Adventures of Superman (TV Series) Peril by Sea (1956) User Reviews

Olsen Does It Again!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 16 August 2006]

It's unbelievable the amount of episodes in which either Jimmy Olsen or Lois Lane or both do the wrong thing and cause trouble. Here, Olsen does the opposite he's told to do and reveals a top-secret project because he's too stupid to know what's right or wrong.

Now he gets "The Chief" (Perry White) into trouble. White has been away from the Daily Planet for two months playing scientist, working on a theory converting ordinary sea water to uranium! (Clark Kent was put in charge of the newspaper.) Olsen, of course, goes back and prints the story (there are no editors to squash his story??). Kent makes Olsen go back to White's seaside lodge-laboratory to explain his mistake. They take Lois' convertible but two crooks are in hiding in the back seat (with the top down and neither Olsen or Lane saw them when they got in the car???) and, at gunpoint, kidnap them with eventual plans to steal White's secret formula.

It gets more plausible after that because one of the crooks (actually played a well-known actor - Claude Akins) is a pretty smart guy who figures a way not only to get the formula but blow up White, Olsen and Lane destroying all evidence and witnesses.

How that is avoided you will have to see for yourself. It turned out to be a pretty good show, even with all the holes in it.....but that was normal.

Yet Another Idiotic Move by the Careless Insubordinate Olsen

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 9 February 2015]

A couple of smugglers who use a submarine to do their deeds are being put off by a heavily guarded house on the seashore that is right in their path. They are curious what is going on. It is revealed that Perry White, of all people, is working on a special isotope of Uranium (once again, the atomic weight could not be Uranium) that could be used for medicinal purposes. Jimmy Olsen, impressed with his boss, wants to tell the story, but White and Kent tell him it would be very dangerous and counter to national security. Naturally, he doesn't pass through an editor and prints the story. Now the two submarine guys (one, the well known Claude Akins) realize that there is money to be made, and they set about stealing the formula. When Clark/Superman hears what Olsen has done, he forces him to go and explain his deed to Perry White. He and Lois drive to the facility, and, of course, the two bad guys are in the back seat. They pull guns and use the reporters to get past the guards. Everyone ends up in a safe, welded shut from the outside. Olsen, had he been real, should have been fired and arrested. Sometimes this strained even the comic book reality of such an endeavor.