Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Original title : ... We Have a Lot to Talk About
First Aired : 17.09.1995 (USA) 30.04.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Philip J. Sgriccia
Writing credits : John McNamara
Cast : Peter Boyle (Bill Church) Bruce Campbell (Bill Church Jr.) Jessica Collins (Mindy Church) David Sederholm (the man in black)

The Story : Lois tells Clark she already realized that he is Superman. In a moment after the surprise, Lois and Clark have an arguement. She is mad at Clark because he didn't tell her his identity secret, and he gets mad at her because she's not sure yet about marriage and declined his proposal. Bill Church, now married with his nurse Mindy, wants to be a "good guy" and creates a security team to fight against the crime in Metropolis, but his wife and his son think he lost his mind. Martha tells Lois and Jonathan tells Clark the problems that they had before their marriage. Bill Jr. and Mindy succeed on their plan to put Bill Church on jail, (yeah, his own father..) but, in the time the police arrests Bill, they arrest Bill Jr. too. Mindy Church is now the head of the Intergang. Lois and Clark decide to wait more time until get married.

Original title : Ordinary People
First Aired : 24.09.1995 (USA) 30.04.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Cast : David Leisure (Spencer Spencer) Carlos Lacamara (Dr. Pescado) Vincent Guastaferro (Belzer)

The Story : Perry gives Lois and Clark some time off to spend more time together, to relief to pressure about marriage. But Spencer Spencer, a "Love expert" with a deformed body, has a plan to put Lois and Clark in danger to bring Superman to his hands, then he will be able to get Superman's body.

Original title : Contact
First Aired : 01.10.1995 (USA) 07.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Daniel Attias
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Olivia Brown (Star McAdams) Patrick Labyorteaux (Bob Fences) Larry Hankin (Dr. Martin Solsvig) Rochelle Swanson (Simone)

The Story : Lois believes that she was abducted by ET's, but, in truth, she was captured by a young executive, who is now using her in very dangerous situations to distract Superman. When she gets injured, Clark decides to break up with her.....for her own good.

Original title : When Irish Eyes are Killing
First Aired : 15.10.1995 (USA) 07.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Winriche Kolbe
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Julian Stone (Patrick Sullivan) Ilana Levine (Veronica Kipling) Olivia Brown (Star)

The Story : Lois tries to convince Clark that his decision to break up is a mistake. When an old Lois' friend comes to Metropolis, she tries to make Clark jealous. But this friend has plans to use her in a Druid sacrifice. Clark finally realizes that he can't stay without Lois, but that may be too late now.

Original title : Just Say Noah
First Aired : 22.10.1995 (USA) 14.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : David S. Jackson
Writing credits : Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming
Cast : Mac Davis (Larry Smiley) Olivia Brown (Star McAdams) Jennifer Hooper (Kathy) Sharon Thomas (the nun) Nancy Cassaro (Michelle Sitkowitz)

The Story : Lois and Clark go undercover as husband and wife to investigate missing couples in the Larry Smiley Institute, a place to help couples to repair problems in their marriages. They will find Larry's true plans and will find their romance again.

Original title : Don't Tug on Superman's Cape
First Aired : 05.11.1995 (USA) 14.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Steven Dubin
Writing credits : David Simkins
Cast : Genie Francis (Amber Lake) Jonathan Frakes (Tim Lake) Michael Harris (Bad Brain Johnson) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Peterson Klein)

The Story : Lois and Clark decide to forget the word "marriage", at least for the time. One of the richest couples of Metropolis has a plan to capture and add Superman to their collection of treasures. They capture Lois to get Superman. In the cage, Lois and Clark begin to talk, and the conversation makes them start to lose their fears about marriage.

