Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action television series based on the Superman comic books. It should not be confused with the animated series created from Filmation Association, in 1966, that has a very similar title.
It first aired between 1993 and 1997, and starred Dean Cain as Superman/Clark Kent, Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane and John Shea as Lex Luthor. As the title suggests, it focused as much on the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane as on the adventures of Clark's superpowered alter-ego.
The plot is as follows: In 1966, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness the crash-landing of a small spaceship near Smallville, Kansas. When they investigate the craft, they discover the baby Kal-El. The Kents decide to raise Kal-El as their own, naming him "Clark Jerome Kent". 27 years later, Clark moves to Metropolis and gets a job at the Daily Planet. There, he is partnered with Lois Lane, who at first considers him little more than a pest. Eventually, however, the two fall in love and marry after a turbulent courtship.
A key turning-point in the series was the 1996 episode in which Lois and Clark were married, which was timed to coincide with the corresponding event in the comic books. This is also the point at which the show is said to have jumped the shark, as the key element of Lois' ignorance of his true identity was no longer present.
The series generally followed comic book writer John Byrne's 1986 retcon of the Superman mythos, in which Superman is the secret identity and Clark Kent is the true personality. In the episode "Tempus Fugitive", written by Jack Weinstein and Lee Hutson, Clark tells Lois, "Superman is what I can do. Clark is who I am." This attitude was carried through in the other major TV adaptation of Superman, Smallville.
In the United Kingdom, the series was simply known as The New Adventures of Superman.
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Episode List
Season 1
- Episode 1-01 Pilot (Part 1) (Airdate: September 12, 1993)
- Episode 1-02 Pilot (Part 2) (Airdate: September 12, 1993)
- Episode 1-03 Strange Visitor (Airdate: September 26, 1993)
- Episode 1-04 Neverending Battle (Airdate: October 3. 1993)
- Episode 1-05 I'm Looking Through You (Airdate: October 10, 1993)
- Episode 1-06 Requiem for a Superhero (Airdate: October 17, 1993)
- Episode 1-07 I've Got a Crush on You (Airdate: October 24, 1993)
- Episode 1-08 Smart Kids (Airdate: October 31, 1993)
- Episode 1-09 The Green, Green Glow of Home (Airdate: November 14, 1993)
- Episode 1-10 The Man of Steel Bars (Airdate: November 21, 1993)
- Episode 1-11 Pheromone, My Lovely (Airdate: November 28, 1993)
- Episode 1-12 Honeymoon in Metropolis (Airdate: December 12, 1993)
- Episode 1-13 All Shook Up (Airdate: January 2, 1994)
- Episode 1-14 Witness (Airdate: January 9, 1994)
- Episode 1-15 Illusions of Grandeur (Airdate: January 23, 1994)
- Episode 1-16 The Ides of Metropolis (Airdate: February 6, 1994)
- Episode 1-17 Foundling (Airdate: February 20, 1994)
- Episode 1-18 The Rival (Airdate: February 27, 1994)
- Episode 1-19 Vatman (Airdate: March 13, 1994)
- Episode 1-20 Fly Hard (Airdate: March 27, 1994)
- Episode 1-21 Barbarians at the Planet (Part 1) (Airdate: May 1, 1994)
- Episode 1-22 The House of Luthor (Part 2) (Airdate: May 8, 1994)
Season 2
- Episode 2-01 Madame Ex (Airdate: September 18, 1994)
- Episode 2-02 Wall of Sound (Airdate: September 25, 1994)
- Episode 2-03 The Source (Airdate: October 2, 1994)
- Episode 2-04 The Prankster (Airdate: October 9, 1994)
- Episode 2-05 Church of Metropolis (Airdate: October 23, 1994)
- Episode 2-06 Operation Blackout (Airdate: October 30, 1994)
- Episode 2-07 That Old Gang of Mine (Airdate: November 13, 1994)
