How could anyone have let this happen? From what I've heard, when George Reeves was reported dead The Adventures Of Superman was cancelled despite all the years of success it had and this was meant to be its replacement. So as a follow up to the successful non animal show that came before it, many kids were severely disappointed and their parents couldn't explain to them that it was because the actor who played Superman died. Even for its time, this is awful, the names for the characters are dumb, the jokes are cheap, the dialogue is nauseating, the characters look terrifying, and worst of all, it actually can't make up its mind on whether or not it wants to be in black and white or color, the first half is in color and the rest of it is black and white and it's even hard to tell what's going on, that's like filming a movie without realizing your camera isn't recording until after you're finished. To think that the first few years of Superman's success would be followed by one of his best TV shows getting cancelled after the legendary George Reeves who played him either committed suicide or was murdered and then gets replaced by one of the stupidest, most lame-brained, ideas for children's entertainment imaginable. This makes the Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumps the shark look like the Soup Nazi episode from Seinfeld and deserves to be forgotten and to fade into obscurity.