All Episodes of Smallville
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Season 1
7.9/1043 votesPilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2001
The first episode tells the story of the meteor shower that hit Smallville and changed life in the Kansas town forever. Clark Kent meets Lex Luthor for the first time and encounters the first in a long line of humans mutated by the strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to Earth.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
7.5/1024 votesMetamorphosis
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2001
Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.
Director: Michael W. Watkins, Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
7.5/1019 votesHothead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2001
An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Greg Walker
7.6/1018 votesX-Ray
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2001
Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and get others in trouble.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.8/1018 votesCool
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2001
A jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Michael Green
8.1/1018 votesHourglass
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2001
An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
7.8/1017 votesCraving
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/2001
A weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream...but must feed on the fat of others to maintain her enhanced appearance.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Michael Green
8.1/1016 votesJitters
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2001
An experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Jeff Gottesfeld, Cherie Bennett
7.9/1014 votesRogue
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/2002
Clark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.3/1015 votesShimmer
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2002
Lex and Victoria are victims of a suspected household poltergeist. As the disturbances become more violent, suspicion lands on Amy, the daughter of a house servant who is obsessed with Lex. Not is all as it seems...
Director: D.J. Caruso
Writer: Mark Verheiden, Michael Green
8.3/1016 votesHug
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2002
A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. Clark befriends a local recluse with secrets of his own.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
8.6/1015 votesLeech
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2002
Clark's powers are transferred into a classmate during a freak juxtaposition of meteor and storm. Clark must deal with being normal for the first time, and his classmate Eric is unable to cope with the new powers. Can Clark stop Eric's rampage without his abilities?
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Tim Schlattmann
7.6/1014 votesKinetic
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/2002
Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Philip Levens
7.7/1015 votesZero
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/12/2002
A man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted child.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Unknown
8.3/1016 votesNicodemus
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/2002
A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Unknown
8.8/1016 votesStray
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2002
A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Philip Levens
7.4/1014 votesReaper
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/2002
Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex spar over Lionel's rising success in Smallville.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Cameron Litvack
7.3/1014 votesDrone
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2002
Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Michael Green, Philip Levens
7.8/1016 votesCrush
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2002
Former Smallville High cartoonist Justin returns to Smallville after he loses the use of his hands in a hit and run accident. Meanwhile, Lex's former nanny, Pamela, comes back to see how he's doing and to apologize for leaving him after his mother's death, bringing up some old issues for Lex.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough, Philip Levens
8.1/1015 votesObscura
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/2002
After an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer...and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine that something besides meteors hit Smallville that day.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Unknown
8.6/1017 votesTempest
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2002
Lex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Unknown