Television Series
(1988-1992)
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Executive Producer: Ilya Salkind
Character created by: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Music: Kevin Kiner - Opening Theme: [Real Audio]

CAST

SEASON 1 | SEASON 2 | SEASON 3 | SEASON 4
#53 - The Bride Of Bizarro, part 1 - (10/7/90)
Writers: Michael Carlin and Andrew Helfer
Director: David Grossman
The sinister Lex Luthor returns to seek revenge against Superboy with the help of the Kryptonite-powered duplicating machine responsible for creating Bizarro(Barry Meyers), the imperfect double of the Boy of Steel. The creature, yearning for a mate, is coaxed into helping Luthor destroy Superboy with Green Kryptonite, in exchange for a female Bizarro.

#54 - The Bride Of Bizarro, part 2 - (10/14/90)
Writers: Michael Carlin and Andrew Helfer - Script: [.txt]
Director: David Grossman
After Lex Luthor creates a Bizarro duplicate of Lana Lang(Shanna Teare), Bizarro agrees to kill Superboy. But the scheme backfires as the newly-created Bizarro Lana convinces Bizarro not to kill Superboy and instead annihilate the sinister genius, Luthor. Not one to be caught unprepared, Luthor unleashes a whole army of Bizarro duplicates of himself to destroy both Superboy and Bizarro.

#55 - The Lair - (10/21/90)
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
Director: David Grossman
Matt Ritter is kidnapped while investigating rumors of a monster in a dense forest near the Lakeside Nuclear Power Facility which is operated by Patrick Kenderson(Jordan Williams). Lana Lang and Clark Kent search the forest and discover the tragic origins of the creature. With all his super powers, Superboy is not able to save the creature from the guns of local hunters.

#56 - Neila - (10/28/90)
Writers: Gary Rosen and Stan Berkowitz
Director: Mark Vargo
A female extraterrestrial, Neila(Christine Moore), arrives on Earth in search of a perfect mate. Of royal descent on her own planet, Neila seeks a man who is equal to her strength and powers, and finds him in Superboy. She realizes, however, that Superboy is devoted only to Lana Lang, and tries to disguise herself as human in order to attract him. When her attempt fails, Neila threatens to destroy Earth in her rage, and Lana may be asked to sacrifice herself to save the world.

#57-58 - Roads Not Taken, part 1&2 - (11/4/90-11/11/90)
Writers: John Francis Moore and Stan Berkowitz
Director: Richard J. Lewis
A scientist(Kenneth Robert Shippy) has created a dimension travel machine which allows entry into alternate worlds. By watching the device, people in our world can see how their lives would have changed if they had taken alternate paths. Lex Luthor is accidentally sent into another dimension through this machine and finds himself in a world where the alternate Superboy is a criminal and has murdered the alternate Lex Luthor. Meanwhile, in the present dimension, Lex's girlfriend Darla(Tracy Roberts), kidnaps Lana to force Superboy to bring Luthor back. Lex schemes to resurrect himself and become the new messiah to the people of the alternate world. In his attempt to take Luthor back with him, Superboy is hurtled into yet a third world, in which his third alternate has become a sovereign. Trapped in this third dimension, Superboy learns that in this world he is a dictator who rules with an iron fist. The counterparts of Lex Luthor and Lana are freedom fighters who are part of an underground movement to overthrow the Sovereign and achieve democracy. Superboy faces off with the Sovereign Superboy in an attempt to stop him from destroying the freedom fighters.

#59 - The Son Of Icarus - (11/18/90)
Writer: Paul Stuberrauch
Director: Richard Lewis
Clark and Lana are amazed to see a man flying high in the sky. Changing into Superboy, Clark catches up to the man, just before he is killed by flying into a high-voltage wire. As he dies, he mumbles some clues to the Boy Of Steel, leading him to Matt Ritter, a man who is being drawn into a cult made up of American descendents of a lost African tribe, who practice a ritual that gives them the power to fly. Each time they practice the ritual, an imbalance in nature occurs and a fire creature is created as a result. The creature sets off fires in its path, causing havoc and destruction - and even Superboy is unable to stop it. Clark and Lana learn of the cult's secret and try to warn Matt before it's too late.

