Noel had played Lois before in the Superman movie serials of the forties, so for many, the change in actors wasn’t all that disconcerting. Why did Phyllis Coates walk away from the show?

Phyllis Coates and George Reeves in “Superman and the Mole Men” (Credit: Lippert Pictures) The plot of “Superman and the Mole Men” finds Clark Kent and Lois Lane investigating a mining ...