Superboy

Original title : The Jewel of the Techacal
First Aired : 08.10.1988 (USA)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Fred Freiberger
Cast : Forest Neal (Forest Neal), Gregg Todd Davis (Haines), Peter White (Professor Thomas Lang), Bob Barnes (Dr. Spencer), Michael Manno (Leo)

The Story : Lana's father, an archeologist, comes to the university with what he thinks is a cursed relic. Lex Luthor then steals the jewel in order to sell it to the highest bidder.

Original title : A Kind of Princess
First Aired : 15.10.1988 (USA)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Howard Dimsdale, Michael J. Morris
Cast : Harry Cup (Casey), Antoni Corone (Jake), Steven Anthony (Arnie), Rebecca Perle (Nancy), Dennis Underwood (Bodyguard), Paul J. Darby (Cop), Edward Winter (Matt Danner), Julie McCullough (Sara Danner), Roger Pretto (Detective Harris), Dennis Michael (Henry Oman)

The Story : Clarks falls for the daughter of a major crime boss, and ends up getting involved in a feud between two major syndicates before the man's daughter is hurt.

Original title : Back to Oblivion
First Aired : 22.10.1988 (USA)
Director : Colin Chilvers
Writing credits : Fred Freiberger
Cast : Abe Vigoda (Mr. Wagner), Dennis Michael (Henry)

The Story : Things get crazy when TJ goes to investigate strange happenings at a scrapyard. It's owner, Mr. Wagner, is suffering from post-traumatic delusions as a result of being in a Nazi concentration camp, and believes that anyone entering his yard is the enemy. Thinking that Lana is his granddaughter Lena, he holds her hostage, and Superboy is tasked with rescuing them both and setting things right.

Original title : The Russian Exchange Student
First Aired : 29.10.1988 (USA)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Vida Spears
Cast : Dennis Deveaugh (Thug #1), Rick Defuria (Policeman), Ralph Rafferty (Janitor), Chase Randolph (Drake), Tania Harley (Elena), Courtney Gains (Jeff), Heather Haase (Natasha Pakovsky), Ray Walston (Professor Gordon), Alex Edlin (Thug #2), Roger Pretto (Detective Harris)

The Story : When a scientist's formula to improve the efficiency of gasoline is nearly destroyed, a Russian exchange student is blamed. TJ, who has fallen for her, sets out to clear her name, as the accidents continue. But this proves difficult, as the scientist himself has prejudices against the exchange student.

Original title : Countdown to Nowhere
First Aired : 05.11.1988 (USA)
Director : Colin Chilvers
Writing credits : Fred Freiberger
Cast : Jay Glick (Security Chief), Fred Broderson (Detective), Noah Meeks (Miller), Duriell Harris (Theodore), Douglas Barr (Roscoe Williams), Paul J. Darby (Radio Operator)

The Story : Superboy must intervene when crooks steal a laser weapon and plan to use it to destroy a launching space shuttle.

Original title : Bringing Down the House
First Aired : 12.11.1988 (USA)
Director : Colin Chilvers
Writing credits : Howard Dimsdale, Michael J. Morris
Cast : Sabrina Lloyd (Betsy), Ed Montgomery (Umpire), Antonio Fabrizio (Charles), Don Sheldon (Andy), Leif Garrett (Judd Faust), Dennis Michael (Henry)

The Story : A rock star, Judd Faust (Leif Garrett), wants the Boardwalk and baseball amusement park and when the owner refuses to sell the park everyone in it is in danger. Bombs are detonated and sabotage is all around. When Lana falls in love with Judd this also puts her in danger. Clark, leery of Judd all the while, is set on exposing him.

Original title : The Beast and Beauty
First Aired : 19.11.1988 (USA)
Director : Jackie Cooper
Writing credits : Bernard M. Khan, Toby Martin
Cast : Tal Millican (Announcer), Dan Barber (Emcee), Rick Higely (Cop), Jeff Moldovan (Rudy), Lonnie Shaw (Jennifer Jenkins), David Marciano (Hugo Stone), Tom Nowicki (Security Guard), Cyndi Vicino (Woman), Roger Pretto (Detective Harris)

The Story : A Superboy impersonator is robbing banks and jewelry stores to get a million dollars so he can marry Florida's beauty queen. The real Superboy is arrested for his acts and when the beauty queen, Jennifer Jenkins, refuses to marry the Superboy impostor, Hugo, she is kidnapped and the real Superboy is the only one who can save her.

