Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman debuted on September 12, 1993 on ABC Television, and currently is in its' third season. In the U.S. it is scheduled on Sunday nights at 8:00 pm EST.
Dates given next to the episode titles are for the U.S. showings.
September 1993-1994
Clark Kent/Superman ............. Dean Cain Lois Lane ....................... Teri Hatcher Perry White ..................... Lane Smith Jimmy Olsen ..................... Michael Landes Martha Kent ..................... K Callan Jonathan Kent ................... Eddie Jones Cat Grant ....................... Tracy Scoggins Lex Luthor ..................... John Shea Nigel ........................... Tony Jay Jack ............................ Chris Demetral Inspector Henderson ............. Richard Belzer
Developed for Television by Deborah Joy LeVine
Superman and all related properties are trademarks of DC Comics.
Co-Executive Producer: Deborah Joy LeVine
Executive Producers: David Jacobs and Robert Butler (Premiere)
David Jacobs, Robert Singer
Producer: Thania St. John
Produced by: Mel Efros
Co-Producers: Dean W. Barnes (Premiere), Philip J. Sgriccia,
Jim Michaels
Co-Supervising Producer: Dusty Kay
Supervising Producers: Bryce Zabel, Randall Zisk
During the first season, Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet and meets Lois Lane. They work as partners on newspaper stories. Lex Luthor with his assistant Nigel test the new Superman and try to defeat him. Clark learns his Kryptonian heritage and encounters Kryptonite. Lois is romanced by Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, and accepts Lex's proposal. During their wedding ceremony Luthor is exposed as a criminal and leaps to an apparent death in the season finale.
1) Premiere (September 12, 1993)
In Metropolis, Perry White hires Clark as a new reporter at the Daily Planet,
after Clark writes a story about an elderly actress. Clark, with his parents'
help, designs his public identity as Superman. Clark meets fellow Daily Planet
reporter Lois Lane, as well as Jimmy Olsen and columnist Cat Grant. Lois and
Clark investigate possible sabotage of a space shuttle, and Superman debuts
saving another shuttle which Lois has hidden in. Superman confronts Lex Luthor
after learning of his involvement with the sabotage.
2) Strange Visitor (From Another Planet) (September
26, 1993)
Lois and Clark are interrogated by supposed government agents about the new
Superman. After later learning the men were bogus agents, Lois and Clark's
investigation lead them to a warehouse where Clark finds the stolen remains of
his kryptonian rocketship. The warehouse has been kept by a now rogue agency
named Bureau 39 led by Jason Trask (Terence Knox). After escaping from an
abduction by Trask, Lois and Clark later find the warehouse empty.
3) Neverending Battle (October 3, 1993)
Note: this episode was aired after Strange Visitor, but is the
second episode of the storyline.
Clark gets an apartment. After Lex Luthor endangers the public to test
Superman's abilities, Clark briefly considers not being Superman. After Lois has
stolen a story from Clark, he pulls a practical joke on her involving a phony
map to the buried remains of Superman's rocketship.
4) I'm Looking Through You (October 10,
1993)
After Metropolis celebrates Superman Day, Clark worries about what people think
of Clark Kent. Lois and Clark help an inventor, Alan Morris (Leslie Jordan), who
has invented a suit that makes the wearer invisible. A crook has stolen some of
the invisibility suits and it's up to Superman to catch the gang at the
Metropolis Gold Repository.
5) Requiem For a Super Hero (October 17,
1993)
Lois and Clark uncover a plot to use Lois' estranged father, Dr. Sam Lane, to
surgically alter a group of boxers using implants. The plan is secretly financed
by Lex Luthor. In this episode, Perry decides Lois and Clark should be a
reporting team.
6) I've Got a Crush on You (October 24,
1993)
Lois and Clark are rivals during an undercover investigation, at a bar run by
the Metro gang, about a series of arson attacks done by The Toasters in
Metropolis' West River district.
7) Smart Kids (October 31, 1993)
At the Beckworth State School, Dr. Carlton has been using the resident orphans
to research a drug that temporarily boosts IQ. The research is secretly funded
by Lex Luthor. A group of orphans runaway and try to get more of the drug by
threatening Metropolis and then Luthor, before Superman talks to their leader.
