The WORST episodes of The Adventures of Superboy (1988)
Every episode of The Adventures of Superboy (1988) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Escape to Earth
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1990
The aliens take Superboy to their ship, where they're also holding Andy and Lana. When the aliens turn Superboy into Clark, Lana finds out about his secret. Nonetheless, they try to escape the ship and return to Earth with the help of an ally who is also against the aliens.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Woman Called Tiger Eye
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/19/1990
After collecting several special crystals, a woman uses Superboy to fuse them together so she can use its power to control everyone.
#8 - Johnny Casanova and the Case of Secret Serum
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/12/1990
A potion stolen from a mob boss makes a man less attractive, but full of charm, and Lana falls in love with him. Meanwhile the mob is still after the man.
#9 - Secrets of Superboy
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1990
Nick Knack is out of prison, and wants to learn all of the dirt on Superboy. He invents a mind probing machine that drains all the memory out of its victims, and uses it on Andy and Lana to uncover all of Superboy's weaknesses.
#10 - Revenge from the Deep
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1990
An immortal being possesses Lana, and sets out to settle a score with an immortal man with whom she loved many years prior.
#11 - The Haunting of Andy McAlister
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1990
Andy, Clark and Lana visit Andy's uncle's mansion for the weekend, only to become trapped in a wall containing a world with ghosts from the wild west. A group of outlaws seek revenge against Andy's ancestor who put them there. Superboy, now without powers in this world, must simply get them back on the other side of the wall to get rid of the ghosts.
#12 - Nick Knack
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1990
A demented electronic's genius who was imprisoned because of Superboy escapes. He uses his genius to develop a mechanical suit which he uses to suck away Superboy's powers. Wearing the suit, he is almost as powerful as Superboy.
#13 - Superstar
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1990
Superboy becomes involved with a singer who has lost herself, and is also being watched by a former singer who's now disabled and claims her voice is being used by the star, and plans revenge.
#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 - Abandon Earth
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1990
Aliens claiming to be Jor-El and Lara come to Earth in search of their son Kal-El, known to the world as Superboy. Their intentions are questionable, and Clark tries to ease the tension and resentment between the Kents and the aliens while he tries to acquaint himself with them. Soon, the aliens claim they're taking Clark back to Krypton, devastating the Kents.
#16 - Brimstone
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1990
A magic doctor arrives at Shuster after a scarred, deranged man attacks several people. He's after an evil spirit named Prodo, whose been using chosen people to infect the population. When Superboy tries to stop the man, he is then infected with the curse and goes out of control, and Prodo attempts to use him to eliminate the magic doctor, Brimstone.
#17 - Run, Dracula, Run
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1990
Byron Shelly is mugged and loses the serum that keeps his vampire cravings at bay. When Lana and Andy go to help, Byron preys on Lana and they join forces to subdue Superboy. A race ensues to get the serum to the three of them, before Lana and the Boy of Steel become forever undead.
#18 - Microboy
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1990
A student at Shuster falls in love with Lana. Knowing that she cares for Superboy, he feels he must also be a superhero to be noticed. In an experiment, he uses microwaves to become Microboy. But when his powers go out of control, Superboy must intervene and attempt to get him under control.
#19 - Yellow Peri's Spell of Doom
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1990
A very shy waitress has a crush on Superboy, and wants him to notice her. One of her dolls comes to life and turns her into a sorcerer, and assists her in accomplishing her goal of making Superboy fall in love with her, hurting him and people close to him in an effort to make him submit.
#20 - Super Menace!
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1990
While running tests on kyptonite at a military facility to neutralize its effects on Superboy, they find that the alteration has emotional effects, making him apathetic. The military enlists the help of Metallo to give the Boy of Steel an attitude adjustment. After almost killing him, Superboy and Metallo join forces, posing a disastrous threat to the town.
#21 - Superboy... Rest in Peace
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1989
An android is sent from the future to destroy Superboy. A female android, who knows Superboy's identity, assists him in defeating the android before he completes his mission.
#22 - The Power of Evil
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1989
A destructive force escapes its box, and Superboy, being the greatest force of good, is its target. The overseer of the box aids Superboy in capturing the force before further harm can be done to those close to him.
#23 - Superboy's Deadly Touch
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1989
Lex Luthor strikes Superboy with a surge of solar energy that causes his powers to go out of control. Luthor plans to force a government pardon by promising to reverse the process.
#24 - Programmed for Death
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1989
A robot has reprogrammed itself, taking on the personality of Andy's father, and seeks to eliminate Andy's real father, and maybe Andy as well. Superboy gets caught in the middle when he's asked to help.
#25 - Mr. and Mrs. Superboy
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1989
Mr. Mxyzptlk returns from the fifth dimension. This time he has a giant after him who seeks revene for a practical joke. The chase wreaks havoc all across town. Superboy and Lana stop the insanity by pretending to be married and the adoptive parents of Mr. Mxyzptlk.