I'm 78 now! In 1955, I was ten years old watching all of Super Man's escapades, and nowadays in 2Q23, I never Get tired of watching the one and only real Super Man.....

@FirstnameLastname-my7bz

Ай бұрын

What do you think about Christopher Reeve movies?

When I was a little kid, I loved this show.

@jeddiajones4570

Жыл бұрын

I still love it as a big kid. George was the best Superman of all time.

@arr0gant1

Жыл бұрын

Same

@mmabagain

Жыл бұрын

When you were a little kid the world was a far better place.

@JerryN7970

Жыл бұрын

I loved it too. I grew up in the 70’s so these shows were already 20+ years old when I was watching them but I probably saw every episode!

@RichardTClark396

Жыл бұрын

Never missed episode evert weeknight at 5pm :)

….This was by far my most favorite episode, mainly because the plot was out of the ordinary….

Shooting the latter seasons of this in colour so that they could be rerun when colour TV became a thing was a stroke of foresighted genius. They laughed at Gerry Anderson making _Stingray_ in colour, too, and that was in the early 60s. _Superman_ had already done it five or six years earlier!

@ApartmentKing66

Жыл бұрын

It's also what saved "Bonanza" from cancellation. NBC was heavily invested in expensive color film to shoot Bonanza (not to mention RCA, its parent company, manufacturing color sets), and when low ratings threatened it, the decision was made, as the industry moved closer and closer to color, to keep it on.

When I was a kid, I watched this show very weekday afternoon (followed by The Munsters) on WPIX-TV channel 11 in New York. George Reeves was my hero - after my father, of course.

@clarky23

Жыл бұрын

for me, it was KPLR-11 in St. Louis, and it was in the mornings before I went to school. LOL

@freeagent8225

Жыл бұрын

Both shows also aired in Australia.

@denisryan8757

Жыл бұрын

Yes! same here, Great memories.

@mickistevens4886

2 ай бұрын

@@clarky23 Watched after school every day same channel, Better than Little Rascals and Three Stooges.

legally clear of one crime, but the new kidnapping charge might stick

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they surely didn't think that one through.

Born in 1953, I grew up watching Superman! I’ve seen every episode many times and to this day they still fascinate me. However many of the regular bad guys and the cars seen over several episodes betray budget limitations!

@knerduno5942

Жыл бұрын

What's fur supper, grandpa?

@danielomalley4394

Жыл бұрын

@@knerduno5942 HEY BOZO! You had better hope you make it to my age, but that’s not guaranteed, not looking good for you, because having a functional brain kind of helps the survival of the fittest…

@SPCLPONY

8 ай бұрын

Grandpa Jones: "Roast beef simmering in the crock pot with brown gravy and fresh cut carrots. Hand picked string beans and a big scoop of mashed potatoes covered with a dab of butter! Hot corn bread right out of the oven, and piled high on the platter. For dessert, we'll have the homemade cinnamon apple pie that's cooling on the window sill!" Hee-Haw audience: "Yuuum yum!!" 😂🤣

One of my favorite color episodes!

That cube is the size of an over priced Manhattan apartment today!

@greg1030

Жыл бұрын

Or most Long Island co-ops. At least my living room has a vaulted ceiling. My plan was to retire to NM or another western state, as I love the same kind of landscapes often used in Superman outdoor scenes, climate change and less than reliable health care quality killed that dream.

@rexjolles

2 ай бұрын

@@greg1030 new mexico's jsut fine these days

Mr Nolt, thanks so much for this. In addition to remembering the fallen armed forces on this day, we can all remember these fantastic stories.

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, David. Very kind of you to say that.

@82fdny97

Жыл бұрын

I always remembered this episode

THIS Episode along with "DIVIDE and CONQUER" Were By Far the TWO Best Color Episodes. Season 1 is THE WHOLE SERIES.

I loved this episode. Also loved the episodes when he split in two, “Mrs Superman” Supes marries Joi Lansing who wouldn’t she was beautiful. And the Atomic Spies episode. I mean Superman implodes an A bomb how cool is that

Remember seeing this on B&W TV, in 1957 I was 10 and this was always the best episode as I remember, Thanks.

Thanks for posting!

There were a handful of episodes that I really loved as a kid. "Terror In the Sky", "The Big Freeze", and this one were at the top

@michaelj.campagna404

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you, those three episodes Plus, the one where he gets his costume stolen, and the memory erase spray, where he has to reveal his true identity to Lois, Jimmy and Perry, just to name a few.