8) The Green, Green Glow of Home (November
14, 1993)
Wayne Irig, a neighbor of the Kents in Smallville, tells them he has found a
mysterious green rock and that after having it tested government agents
questioned him. Perry assigns Lois and Clark to investigate, after hearing the
story. They go to Smallville where Lois meets Clark's parents. After Pa shows
Clark the rock, Clark is ill and weak for several hours. An EPA investigator is
being used by Trask and Bureau 39. Trask believes the rock is from Krypton and
will be dangerous to Superman, so he wants to find it. At a climatic
confrontation with Clark at the Kent farm, after learning Clark is Superman and
again exposing him to the rock, Trask is shot by the sheriff after pulling a gun
on Clark. Later, Clark dubs the now shattered rock, kryptonite.
9) The Man of Steel Bars (November 21,
1993)
When a heatwave hits Metropolis in November, and a scientist claims the heatwave
on Superman using his powers, an injunction is placed on him to stop using his
powers. When Superman uses his powers to stop an escaping criminal, he is
arrested temporarily. After using his powers to save a train causes more heat,
Clark decides to stop being Superman and to leave Metropolis. Lois discovers the
heat is caused by a nuclear power plant owned by Luthor. Superman saves the city
when a leak at the plant threatens disaster.
10) Pheromone, My Lovely (November 28,
1993)
After being spurned by Lex Luthor, a scientist Miranda (Morgan Fairchild) sprays
a new perfume (Exclusive) at the Daily Planet that causes the staff to act out
their romantic desires. This causes Lois to reveal her attraction to Clark.
Later, Miranda sprays Luthor which causes him to reveal his love to Lois at a
dinner. Finally, as revenge Miranda plans to spray Metropolis with an undiluted
spray, and Lex has to warn Superman to stop her.
11) Honeymoon in Metropolis (December 12,
1993)
Lois and Clark spend time together in a honeymoon suite as part of a stakeout
where they uncover a plot to sabotage a test of a new defense system developed
by one of Luthor's companies. Superman saves the day when the sabotage causes a
tidal wave.
12) All Shook Up (January 2, 1994)
At a news conference, a recent eclipse is revealed to have been caused by an
approaching asteroid dubbed Nightfall. The asteroid's path will collide with the
Earth. Superman flies off and collides with it apparently destroying it. The
explosion stuns Superman who crashes in Metropolis's Suicide Slum area, and is
later found as Clark Kent with amnesia by the police. Lois and later Ma and Pa
Kent work to restore his memory. While trying to help Clark, Lois again admits
she is growing close to Clark. Finally, Superman recovers just in time to stop a
remaining fragment of Nightfall from hitting the Earth.
13) Witness (January 9, 1994)
After Lois witnesses a disguised hitman kill Dr. Vincent Winninger, Clark acts
as a bodyguard while they investigate, uncovering a plot to strip mine a
Brazillian forest for rich mineral deposits. Dr. Winninger had discovered the
deposits when discovering a plant that could be used to increase male virility.
14) Illusions of Grandeur (January 23,
1994)
Someone is kidnapping the children of rich people for ransom. Lois and Clark
investigate suspecting an illusionist Darren Romick (Penn Jillette) who uses
hypnosis. During an attempt to recover a child, the villain manages to hypnotize
Superman. Eventually the villain is revealed to be the illusionist's assistant
Constance, and Superman manages to shake off her hypnosis and stop a sattelite
from broadcasting her hypnotic Magic Channel.
15) The Ides of Metropolis (February 6,
1994)
Lois aided by a skeptical Clark prove that Eugene Latterman, a computer
programmer accused of killing Henry Harrison because Eugene was having an affair
with Harrison's wife, is innocent. They eventually learn Harrison is still alive
and framed Eugene, so that Harrison could safely release a computer virus (the
Ides of Metropolis) to disrupt computers worldwide.
16) Foundling (February 20, 1994)
One night Clark awakens in his apartment and experiences a message from a globe
he found with the remains of his kryptonian rocketship (from Strange
Visitor). The message is from his biological father Jor-El (David Warner)
and is the first of five. But before any more messages occur, the next day Clark
returns to his apartment and finds someone has broken in and stolen stuff,
including the globe. The thief is a boy named Jack, who when triggering a
partial message decides the globe must be valuable, and eventually sells it to
someone. The person is Nigel, Luthor's assistant. Luthor plans to keep the globe
in a hidden museum and triggers further messages and so learns of Superman's
alien origins. Lois and Clark track down Jack and his brother, and Clark learns
Jack has sold the globe. Luthor has Jack's brother (Denny) kidnapped to learn
where the globe came from. Superman eventually saves Denny at Luthor's museum
and gets the globe back, but is unaware the museum is Luthor's. Now both Clark
and Luthor know of Superman's alien origins. Jack gets a job at the Daily Planet.