Original title : Ultra Woman
First Aired : 12.11.1995 (USA) 21.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Mike Vejar
Writing credits : Gene O'Neill & Noreen Tobin
Cast : Shelley Long (Lucille Newtrich) Mary Gross (Nell Newtrich) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : The Newtrich sisters want to hit Superman with a "Red Kryptonite" beam (the kryptonite from the episode Individual Responsabilty). But instead of make Superman apathetic, the beam transferred his powers to Lois. Now, she needs a secret identity...to do Superman's job. After a while, Clark begins to feel upset because he has no powers anymore. Perry's wife Alice leaves him. When Lois feels what is to be a super-hero, she realizes that she loves Clark even more and proposes to him.

Original title : Chip off the Old Clark
First Aired : 19.11.1995 (USA) 21.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Michael Jamin & Sivert Glarum
Cast : Susan Batten (Leigh-Anne Stipanovic) Alex D. Linz (Jesse Stipanovic) Dave Coulier ("Anonymous") Joel Brooks (Donald Rafferty) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : Now engaged, Lois and Clark get relationship problems when a woman claims to have had a child of Superman. Clark tells Lois the kid isn't his, but when Lois is interviewing the woman, the kid pick up a sofa. In who will Lois believe now?

Original title : SuperMann
First Aired : 26.11.1995 (USA) 28.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : James R. Bagdonas
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Sean Kanan (Steve Law) Paul Kersey (Hank West) Sandra Hess (Lisa) Sean Whalen (Skip Wallace) Linden Chiles (Sen. Truman Black) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : When Lois and Clark finally begin with the wedding plans, they must stop again and investigate a Nazi organization which is trying to take over Metropolis.

Original title : Virtually Destroyed
First Aired : 10.12.1995 (USA) 28.05.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Jim Charleston
Writing credits : Dean Cain From a Story by Dean Cain & Sean Brennan
Cast : Paula Poundstone (voice of the Computer) Andy Berman (Jaxon Xavier) Andrew Bryniarski (Kombat)

The Story : Lex Luthor's illegitimate son, a genius in the computer area, traps Lois and Clark in his virtual world. There, he is strong, and Clark is not Superman. Before finally realize that they are still in the virtual world, Lois and Clark share their secrets about their past sexual relationships....well, at least, one of them had sexual relationships...

Original title : Home is Where the Hurt Is
First Aired : 17.12.1995 (USA) 04.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Geoffrey Nottage
Writing credits : Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner From a Story by William M. Akers
Cast : Beverly Garland (Ellen Lane) Harve Presnell (Dr. Sam Lane) Jessica Collins (Mindy Church) Kathy Tragesar (Baby Gunderson) Robert Carradine (Joey Bermuda)

The Story : Lois and Clark's parents show up to spend Christmas with them. Mindy Church reorganizes the Intergang and creates a Kryptonian virus to make Superman die. Now and for the first time in his life Clark is sick, but this sickness can kill him, unless Sam Lane helps him with a risky recovering process.

Original title : Never on Sunday
First Aired : 07.01.1996 (USA) 04.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Lange
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Cress Williams (Baron Sunday) Gary Dourdan (Ziggy) Carol Lawrence (Beverly Lipman) Olivia Brown (Star) Beverly Garland (Ellen Lane)

The Story : Ellen Lane hires a wedding coordinator to help on Lois and Clark's wedding, now the plans for a small ceremony are gone...And a magician with designs on vengeance is now in Metropolis against some people, including Clark.

Original title : The Dad Who Came in from the Cold
First Aired : 14.01.1996 (USA) 11.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : David Simkins
Cast : James Read (Jack Olsen) Ben Slack (Trevanian) Una Damon (Sweet Tart) James F. Dean (Bud Collins)

The Story : Jimmy's father appears in Metropolis and Jimmy introduces him to Clark, Lois and Perry. When Lois and Clark discover that he is a spy, they must tell the truth to Jimmy, but he doesn't believe them. Clark gets worried about the "father" subject...he doesn't know if he is going to be a good father because of his job.

