterious Mr. Mist (2)
1968-10-12

Superman saves Lois from the mysterious must. Unfortunately, it follows Lois back to Metropolis and tries to kidnap her. It wants Lois to be the queen of an underground kingdom. Eventually, the mist gets into the Superman museum and pretends to be Superboy. Superman captures the mist and seals it in the bottom of a very deep well.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 11: Luminians on the Loose (1)
1968-10-19

Lex Luthor transports to Earth two aliens that are made of pure light. They are called Luminians and have the capacity to destroy anything they touch. Luthor wants them to destroy Superman but is disappointed to discover that they cannot effect the Man of Steel.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 12: Luminians on the Loose (2)
1968-10-19

When the Luminians discover that they cannot injure Superman, they decide to turn against Lex Luthor. Superman saves Luthor and the two work together in trying to send the Luminians back to their home world.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 13: The Ghost of Kilbane Castle (1)
1968-10-26

Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are in Scotland. As Clark heads off to sleep at a local inn, Lois and Jimmy head to the mysterious Kilbane Castle. There two twins try to scare the reporters off the property. The twins don't want them to discover that their clan stole the castle from another clan. Unfortunately, their scare tactics manage to awaken a ghost from the other clan.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 14: The Ghost of Kilbane Castle (2)
1968-10-26

The ghost of Kilbane Castle awakens and soon terrorizes Lois and Jimmy. The ghost is upset that another clan has taken over his castle. Superman arrives and rescues Lois and Jimmy. He arrests the twins that awakened the ghost and assures the ghost that the castle will soon be returned to its rightful owner.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 15: The Japanese Sandman (1)
1968-11-02

Clark and Jimmy are in Japan covering a story about how a powerful industrialist is the victim of sabotage. The saboteur calls forth a mysterious Japanese Sandman that has the power of blowing sand that can cause magical sleep. The saboteur wants the Sandman to help him against the industrialist.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 16: The Japanese Sandman (2)
1968-11-02

Superman must stop the Sandman and deal with a saboteur before they can cause any more damage. When they finally meet, Superman fights off the Sandman's powerful sleeping sand and rescues Jimmy from a trap set by the saboteur. In the end, Superman captures the saboteur and defeats the Sandman.

Runtime: 7 min

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