First Date
- Studio
- Ruby-Spears Productions
- Animation studio
- Toei Animation, Dai Won Animation
Synopsis
Clark takes Lana on a date to a concert. When a number of problems arise, Clark uses his superpowers to get around them.
Characters
Superman/Clark Kent/Superboy, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, Perry White, Lex Luthor, Jessica Morganberry, Ma Kent, Pa Kent
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Cosmo Anzilotti, Bill Hutten, Tony Love
- Supervising Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- Larry Huber
- Executive Producers
- Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
- Supervising Producer
- John Dorman
- Associate Producer
- Stacy McLaughlin
Writing
- Writer
- Cherie Wilkerson
Voices
- Voice
- Beau Weaver (Superman/Clark Kent/Superboy), Ginny McSwain (Lois Lane), Mark L. Taylor (Jimmy Olson), Stanley Ralph Ross (Perry White), Michael Bell (Lex Luthor), Debi Derryberry (Jessica Morganberry), Tress MacNeille (Ma Kent), Alan Oppenheimer (Pa Kent), William Woodson (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Ron Jones
- Additional Music by
- Tom Worrel
Crew
- Story Editor
- Marv Wolfman
- Assistant Story Editor
- Cherie Wilkerson
- Storyboard and Design Supervisor
- Jim Woodring
- Key Storyboard Director
- Dick Sebast
- Storyboard Artists
- Adrian Gonzales, Dick Sebast, Kurt Conner
- Production Designer
- Gil Kane
- Models Supervisor
- Alan B. Huck
- Main Models
- Duncan Marjoribanks
- Models
- Gil Kane, Sharon Forward, Floro Dery, Ted Blackman, Thomas Hickson, George Goode
- Background Styling
- Eric Semones
- Backgrounds Painted by
- Eric Semones, James Hegedus, Eric Heschong
- Color Key Supervisor
- Bunny Munns
- Color Key
- Suzette Darling
- Graphics
- Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
- Production Supervisor
- Loretta High
- Supervising Production Coordinator
- Melinda Diner
- Production Coordinators
- Jeanne Silveri Whittle, Cinny Newman-Toepke, Paul Gorniak, Diorena Rock, Jimmel Willis, Kerri Michael
- Animation Supervisors
- Colin Baker, Marlene Robinson May
- Production Services
- Jeffrey M. Cooke
- Voice Direction
- Ginny McSwain
- Talent Coordinator
- Lynne Batchelor
- Featuring the Voices of
- Beau Weaver, Ginny McSwain, Mark Taylor, Pat Carroll, B. J. Ward, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Michael Bell, Chris Collins, Shawn Donahue, Kenney Hartman, Tress MacNeille, Gabriel Damon, Carl Steven, Kellie Martin, Jennifer Roach
- Music
- Ron Jones
- Additional Music by
- Tom Worrell
- Director of Music Supervision
- Joanne Miller
- Executive in Charge of Post Production
- Chip Yaras
- Effects Editors
- Tom Syslo, Pete Grives, Willy Allen
- Negative Consultant
- Mary Duerrstein
- Re-Recording Mixer
- Sergio Myers
Companies and other credits
- Animation Services Provided by: Toei Animation Co. Ltd. and Dai Won Animation Co. Ltd
- © 1988 RUBY-SPEARS ENTERPRISES
- INC
- All rights reserved
- Based on the Comic Books Published by: DC Comics
- Inc
- "SUPERMAN" Created by: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Production notes
This was a "Superman's Family Album" segment.
As part of the Superman 50th anniversary celebration, Ruby-Spears created a new animated Superman series. Each show featured an 18 minute "Superman Adventure" and a "Superman's Family Album" short.
The shows' music and styles were based on the recent Richard Donner/Richard Lester Superman live action films.
Just in case you have never watched TV, read a book, seen a movie, or looked at the comics, here is a brief history of Superman:
Shortly before the planet Krypton exploded, Superman (then known by his birth name, Kal-El) was put into an escape rocket by his parents and sent off into space. After crash-landing on Earth, he was discovered by John and Martha Kent, who raised him as their son, Clark Kent. As young Kal-El/Clark grew, he discovered his various talents, such as incredibly powerful strength and the ability to fly. Relocating to Metropolis, Clark began to live a dual life, working as a reporter for the Daily Planet, but turning into Superman whenever trouble surfaced.