This is one of the episodes that shows that Superman has other powers than the ones he uses so much. Superb that he can manage to dematerialize and walk through walls.

@DarthEditous

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that episode of Lois & Clark where he vibrated the atoms in his body so quickly he was able to float through a forcefield.

@cosmosgato

Жыл бұрын

The Flash must have showed him that trick 😂

@TheStarTrekApologist

Жыл бұрын

What about using the S on his chest as a trap, or holographic projection better yet time travel

@Bobster986

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this was a very interesting episode, especially from that time. If my memory serves me correctly, the way Superman was able to walk through the wall was by vibrating his body to a point that his molicules could pass through the walls, a scientic fact reasonly descovered.

@je-fq7ve

Жыл бұрын

@@Bobster986 still aint walking thru walls

Thank you so much for these videos. I remember the plots from some of these shows from when I was a kid!

God bless George

The guy inside the cube was in there for seven years: he could of stayed another week just to make sure

@InCountry6970

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you're right, just proves how silly these stories were

@bebo5558

Жыл бұрын

tafnam taf. He ran out of mayo!

@Skedawg88

Жыл бұрын

@@InCountry6970 But entertaining for kids and sometimes their parents viewed with them.

@kryptofly

Жыл бұрын

….I know, right. Still, seven years alone in a cube? Don’t know why he didn’t just go to Mexico, way more safe and fun at that time. Could have lived like a king down there, think no extradition policy with the U.S. at that time. And Superman couldn’t kidnap him down there, would have been illegal. But then, logically there would have been no story either….

@richardkay8123

Жыл бұрын

​@@InCountry6970😊

Great old TV series. Thanks.

Great acting!Imaginative stories for the young an young at heart!Used to rush home after school an watch superman save the day!Sad he shot himself but sure he is flying somewhere in the multiverse!!R.I.P George

Classic episode

I remember this from when I was a kid. It was already all reruns. I remember this episode in particular, and how he out-smarted the guy in the cube.

@clarky23

Жыл бұрын

yeah, I was warching as reruns in the mid-70s so it was already 20 years old by then

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

Жыл бұрын

@@clarky23 Heh. Reruns for me in the early 60s! ... Alright, I just looked it up. The series with George Reeves first ran through most of the 50s.

@SkyKingofMaricopa

Жыл бұрын

Ok. Yeah.. Superman had the Navy adjust the clocks. But what did "Jimmy Olsen" mean when he said Superman "pulled that timetable trick" to free him & "Lois" from the house without "Jody Malone" knowing.

The one and only real Superman

My favorite episode!

I remember this one when I was 6. Scared me Superman was in real trouble! Oh good! He’s out!

Even as an 8 year old boy, I was fascinated at this- I was saying to myself, " he's going through solid matter." That was way before I ever read that neutrinos were capable of passing through a solid, a liquid, or a gas at 65,000,000,000 once every 2 square centimeters. WHEW!

I remember watching this particular episode on a B&W television set back in the early 1970s. I remember the bad guy was watching the calendar for 7 years. At the 7 year mark the bad guy would pop open the door and be declared legally dead, his past crimes couldn't be used against him in a court of law. Keith Richards/Steve Barton (the bad guy) left the cube too early because Superman had the radio altered so 7 years hadn't quite elapsed.

@knerduno5942

Жыл бұрын

Keith Richards!? I guess he didn't get no satisfaction! The plot does not make a lot of sense. "Scram else he will pull the string then Jimmy & Lois will get it!" Heat ray eyes to the the rescue to burn the string.

@moviesignsol

Жыл бұрын

@@knerduno5942 lol

@SPCLPONY

8 ай бұрын

I saw this episode many years ago... one of my favorites. I seem to recall that Superman went partially into the wall, and turned the clock ahead. The smug criminal inside stepped out (an hour?) too early... into the arms of the law.

I paid big bucks for the entire DVD set. The ONLY Superman. I have known the intro by heart since I was 6. That was '63.

I remember this scene... Only saw it once when I was so young

Love that they ket the trampoline bounce sound in at the end

My favorite color episode. Season 2 & Season 6 (the final season from which this episode comes) are the best.

Just enjoy the story. It was 1956 after all.

Underrated episode, but one of the coolest I think

I remember this episode well. A favorite, I guess.

