7.9/10645 votes#1 - 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
7.5/10482 votes#2 - 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
7.5/10449 votes#3 - 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
7.1/10421 votes#4 - I'm Looking Through You
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1993
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
6.9/10407 votes#5 - Requiem for a Superhero
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1993
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
7.3/10421 votes#6 - I've Got a Crush on You
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1993
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
6.7/10401 votes#7 - Smart Kids
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1993
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
7.9/10410 votes#8 - 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
7.3/10390 votes#9 - The Man of Steel Bars
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1993
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
7.6/10393 votes#10 - 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
7.6/10386 votes#11 - 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
7.6/10377 votes#12 - 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
7.1/10363 votes#13 - Witness
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1994
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: N/A
7.2/10360 votes#14 - Illusions of Grandeur
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1994
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: N/A
6.8/10358 votes#15 - The Ides of Metropolis
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1994
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
7.6/10358 votes#16 - 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
7.3/10354 votes#17 - The Rival
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1994
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
Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson
7.2/10358 votes#18 - Vatman
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1994
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: N/A
7.6/10361 votes#19 - 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
7.9/10355 votes#20 - 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
8.0/10386 votes#21 - 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
The Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1
Every episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 1!
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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 645 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)".