17) The Rival (February 27, 1994)
The Daily Planet's rival the Metropolis Star is regularly scooping the Planet.
Clark goes undercover working at the Star and working with Linda King, a former
college friend of Lois, uncovers a plot by the Star's publisher Preston
Carpenter (Dean Stockwell) to create news stories which his reporters can scoop
so that he can become a media mogul (inspired by the movie Citizen Kane). Lois
is jealous of King being with Clark, especially when at first she doesnt know
why Clark is working with King.
18)Vatman (March 13, 1994)
Clark discovers an imposter Superman is helping people around the world. As
Superman, Clark confronts the impostor who flies off eluding Superman. The
impostor goes to his "father" Lex Luthor. Luthor has hired Dr. Leak, a clone
researcher, to clone Superman using a stolen hair sample. Luthor trains the
impostor to think Superman is the enemy. When Dr. Leak tells Luthor the clone is
dying, Luthor has the clone kidnap Lois to lure Superman into a final
confrontation. But the clone is attracted to Lois, and after fighting with
Superman is convinced Superman is not his enemy. Knowing he is dying the clone
goes to Luthor and gets the hair sample, then persuades Superman to take him to
the sun to die.
19) Fly Hard (March 27, 1994)
On a weekend night at the Daily Planet, Clark, Jack, Perry and Jimmy are working.
Lois arrives with Luthor, who she will be going out with on a date. While Jimmy
is at a supply room, a gang storm into the office and hold the group at gunpoint.
It turns out the gang are working for a night watchman at the Daily Planet, who
is really Bill Roberson. Roberson years ago was betrayed by gangster Dragon
Eddie, who had hidden a vault in the building. The gang's leader betrays
Roberson. Eventually, Clark gets an opportunity to stop the gang without
revealing he is Superman.
20) Barbarians At the Planet (May 1, 1994)
On board one of Luthor's jets, Luthor proposes to Lois, but she puts off
deciding whether to accept. Luthor gets a phone call from someone who has
somehow arranged a theft of a piece of kryptonite. The next day at the Daily
Planet, the staff learns the newspaper being in financial trouble has been
bought out by Luthor. Lois defends Luthor's reputation and reveals he has
proposed to her. Luthor demotes Perry, Jimmy, and Jack. After Jack insults
Luthor, Luthor arranges to frame Jack by having evidence linked to him when a
planted explosive causes a fire in the building. Because of the fire, Luthor
shuts down the newspaper, and Perry decides to retire. Lois starts working at a
tv network owned by Luthor, where Clark tells her he loves her. She replies she
loves him as a friend. Luthor obtains the kryptonite and has the supplier killed.
After another argument about Luthor with Clark, Lois talks with Luthor at his
home, and accepts his proposal. Superman secretly observing them flies off
distressed.
21) The House of Luthor (May 8, 1994)
Clark, Perry, Jimmy, and Jack (who has escaped custody) begin investigating how
Jack was framed and the Daily Planet's sale. Luthor's new assistant arranges a
test at a bank to verify the purchased kryptonite is genuine. Meanwhile, Lois is
having doubts about getting married and missing her old friends. Lois asks Clark
to attend the wedding but he declines, and suggests she check into what
insurance Luthor had for the Planet. Luthor later arranges Superman to meet with
him, and in a basement drops a cage trap including kryptonite on Superman.
Meanwhile, Perry, Jimmy, and Jack now have evidence that Luthor had a large
insurance policy on the Planet building, and how Jack was framed. When Clark
doesn't show up, Perry talks to financier Franklin Stern (James Earl Jones)
about buying the Daily Planet. Lois is having growing doubts and at the wedding
ceremony declines to marry Luthor. Then Perry and the police arrive with an
arrest warrant. Lex manages to escape and goes to the basement and finds
Superman missing, having managed to recently escape. Luthor then flees to his
penthouse where he apparently commits suicide leaping from his terrace. Clark,
now outside with Lois, is too weak to catch Luthor. Later, newspaper headlines
say Luthor's body is missing. Later, Lois and Clark talk about their
relationship, and Clark lies telling Lois he wants them to be just friends.
