Why SUPERMAN’S Lois Lane, PHYLLIS COATES, Left After the FIRST SEASON

In the first season of ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, Lois Lane is played by actress Phyllis Coates. But she only lasted one season before she left the show. Why did PHYLLIS COATES leave? Why was her departure so abrupt? Tune in and find out why!
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[@GUMBEE048]

I've been watching Superman reruns since I was 6. Still watching in my 60's. Nobody could scream like Phyllis Coates.

[@dtnetlurker]

I have this entire series. Great television that has that old movie serial feel. The color episodes are absolutely amazing to see. They had such vision for the future. They could have saved a fortune but decided to film in color anyway even though it wouldn't be seen in color for another decade. Absolute Genius move. George Reeves was the most confident Clark Kent that has ever appeared on TV. His style was a classic one that never fades. The fact they were able to have him actually "fly" instead of just going cheap and have it be animated was a groundbreaking innovation for special effects in television. I think what really made it all work was George. He was just instantly likeable. That smile was so infectious you can't help but smile as well.

[@howiecricket52]

George Reeves had such an interesting way of running! I do LOVE that! He was a FABULOUS SUPERMAN too!

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

There was also a problem that caused a disagreement between Phyllis Coates and one of the show's producers. She was asked not to do a particular role during the show's hiatus and she agreed at first. But the producer of the other role talked her into it. After she did it the previous producer found out about it and was quite miffed and refused to let her do Lois Lane in the 2nd season. As far as I'm concerned, Phyllis Coates was not only really hot but a very good Lois Lane who was quite the reporter always putting herself out to get a story and it didn't matter what happened.

[@KutWrite]

She was pretty, and a fine actress, but I thought her Lois was too grumpy, never smiling, as I recall. Noel Neill was hot too, but also friendly and approachable.

[@michaelkearns7352]

Phyllis Coates was a beautiful lady, and an amazing Lois Lane

[@tomryan914]

Phyllis 'sexy', Noel 'cute' !

[@frederickrapp5396]

Phyllis Coates’ Lois was more overtly sexual than was the Lois played by Noel Neil.

[@Galahad-hk4bb]

Phyllis and Noel were BEAUTIFUL women !!! But Phyllis….OMG !!! As Ralph Kramden would say…. huma-huma-huma !!!

[@theresafernandez58]

Love this series...just watched it this morning. My favorite episodes are where Lois Lane was played by Noel Neill...hope this series lives on in syndication forever.

[@tonyreynolds5112]

Superman takes the bullets to the chest...... gun empty...... bad guy throws it....... Superman ducks. Always makes me laugh.

[@geraldmartin7703]

@9:47 to be exact.

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

Superman was the first time TV started doing marathon episodes. I believe it was around Labor Day 1987. For approximately 24 hours straight one of the UHF station showed nothing but Superman. Marathon TV is common now. I stayed up all night recording it on my VCR. Jack Larson and Noel Neil hosted the marathon.

[@FaithInHisBloodOrg]

I do not believe he committed suicide. It is my opinion he was murdered.

[@KutWrite]

Yeah, a real nasty love triangle going on.

[@glennso47]

Same thing with Epstein.

[@janedoe805]

I recently recognized Noel Neill in an small part (uncredited) of a movie playing on TCM. An American in Paris 1951 with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. She plays an American college student studying in France, her Junior year in France... She attempts to critique Gene Kelly‘s character Artist Jerry Mulligan’s painting. To be truthful when I watched Superman as a child, I didn’t notice there were two different Lois Lane’s, I was too busy looking at Superman! Thanks for the interesting video. ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@strafrag1]

RIP, George & Jack. Thanks for the memories.

[@carlmiller8138]

Loved the episode of Great Ceasars Ghost.

[@NomadicBrian]

I enjoyed this version of Superman when I was a kid. That Professor Perrywinkle always cooking up something in the lab and getting in a spot.

[@montigobear]

And today?... they can't even say, "... and the American way!" Times have changed and we are less today than we were back then.

[@dravenvandross8281]

This was my father's Superman so I grew up watching the reruns and it was pretty good for the time I definitely enjoyed the episodes especially watching it with my dad.

