Influence and Adaptations
On the DVD commentary, Noel Neill (Lois Lane) points out that she used "Panic" on her college lecture circuit. Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen) mentions on the DVD that it was Superman aficionado Jerry Seinfeld's favorite episode. Seinfeld does mention this particular episode (as well as other Superman-related things) in a number of episodes of the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld.
Also, aside from the obligatory story of the infant Kal-El's arrival on Earth, "Panic" was the sole episode re-made for future Superman series, first in the 1980s-90s Live-Action Superboy (TV series) as "Superboy...Lost", and again in the 90s Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: the January 2, 1994, episode All Shook Up, an irreverent reference to what happens to the Man of Steel, and also a play on words, as that series' Perry White was obsessed with Elvis Presley, one of whose hit songs was All Shook Up.
Bryan Singer, an avid George Reeves fan, adapted some elements of Panic in the Sky for a climatic scene in his 2006 film Superman Returns.
The same story was also told as "Menace from the Stars" in World's Finest Comics #68 (February 1954).
One of the many "bloopers" in the series (mostly due to tight budgets and the cost of re-shooting a scene) detected by sharp-eyed viewers occurs in a scene where Clark stumbles into his apartment and begins to take off his shirt, revealing his Superman suit underneath (just out of Jimmy Olsen's line of sight). As George Reeves opens Clark's shirt to reveal the familiar "S" emblem, viewers can see a SHORT-sleeved (actually sleeveless) costume underneath.
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