Superboy: Season One

These Summaries do contain "spoilers".

John Haymes Newton.................Superboy/Clark Kent

Stacy Haiduk..................................Lana Lang

Jim Calvert......................................T.J. White

George Chakiris............................Professor Peterson

Salome Jens....................................Martha Kent

Stuart Whitman..............................Jonathan Kent

Scott James Wells.........................Lex Luthor

Countdown to Nowhere- The government has created an experimental laser weapon. A group of men want to use it however for their own purposes. They arrive at a protest led by Lana and pretend to be football players who want to join the protest. They say they want to plant a picket sign on the laser. But when the guard tries to stop them, their true motive becomes clearer. Lana is taken inside at gunpoint. The men steal the laser weapon, leaving the guard behind to be gassed to death. They take Lana with them as a hostage. Clark saves the guard by sucking out the gas in the room, but he is too late to stop the saboteurs as they are miles away. Clark & T.J. talk to the guard and learn that one of the men mentioned a "main event" in 90 minutes. Clark & T.J. are baffled by what the main event is. Meanwhile, the men have taken Lana & the laser to an army airfield. They attack the guards with the laser weapon and steal the helicopter of a five-star general. Clark & T.J. discover that the main event is the space shuttle launch and go out to try to stop it. Clark stays behind and ducks behind a bush to change into Superboy for the first time. He flies out in search of Lana and the men who reveal that they want to sell the laser to an arms dealer using the space shuttle launch as a distraction. Lana makes a daring escape attempt but is caught. Her screams echo in Superboy's ears and he finds Lana in the helicopter heading toward the space center. Roscoe, the leader of this group, throws Lana from the helicopter and Superboy catches her. He lands and puts the obviously fascinated Lana down with T.J. He then goes up to catch the men again. They fire at him with the laser weapon but he deflects the beams. Superboy grabs hold of the copter and pushes it down for a landing at the air field. The men are taken off as Superboy salutes a general and flies off, his first mission completed. (This episode was re-aired later as a flashback told by Lana with additional scenes at Shuster, but with other scenes taken out.)

The Jewel of Techachal- Professor Lang (Peter White), Lana's father, comes to Shuster with a rare collection of artifacts from the temple of Techachal. Among them is a cursed jewel. Lana tries to get along with her father during his visit, but she can't get over how he has left her alone many times to go off on archaeological digs. She feels abandoned and thinks he believes his work is more important than her. Meanwhile, strange things are happening all around. The Professor's plane almost meets disaster when its landing gear malfunctions. A tornado hits Shuster University. And Professor Lang is taken to the hospital dying under the jewel's power. Clark and the others decide that the only way to save Professor Lang is to return the jewel to the temple where it belongs. But Lex Luthor wants the jewel's power and steals the jewel. Superboy tries to stop him but the curse drains Superboy of his strength leaving him unable to follow Lex. Superboy quickly recovers after Lex is gone and confronts Luthor on the highway. When Superboy lands in front of Luthor's car, Luthor dodges him and ends up in the river. Superboy pulls Lex out and takes the jewel so he can return it to Techechal. Professor Lang recovers soon after the jewel is returned and Lana finally reconciles with her father.

A Kind of Princess- Clark falls for Sara Danner (Julie McCullogh) a rich and somewhat spoiled student at Shuster, who happens to be the daughter of crime boss Matt Danner (Ed Winter). Superboy saves Danner's life when a bomb is set off by members of a rival crime syndicate, headed by a Mr. Casey (Harry Cup). When Sara disappears from her 18th birthday party, it is revealed that Casey has kidnapped her. When Casey contacts Danner, Danner decides that his crime syndicate means more to him than his daughter's life. Superboy rescues Sara and stops Casey. Sara, feeling rejected by her father, decides to leave Shuster and Clark behind.

