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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Sep 12, 199393 mins
Clark Kent comes to Metropolis looking for a job at the Daily Planet. Perry White first dismisses him as he has no experience. He later goes out to get a story about a theater being torn down which convinces White to accept him because he has initiative. Lois Lane is intent on uncovering a plan to sabotage a mission to save the space station Prometheus. White teams Lois up with the rookie Clark due to all the experienced reporters being unavailable. Meanwhile, Clark is frustrated that he cannot use his powers to help others without exposing himself and jeopardizing his chance at leading a normal life. He consults his mother, Martha Kent, and the two come up with the Superman costume. The wealthy Lex Luthor announces plans for a space station to replace Prometheus.
Episode 2
Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)
Sun, Sep 26, 199346 mins
The Daily Planet is raided by people claiming to be from the US government. Lois and Clark are immediately their first targets, as both are connected with Superman. They are interviewed, their notes and computers seized. As it turns out, these men are not who they say at all, their search warrants being fake, but from a secret government branch investigating aliens. Lois and Clark are determined to get to the bottom of this, but for different reasons. This is the chance for Clark to find out where he came from and who he really is.
Episode 3
Neverending Battle
Sun, Oct 3, 199347 mins
Everyone is after Superman. Lex Luthor wants to know how strong and fast he is. He designs various tests for Superman, including having people jump off buildings. Lois is infatuated with the man in tights and is determine to find out as much as she can about him. After having had a story stolen from him, Clark decides to get even with her by sending Lois out on a wild goose chase for Superman's spaceship.
Episode 4
I'm Looking Through You
Sun, Oct 10, 199347 mins
Superman becomes a celebrity in Metropolis and elsewhere in the country. T-shirts, pajamas, baseball caps and other items bearing his logo are on sale everywhere. Clark is overwhelmed by all this and isn't sure that this is what he wants. At the same time, a invisible man appears in the city. At first, he is a Robin Hood-like figure, stealing from the rich and giving the loot to the poor. Later on, however, more serious crimes are reportedly committed by invisible people. The original invisible man teams up with Lois and Clark to catch the bad guys.
Episode 5
Requiem for a Superhero
Sun, Oct 17, 199345 mins
Lois and Clark are assigned to cover a large boxing match in the city and find that several of the fighters seem stronger than the average mortal man. They begin to investigate only to have a dear family friend of Lois' killed for knowing too much and then discover that the man behind it all is Lois's estranged father, Dr. Sam Lane a legend in the world of sports medicine.
Episode 6
I've Got a Crush on You
Sun, Oct 24, 199346 mins
Lois decides to go undercover at a club which is a front for crime family. Clark decides to go undercover as well. When the sister usurps her brother, she makes a move on Clark. And to stay on her good side he outs Lois.
Episode 7
Smart Kids
Sun, Oct 31, 199346 mins
Four children breaks out of a special boarding school for troubled kids. Once out, the self-dubbed smart kids manage to disrupt Metropolis, replacing water with detergent and once in a while broadcast themselves on every TV channels. Meanwhile, a scientist in charge of the school is frantically looking for them. When one of the children is temporary under Lois's supervision, she learns that there is something sinister going on at the school.
Episode 8
The Green, Green Glow of Home
Sun, Nov 14, 199346 mins
A Smallville farmer and friend of the Kents discover a piece of kryptonite on his farm. When the farmer disappears and a government agency takes over his farm, Lois and Clark go to Smallville to find out the truth. Clark gets exposed to kryptonite and learns about the effect it has on him.
Episode 9
The Man of Steel Bars
Sun, Nov 21, 199347 mins
During an unnaturally extreme winter heat wave, Superman is accused of being the cause.
Episode 10
Pheromone, My Lovely
Sun, Nov 28, 199347 mins
A series of romantic complications unfolds as a chemist sprays the newsroom with a pheromone induced perfume.
