Episode 1: Happy Birthday, Superman! Part One – 45/40/35/30/10
Welcome to the first episode of It All Comes Back to Superman Series Two, the pretty much the same, not really all that new reaffirmation of my Kryptonian faith. I am your host, Michael Bailey, and this time out I am starting a two part series celebrating Superman’s 85th anniversary because…I really want to.
It’s just that simple.
For this first installment I do an off the cuff solo episode where I talk about six of the sub-anniversaries happening during Superman’s 85th. Superman The Movie, Superman III, the Ruby Spear Superman animated series, the live action Superboy series, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Man of Steel all have big anniversaries this year and I thought it would be fun to go through them all in one shot instead of devoting specific episodes to them for…reasons. Various reasons. Reasons I go through during the episode itself.
I mentioned during the episode that I had done a commentary for Superman The Movie back in 2013. That was on episode 153 of Views From The Longbox, which I don’t have a handy link to…sadly…because the post with the show notes for that episode no longer exists. Views is readily available on just about all podcatching services, so it should be easy to find.
For those interested, episode 155 of Views was a commentary for Superman II and episode 162 was the commentary for Superman IV that I did with Scott Gardner. Not to be outdone, if you search for episode 135 of the Palace of Glittering Delights where Andy Leyland had me on to yak over the “coherence cut” of Superman IV.
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The opening and closing theme to the show is titled Journey and was composed by Pontus Rufelt. It is licensed from Shockwave-Sound.
Next Time: The second part of Happy Anniversary, Superman!
Such a great episode! I am so sorry you didn’t see Superman I in the theaters when it came out. I very much remember seeing it in theaters. A kid in my class had a birthday party and invited the whole class to see Superman which his parents must have rented out. So not only did I see it with the entire class – they gave each kid a Corgi Superman car! I got the red Daily Planet Newspaper truck. I don’t even remember who the kid was who had the party. They must’ve been Richie Rich or something or maybe involved with the movie? It was when we lived in Walnut Creek CA. Yeah happy times. I still want to see it again on the big screen but I prefer it on 35mm print even if the quality sucks.
So great episode. I’m still listening to it in chunks but I like the format of it. Very entertaining.