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
#27 - With This Ring I Thee Kill, part 1 - (10/15/89)
Writer: Fred Frieberger
Directors: David Nutter
Lex Luthor returns, after going through plastic surgery and altering his fingerprints to disguise his identity from Superboy, and he plans to steal a new top-secret military weapon for use in killing the Boy Of Steel. Lex kidnaps Lana Lang and forces her to marry him while using his sinister genius to gain access to the powerful weapons system. Intending to destroy Superboy with the missile launcher, Luthor inadvertently only wounds the super hero, leaving him paralyzed.

#28 - Lex Luthor... Sentenced To Death, part 2 - (10/22/89)
Writer: Fred Frieberger - Script: [.txt]
Directors: David Grossman
Disappointed that his weapon hasn't destroyed Superboy, Lex Luthor lures the super hero from his wheelchair by broadcasting a tape of the villain with his captive Lana Lang. After a grueling rehabilitation period, a fully restored Superboy uses his super powers a apprehend Luthor, and the evil genius is sentenced to death - but makes another escape from the hands of justice.

#29 - Metallo - (10/29/89)
Writers: Mike Carlin and Andrew Helfer
Director: David Grossman
Roger Corben(Michael Callan), a bungling bank robber, tries to rob and armored car even though he is having extreme chest pains. Superboy arrives and apprehends the bank robber, but the small time crook has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital. After being there awhile he recovers and escapes by murdering his doctor. After he leaves he suffers another attack and his car crashes into a tree and explodes. The police presume he is dead, but journalist Clark Kent is not so sure. Meanwhile, Corben is actually alive, having fallen in to the hands of a mentally-unbalanced doctor(Kirt Smildsen) who turns him in to more of a machine than human being, and replaces his failing human heart with a radioactive power source, Kryptonite! The unearthly power source transforms the villain into the powerful cyborg Metallo.

#30 - Young Dracula - (11/5/89)
Writers: Ilya Salkind and Carey Bates
Director: David Nutter
A young man(Kevin Berhardt) stops a store hold-up single-handedly, but in a strange way. He orders the first thief to knock himself out, which he does. The second one enters the building and shoots the boy twice with no apparent effect, and the boy orders the punk to start beating his head on the floor, and he complies. Later, Clark saves Andy's life by pushing him out of the way of a falling steel girder. It strikes Clark on the head, and although it can't really hurt him, he has to pretend it does. While at the hospital to get checked out, Clark meets the young man from the store, who is actually visiting intern Dr. Byron Shelley by day, and by night is a vampire. Shelley is using his knowledge of modern medicine to find a cure for the dreaded curse, and at the same time, he is being stalked by and older, more powerful vampire(Lloyd Bochner[Battlester Galactica]), who wishes Shelley to remain among the unliving creatures.

#31 - Nightmare Island - (11/12/89)
Writer: Mark Jones
Director: David Nutter
Andy has talked Lana and Clark into going boating with him although they are reluctant when they learn that the "ship" is little more than a dilapidated row boat. Sure enough, it sinks, but the three teenagers are able to make it to shore safely on a small island. Once there, Superboy arrives explaining that he heard their radio signal to the coast guard, but as he tries to fly Lana back to the coast he is knocked out by a strange ray. It turns out that a deranged alien(Phil Fondacaro) is also stranded on the deserted island, and after knocking out Superboy he kidnaps Lana Lang and attempts to kill Andy McAllister and Clark Kent. The creature robs Superboy's powers with his ray gun, leaving Andy and the now mortal Superboy to team up to rescue Lana and apprehend the alien.

