Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

RELEASED 29 Feb 19880h 49m★ 8.0 TMDB

A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

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A standalone CBS television special first broadcast on 29 February 1988, hosted by Dana Carvey with production involvement from Lorne Michaels. It combines Superman history with comedy and retrospective material. Included as a separate home-video extra, it is not an episode of the 1988 animated Superman series or a sequel in the Christopher Reeve storyline. Allow approximately 49 minutes; sources list 48–49 minutes, so the runtime is an estimate rather than a verified exact duration.

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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel is title 73 of 73 in our Live-action Elseworlds viewing sequence. Begin with this standalone retrospective hosted by Dana Carvey, combining Superman history with comic interviews and new framing material. Watch it as optional anniversary viewing; its inclusion with Superman II and Superman IV home-video editions does not place it within those films' narrative sequence.

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