6.7/10209 votesLoading...#1 - Through the Time Barrier
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/1955
An inventor's time contraption whisks the Daily Planet staff to 50,000 B.C. One problem: how to get back!
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
6.7/10163 votesLoading...#2 - Test of a Warrior
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/28/1955
Great Horse faces his tribe's test of valor -- with help from a spirit named Superman!
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
6.7/10151 votesLoading...#3 - Whatever Goes Up
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/31/1957
Jimmy Olsen: Scientist. The anti-gravity fluid he creates with his chemistry set draws interest from military men...and criminals.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
6.8/10168 votesLoading...#4 - The Jolly Roger
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 6/16/1956
Shiver me timbers! Pirates hold Clark, Lois and Jimmy on a deserted isle the U.S. Navy intends to destroy.
Director: Philip Ford
Writer: N/A
6.8/10142 votesLoading...#5 - The Brainy Burro
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/14/1958
Jimmy and Lois: bank robbers. They're accused of a theft committed by thugs and a mind-reading burro.
Director: George Reeves
Writer: N/A
6.9/10261 votesLoading...#6 - The Case of the Talkative Dummy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1952
As superman hunts for kidnapped armored-car drivers and a stolen fortune, Jimmy, loccked inside a falling safe, hurtles to his doom.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
6.9/10190 votesLoading...#7 - Drums of Death
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1953
Aided by his ace reporters, Perry White flies to Haiti to search for his sister, the prisoner of a voodoo cult.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
6.9/10138 votesLoading...#8 - Close Shave
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/26/1957
A shave, a haircut, a new you, maybe a new life. A barber has an unusual influence on others.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
6.9/10158 votesLoading...#9 - Mr. Zero
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/24/1957
He's not from around here: A pint-sized Martian has a power that may be useful to crooks.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.0/10240 votesLoading...#10 - The Monkey Mystery
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1952
Searching for stolen defense secrets, Clark Kent encounters a brutalized woman, a slain organ-grinder -- and a monkey dressed as Superman.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.0/10211 votesLoading...#11 - Rescue
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1952
Trapped in a mine filling with deadly gas, Lois Lane is beyond the reach of rescuers -- and Clark Kent doesn't know!
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.0/10211 votesLoading...#12 - Runaway Robot
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1953
Captive Lois Lane will be murdered by gangsters unless inventor Horatio Hinkle uses his unique radio-controlled robot to rob banks.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.0/10167 votesLoading...#13 - The Talking Clue
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/30/1955
Sound and fury. Bank robbers have a sudden interest in a young audiophile's collection of recorded sounds.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.0/10188 votesLoading...#14 - Olsen's Millions
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 6/4/1955
Gee, thanks! An elderly woman rewards Jimmy $1 million because she thinks he rescued her cat.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
7.0/10142 votesLoading...#15 - Topsy Turvy
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1956
Which way is up? An invention that causes the illusion of being upside-down is stolen for villainous use.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.0/10142 votesLoading...#16 - The Stolen Elephant
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/1/1957
And some kids just want a pony. A boy thinks the stolen circus elephant he finds is his birthday gift.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.0/10146 votesLoading...#17 - The Last Knight
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/1958
A gentlemen's society of armored knights holds many secrets (and holds jimmy and Lois captive, too).
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.0/10139 votesLoading...#18 - The Superman Silver Mine
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/1958
The kids can wait. Crooks attempt to claim a silver mine for themselves and keep it from becoming a summer camp.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
7.1/10257 votesLoading...#19 - Mystery of the Broken Statues
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1952
Lois Lane is kidnapped while on the trail of a suave but deadly criminal mastermind and a hidden priceless gem.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.1/10184 votesLoading...#20 - Treasure of the Incas
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1952
Unwittingly involved in a hunt for stolen radium, Jimmy is kidnapped and locked in a deathtrap by a fanatical doctor.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.1/10160 votesLoading...#21 - Jimmy Olsen, Boy Editor
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1954
Great Caesar's ghost! Jimmy Olsen replaces Perry White for a day -- with dizzy and dangerous results.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
7.1/10160 votesLoading...#22 - Superman Week
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/14/1955
No dinners, no hoopla...just Kryptonite. Two thugs have their own way of celebrating Superman Week.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.1/10178 votesLoading...#23 - The Bully of Dry Gulch
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 9/24/1955
His town. His way. But a bogus gunslinger who rules a Western town is no match for the Man of Steel.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
7.1/10179 votesLoading...#24 - Joey
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/1956
A day at the races: Superman fight track corruption and the Daily Planet's racehorse gallops to victory.
Director: Harry Gerstad
Writer: N/A
7.1/10154 votesLoading...#25 - Peril in Paris
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/1957
Good intentions gone bad. Superman helps a woman escape from behind the Iron Curtain...and inadvertently becomes a jewel smuggler.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
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"Through the Time Barrier" is the worst rated episode of "Adventures of Superman". It scored 6.7/10 based on 209 votes. Directed by Harry Gerstad and written by N/A, it aired on 4/23/1955. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Test of a Warrior".