The BEST episodes of The Adventures of Superboy (1988) season 3
Every episode of The Adventures of Superboy (1988) season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Adventures of Superboy (1988) season 3!
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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#4 - Mine Games
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1991
After a botched attempt to rescue Lana from Luthor, Superboy and Luthor end up trapped in a lead coated mine with a chunk of kryptonite, and they are forced to put aside their differences to find a way out.
#5 - Werewolf
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1991
Clark and company try to help a young woman, who has led them on a goose chase looking for a werewolf that she'd spotted. Meanwhile, she has a secret of her own.
#6 - Jackson and Hyde
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1991
Jackson takes an elixir that makes him stronger, and transforms his behavior. As a result, he is now being blamed for the beating deaths of two people. Little does anyone know, there's a second person who's also taking the elixir.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - People vs. Metallo
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1991
Court is in session for the trial of Metallo, but he turns the tables when kryptonite is smuggled into the courtroom, giving him strength to overtake it, and Superboy. He puts Superboy on trial while on the stand, subdued by the green rock, and it will take the teamwork of everyone in the room to bring Metallo down.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Standoff
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1991
Clark, his friends, and innocent bystanders are holed up in a building as hostages, and Clark must find a way to rescue them without revealing his identity.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Bride of Bizarro (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1990
After Luthor threatens to create explosive Bizarro duplicates of everyone in the city if Superboy doesn't appear at his lair by midnight, Bizarro once again agrees to kill Superboy in exchange for a Bizarro-bride. When Luthor creates a Bizarro duplicate of Lana Lang, Bizarro is prepared to uphold his end of the bargain, and this time Superboy may not be able to escape.
#16 - Neila
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1990
A superhuman female warrior comes from another world in search of Superboy, testing him for his worthiness to be her husband. She causes destruction in the process, ignoring Superboy's effort to show what it means to care for others.
#17 - The Road to Hell (1)
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1991
Superboy is taken to an alternate world where he as a child is living in the jungle and must be saved from being captured. A run-in with an alternate Lex Luthor creates complications.
#18 - The Bride of Bizarro (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1990
As Clark and Lana begin their internship at the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters, Bizarro returns from deep space to announce on a talk show that he wants a mate! Lex Luthor makes a deal with Bizarro to create him a mate created by the duplicating machine that made Bizarro on the condition that he steal a supply of kryptonite to power it, and to kill Superboy.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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?
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.