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Adventures of Superman: The Mind Machine (1952)
Yes One of the Few Episodes where Reeve's Superman genuinely Flies off..
The original production design provided for Reeves to be suspended on wires ala Peter Pan for credible flying scenes, especially on takeoffs. Lee Sholem, who directed the original pilot feature, "Superman and the Mole Men" skillfully set up some spectacular takeoff scenes in those initial episodes for Reeves and cleverly tracked the camera over a lynch mob from Superman's POV. In this episode , Sholem set up two takeoffs on location which looked like vacant lots on Mulholland Drive to fine effect, though not as well devised as in "Mole Men". Also, a stunt double for Reeves is obvious on one take-off. According to production witness sources (and re-enacted in the film "HollywoodLand") The incredibly cheap
production values for the shows resulted in a substandard flying apparatus
without a "safety" and the wire actually snapped during a studio shoot
(possibly the overused stock "alley take-off" shot with the flying newspapers )
landing Reeves hard on the set floor. "Never again" declared Reeves, in terms of wire flying, leaving the rest of the series to often unconvincing leaps
onto an off camera mat or his process shots lying on his stomach on a tilting table harness. Which is too bad.