The BEST episodes of The Adventures of Superboy (1988)
Every episode of The Adventures of Superboy (1988) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Adventures of Superboy (1988)!
Based on the DC Comics character Superman's early years as Superboy. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season. The series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, who were the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.
#1 - Who is Superboy?
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1992
An intelligent computer that can retrace events on a given incident arrives at the Bureau, and Lana uses it to discover who Superboy is. All clues seem to point to Clark.
#2 - Wish for Armageddon
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1991
Superboy has dreams about being involved in provoking the Russians into warfare, and finds that they are actually real when he sees reports about it on the news. It turns out that Superboy was tricked into signing a contract that places him under the control of a immortal man that is trying to bring about Armaggedon, so he'll be released from a lifelong curse.
#3 - To Be Human (1)
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/1992
After a year of ""normal"" life, Bizarro Lana explodes one afternoon leaving Bizarro devastated. Superboy finds Bizarro mourning Bizarro Lana and offers him hope...hope of being made into a normal human being. Superboy takes Bizarro to Dr. Lynn, who has developed a process that can use Superboy's brainwaves to correct Bizarro's imperfect mind. The transfer works, but soemthing causes the machines to overload. Superboy is left disoriented and weak. Meanwhile, Chaos, an insane terrorist is bombing parts of the city and wreaking havoc. Chaos is spotted by Superboy driving down a Capitol City street shooting at random pedestrians. As Superboy flies over, Chaos fires at him, and in his weakened state, Superboy is injured by the blast and falls to the street. Chaos drags Superboy away to dispose of him once and for all.
#4 - Test of Time
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1990
Two aliens from another world have come to Earth, and alter time, accelerating Superboy's presence. They test him, observing his reactions and using the results to determine if the entire human race on Earth can be conquered so they'll know how to take over the world and re-establish their race.
#5 - Special Effects
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1991
While Clark and Lana investigate a murder by a group of monsters at a production studio, they run into Andy McAlister. Together, they find that a fellow director is actually responsible, and is blackmailing the monsters to commit the murders.
#6 - Threesome (1)
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1992
Luthor and Metallo are broken out of prison by Odessa Vexman, the prison psychiatrist, and the three join forces to finally get rid of the source of their mutual frustration: Superboy.
#7 - The Jewel of the Techacal
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1988
Lana's father, an archeologist, comes to the university with what he thinks is a cursed relic. Lex Luthor then steals the jewel in order to seel it to the highest bidder.
#8 - Carnival
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1990
A carnival arrives into town, and its owner, a man named DeVille, steals the souls of some of the carnival-goers, and targets Superboy to break his moral spirit and steal his soul as well.
#9 - Into the Mystery
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1991
While trying to save the life of a man whose car just crashed, Superboy encounters an unusual ghostly woman. After the encounter, Clark begins to reminisce about his aunt Cassandra and everything that she taught him as a kid but his reminiscing is cut short as he has to save the life of a young boy, and once again he encounters the ghostly woman. After a third encounter at a fire in a nursing home, Superboy begins to search for Cassandra and locates her in a cabin outside the city.
#10 - Out of Luck
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1992
A rare coin seems to bless a criminal with good luck, while cursing Superboy's ability to capture him.
#11 - Threesome (2)
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1992
After nearly being destroyed by the trio, Superboy has to come up with a plan to round them up before more destruction ensues.
#12 - West of Alpha Centauri
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1992
Superboy is kidnapped and taken aboard a spaceship whose destination is a paradise planet just west of Alpha Centauri. Inside the ship, he finds most of the occupants are prisoners of a deranged captain, and they all believe Superboy is their savior from an old prophecy.
#13 - The Road to Hell (2)
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/25/1991
After Superboy's near death run-in with Luthor, he is taken to yet another universe, one of which an alternate Dr. Winger, Luthor, who is now a doctor, and Superman exist. Dr. Winger admits that he's repsonsible for Superboy's latest (and dangerous) adventure, and they help him recover. Superboy has to convince his older alternate to allow him to go to the previous universe to save the younger version of himself, so that their paths in all worlds are corrected.
#14 - The Golem
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1991
When an elderly Jewish man is being harassed by some neo-nazis, he creates a Golem, a creature from folklore. He instructs him to defend him from the neo-nazis but it loses control and is out to kill all neo-nazis.
#15 - Neila and the Beast
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1991
Neila returns to Earth after her race of warriors are destroyed, and summons Superboy to aid her in destroying a creature that is out to kill her. She also gives humans a chance, and asks for Lana's help in finding companionship.
