Old-fashioned, National Velvet-type stuff. It's somewhat predictable, but there is a neat little twist at the end and, once again, the gruff Mr. However, word gets to Superman, who flies up and retrieves Alice to be re-united with her horse, and hopefully the horse will respond, get up and win the race! The rest, you have to see. The thug "Sully" (played hilariously by show regular Billy Nelson) turns our two reporters back home with a gun threat. The crooks decide to beat them to the punch and waylay Lois and Jimmy's trip to retrieve the young girl. The crooks, overhearing all of this (10 feet away from the whole newspaper gang but nobody sees or hears them in the barn!). The solution: go back upstate and bring the girl back to her horse. "Joey" is homesick for Alice and is lying down in his stall and won't get up. It turns out, they don't have to: the horse is already ailing. When he hears about Joey, the late entry and a possible threat to win the race, he and his goon sidekick travel to the Joey's barn to sabotage that horse. While Metropolis gears up to honor its most popular 'citizen' during Superman Week, gangster Si Horten (Herbert Vigran) tries to figure out a way to rid the town of the Man of Steel. With George Reeves, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, John Hamilton. A big bookie in town, meanwhile, has bet thousands on another horse in the race. Superman Week: Directed by Harry Gerstad. The latter's daughter "Alice" (Janine Perreau) is heartbroken to say goodbye to her beloved "Joey," but at least the horse is in good hands heading into the big "Jupiter Stakes." To add honey to the sentimental story, White declares that all money won by the horse will go to children's charities. I guess they came back and shot the footage the next day and forgot what color clothes he was wearing! Once again, there are a million holes in this story like that one, but it's fun to watch.In a sentimental touch (although he'll never admit to it), Perry White buys a race horse for the Daily Planet from an old school chum. In one scene, his clothes change color in a matter of seconds. What was interesting was that one the crooks, the flunky of the two, was played by Paul Burke, who went on to star in TV series, "The Naked City." The other is played by Herb Vigin, not a name you know but a face you'll recognize as a regular "bad guy" in the show.
So, the bad guys get a hold of the kryptonite, find out Superman's schedule (it was printed in the paper as part of "Superman Week"), and then greet him with it, supposedly killing him so that they can go on a crime spree not worrying bout the Man of Steel catching them. Another entertaining episode in season three as Jimmy Olsen (who else?) is caught pretending to be a telephone repairman (with fake mustache), is given a truth serum by the crooks, and spills the beans about kryptonite.
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