1994-1995
Jimmy Olsen ..................... Justin Whalin The Prankster ................... Bronson Pinchot Bill Church ..................... Peter Boyle Bill Church Jr. ................. Bruce Campbell Mayson Drake .................... Farrah Forke Dan Scardino .................... Jim Pirri Prof. Emil Hamilton ............. John Pleshette Tempus .......................... Lane Davies
Co-Executive Producer: Jim Crocker, Randall Zisk
Executive Producer: Robert Singer
Co-Producers: Philip J. Sgricci, Jim Michaels,
John McNamara
Producer: John McNamara
Line Producer: Jimmy Simons
Supervising Producers: Randall Zisk, Tony Blake,
Paul Jackson
New in the second season are the introduction of the criminal group Intergang, red kryptonite, and the villains The Prankster and Tempus. The first half of the season was devoted to a series of supervillains, but then Lois and Clark find Luthor has been revived. Romantically, Mayson Drake becomes interested in Clark, then Lois tiring of Clark's disappearances and excuses spends time with a DEA agent. But Drake dies in a car bomb and Lois learns her agent has deceived her. In the season finale, after Lois is nearly killed and his parents kidnapped, Clark proposes to Lois.
1) Madame Ex (September 18, 1994)
After a doctor shows he has managed to use plastic surgery to create a double of
Lois, the former Mrs. Lex Luthor kills him. Now known as Dr. Ariana Carlin (Emma
Samms), she has been hired as staff psychiatrist at the Daily Planet where she
also writes articles. Ariana plots to turn public opinion against Superman by
putting hidden anti-Superman messages in her writing, while using the phony Lois
in incidents to make Lois question her sanity. Ultimately, Carlin ends up
kidnapping Lois and shooting Superman with a kryptonite bullet after Lois and
Clark have deduced her former identity. Also we learn Lex Luthor's body is being
cared for by Dr. Gretchen Kelley (Denise Crosby) who is continuing efforts to
revive him.
2) Wall of Sound (September 25, 1994)
After somebody uses a sonic weapon to knock out people at a bank, Lois and Clark
investigate. With the help of Lois going undercover, they eventually track the
villain as being a rock musician Lenny Stoke using stolen technology. Stoke even
manages to create a "wall of sound" force field that temporarily stops Superman.
Also happening, Lois is jealous when only Clark is nominated for the Kerth
journalism award.
3) The Source (October 2, 1994)
Lois is suspended, while trying to protect a source, Stuart Hofferman (Peter
Scolari) on a newspaper story about faulty switches. After another accident
causes a subway train to lose control and is saved by Superman, Lois is
vindicated.
4) The Prankster (October 9, 1994)
Kyle Griffin (Bronson Pinchot), a former school friend of Lois stalks her and
carries out robberies using gag items as a motif becoming known as the Prankster,
while planning to set off a device capable of destroying a building.
5) Church of Metropolis (October 23, 1994)
Bill Church (Peter Boyle), publically a successful discount store chain owner,
leads the criminal group Intergang in an attempt to control the south side of
Metropolis. While investigating, Lois and Clark meet Mayson Drake (Farrah Forke),
a district attorney who becomes attracted to Clark but dislikes Superman.
6) Operation Blackout (October 30, 1994)
After a new military weapon loses control at a test, Lois and Clark investigate
and track down a former college friend of Lois and her fiancee, a supposedly
dead computer programmer who is working with a colonel to use a satellite weapon
(the Hawkeye) to take over a nearby base.
7) That Old Gang of Mine (November 13,
1994)
Prof. Emil Hamilton (John Pleshette) uses his DNA research to revive former
gangsters like Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone (William Devane), hoping they'll
be reformed. But the gangsters instead start a new crime wave in Metropolis,
that leaves Clark briefly an apparent casualty, after he is shot saving Lois.
8) A Bolt From The Blue (November 20,
1994)
While preventing William Waldecker (Leslie Jordan) from killing himself,
Superman is struck by lightning that transfers some of his powers to Waldecker.
