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The Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Every episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman!

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Tempus Fugitive" is the best rated episode of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman". It scored 8.3/10 based on 410 votes. Directed by James R. Bagdonas and written by N/A, it aired on 3/26/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "And the Answer Is...".

  • Tempus Fugitive
    8.3/10410 votes
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    #1 - Tempus Fugitive

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/26/1995

    Lois and Clark need to travel to 1966 with the help of H.G. Wells and his time machine to prevent a villain from the future who wants to destroy the baby Superman. The villain tells Lois about Clark's most important secret...his secret identity!

    Director: James R. Bagdonas

    Writer: N/A

  • And the Answer Is...
    8.2/10334 votes
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    #2 - And the Answer Is...

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1995

    Superman's real identity is in danger of being exposed by a diary written by a man from the future. Clark finally asks Lois to marry him, but the question she asks is even bigger.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

  • The House of Luthor
    8.0/10386 votes
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    #3 - The House of Luthor

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1994

    Lois's mom arrives for her daughter's wedding to Lex, but Lois's pals have other plans.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine

  • Pilot
    7.9/10645 votes
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    #4 - Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1993

    Clark Kent becomes embroiled in a story involving Lex Luthor and a plot to sabotage a space launch.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine

  • The Green, Green Glow of Home
    7.9/10410 votes
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    #5 - The Green, Green Glow of Home

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1993

    A friend of Jonathan and Martha has found a strange meteorite. Jason Trask is back and now he is in Smallville, looking for this meteorite that can destroy Superman. Lois and Clark go to Smallville to investigate the story and Clark introduces her to his parents.

    Director: Les Landau

    Writer: Bryce Zabel

  • Barbarians at the Planet
    7.9/10355 votes
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    #6 - Barbarians at the Planet

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1994

    Lex throws Lois for a loop by proposing marriage. Meanwhile, Clark smells a rat when Lex "saves" the Daily Planet from going under.

    Director: James R. Bagdonas

    Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine

  • We Have a Lot to Talk About
    7.9/10349 votes
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    #7 - We Have a Lot to Talk About

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1995

    Will Lois accept Clark's marriage proposal? The question lingers while Metropolis becomes strangely crime-free.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: John McNamara

  • Ultra Woman
    7.9/10308 votes
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    #8 - Ultra Woman

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1995

    Using a red-kryptonite laser, two evil sisters inadvertently empower Lois as Metropolis's newest superhero--Ultra Woman.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

  • Madame Ex
    7.7/10681 votes
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    #9 - Madame Ex

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1994

    Luthor's ex-wife, Arianna, comes to Metropolis and creates an exact, but evil copy of Lois. The real Lois, with Clark, begins to investigate who's behind this creation. She discovers that Lex was already married when he tried to marry her. Arianna tries to kill Superman, because she believes he is responsible for Lex Luthor's death.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

  • The Phoenix
    7.7/10318 votes
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    #10 - The Phoenix

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/1995

    Lex is back from the dead by the hands of Dr. Gretchen Kelly, and now he wants to get Lois back and destroy Superman. Clark asks Lois out on a date, but, when she accepts, Perry sends them in a stakeout. Then, Lois and Clark call it the ""almost first date"".

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

  • Tempus, Anyone?
    7.7/10301 votes
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    #11 - Tempus, Anyone?

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1996

    Time traveler Tempus returns to snatch Lois away to a parallel universe, where she links up with H.G. Wells--and a more cynical Clark.

    Director: Winrich Kolbe

    Writer: John McNamara

  • Pheromone, My Lovely
    7.6/10393 votes
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    #12 - Pheromone, My Lovely

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1993

    An ex-lover of Lex Luthor spreads a perfume in the Daily Planet and everybody begins to fall in love with each other. Lois falls for Clark, the only one who isn't affected by the perfume and he tries not to take advantage of her. Without the perfume effects, Lex tells Nigel that he is in love with Lois.