Original title : Tempus Anyone?
First Aired : 21.01.1996 (USA) 11.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Winriche Kolbe
Writing credits : John McNamara
Cast : Hamilton Camp (H.G. Wells) Emily Procter (Lana Lang) Lee Arenberg (Major Domo) Eric Stuart (the rookie cop) Chuck Butto (the spy) Lee Spencer (the bank guard) Elisabeth Maynard (the woman)

The Story : Tempus is back and now he kidnaps Lois and takes her to an alternate world, where there is more violence, Tempus is running to presidency against Perry, and Clark is engaged...with Lana Lang, his former girlfriend from Smallville. With the help of an older H.G. Wells, Lois tries to stop Tempus from killing Perry and go back to her world, but for this, she needs to teach the alternate Clark how to be Superman.

Original title : I Now Pronounce You...
First Aired : 11.02.1996 (USA) 18.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Jim Pohl
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Tony Curtis (Dr. Isaac Mamba) Fred Williard (The President) Brad Garrett (reverend Bob) Forry Smith (Agent Walker) Wesley Mann (Phil) Ria Pavia (Cindy) Oliver Muirhead (the manager) Paul Linke (the church deacon) Joshua Devane (Agent Roberts) Charles Gunning (the delivery driver) Natalie Strauss (the maid) Harve Presnell (Sam Lane) Beverly Garland (Ellen Lane)

The Story : Lois is preventing a disaster in her wedding day, and Clark asks Perry a history to take their minds off the worries. The story is about the robbery of frogs, but later, Lois and Clark discover that this robbery of frogs can kill the president of the United States, and the frogs are food for clones. When they finally solve the case , they get married. While Clark is in bed waiting for Lois, she is in the bathroom, eating a frog!!!

Original title : Double Jeopardy
First Aired : 18.02.1996 (USA) 18.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Long
Writing credits : Brad Buckner et Eugenie Ross-Leming
Cast : Billy Dean (Red Dixon) John Shea (Lex Luthor) Troy Evans (Bibbo Bibowski) Ron Porterfield (the passenger)

The Story : On their wedding night, instead of make love, Lois tells Clark that she's tired and need to sleep, leaving Clark surprised. Lex Luthor has replaced the real Lois Lane with a clone, and he wants to take the real Lois away with him. When the clone discover that Clark is Superman, she wants to stay with him, and if it's needed to kill Lois for that, she will. Lois finally escapes from Lex, but she hits her head and loses her memory. Now, she believes that she's Wanda Detroit, a character of a novel she was writing two years ago. Wanda is a woman who had a bad relationship with a man named Clark, and loves a man named Kent. She's also a singer, then, Lois begins to sing in the Bibbo Bibowski's club. Now Clark, Lex and the Clone are looking for her. Luthor finds Wanda first and convinces her that he is Kent, and tells her to act like Lois and tell Clark that she doesn't love him anymore.

Original title : Seconds
First Aired : 25.02.1996 (USA) 25.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : John McNamara From a Story by Corey Miller & Philip W. Chung
Cast : John Shea (Lex Luthor) Shaun Toub (Asabi) Andrew Shaifer (Leonard) Timothy Busfield (the spy guy) Joseph Chapman (the bank v.p.) Mark Daniel Cade (the doctor) Chip Nuzzo (the passerby)

The Story : Clark and the clone become friends, and she doesn't want to kill the real Lois anymore. Now with Lois (who still thinks she's Wanda Detroit) , Lex plans to transfer their souls to new bodies and go away with her to the mountains, so, with the new bodies, they can't be found by the police or for Superman. He also wants to destroy Superman (sure), and when he finds the clone, she ends up telling him that Clark is Superman. Lex kidnaps Martha and tells Lois to shoot Superman with a powerful weapon that he bought (that's the way to kill the love that Lois feels for Clark), but when she can't, Lex tries, but he and the clone end up dying with the weapon shot. During the rescue, Lois hits her head again, now she knows she's Lois Lane, but doesn't know anything and anyone else, including Clark.

