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Gerard Christopher auditioned for the role of Clark Kent/Superman, and was chosen by the casting director. However, when the casting director subsequently read Christopher's resume and discovered that he had previously starred as Clark Kent/ Superboy in The Adventures of Superboy, he immediately dismissed Christopher. According to Christopher, the man told him, "you've done this already!"
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The wedding of Lois and Clark on the show coincided with their wedding in the Superman comics.
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Michael Landes was replaced as Jimmy Olsen after the first season because the producers felt he looked too much like Clark Kent's little brother instead of just the photographer for the Daily Planet.
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Early on in series 1, Lex Luthor attempts to test the abilities of Superman. He questions his associates and remarks that amongst other things Superman could be "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful then a locomotive able to leap tall buildings in a single bound". These are the exact words that began the George Reeves serial.
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In several episodes Star Labs in mentioned. In The Flash (another DC Comics superhero) Star Labs is where Tina works.
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Phyllis Coates became the second Lois Lane to return and play the character's mother. Noel Neill also played Lois's mother in Superman.
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One of the early villains describes Superman as the advance guard prior to an alien invasion. He also wonders whether Superman has any telepathic powers. In the very first story featuring the character bestowed with the name "The Superman", Superman was an evil advance guard with special telepathic powers.
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One of the early villains describes Superman as the advance guard prior to an alien invasion. He also wonders whether Superman has any telepathic powers. In the very first story written about The Superman, before the Truth and Justice concept was decided upon, Superman was an evil advanced guard with special telepathic powers.
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This series was already in development several years earlier, when comics writers had decided to have a wedding for Clark Kent and Lois Lane. The producers of the show wanted to have a similar story line, and did not want to be several years behind the comics in doing it. When it was agreed that the wedding on television would correspond with the wedding in the comics, the comics' writers had to find a new storyline to hold reader's attention in the meantime and give them the readership they had expected the wedding to attract. This led to the now famous "Death of Superman" story.
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From September 1996 to June 1997, this was one of two "Superman" series on the air. The other was Superman: The Animated Series.
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