Супермен! (Superman)

A 1975 made-for-TV reworking of the 1966 Broadway musical concerning a mad scientist and rival reporter who scheme to push Superman into a mental breakdown. This is my own rip of the bootleg -- I've tweaked the picture to improve the quality (as best as I could), included the original title and a missing credit from the ABC broadcast, tacked on an assortment of super-commercials, and created custom captions and chapters. Unfortunately, there's a strange faint audio ghosting throughout, but my every attempt to remove it just distorted the sound.

Adapted by Romeo Muller (Rudolph, Frosty, and every other Rankin/Bass holiday special!)
From the play by Robert Benton and David Newman (Bonnie & Clyde, What's Up Doc?, Superman: The Movie)
Songs by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie)
Directed by Jack Regas (The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Krofft Supershow)

Starring David Wilson (Eddie & The Cruisers)
Lesley Ann Warren (Cinderella, Clue, Victor/Victoria)
Kenneth Mars (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, What's Up Doc?, Fletch, The Little Mermaid)
Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H)
David Wayne (How to Marry a Millionaire, The Andromeda Strain, TV's Batman)
Malachi Throne (It Takes a Thief, Star Trek, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl)
Al Molinaro (Happy Days)
Harvey Lembeck (the Beach Party movies, Sgt. Bilko)
His son, Michael Lembeck (Mary Hartman, The Krofft Supershow, One Day at a Time)
Stuart Goetz (Record City)
Alan Ludden (Password host and Mr. Betty White)
Danny Goldman (Young Frankenstein, voice of Brainy Smurf)
Geoffrey Horne (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
With prolific character actors Irene Tedrow, George Chandler, Nita Talbot & Phil Leeds
And Joanna Kerns (Growing Pains) in her TV debut as an uncredited member of the ensemble.

MDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339210
The final act of the original ABC broadcast can be found here:    • KABC-7  197_????  Its A Bird Its a Plane I...  
History of Comics on Film:    • History Of Comics On Film Part 45.5(It's A...  
Broadway By Ghostlight's documentary on the play:    • It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's Superman...  
The QuarryWorks Theater's complete 2018 performance of the stage play:    • It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's SUPERMAN! ...  
Original Broadway Cast album:    • It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (...  
Linda Lavin's 2011 re-recording of "You've Got Possibilities":    • You've Got Possibilities  

00:00:00 ABC Wide World
00:00:18 Superman
00:02:38 Who He Is And How He Came to Be
00:04:32 We Need Him (SONG)
00:06:55 Merchant of Doom
00:08:49 It's Superman (SONG)
00:11:07 Meanwhile...
00:13:12 It's a Swell Country (SONG)
00:16:27 Back at the Daily Planet
00:20:20 Superman Makes It!
00:23:34 Revenge (SONG)
00:26:31 Sedgwick's Revenge
00:28:36 The Woman for the Man (SONG)
00:34:04 The Net Tightens
00:37:09 You've Got Possibilities (SONG)
00:40:25 Clark Kent Finds Happiness
00:42:26 You've Got What I Need (SONG)
00:46:36 Oh Clark, Have You Been There All Along?
00:48:20 What I've Always Wanted (SONG)
00:52:47 Superman Trapped!
00:56:23 Get Lost, Superman!
00:57:18 Ooh, Do You Love You! (SONG)
01:03:39 Curtains for Superman
01:04:23 The Strongest Man in the World (SONG)
01:07:10 Now to Finish Off Superman
01:15:26 Superman Triumphant
01:16:50 I'm Not Finished Yet (SONG)
01:20:29 On the Warren G. Harding Memorial Bridge
01:22:40 Pow! Bam! Zonk! (SONG)
01:26:29 The Next Day
01:27:35 End Credits
01:29:13 Aqua Velva (Broadway's Bob Holiday)
01:29:42 Superman Commercials