Adventures of Superman
Season 3
13 listed hours · 1952–1958 · Syndication
From the desk
How this season is filed
George Reeves's Adventures of Superman is the first live-action cape kids treated as scripture: black-and-white mythmaking that later went color without losing the civic-sermon tone. Watch it in 2026 to see how superhero television learned to sell truth, justice, and a weekly cliff before blockbusters industrialized the idea.
TV Flash files Season 3 of Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) on Syndication as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 6) — 13 listed hours, 1955-04-23–1955-10-15 from “Through the Time Barrier” (S03E01) to “King for a Day” (S03E13). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 Through the Time Barrier
Through the Time Barrier: color-era ignition on a science-fiction title, the motto surviving the palette change.
- S03E01
Through the Time Barrier
The reporters, Perry and a mobster travel through time.
- S03E02
The Talking Clue
The Inspector's son unknowingly aids two crooks in cracking a safe.
- S03E03
The Lucky Cat
An anti-superstition society encounters mishaps.
- S03E04
Superman Week
Drugged Jimmy reveals the location of kryptonite.
- S03E05
Great Caesar's Ghost
Murder-witness Perry begins to hallucinate.
- S03E06
Test of a Warrior
Superman helps an Indian complete a rite.
- S03E07
Olsen's Millions
Swindlers target Jimmy after he inherits big money.
- S03E08
Clark Kent Outlaw
Clark infiltrates a gang of diamond thieves.
- S03E09
The Magic Necklace
A hood searches for a supposedly magic necklace.
- S03E10
The Bully of Dry Gulch
Superman faces a supposed gunman out West.
- S03E11
Flight to the North
A mountain man named Superman causes confusion when he comes to Metropolis.
- S03E12
The Seven Souvenirs
A man with a plan lures Superman into turning an alloy into pure radium.
- S03E13
King for a Day
Jimmy Olsen is mistaken for the king of a tiny Balkan country.
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