The WORST episodes of The New Adventures of Superman
Every episode of The New Adventures of Superman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The New Adventures of Superman!
The New Adventures of Superman was an animated series that premiered on September 10, 1966. The series was produced by Filmation Associates and ran for three seasons. It was based on the popular Superman comics created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series focuses on the adventures of Superman an incredibly powerful superhero from the planet Krypton who defends Earth from all sorts of dangers. Superman's secret identity is Clark Kent a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper "The Daily Planet". There Superman worked under newspaper editor Perry White with fellow reporter Louis Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen. The first season of the series ran from 1966 to 1967 under the title The New Adventures of Superman and featured two six minute Superman cartoons with one six minute Superboy cartoon played between them. Thirty-six Superman shorts and eighteen Superboy shorts were produced for the series. This guide features only the Superman cartoons featured in the series. For a complete listing of the Superboy cartoon featured in the series, see The Adventures of Superboy (1966). In the 1967-1968 season sixteen new episodes of The New Adventures of Superman ran as part of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure. This hour long animated show featured episodes from a number of other cartoon series. In addition new Superman episodes, the show also featured eight new episode of The Adventures of Superboy (1966), thirty-six episodes of Aquaman, three episodes of The Green Lantern, three episodes of Hawkman, three episodes of The Justice League of America, three episodes of The Atom, three episodes of The Flash, and three episodes of The Teen Titans. In the 1968-1969 season was the third and final season of new episodes of The New Adventures of Superman. The artwork of the series changed to imitate that of Superman comic book artist Curt Swan. It also featured longer two-part episodes. The final sequence of sixteen shorts ran as part of The Batman/Superman Hour. This show
#1 - The Prehistoric Pterodactyls
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1966
When an earthquake releases two prehistoric Pterodactyls, one attacks an American pilot while the other heads to the city of San Francisco. Superman rescues the pilot by using a lasso to capture the Pterodactyl that was attacking him. Superman, then, heads to San Francisco and uses a net to capture the other one before it can do any more harm. Unwilling to hurt the dinosaurs, Superman heads to another world to set them free.
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#2 - The Wicked Warlock
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/1966
A warlock wants to steal a gem in order to power his magic. Superman cannot capture him because he always uses his magic wand to turn himself invisible. Superman must figure out a way to stop the warlock before he can get away with his crime.
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#3 - The Threat of the Thrutans
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1966
When three Thrutan aliens crash land on earth, they theaten to blow up a rocket installation if they don't get a rocket in order to fly them home. Superman manages to stop their bomb, but also helps the aliens get back home.
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#4 - The Force Phantom
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1966
When aliens from one of moons of Mars invade Earth, they use a powerful energy creature called the Force Phantom in order to destroy Earth's defenses. Superman, however, manages to defeat the Force Phantom and in doing so foils the invasion by destroying the alien's spaceship.
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#5 - The Deadly Icebergs
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/1/1966
A group of pirates unleash three magnetically powered icebergs in order to destory a nuclear powered vessel. Fortunately, Clark is onboard the ship and changes into Superman to stop the icebergs and catch the pirates.
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#6 - The Team of Terror (1)
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1968
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.
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#7 - The Chimp Who Made It Big
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/1/1966
On an experimental space flight, a monkey is bombarded with mysterious growth rays when a piece of kryptonite collides with a meteor. The monkey returns to earth and begins to grow enormous. Superman must stop the ape before it manages to hurt someone.
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#9 - The Fire Phantom
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/5/1966
When Clark and Jimmy are on a camping trip, the Fire Phantom emergers from a deep mine shaft and begins to set fire to the forest. Jimmy goes for a walk and finds himself surrounded by a forest fire. Fortunately, Clark wakes up when he smells the fire and changes into Superman. He rescues Jimmy from the flames and stops the Fire Phantom.
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Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/26/1966
Professor Nula disguises himself as Professor Luna in order to get revenge on Lois Lane. Nula as Luna asks her to write an article on his new 4-Dimensional movie technology. Lois comes over and is soon kidnapped by Nula's pet Yeti. Nula encloses Lois in a bubble and plans to rocket the bubble into space. Fortunately, Superman arrives in time to save Lois and capture Professor Nula.
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Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/3/1966
An underwater earthquake frees an enormous lobster and a giant alligator is released from a volcano. When the two monsters arrive on land, they threaten large-scale destruction. Superman arrives in time to stop the animals a return them from where they came.
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Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/24/1966
Mr. Mxyzptlk arrives on Earth from the fifth dimension and uses his magic to create chaos at an amusement park. Superman rescues the people in danger and meets Mr. Mxyzptlk who tells him that the only way to get rid of him is to make him say his name backwards. Since Mr. Mxyzptlk doesn't want to leave, Superman has to trick him. Eventually he succeeds and the troublesome imp is sent back to his home dimension.
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Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/28/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/5/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/5/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/12/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/12/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/19/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/26/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/26/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/2/1968
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.
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