#32-33 - Bizarro... The Thing Of Steel, part 1&2 - (11/19/89-11/26/89)
Writer: Mark Jones
Directors: Den Bower (part 1), David Nutter (part 2)
When Professor Peterson gets into a new project it usually spell trouble for Superboy. This time he is trying out a duplicating machine that doesn't work out as planned, and he accidentally creates a bizarre duplication of Superboy. The creature(Barry Meyers), named "Bizarro," has all the strength of Superboy and warped duplicate memories and emotions. As a result, he gets away and tries to take the place of Clark. Andy sees him and thinks Clark has merely dressed up for a costume party he is supposed to take Lana to. Arriving at the party, Lana is upset over his making her wait so long when he shows no signs of being sorry. She gets mad and slaps him, but he takes the slap as a sign of love. Changing into his Superboy costume, he kidnaps Lana Lang as he too has strong feelings for her. At that moment Superboy arrives to attempt to rescue Lana by exposing the creature to Kryptonite, but while the rock is killing Superboy it has no effect on Bizarro, who leaves Superboy dying near the Kryptonite. Andy McAllister rescues Superboy from the lethal Kryptonite. The Boy Of Steel, together with Professor Peterson, figures out that the Kryptonite didn't work on Bizarro because he is a defective copy, and the Kryptonite needs to be a defective version as well. Meanwhile, Bizarro tries to explain his love to an unappreciative Lana who only wants to go free, but he insists that they will live together forever. Outside the store they are hiding in, the police arrive to "rescue" Lana, not knowing Bizarro is as powerful as his better half. He quickly shows what he is capable of, and a call is put out for Superboy to help. He arrives with the warped style of Kryptonite hoping it will stop Bizarro, but the attempt fails. Instead, he saves the creature from a natural combustion that results from his duplicate nature. By this time Superboy realizes that Bizarro is not inherently evil, and the strange creature tearfully releases Lana to Superboy once he realizes that she belongs with him.

#34 - Mr. And Mrs. Superboy - (12/3/89)
Writer: Denny O'Neil
Director: Peter Kiwitt
Mr. Mxyzptlk(Michael J. Pollard), the mischievous imp from another dimension, arrives back in town - a sure sign of trouble for Superboy. While Clark, Lana, and Andy are at the pool Mxyzptlk shows up, as does a giant by the name of Vikabok(Richard Kiel[Moonraker]), who is pursuing the impish prankster. They both disappear, and begin causing havoc all over town as the giant pursues Mxyzptlk. Superboy finally catches up with the magical being, who explains that Vikabok is upset with him because of a practical joke: he took everything the giant owned and stranded him on a desert island for 103 years. Superboy agrees to help Mxyzptlk before the whole town is destroyed, but the imp explains their only hope is for Lana and Superboy to pretend to be married, and adopt him so he can be a denizen of their world. According to Mr. Mxyzptlk, Vikabok will quit trying to kill him once he believes Mxyzptlk has become a citizen of Earth.

#35 - Programmed For Death - (12/10/89)
Writer: Cary Bates
Director: David Nutter
Andy receives a call from his father(George Mahari), which is bad news as far as he is concerned, as the man is always in trouble, whether it be with the law or the Mob. Arriving at the meeting place Andy agreed to see him at, he finds a van containing not his father, but a high-tech robot with Jack McAllister's voice, who knocks Andy unconscious. The next day Jack shows up at Shuster University and meets Clark and Lana, whom he tells about his prison record and criminal activities, during which time Andy was sent to live with an uncle. Jack claims that he is looking for Andy, who hasn't been seen since the day before, and he wants to contact Superboy to report a murder in order to save himself from being killed. Later, Superboy finds out about the "killer," which is actually an evil mechanical robot - called "Dreadbot" - which has a sinister, human-like brain. The evil machine reflects the dark side of the mind of Jack McAlister, and intends to kill Superboy. After it absorbs all the electrical power in the city, the Dreadbot aims a lethal charge at Superboy as Andy and Jack look on helplessly.

#36 - Superboy's Deadly Touch - (12/10/89)
Writers: Mark Jones and Cary Bates
Director: Den Bowser
Superboy stops to help a pair of nuns whose bus broke down on the way to a benefit. Superboy gets behind the bus to push it, not realizing that one of the nuns is Lex Luthor, who sprays a gas out of the bus and knocks out the Boy Of Steel. When he awakens, Superboy is unaware that he has been infused with a deadly and uncontrollable power source. He finally realizes that something is wrong when he tries to stop some bank robbers and nearly kills them in the process. The destructive energy makes his super powers run amuck and now everything he touches seems to fizzle and burn. Dr. Peterson unsuccessfully tries to cure Superboy, whose last hope seems to be Lex Luthor, who offers to reverse the effects if the governor(John Robert Thompson) gives him a full pardon.