#16 - The Sons of Icarus
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1990
After a number of flying men are spotted over Capitol City, Matt Ritter learns that the men are part of a group called the "Katia," descendants of African slaves who gained the power to fly. When Matt discovers he is one of them, he quits his job at the Bureau and joins the group. But Clark and Lana find out that there is a connection between the Katia and a series of fires that have broken out throughout the city, and if the Katia aren't stopped, Capitol City could burn to the ground.
#17 - Roads Not Taken (2)
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1990
Superboy jumps through the portal to escape the kryptonite assault. This time he ends up on a world where his alternate self has taken the name ""Sovereign"" and is the dictator of earth, ruling his people with fear. Superboy encounters the Lana of this world, who is fighting, along with her lover Lex Luthor, to take down the Sovereign. Superboy joins the resistance. Meanwhile, the Sovereign learns of the ""imposter"" who has all of his powers. He sends troops to attack the resistance fighters, and in the assault Luthor is killed. Superboy vows to stop the Sovereign. He manages to get into the Sovereign's headquarters and confronts his alternate face to face. They struggle briefly before Lana arrives with a chunk of kryptonite and a bomb strapped to her body. She backs the Sovereign into a corner and detonates her kryptonite bomb, sending a wall of kryptonite-laced flame directly toward Superboy! WIll Superboy escape this world alive, recover Luthor, and return home?
#18 - Roads Not Taken (1)
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1990
Luthor steps into an interdimensional portal created by a Dr. Winger and is whisked away to an alternate earth. Darla kidnaps Lana in order to lure Superboy to the lab where Luthor vanished. She tells Superboy that if he doesn't go through the portal to save Lex, Lana will die. Naturally, he goes through and is transported to an alternate earth where his alternate self killed Luthor's alternate years ago. Now the world is in chaos. Lana is homeless, everyone hates Superboy, and ""our"" Luthor, claiming to be that world's Luthor resurrected, is quickly taking over. Superboy finds Luthor, but is held at bay by kryptonite. He travels to the Bureau for extra-normal Matters and there encounters his other self, a Superboy who wears leather and dark glasses and just doesn't care anymore. He explains how he killed Luthor in a fit of rage by cutting him in two with heat vision. After the discussion is over, the Superboy of earth-1 heads to Dr. Winger's lab looking for a way back home.
#19 - The Lair
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1990
Clark, Lana, and Matt investigate sightings of a creature that was deformed as a result of contaminated water. The creature turns out to be a man that formerly worked for Pat Kenderson (from season 1's Troubled Waters), and is being hunted by his men.
#20 - Rebirth (2)
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1991
While the gang plans to steal and sell chemical weapons on the black market, Lana sets out to clear Superboy's name, so he can be vindicated of the man's murder.
#21 - Rebirth (1)
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1991
Superboy tries to stop a guerilla-style gang, and is then framed for the death of its leader, which was really caused by a member of the gang. Fearing that he did cause the man's death, Superboy retreats to Smallville, where he vows to never use his powers again.
#22 - Bodyswap
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1991
Superboy saves a vacationing family from disaster as their car heads toward collision with a tree. He then proceeds to steal their car. Needless to say, Superboy is not quite himself. Later, Luthor confronts Lana in a parking building. He claims that he is not really Luthor, but Superboy. He explains that a scientist named Deland lured him to a lab promising information about his past, but instead of that, he found his mind transferred to Luthor's body. Lana doesn't believe him, and escapes ""Luthor"". That night, ""Superboy"" arrives at Lana's apartment wanting to take their relationship to a deeper level. Back at Deland's lab, the real Superboy is captured by Luthor and taken to prison so he can take Luthor's place in the electric chair. Lana breaks him free, and explains she knew the real Superboy would never come on to her like that. The two hatch a plan to get Luthor back in his rightful body.
#23 - A Day in the Double Life
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1991
Clark chronicles his daily activities for Jackson, rewording his outings as Superboy to cover up his identity. This leads to the conclusion that he leads a rather boring life.
#24 - Superboy... Lost
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1990
When Superboy tries to intercept a meteor that is approaching Earth, he is injured, resulting in amnesia. In the forest, a mother and son find him and nurse him back to health, while he rediscovers who he truly is. All the while, the mother and son are in hiding, trying to avoid death, courtesy of the boy's father.
#25 - Mindscape
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1990
When Superboy investigates a rock that was brought into the Bureau, an alien life form jumps out and attaches itself to him, causing him to go unconscious. The alien produces dreams that exploits Superboy's worst fears, and it feeds of the adrenaline the dreams create. With no one able to stop the alien, it might drain Superboy of life.