Original title : The Fixer
First Aired : 26.11.1988 (USA)
Director : Colin Chilvers
Writing credits : Alden Schwimmer
Cast : Harry Burney III (Referee), Curley Neal (State Coach), James Hampton (Coach), Carl Jay Cofield (Moose), Michael Landon, Jr. (Stretch), Ron Segall (Umpire), Michael Manno (Leo)

The Story : Lex Luthor is taking bets on Shuster's basketball team, who's playing against Florida State University in their next game. He tries to fix the game by blackmailing Shuster's star player, Stretch, into losing. Superboy takes matters into his own hands to ensure that all is fair and to help Stretch.

Original title : The Alien Solution
First Aired : 03.12.1988 (USA)
Director : Colin Chilvers
Writing credits : Andrew Helfer, Michael Carlin
Cast : Todd Sealey (Student #1), Ray Muennich (Paramedic), Christine Page (Dr. Howard), Jeff Moldovan (Alien Warrior), Tom Bahr (Student #2), Dennis Michael (Henry)

The Story : A strange cloud-like alien who can take over others bodies comes to earth hoping to steal Superboy's body so he can add it to his collection of warriors. After possessing and almost killing Lana, Superboy agrees to do what the alien wants, but he must figure out a way to put the alien on ice.

Original title : Troubled Waters
First Aired : 10.12.1988 (USA)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Dick Robbins
Cast : Norman Lund (Bennington), Daniel Tucker Kamin (Borkner), John Zenda (Jarvis), Peter Palmer (Cal Kenderson), Juliana Donald (Ellen Jensen), Joe Tomko (Corbin)

The Story : During a trip home, Clark learns that a businessman named Kenderson wants to buy all the farms in the Smallville area during an agricultural depression. Many attempts are made to force the Kents to surrender to the buy out until they find out why: there is a river running underneath the farms and Kenderson wants to sell the water. Superboy has to stop him, as he plans to blow up the community silo to destroy whatever profits the farms could make on their harvest.

Original title : The Invisible People
First Aired : 21.01.1989 (USA)
Director : Jackie Cooper
Writing credits : Mark Evanier
Cast : Bob Painter (Alex), Rick Higlet (Cop), Jack Malone (Baker), Bill Orsini (Gruber), Cynthia Ann Roses (Alice), Greg Morris (Damon), Sonny Shroyer (Gerold Manfred), Mark Steven Orndoff (Balloon Man)

The Story : A group of homeless people are living in front of a beach club on a Florida beach. Since they're bringing down the value of the club, its owner, Gerald Manfred tries to get rid of them. When Clark, TJ and Lana get involved, TJ is nearly killed, and Damon, then Lana are kidnapped. Superboy must step in, with the help of the homeless people, to stop Manfred in his tracks before someone is hurt or even killed.

Original title : Kryptonite Kills
First Aired : 28.01.1989 (USA)
Director : Jackie Cooper
Writing credits : Mike Carlin, Andrew Helfer
Cast : Larry Francer (Felix), Paul Cohn (Oswald), Cyndi Vicino (Anges), Pamela Bach (Veronica Lawler), George Chakiris (Professor Peterson), Michael Manno (Leo)

The Story : A Kryptonite meteor falls in Addis Ababa and is sent to Shuster for study. It turns up in one of Clark's classes, a class on minerals. There, Clark feels the pain of kryptonite for the first time. When Lex Luthor learns of it's value as an energy source, he takes a piece of it, using it in a machine to commit crimes. This new threat makes it difficult for Superboy to help when needed.