#60 - Carnival - (11/25/90)
Writer: Toby Martin
Director: David Grossman
When people start to mysteriously vanish, Lana's investigations lead to a small time, traveling carnival, run by a satanic stranger, Deville(Christopher Neame). She discovers that Deville and the carnival date back 108 years and there is a history of people reported missing whenever the carnival shows up. Lana is captured by the sinister Deville who transforms himself into the likeness of Samuel's(Greg Allman), a scoundrel who has once before caused Superboy to lose his temper - all part of Deville's plot to taunt Superboy into giving up his soul.

#61 - The Test Of Time - (12/2/90)
Writer: David Gerrold
Director: David Hartwell
Lana and Clark are out tramping through the woods while working on a story. Suddenly Clark sees something strange with his super-vision: what looks like a miniature tornado quickly approaches them, and picks up, spins, and throws Clark to the ground. When he stands up, Clark sees Lana frozen in position, and he goes for help - only to find the rest of Smallville frozen in place. After some investigation he learns that the town isn't frozen in place, but is just moving extremely slowly, but then decides that the world has remained the same, he is just moving fast. Eventually he discovers the truth: two aliens(Eric Conger and Bryce Wood) came to Earth in search of a new planet to invade, and are subjecting Clark to a series of tests, using their power to control time, in order to learn the weaknesses of humans. Keeping his true identity a secret, Clark uncovers their schemes and misleads them into thinking all humans have supernatural strength.

#62 - Mindscape - (12/9/90)
Writer: Michael Carlin and Andrew Helfer
Director: David Nutter
At the end of a typical workday at the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters, a construction worker brings in a strange stone which he claims is making noises. As the stone begins to glow and crack, Clark rushes to change into Superboy who then fuses the rock back together, but to no avail. The rock explodes and a transparent oozing creature launches itself onto Superboy and wraps itself around his neck. The Bureau must watch helplessly as even lasers are not able to cut the creature away. Superboy floats in and out of bizarre dreams, while the alien feeds on the adrenaline these dreams cause, growing larger and larger. Finally, it appears that Superboy is truly dying, and in his dreams he travels outside of himself and through a tunnel of light. At the end of the tunnel, he meets his real parents, who are dead, and they tell him it is not his time. Feeling more confident, Superboy goes back into himself, now renewed with the strength to battle the alien.

#63 - Superboy... Lost - (12/16/90)
Writer: David Gerrold
Director: David Hartwell
While trying to deflect the comet which is hurtling toward Earth, Superboy is knocked to the ground in the Florida Everglades, stricken with amnesia. He is found by Marissa(Sara Essex) and her son Jeremy(Paul Sutera), who have long been living in the swamp and do not recognize him. The three of them are constantly surprised by his powers which he must soon call on to save Jeremy from his father, Damon(Kevin Quigley), the leader of the Satanic cult to which Marissa once belonged. Superboy foils the cult's first attempt to kidnap the boy, but their second attempt is successful. While with the cult, Jeremy sees a newspaper with Superboy's picture and a headline about the comet. When Superboy rescues him, Jeremy shows him the clipping which begins to trigger his memory. Superboy rushes after the comet and recalls, just in time, what went wrong before. He tries a different strategy and hopes that he can deflect the comet before it crashes into Earth.

#64 - Special Effects - (1/6/91)
Writer: Elliot Anderson
Director: David Grossman
Jackson overhears Lana and Clark complaining that they are never given any real work to do so he decides to do them a favor. He sends them to interview a 10 year old child - the only witness to the murder of a film director. The investigation brings them to the late director's movie set where they encounter Max Von Norman(Richard Marcus), the special effects man who created the monster, Caliban(Barry Meyers), which the child claims was the murderer. On the set, Clark and Lana also encounter their old friend, Andy McAlister, who is an intern on the film. The trio is on the set when the film's leading man is killed and the monster responsible, Ajax(Rob Burman), is seen fleeing the crime. Superboy's attempt to catch the creature is foiled by Max, who destroys Ajax with a futuristic flame thrower. Suspicious of Max's motives for killing Ajax, Lana accepts an invitation to a party at Max's house and discovers a door to another dimension from which Max has been obtaining the monsters and using them both as models for his work and as killers - sending them after all the film people that once scorned him.

