Three Part Series Comes To PBS Next Week - Superheroes: A Never Ending Battle

I have heard and seen many of these stories told before but I welcome any complex analysis of my beloved comic book superheroes. I am looking for something fresh and I appreciate the amount of time PBS have given over to this topic. It really gives the tale a chance to breath and nothing needs to be left out. I am a huge fan of what PBS brings to my life in the form of their historical programming. I hope the quality of this production lives up to my expectations.

The "Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle" documentary airing on PBS Tuesday, Oct. 15, is the latest effort to start changing those attitudes. Directed by Michael Kantor and co-written by Kantor and Lawrence Maslon (they previously teamed on "Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America" and "Broadway: The American Musical"), the series looks at superheroes from the early origins of the genre to the present day, both tracing its history and its close relationship to American culture, through interviews with marquee industry names including Stan Lee, Neal Adams, Joe Quesada, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Grant Morrison and more.

Narrated by "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" alum Liev Schreiber, the doc is broken into three hour-long segments: The genre's origins and Golden Age from 1938 to 1958 in "Truth, Justice and the American Way;" "Great Power, Great Responsibility" covering the dawn of the Silver Age and beyond from 1959 to 1977; and "A Hero Can Be Anyone," looking in part at the impact of movies and TV on the genre from the release of the first "Superman" film in 1978 to the present.

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