Original title : Revenge of the Alien (1/2)
First Aired : 04.02.1989 (USA)
Director : Peter Kiwitt
Writing credits : Mike Carlin, Andrew Helfer
Cast : Chick Bernhardt (Cop), Marc Macaulay (Crook), Glenn Scherer (Johnson), Alan Jordan (Williams), Dennis Michael (Henry)

The Story : The cloud-like alien returns, and after possessing a cop's body, stalks Superboy for revenge. They have a brief showdown at an agricultural center near campus and the cop's body is killed and Superboy is hurt. When the alien cannot force entry into Superboy, he possesses Clark's visiting father, Pa Kent.

Original title : Revenge of the Alien (2/2)
First Aired : 11.02.1989 (USA)
Director : Peter Kiwitt
Writing credits : Mike Carlin, Andrew Helfer
Cast : Dana Mark (Dean Lockhardt), Jerome Eden (Newscaster), Roger Pretto (Lt. Zeke Harris)

The Story : Now inside Pa Kent, the alien kidnaps Lana to draw Superboy out. When Lt. Harris tells him that the cryogenics lab was robbed, Superboy realizes what's happening. Clark sees them on the news, and goes there to make a deal with the alien to save his father. Superboy gives up his body, but has a surprise in store for the alien.

Original title : Stand Up and Get Knocked Down
First Aired : 18.02.1989 (USA)
Director : David Grossman
Writing credits : Toby Martin, David Patrick Columbia
Cast : Joe Hess (Goon #2), Jack Spirtos (Goon #1), Lester Bibbs (Emcee), Angel (Cindy Hamsey), Hayden Logston (Michael), Gary Lockwood (Dexter Linton), Brett Rice (The Suit)

The Story : TJ goes into standup comedy in a club's Amateur Night in order to find out who killed his friend. After he discovers that it was the club's owner, and the fact that he's into dealing drugs, he and his new waitress friend Angel, along with Clark, are tied up and drugged. Superboy has to make a non-comedic appearance to help his friends.

Original title : Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk
First Aired : 25.02.1989 (USA)
Director : Peter Kiwitt
Writing credits : Dennis O'Neil
Cast : Steve Dash (Mugger #1), Cindy Vicino (Lady), Russ Wheeler (Professor Royer), Michael J. Pollard (Mr. Mxyzptlk), Jim Rios (Mugger #2)

The Story : When Superboy removes a totem pole for a professor, it opens the doorway to the 5th dimension, and one of its imps, Mxyzptlk appears. Using his magic, he brings trouble to everyone around him, including Superboy. He falls for Lana and plans to take her back with him, giving Superboy and the professor little time to figure out how to stop him.

Original title : Birdwoman of the Swamps
First Aired : 04.03.1989 (USA)
Director : Reza Badiyi
Writing credits : Bernard M. Khan
Cast : Jack Swanson (Frank), Ted Science (Accomplice), Michael S. Walter (Woody), Marlene Cameron (Birdwoman), James MacArthur (Mr. Hogan), Liz Vassey (Student)

The Story : Superboy plays middle man, trying to help a contractor and an old Indian lady both get what they want -- to build housing for the poor while preserving the wetlands. But when Superboy is tricked by the contractor, resulting in the Indian lady turning against him, he's forced to shut the operation down, especially after discovering that the contractor is using sub-standard materials to build.

Original title : Terror from the Blue
First Aired : 11.03.1989 (USA)
Director : David Grossman
Writing credits : George Kirgo
Cast : Chick Bernhardt (Kinneran), David Hauser (Manton), Jim Howard (Gray), Michael Stark (Stone), Chase Randolph (Oscar), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Detective Jed , Slade), Eddie Edenfield (Baker), Roger Pretto (Lt. Harris)

The Story : Lana is forced to go into hiding when she witnesses a dirty cop try to kill Lt. Harris. She takes up with an ex-hippie outside the city, while the dirty cop, his dirty cop friends, and Superboy all try to track her down.

Original title : War of the Species
First Aired : 18.03.1989 (USA)
Director : Peter Kiwitt
Writing credits : Steven L. Sears
Cast : Kevyn Major Howard (Dr. Stuart), John Matuszak (Android)

The Story : When the gang goes to interview with a scientist, TJ and Lana discover a dead body, killed by a deadly android. When Superboy gets involved, he becomes the test subject to determine how to improve the android's program when in combat. All the while, Superboy is unaware that the scientist has a secret of his own.