This was a great episode up to the point Lois and Jimmy are kidnapped and held hostage. Besides that the bad guys tell Superman exactly where they are, Superman could have wrapped this case up without getting involved without the clock business.

@dougsdumbjokes9978

Жыл бұрын

True, but the clock business was fun!

@erichanastacio9695

Жыл бұрын

The two, being tied up for who knows how long, has still to be tied up until noon the next day... needs to go to the bathroom as well. A pair of pissed off crappy pants they should have been. LOL 😂😂😂

@SkyKingofMaricopa

Жыл бұрын

How? What was "that timetable trick" to which Jimmy Olsen was referring? As a Superman devotee, I still don't get how Superman got them out of the house.

Great

When little didn't notice all the bloopers,but still fun to watch!😊

@michaelj.campagna404

2 ай бұрын

Same here. When I was a little kid of 5 or 6 back in the early 60s, I didn't think about all the bloopers until I got older. But I do remember questioning my brother, " where does Clark Kent put his clothes when he changes into Superman "? LOL.

One of my favourite episodes

This freaked me out when I was a kid because I thought Superman was caught in the wall.

Love how the Flash used this in the newer show. Superman vibrated himself so fast he was able to pass through the wall. I wonder why they never used it again for Superman.

I remember this episode from when I was a kid in the 70s. It was an old show then. LOL

They leave and go back into the house, then Superman goes to the other side of the cube out of sight and enters the cube!

@DavidLS1

Жыл бұрын

Superman uses his heat vision to turn the cube into a kiln.

@bobbuethe1477

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea... but this episode is from 1958, and Superman's heat vision power was only added in 1961.

@DavidLS1

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbuethe1477 Fair enough. Superman flies the cube into a volcano and waits for the bad guy to come out.

@macy-gu6vl

2 ай бұрын

​@@DavidLS1?? That's not what happened Superman was not able to break into the cubem

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@macy-gu6vl First of all, Superman _was_ able to pass through the wall. He just stopped to save Lois and Jimmy. He ended up causing the clock inside the cube to speed up, thereby tricking the bad guy into coming out too soon. But he could have incinerated the guy inside if if weren't for that rule he had about not killing. I was making a joke.

The guy spent 7 years in solitary confinement in a small space with no human contact other than speaking through the wall occasionally. Keeps his appearance up. Shaves, nice haircut. Clothes ironed and clean.

God I love those classic hats. Back when a man wasn't dressed without one.

I remember this one!!!

Superman does not have only superpowers; he is very smart!

@knerduno5942

Жыл бұрын

If he was smart, he would of used the heat vision to burn the string the guy was threatening to pull.

Paul could have stayed in that Cube a little longer just to be safe, but then again, I didn't notice a sink or a shower or a washer and dryer in that Cube. Must have gotten a little "ripe" in there after 7 years!. I think that's the real reason Superman backed out of there.

of course superman could have used his superfast speed to go over and snap the string out of guys hand of knock him out etc. or he could have burned throught the sting in fraction of second too

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

This story has all the signs of being put together in a hurry and wasn't well thought out. But the idea of Superman "oozing through" the wall is interesting enough to keep me watching even after all these years.

@darylcheshire1618

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the writers realized that Superman was too powerful and they had trouble coming up with stories.

@erichanastacio9695

Жыл бұрын

The Flash: Going through walls? Hey! That's my superpower!

Never did understand how they built the Cube. How was it formed? Who came up with a compound stronger than Superman?

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

Barton explained that it was made of an alloy developed by a scientist... who is no longer with us. Can't imagine what he meant by that.

@richardthomas754

Жыл бұрын

Kind of vague. Yup!

@SkyKingofMaricopa

Жыл бұрын

​@@jimnolt-TAC Oh, c'mon. They likely rubbed out the person who had the knowledge--"splendid mind"--of making the special cube. Did you set this up for a comment?

leaps tall buildings in a single bound,, and dissolves into walls, that's interesting. Thank you.

@macy-gu6vl

2 ай бұрын

Never liked this episode Superman tried to break down the wall and couldn't. As a kid I thought it wasn't believable.

@Rickshaw881

2 ай бұрын

@@macy-gu6vl Gracias, and Merci!

Ben Weldon was always giving Superman a hard time and He later gave Batman trouble as one of Egghead's men.

