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The Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1

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A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.9/10(720 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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

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  2. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 2 - Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)
    7.5/10(531 votes)

    #2 - Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Bryce Zabel

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  3. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 3 - Neverending Battle
    7.5/10(489 votes)

    #3 - Neverending Battle

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Dan Levine

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  4. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 4 - I'm Looking Through You
    7.1/10(461 votes)

    #4 - I'm Looking Through You

    S1:E4

    More than one "invisible man" terrorizes Metropolis; and Lois feels invisible to Superman, whose visibility as a celebrity has its price.

    Director:Mark Sobel
    Writer:Deborah Joy LeVine

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  5. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 5 - Requiem for a Superhero
    6.9/10(445 votes)

    #5 - Requiem for a Superhero

    S1:E5

    Lois kills a story exposing a fight scandal because its publication could get her father, a sports surgeon, killed.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Deborah Joy LeVine

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  6. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 6 - I've Got a Crush on You
    7.3/10(463 votes)

    #6 - I've Got a Crush on You

    S1:E6

    Lois and Clark go undercover at a nightclub to find out about a connection between the owners of the club and a group of arsonists called the "Toasters". Superman is able to put out the "Toasters" permanently.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Robert Killbrew

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  7. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 7 - Smart Kids
    6.7/10(439 votes)

    #7 - Smart Kids

    S1:E7

    A group of children who are drugging themselves by an experimental drug to increase the intelligence begins to bring problems to Metropolis. Clark is worried because the children told him that they know he is Superman.

    Director:Robert Singer
    Writer:Thania St. John

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  8. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 8 - The Green, Green Glow of Home
    7.8/10(451 votes)

    #8 - The Green, Green Glow of Home

    S1:E8

    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

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  9. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 9 - The Man of Steel Bars
    7.3/10(431 votes)

    #9 - The Man of Steel Bars

    S1:E9

    Metropolis is hit with a strong heat wave in the middle of winter, and people believe that Superman is the cause. Lex Luthor is ultimately behind the heat and wants to see Superman gone. Clark decides to leave Metropolis, but Lois finds out that the Luthor nuclear plant is to blame.

    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:Bryce Zabel

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  10. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 10 - Pheromone, My Lovely
    7.6/10(433 votes)

    #10 - Pheromone, My Lovely

    S1:E10

    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

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  11. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 11 - Honeymoon in Metropolis
    7.6/10(424 votes)

    #11 - Honeymoon in Metropolis

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 12 - All Shook Up
    7.6/10(418 votes)

    #12 - All Shook Up

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Félix Alcalá
    Writer:Bryce Zabel

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  13. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 13 - Witness
    7.2/10(398 votes)

    #13 - Witness

    S1:E13

    Lois' life is in danger when she witnesses the murderer of a scientist who was claiming to know the secret to increased male potency. Now, Clark and Perry need to protect her from the murderer Mr. Make-up and from the scientist's affair from the past : Barbara Trevino.

    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 14 - Illusions of Grandeur
    7.2/10(394 votes)

    #14 - Illusions of Grandeur

    S1:E14

    Lois and Clark need to find out the truth about the kidnapping of rich children who are disappearing in a magic box. A magician hypnotizes Superman and Lois, who is now in risk of life.

    Director:Michael W. Watkins
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 15 - The Ides of Metropolis
    6.8/10(395 votes)

    #15 - The Ides of Metropolis

    S1:E15

    Lois helps a convicted murderer (but he is innocent) allowing him to stay at her house. He is the only one with the cure for a destructive new computer virus that is a menace for Metropolis. Jonathan worries that Martha might be having an affair and comes to Clark's apartment.

    Director:Philip Sgriccia
    Writer:Deborah Joy LeVine

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  16. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 16 - Foundling
    7.6/10(396 votes)

    #16 - Foundling

    S1:E16

    The globe from Clark's spaceship begins to give him some information regarding his past, but the globe is stolen by 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:Unknown

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  17. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 17 - The Rival
    7.4/10(392 votes)

    #17 - The Rival

    S1:E17

    A Lois' ex-colleague is working for another newspaper who is strangely getting the major news before the Daily Planet and Lois gets jealous when she shows interest on Clark.

    Director:Michael W. Watkins
    Writers:Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  18. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 18 - Vatman
    7.3/10(395 votes)

    #18 - Vatman

    S1:E18

    Lex Luthor builds a clone of Superman, and teaches him to do what he wants, and what Lex wants is to destroy the real Superman.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 19 - Fly Hard
    7.6/10(397 votes)

    #19 - Fly Hard

    S1:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 20 - Barbarians at the Planet
    7.9/10(392 votes)

    #20 - Barbarians at the Planet

    S1:E20

    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

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  21. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 Episode 21 - The House of Luthor
    8.0/10(421 votes)

    #21 - The House of Luthor

    S1:E21

    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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 720 votes. Directed by Robert Butler and written by Deborah Joy LeVine, it aired on 9/12/1993. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)".