[@mikeyates7931]

I always Loved Phyllis Coates : she was pretty AND smart - the kind of girl that would make you work for it ! Nothing against Noel Niel , she was a nice girl , but give me Phyllis Coates any day 😜

[@ydcee3123]

Do do grown men sound juvenile when they talk about women or female characters. 'She was pretty'. 'Make you work for it'. Yeech!

[@mikeyates7931]

@@ydcee3123 I apologise for the inelegance of my words ; I assure you that my remarks , crude as they may have seemed , were actually meant with great affection and respect for the late great , Phyllis Coates

[@howiecricket52]

@@mikeyates7931, Phyllis Coates is 94 now, and STILL ALIVE! I just Googled it!

[@mikeyates7931]

@@howiecricket52 That's Great ! Good for her ! ! God Bless her ! ! ! Thank You for letting me know 😀

[@howiecricket52]

@@mikeyates7931, also, Noel Neill lived to be 95! It seems to be good luck to portray Lois Lane!

[@randyvandolah5581]

This was the first live action supe man I saw as a child and I still love it as an adult Reeves and Christopher Reeve were the best supermen ever

[@peggymiller3045]

Very well done! ❤

[@kaltonian]

that was fascinating, brilliant bit of research, thank you, i first discovered superman when i was about five, 45 years ago...gee and i still watch him now and it's great to see how the character has evolved over the years, I didn't know about those forgotten abilities

[@browngreen933]

My favorite show as a kid. Thank you!

[@MomentsInTrading]

Don’t call me Chief!

[@ewilliamson488]

Great Caesar's Ghost!

[@MuzixMaker]

Someone put together a mashup of "DCMC!" on KZbin, it's pretty funny.

[@wildman2012]

"Yes, chief, I mean, Mr. White!" Golly, Lois -- where's Mr. Kent?"

[@c.d.robinson3090]

he is and will always be my favorite superman! he was the coolest clark kent!

[@c.d.robinson3090]

i still watch my superman today, i have the dvd"s. i was so hurt when he died!

[@randybarnett2308]

George Reeves, and Christopher Reeve were the best Supermen !👍💪🤠

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

Ever if George had lived, nobody could ever replace John Hamilton as Perry White. I met Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson) in the late '80s at ComicCon, and realized then that nobody could have replaced him, either. Yes, George, Noel and Jack were great in their parts, but let's also hear it for their character actor buddies. Yay!

[@glennso47]

Noel Neil who was Lois Lane in the first Superman show played Lois Lanes mother in an episode of Lois and Clark in the 1990s show.

[@tonycanabal1659]

That was Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane's mother in that TV show. Noel Neil was her mother in the first Superman movie with Christopher, in a special edition.

[@rsacchi100]

I remember when they were going to switch over to showing the episodes in color. They would have text on the screen stating the show you're watching in black and white will soon be shown in color. Thanks for explaining this and other aspects of the show.

[@neildickson5394]

I was surprised to learn Phyllis Coats was the youngest of all members of the cast, except Jack Larson who was a mere 2 years younger. Coats was the last surviving cast member who died this month at 96. She conveyed a much older persona, and was 7:years younger than Noel Neil, the later Lois Lane.

[@johnnymac1580]

Great Cesars ghost!

[@SchuylerT.Colfax]

Phyllis Coates went om to play the part of Alice McDoakes in the 'Joe McDoakes/ Behind the Eight Ball' shorts for Warner Brothers. She really had a knack for comedy in those films.

[@kevinmccormick5544]

I think Alice McDoakes was actually before Superman as Phyllis had been a contract player at Warner Bros. before her brief stint as Lois Lane

[@SchuylerT.Colfax]

@@kevinmccormick5544 I stand corrected!

[@georgeanastasopoulos5865]

One of my favourite television shows when I only twelve to fourteen in the early to mid 1970s. Furthermore, I first read Superman comic books when I was a couple of years younger; before that super genius, and higher achiever by the name of Sheldon Cooper.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

I agree with you. George reeves was the best Clark Kent out of anyone that played him.

[@itsjohndell]

Always loved the Mole Men's weapon being an Eletrolux Vacuum with a funnel on the front...

[@MarvinJBush]

Phyllis Coates was always my favorite Lois Lane.😍🤩😍🤩

[@donaldyoumans275]

My favorite show of al times

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

Most incredible demonstration of SUPERMAN's "leap" was in his appearance on the "I LOVE LUCY" episode which centered around "LITTLE RICKY's BIRTHDAY PARTY". He makes an incredible entrance into the Ricardo's living room.