That guy whose brother is in the cube until his 7 years hiding in it was dumb when he told Superman how the clock inside there is working and where its power is cnming from gave Superman an idea, which is to seek help from the U.S. Navy. Even the Man of Steel sometimes needs help from ordinary people.

Good that Superman was using his super-hearing when he heard that Los & Jimmy were being held captive. The brother of the man was stupid to tell him about the clock inside and how it's getting its power from, hence Superman found a solution to save his friends.

No matter your age, you have to be impressed by this "super guy". George Reeves simply did not know how good he was.

A competent Bad Guy would have infused the wall with Kryptonite.

As I recall, he learned to pass thru solid matter after one session with some kind of mysticist..

@calvinhandley2373

Жыл бұрын

The character was a scientist who was a recurring character who would advise Superman on things that he might be able to do, typically because of his dense molecular structure. There was another episode where the same character advised Superman how to split in to two versions of himself, each with half of his normal powers.

0:36 Superman was able to have 100% of his atoms Quantum Tunnel through that cube. :O

Great Caesar's Ghost!

Superman sure had some weird powers in those days. That is, I assume today's Supes can't make himself immaterial enough to walk through walls or hypnotise and levitate someone with a wave of his hand? And those are just from the first two clips I have watched of thos series!

@tonyblake7569

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he can pass through walls. Flash does it all the time by vibrating so fast his molecules somehow pass through solid objects. And depending which comic you read sometimes he's faster than the flash. He's at least close enough there's multiple times they had a race to see who was faster.

The actor wearing the radio headset who plays the antagonist is named Keith Richards.

@TheBatugan77

2 ай бұрын

Wrong. It's Nick Saban.

Must've been a lot of air, food, water, electricity, and toilet paper in that cube to last seven years...plus a huge septic tank

What a beautiful example of quantum tunneling. 😂

Época pasada

Why couldn't Superman bore underground and come up through the floor?

@petertaylor8503

Жыл бұрын

Cause' it was a solid square, 6-sided cube of totally indestructible, molecularly hyper-dense collapsed impregnable matter ya big silly. Don't ya know?

@bebo5558

Жыл бұрын

Kevin Madden. How did they get the food and water in and the poo out???

@kevinmadden1645

Жыл бұрын

@@petertaylor8503 Of course! How stupid of me not to realize that!

@kevinmadden1645

Жыл бұрын

@@bebo5558 You ask too intelligent a question.

@erichanastacio9695

Жыл бұрын

He's probably doing Matt Damon's The Martian movie survival mode. He must have nuclear power source for the lights, air purifier, water recycling (pee back to water), and everything else. Could have used his own crap as fertilizer.

I have this series complete on DVD, Love it. I always laughed though, he's stand there and let a crook empty a gun at him, then the crook would throw the empty gun, and Superman would duck. George Reeves hated the show, and at the end of every season, believing [hoping] the show would be cancelled, he'd burn the super suit. THEN it would get picked up again, and he was contractually stuck with it, and the studio would have to make a new suit.

@jimnolt-TAC

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting your thoughts. Some of what you say is inaccurate though or misleading. It's true that Superman ducked the gun, but that happened only one time (The Mind Machine), and (not that it really matters) it wasn't George who ducked, but rather stand in Dale Van Sickel. I'm not sure why they filmed it that way though as it would have been better to have the gun bounce off of him. Regardless, they never made the same mistake again. And George never burned the costume, because it wasn't his to burn. Besides the production company had several costumes for each season. George's "relationship" with the character was complex. He didn't hate it, but it was not in the direction he hoped his career would take.

I never realized how much hair George Reeves lost over the years.

@jimnolt-TAC

9 ай бұрын

His appearance seen here is partially due to the overabundance of that "greasy kid stuff" used in the 50s. And I have no idea why so much of that was used, especially in the final season. But if you check out "The Last Knight," you'll see him without it... and he looks much better. Also, a series of pictures were taken just days before he died. There too, he looks much better than he did in some of these episodes.

Superman ponders the cube

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I never saw this in color!

I had no idea phasing through solid matter was once one of his powers!

@petermj1098

2 ай бұрын

Superman was running so fast he phased through walls like the Flash.

Look how well people dressed back then.

The series was made in color. The stations did not always have color cameras.

@Mike1614b

Жыл бұрын

and until about the early 70s most people didn't have color TVs

@scotpens

Жыл бұрын

The Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid, made in the 1950s when nearly all TV was broadcast in black-and-white, were also filmed in color with an eye to future syndication sales.