Original title : Forget Me Not
First Aired : 10.03.1996 (USA) 25.06.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : James Bagdonas
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Larry Poindexter (Dr. Maxwell Deter) Charles Cioffi (Dr. Elias Mendenhall) Audrie J. Neenan (Nurse Reilly) Julie Cobb (Sally Reynolds) Patrick Cranshaw (Homer Blackstock) Lilian Adams (Agnes Moskowitz) Vasili Bogazianos (Detective McCloskey) Steve Kehela (the robber) Michael Lee Gogin (the shifty-looking man)

The Story : Lois has now amnesia, and Clark puts her in a clinic. But Dr. Maxwell Deter's treatment has extremed methods, one of them is that Clark can't tell Lois they are engaged and love each other. And another doctor is programming patients of the same clinic to kill people that he has been hired to kill (Perry is in the list). Later, Dr. Deter restrits Clark's visits to Lois because he wants her love. When Lois remembers only her work partnership with Clark, she tells him that she's in love with Dr. Deter.

Original title : Oedipus Wrecks
First Aired : 24.03.1996 (USA) 02.07.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Kenn Michael Fuller
Writing credits : David Simkins
Cast : Larry Poindexter (Dr. Maxwell Deter) Renée Taylor (Roweena Johnson) Daniel Roebuck (Herkimer Johnson) Bill Dearth (the worker) Reggie Jordan (the paramedic) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : Lois is still in love with Deter, and even with her return to the Daily Planet, he doesn't tell her nothing about her relationship with Clark. Bad Brain Johnson's brother Herkimer has created a machine that makes people act very strangely, just to impress his mother. Clark can't hold himself and tells Lois that he loves her. Deter makes Lois believe that she must go with him to the south of France, and when Perry is ready to kick his ass, the Herkimer machine begins to work and Lois remembers her relationship with Superman only. When Deter and Lois try to stop Herkimer with the machine, they suffer effects from the machine, and in this confusion Lois finally remembers all her life, including her love for Clark.

Original title : It's a Small World After All
First Aired : 28.04.1996 (USA) 02.07.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Philip J. Sgriccia
Writing credits : Teri Hatcher & Pat Hazell From a Story by Teri Hatcher
Cast : Elisabeth Anne Smith (Annette Westman) Steve Young (Joe Malloy) Don Brunner (Hans) Rainer Grant (Julie) Tim Bohn (Dick Carlton) Jim Hanks (Les Barrish) Leslie Sachs (Debbie Malloy) Ellen Gerstein (the fortune teller) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : Lois and Clark go to Lois' high school reunion, and there, she finds out about the disappearing of two of her classmates' lovers. They are disappearing because another classmate of Lois wants revenge for her bad school time, then she's shrinking their ex-colleagues' mates. She hates Lois, and puts Clark as the next on her shrink list. Now, Lois needs to find out what and who is doing this, or Clark will be small until disappear.

Original title : Through a Glass, Darkly
First Aired : 05.05.1996 (USA) 09.07.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Long
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Justine Bateman (Sarah/Zara) Joyce Guy (Mrs. Hofaker) Joe Pichler (the little boy) Jon Tenney (Ching) Kyla Pratt (the little girl) Lawrence Maki (the announcer) Kenneth Kimmins (Dr. Klein)

The Story : Superman is subjected to many tests of his powers by Zara and Ching, Kryptonians who need a new leader to the planet New Krypton. Lois and Clark discuss about buying a house.

Original title : Big Girls Don't Fly
First Aired : 12.05.1996 (USA) 09.07.1996 (FRANCE)
Director : Philip J. Sgriccia
Writing credits : Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Cast : Jon Tenney (Ching) Justine Bateman (Zara) Roger Daltrey (Tez) Rosie Lee Hooks (Mrs. Cutler) Shanna Moakler (the pretty girl)

The Story : After being approved in Zara and Ching's tests, Superman learns that they want him to leave the Earth (and Lois) and go back with they to rule New Krypton, or the planet will be ruled by the evil Lord Nor, who has sent an assassin to kill Clark. When Clark defeats the assassin, he and Lois decide that he must go with Zara and Ching. Superman says goodbye to his parents, to Earth and to Lois, and leaves with Zara and Ching.