#37 - The Power Of Evil - (12/24/89)
Writer: Michael Prescott
Director: Danny Irom
An evil, shapeless monster(Michael Marzello) escapes from its containment in a far away country, bent on destroying Superboy. Sensei(Keye Luke), an inhabitant of the mystical land, travels to America to warn the super hero of the impending danger. Meanwhile, Andy and Lana practice Karate after a pair of punks nearly beat Andy to a pulp. The instructor(Michael Champlin) keeps asking Andy how to reach Superboy, as Andy, always a braggart, claims he can contact the future Superman at any time. Actually the instructor, Seth, is the beast in disguise, and he insists Andy take him to Superboy. Lana notices how strange Seth has been acting, as she has been dating him. Meanwhile, Sensei arrives to talk to Superboy, and explains that the creature will find him soon, and it must be stopped before it kills again.

#38 - Superboy... Rest In Peace - (1/7/90)
Writer: Michael Maurer
Director: Danny Irom
In the distant future a scientist(Lamont Lofton) learns that a deadly android(Andreas Wisniewski) has escaped and traveled back in time, where it is due to arrive at 20th century Shuster University. It seems that in the future it is known that Clark Kent was Superman, although the android that intends to kill Superboy is not aware of the super hero's identity. In the future, Serene(Betsy Russell), a girl is chosen to go back and destroy the android before it can change history, is aware of who Clark is and looks forward to meeting her idol. The beautiful scientist arrives to find Clark Kent and warn him without divulging the future. However, Lana Lang and Andy McAllister are confused with the sudden appearance of Serene, who they think has romantic eyes for Clark.

#39 - Super Menace! - (1/14/90)
Writer: Michael Maurer
Director: Richard J. Lewis
While Professor Peterson is out of the country, the Army experiments with deactivating a sample of deadly Kryptonite, doing away with the rays that hurt Superboy, but retaining the energy it produces. Instead, they inadvertently convert it into mysterious Red Kryptonite. Superboy is invited to look over the new form of Kryptonite, since the rock - now turned red - should be harmless. Instead, the new Kryptonite proves to be equally deadly to Superboy by making the Boy Of Steel purely evil. Metallo(Michael Callan) is enlisted to combat the super-hero - now a super menace - but instead he tries to team up with Superboy and take over the world.

#40 - Yellow Peri's Spell Of Doom - (1/21/90)
Writers: Mark Jones and Cary Bates
Director: Peter Kiwitt
Clark, Andy, and Lana meet Loretta(Elizabeth Keipher) at a local club where she works. The rather plain-jane girl whom no one takes seriously has a thing for Superboy, so Clark delivers and autographed photo of the Boy Of Steel to her. That night, Loretta practices some Black Magic and raises an evil spirit named Gazook(Steve Hansen). The demon realizes that Loretta wants the love of Superboy, so he turns her into "Yellow Peri," a beautiful woman that no one recognizes as the homely classmate of Clark's. With the help of Gazook, Yellow Peri puts a spell on Superboy, forcing him to fall in love with her. But she realizes that Lana Lang's true love for Superboy can break her spell, so she sets out to kill her.

#41 - Microboy - (1/28/90)
Writer: Cary Bates
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Superboy confronts "Microboy"(Frank Military), a would-be super hero, who has romantic eyes for Lana Lang. The new super hero is secretly a student inventor who has created a machine which infuses his body with remarkable powers from microwave radiation. His energy goes haywire causing a life-threatening situation that only Superboy, with the help of Professor Peterson, can safely resolve.

#42 - Run Dracula, Run - (2/4/90)
Writers: Ilya Salkind and Cary Bates
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Dr. Byron Shelley(Kevin Bernhardt), who was helped by Superboy to develop a drug that would keep his alter-ego of a vampire under control, is jumped by two thugs and his anti-vampire serum is stolen, forcing him to revert back to the evil dark ways of his ancestors. Lana receives a call from Byron where he pleads for help, and asks her to send Superboy before he changes into a vampire and kills again. Not knowing where Superboy is, Lana leaves to help him on her own, but the vampire attacks her, turning Lana into a vampire. She uses her new evil powers to turn Superboy into a vampire as well, and they both team up with Shelley, who plans to sneak out of the country with his newly converted vampires. Unless Superboy can use all of his super powers to resist the dark powers, he and Lana will be doomed forever.

