Superman on Television
"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" Episode Reviews
In conjunction with our "Lois & Clark" Episode Guide, the Episode Reviews presented on these pages are designed to give you the Superman Homepage reviewer's opinion on each "Lois & Clark" episode.BEFORE WE BEGIN...
After Crisis on Infinite Earths in the comic books lead to one Superman and the John Byrne helmed mini series Man of Steel, we also had a new take on Superman - he was now Clark Kent. Clark Kent was the man and Superman was what he could do.
The Adventures of Superboy was nearing the end of its fourth season and its 100th episode. It was frequently a ratings winner and was one of the first shows that allowed comic book writers to control the direction of a show. Legal ramifications shut production down and gave way a year later to a newer take on Clark.
Where Superboy was a loose continuation of Superman: The Movie, Lois Lane's Daily Planet was being produced by Deborah Joy Levine to be a totally fresh take on the mythos focusing on a woman in a man's world making a life for herself and a career as a journalist - Superman at this point was absent. However when Superboy's cape was yanked from TV, Superman was free to join the cast and with the Man of Steel miniseries as a reference guide Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman premiered on September 12, 1993.
The idea of the show was that people focused on Lois & Clark themselves and only them. The result brought in audiences young and old hoping to see Lois & Clark get married and live happily ever after, with some Superman action thrown in for good measure.
The series spawned a new generation of fans and annoyed a few comic book purists with its twist and turns but ultimately and arguably, Lois Lane and Clark Kent became the hottest couple of the nineties.
MAIN CAST
Dean Cain - Clark Kent/Superman
Teri Hatcher - Lois Lane
Lane Smith - Perry White
Michael Landes - Jimmy Olsen (Season 1 only)
Justin Whalin - Jimmy Olsen (Seasons 2-4)
Tracy Scoggins - Cat Grant
K Callan - Martha Kent
Eddie Jones - Jonathan Kent
John Shea - Lex Luthor
Reviews
Season 1
- Pilot
- Strange Visitor (from Another Planet)
- Neverending Battle
- I'm Looking Through You
- Requiem for a Superhero
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Smart Kids
- The Green, Green Glow of Home
- The Man of Steel Bars
- Pheromone, My Lovely
- Honeymoon in Metropolis
- All Shook Up
- Witness
- Illusions of Grandeur
- The Ides of Metropolis
- Foundling
- The Rival
- Vatman
- Fly Hard
- Barbarians at the Planet
- The House of Luthor
Season 2
- Madame Ex
- Wall of Sound
- The Source
- The Prankster
- Church of Metropolis
- Operation Blackout
- That Old Gang of Mine
- A Bolt from the Blue
- Season's Greedings
- Metallo
- Chi of Steel
- The Eyes Have It
- The Phoenix
- Top Copy
- Return of the Prankster
- Lucky Leon
- Resurrection
- Tempus Fugitive
- Target: Jimmy Olsen!
- Individual Responsibility
- Whine, Whine, Whine
- And the Answer Is...
Season 3
- We Have a Lot to Talk About
- Ordinary People
- Contact
- When Irish Eyes Are Killing
- Just Say Noah
- Don't Tug On Superman's Cape
- Ultra Woman
- Chip Off the Old Clark
- Super Mann
- Virtually Destroyed
- Home is Where the Hurt Is
- Never on Sunday
- The Dad Who Came in from the Cold
- Tempus Anyone?
- I Now Pronounce You...
- Double Jeopardy
- Seconds
- Forget Me Not
- Oedipus Wrecks
- It's a Small World After All
- Through a Glass Darkly
- Big Girls Don't Fly
Season 4
- Lord of the Flys
- Battleground Earth
- Swear to God, This Time We're Not Kidding
- Soul Mates
- Brutal Youth
- The People v. Lois Lane
- Dead Lois Walking
- Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark
- Ghosts
- Stop The Presses
- Twas the Night Before Mxymas
- Lethal Weapon
- Sex, Lies and Videotape
- Meet John Doe
- Lois and Clarks
- AKA Superman
- Faster Than a Speeding Vixen
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Voice from the Past
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Toy Story
- The Family Hour
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