Back to Oblivion- TJ goes to a scrapyard to investigate strange things that have happened there. When he arrives, he is trapped in a crushing machine by the old man, Mr. Wagner (Abe Vigoda), who owns the scrap yard. Superboy saves him from being crushed to death. Lana decides to visit Mr. Wagner to learn what's going on. Wagner holds her hostage believing that she is his granddaughter Lena. His mind travels back to the days of World War II, when he was in a Nazi concentration camp, as he tries to protect his "granddaughter" from the Nazis, who are actually TJ and Clark returning to check on Lana. Wagner uses the scrap yard machinery against them and seemingly kills Clark. But Clark, as Superboy, barely saves Tj from a trap and frees Lana from Mr. Wagner. Wagner suffers a heart attack but survives and is finally free from the haunting memories of World War II.

The Russian Exchange Student- When a scientist's formula to improve the efficiency of gasoline is nearly destroyed, a Russina exchange student named Natasha (Heather Haase) is accused of sabotaging the computer that the formula was stored on. Superboy steps in when a demonstration of the formula results in a powerful explosion. Again, Natasha is blamed. She is forced to leave the country within three days. TJ, who is ifatuated with Natasha, and Clark investigate. TJ discovers that Professor Gordon's (Ray Walston) assistant Jeff (Courtney Gaines) is working for a gasoline company that doesn't want the formula to get out since it would cause gasoline prices to drop drastically. TJ is found and dropped from a window high abouve the street by security guards in the company and saved in the nick of time by Superboy. Meanwhile, Jeff starts a fire and tries to kill Natasha and Professor Gordon, but Superboy arrives in time to save them and capture Jeff. Natasha decides to leave the US to assist Gordon, who is moving his research to Russia.

Bringing Down the House- 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 she is in danger also. Judd takes her away one night and reveals his true nature to her. He puts her in a torture device and begins to try to pull her apart while he records her screams. Superboy arrives just in time to stop Judd and release Lana from the machines deadly grasp.

The Beast and Beauty- A Superboy impersonator (David Marciano) 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 (Lonnie Shaw), refuses to marry the Superboy imposter, Hugo, she is kidnapped and the real Superboy is the only one who can save her.

The Fixer- Lex Luthor is taking bets on Shuster's basketball team who are playing against Florida State University in their next game. He blackmails Shuster's star player (Michael Landon Jr.) into losing the game and Superboy takes over the job of the referee to stop Luthor and save Shuster from his scandal.

The Alien Solution- 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. Knowing Superboy always comes to Lana's rescue, he puts her in danger and lures Superboy into the open. After Lana is almost killed by the alien's warrior body, Superboy agrees to do what the alien wants. He follow the alien to its ship, and destroys the alien's collection of warrior bodies. He then traps the alien in a canister, and hides the canister in a cryogenics lab on the college campus.

Troubled Waters- A buisnessman wants to buy all the farms in the Smallville area during an agricultural depression. Mr. Kent wants to find out why. Kenderson (Peter Palmer), the buisnessman, has something to hide and tries to kill Mr. Kent but he is unsuccessful. Superboy, who is coming to visit because of the attempt to kill Mr. Kent, checks over the farmland and learns a river runs below it that could be of value. He now must stop Kenderson before he gets what he wants and kills Mr. Kent. Kenderson wants to blow up the community silo when Pa Kent goes to show it to the bank's mortgage department manager. As the two pull up to the silo Kenderson's men attack and prepare the silo for destruction. As they prepare to destroy the silo, Superboy arrives and stops Kenderson once and for all.

The Invisible People- A large group of homeless people are living in front of a beach club on a Florida beach. They were promised jobs by the wealthy beach club owner, who never gave them anything. The owner of the beach club, Gerald Manfred (Sonny Shroyer), is trying to sell his club, but to do so he must get rid of the homeless group. He sets fire to one of their tents, and tries every way possible to get rid of them. When T.J., Lana, and Clark get involved T.J. is nearly killed and the leader of the homeless group, Damon (Greg Morris),is kidnapped. Lana searches for him and is kidnapped herself. Now she and Damon are trapped in Manfred's hands, and only Superboy can save them. Manfred prepares to kill them in hopes that when they die, the homeless people will leave the beach. But before he can do anything, Superboy finds him and makes him agree to give all the homeless people jobs as he once promised he would.