    Director: Bill D'Elia

    Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine

  • Honeymoon in Metropolis
    7.6/10386 votes
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    #13 - Honeymoon in Metropolis

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1993

    Lois and Clark go undercover as honeymooners to a Metropolis hotel in an attempt to find out about a possible conspiracy which seems to involve a powerful congressman. They also need to learn how to share their lives with someone.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: N/A

  • All Shook Up
    7.6/10377 votes
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    #14 - All Shook Up

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1994

    Superman loses his memory--and awareness of his superhuman abilities--in a cosmic collision with an asteroid heading straight for Earth.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: Bryce Zabel

  • Foundling
    7.6/10358 votes
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    #15 - Foundling

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1994

    The globe from Clark's spaceship begins to give him some information regarding his past, but the globe is stolen for two kids before he can learn much. Lex Luthor buys the globe from Jack and begins to learn something about Superman, but not too much.

    Director: Bill D'Elia

    Writer: N/A

  • Fly Hard
    7.6/10361 votes
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    #16 - Fly Hard

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/1994

    A group of terrorists take Clark, Lois, Perry, Jimmy, Jack and Lex hostage in the Daily Planet and Clark is not able do anything with his Superman powers or the others will figure out his secret identity.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: N/A

  • Whine, Whine, Whine
    7.6/10319 votes
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    #17 - Whine, Whine, Whine

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/1995

    Superman saves the life of a musician, but instead of ""thank you"", the musician wants to sue him because he ""broke"" his arm. Then, many people of Metropolis begins to fake injures caused by Superman. After finally give up of her love for Superman, Lois needs to choose who's the one she is going to be together with : Clark Kent or Dan Scardino.

    Director: Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: John McNamara, Kathy McCormick

  • Big Girls Don't Fly
    7.6/10286 votes
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    #18 - Big Girls Don't Fly

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1996

    As the aliens bring Superman knowledge of his past and his destiny, a terrifying assassin is dispatched to dispose of the superhero. Meanwhile, Lois fears that Clark is drifting away from her.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner

  • Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)
    7.5/10482 votes
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    #19 - Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1993

    A probe into alien threats to national security leads to the Daily Planet--and a search for Superman.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Bryce Zabel

  • Neverending Battle
    7.5/10449 votes
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    #20 - Neverending Battle

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1993

    Perry White orders the Daily Planeteers to draw out Superman, but Lex may be one step ahead.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Daniel Levine

  • 'Twas the Night Before Mxymas
    7.5/10277 votes
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    #21 - 'Twas the Night Before Mxymas

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1996

    An elfin visitor puts Daily Planet Christmas Eve partygoers into a time loop--and plunges the city into hopelessness and despair.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: Tim Minear

  • Church of Metropolis
    7.4/10322 votes
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    #22 - Church of Metropolis

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1994

    The ""Intergang"", a new criminal organization tries to control south Metropolis and Superman is powerless because of their threats against everyone closest to him. Lois gets jealous when the investigator in charge, Mayson Drake, begins to show interest in Clark.

    Director: Robert Singer

    Writer: John McNamara

  • That Old Gang of Mine
    7.4/10347 votes
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    #23 - That Old Gang of Mine

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1994

    Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde return from the dead by the hands of a scientist. They start a crime wave in Metropolis and when one of them shoots Clark, he needs to fake his own death to protect his identity.

    Director: Lorraine Senna

    Writer: N/A

  • Season's Greedings
    7.4/10372 votes
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    #24 - Season's Greedings

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1994

    A fired and vengeful toyman creates a toy which can make the adults act like children, and sure, all the Daily Planet gang will be affected too, even Clark.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: N/A

  • Top Copy
    7.4/10317 votes
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    #25 - Top Copy

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/1995

    When a famous television reporter (and also an assassin from the Intergang) finds out Superman's true identity, she wants to show the information to the world. How will Clark hide the truth from the world now?

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: John McNamara