Waldecker adopts the identity of Resplendent Man who shamelessly charges for his
help, trying to raise money to help his mentally ill sister Wandamae (Cindy
Williams). Meanwhile, Dr. Kelley (from Madame Ex) has observed the
lightning accident and ends up trying to get Luthor's body and herself infused
with superpowers in her hidden lab.
9) Season's Greedings (December 4, 1994)
Written by Dean Cain
Winslow Schott (Sherman Helmsley) and friend Ms. Duffy (Isabel Sanford) plot to
ruin Metropolis' Christmas, after being fired from Metropolis Toys. Schott
markets an Atomic Space Rat doll that is impregnated with a drug that makes
adults behave like kids, and everybody greedy. After being temporarily affected
by the chemical, Lois and Clark track down Schott. Superman stops him from
dumping the chemical into the water supply. Afterwards, Clark gives Lois a
stellar gift.
10) Metallo (January 1, 1995)
A human cyborg "created" by former Lex Lab scientist Emmet Vale and powered by
uranium collapses during a robbery. After Johnny Corbin (Scott Valentine) is
wounded during a robbery, Vale and his brother Rollie get Corbin's body and
create a new cyborg with kryptonite as a power supply: Metallo. Lois, Jimmy, and
Lucy Lane (Lois' sister and girlfriend of Corbin) have to save Clark, when the
Vales kidnap him to attract Superman's attention.
11) Chi of Steel (January 8, 1995)
When Perry's life savings are stolen, Lois and Clark investigate a series of
robberies in the asian section of Metropolis, which turn out to be done by the
grand-daughter of a martial arts master working against a businessman using
"slave" labor.
12) The Eyes Have It (January 22, 1995)
Dr. Harold Light plots to find a remarkable light device which can transmit
knowledge that its dying inventor managed to get Lois to unknowingly leave at
the Daily Planet. Part of Light's plan has Superman being blinded by a light
beam, until Lois can restore his sight by again shooting an ultraviolet beam at
his eyes. Also, while Clark is blinded and thus missing, Mayson Drake is left
waiting in a cabin, after she hoped for a date with him.
13) The Phoenix (February 12, 1995)
Dr. Kelley has finally managed to revive a now bald Lex Luthor. Luthor plans to
stop Intergang's growing hold over Metropolis and use the kryptonite still held
by Rolie Vale (from Metallo) to get Superman. Meanwhile, although
wanting to go to a concert, Lois and Clark instead spend a date in a hotel on
assignment. Later, Lois gets kidnapped and spurns Luthor. Finally, Dr. Kelley
and Rollie Vale are dead and Luthor after being shot by duplicitous Nigel (now
an Intergang agent) ends up recovering in jail.
14) Top Copy (February 19, 1995)
Diana Stride (Raquel Welch) publicly is a reporter on the tv show Top Copy, but
is secretly an assasin working for Intergang. When Superman foils one of her
assasinations, she obtains a sample of kryptonite and uses it in a paste to
poison Superman with a kryptonite kiss. Later she films Clark changing to
Superman and broadcasts the revelation on her tv show. After using nuclear power
radiation to cure his kryptonite poisoning, Superman catches Diana. Then at a
nighttime press conference, Clark and Superman are seen together with the help
of a laser hologram thanks to Ma Kent.
15) The Return of the Prankster (February
26, 1995)
The Prankster, Kyle Griffin, returns to taunt Lois and use a camera with a flash
attachment that can paralyse people. Griffin steals a power chip and plans to
use his device to kidnap the United States' President when he visits Metropolis,
but with the help of contact lenses that block the flash, supplied by Prof.
Hamilton Superman stops the Prankster and Lois has a chance to publically
embarass Griffin.
16) Lucky Leon (March 12, 1995)
Jimmy is suspected of murder after dropping off a gadget rigged by technowhiz
Lucky Leon. Leon then schemes to trick Superman into delivering a nuclear
warhead. Meanwhile, Lois and Clark have a successful dinner date, and Clark has
lunch with Mayson Drake. At the conclusion, a kiss between Lois and Clark is
interrupted when Clark tries to save Drake from a bomb rigged to blow in her
car. But Drake is fatally wounded and dies after Clark shows to her that he is
Superman.
17) Resurrection (March 19, 1995)
Mayson Drake died after saying to Clark "resurrection" and so Lois and Clark
begin investigating what the phrase means. They uncover a pill being used to by
prisoners to feign death to get out of prison, and a plot to poison Metropolis
with a virus. Also joining the investigation is cocky DEA agent Dan Scardino who
is attracted to Lois.
