LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN(1993) SEASON 3
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), K Callan(as Martha Kent),
Eddie Jones(as Jonathan Kent), Justin Whalin as Jimmy and John Shae
(as Lex Luthor) in a much diminished role!!
Everyone does a great job in their roles! The switch from Michael
to Justin wasn't the best in my personal opinion!!
EPISODES 1: WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT(Sept. 17, 1995):
Continued from the last episode of season 2!
Clark asks Lois to marry him! She tells him that she knows who
he really is!!
This goes from a potentially great episode to really silly in
about 5 minutes!!
Starring in order of appearance: Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: A returning Peter Boyle and Bruce Campbell! B
EPISODE 2: ORDINARY PEOPLE(Sept. 24, 1995):
Clark and Lois get an invite to an exclusive island to do
a review on it! They agree that Clark will not use his powers
and Lois will not be a reporter!! Unfortunately for them, the
island is home to a madman who is cripled and can't walk and
he wants to use Superman's body to put his head on!!
Starring in order of appearance: Perry White, Lois Lane, Clark
Kent/Superman, Jimmy Olsen!
Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent & Lex Luthor are not in this!!
Guest starring: No known stars here! A
EPISODE 3: CONTACT(Oct. 01, 1995):
Lois gets kidnapped(again) only this time the abductors appear
to have been aliens!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Clark Kent/Superman,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!
No Lex Luthor!
This guest stars: Larry Hankin(Friends, Vegas Vacation, Star Trek:
VOY 3 episodes, Star Trek: TNG episode "Cost Of Living"), Patrick
Labyorteaux(JAG, Little House On The Prairie)! B+
EPISODE 4: WHEN IRISH EYES ARE KILLING(Oct. 15, 1995):
An old friend of Lois' shows up at a charity auction at
the Planet and bids on Lois - and wins($10,000)! Also
going on: murders and thefts of antiques! Clark thinks
they're connected!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Clark Kent/Superman,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor, Jonathan or Martha Kent!
Guest starring: Julian Stone(Babylon 5 episode "Endgame")!! A
EPISODE 5: JUST SAY NOAH(Oct. 22, 1995):
Couples are disappearing at an alarming rate and they all have
one thing in common: Macc Davis - uh, not really but his alter
ego on this episode who runs a marriage enrichment camp for - well,
married people! And Lois and Clark go to investigate!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: Mac Davis(Singer: "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me",
"I Believe In Music", He also wrote "In The Ghetto" and "Watching
Scotty Grow")!! B+
EPISODE 6: DON'T TUG ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE(Nov. 05, 1995):
The main group find themselves in old TV shows(I Love Lucy,
James Bond, Dragnet! Jonathan and Genie play a couple of
excentric rich dudes whose jollies come from collecting one
of a kind things, like the Batmobile, Al Capone's slab of cement
etc., and are out after one more, Superman!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Jonathan Kent,
Martha Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: Jonathan Frakes(Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek:
Picard, The Librarian: The Curse Of The Judas Chalice, The
Librarian: Return To King Solomon's Mines, North And South,
North And South Book 2) and his wife Genie Francis!! A
EPISODE 7: ULTRA WOMAN(Nov. 12, 1995):
Superman has his powers transferred, again, but this time
Lois is the recipient!!! It was achieved by two women who
actually wanted to make Superman apathetic with re Kryptonite
like it did in a previous episode!!
This is kind of a silly episode!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring Shelly Long(Cheers, The Money Pit)!! B
EPISODE 8: CHIP OFF THE OLD CLARK(Nov. 19, 1994):
A woman claims her son is Superman's!! The kid does appear
to have super powers!! Also going on here is a dude calling
himself Mr. Annonymous is posing as other people and causing
havok!!
This is really a very silly episode!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!!
Lex Luthor does not appear!
Guest starring: No known stars!!!! B
EPISODE 9: SUPER MANN(Nov. 26, 1995):
Three Nazi's have awoken from criognic freeze and are determined
the the Third Reich will rise again!!
I am not a fan of stories set around Nazis!!!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White!
No Lex Luthor, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!!
Guest starring: No known stars here! B
EPISODE 10: VIRTUALLY DESTROYED(Dec. 10, 1995):
A tech dude is living his life through virtual reality programs
which intails Lois loving him, him being a super-brute, and him
beating up Superman!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring No known stars! B
EPISODE 11: HOME IS WHERE THE HURT IS(Dec. 17, 1995):
The Churches are back and trying to run the crime in Metropolis!
Well, at least Mrs. Church is! A lot of interrelastionship issues
going on here!!
This takes silly to a whole nether level!!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane,
Superman/Clark Kent, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: Beverly Garland(The Scarecrow And Mrs. King),
Robert Carradine(Of the great Carradine family, Revenge Of
The Nerds, Jesse Stone: Benefit Of The Doubt, Escape From L.A.)!! A
EPISODE 12: NEVER ON SUNDAY(Jan. 07, 1996):
There's a dude claiming to be the world's greatest magician and
he's going around putting spells on people! And for some reason
he's out after Clark!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Perry White,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!
