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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 1
Season 1 · Superman live action · Sep 12, 1993 · 21 episodes
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Plot
Season 1, 21 episodes, first aired Sep 12, 1993.
About the show
This show was based on Superman (Dean Cain) being a Generation X man. In his twenties, somewhere Clark Kent (Dean Cain) must experience life as a pre-thirties pupil. Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), as always, is by his side at the Daily Planet, adding that oh-so-ever romantic side to his life. The relationship between Lois and Clark, is as always, a platonic but on the edge of mad love, type of experience.
Trailer
Lois and Clark - Season One Epic Trailer
Episodes
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Episode 1: Pilot
Clark Kent becomes embroiled in a story involving Lex Luthor and a plot to sabotage a space launch.
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Episode 2: Strange Visitor (From Another Planet)
A probe into alien threats to national security leads to the Daily Planet--and a search for Superman.
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Episode 3: Neverending Battle
Perry White orders the Daily Planeteers to draw out Superman, but Lex may be one step ahead.
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Episode 4: I'm Looking Through You
More than one "invisible man" terrorizes Metropolis; and Lois feels invisible to Superman, whose visibility as a celebrity has its price.
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Episode 5: Requiem for a Superhero
Lois kills a story exposing a fight scandal because its publication could get her father, a sports surgeon, killed.
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Episode 6: I've Got a Crush on You
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.
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Episode 7: Smart Kids
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.
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Episode 8: The Green, Green Glow of Home
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.
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Episode 9: The Man of Steel Bars
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.
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Episode 10: Pheromone, My Lovely
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.
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Episode 11: Honeymoon in Metropolis
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.
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Episode 12: All Shook Up
Superman loses his memory--and awareness of his superhuman abilities--in a cosmic collision with an asteroid heading straight for Earth.
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Episode 13: Witness
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.
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Episode 14: Illusions of Grandeur
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.
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Episode 15: The Ides of Metropolis
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.
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Episode 16: Foundling
A mysterious globe from Clark’s spacecraft begins revealing information about his Kryptonian past, but it is stolen by two young thieves before he can learn much. Lex Luthor later obtains the globe and begins uncovering some of the truth about Superman.
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Episode 17: The Rival
When Lois’s old rival Linda King takes a job at the Metropolis Star, the paper suddenly begins beating the Daily Planet to every major story. Lois grows suspicious of Linda’s remarkable string of scoops—and jealous when Linda begins showing an interest in Clark.
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Episode 18: Vatman
Lex Luthor creates a clone of Superman and trains him to obey his commands, ultimately turning him against the real Superman.
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Episode 19: Fly Hard
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.
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Episode 20: Barbarians at the Planet
Lex throws Lois for a loop by proposing marriage. Meanwhile, Clark smells a rat when Lex "saves" the Daily Planet from going under.
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Episode 21: The House of Luthor
Lois's mom arrives for her daughter's wedding to Lex, but Lois's pals have other plans.
Order
In-universe 1993 · DC Superman live action