#65 - Neila And The Beast - (1/13/91)
Writer: Lawrence Klavan
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Neila(Christine Moore), the alien princess who once had designs on Superboy, has come back to Earth for his help: the "commoners" of her planet have killed all the other aristocrats and are intent on her death as well. As she asks Superboy to help her, a beast(Tom Akas) appears which they kill, and its body is taken to the Bureau for study. Neila then goes to Lana who agrees to help her and tries to give her some advice - Neila must learn that all people are much the same, no matter what their background. Lana takes Neila to a bar and encourages her to return the friendliness of Mitch(Terence Jenkins), who is actually one of the commoners sent to kill Neila. Mitch invites Neila, along with Lana and a date, to his house for dinner. When Lana's date, Clark, is delayed because the beast's carcass which he is examining comes back to life, she leaves so that Neila can be alone with Mitch, but once Lana is gone he and his cohort attack Neila with a ray machine. Meanwhile, Superboy follows the beast who explains that he loves Neila, and she is in grave danger.

#66 - Golem - (1/20/91)
Writer: Paul Stubenrauch
Director: Robert Wiemer
An old Jewish man, Levi Hirsch(Victor Helou), distressed at the amount of bigotry in the world, creates a Golem(Brian Thompson) - a creature formed from clay which is brought to a human-like life through prayers from a mystical book of ancient Judaism, the Kaballah. But Levi is unable to control the creature when he sends if after some neo-Nazis which live in his neighborhood. In the Golem's haste to do Levi's bidding and attack the neo-Nazis, he accidentally kills Levi. Distraught, the Golem has only the original purpose Levi gave him for guidance - he must kill all bigots, which, in his illogical mind, includes anyone in uniform.

#67 - A Day In The Double Life - (1/27/91)
Writers: Stan Berkowitz and Paul Stubenrauch
Director: David Nutter
Jackson can't understand why Clark is always running off on "little emergencies," so he has him keep a diary for a day. Since he spends the day changing from Clark to Superboy and back, he's forced to make innocuous entries to conceal his identity. And when agents Harris(Allyce Beasly) and Keller(Tom Kouchalakos) spend the day fighting with each other, Superboy discovers that their real problem is that they care for each other and neither wants to be the first to admit it. At the opportune time, Superboy does "a small favor for some friends...," using his super breath to blow Harris into Keller's arms. At the end of the day, Jackson declares, after looking at Clark's diary, that he knows the truth about him - he has no life.

#68 - Body Swap - (2/3/91)
Writer: Paul Schiffer
Director: David Grossman
Knowing Superboy's desire to discover where he came from, Lex Luthor uses Dr. Oliver Deland(Nathan Alder) to trick Superboy into an experiment which is supposed to help him find his past. In reality, Superboy is hooked up to a machine which allows Luthor to switch bodies with him. Superboy, in Luthor's body, tries to make Lana believe that it's really him. She doesn't trust him at first, but after a visit from Luthor (in Superboy's body) during which he suggested that they make their relationship more intimate, Lana begins to realize that neither Luthor nor Superboy have been behaving in character. After Luthor captures the real Superboy, and has him put in jail as Luthor, Lana gets him out and together they set out to trap the real Luthor.

#69 - Rebirth, part 1 - (2/10/91)
Writer: Paul Diamond
Director: Richard J. Lewis
When Superboy stops a gang newly arrived from the Caribbean from raiding a military truck full of weapons, it seems that he accidentally causes the death of Winston(Joseph Pickney), the gang's leader. An eye-witness, Mayall(Michael Owens), swears that Winston was in an abandoned car when Superboy crashed and out-of-control truck into it, although Superboy had first x-rayed the car to make sure there was no one in it. Superboy is suddenly in doubt of himself, a doubt which increases when the gang's new leader, Llewellyn(Gregory Millar), later uses a female hostage to get away from Superboy, whose hesitation puts the woman at risk. Needing time to think, Superboy goes home to Ma and Pa Kent, convinced that he should give up using his powers.