#43 - Brimstone - (2/11/90)
Writers: Michael Carlin and Andrew Helfer
Director: Andre Guttreund
Andy asks Lana to help him with a project, but she doesn't know that what he has in mind is selling fake Kryptonite rocks at a game. As the fans are leaving the game a wild man(Marc Macaulay) begins running amuck, a hideous-looking person with rotten, decaying flesh hanging from his face. He strikes and scratches several people before being shot by the police, but even this doesn't stop him, as he only gets up and runs off. A bleeding Andy gets ready to go to the hospital when a strange man claiming to be a doctor(Philip Michael Thomas) approaches Andy and Lana. He finally reveals that the berserk man is possessed by a powerful, mad magician(Carlos Gestero), and that every person scratched will become a horrible-looking creature under the magician's power. Andy is given a foul-tasting liquid to "cure" him, but Superboy is not so lucky: he corners and tries to stop the wild man, but, incredibly, the possessed individual overpowers the Boy Of Steel and scratches his face - which almost immediately places him under the control of the evil sorcerer Prodo.

#44-45 - Abandon Earth, part 1&2 - (2/18/90-2/25/90)
Writers: Cary Bates and Mark Jones
Directors: Richard J. Lewis (part 1), Andre R. Guttsreund (part 2)
Two police officers see some unusual lights, then two strangely-dressed people appear. They are none other then Jor-El(George Lazenby[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]) and Lara(Britt Ekland[The Man With The Golden Gun]), the biological parents of Kal-El, now known as Superboy/Clark Kent, ever since they sent their young son to Earth and the Kents found and adopted the boy. They state that they have arrived for their son, a message that is soon on the radio and TV, and Clark learns when he hears the newscast. Changing into Superboy, he leaves the Kents to meet them, while Ma and Pa Kent agonize over the possibility that their adopted son may be gone forever. Arriving where his real parents are waiting Superboy refuses at first to believe that they could be his mother and father, but finally accepts it as true. As he spends more time with Jor-El and Lara, they convince him to return to Krypton, much to the heartache of the Kents. Meanwhile, Jor-El and Lara a pair of frauds, who are only masquerading as Superboy's parents, kidnap Andy and Lana to take them along on the return flight. Arriving on an alien planet, Superboy is immediately imprisoned along with Lana and Andy, and learns that "Lara" and "Jor-El," are not his true parents from Krypton, but deadly chameleon-like aliens able to change their appearance at will. After luring the super hero away from Earth, the aliens reveal their plan to imprison Superboy and the kidnapped Lana Lang and Andy McAllister in a bizarre space-zoo.

#46 - Superstar - (3/11/90)
Writer: Toby Martin
Director: Ken Bower
Andy arrives with his girlfriend, Clark, and Lana, at a Jessica James(Ami Dolenz) concert with some back stage passes. Unfortunately, he actually bought them and the guard(Bradford Dunaway) won't let them go in as their passes are expired. Only Clark gets past the guard by using his press pass. Once near the stage, Clark sees a driverless, automated car heading towards superstar Jessica, and after changing into Superboy he saves her. Jessica takes Superboy home with her, but he refuses to spend the night. The next night someone contacts Clark to see if he wants and exclusive interview with Jessica, and he leaves right away. Once he gets to the studio, he finds a 70's rock star named Venus(Kimberely Bronson), who was supposed to have died in an aircraft crash. Actually she survived but was horribly mutilated, so she got the beautiful Jessica to pretend to sing new songs that Venus actually recorded. Venus explains that she is telling Clark this to let the public know the truth, but actually she plans to kill Jessica, as she was already behind the car incident.

#47 - Nick Knack - (4/9/90)
Writer: Mark Jones
Director: David Nutter
A remote-controlled toy truck enters the room of Nick Knack(Gilbert Gottfried), a demented electronic genius who Superboy put behind bars in a mental asylum. The truck contains a device he uses to cut the bars on his cell and escape to the waiting arms of Lily(Donna Lee Betz), the assistant that helped him escape. Nick Knack has promised to marry the plump Lily (which he has no intention of doing), but he has a heist to pull off first, one that will require the talents of Superboy. The criminal takes his revenge against the super hero with an ingenious device that will absorb all of Superboy's powers and transfers it to a mechanical suit. After rendering Superboy powerless, Nick Knack will use the suit to become the richest man in the world - if everything goes according to plan.