The character of Superman first left the comics pages in the 1930's, starring in several animated theatrical shorts. He then moved on to enjoy a successful radio show during the 40's, a popular live-action TV version starring George Reeves in the 1950's, and even a 1966 Broadway musical before returning to the small screen in 1966, this time in animated form.
Almost ten years after the live-action TV show was cancelled, Superman starred in The New Adventures of Superman. The series utilized the same basic cast as the 1940's radio version, and consisted not only of stories about Superman's world-saving exploits, but also of segments that showed him as a boy in rural Smallville. These segments featured super dog Krypto and Clark's first girlfriend, Lana Lang. Bud Collyer, who had provided Superman's voice for both the Fleischer cartoons and the radio broadcast, reprised his role in this version, too.
The strong point of this version was its faithfulness to the comic book. The show featured villains from the printed stories, like Mr. Mxyzptlk and Brainiac.
After one season, the title was changed to The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, and Aquaman, the son of Atlantis, starred in segments of his own. In its last season, Batman was added to the show and given top billing, resulting in The Batman/Superman Hour.
Sadly, Superman was as vulnerable to bad ratings as he was to Kryptonite. Hanna-Barbera's Space Ghost finally proved to be too much competition for the Man of Steel, who left the cartoon airwaves in 1969.
Superman retained his membership in the Justice League, which kept him employed on Saturday morning's Super Friends well into the 80's. CBS gave him another solo shot in 1988, but this version went the way of Krypton, destroyed after one season.
The most recent incarnation of the man with the "S" on his chest came in 1997, with The New Superman Adventures. Animated in the angular, darker style of Batman: The Animated Series, this Superman caught on with 90's kids, becoming a mainstay of Fox Kids' afternoon lineup.
As part of the Superman 50th anniversary celebration, Ruby-Spears created a new animated Superman series. Each show featured an 18 minute "Superman Adventure" and a "Superman's Family Album" short.
The shows' music and styles were based on the recent Richard Donner/Richard Lester Superman live action films.
Just in case you have never watched TV, read a book, seen a movie, or looked at the comics, here is a brief history of Superman:
Shortly before the planet Krypton exploded, Superman (then known by his birth name, Kal-El) was put into an escape rocket by his parents and sent off into space. After crash-landing on Earth, he was discovered by John and Martha Kent, who raised him as their son, Clark Kent. As young Kal-El/Clark grew, he discovered his various talents, such as incredibly powerful strength and the ability to fly. Relocating to Metropolis, Clark began to live a dual life, working as a reporter for the Daily Planet, but turning into Superman whenever trouble surfaced.
The character of Superman first left the comics pages in the 1930's, starring in several animated theatrical shorts. He then moved on to enjoy a successful radio show during the 40's, a popular live-action TV version starring George Reeves in the 1950's, and even a 1966 Broadway musical before returning to the small screen in 1966, this time in animated form.
Almost ten years after the live-action TV show was cancelled, Superman starred in The New Adventures of Superman. The series utilized the same basic cast as the 1940's radio version, and consisted not only of stories about Superman's world-saving exploits, but also of segments that showed him as a boy in rural Smallville. These segments featured super dog Krypto and Clark's first girlfriend, Lana Lang. Bud Collyer, who had provided Superman's voice for both the Fleischer cartoons and the radio broadcast, reprised his role in this version, too.
The strong point of this version was its faithfulness to the comic book. The show featured villains from the printed stories, like Mr. Mxyzptlk and Brainiac.
After one season, the title was changed to The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, and Aquaman, the son of Atlantis, starred in segments of his own. In its last season, Batman was added to the show and given top billing, resulting in The Batman/Superman Hour.
Sadly, Superman was as vulnerable to bad ratings as he was to Kryptonite. Hanna-Barbera's Space Ghost finally proved to be too much competition for the Man of Steel, who left the cartoon airwaves in 1969.
Superman retained his membership in the Justice League, which kept him employed on Saturday morning's Super Friends well into the 80's. CBS gave him another solo shot in 1988, but this version went the way of Krypton, destroyed after one season.
The most recent incarnation of the man with the "S" on his chest came in 1997, with The New Superman Adventures. Animated in the angular, darker style of Batman: The Animated Series, this Superman caught on with 90's kids, becoming a mainstay of Fox Kids' afternoon lineup.