Kryptonite Kills- 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. But Lex Luthor learns of it's value as an energy source and takes a piece of it. He uses it to power a machine that can knock out lights all over the city and allow him to loot stores and banks. When Superboy stops him, Luthor gives the rock to his girlfriend on a necklace. When a fire breaks out in Luthor's dorm during a date, Superboy attempts a rescue and is made powerless by the kryptonite. Now Luthor's evil may cause his own death. Luthor escapes the fire leaving his girlfriend there to die. He send Leo back in to get the necklace, and once the necklace is gone Superboy returns to normal and escapes to bring Luthor to justice. Professor Peterson then gives Superboy the kryptonite in a lead box and Superboy throws it into space. The only problem is, one lone piece still attached to the necklace is flowing through Capitol City's sewer system and could be found again.

The Revenge of the Alien: Part 1- The alien from "The Alien Solution" escapes after a thief steals the canister containing him. He wants revenge on Superboy for destroying his collection of warrior bodies. The alien possesses a policeman (Chuck Bernhardt) and stalks the Boy of Steel. When he attacks Superboy at an agriculture center, he accidentally kills the body of the policeman he's possessing, and in the process he hurts Superboy. But when he tries to take over Superboy's body, he finds he can't get in and, angry, he possesses the body of Clark's visiting father, Jonathan Kent.

The Revenge of the Alien: Part 2- Now controlling Pa Kent, the alien makes his move to get revenge. He kinaps Lana and holds her hostage on a rooftop near Shuster University. Clark sees his father on the news with Lana and realizes something is wrong. When Lieutenant Harris tells Superboy that the cryogenics lab was robbed the night before, Superboy realizes who he is dealing with. He finds Pa Kent, and tells the alien that he will allow it to enter his body as long as he lets Pa Kent go. The alien agrees and Superboy takes the alien to Professor Peterson's lab. After the alien enters his body, Superboy activates a kryptonite ray in the lab. The kryptonite begins to kill Superboy and the alien inside is in agony. Superboy realizes he is dying. Pa Kent helps him move into a cryogenic freezer. Inside, the alien exits Superboy's body not realizing where he is. Once he goes into the cold air, his gaseous body freezes and becomes solid. Then it breaks apart into hundreds of pieces. Pa Kent is cleared with the police department and Superboy survives his exposure to kryptonite.

Stand Up and Get Knocked Down- TJ finds his friend Michael dead outside of the Bonkerz comedy club. TJ wants to find out what happened to him, so he goes to the club's amateur night. Before he goes on stage he discovers that the club owner, Dexter, killed Michael and is a drug deler. He tells a waitress, Angel, to take TJ a coke loaded with a potent drug to kill him. Luckily, she doesn't use the entire vial, and TJ only becomes sick. Clark and TJ are taken by Dexter and tied up with Angel. Small patches, taht are loaded with deadly drugs are attached to all three and Clark only has two minutes to act before TJ and angel will die. He breaks free and turns to Superboy, then removes the patches from Tj and Angel. TJ goes crazy. Dexter tries to run him down with his limo, but is stopped by Superboy.

Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk- Superboy is called on to help remove a totem pole from the ground so it can be studied. When he arrives the totem won't budge. Just as he finally gets it out of the ground, it vanishes. Then a strange little man appears claiming to be from the 5th dimension. He is Mxyzptlk (Michael J. Pollard). Superboy meets him and discovers that Mxy's magic can harm him just as it could anyone else. Mxy decides he wants to take Lana back with him. Using his magic, he impersonates Clark and tries to get together with Lana. When Lana resists Mxy's twisted version of Clark, Mxy uses his magic to make her want to come with him. She is preparing to leave with Mxy when T.J., Superboy, and a scientist discover that the totem held back magical spirits. Once the totem was moved, the doorway to our world was opened. They also learn that saying his name backward will cause the imp to return to his own dimension for 90 days. Knowing this, Superboy gives Lana a going away speech that he will record on video tape. She begins to read and Mxy takes over. Not realizing what he's reading, he reads his name backward aloud and vanishes. Lana returns to normal and everything done while Mxy was here is automatically undone.

