Talk:The New Adventures of Superman

Since I've been doing stuff with the timeline a lot more lately I thought it would be important to determine the time setting of the Filmation cartoons. I think they should be one year in the future.

According to the timeline, User:Superman Fan already has the year the Justice League of America come together as being one year in the future, so I guess the rest of the show should be that way too. I didn't just flip a coin to decide this by the way. It makes perfect sense.

Listen to this; in the real world, the Apollo program is what put the first men on the moon.

But in The New Adventures of Superman, we see Lex Luthor, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen on the moon in the episode Luthor's Lethal Laser - Part 1 and Luthor's Lethal Laser - Part 2.

That episode aired in 1968. In real life, the first man to walk on the moon was in 1969. So it makes more sense to say it's one year in the future, because that would be '69. Granted, in the Super Friends universe, the history of space travel is much different than it is in the real world. For example, there were missions to Venus and Mars, both of which haven't even happened to this day in real life.

However, the Apollo program actually did happen in the Super Friends universe, therefore we can't simply ignore that. Placing it that year makes more sense, and it also makes it easier to fit with the overall timeline for later stories.

So, we throw the events of the Filmation cartoons a year in the future when making the episodes. Unless of course a positive date is established in the cartoons that I'm not aware of, which I don't think they are.

The Superboy cartoons and Super Friends episodes are obviously set in the mid-to-late 50s. 1957 for example was a positive date that was referenced in Revenge of the Phantoms.

--Noah Tall (talk) 05:35, December 4, 2015 (UTC)