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The New Adventures of Superman aired on CBS across the back half of the 1960s, a Filmation-produced animated series that brought the Man of Steel to weekly Saturday-morning television. The premise stayed loyal to the comics: Clark Kent, working as a reporter at the Daily Planet, transformed into Superman to confront a steady stream of mad scientists, alien invaders, technological threats, and recurring villains drawn directly from the broader DC Comics catalogue. Each episode delivered a brisk, self-contained adventure suited to the half-hour Saturday-morning format.

What stands out is the show's deep villain rotation. Across multiple seasons, the writers pulled from the Superman comics' rogues' gallery and added their own original threats, giving the show a notably wide variety of antagonists for its era. The animation kept Filmation's economical Saturday-morning style, with reused stock footage of flight sequences, the iconic costume change, and bold primary colors. The voice work treated the characters with classical-broadcast seriousness, and the action sequences kept the cliffhanger pacing typical of mid-1960s adventure programming.

In the broader era of late-1960s Saturday-morning programming, this kind of straight-faced superhero animation was a particular fixture, with several DC and Marvel adaptations reaching network animation in the period. It suited household morning viewing for young comics fans who wanted to see Superman in motion, families looking for clear-good-versus-evil weekly storytelling, and Saturday-morning audiences who liked their superhero shows brisk and dependable. It is a particular snapshot of how DC's properties translated to mid-1960s network animation.

Favorite chapters include the franchise-launching "The Force Phantom," the underwater-threat "The Mermen Of Emor," the prehistoric-creature "The Prehistoric Pterodactyls," the recurring-villain return "The Return Of Brainiac," the criminal-mastermind "Luthor Strikes Again," the alien-creature "Lava Men," the alien-monster "Mission To Planet Peril," and the trickster-themed "The Prankster." This 8-disc set gathers 68 episodes across multiple seasons, a deep archive of mid-1960s DC Saturday-morning animation that disc ownership keeps preserved on the shelf.

68 Total Episodes on 8 DVDs:
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 1 - The Force Phantom
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 2 - The Mermen Of Emor
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 3 - The Prehistoric Pterodactyls
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 4 - Merlin's Magic Marbles
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 5 - The Threat Of The Thrutans
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 6 - The Wicked Warlock
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 7 - The Chimp Who Made It Big
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 8 - The Deadly Icebergs
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 9 - The Robot Of Riga
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 10 - The Invisible Raiders
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 11 - The Neolithic Nightmare
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 12 - The Return Of Brainiac
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 13 - The Magnetic Monster
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 14 - The Toys Of Doom
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 15 - The Iron Eater
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 16 - The Ape Army Of The Amazon
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 17 - The Fire Phantom
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 18 - The Deadly Dish
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 19 - The Insect Raiders
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 20 - Return Of Warlock
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 21 - The Abominable Iceman
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 22 - The Men From APE
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 23 - The Tree Man Of Arbora
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 24 - The Image Maker
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 25 - Superman's Double Trouble
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 26 - The Deadly Super-Doll
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 27 - Lava Men
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 28 - Luthor Strikes Again
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 29 - Mission To Planet Peril
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 30 - The Pernicious Parasite
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 31 - The Two Faces Of Superman
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 32 - The Imp-Practical Joker
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 33 - Superman Meets Brainiac
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 34 - Seeds Of Disaster
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 35 - The Malevolent Mummy
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 1 Episode 36 - The Birdmen From Lost Valley
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 1 - A.P.E. Strikes Again
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 2 - The Lethal Lightning Bug
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 3 - The Prankster
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 4 - The Saboteurs
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 5 - The Wisp Of Wickedness
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 6 - Superman Meets His Match
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 7 - Night Of The Octopod
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 8 - Brainiac's Bubbles
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 9 - War Of The Bee Battalion
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 10 - The Toyman's Super-Toy
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 11 - The Cage Of Glass
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 12 - The Atomic Superman
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 13 - Luthor's Loco Looking Glass
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 14 - The Warlock's Revenge
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 15 - The Halyah Of The Himalayas
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 2 Episode 16 - Luthor's Fatal Fireworks
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 1 - Luthor's Lethal Laser
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 2 - Luthor's Lethal Laser
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 3 - Can A Luthor Change His Spots?
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 4 - Can A Luthor Change His Spots?
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 5 - The Team Of Terror
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 6 - The Team Of Terror
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 7 - Rain Of Iron
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 8 - Rain Of Iron
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 9 - The Mysterious Mr. Mist
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 10 - The Mysterious Mr. Mist
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 11 - Luminians On The Loose
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 12 - Luminians On The Loose
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 13 - The Ghost Of Kilbane Castle
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 14 - The Ghost Of Kilbane Castle
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 15 - The Japanese Sandman
The New Adventures Of Superman 1966 Season 3 Episode 16 - The Japanese Sandman

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