18) Tempus Fugitive (March 26, 1995)
When H.G. Wells (Terry Kiser) arrives in Metropolis using his time machine, he
has bought along Tempus from the utopian future. Tempus finds the more violent
present more stimulating and plots to kill Superman in 1966 before Ma and Pa
Kent have found him. Along the way, Lois and Clark also get to Smallville in
1866, and Tempus reveals to Lois with contempt that Clark Kent is Superman. Duh!
With Tempus left jailed in the past, when returning to the present Lois and
Clark forget about their adventure in time.
19) Target: Jimmy Olsen! (April 2, 1995)
Lois and Clark uncover a diabolical plot that years ago turned children,
including Jimmy, into unknowing assasins.
20) Individual Responsibility (April 16,
1995)
Bill Church Jr. (Bruce Campbell) wants to control the Daily Planet, so he
kidnaps Perry, hoping Perry will decide to work with Intergang. Perry has to try
and escape by himself, because repeated exposure to red kryptonite is making
Superman apathetic. Trying to understand his apathy drives Superman to see a
psychiatrist.
21) Whine, Whine, Whine (May 14, 1995)
Aspiring musician Calvin Dreg sues Superman after Superman slightly injures Dreg
while saving his life. Meanwhile Dan Scardino is involved with a plot to sell a
drug to an Intergang operative. The Intergang operative plants a bomb to kill
Scardino and Lois at Superman's trial, but Superman spots the bomb. Meanwhile,
Lois' interest in Scardino and Dreg's suit makes Clark consider leaving town.
But eventually, Lois decides she will dump Scardino for misleading her and finds
Clark.
22) And the Answer Is... (May 21, 1995)
Jason Maizik (Maurice Godin) is a son of a jeweller who became wealthy because
he had a diary written by Tempus (see Tempus Fugitive) in 1866
revealing the future, including who is Superman. Maisik kidnaps Clark's parents
and blackmails Clark into a jewel theft and then orders him to kill Lois. Lois
lets Superman freeze her to fool Maisik, willing to risk her life for Clark.
Clark had earlier almost told Lois he was Superman, and at the end after saving
his parents and Lois, Clark proposes to Lois at night in the rain, without first
revealing he is Superman.
1995-1996 Current Season
Star ............................ Olivia Brown Mindy Church .................... Jessica Collins Dr. Maxwell Deter ............... Larry Poindexter
Co-Executive Producers: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner
Executive Producer: Robert Singer
Co-Producers: Chris Long, Grant Rosenberg,
Jim Michaels
Producers: Philip J. Sgriccia, Jimmy Simons
Supervising Producers: Chris Ruppenthal, John McNamara
Co-Executive Producers: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner
Executive Producer: Robert Singer
Lois reveals she had deduced that Clark was Superman and asks for time to consider whether to marry Clark. Meanwhile, Perry has separated from his wife. A new reoccurring character is Lois' psychic neighbor Star. After some ups and downs Lois and Clark become engaged and plan their wedding. A wedding occurs but Clark discovers he has married a clone of Lois. Lex Luthor has returned and had Lois abducted and replaced. Lois escapes but after an accident loses her memory. With the clone's assistance Clark finds Lois and Luthor. Superman saves Lois after a weapon used by Luthor causes his hideout to collapse. To cure her amnesia, Lois is admitted to a clinic for treatment. Her doctor (Maxwell Deter) at the clinic, however, manipulates Lois into loving him instead of Clark. Lois recovers her memories after being exposed to a criminal's brain-numbing device.
1) We Have a Lot To Talk About (September
17, 1995)
Continuing from And the Answer is..., Lois responds by revealing
she had finally figured out Clark is Superman and will need time to think over
getting married to Clark and Superman. Initially, Clark reacts as if Lois is
rejecting him, but eventually understands and accepts Lois' response. Meanwhile,
when Bill Church decides to reform and starts a civic group (The Church Group),
his young new wife Mindy starts plotting with Bill Church Jr. to take over
Intergang by framing Church Sr. as a bomber.
2) Ordinary People (September 24, 1995)
Spencer Spencer (David Leisure) needs a new body, and his agents are leaving
headless corpses in Metropolis. Lois and Clark's investigation leads them to
Smiley's tropical island. On the island, Smiley finds Clark is Superman and
using kryptonite traps him, leaving it up to Lois to save Clark.
