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8/10
Olsen The Professor
ccthemovieman-128 December 2006
Jimmy Olsen is working with his recently-purchased chemistry set, trying to develop a new kind of soda pop. He's in the basement and the "pop" accidentally sprays out of the window on to the pants of a passing pedestrian. That guy comes down to Olsen's lab is ready to punch him out as his pants are eaten away with the liquid Olsen sprayed on him. Superman comes out of nowhere (he just happened to be flying around the neighborhood) and the goon runs off. Jimmy shows him another invention and Superman has to save him again as the experiment blows up but The Man Of Steel saw it coming and covered it up. At that point, he urges Jimmy to take up a safer hobby, like butterfly collecting!

The next morning Olsen is in Perry White's office with a successful experiment. He's discovered a liquid that when applied to a surface, makes it temporarily float. This "anti-gravity" liquid is big news so White calls the U.S. Government and a man comes down to see for himself. He thinks it's "Professor Olsen" until White corrects him.

Well, in a short time, you know the crooks are going to hear about this and - voilà - the same guy (played by frequent bad-guy guest Milton Frome) comes back to Olsen's lab and once again Jimmy (and Lois, of course) are in trouble!!

Another preposterous episode, designed more for kids....but still fun to watch.
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8/10
The Original Upsidasium
Hitchcoc13 February 2015
This is the classic story of a person who makes a major discovery, but is unable to reproduce the results. Jimmy Olsen buys a chemistry set and begins to make all manner of useless junk. Until one day develops a substance that makes things float, an ant- gravity liquid that could be put on items would allow for all kinds of advantages. He is called Professor Olsen and gets his own lab. Like the young woman who must spin straw into gold in Rumpelstiltskin, Jimmy labors away while the government awaits the results. A crook starts to put the screws to Jimmy but there is no point to it. It's a reasonably good episode with a kind of nice "chemistry" between Jimmy and Perry White. Of course, all the accomplishment that a chemist in his second week with a juvenile chemistry set is pushing the envelope, to say the least.
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7/10
Featuring: the Hamilton & Olsen comedy team.
redryan6410 February 2015
ONCE AGAIN,THE spotlight was on "Young Olsen" as this rather contrived and far ranging story called for Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) to have become a sort of amateur "professor" of Chemistry. Quite accidentally, Jimmy discovers an anti-gravity formula.

THE COMPLICATIONS INCLUDE: Editor Perry White's blessing in bankrolling the further research, keen interest by Uncle Sam in the person of Major blank (Tristram Coffin) and criminal interference by tough, yegg blank (Milton Frome).

THE STORY STRADDLES the action & crime story with more than just a touch of the frivolous and fanciful. Here is a typically 1950's Cold War/Crime tale; that were so commonplace during that period.

AS WITH SO many of the episodes during this season's output, WHAT GOES UP closes with a hardy CISCO KID-type group laugh.
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