Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

10 Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.

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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S1E9

#15 - The Green, Green Glow of Home (Season 1 - Episode 9)

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.

The episode was rated 7.84 from 63 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S2E16

#14 - Lucky Leon (Season 2 - Episode 16)

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When Jimmy is falsely accused by murder, Lois and Clark need to prove that he is innocent and clear his name. And they finally go to their ""real"" first date. Everything was going well, but when Clark takes Lois home, she closes the door on his face...because the date was great and because her fears about what will happen with their relationship. After they prove Jimmy's innocence, Lois explains to Clark what she felt when she closed the door on his face, and recognizes the mistake. When they finally kiss, a shocking and tragic thing happens.

The episode was rated 7.84 from 45 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S3E9

#13 - Super Mann (Season 3 - Episode 9)

When Lois and Clark finally begin with the wedding plans, they must stop again and investigate a Nazi organization which is trying to take over Metropolis.

The episode was rated 7.85 from 34 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S4E15

#12 - Lois and Clarks (2) (Season 4 - Episode 15)

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Lois needs to find a way to bring Clark back to this world, and she will count with the help of H.G. Wells and the Clark from the alternate world, but they need to act quickly, or the real Clark will disappear in time, forever.

The episode was rated 7.87 from 23 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S2E10

#11 - Metallo (Season 2 - Episode 10)

Lucy Lane is working in Metropolis again, and now she has a new boyfriend named Johnny. He's turned into a cyborg body powered with kryptonite by the hands of two doctors. When Johnny finds out what he really is now, he tries to defeat Superman.

The episode was rated 7.87 from 46 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S3E14

#10 - Tempus, Anyone? (Season 3 - Episode 14)

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Tempus is back and now he kidnaps Lois and takes her to an alternate world, where there is more violence, Tempus is running to presidency against Perry, and Clark is engaged...with Lana Lang, his former girlfriend from Smallville. With the help of an older H.G. Wells, Lois tries to stop Tempus from killing Perry and go back to her world, but for this, she needs to teach the alternate Clark how to be Superman.

The episode was rated 7.88 from 40 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S4E20

#9 - I've Got You Under My Skin (Season 4 - Episode 20)

In a attempt to escape from a mob, Woody Samms uses a mystical stone to exchange his body with Clark's, and Clark goes to his body. While Clark tries to find out what is happening, Woody decides to stay with Clark's body, because obviously, he found out that Clark is Superman. And this time Clark will need to convince Lois that he is in another body and needs her help to get back to his.

The episode was rated 7.91 from 22 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S2E18

#8 - Tempus Fugitive (Season 2 - Episode 18)

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Lois and Clark need to travel to 1966 with the help of H.G. Wells and his time machine to prevent a villain from the future who wants to destroy the baby Superman. The villain tells Lois about Clark's most important secret...his secret identity!

The episode was rated 7.94 from 52 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S1E4

#7 - Neverending Battle (Season 1 - Episode 4)

Lex Luthor develops several tests to see how strong Superman is. In the Daily Planet, Lois steals Clark's story about Superman. Clark moves into a new apartment.

The episode was rated 7.96 from 89 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S4E16

#6 - AKA Superman (Season 4 - Episode 16)

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Penny Barnes, a young woman obsessed with Superman discovers that he is Jimmy Olsen! Seduced by her beauty, Jimmy ends up not telling her the truth, and when her boss thinks that she is Superman's girlfriend, he kidnaps her and forces Superman to reactivate ""the annihilator,"" a deadly weapon the government had scrapped before it was completely built.

The episode was rated 7.96 from 23 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S3E22

#5 - Big Girls Don't Fly (Season 3 - Episode 22)

After being approved in Zara and Ching's tests, Superman learns that they want him to leave the Earth (and Lois) and go back with they to rule New Krypton, or the planet will be ruled by the evil Lord Nor, who has sent an assassin to kill Clark. When Clark defeats the assassin, he and Lois decide that he must go with Zara and Ching. Superman says goodbye to his parents, to Earth and to Lois, and leaves with Zara and Ching.

The episode was rated 8.00 from 38 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S1E22

#4 - The House of Luthor (Season 1 - Episode 22)

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Clark, Perry, Jack and Jimmy begin to search for the truth about the downfall of the Daily Planet. They are sure that Lex is guilty. Lex gets some Kryptonite, captures Superman, and locks him in a cage with Kryptonite bars. The wedding is about to start, but Lois has doubts about what she really wants to do. Lois realizes that Clark is the man she loves. When the Archbishop asks if she takes Lex as her husband, she says she can't, and at that moment Perry interrupts the wedding with Inspector Henderson and they tell Lex they know he is a criminal. Lex escapes, and goes to the room where Superman is trapped, but Superman has escaped. Lois walks out of the building crying, and hugs Clark (he just escaped from the cage). Lex throws himself off the top of his building, but Clark can't save him because he is weak from Kryptonite exposure. The Daily Planet is bought a by a rich man, who promises to make it better than ever. Before Lois can tell Clark she loves him, Clark says that he was lyi

The episode was rated 8.03 from 40 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S2E13

#3 - The Phoenix (Season 2 - Episode 13)

Lex is back from the dead by the hands of Dr. Gretchen Kelly, and now he wants to get Lois back and destroy Superman. Clark asks Lois out on a date, but, when she accepts, Perry sends them in a stakeout. Then, Lois and Clark call it the ""almost first date"".

The episode was rated 8.12 from 41 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S1E1

#2 - Pilot (1) (Season 1 - Episode 1)

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Clark Kent arrives in Metropolis and tries to get a job at the Daily Planet. The editor-in-chief, Perry White, is not impressed with his work from the Borneo Gazette, and therefore does not hire him. In his own time, Clark writes a story about an old theatre that is closing and Perry is blown away. He hires him on the spot. He is teamed up with with world-class journalist and egotist, Lois Lane to investigate a possible sabotage of the space program's Space Station Prometheus project.

The episode was rated 8.15 from 151 votes.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - S2E22

#1 - And the Answer Is... (Season 2 - Episode 22)

Jace, a blackmailer, with Tempus' diary, finds out about Clark's identity and forces him to steal and do everything more that he wants...and one thing more (by Nigel's suggestion)....to kill Lois, or he kills Martha and Jonathan. Lois tells Clark the only way to save his parents is to freeze her, then she will look like a dead person, and he tells her this can be very dangerous to her life, but, even so, she tells him to freeze her. Superman gives Lois (appearly dead) to Jace and Nigel, then they lock Superman in the same place where his parents are locked in. Jace kills Nigel. After Superman finally saved his parents and himself, Lois still did not open her eyes, then, he begins to beg to her life and she finally opens it, slowly. After Clark realizes he almost lost Lois, he proposes to her.

The episode was rated 8.23 from 43 votes.

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