FIRST BROADCAST: February 12th 1940

LAST BROADCAST: March 1st 1951

SPONSORS: Kelloggs

CAST: Clayton Bud Collyer, Michael Fitzmaurice, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa, Jackie Kelk, Gary Merrill, Stacy Harris, Matt Crowley, Ronald Liss

ANNOUNCERS: Jackson Beck

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: George Lowther, Robert and Jessica Maxwell, Mitchell Grayson, Allen Ducovny

WRITERS: Jack Johnstone, B P Freeman

SOUND EFFECTS: Jack Kearne, Al Binnie, Keene Crockett, John Glennon

Adventures of Superman – 1938-1951

This juvenile adventure series was first broadcast on Mutual in 1940 with Clayton (Bud) Collyer starring as Superman/Clark Kent. It first began as a fifteen-minute show but later, in 1949, it moved to ABC as a thirty-minute Saturday show with Michael Fitzmaurice as Superman. At the end of its thirteen-year run it had totalled over 1600 episodes. The opening for the show was one of radio's best, setting the stage for those flights into fantasy with a cascade of voices, narration and sound effects. "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" "Look! Up in the sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!" "It's Superman!"