#70 - Rebirth, part 2 - (2/17/91)
Writer: Paul Diamond
Director: Richard J. Lewis
When Clark has to use his powers to save his father, he realizes that he cannot turn his back on the gifts with which he was born. He must return to Capitol City and use his powers for justice. Back in the city, as Llewellyn plans to raid a military depository of its latest weapons and is setting up a buyer for the goods, Mayall's greed is too much for him and he again approaches Llewellyn for more money. This time, when Mayall leaves, Llewellyn orders Desmond(Kevin Benton) to kill him. But Lana has been checking up on Mayall and, finding he has spent an exorbitant amount of money since the "accident," is suspicious. Clark arrives at the Bureau to find Lana has gone to question Mayall. Lana arrives at Mayall's apartment just as Desmond is tying him up, about to leave him with a bomb. She hides in a closet while Desmond questions Mayall, who explains that Llewellyn knocked Winston unconscious and threw him in the car when it was already in flames. Desmond hears Lana and ties her up as well, leaving both her and Mayall to be blown to bits.

#71 - Werewolf - (2/24/91)
Writer: Toby Martin
Director: Bryan Spicer
A distraught woman, Christina Riley(Paula Marshall), brings a videotape to the Bureau which she claims shows a werewolf, which she has been tracking for months, attacking her. Although it is blurred, Clark, using his super-vision, claims he can see something so Jackson gives him the case. Together, Clark and Christina try to track down Canaris(Robert Winston), the man whom Christina believes is the werewolf. Christina, armed with a silver dagger, and Clark trace Canaris to his office on the night of a full moon. Starting to make the change, Canaris locks himself in his office, while Clark turns to find Christina has mysteriously vanished, leaving the silver dagger behind on an ashtray. Canaris, as the werewolf, bursts into his office. Clark turns into Superboy and the two begin to fight until the werewolf falls onto the dagger and dies, turning back into his human form. When Clark sees Christina the following day, she is relieved that it is over and the two go to the University City Studio Tour. After they leave, the Bureau gets the report that there was another werewolf attack the night before and they reason that Canaris must have scratched Christina the night she made the videotape, passing the curse along to her.

#72 - People vs. Metallo - (4/8/91)
Writers: Andrew Helfer and Michael Carlin
Director: Richard J. Lewis
While Mr. Corben is on trial for Metallo's numerous crimes, he has a chunk of Kryptonite smuggled into the courtroom - just as Superboy is taking the stand. Placing the Kryptonite in his chest, Mr. Corben transforms himself into Metallo, takes over the room, and decides to use the jury to prove that Superboy is the guilty one for leading him into the life of crime. Metallo tells the jury about Superboy talking Metallo into helping him raid a military base. When Metallo asks Superboy if the events are true, he must answer "yes" and the jury is shocked. Lana insists Superboy have the right of defense and Metallo agrees - appointing Lana as Superboy's defense counselor, whereupon she shows that Superboy was under the effects of Red Kryptonite. When Metallo claims that he was not in his right mind either, Lana shows an important difference - even under the influence of Red Kryptonite, Superboy wouldn't kill. Reminding the jury of all that Superboy has done for them, and invoking the principles he fights for and what the court represents, Lana so persuades the jury and the rest of the people in the courtroom that they all turn against Metallo and charge at him.

#73 - Jackson And Hyde - (4/21/91)
Writer: Toby Martin
Director: John Huneck
Gail Peyton(Heather Ehlers) brings a bottle of her grandfather's "Health and Strength elixir in to the Bureau. Although Dennis Jackson is convinced it's just snake oil, he agrees to send it to the lab, but forgets to drop it off. When he later gets in an accident and is trapped in his car, he drinks the elixir. Amazingly, it gives him the strength to break out of the car, but it also makes him wild and mean. The next morning, his personality is still strange - he is pleasant and jovial - and decides to go out into the field with Matt. As they leave we learn that a man was beaten to death very near where Jackson has his accident. While Matt and Dennis are on a call, they meet Elissa, and later that night, Dennis goes to the club that Elissa sings at to meet her, first going to Gail for more elixir. Suspicious, Gail follows him and watches as he drinks the elixir for courage, then bursts into Elissa's dressing room and chases her into the parking lot. Elissa hides in a car, though Jackson seemingly passes her by, something crashes in and kills her.