3) Contact (October 1, 1995)
When Lois starts having flashbacks of being abducted by aliens, Clark wonders if
she's okay. But the flashbacks are of a hoax and are being triggered by computer
tycoon Bob Fences (Patrick Labyorteaux). Fences plans to have Superman
distracted by Lois' blackouts, while two other people have been conditioned to
steal parts needed to alter a microwave transmitter. He will use the transmitter
as a weapon to blackmail countries. Lois and Clark are helped by Lois' new
neighbor Star, who is psychic. Clark decides that Lois is at risk being linked
to Superman.
4) When Irish Eyes Are Killing (October
15, 1995)
A former boyfriend of Lois, Patrick Sullivan comes to Metropolis and arranges a
series of thefts of artifacts. He meets Lois at a bachelorette auction and
starts romancing her, planning to sacrifice her as part of a ceremony where
he'll use the artifacts to summon an ancient druidic power. Investigating the
thefts as Clark, Superman manages to rescue Lois at the last moment.
Romantically, Clark decides he can accept the risk of Lois marrying him despite
the dangers their relationship seem to put her in.
5) Just Say Noah (October 22, 1995)
When Star mentions to Lois that a couple are missing, Lois and Clark uncover a
pattern of missing couples, and go undercover for couples therapy at Larry
Smiley's retreat. With the channeling efforts of Star, they discover Smiley (Mac
Davis) plans to use a device to flood the planet, while saving a few chosen
people, including Perry and his wife Alice. Although Smiley deems them rejects,
Lois and Clark use their experience at the retreat to reconcile their recent
conflicts.
6) Don't Tug On Superman's Cape (November
5, 1995)
A smug wealthy couple (Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francis) plot to add Superman to
their private collection by using a criminal (Bad Brains Johnson) to get Lois as
bait. Trapped in separate display cases, Lois and Clark use brainpower to
escape. Also, Lois has a dream about Clark being James Bond.
7) Ultra Woman (November 12, 1995)
Lucille and Nell Newtrich plan to shoot a red kryptonite beam at Superman to
make him apathetic, so they can safely steal money. When they shoot the beam,
though, apparently nothing happens. Clark finds, however, his powers have being
transfered to Lois. Lois ends up learning about how it is to have superpowers,
and reluctantly adopts the guise of Ultra Woman. When Clark is kidnapped, Ultra
Woman saves him, and together they manage to stop the Netwriches, even when
Lucille (Shelley Long) temporarily gets Superman's powers. After her experience,
Lois decides to propose to Clark.
8) Chip Off The Old Clark (November 19,
1995)
When a woman claims her son, Jesse, was fathered by Superman, but Clark denies
it, Lois is hesitant. It turns out some of Superman's powers had been transfered
to Jesse once when Superman saved a plane he and his mother were on and Superman
was hit by lightning (as in Season 2's A Bolt from the Blue). When
a hitman (Dave Coulier) sees Jesse being shown on tv, he plots to abduct the boy
and use him to kidnap a foriegn president and launch missiles. Jesse's powers
turn out to be temporary, fortunately.
9) Super Mann (November 26, 1995)
Two years previously, three Nazi agents who had been in suspended animation are
revived by Senator Truman Black, a friend of Perry. Now each successful
celebrities, to prevent Superman from interfering they trick him into entering a
mine and set off a nuclear device leaving him radioactive. While Superman is
forced into isolation at S.T.A.R. Labs they begin their plan to take over the
government, until Superman purges the radiation by flying to the sun.
10) Virtually Destroyed (December 10,
1995)
Written by Dean Cain.
In an effort to get information from Lois, Lex Luthor's illegitate son ends up
trapping them inside a virtual reality environment where Clark can't use his
powers.
11) Home Is Where The Hurt Is (December
17, 1995)
Despite claiming to be involved only in a reputable cosmetics company, Mindy
Church has taken over Intergang. With the help of Joey Bermuda, she manages to
infect Superman with a virus from his kryptonian rocketship, and plans to kill
Lois and Clark with a rigged microwave oven. After using kryptonite to cure
Clark, Superman is back in action. Meanhile, Lois and Clark's parents are in
town for Christmas and helping them. This help includes Dr. Lane's (Harve
Presnell) creation Baby Gunderson, and Helen Lane (Beverly Garland) joining Lois
in investigating Church.
