LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN(1993) SEASON 1
The first really top notch superhero TV series since, well, The
Adventures Of Superman in 1952(perhaps excepting The Green Hornet)
(My appologies to Wonder Woman, Batman, The Incredible Hulk and
The Greatest American Hero)!!
Starring here are Dean Cain(as Clark Kent/Superman), Teri Hatcher
(as Lois Lane), Lane Smith(as Perry White), Michael Landis(as Jimmy
Olsen), K Callan(as Martha Kent), Eddie Jones(as Jonathan Kent), John
Shae(as Lex Luthor) & Tracy Scoggins(as Cat Grant)!
Everyone does a great job in their roles, with perhaps the
exception of Scoggins! I've never been a fan of hers, not
even when she was on Babylon 5!!
EPISODES 1: PILOT(Sept. 12, 1993):
This first episode, introduces us to most of the main cast, Clark
Kent/Superman, Lois Land, Jimmy olsen, Pery White, Jonathan Kent,
Martha Kent, Cat Grant & Lex Luthor! Again, all actors doing a
great job in their respective roles!
In this first episode/pilot, Lex is trying to make a dent in
the space age by having a space station built(with his name
on it!) to try to to, well, we don't know yet!
There are several libirties taken here, the least of which
not being the fact that Clark does not know Lex before he
shows up in Metropolis! Both Jonathan and Martha Kent are
still alive! Clark still doesn't have his suit at the start
of the series! Et el
Quite a bit of humor here!
This is a TV movie and as such is longer(1 1/2 hours) than the
rest of the episoded!
Starring in order of appearance: Jimmy Olsen, Lois Land, Perry
White, Clark Kent/Superman, Cat Grant, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent,
Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: Persis Khambatta(Star Trek: TMP[This was her last
acting gig as she died from a heart attack in 1998!]) A
EPISODE 2: STRTANGE VISITOR(FROM ANOTHER PLANET)(Oct. 15, 1988):
The government shows up at the Daily Planet and force Lois and
Clark to tell everything they know about Superman! Or do
they???
Starring in order of appearance: Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Cat Grant, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!
Lex Luthor is not in this!!
Guest starring: Joseph Campanella(The Bold Ones: The Lawyers,
Mannix, Star Trek: VOY episode "Author, Author"), George Murdock
(Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Battlestar Galactica)! A
EPISODE 3: NEVERENDING BATTLE(Oct. 03, 1993):
Luthor is testing Superman and bring him to the brink of leaving
Metropolis for the sake of saving the population!!
Starring in order of appearance: Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane
Cat Grant, Clark Kent/Superman, Lex Luthor!
This guest stars Larry Linville(M*A*S*H*), Mary Crosby(Bing's daughter,
Dallas, Star Trek: DS9 episode "Profit And Loss")! B+(Only because
of the story line), Roy Brockswith(Babylon 5 episode "The Deconstruction
Of Falling Stars", Star Trek: DS9 episode "Indescretion", Total
Recall, Star Trek: TNG episode "Peak Performance"), Tony Jay(Star
Trek: TNG episode "Cost Of Living") !!
EPISODE 4: I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU(Oct. 10, 1993):
I man invents an invisibility suit because, well, he fells like
he's already invisible, so why not1?! He's made several but another
not so nice dude steals a bunch of them and uses them to rob a
bunch of gold! Superman gets involved of course to help out
the dude who made the suits!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Superman/
Clark Kent, Cat Grant, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White!
Guest starring: Leslie Jordan(The West Wing, Will And Greace,
The Cool Kids), Jack Carter(Stand-up comedian best known for
his stint in Vegas!)!! A
EPISODE 5: REQUIEM FOR A SUPERHERO(Oct. 17, 1993):
Lois' father is in the boxing game and is involved with a big
match coming up! Luthor is involved but we don't know exactly
how!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Perry White,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor! No Cat Grant!
I'm not a big boxing fan and so find this a little disappoining!
Guest starring: No known names!! B
EPISODE 6: I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU(Oct. 24, 1993):
Someone's going around setting fires in the poor side of
town! I wonder who's behind it???!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lex Luthor! No Cat Grant!