- Episode 2-08 A Bolt from the Blue (Airdate: November 20, 1994)
- Episode 2-09 Season's Greedings (Airdate: December 4, 1994)
- Episode 2-10 Metallo (Airdate: January 1, 1995)
- Episode 2-11 Chi of Steel (Airdate: January 8, 1995)
- Episode 2-12 The Eyes Have (Airdate: It January 22, 1995)
- Episode 2-13 The Phoenix (Airdate: February 12, 1995)
- Episode 2-14 Top Copy (Airdate: February 19, 1995)
- Episode 2-15 Return of the Prankster (Airdate: February 26, 1995)
- Episode 2-16 Lucky Leon (Airdate: March 12, 1995)
- Episode 2-17 Resurrection (Airdate: March 19, 1995)
- Episode 2-18 Tempus Fugitive (Airdate: March 26, 1995)
- Episode 2-19 Target: Jimmy Olsen! (Airdate: April 2, 1995)
- Episode 2-20 Individual Responsibility (Airdate: April 16, 1995)
- Episode 2-21 Whine, Whine, Whine (Airdate: May 14, 1995)
- Episode 2-22 And the Answer Is... (Airdate: May 21, 1995)
Season 3
- Episode 3-01 ...We Have a Lot to Talk About (Airdate: September 17, 1995)
- Episode 3-02 Ordinary People (Airdate: September 24, 1995)
- Episode 3-03 Contact (Airdate: October 1, 1995)
- Episode 3-04 When Irish Eyes Are Killing (Airdate: October 15, 1995)
- Episode 3-05 Just Say Noah (Airdate: October 22, 1995)
- Episode 3-06 Don't Tug on Superman's Cape (Airdate: November 5, 1995)
- Episode 3-07 Ultra Woman (Airdate: November 12, 1995)
- Episode 3-08 Chip Off the Old Clark (Airdate: November 19, 1995)
- Episode 3-09 Super Mann (Airdate: November 26, 1995)
- Episode 3-10 Virtually Destroyed (Airdate: December 10, 1995)
- Episode 3-11 Home Is Where the Hurt Is (Airdate: December 17, 1995)
- Episode 3-12 Never on Sunday (Airdate: January 7, 1996)
- Episode 3-13 The Dad Who Came in from the Cold (Airdate: January 14, 1996)
- Episode 3-14 Tempus Anyone? (Airdate: January 21, 1996)
- Episode 3-15 I Now Pronounce You... (Airdate: February 11, 1996)
- Episode 3-16 Double Jeopardy (Airdate: February 18, 1996)
- Episode 3-17 Seconds (Airdate: February 25, 1996)
- Episode 3-18 Forget Me Not (Airdate: March 10, 1996)
- Episode 3-19 Oedipus Wrecks (Airdate: March 24, 1996)
- Episode 3-20 It's a Small World After All (Airdate: April 28, 1996)
- Episode 3-21 Through a Glass, Darkly (Airdate: May 5, 1996)
- Episode 3-22 Big Girls Don't Fly (Airdate: May 12, 1996)
Season 4
- Episode 4-01 Lord of the Flys (Part 1) (Airdate: September 22, 1996)
- Episode 4-02 Battleground Earth (Part 2) (Airdate: September 29, 1996)
- Episode 4-03 Swear to God, This Time We're Not Kidding (Airdate: October 6, 1996)
- Episode 4-04 Soul Mates (Airdate: October 13, 1996)
- Episode 4-05 Brutal Youth (Airdate: October 20, 1996)
- Episode 4-06 The People vs. Lois Lane (Part 1) (Airdate: October 27, 1996)
- Episode 4-07 Dead Lois Walking (Part 2) (Airdate: November 10, 1996)
- Episode 4-08 Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark (Airdate: November 17, 1996)
- Episode 4-09 Ghosts (Airdate: November 24, 1996)
- Episode 4-10 Stop the Presses (Airdate: December 8, 1996)
- Episode 4-11 'Twas the Night Before Mxymas (Airdate: December 15, 1996)
- Episode 4-12 Lethal Weapon (Airdate: January 5, 1997)
- Episode 4-13 Sex, Lies and Videotape (Airdate: January 19, 1997)
- Episode 4-14 Meet John Doe (Part 1) (Airdate: March 2, 1997)
- Episode 4-15 Lois and Clarks (Part 2) (Airdate: March 9, 1997)
- Episode 4-16 AKA Superman (Airdate: March 16, 1997)
- Episode 4-17 Faster than a Speeding Vixen (Part 1) (Airdate: April 12, 1997)
- Episode 4-18 Shadow of a Doubt (Part 2) (Airdate: April 19, 1997)
- Episode 4-19 Voice from the Past (Part 3) (Airdate: April 26, 1997)
- Episode 4-20 I've Got You Under My Skin (Airdate: May 31, 1997)
- Episode 4-21 Toy Story (Airdate: June 7, 1997)
- Episode 4-22 The Family Hour (Airdate: June 14, 1997)