Birdwoman of the Swamps- When a bulldozer is turned over at a construction site TJ and Clark decide to investigate. Clark meets an old indian woman (Marlene Cameron) who believes the birds turned over the bulldozer. Clark, as Superboy, moves to bulldozer to its original position and pays a visit to the indian woman. She thinks he is the enemy since he turned the bulldozer back over. She says the construction of a home for the poor is destroying the forests and the wetlands. Mr. Hogan, who is the head of the construction project, orders the indian woman killed. Superboy visits the woman again and she uses a strange spell on him. He collapses in pain, but he is able to weakly fly away from the woman. After he leaves, she is attacked and left unconscious near the swamp by two of Hogan's men. Clark and TJ head to the construction company. They discover Hogan is charging the city top dollar for materials and using low-cost materials that aren't suitable for construction. Meanwhile, the indian woman is nearly killed by an alligator, but is saved by Superboy. Superboy flies to the construction site and is buried under tons of gravel by Hogan's men. He escapes and traps Hogan so that the police can take him away. The indian woman apologizes to Superboy and the construction project is put on hold.

Terror From the Blue- A group of cops gone bad attempt to kill police lieutenant Zeke Harris (Roger Pretto) and Lana witnesses the shooting. The "dirty" cops chase after her and she avoids them. She leaves a message for Clark at his dorm. She then takes up with an ex-hippie in his trailer outside of the city. But the dirty cops find her there and this time she can't escape. Superboy finds the message on the answering machine and arrives just in time to save Lana from a horrible death at the hands of one of the dirty cops.

War of the Species- The military has given funding to an artificial intelligence project. T.J., Clark, and Lana visit the project to get a story for the Shuster Herald. They discover a dangerous android (John Matuzak) and are narrowly saved from death by Superboy. T.J. had taken pictures of the machine and the leader of the project took it, so T.J. returns to the project to get more shots. He is captured so that the android can undergo a final test against Superboy. Superboy arrives to save him, and discovers that the android's creator has his own secret. He too is an android from another world who created the other android to be his kiling machine, since he was programmed never to kill. He is badly damaged in Superboy's battle and a self-destruct program is initiated. Superboy flies him away as he explodes.

Little Hercules- Clark and TJ visit a young high-school genius named Billy Hercules (Leaf Pheonix) who has been offered a scholarship by Shuster U. Clark befriends the boy, who he can relate to since both of them are different and out of place. After a field trip to a naval base, Billy breaks into the advanced computer system of a new navy submarine to impress a girl he likes and this activates a self-destruct mechanism that will go off in 30 minutes. Only Billy knows the codes to get access to the computer and stop the sub from exploding. Superboy flies him to the sub, and Billy gets cracking. Meanwhile, Superboy begins burning a hole through a six-foot thick door, that is locked tight and armed with explosives, in order to get access to the missles so he can deactivate them. Luckily, with seconds to spare, Billy disarms the security door and Superboy is able to break through and deactivate the missles. Billy is returned home and in the end, gets the girl after all.

Mutant- Clark witnesses the kidnapping of Professor Craig Lipcott (Jack Swanson) a famous nuclear scientist. As Superboy, he follows the kidnappers to a rooftop and sees them enter a strange ship just before he is attacked by a powerful ray that leaves him disoriented. When he looks up the ship is gone. Lipcott awakens inside the ship, which is actually a time machine, with two mutant men and a normal woman, Vora (Skye Aubrey) The mutants want plutoinum. They reveal that they are from the 24th century and that they need plutonium to fight their enemies since no more exists in their time. TJ and Clark begin to investigate the kidnapping. TJ is taken by the mutant time travelers. Vora is sent to find Superboy so he can help them break into the installation where the plutonium is stored. Vora reveals to Superboy that she herself is a mutant in her society since everyone else has been mutated by fallout over the years. Superboy agrees to help in order to save TJ and Lipcott. Superboy gets the plutonium and flees with it. When the mutants blast him, he reflects their laser beams back at them and captures them. Vora frees Lipcott and TJ. She then leaves, never to return, since the machine will never have enough power to time travel again.