No known guest stars here!! A
EPISODE 7: SMART KIDS(Oct. 31, 1993):
A group of four children break into a pharmacutical office at
thier school and the turn into the "Smart Kids"!!! And yes,
Lex is behind this again!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Cat Grant, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor!
Guest starring Michael Cavanaugh(Star Trek: TNG episode "Tin Man")!!
EPISODE 8: THE GREEN, GREEN GLOW OF HOME(Nov. 14, 1993):
A piece of Kryptonite is found in Smallville and the dude from
episode 2 who was over zealous about finding out information on
Superman shows up to terrorize the town and Superman! B
Some really great humor here!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Jonathan
Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Lois Lane, Perry White, Martha
Kent, Lex Luthor!
Guest starring Jerry Hardin(Star Trek: VOY episode "Eminations",
3 episodes of Star Trek: TNG), Sharon Thomas Cain(Dean's mother)!!
EPISODE 9: THE MAN OF STEEL BARS(Nov. 21, 1993):
THIS EPISODE HAS A GLITCH AND STOPS ABOUT 3/4 OF THE WAY
THROUGH!!
Metropolis is in the middle of a vicious heat wave, in February,
and there's a prevailing theory that Superman is to blame! On
the other hand, Lex Luthor is pushing to be the supplier of a
new source of energy! I wonder if the two stories are connected!
Duh!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Perry White!
Guest starring Sonny Bono(THE Sonny Bono, many accolades!),
Tony Jay(Star Trek: TNG episode "Cost Of Living")! B
EPISODE 10: PHEROMONE, MY LOVELY(Nov. 28, 1993):
Pretty much a straight comedy with a slight dramatic undertone!
A scientist gets jilted by Lex Luthor and hears that he's going
to have a dinner date with Lois, so she goes to the Daily Planet
and squirts her potion all over the office with amorous results!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Perry White,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Lex Luthor!
Guest starring Morgan Fairchild(Dallas, Friends, Falcon Crest),
Tony Jay(Star Trek: TNG episode "Cost Of Living")! B+
EPISODE 11: HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS(Dec. 12, 1993):
Lois decides to get a little R & R and stays at the Lexor(LOL) Hotel
honeymoon suite! While there she sees a big politician apparently
making some sort of underhanded deal! This leads to her and Clark
doing a stakeout at said hotel with some humorous results!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Perry White, Lex Luthor, Martha Kent,
Jonathan Kent!
Guest starring: Richard Libertini(Star Trek: DS9 episode "Accession",
Lethal Weapon 4, Fletch, Fletch Livies)!! A
EPISODE 12: ALL SHOOK UP(Jan. 02, 1994):
An asteroid is headed to Earth and Superman goes up to stop
it! It works, kinda, as he is thrown back to Earth and winds
up with amnesia!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Lex Luthor, Martha Kent,
Jonathan Kent!
Guest starring: No known guest stars here!! B+
EPISODE 13: WITNESS(Jan. 09, 1994):
Lois witnesses a murder and her life is in danger from a dude
who can make himself up like anyone!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Perry White! No Lex Luthor, Martha Kent,
Jonathan Kent!
Guest starring: Elliot Gould(Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Thirteen,
M*A*S*H, Friends, Capricorn One), Phil Mickelson(You know!)!! A
EPISODE 14: ILLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR(Jan. 23, 1994):
Kidnappers have been grabbing kids and getting ransoms, but in
the newest case, they've grabbed the wrong kid!! The kidnappings
are all done through a magic box!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen,
Perry White, Lois Lane, Cat Grant, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: Ben Vereen(Star Trek: TNG episode "Interface", Roots),
Eve Plumb(The Brady Bunch), Penn Jillette(Of Penn and Teller fame)!! B+
EPISODE 15: THE IDES OF METROPOLIS(Feb. 06, 1994):
A man convicted of murder suddenly disappears and later kidnaps
Lois to try and convince her he's innocent!
Meanwhile: Pa Kent thinks that Martha is having an affair and
has the painting to prove it!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Jonathan Kent, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor, Martha Kent!
No Cat Grant!
