{"id":8468,"date":"2021-07-14T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2021-08-21T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:34:13","slug":"superman-clark-kent-phone-booth-transformation-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/14\/superman-clark-kent-phone-booth-transformation-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Clark Kent Ever Turn Into Superman in a Phone Booth on Television?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Clark Kent never turned into Superman in a phone booth on television. <\/p>\n

Something that we’ve discussed a number of times in Legends Revealed is the idea that the public’s collective memory is not always accurate, as they’ll conflate two different things into one, like remembering Mr. T’s famous “I pity the fool” line from Rocky III (and seemingly every other project he’s ever done) and presuming that he used the same line as B.A. Baracus on The A-Team (as it turned out, he did not<\/a>
\n) or they will remember lines in a tidier fashion than they actually existed (like Gracie Allen’s famous “Say good night, Gracie!” “Good night, Gracie!”, which she never actually said<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As it turns out, one of these examples of the public’s collective memory failing is Superman and his use of phone booths to transform from Clark Kent into Superman. As we detailed in a Comic Book Legends Revealed a number of years ago<\/a>, it turns out that it was simply a matter of him doing so in one of the most popular Superman projects of all-time, the early 1940s Fleischer cartoons<\/p>\n