Episode 11
Honeymoon in Metropolis
Sun, Dec 12, 199347 mins
Lois Lane takes a vacation and happens to spy a congressman possibly making a dirty deal involving a top secret government project. Back at the Daily Planet, Perry White decides to send his two best reporters to keep spying. The catch, however, is that Lois and Clark has to pretend to be a newly married couple during their stay at the luxurious hotel. While on the story, they experience what it is like to live with someone else.
Episode 12
All Shook Up
Sun, Jan 2, 199447 mins
An asteroid is headed for earth and it becomes Superman's mission to stop the impending disaster. He flies into space and intercepts the asteroid at high speed to destroy it. This attempt is only partially successful, and worse Superman seems to be missing and Clark is found with amnesia.
Episode 13
Witness
Sun, Jan 9, 199447 mins
During an interview with an eccentric scientist, Lois unwittingly learns of a great conspiracy to destroy the environment and becomes a witness to her interviewee's murder. Once her story is published, she becomes the target that must be eliminated at all cost. Lois and Clark must race against time to unearth the conspiracy while evading the assassin who has been ordered to kill Lois.
Episode 14
Illusions of Grandeur
Sun, Jan 23, 199446 mins
Lois and Clark believe that a string of kidnappings is linked to a magical box decorated with moons and stars. They decide to investigate a magic club where they meet the self-proclaimed greatest magician in the world. Things begin to get serious when the kidnapper manages to hypnotize Superman.
Episode 15
The Ides of Metropolis
Sun, Feb 6, 199447 mins
Eugene Laderman, convicted of murdering Henry Harrison, escapes. Then he kidnaps Lois at gunpoint and convinces her he did not commit murder. But if Laderman didn't kill Harrison, who did? The answer lies in a sinister piece of software called The Ides of Metropolis, and in the curious change of personality Harrison's wife experienced after Laderman's conviction.
Episode 16
Foundling
Sun, Feb 20, 199447 mins
Clark discovers that the Kryptonian orb contains recordings made by his father, Jor-El. But he has barely begun to explore them when a young thief steals the artifact and sells it to the worst possible buyer: Lex Luthor.
Episode 17
The Rival
Sun, Feb 27, 199446 mins
The Metropolis Star seems able to scoop the Daily Planet on every story. Lois and Clark cannot discover how, until Clark embarks on a plan to investigate the Star and its publisher Preston Carpenter, a man in the mold of Charles Foster Kane.
Episode 18
Vatman
Sun, Mar 13, 199447 mins
Superman saves a crippled jet near Paris - while Clark Kent is in the newsroom of the Daily Planet. How can Superman be one place, and Clark another, since they are the same man? And yet, this new Superman seems to have the costume, the powers - everything Superman has. Except, perhaps, the solid moral background of Jonathan and Martha Kent. What he does have is a quite different set of moral codes, taught to him by an old adversary of Superman's who means to use the young look-alike to end Superman's career permanently.
Episode 19
Fly Hard
Sun, Mar 27, 199446 mins
Criminals burst into the Daily Planet offices and take most of the employees there prisoner. Only Jimmy manages to escape, eventually finding his way into the ventilation ducts. The criminals want to plunder the secret vault of Prohibition era racketeer Dragonetti, and they'll do it thanks to a set of old blueprints and the information provided by their mysterious boss. Superman risks nuclear catastrophe if he attempts to intervene!
Episode 20
Barbarians at the Planet
Sun, May 1, 199447 mins
Lex proposes to a surprised Lois. This in turn also prompts Clark to confess his love for her. Lois on the other hand confronts Superman about her love for him. Someone detonates a bomb at the Daily Planet forcing the paper to its knees, Perry White to early retirement, Jimmy to unemployment, Jack to jail and Lois into the arms of Lex Luthor.
Episode 21
The House of Luthor
Sun, May 8, 199447 mins
Clark, Perry, Jimmy and Jack start investigating the bombing and sale of the Daily Planet. Meanwhile, Lois and Lex prepare for their big day.
