Travel & Experiences
Reporting from Metropolis, Ill. — Growing up in the 1950s, Jim Hambrick wouldn’t budge while “Adventures of Superman” was showing on TV.
May 2, 2014
Television
Hilary Bader, 50, Emmy Award-winning television writer for science fiction shows including “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Superman: The Animated Series,” died Thursday of breast cancer at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte.
Nov. 13, 2002
Business
The supervising producer of “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” is among people nationwide targeted by this sneaky racket.
Jan. 28, 2020
The ABC series, which premiered Sept. 12, 1993, was unlike past interpretations of Superman and it laid the groundwork for today’s superhero shows.
Sept. 12, 2023
In last season’s finale of ABC’s “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” Lois Lane’s fairy tale wedding to Lex Luthor was rudely interrupted when police barged in and revealed Luthor’s involvement in the criminal underworld.
Sept. 17, 1994
Obituaries
After an early modeling and stage career, she became a versatile performer on dozens of programs, notably as secretary Della Street in ‘Perry Mason.’
June 4, 2009
TV programmers in their wisdom have blown it again.
March 13, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
Character actor Herburt (Herb) Vigran, who portrayed a series of tough cops in such films as “Bedtime for Bonzo” but went outside the law in efforts to destroy the Man of Steel on the old “Adventures of Superman” TV series, is dead at age 76.
Dec. 3, 1986
In May, ABC Entertainment President Ted Harbert was in New York with his fellow network executives, collectively scratching their heads and trying to figure out how best to lay out their schedule of fall TV programs, when a most unusual telephone call came to his room at the Regency Hotel.
Sept. 12, 1993
Noel Neill, who grew to popularity playing Lois Lane in the 1950s TV show “The Adventures of Superman,” has died.
July 4, 2016