Guest starring: Tony Jay returns!! B+
EPISODE 16: FOUNDLING(Feb. 20, 1994):
A petty theif breaks into Clark's appartment and steals a piece of
Superman's history! And guess who ends up with it!?!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Jonathan
Kent, Martha Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Cat Grant, Perry White,
Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: David Warner(Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,
Babylon 5 episode "Grail", Titanic, Tron, the voice of Ra's al
Ghul in several DC animation shows!)! B+
EPISODE 17: THE RIVAL(Feb. 27, 1994):
There's a new paper in town, and as one of its top reporters,
a former acquaintence of Lois', and a rival!!! It seemes that
the ownere of the new newspaper has it in for The Daily Planet
and is making stories happen to scoop them!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Perry White,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen!
Guest starring: Bo Jackson(Football and Baseball star!), Dean Stockwell
(Quantum Leap, Battlestar Galactica[2006], Star Trek: ENT episode
"Detained", Air Force One)! B+
EPISODE 18: VATMAN(Mar. 13, 1994):
Superman saves a plane in Paris while in Metropolis, Clark Kent
watches on TV!!! Hmmm, looks like the job for, um, of Lex Luthor!
Starring in order of appearance: Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Superman/
Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor, Cat
Grant!
Guest starring: Michael McKean(Laverne And Shirley, Star Trek: VOY
episode "The Thaw")!! A
EPISODE 19: FLY HARD(Mar. 27, 1994):
While "working" late at the Planet, the office is overrun by dudes
and dudettes looking to get into a vault containing information on
a prohabitions era racketeer! Reason, unknown!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor,
Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent, Cat Grant!!
This is the final appearance of Cat Grant(Tracy Scoggins)! She was
dropped from the series after this with no explanation as to why!!<
but after some research it appears that ABC, who aired the show,
thought here character was inappropriate for chiildren!
Guest starring here is Robert Beltran(Star Trerk: VOY[as Chakotay)! B+
EPISODE 20: BARBARIANS AT THE PLANET(May 01, 1994):
Someone steals some Kryptonite(gee, I wonder who!)! There's absolutely
no explanation on where this Kryptonite came from! Oh, and Lex
proposes to Lois, Clark tells Lois he loves her, and Lois tells
Superman she loves him!!(LOL!!!)! One more thing, no one is getting
paid at the Planet because of a computer glitch(I also wonder who's
behind this one!!)
Ok, so there's one more little things, Lex buy's the Planet!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Superman/
Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!!
This one has Patrick Kilpatrick(2 episodes of Star Trek: VOY,
Star Trek: DS9 episode "The Siege Of AR-558", Eraser, Babylon
5 episode "Convictions")! B+
Continued in the next episode!
EPISODE 21: THE HOUSE OF LUTHOR(Apr. 22, 1989):
Continued from the previous episode(though with a different name)!
This had Lois and Lex preparing for their wedding and Clark, Perry,
Jimmy and Jack trying to find out what really happened to the Planet!
Starring in order of appearance: Lex Luthor, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!!
Last episode with Michael Landis as Jimmy Olsen!
This one has Phyllis Coates(THE Lois Lane!!), James Earl Jones
(THE James Earl Jones!!)! B+
SPECIALS ON DISCS:
COMMENTARY ON THE PILOT:
With input from Dean Cain and the director and Ex. Producer!
FROM RIVALS TO ROMANCE:
The Making Of "Lois & Clark"!
With input from Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, John Shea,
Eddie Jones, K Callan, Tracy Scoggins and others!
TAKING FLIGHT: THE VISUAL EFFECTS OF LOIS & CLARK!
With input from Dead Cain, Teri Hatcher, John Shea
and others!
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
Dean Cain is nothing less than perfect in the role as Clark
Kent (CK). That goes for Teri Hatcher as well, her portrait
of Lois Lane is just...SUPER!
The different directors and screenwriters have done an excellent
job of bringing Clark Kent back to the screen. The idea of giving
Clark Kent a full background and some real space to act in, is
just ingenious. Lane Smith and Justin Whalin are also worth
mentioning - they are both excellent in their roles as Perry
and Jimmy.
Now, why haven't this fantastic series come out on
DVD?(MY NOTE: THEY HAVE)!! - MartyManiac