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''Adventures of Superman'' is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO-Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. It was sponsored by cereal manufacturer Kellogg's. The syndicated show's first and last air dates are disputed but generally accepted as September 19, 1952 and April 28, 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://epguides.com/AdventuresofSuperman/ )〕 The show's first two seasons (episodes 1–52, 26 titles per season) were filmed in black-and-white; seasons three through six (episodes 53–104, 13 titles per season) were filmed in color but originally telecast monochromatically in first-run syndication. Television viewers did not see ''Superman'' in color until the series was syndicated to local stations in 1965.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044231/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=episode-guides/t-aos )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l4bz1FT8U )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tv.com/shows/adventures-of-superman/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/barely-a-superhero-show-adventures-of-superman-was,98758/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Superman-Complete-First-Season/dp/B000A5046K )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/adventures-superman-season/id284140560 )〕 George Reeves played Clark Kent/Superman, with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson. Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in the first season, with Noel Neill stepping into the role in the second season (1953). Superman battles crooks, gangsters, and other villains in the fictional city of Metropolis while masquerading "off-duty" as ''Daily Planet'' reporter Clark Kent. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Clark's colleagues at the office, often find themselves in dangerous situations which can only be resolved with Superman's timely intervention. Its opening theme is known as ''The Superman March''. In 1987, selected episodes of the show were released to video. In 2006, the series became available in its entirety on DVD. ''Hollywoodland'' was released in 2006, a film dramatizing the show's production and the death of its star George Reeves. It now airs on Saturday evenings on Me-TV as of January 1, 2015.〔(MeTV Chicago Program Schedule ) ''WCIU.com''. Accessed January 1, 2015〕 == Production == In 1951, California exhibitor and B-movie producer Robert L. Lippert released a 58-minute black-and-white feature starring George Reeves and Phyllis Coates called ''Superman and the Mole Men'' with a script by Robert Maxwell (as Richard Fielding) and direction by Lee Sholem. The film prompted the first television season to go into production in August/September of the same year. The series discontinued production, however, and remained unaired until September 1952, when cereal manufacturer Kellogg's agreed to sponsor the show, as the company had previously done with the Superman radio series. The success of the series came as a complete surprise to the cast. The initial feature film, ''Superman and the Mole Men'', was subsequently edited into a two-part story called "The Unknown People" and was televised late in the first season, the only multi-part story of the series. After the first season's filming was completed, actress Phyllis Coates made other commitments and did not return as Lois Lane for the second season. Noel Neill (who had played the character in the theatrical serials) stepped into the role, and remained until the series' cancellation. The core cast thereafter remained intact with Phillips Tead occasionally joining the regulars in the last seasons as the eccentric recurring character Professor Pepperwinkle. To promote and advertise the show, cast members Reeves, Hamilton and Larson were able to gain extra money by appearing in Kellogg's commercials during the second season. However, Noel Neill was never approached for these because sponsors worried that scenes of Clark Kent having breakfast with Lois Lane would be too suggestive. From the beginning, the series was filmed like a movie serial with principals wearing the same costumes throughout the show to expedite out-of-sequence shooting schedules and save budgetary costs. For instance, all scenes that took place in the "Perry White Office" set would be filmed back to back, for future placement in various episodes, which was often confusing to the actors. Money was further saved by using Clark's office as Lois's office with a simple change of wall hangings, thus dispensing with additional set construction. Other scenic short-cuts were employed. In the last seasons, for example, few exterior location shoots were conducted, with episodes being filmed almost entirely in the studio. Reeves's red-blue-and-yellow Superman costume was originally brown-gray-and-white so that it would photograph in appropriate gray tones on black-and-white film. After two seasons the producers began filming the show in color, a rarity for the time. Filming of the color episodes began in late 1954 and were broadcast in monochrome starting in early 1955. Because of the added cost of filming in color, the producers cut the number of episodes per season in half. Each 26-week season would feature 13 new episodes and 13 reruns of the older black-and-white shows. The monochrome prints of the color episodes also had to be treated so that there would be a somewhat similar contrast in the colors of Reeves's new costume to the one from the earlier seasons (with the contrast increasing each season), as the gray tones of the blue and red colors would otherwise have been rendered nearly indistinguishable. Throughout the last 50 episodes, a lackadaisical attitude toward flubbed lines prevailed, ascribed to morale deterioration among cast and crew with the added expense of color filming and salary disputes. Producer Whitney Ellsworth later admitted: "Sometimes there was just garbage in the rushes, but we were often forced to use what we had, rather than relight the set and go again." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventures of Superman (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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