12) Never On Sunday (January 7, 1996)
While Lois and Clark make wedding plans, a Jamaican comes to Metropolis as
magician Baron Sunday (Cress Williams) using voodoo to get revenge against Clark
and others who following an intelligence operation ruined his repuation.
13) The Dad Who Came In From The Cold (January
14, 1996)
When his dad comes to Metropolis, Jimmy learns his Dad is an intelligence agent.
Together with Clark and Lois they end up preventing a coup planned by Jack
Olsen's (James Read) NIA boss Trevanian, after Jimmy and S.T.A.R. Labs are able
to decode information on a damaged laptop computer.
14) Tempus Anyone? (January 21, 1996)
Having built a new time machine, Tempus returns and kidnaps Lois, taking her to
an alternate dimension where Lois had died in 1993 and Clark is engaged to
childhood friend Lana Lang (Emily Procter). In this dimension Lois meets H.G.
Wells (Hamilton Camp)and convinces the dimension's Clark to adopt the public
identity of Superman and foil Tempus' plans to become Metropolis' mayor.
15) I Now Pronounce You ... (February 11,
1996)
Dr. Mamba (Tony Curtis) has been hired by Lex Luthor to use his knowledge of
cloning using a rare type of frog, to clone the United States President. The
President is abducted and his clone pardons Lex Luthor. Lois and Clark
investigate after spotting an apparent secret service agent at a pet store.
Meanwhile the upcoming wedding seems jinxed, but with Perry as minister, Clark
gets married. But Lois has been replaced by a clone too, and being abducted for
the still in love Lex Luthor!
16) Double Jeopardy (February 18, 1996)
Lois' clone is confused and not particularly interested in being married to
Clark, until he shows her that he is also Superman. Meanwhile, Lois continues to
reject Lex Luthor's advances and eventually manages to escape. While Clark
becomes suspicious of the clone, the clone decides to kill Lois so that only the
clone will have Clark. But after an accident, Lois thinks she is Wanda Detroit,
a character in an old novel she wrote. Wanda ends up working in a bar, until Lex
and Clark find her. Lex tricks Wanda into thinking Clark is her enemy, and
drives off with her.
17) Seconds (February 25, 1996)
At the beginning Luthor meets and declares war on Superman. Lex and "Wanda"
break into S.T.A.R. Labs and steal two clone embryos, which Lex plans to use to
transfer his and Lois' minds into. Meanwhile, the clone helping Clark has
withdrawn money Lex left in a bank. But then she goes to Luthor hoping she'll
help him. She tells him Clark is Superman, but he refuses to help. Luthor then
obtains a government weapon that he hopes "Wanda" will use to kill Superman. He
confronts Clark and the Kents with the weapon, and kidnaps Ma Kent. The clone
follows and lets Clark know where Luthor and Lois are. When Superman finds Lois
and Luthor, Lois is unable to shoot Superman. The weapon's disharge causes
Luthor's hideout to collapse, and Superman gets Lois and his mother out leaving
the clone who sacrificed herself and Luthor apparently dead. Injured during the
collapse, Lois understands she isn't Wanda, but now has amnesia.
18) Forget Me Not (March 10, 1996)
While being treated at the Metropolis Neuroscience Center, Lois' doctor, Dr. Max
Deter, tries to prevent her memories of Clark from being recovered. Instead he
tries to make her love him and keep Clark away from Lois. Meanwhile, another
doctor at the center is brainwashing patients into being perfect hired assasins,
then desroying their minds. He is hired to kill Perry, and programs Lois to be
the killer. But Lois and Clark's investigation lets Superman destroy the
doctor's sound device.
19) Oedipus Wrecks (March 24, 1996)
Despite Dr. Deter's continued efforts with hypnosis, Lois recovers her memories
of loving Clark, after being exposed to several tests of a brain-numbing device
built by Herkimer Johnson (Daniel Roebuck) (brother of the late Bad Brains from
Don't Tug on Superman's Cape) to control the world and impress his
mother.
20) It's A Small World After All (April
14, 1996)
21) Through A Glass Darkly (May 5, 1996)
22) Big Girls Don't Fly [Season Finale](May 12, 1996)