[@hilarioph]

I kept on watching The Adventures Of Superman on RPN9 or better known as 9 The Leader in the Philippines until PTV 4 got the series. I love The Adventures Of Superman

[@howiecricket52]

The building they show as THE DAILY PLANET is actually city hall in downtown Los Angeles, California. Beautiful choice for the TV show.

[@MuzixMaker]

The Mole Men scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. BTW, not to be pedantic (oh well) but "reprise" is supposed to be pronounced, "repreeze". Pardon my French.

[@ivane5110]

As great as Chris Reeve was as Clark Kent, this Clark was engaging enough that I would easily watch a show with just him and not Superman (which, if you know what a Superman/Superboy fan I am says a lot). Not as much so though with the more campy/kid's season version though. The only thing I'd change is that I do wish some other hero or supervillain (especially Batman, Braniac or a then-popular-now-obscure superhero) had shown up at least once.

[@tss77]

Phyllis Coates was my favorite Lois Lane, I loved her she was bad ass.

[@mistervacation23]

Phyllis Coates once said Huntz Halls singing will send the music business back 1,000 years

[@dereckabackus8281]

My favorite episode is when Lois Lane married Superman. Too bad by the end of the episode it was a dream by Lois

[@geraldmartin7703]

Coates was a hard-nosed, cynical and sarcastic Lois Lane. A real hoot.

[@inachu]

But why the hell would you disable comments on the time tunnel? wtf great old tv show.

[@RerunZone]

Done by mistake. Fixed now.

[@alanrogers7090]

In the first black and white photo you show of Jimmy Olsen feeling Superman's muscles, did you notice that the "S" on his chest is all ripped up? I think that this photo was taken late in 1953, just befor they switched to color. In several of the older shows, from the first two seasons, (which were all shot in black and white), some of the last episodes filmed also showed the ripped costume. It really detracts from the "mind set" that Superman AND his costume, (being made from blankets wrapped around baby Kal-El, and therefore coming from Krypton), would ever be able to tear. On the DVD sets that I own, these tears are explained by Commentary given by Gary Grossman that, as the show was to soon switch to color, the BROWN AND TAN costume was allowed to wear out. The costume was made in brown and tan to look good on the black and white televisions of the day. Fun Fact, when the shot the television show, "Star Trek", as one of the first color broadcasts on NBC, the people filming had to pick colors that would also look good in black and white, as that was the predominant kind of sets that people owned then. There were some early test footage of various effects that look really off when viewed in black and white. So, they had to adjust what makeup was used to look good in both mediums.

[@jsfbr]

👏👏👏👏👏💙💛♥️

[@sdgakatbk]

I watched it growing up. I also bought the first 2 or 3 seasons as an adult, but then stopped. The first season the show was really good. Phyllis Coates was better as Lois Lane. As it became sillier and more of a kids show, it just wasn't good.

[@bwtv147]

Desi Arnaz and Hopalong Cassidy invented syndication reruns .

[@hypercomms2001]

Phyllis Coates is still alive at this time... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Coates

[@christopherdunbar394]

that time show new york wpix 11 and wwor9

[@b58hustler71]

To use that metaphor properly, you should have said , " he has his finger on the pulse of anything...", dude.

[@gregblair5139]

The fact that they couldn't figure out who Superman was shows the profound incompetence of Lois, Jimmy, and Perry!

[@marclevine3139]

Always had a problem with the show where he split himself in 1/2. Saw it in the 50's I was born in 1947. Scientist who suggested the idea said he would be 1/2 as strong but 1/2 a superman is still a superman. He was not he was a wimp. Scientist should have said the way your atoms link together you will be only a fraction as strong as normal. That would bve more logical.

[@josephthunderhorse8793]

I've always felt that Reeves' wife ...or lover were responsible for his death...she weirdly enough had her own set of friends that weren't all that fond fond of George at all

[@fmills1583]

1:50 did George Reeves have retainers on his teeth?