@bobbuethe1477

Жыл бұрын

The first two seasons were filmed in black and white. Seasons 3-6 were shot in color, but broadcast in black and white. Ten years later, when home color TV started catching on, the color version were released in syndication and a whole new generation of fans was created.

Of course, Superman should be able to lift the cube and fly away with it without any problem. "There's nobody hiding inside the cube? Well, I guess you wouldn't mind me dropping it off on the moon then?"

This show may have had its corny moments (it was aimed at a children's audience) but there were many clever, inventive & cool moments too. I still find George Reeves superior to all Superman actors. The "speed" & sound that was captured as he flew was quite convincing for the era -- instead of that ballet in the sky, they did for Christopher Reeve that signified little. This episode was ingenious. Some big TV stars made appearances in episodes: Chuck Connors, Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan's Island), John Doucette (several John Wayne films including "True Grit" & "The Sons of Katie Elder"), Jeff Corey (also "True Grit"), Sterling Holloway (many Disney films), Claude Akins, Hugh Beaumont, Jimmy Dodd (Disney's head of the Mickey Mouse Club), Paul Fix (many John Wayne films) & Dabbs Greer (who later became the old man in The Green Mile). They kept it interesting. At the time (1950s) this show was on, George Reeves' Superman was second only to Elvis Presley in fandom & popularity. With lunch boxes, toys, pens, trading cards, posters & other memorabilia. Considering that it ran from 1951-1958 (actually 6 TV seasons from 1952 with one early film "Superman and the Mole Men" - 1951) it was highly successful. It was supposed to continue for two more years: 1959 & 1960. But John Hamilton (Perry White) & George Reeves had died. So the series never ended because of poor ratings.

@jimnolt-TAC

6 ай бұрын

Good words there, @lastrada52. For many of us George Reeves was and will always be the best Superman. He brought a certain sincerity to the role ... a sincerity that gave us comfort, perhaps. Thanks for your thoughts and have a Happy 2024.

HAH thats where Luthor's sidekick was inspired from in the 79 movie!

The Tesseract!

How did it end?

I am 70 years old, watched Superman as a kid, but never saw The Mysterious Cube !!

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

The plot has definite weaknesses, but the ideas of brains over brawn and Superman's ability to ooze through walls are intriguing.

I love that Superman is just some tired old guy lol

Humans do know how to put their alien guest to use.

I like how at 1:26, the role of Superman is temporarily played by Donald Trump

How he’ll keep uniform clean show,I need cleaning secrets

This is so humiliating for the mighty Superman. Totally helpless

When bad guys shoot at Superman he sticks out his chest Yet when the bad guys run out of bullets and throw their guns at him he ducks

Geeze all Superman had to do was cut the string !!!

I've often felt that 7 years in prison would be better than 7 years in the cube. He could have gotten into the exercise yard each day. And how did he eliminate bodily waste?

So this is how people in the 50s lived??

Ever notice how the superman back was't in very good shape.

he would be declared alive and arrested.

similar to the 4D man

Nick at Nite?yep.

You didn't show it all Superman tried to break down the wall. I think he tried heat vision too.

Did everyone realize the Christopher Reeve acted in the movie Gone With The WIND?

@jimnolt-TAC

Жыл бұрын

You have things a little mixed up. This is George Reeves, not Christopher Reeve. But it is true that George Reeves is in the opening scenes to Gone With The Wind.

@kwasiaking1989

Жыл бұрын

Christopher, wasn’t born.

@TheBatugan77

Жыл бұрын

George was also in From Here to Eternity.

👍

These plots are really far out for an 8 year old TV watcher.

The first sighting of the mother box?

Are these episodes streaming online? If not, anyone know what happens in this episode? I've never seen this series, too young to have watched them.

@nsnopper

2 ай бұрын

As I recall, Superman goes to the Arlington Naval Observatory and has them transmit the time five minutes faster. The fellow emerges just a few minutes before 7 years, and he cannot be declared dead and is arrested for his crimes. Hey, it was a kids' show. We didn't know any better.

@marcd1981

2 ай бұрын

@@nsnopper Thank you!

@nsnopper

2 ай бұрын

@@marcd1981 👍👍

weird episode with a complete misunderstanding of what statute of limitations means.

He could have waited another hour

@jimnolt-TAC

3 ай бұрын

Indeed he should have.