Concluding our look back at the Salkinds’ final contribution to theatrical super-films, the 1984 spin-off Supergirl.

To recap: Kara came to Earth as Supergirl in seach of OH! (the Omegahedron), an otherworldly power source needed for the survival of her extradimensional home, Argo City. Unfortunately, the OH! is being used by mad witch Selena (Faye Dunaway) to conquer the Earth, that is, just as soon as she gets gardener Ethan (Hart Bochner) to fall in love with her. The fly in the ointment is that Selena’s magic hit just a little off-target and caused him to fall in love with Kara (in her Earthly guise of Linda Lee) instead. Oops.

I really wanted to cover this in one week, but I’m too long-winded, so it looks like it will stretch to two.

If you bothered to read the synopsis of Ilya Salkind’s abandoned Superman III idea, you know that it revolved around Brainiac and Supergirl. Brainiac kinda-sorta made it through to Superman III in the form of an autonomous super-computer that almost kills Superman. Supergirl did not.

Because the Salkinds decided to give her her own film. The hope, obviously, was that this would launch a new franchise, now that Superman looked to be petering out.