Faster than a speeding bullet. 
More powerful than a locomotive. 
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. 

Look! Up in the sky! 
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman! 

Yes, it's Superman - strange visitor from another planet whho came to Earth with
powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman - who can change
the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and who, disguised as
Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights the
never ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way. 
 

After the initial success of the first twenty six episodes already a proven fact, production
of another twenty six was ordered by National Comics.

The series went back into production in the summer of 1953 after nearly a two year
hiatus since the first episodes had been finished.  But now the series was under new leadership.
Robert Maxwell and his team were replaced by Whitney Ellsworth as producer and comic book
editor Mort Weisinger as story editor. They were both from National Comics. National had felt
that although Maxwell generated a solid show, it was a little too serious and hard-hitting for their
taste.  Whitney Ellsworth was brought in to tone it down by underplaying the violence and
injecting more humor and wholesome entertainment.

Ellsworth made more frequent use of Jimmy Olsen and Inspector Bill Henderson in his episodes
of the show. Phyllis Coates was not available to reprise her role as Lois Lane, so the production
was in need of a new actress.  Ellsworth turned to the perfect replacement, someone with just
the right experience:  Noel Neill was brought in to reprise the same role that she had portrayed
for Sam Katzman in the 1948 and 1950 Superman serials at Columbia Studios. 

In 1953, Whitney Ellsworth produced another 26 episodes. Colour was introduced in 1954 and
would be used for the remaining 56 episodes, produced from 1954 to 1957.

Kirk Allen and Noel Neill had a cameo in Richard Donner's Superman-The Movie (1978).