The BEST episodes of Superman (1988)
Every episode of Superman (1988) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Superman (1988)!
Superman is a 1988 animated Saturday morning television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and Warner Bros. Television that aired on CBS featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name (coinciding with the character's 50th anniversary, along with the live-action Superboy TV series that year). Veteran comic book writer Marv Wolfman was the head story editor, and noted comic book artist Gil Kane provided character designs.
#2 - Night of the Living Shadows
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/3/1988
Lex Luthor develops a suit that enables a person to become a living shadow. He gives it to a low-level thug from Suicide Slum named McFarlane to rob a bank (who gets dubbed Shadow Thief), then uses the suit himself to rob a jewelry store. Lex then recruits a gang to use the suits in a plan to rob the mint where their robberies baffle Superman and Inspector Henderson.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - The Big Scoop
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/15/1988
Clark Kent's old friend Dr. Glozer invents the Chronotron which allows the user to see into the future. Lex Luthor wants the device and sends his men to capture Dr. Glozer and steal the machine. Using it to win at horse racing, Luthor sees a crime at the track and realizes Clark Kent is Superman. Luthor then gets Clark on a tabloid TV show to force him to reveal himself.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - By the Skin of the Dragon's Teeth
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1988
Lex Luthor buys the Great Wall of China and invites Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Jimmy Olsen over for an interview. When Lex accidentally brings the statue of the Dragon King to life, he and Superman must work together to stop the dragon statue.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - The Beast Beneath These Streets
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/19/1988
Researchers have discovered an old part of Metropolis that has been buried for a hundred years. According to legend, this part of Metropolis was buried a hundred years ago when a scientist named Dr. Morpheus made a machine that allowed him to steal the powers of a number of different kinds of animals. The legend turns out to be true when Dr. Morpheus (who appears to be a man-bat) kidnaps Lois Lane. He lures Superman to his machine in a plot to steal Superman's powers, and uses bats to help Superman get there.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Superman and Wonder Woman vs. the Sorceress of Time
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/5/1988
When Superman stops a meteor, a piece of it falls to Themyscira and breaks the crystal prison containing the sorceress Syrene (who has the ability to teleport mythological creatures to the present) where she turns the Amazons into hideous short creatures. Now Superman and Wonder Woman must stop Cyrene before she obtains the ultimate power sealed within Themyscira... which she needs Wonder Woman to open.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Cybron Strikes
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/8/1988
When Superman is celebrating Lois Lane's birthday with a fly through the skies, a metal pyramid floats down to them and they meet its pilot, a hostile cyborg named Cybron who comes from the future. When Cybron's pyramid is brought to a government facility, Cybron breaks free and turns Lois, Jimmy, and a bunch of people into robots.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Hunter
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/29/1988
While out on a holiday with his parents, Clark Kent ends up having to leave as Superman when General Zod and his companions Ursa and Faora arrive. They create a creature called The Hunter which can transform into any material it acquires. Things get difficult for Superman when The Hunter acquires the Kryptonite that is in Lex Luthor's possession.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Adoption
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1988
After Jonathan and Martha Kent discover Jor-El's spaceship on the roadside with his son, they take the baby to an orphanage. Unfortunately, there are a number of couples waiting to adopt before the Kents. The baby uses his superpowers in mischievous ways, which repel all the others way. He is then adopted by the Kents, whom he gets along with.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Triple Play
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/22/1988
Prankster seeks his revenge against those who sent him to prison. He ends up teleporting the Metros and the Goliaths (two baseball teams competing in the World Series) to his uncharted island, kidnaps Judge Cook, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen (who were partially responsible for the events that sent him to prison), and threatens their lives. Superman is the only one who can rescue his friends from the Prankster when he is forced to play as a pitcher for Prankster's Robot Baseball Team against the two baseball teams for Prankster's amusement.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - The Last Time I Saw Earth
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/10/1988
An alien bounty hunter named Starrok steals the shuttle that Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are in. He brings them to his planet, where they are fattened up in order to gain the proteins from their bodies to become immortal.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Destroy the Defendroids
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1988
Lex Luthor's company makes robots called Defendroids that stop crooks and save people so effectively it causes Superman to move away from Metropolis. With his old rival gone, Luthor uses the Defendroids to rob a train transporting a billion dollars in gold to Fort Knox.
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