The Best Episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Last Updated: May 21, 2019
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.
#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.
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#2 - Pilot (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1
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.
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#3 - The House of Luthor
Season 1 - Episode 22
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
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#4 - 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"".
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#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.
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#6 - Tempus, Anyone?
Season 3 - Episode 14
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.
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#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.
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#8 - Lois and Clarks (2)
Season 4 - Episode 15
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.
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#9 - AKA Superman
Season 4 - Episode 16
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.
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#10 - Tempus Fugitive
Season 2 - Episode 18
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!
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#11 - I Now Pronounce You...
Season 3 - Episode 15
Lois and Clark are finally getting married. At the same time they are assigned to cover a story about the theft of exotic frogs from a pet store. They discover a plot against the president using clones created with an enzyme from the stolen frogs...
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#12 - 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.
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#13 - Through a Glass, Darkly
Season 3 - Episode 21
Superman is subjected to many tests of his powers by Zara and Ching, Kryptonians who need a new leader to the planet New Krypton. Lois and Clark discuss about buying a house.
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#14 - Double Jeopardy
Season 3 - Episode 16
At the end of the last episode Clark waits for Lois in bed on their wedding night while we learn that Lois Lane was replaced by a clone made using the frog enzyme. Meanwhile the real Lois is a prisoner of Lex Luthor. Will Clark catch on? What nefarious plan does Lex have up his sleeve? Will Lois escape and reunite with Clark?
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#15 - 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.
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#16 - 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.
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#17 - Strange Visitor (from Another Planet)
Season 1 - Episode 3
Jason Trask, who works for the government, is obsessed with Superman and wants to study and kill him. He kidnaps Lois and Clark because he's sure that Superman has a connection with them. Clark begins to learn about Krypton when he finds the spaceship that brought him to earth.
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#18 - All Shook Up
Season 1 - Episode 13
Superman needs to stop a giant asteroid from colliding with Earth, but when Superman collides with the asteroid, he gets amnesia. Clark goes at the Daily Planet with Lois, who is helping him with his ""new job"" and ""new friends"" that he can't remember. And Martha and Jonathan need to make Clark remember that he is Superman, otherwise, the ""still-alive"" asteroid will colide with the Earth.
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#19 - The Rival
Season 1 - Episode 18
A Lois' ex-colleague is working for another newspaper who is strangely getting the major news before the Daily Planet and Lois gets jealous when she shows interest on Clark.
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#20 - Seconds
Season 3 - Episode 17
Lois, still suffering from amnesia after striking her head while escaping from Lex, thinks that she's Wanda Detroit, a fictional character from a novel she was writing. At the end of the last episode she dumped Clark for Lex and left with him. Clark and the clone now become friends, while Lex plots to make sure Lois stays with him for good. Will Lois ever recover her memory of who she really is?
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#21 - 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.
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#22 - Lucky Leon
Season 2 - Episode 16
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.
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#23 - The Dad Who Came in from the Cold
Season 3 - Episode 13
Jimmy's father appears in Metropolis and Jimmy introduces him to Clark, Lois and Perry. When Lois and Clark discover that he is a spy, they must tell the truth to Jimmy, but he doesn't believe them. Clark gets worried about the ""father"" subject...he doesn't know if he is going to be a good father because of his job.
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#24 - Vatman
Season 1 - Episode 19
Lex Luthor builds a clone of Superman, and teaches him to do what he wants, and what Lex wants is to destroy the real Superman.
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#25 - Pheromone, My Lovely
Season 1 - Episode 11
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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