Guest starring: Beverly Garland returns!!! B+
EPISODE 13: THE DAD WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD(Jan. 14, 1996):
A dying man from the NIA that Lois and Clark know gives Lois
a hard drive with all the information dealing with national
security! Also, Jimmy's dad shows up!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor!!
Guest starring: James Read(The Orville episode "Shadow Realms,
Charmed, 2 episodes of Star Trek: VOY, Remington Steele)!
EPISODE 14: TEMPUS, ANYWONE?(Jan. 21, 1996):
H.G. Wells and Tempus return! Also here is Lana Lang!
The story: Tempus shows up to kidnap Lois and takes her to a
paralell Metropolis where Clark isn't Superman and H.G. Wells
is out to stop him! I guess he still is bored with the future!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor, Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent!
Guest starring: Lee Arenberg(Star Trek: VOY episode "Juggernaut",
2 episodes of Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9 episode "The Nagus")! B+
EPISODE 15: I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU...(Feb. 11, 1996):
I am not a fan of the next 3 episodes!!!!
Bet you're expecting a wedding! Welp- - - -!
This is a set-up for the next episode!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen
Lex Luthor, do not appear!
Guest starring: Tony Curtis(THE Tony Curtis!!), Fred Willard
(Fernwood 2 Night, America 2 Night, Hart To Hart: Old Friends
Never Die), Brad Garrett(Everybody Loves Raymond), Harve Presnell
(Star Trek: VOY episode "The Q And The Grey"), Beverly Garland
returns!! B+
EPISODE 16: DOUBLE JEOPOADY(Feb. 18, 1996):
Lex is back, he has Lois, Clark's dumb as a rock not realizing
that "his" Lois is a clone!! Yup, just another day in the life!
Oh, and Lois loses her memory!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Lex Luthor, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!
Guest starring: No known stars here!
EPISODE 17: SECONDS(Feb. 25, 1996):
Continued from the previous episode!!
Lex continues his rampage against Clark/Superman and brainwashes
Lois into believing she's his girlfriend and that Clark is the
enemy!!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Martha Kent,
Jonathan Kent, Superman/Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen!
No Perry White!
Guest starring: No known stars! B+
EPISODE 18: FORGET ME NOT(Mar. 10, 1996):
Still continuing from the previous two episodes!
Lois remembers who she is, but she's forgotten everything else!!
Hindering her recovery is the fact that her doctor is attracted
to Lois and is manipulating her!!
Also going on here: Another doctor at the place where Lois is
has been using subliminal messages on his patients who proptly
go out and kill!!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent!
No Lex Luthor!
Guest starring: No known stars!! A-
EPISODE 19: OEDIPUS WRECKS(Mar. 24, 1996):
And STILL continuing with the Lois with no memory plot, the bad
doctor knowns that he is doing the wrong thing, but he's starting
to fall for Lois and her for him!!
Meanwhile that same episode, the idiot "Bad Brain" has returned,
kinda, and is causing havok!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor!!
Guest starring here is No known stars here!!! B+
EPISODE 20: IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL(Apr. 28, 1996):
Lois and Clark go to Lois' class reunion! And there they
meet up with a very scary alumni who's quite crazy!!
Starring in order of appearance: Lois Lane, Superman/Clark Kent,
Perry White, Jimmy Olsen
No Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor!!
This one has Steve Young(Quarterback for San Francisco 49s, Ne
England Patriots)! B+
EPISODE 21: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY(May 05, 1996):
A dude blows up part of the United Nations Space Station, sending
it plumeting to Earth! The reason: it's in the script!!
OK, really a couple have come to Earth to test Clark to see
if he's fit to -----
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jimmy Olsen, Perry White,
No Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor!!
This one has Justine Bateman(Family Ties)!
Continued in the next episode! B+
EPISODE 22: BIG GIRLS DON'T FLY(May 21, 1995):
Continued fromn the previous episode!
Turns out the two that started giving Clark and the rest of Earth
a bad time are also from Krypton, and apparently Kel-El is married
to Sarah(Zara)! And he is expected to go to "New Krypton" and live!!
Starring in order of appearance: Superman/Clark Kent, Lois Lane,
Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen!
No Lex Luthor!!
This one has Justine Bateman(Family Ties) returns, Roger Daltrey
(The Who co-founder!)!
Some really great special effects here!!
Again, ends on a cliffhanger! A
SPECIALS ON DISCS:
LOIS AND CLARK::
A HISTORY OF ROMANCE!
With input from Paul Levitz, Mike Carlng, Dean Cain,
John McNamara, Denny O'Niel, Dan Riba,
THE MAN OF STEEL TRIVIA CHALLENGE:
With input from Dean Cain, John McNamara, Randall Zisk,
Paul Jackson, Justin Whalin, Denise Crasby, John Shea,
Eddie Jones, K Callan!
MARVELING METROPOLIS:
THE FANS OF LOIS & CLARK:
With input from Randall Zisk, Denise Crosby, Justin Whalin,
Dean Cain, John McNamara, Paul Jackson, K Callan, Eddie
Jones, Chris Paterson, Diane Thompson, Margaret J. Glaser,
Kristin Wunderlich, Sarah Hernandez, Laura I. Christian,
richard M. Lapham, Nancy L. Smith, Donna Burton!
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