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

Every episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"When Irish Eyes Are Killing" is the worst rated episode of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman". It scored 6.5/10 based on 293 votes. Directed by Winrich Kolbe and written by Grant Rosenberg, it aired on 10/15/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Contact".

  • When Irish Eyes Are Killing
    6.5/10293 votes
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    #1 - When Irish Eyes Are Killing

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1995

    Lois tries to convince Clark that his decision to break up is a mistake. When an old Lois' friend comes to Metropolis, she tries to make Clark jealous. But this friend has plans to use her in a Druid sacrifice. Clark finally realizes that he can't stay without Lois, but that may be too late now.

    Director: Winrich Kolbe

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • Contact
    6.6/10349 votes
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    #2 - Contact

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1995

    Lois claims to have been abducted by aliens, and Superman feels powerless to help when she slips into trances.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Chris Ruppenthal

  • Ghosts
    6.6/10259 votes
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    #3 - Ghosts

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1996

    A con artist is after the Kents' brownstone, and he summons the ghost of a woman who was murdered there to scare the couple away.

    Director: Robert Ginty

    Writer: Michael Gleason

  • Smart Kids
    6.7/10399 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Super Mann
    6.7/10280 votes
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    #5 - Super Mann

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1995

    When Lois and Clark finally begin with the wedding plans, they must stop again and investigate a Nazi organization which is trying to take over Metropolis.

    Director: James R. Bagdonas

    Writer: Chris Ruppenthal

  • Forget Me Not
    6.7/10264 votes
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    #6 - Forget Me Not

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1996

    While at a sanitarium to regain her memory, Lois becomes a candidate for a sinister doctor's behavior experiments.

    Director: James R. Bagdonas

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • Oedipus Wrecks
    6.7/10269 votes
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    #7 - Oedipus Wrecks

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/24/1996

    An electromagnetic surge opens a floodgate of memories for Lois just as Dr. Deter tries to purge all thoughts of Clark from her mind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Simkins

  • Soul Mates
    6.7/10280 votes
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    #8 - Soul Mates

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1996

    As the newlyweds are about to consummate their marriage, time traveler H.G. Wells arrives with news that a curse threatens to strike them down.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Brad Kern

  • The Ides of Metropolis
    6.8/10356 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Chi of Steel
    6.8/10323 votes
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    #10 - Chi of Steel

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/1995

    Lois and Clark investigate several robberies commited by a thief who is a ninja with mystical bracelets. These bracelets can give to a person power to kill Superman, using a mystical power named Chi.

    Director: James Hayman

    Writer: Hilary Bader

  • Return of the Prankster
    6.8/10307 votes
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    #11 - Return of the Prankster

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/1995

    When the Prankster escapes the prison, he continues with his plans to torment Lois' life, and now he also wants to kidnap the president of the United States.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • Just Say Noah
    6.8/10289 votes
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    #12 - Just Say Noah

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1995

    Lois and Clark go undercover as husband and wife to investigate missing couples in the Larry Smiley Institute, a place to help couples to repair problems in their marriages. They will find Larry's true plans and will find their romance again.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner

  • Never on Sunday
    6.8/10272 votes
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    #13 - Never on Sunday

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1996

    Ellen Lane hires a wedding coordinator to help on Lois and Clark's wedding, now the plans for a small ceremony are gone...And a magician with designs on vengeance is now in Metropolis against some people, including Clark.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • Double Jeopardy
    6.8/10274 votes
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    #14 - Double Jeopardy

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1996

    Sparks aren't flying in Clark's marriage. Meanwhile, Lois's life plays out like a bad novel after Lex escapes from prison.

    Director: Chris Long

    Writer: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner

  • Requiem for a Superhero
    6.9/10404 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Metallo
    6.9/10327 votes
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    #16 - Metallo

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/1995

    Lucy Lane is working in Metropolis again, and now she has a new boyfriend named Johnny. He's turned into a cyborg body powered with kryptonite by the hands of two doctors. When Johnny finds out what he really is now, he tries to defeat Superman.

    Director: James R. Bagdonas

    Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

  • Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark
    6.9/10245 votes
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    #17 - Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1996

    The newlyweds get chummy with a new couple as Superman encounters a new adversary--known as Deathstroke.

    Director: Oz Scott

    Writer: N/A

  • Lethal Weapon
    6.9/10237 votes
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    #18 - Lethal Weapon

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1997

    Just as an extortionist threatens to level Metropolis, Superman's powers go haywire, thanks to exposure to red kryptonite.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • AKA Superman
    6.9/10242 votes
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    #19 - AKA Superman

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/16/1997

    Jimmy's new girlfriend is a Superman fan who thinks that Jimmy is the disguised Man of Steel.

    Director: Robert Ginty

    Writer: Jeff Vlaming

  • Toy Story
    6.9/10224 votes
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    #20 - Toy Story

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 6/7/1997

    Toys are involved in the abductions of orphans, Dr. Klein and the daughter of a toy-company board member.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Brad Kern

  • Wall of Sound
    7.0/10332 votes
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    #21 - Wall of Sound

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1994

    A villain creates a sound-based weapon that can affect Metropolis and Superman. Clark is nominated for the Kerth Awards, and Lois gets mad because she won this prize three years in a row and now she won't get the prize.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: John McNamara

  • A Bolt from the Blue
    7.0/10319 votes
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    #22 - A Bolt from the Blue

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1994

    When Superman tries to save a man from suicide, a lightning strikes both. Few minutes later, the man is very strong and can fly...yeah, now he has Superman's powers too. Then he decides to be a superhero, and tries to make money with his ""advantages"", leaving Superman very mad about this. As soon as Dr. Gretchen Kelly finds out about this, she makes a plan to re-duplicate the lightning incident and kidnaps Lois to attract Superman.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: Kathy McCormick

  • It's a Small World After All
    7.0/10271 votes
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    #23 - It's a Small World After All

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1996

    A vengeful former classmate, armed with a formula to shrink her enemies, proves no small worry for Lois at their high-school reunion.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: N/A

  • Stop the Presses
    7.0/10243 votes
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    #24 - Stop the Presses

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1996

    A new editor takes over Perry's office; and a computer hacker taps into classified files to learn the source of Superman's powers--and kill him.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: Brad Kern

  • Faster than a Speeding Vixen (1)
    7.0/10236 votes
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    #25 - Faster than a Speeding Vixen (1)

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/1997

    Superman contends with a tough female competitor; the Planet gets a new owner; and corporate CEOs begin disappearing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Brad Kern