

The New Adventures of Superman
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.
Cast

Bud Collyer
Clark Kent / Superman (voice)

Joan Alexander
Lois Lane (voice)

Jack Grimes
Jimmy Olsen (voice)

Janet Waldo

Ted Knight

Bob Hastings

Jackson Beck
Seasons

E1The Force Phantom
Sep 10, 1966
An alien ship uses an energy creature to attack Earth.

E2Mermen Of Emor
Sep 10, 1966
Scuba divers are captured for sport by malevolent fish beings led by Triton.

E3The Prehistoric Pterodactyls
Sep 17, 1966
Two giant flying monsters are freed from frozen suspension.

E4Merlin's Magic Marbles
Sep 17, 1966
Lex Luthor uses a temporal communicator to discover magic powers.

E5The Threat of the Thrutans
Sep 24, 1966
An alien space probe trapped in Earth orbit uses force to try to return to its home galaxy.

E6The Wicked Warlock
Sep 24, 1966
A male witch called the Warlock must seize a rare gem that contains powerful magic.

E7The Chimp Who Made It Big
Oct 1, 1966
The fusion of two irradiated pieces of space debris fatefully changes a chimpanzee named Toto on board a space craft.

E8The Deadly Icebergs
Oct 1, 1966
Saboteurs have rigged gigantic icebergs with explosives to rob a luxury liner.

E9Robot of Riga
Oct 8, 1966
Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are kidnapped by alien hunters whose "zoo" is protected by a giant robot.

E10The Invisible Raiders
Oct 8, 1966
The Sorcerer, a malevolent wizard, uses hirelings using an invisibility field to commit crimes.

E11Neolithic Nightmare
Oct 15, 1966
Jimmy Olsen falls into an underground pocket populated by malevolent creatures.

E12The Return of Brainiac
Oct 15, 1966
An alien computer named Brainiac has been capturing different kinds of animals by shrinking them.

E13The Magnetic Monster
Oct 22, 1966
A magnetic device that melts metal objects is used by alien beings on Earth.

E14The Toys of Doom
Oct 22, 1966
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.

E15The Iron Eater
Oct 29, 1966
A shapeshifting alien creature that emerged from a fallen meteorite who devours metal structures raises havoc.

E16The Ape Army of the Amazon
Oct 29, 1966
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.

E17The Fire Phantom
Nov 5, 1966
A living flame from Earth's core appears and sets off a mammoth forest fire.

E18The Deadly Dish
Nov 5, 1966
Lex Luthor traps Lois, Jimmy, and Perry White so he can lure Superman into range of a Kryptonite Transmitter.

E19Insect Raiders
Nov 12, 1966
Criminals who have perfected insect powers must stop Superman from foiling their wave of crime.

E20Return of Warlock
Nov 12, 1966
The Warlock steals a magic gem to wreak havoc on Superman's friends.
E21The Abominable Ice-Man
Nov 19, 1966
An ice being freezes tropical Hawaii where Lois Lane is having her vacation.
E22The Men from A.P.E.
Nov 19, 1966
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.
E23The Tree Man of Arbora
Nov 26, 1966
A tree being brought to life near a meteor crater consumes enormous quantities of water.
E24The Image Maker
Nov 26, 1966
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.
E25Superman's Double Trouble
Dec 3, 1966
A mid-ocean earthquake releases a giant lobster and a giant alligator.
E26The Deadly Super-Doll
Dec 3, 1966
The Sorcerer uses a voodoo doll to stop Superman.
E27Lava Men
Dec 10, 1966
In Mexico, a volcano creates living beings of lava.
E28Luthor Strikes Again
Dec 10, 1966
Lex Luthor uses Jimmy Olsen as bait to use Kryptonite laser beam weapons against Superman in a paint factory.
E29Mission to Planet Peril
Dec 17, 1966
Alien raiders forced to Earth recruit Superman to rescue hostages on their home world.
E30The Pernicious Parasite
Dec 17, 1966
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.
E31The Two Faces of Superman
Dec 24, 1966
Toyman creates a robot doppelganger of The Man Of Steel.
E32The Imp-Practical Joker
Dec 24, 1966
A carnival is raided by an extra-dimensional prankster known as Mister Mxyzptlk.
E33Superman Meets Brainiac
Dec 31, 1966
Brainiac raids Earth to gather creatures to repopulate a planet devastated by atomic wars.
E34Seeds of Disaster
Dec 31, 1966
Alien seed pods grow plants that destroy other objects.
E35The Malevolent Mummy
Jan 7, 1967
An Egyptian sorcerer in mummified form attacks Lois and Superman.
E36The Bird-Men From Lost Valley
Jan 7, 1967
Avian beings must raid outside farmlands for survival because a gold raider named Trask and his henchmen hold their populace hostage.
E1A.P.E. Strikes Again
Sep 9, 1967
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.
E2The Lethal Lightning Bug
Sep 9, 1967
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.
E3The Prankster
Sep 16, 1967
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.
E4The Saboteurs
Sep 16, 1967
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.
E5The Wisp of Wickedness
Sep 23, 1967
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.
E6Superman Meets His Match
Sep 23, 1967
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.
E7Night of the Octopod
Sep 30, 1967
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.
E8Brainiac's Bubbles
Sep 30, 1967
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.
E9War of the Bee Battalion
Oct 7, 1967
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.
E10The Toyman's Super-Toy
Oct 7, 1967
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.
E11The Cage of Glass
Oct 14, 1967
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.
E12The Atomic Superman
Oct 14, 1967
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.
E13Luthor's Loco Looking Glass
Oct 21, 1967
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.
E14The Warlock's Revenge
Oct 21, 1967
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.
E15The Halyah of the Himalayas
Oct 28, 1967
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.
E16Luthor's Fatal Fireworks
Oct 28, 1967
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.
E1Luthor's Lethal Laser (1)
Sep 14, 1968
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.
E2Luthor's Lethal Laser (2)
Sep 14, 1968
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.
E3Can a Luthor Change His Spots? (1)
Sep 21, 1968
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.
E4Can a Luthor Change His Spots? (2)
Sep 21, 1968
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.
E5The Team of Terror (1)
Sep 28, 1968
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.
E6The Team of Terror (2)
Sep 28, 1968
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.
E7Rain of Iron (1)
Oct 5, 1968
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.
E8Rain of Iron (2)
Oct 5, 1968
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.
E9The Mysterious Mr. Mist (1)
Oct 12, 1968
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.
E10The Mysterious Mr. Mist (2)
Oct 12, 1968
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.
E11Luminians on the Loose (1)
Oct 19, 1968
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.
E12Luminians on the Loose (2)
Oct 19, 1968
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.
E13The Ghost of Kilbane Castle (1)
Oct 26, 1968
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.
E14The Ghost of Kilbane Castle (2)
Oct 26, 1968
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.
E15The Japanese Sandman (1)
Nov 2, 1968
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.
E16The Japanese Sandman (2)
Nov 2, 1968
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.
Storyline
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.
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