Trivia / The Adventures of Superboy

• Actor Allusion: Jack Larson and Noel Neill (Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane from The Adventures of Superman) appear in one episode as Clark and Lana's never before seen (and never seen again) co-workers at the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters. Upon seeing Superboy rescue a woman who jumped out of a window to commit suicide, Jack Larson's character Lou exclaims "Jeepers!", an exclamation often used by Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman. Later in the same episode, Lou confesses to stealing office supplies and says that he used to do it all the time when he worked for the newspaper.
• California Doubling: Averted. The creators didn't bother trying to mask the fact that Superboy was filmed in Florida, instead having Clark attend the Shuster University of Florida. Superboy continued to operate in Florida even as a government intern, working out of the fictional location of Capitol City.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Thanks to the various complicated legal stuff surrounding the show, it hasn't ever been rerun on TV in any fashion, bootlegs were circulated for years, and even Gerard Christopher, who played Clark/Superboy from seasons 2 to 4, offered copies of episodes with him from the master tapes. Beginning around 2005, however, the various legal issues began to be ironed out, with the season 1 DVD set coming out that year, and AOL's now-defunct in2TV site streaming episodes as well. However, the releases of the rest of the show was delayed after the season 1 DVDs didn't sell as expected; cut to 2012, with WB using its' Warner Archive MOD service to release the rest of the show on DVD. Eventually, the show ended up being added to the DC Universe streaming service in 2018.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Warner Bros. went to court to stop this series' production, as they wanted to do Lois & Clark, and they figured that having this show on the air simultaneously would confuse people.^note Over the years, the same reasoning behind disallowing "shared" characters has continued, affecting the DC Animated Universe and its notorious "Bat-Embargo" vs. Teen Titans (2003) and The Batman, and later the DC Extended Universe vs. the Arrowverse. Not only that, WB didn't have any stake in this show's production— the Salkinds' contract didn't prevent them from selling their TV show rights when they sold the Superman film rights to The Cannon Group, and thus WB wasn't involved at all with this show (the Salkinds chose Viacom to distribute instead).
  • As a result of the legal snarls, the rights to the show were convoluted: Ilya Salkind shares the rights he inherited from his father with StudioCanal, which bought the Salkind's non-Superman films. In the US, CBS Media Ventures, successor to the original Viacom, holds distribution rights. WB holds international TV rights and home media rights (enabling the DVD releases, as well as online streaming).
• The Other Darrin: Gerard Christopher replaced John Newton as the titular character after the first season. Sherman Howard replaced Scott Wells as Lex Luthor after the first season.
• What Could Have Been: The intended finale was "Obituary for a Superhero", which would've ended the series on a cliffhanger, opening the possibility of future TV movies to continue the story. But Warner Bros. intervened (see above), forcing the Salkinds to hastily create "Rites of Passage" as a proper finale.