Original title : Little Hercules
First Aired : 15.04.1989 (USA)
Director : David Grossman
Writing credits : Wayne A. Rice
Cast : Brian Solako (Lenny), Dean Drapin (Professor Simon), Twig Tolle (Larry), Elizabeth Marion (Amanda), Mal Jones (Commander), Allen Hall (Lt. Redman), Joaquin Phoenix (Billy Hercules), Robert Hollinger (Heywood), Jason Jacobs (Driggs)

The Story : In order to impress his crush, a boy genius named Billy Hercules implants a virus containing a love poem into the Navy's missile system. When it activates during a broadcasted demonstration the next day and takes over the system, Superboy and Billy must stop the missiles from self-detonating.....if they can.

Original title : Mutant
First Aired : 22.04.1989 (USA)
Director : Joe Ravitz
Writing credits : Michael J. Morris
Cast : Jack Swanson (Prof. Craig Lipcott), Edgar Allan Poe IV (Adio), Bill Christie (Hol), Schuyler Aubrey (Val)

The Story : After Professor Lipcott, a nuclear scientist, is kidnapped and taken into a time machine, Clark and TJ follow up. TJ is then kidnapped, and both he and the professor are held captive until a demand is met for plutonium. Superboy confronts the female kidnapper, Vora, and finds out that she and her friends are human mutants from Earth in a distant future. He's hoping that the good in her will help her and her people see the error of their ways, and puts it to the test to see if it will save his friends.

Original title : The Phantom of the Third Division
First Aired : 29.04.1989 (USA)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : Bernard M. Khan
Cast : Joseph Campanella (Phantom)

The Story : An old Korean War buddy of Pa Kent's comes to Smallville for revenge. His years of torture at a P.O.W. camp has warped his mind to make him think Jonathan deserted him during the war. After he is kidnapped, Superboy must find his father and stop the madness before it's too late.

Original title : Black Flamingo
First Aired : 06.05.1989 (USA)
Director : Chuck Martinez
Writing credits : Cary Bates
Cast : Ron Russell (Bouncer #1), Reggie Pierre (Punk #2), Remy Palacios (Punk #1), Ron Knight (Senator), Herbert Hofer (Agar), Ada Maris (Natasha), Fernando Allende (Snake-Man), Scott Gallin (Bouncer #2)

The Story : Superboy goes undercover in a punk nightclub as a biker named Snake-man where a terrorist is hypnotizing teenagers to turn them into killers.

Original title : Hollywood
First Aired : 13.05.1989 (USA)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : Fred Freiberger
Cast : Fred Buch (Stoddard), Nick Stannard (Willis), Stephen Geng (Gus), Jeff Moldovan (Hood), Bill Cordell (Assistant Director), Gene Tate (Lawyer), Frank Cipolla (Paperboy), Emmet Fitzsimmons (Truck Driver), Gail O'Grady (Victoria Letour), Doug McClure (Professor John Zugar), Arnie Cox (Husband)

The Story : Superboy is taken back to 1939 with a professor, where he meets a famous movie star. He falls for her and tries to protect her from thugs, while the professor works to get his time machine working, uncertain about their return to the current time.

Original title : Succubus
First Aired : 20.05.1989 (USA)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : Cary Bates
Cast : T.J. Kelly (Executive), Rita Rehn (Professor Myers), Sybil Danning (Pamela , Dare/Succubus), Lee Stevens (Simon)

The Story : A beautiful vampire-like creature seeks to drain Superboy of his life force and seduces T.J. as part of her plot.

Original title : Luthor Unleashed
First Aired : 27.05.1989 (USA)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : Stephen Lord
Cast : Larry Francer (Felix), Steve Howard (Guard), Rance Howard (Colonel), Paul Cohn (Oswald), Roger Pretto (Harris), Michael Manno (Leo)

The Story : Luthor steals a weapon, the Thermaton 14, from the nearby Army base and prepares to sell it to buyers. After Superboy saves his life in a lab explosion, he is grateful, until he becomes bald from the fumes. He's now more infuriated than ever, blaming Superboy......the beginning of a lifelong vendetta to be rid of the Boy of Steel.