According to the Superman Homepage Website the 1988-1992 Superboy live action syndicated TV series will make its way to DVD starting in 2006, with the first season box set most likely debuting about the time that the Man of Steel returns to the big screen in late June.  Superboy (along with Star Trek: The Next Generation) was one of the first big budget syndicated TV series and it was the first TV series filmed at the Disney/MGM Orlando facilities.  Even though Superboy was always a Time Warner-owned character, Viacom distributed the syndicated Superboy series, which was produced by the Salkinds, who also produced the big budget Superman movies starring Christopher Reeves.  Behind-the-scenes wrangling between Time Warner and Viacom reportedly delayed the DVD release of the series, but the rapprochement between the media giants who are merging their WB and UPN TV networks coincides with the settlement of their differences over the Superboy series, which Time Warner will distribute on DVD.

Unlike Tom Welling who plays Clark Kent in the contemporary TV series Smallville (see 'No Tights, No Flights'), John Haymes Newton put on the blue spandex and red cape in Superboy and soared to the rescue on nearly every occasion -- and unlike the seamless character continuity in Smallville the cast in Superboy underwent drastic revisions with only Stacy Haiduk (Lana Lang) managing to make it through the show's four-year run.  In fact the show itself was renamed The Adventures of Superboy in 1990.