Superman

Superman (1941)

Episode list - season 1

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1The Mad Scientist14
2The Mechanical Monsters0
3Billion Dollar Limited0
4The Arctic Giant0
5The Bulleteers0
6The Magnetic Telescope0
7Electric Earthquake0
8Volcano0
9Terror on the Midway0
10Japoteurs0
11Showdown0
12Eleventh Hour0
13Destruction, Inc.0
14The Mummy Strikes0
15Jungle Drums0
16The Underground World0
17Secret Agent0
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The Mad Scientist - S1-E1

Trivia: The way the sound effects for Krypton exploding was achieved in the opening sequence was by the creators ripping an apple apart by hand and then amplifying the sound. (00:01:25)

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The Mad Scientist - S1-E1

Question: So I have seen several places where people have been claiming that The Mad Scientist in this first episode was based on Nikola Tesla, and have seen many people complaining about him being portrayed as a bad guy in this. However, IMDb trivia states that "Boris Karloff' engineer Poelzig in Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) was the inspiration for The Mad Scientist..." I've tried looking into it a little bit, but I can't seem to determine which is the correct person that The Mad Scientist was based on... Maybe both?

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