[@walkergillette3918]

The first Lois Lane was sometimes meaner and scarier than the villians

[@paulforester6996]

Maybe Lois Lane got breast cancer from all those X-rays, and had to leave? 🎒👝👜🛫

[@WilAdams]

I have never understood why it is that supporting performers, who sign on to be supporting characters in shows, somehow get it into their heads that whatever the main character is being paid is too much unless they too start getting more. Strikes against the program seem stupid to me. IF you want more money than you signed on for, then you should have to re-negotiate your contract. IF at that time, you have made you character super valuable--as the first Lois proved she had done when they offered her much more money to return--then you can get it. IF you haven't then the producers should say, okay, if you don't want to work for what we are paying since your contract is up, you can just leave. At they point they introduce a NEW character and a replacement performer. It really should be that simple. I will hazard that this way of working in Hollywood--where they give in and pay (as they did the 3 supporting players 50.00 each per episode) is the beginning of what we now see as 'equity'. They were paying people who did not have the same value to the success of the program higher wages simply because the star was getting higher wages. They were working toward 'parity'. That is a mistake, as we see today.

[@fayekramer8314]

Look at Suzanne Somers. She got greedy, wanted FIVE TIMES her salary. Guess what happened? She got FIRED! And only her husband to blame. Also, if she got a raise, John Ritter and Joyce Dewitt would get a raise. Pretty sure they would get the 5X deal too. She wanted parity w/ Alan Alda & other male stars.

[@WilAdams]

@@fayekramer8314 Farrah Fawcett is another one--even though there is an argument to be made that SHE rather than the other two was the top star, I would, however, contend that the show's continued success after she left proves that she was not. Henry Winkler, Fonzie on Happy Days, did it the right way. He was signed on as a lower tier supporting actor, playing a 'throw away' character, but HE made the FONZ one of the top reasons to watch the show. When he went to re-new his contract, he made a deal that was almost as good as Ron Howard's.

[@fayekramer8314]

@@WilAdams AND he got the "starring" credit as well. Yes, he did it properly.

[@tarasyonka6462]

Phyllis Coates acted fake to her role, Noel Neill played a better true to life character.

[@tarasyonka6462]

Besides, Noel Neill reminded meee of my grade one teacher?!😂👌

[@kenwieczorek2477]

Never liked Phyllis Coates she tried to outdo superman. Noel Neill was a 100% better.

[@lisa-el3db]

Best Clark Kent was he.

[@MsBizzyGurl]

God, Margot Kidder was SUCH a crap Lois Lane!

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

No. She was the proper Lois for a new generation. Noel was the first live action Lois with Kirk Alyn in the two serials before George Reeves got the nod for Mole Men but it was Joan Alexander whose voice we heard on radio and many of the animated versions of Lois with Bud Collyer voicing Superman/Clark Kent dccomicsartists.com/superwhoswho/joanalexander.JPG

[@MsBizzyGurl]

@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison Sorry, but Lois was an earnest journalist. The Kidder character was more about the doe-eyed secretary stereotype. (And Kidder was a poor choice for THAT.)

[@bobkloth57]

She had to leave the show because she figured out Superman’s secret identity and couldn’t keep a secret. Lol 😂

[@VgnRaj]

Nice video but George Reeves was not the quintessential Clark Kent. Christopher Reeve was. His acted meekness bore a comedic contrast to his alter ego whereas George Reeves played too much of an assertive Clark Kent which led to a poor "Secret" identity transition.

[@BillGreen206]

You need to stop butchering people's names. You seem to do research on the things that you talk about. Do a little more and research name pronunciations.

[@richardnone5644]

she left because superman was gay

[@michaelproctor8100]

Actually, it was Jimmy who was gay.

[@davidbaron8330]

She wasn't getting no Superdick.

[@nikkicat254]

GOD THIS IS THE MOST BORING VIDEO ON THIS CHANNEL! It was bad enough that the guy says this Superman/Clark Kent was the best ever, which Christopher Reeves was the best Superman/Clark Kent, this guy was a drunk out of shape guy, who looked like a daddy dressing as Superman to go trick or treating with his kids, in a costume his wife made! I guess we know who he thinks made the best Batman and Robin! Oh and by the way, I'm 54, so I am not saying all that because I'm some young kid who just never watched it or just don't know what's good, I never cared for that Superman, I always prefered Christopher Reeves as Superman! Though I do like some of the young guys of today who have played him, not so much Dean Cain though, not a fan of him as an actor or a person either!

[@joesikkspac7904]

Phyllis was much better looking. Too bad that the corporate a-holes always ruin or spoil good shows.