[WT Sharpe]

Getting excited because in 1 hour from now MeTV begins broadcasting a repeat of one of the best TV series ever: The Adventures of Superman. I love that old show. It marked my first activist activity. As a child, I watched the episodes as they were broadcast for the first time, and about the time I was 12 or 13, when the episodes were no longer being broadcast on any of our three local channels and the star was dead supposedly by suicide, I started three petitions to have the repeats returned to the air, got everyone at school I could corner to sign them, and sent one to each of the three stations. One of the stations actually replied and said they had considered my request and was glad to let me know that they would be honoring my request. Whether my petition stirred then into action, or whether it was simply a coincidence of timing I don't know, but the repeats returned and I was happy.

This first season was one of the best. It was geared toward the whole family rather than being aimed solely toward kids as were the later episodes. And it will be nice to once again see Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane. She had a much more adult take on the character than did Noel Neill, the actress who portrayed Lois from the second season onwards. Oh, I liked Noel Neill—she was very charming and seemed the type of person anyone would like in their life—but Phyllis Coates had that hard edge and take-no-prisoners approach to the character that made you believe she had what it took to make it in a man's world.