As often happens with these kind of things, one comic book website picks up on something and then it hits Twitter and then we've all got it. So why should we leave ourselves out of the party?
In 1981, the BBC produced a documentary on Superman called Superman – The Comic Strip Hero (that's such an endearingly 1980s British title) and here it is in five parts. Notable interview subjects include Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, Christoper Reeve, and Margot Kidder. Also notable: early 1980s fashion.
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
Part Four:
Part Five:
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This is an awesome documentary!
Lol, Britain’s strongest man has the best Bristolian Accent. ‘yer but no, Dick Donnuurr’
He truly is the greatest Comic Strip Hero
that hippie woman in part three expresses my exact feelings on supergirl. hmm. maybe i’m an old hippie woman at heart.
i didn’t enjoy their supicifical reading of Nietzsche, which seems to pretty much equate him with Nazism. tsk tsk.
Larry Niven expounding on the physics of Kryptonian semen on national television. God bless the BBC.
This documentary is old.
That Kyptonian semen would tear the egg into vapor. LMAO!!!
@Cooleo Well yes, it says that at the top. Old doesn’t mean bad.
I love Christopher reeves part of the combination of power and “the 9 to 5 slumbs we all are” in Superman.
Darth Vader trained Superman! who’d have thought?