#48 - The Haunting Of Andy McAlister - (4/16/90)
Writers: Andrew Helfer and Michael Carlin
Director: David Nutter
Andy, Lana, and Clark drive to Andy's great uncle's(Fred Ornstein) mansion, where he has asked them to spend the weekend. Because Andy can't read maps, they end up lost and only accidentally find the huge home. Once inside, everyone is impressed with the old mansion, and Andy tells them how his ancestors built the house when they were wealthy from selling rifles. The last fifty years his distant relative, a sheriff out of the old west, spent his entire fortune building more and more rooms onto the house, and for some reason was terrified that the outlaws he killed would return to haunt him. The decrepit home is full of secret passageways and trap doors, one of which Clark falls through. Meanwhile, Andy playfully shoots and antique rifle creating a mysterious rift into another dimensional plain allowing evil spirits from the past to escape, including Billy The Kid(Thomas Shuster), who plans to kill Andy as revenge for his imprisonment in another dimension.

#49 - Revenge From The Deep - (4/23/90)
Writer: Toby Martin
Director: Andre R. Guttfreund
In the 1960's a strange man(Michael Shaner) is at a party, and is approached by a woman(Donatella) who tells him that he cannot remain with "their kind." They go outside to the ocean shore, where he - actually a creature hiding in human form - uses a strange power to turn her into a piece of coral before throwing her into the ocean. Many years later, Andy is using a metal detector at the beach to find buried treasure. A skeptical Lana goes walking in the surf, where she sees the piece of coral that was once a woman, and takes it home with her. Unbeknownst to her, it contains the spirit of Ariana, a magical creature from the sea. The creature proceeds to take over Lana's body to seek revenge against the fellow being from Atlantis that now lives on land in human form under the name of Charlie. She is forced to use fantastic powers to track him down, but once she finds Charlie, Superboy has to try to intercede as the two use their incredible powers to do battle.

#50 - The Secrets Of Superboy - (4/30/90)
Writers: T. Gilmour and Mark Jones
Director: Joe Ravetz
After being put back in prison by Superboy, the evil genius Nick Knack(Gilbert Gottfried) escapes from jail to take revenge against the Boy From Krypton. Once out of confinement, he builds a mind probe device that he first tries out on Daisy(Donna Lee Betz), his assistant. He drains Daisy's brain until she dies, all of which happens in less than a minute, giving him the idea of trying it out on Superboy. First he uses an electronic device to lure Lana and Andy to his lair, then once there, he uses his deadly brain scan which is designed to uncover Superboy's weaknesses which are hidden in the recesses of their brains, and kill Lana and Andy at the same time.

#51 - Johnny Casanova And The Case Of The Secret Serum - (5/7/90)
Writers: Ilya Salkind and Mark Jones
Director: David Nutter
Clark, Lana, and Andy are practicing their tennis when another player asks Lana for a date. She turns him down, as there is something she doesn't like about Johnny(Glenn Maska). When the young man arrives home, he finds his criminal brother dying from a gunshot wound, and before Stanley(Robert Reynolds) dies he gives Johnny a special liquid chemical he stole. The secret serum is designed to have the power to make someone irresistible, and after he takes the serum, Johnny is instantly transformed into the irresistible Johnny Casanova(Mark Hotline). Meanwhile, the gangster who really owns the serum, Mr. Gore(Michael Marzella), is searching for the liquid and will do anything to get it back. He learns that it has fallen into the hands of Johnny and his new girlfriend, Lana, and it will take Superboy and his super powers to save them from Mr. Gore, who will stop at nothing to obtain the serum.

#52 - A Woman Called Tiger Eye - (5/14/90)
Writer: Michael Maurer
Director: Andre Guttfreund
An old woman kills a man after he declares that she has double-crossed him. Returning home, she takes off a disguise that reveals her to be a middle-aged woman, a female named Tiger Eye(Skye Aubrey) who has just completed a set of crystals of great magical powers. Now all she needs is Superboy's heat vision to fuse the crystals together. Knowing Lana's special relationship with Superboy, Tiger Eye kidnaps her to use as her bait, so that she can lure Superboy to her lair and force him to fuse the crystals together. Once this is done, they will imbue the sexy villain with incredible powers which allow her to control Superboy to perform her bidding.

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