#74 - Mine Games - (4/28/91)
Writer: Sherman Howard
Director: Hugh Martin
As Superboy follows Lex Luthor, who is dragging the kidnapped Lana Lang into a mine, he finds himself in a trap. Luthor has lured Superboy into the abandoned mine where hi plans to kill him with Kryptonite. But just as his evil plan is unveiled, the roof of the mine begins to collapse. Lex and Superboy are trapped together in a chamber of the mine while Lana is trapped on the other side, near the mine entrance, by a fallen rock. As the two men begin to run out of oxygen, Superboy convinces Luthor that the only way he'll get out alive is to take the Kryptonite as far away as possible. The far end of the chamber is still not far enough, but Superboy remembers seeing a battery, now covered by fallen rock and dirt. Together, Superboy and Luthor dig for the battery, hoping the lead in it will be enough to shield Superboy from the deadly rays of the Kryptonite - otherwise, they are both sure to perish.

#75 - Wish For Armageddon - (5/5/91)
Writer: Gerard Christopher
Director: Bob Wiemer
Clark is having a problem with dreams. He keeps dreaming that terrible things are happening to the Soviets - things for which they are blaming the U.S.. But when Clark wakes up, he finds out that these things are real. What he doesn't realize, is he's the one who's doing them. Garrett Waters(Robert Miano) seems like an upstanding citizen, well known for his activity in charitable causes. He has even gotten Superboy to help him out by collecting donations and signing a Declaration of Principles advocating rights for the homeless. Trouble is, it's also a contract with the devil. For Garrett Waters was once a medieval monk, cursed to live until the end of the world. Throughout nine centuries, he has used the Satanic contract to try to cause Armageddon and it seems this time he may be successful.

#76 - Standoff - (5/12/91)
Writer: Joseph Gunn
Director: John Huneck
The Bureau is having a get-together for an employee leaving to return to college, when a stranger(Tom Schuster) in the club begins asking questions about Clark and the others. Suddenly, he pulls a gun on the bartender(Jim Greene) to rob him, and when Clark starts to change into Superboy he is met by the hood's accomplice(Philip J. Celia). Unable to transform into his super alter ego, Clark becomes one of two dozen prisoners in the restaurant, being held by two convicts who escaped from a courtroom that morning. Police are searching door-to-door for the pair, and it's only a matter of time before they arrive. Unfortunately, when they do show up, Mack is forced to run them off. Now, with Clark unable to change into his secret identity, they are at the whims of the two convicts.

#77-78 - The Road To Hell, part 1&2 - (5/19/91-5/26/91)
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
Director: David Nutter
A large menacing snake approaches a young child(Aaron Schnell) in a thick forest, but the child - obviously gifted with super powers - picks up the snake and throws it hundreds of feet. Watching the child through a dimensional portal, two strangers say that the child must not grow up on his own in the wilds, but it may be too late to help him. They then begin watching Superboy save a helpless car accident victim, and as she starts to kiss the Boy Of Steel as a reward, he disappears and finds himself transported to the building he works at - except no one knows him now. What's more, much has changed in this new world, such as the lady he saved was killed, Lana has now been working in the field for two years, and no one has ever heard of Superboy! Realizing that he is in another dimension, Clark goes to see Dr. Winger(Kenneth Robert Shippy), who, in Superboy's world, had created and inter-dimensional travel device. But the Winger in this dimension didn't have Superboy's help and couldn't complete it. Later, meeting a changed Lana who cares about nothing except a big story, she admits she doesn't know Clark, but has heard of a young boy who lives in the wilds with super powers. Meanwhile, while Superboy tries to figure out a way home, a radically different Lex Luthor has tracked down the young Superboy in Africa, where he plans to use the child to achieve his own selfish goals.

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