The Phantom of the Third Division- Jonathan Kent is being stalked by a man who he fought alongside in the Korean War. As Clark, Lana, and T.J. come to Smallville for a visit, Mr. Kent is lured to the Smallville hospital and kidnapped by the man (Joe Campanella). He blames Mr. Kent for the torture he went through in a prisoner of war camp. He makes Mr. Kent go through an obstacle course like the one at the camp to torture him and make him feel the same pain he felt. Superboy must now be the one to save his father's life and end the madman's emotional pain. He suceeds in stopping the "phantom" and Pa Kent volunteers to return him to the sanitarium.

Black Flamingo- A punk (Remy Palacion) stands on a rooftop, poised and ready to shoot a senator (Ron Knight). Luckily, Clark is around to save his life and capture the punk. He discovers that the punk is wearing a medallion with a black flamingo symbol. The same symbol used by the Black Flamingo club. Superboy gets into the club disguised as a biker with long hair and a beard. He sees that the club is filled with punk-rockers, two of which are Lana and TJ in disguise. Suddenly, the room goes dark. A video screen begins to display the black flamingo symbol and strange strobing lights. Everyone becomes hypnotized by the screen as a voice is heard "progamming" them with hypnotic suggestions. The punk rocker assassin was a hypnotized slave. A Russian woman, Natasha, observed the club owner's (Fernando Allende) conversation with a man interested in the mind control technique. She is working with American intelligence, but she is brought under the owner's control and stopped from shooting him. Superboy arrives in the owner's office, still disguised. He reveals his identity after being shot several times. The club owner uses his mind control to turn the entire club against Superboy. They attack him one after another, but none can hurt him. Superboy puts the owner in front of him. The owner realizes that his slaves will kill him to get at Superboy and uses his mind control to "de-program" his slaves. Natasha thanks Superboy for helping stop the Black Flamingo club.

Hollywood- A nutty professor, Professor Zugar (Doug McClure), invents a time machine and sends himself and Superboy back in time to Hollywood in the 1930s. Superboy meets a famous actor, Victoria Letour (Gail O'grady) and discovers that she is being stalked by men who want to kill her. They eventually kidnap her and Superboy comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, the time machine must be repaired since a crucial part was damaged during the trip. An inventor brings his miracle calculator, much larger than todays, to fix the machine. The professor fixes the machine and Superboy returns in time to be transported back to the present. When he arrives, he attends the recently deceased Victoria's funeral with TJ and Lana.

Succubus- A famous author, Pamela Dare (Sybil Danning), arrives at Shuster University. T.J. and Lana are sent to interview her for the college paper, the Shuster Herald. When T.J. meets her, he falls in love with her. Later, Pamela gives a lecture and T.J. attends. After the lecture is over, Pamela politely dumps T.J. saying that perhaps one day he will appear in one of her books. That night, T.J. sees a glowing Pamela walking through the halls in his dormitory. She walks into the room he shares with Clark. Inside, the sleeping Clark tosses and turns as Pamela tries to drain life energy from Clark. She can't drain any because he isn't afraid of her, and she vanishes. T.J., outside in the hall, sees the light in the room go out, and gets a very wrong idea about what's going on. Later, Pamela, in desperate need of energy, kidnaps Lana and T.J. in order to lure Superboy to her. He arrives and learns that Pamela is a succubus. She drains life energy from others in order to extend her life. Her books are true stories about things that happened to her in the distant past. She shows Superboy that Lana and T.J. are in danger then knowing that he is afraid that they will be hurt, she movs in and begins to drain his life energy. Superboy escapes her grasp and saves his friends. Pamela is overloaded with the energy and grows younger and younger until nothing is left of her.

Luthor Unleashed- Luthor steals a powerful weapon developed by the army and prepares to sell it to weapon dealers. Later, while Luthor is working in the Shuster laboratory he causes an explosion and Superboy saves him by blowing the chemical fumes out of the building. The fumes kill Lex's hair and cause him to go bald and now Luthor's hatred for Superboy is greater than ever. He prepares to sell the weapon to anyone who can kill Superboy and three assassins try their best, but are defeated by Superboy. Meanwhile, Lex's hatred for Superboy has grown and led him to a change....... (more about this is in the season two premiere)

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