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[[File:Bud_Collyer_1962_2177.jpg|frame|Disguised as Bud Collyer, mild-mannered game show host.]]
 
{{quote|''Look! Up in the sky!''<br />▼
''It's a bird!''<br />▼
''It's a plane!''<br />▼
''It's Superman!''|[[Opening Narration]]}}▼
|[[Opening Narration]]}}
 
Technically comprised of five different radio series which ran consecutively from 1940-1951, all produced by Robert J. Maxwell. Most of the episodes starred [[Beat the Clock|Clayton 'Bud']] [[To Tell the Truth|Collyer]] as [[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]], Joan Alexander as [[Lois Lane]], Julian Noa as Perry White and Jackie Kelk as [[Jimmy Olsen]]. Aired for the majority of its run on the Mutual Broadcasting System.▼
▲{{quote|''Look! Up in the sky!''<br />
▲''It's a bird!''<br />
▲''It's a plane!''<br />
▲''It's Superman!''|[[Opening Narration]]}}
 
▲Technically comprised of five different radio series which ran consecutively from 1940-1951, all produced by Robert J. Maxwell. Most of the episodes starred [[Beat the Clock|Clayton 'Bud']] [[To Tell the Truth|Collyer]] as [[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]], Joan Alexander as [[Lois Lane]], Julian Noa as Perry White and Jackie Kelk as [[Jimmy Olsen]]. Aired for the majority of its run on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
 
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
* [[Canon Foreigner]]
** Jimmy Olsen, who later [[Canon Immigrant|immigrated]].
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** The names "Daily Planet" (for Clark's newspaper) and "Perry White" (for its editor), which quickly made their way to the pages of the comic.
* [[Catch Phrase]]
** "[[Up, Up, and Away|"Up, up and away]]!"]]
** "This looks like a job... ''for Superman!''"
** "Great Caesar's ghost!"
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Bud Collyer shifted vocal registers to differentiate between Clark and Superman.
* [[Counter -Earth]]: Krypton is said to be this.
* [[Cowboys and Indians]]: Legend has it that thisThis trope was ingeniously invoked to discredit the [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic|Ku Klux Klan]]. A journalist who'd infiltrated the KKK gave details of secret meetings, passwords, titles etc. to the show's writers to use in a Supes vs. the KKK storyline. Soon enough, there were kids running around neighborhoods all over America dressed in pillowcases, being beaten up by their friend with the Superman pyjamas. TheSome truthhistorians ofcredit all this is uncertain but therethe ''wasSuperman'' suchstoryline for a storylinedramatic ondrop in the showKKK's prominence and power shortly afterward.
* [[Crossover]]: [[Batman (Franchise)|Batman]] and [[Robin (Comic Book)|Robin]] appear in many episodes.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Inverted. Collyer's Superman voice was deeper than his voice for Clark.
* [[Expanded Universe]]
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* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Everyone who worked for the ''Daily Planet''.
* [[Opening Narration]]: It varied over the years, but the most familiar version (since it was heavily borrowed from in subsequent adaptations) starts with the page quote and continues:
{{quote| Yes, it's Superman! Strange visitor from the planet Krypton, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal <brmen. Superman, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, race a speeding bullet to its target, bend steel in his bare hands! And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice! />}}
men. Superman, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, race a speeding bullet to its target, bend steel in his bare hands! <br />
And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth <br />
and justice! }}
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Stories would occasionally completely shift focus to Batman and Robin in order to give Collyer a little time off.
* [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]]: The Clan of the Fiery Cross, a thinly-disguised Ku Klux Klan.
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[[Category:RadioThe DramaAdventures of Superman]]
[[Category:Radio]]
[[Category:SupermanRadio (Franchise)Drama]]
[[Category:Radio of the 1940s]]
[[Category:The Forties]]
[[Category:The Adventures of Superman]]
[[Category:The Full Name Adventures]]
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