The BEST episodes of The New Adventures of Superman
Every episode of The New Adventures of Superman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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 - Brainiac's Bubbles
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/1967
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.
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#2 - The Deadly Dish
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/5/1966
Lex Luthor builds a Kryptonite ray machine and plots to destroy Superman with it. He hypnotizes Lois, Jimmy, and Perry so that they get into danger within the range of his machine. When Superman comes to rescue them, he bring a lead shield. Safe from the Kryptonite rays, Superman destorys the machine and captures Lex Luthor.
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Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1968
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1968
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/28/1967
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - The Warlock's Revenge
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/21/1967
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/1967
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/14/1967
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/14/1967
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/7/1967
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 shield himself from the Kryptonite radiation.
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Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1967
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.
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Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1967
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.
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Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/17/1966
When a petty thief is exposed to radioactive chemicals, he becomes the Parasite and is able to drain the energy of anything he touches. When Superman tries to stop the Parasite, the Parasite grabs him and steals his power. Superman is helpless, but outsmarts the Parasite by grabbing onto him and letting him take all of his power. The Parasite explodes because a normal human being cannot handle all over Superman's power.
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#16 - Return of Warlock
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/12/1966
The Warlock tries to get back at Superman by attacking his friends at the Daily Planet. He revives the skeleton of a dinosaur and has it attack Jimmy. He then seizes control of Lois's car and sends her driving up a building. Knowing that Perry is next, Superman lays a trap for the Warlock. When the Warlock comes for Perry, Superman takes the jewel out of his wand and sends the Warlock back to prison.
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Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/10/1966
When Superman tries to save a Mexican town from a volcano, he disrupts the lava flow and discovers that the lava can transform into a dangerous Lava Man. When he tries to destroy the Lava Man, multiple lava men rise up out of the broken pieces. Superman, however, manages to stop the lava men by cooling them off with water.
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Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/10/1966
Lex Luthor kidnaps Jimmy Olsen in a plot to destroy Superman. When Superman comes to the rescue, Lex and his henchmen attack him with Kryptonite ray guns. Fortunately, Superman falls into a vat of lead-based paint. Protected from the Kryptonite rays, Superman saves Jimmy and captures Lex Luthor.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Mission to Planet Peril
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/17/1966
Aliens come to Earth and begin stealing coal. When Superman arrives to stop them, the aliens tell him that they were forced to steal the coal in order to protect hostages that have been kidnapped and threatened by their planet's dictator. Superman escorts the aliens back to their planet and defeats the evil dictator.
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Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1967
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.
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Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/24/1966
When a number of people see Superman committing a number of crimes, they wonder whether Superman has gone bad. When Jimmy tells Superman what has been going on, Superman takes him off and they discovers that the Toyman is trying to discredit Superman. The Toyman has built a Superman robot and has been using it to commit crimes. With Jimmy's help, Superman destroys the Superman robot and captures the Toyman.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Seeds of Disaster
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/31/1966
Seeds arrive on earth from space and begin growing into enormous dangerous planets. Superman tries to destroy the plants but discovers that the seeds are landing too quickly for him to stop them one at a time. Superman takes an enormous lens into space and uses sunlight and his heat vision to destroy the all space seeds before the can land on Earth.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - The Malevolent Mummy
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 1/7/1967
When Lois and Clark head to Egypt with an archeologist, Lois accidently awakens an ancient mummy from its tomb. The Mummy threatens Lois and Clark changes into Superman to protect her. Superman rescues Lois and stops the mummy before it can do any more damage.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - The Birdmen from Lost Valley
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 1/7/1967
When flying in the Daily Planet's news helicopter, Jimmy Olsen sees a flock of birdmen stealing food from a local farm. When Superman hears word of the birdmen he heads off to stop them, but discovers that the birdmen are peaceful. They were stealing from the farm because they are being blackmailed by a man who discovered their secret nesting place. He is forcing them to mine for gold without food. Superman decides to help the birdmen and captures the evil blackmailer.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - A.P.E. Strikes Again
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1967
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.
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