Adventures of Superman (TV)

• Title: Adventures of Superman – The Monkey Mystery
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Superman Saturday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. “The Monkey Mystery” is an odd episode about the daughter of an Eastern European scientist (Allene Roberts) making her way to the United States to deliver her father’s secret formula to stop atomic power to the President of the United States. Pivotal to the plot is an organ grinder’s monkey, dressed in a small Superman costume, who is used to deliver messages between the baddies in Metropolis but who accidentally puts a pivotal piece of information into the hands of Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) who then spends most of the episode unconscious and off-screen after being attacked.

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• Title: Adventures of Superman – Mystery of the Broken Statues
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Superman Sunday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. More of a Lois (Phyllis Coates) story than a Clark (George Reeves) or Superman story, “Mystery of the Broken Statues” features a classic story of something hidden within a sculpture desperately sought after by criminals. Both Lois and Clark get on to the story separately, but it’s Lois who immediately latches on to it learning pairs of men are visiting various stores and buying up the same cheap ceramic statutes only to smash them.

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