Superboy... The Adventures of Superbaby almost all grown up.

[RandyS]

I watched Lois and Clark. I thought it was okay.

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows. Sure, seasons 3 and 4 were overly emotional, but it had Teri Hatcher. Enough said.

And speaking of Superboy, It wasn't great, but I've seen worse. Just look at....well, anything on TV today and you'll understand.

And I will personally slap the first person who calls it campy, although you just know somebody under 30 will at some point.

 

[Christopher]

The first season of Superboy didn't impress me much, but there was some good stuff in the later ones. The best thing about the series (aside from the hotness of Stacy Haiduk) was Sherman Howard as Lex Luthor. He was one of the best Luthors ever.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows.

PLEASE tell me this was sarcasm.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I watched Lois and Clark. I thought it was okay.

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows. Sure, seasons 3 and 4 were overly emotional, but it had Teri Hatcher. Enough said.

I thought that the first season was the best. It went downhill after that when they changed the actor playing Jimmy Olsen and got rid of Lex Luthor. Too bad ABC f--ed up and changed way too much of the show. It could've been way better.

I don't remember much of this Superboy show. I thought that it was merely ok. Nothing that great or really awful. Just kind of...blah.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I remember Superboy being on and I remember watching it, but I don't remember anything about it, much like young Indiana Jones. I do remember Lois and Clark very well though. I thought it good, not great, but good. I loved Smallville, at times.

 

[Galileo7]

SUPERBOY 1988-1992 http://epguides.com/Superboy/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094559/

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the late 90s I was a little drunk at a party and I saw this gothic bible sized Tome on a mantle piece called "The Big honking book of TV" so I thumbed through to the Superboy reference thinking I would get a good laugh on hearing that the show had been aborted after 12 episodes like the ferris beuller TV Show and i had missed out on much ado about nothing... 4 Years?

Four fricking years?

I swallowed.

Maybe it was good?

Shitty shows don't last 4 years.

(Well, so what maybe they do. Look at Sliders or Supernatural.)

Superboy was really good and no one had let me see it.

THOSE BASTARDS!

"The Beast and Beauty"

Oh look, it's not the Cylon Ray from Due South before he lost his hair, impersonating Superboy. Gosh he will've really let himself go by the time he started hanging out with that mountie... And a beauty pageant sacked with hairband floozie album cover fluff... I suppose this is really the first time that we see Superboy in a fight, even if it is just him being poncey while a regular guy breaks his hand on his face.

Sub par.

"The Fixer"

Is it that out of order bullshit again? How did Lex Luthor get out of jail from the pilot and back into school as Class President? You'd think robbing a museum would.. A story about the consequences of peer pressure. Some jock is photographed toking on a doobie and then he's in Lex the book maker's pocket on the basketball court. Who is this show being made for? You can't market it to 12 year olds and then say that their are relatively no consequences to drug use if you have powerful friends. Split message. However when Superboy refereed the basketball game i laughed my ass off. He's fricking flying from one side of the court to the other blowing his whistle at double dribblers and shit.

Priceless.

"The Alien Solution"

Finally! the classic formula. Alien warrior fights Superboy, possesses Lana, fights Superboy as lana, and then is defeated thought cunning and guile. It's nice giving Stacey some range here beyond an Olive Oyl impersation, but really if you're just going to use a kendo uniform as alien attire, don't give the alien a thick almost racist (still looking at you George Lucas.) Japanese accent.

Wait, did Clark just admit that he loves Lana Lang?

Sure she's dying, in a coma in a hospital bed and it's too late, but he said it, and when he said it there was n alien parasite controlling her body so he didn't exactly say it to her and after everything resolved she had no memory of the... Bollocks.

"Troubled Waters"

This is weird. Clark goes home to Smallville, and there's a girl waiting for his bus, and he KISSES HER PASSIONATELY just to say "hello" so I'm thinking why is he whoring it up flirting with that Lana girl if he has a town back on the range waiting for him? Kryptotramp.

Land developers cheating hillbillies.

So Scoobie Doo.

Although, Mumbles who is playing Clark Kent, had a few nice scenes where he's NOT throwing thugs who are trying to force his family to sell up through walls, because he must protect his secret identity... he's all crushing bumpers showing restraint trying not to conquer the world and they keep pushing him.

The father and son stuff was nice.

Like an ad for the telphone company but nice.

On Community this week, Abeb asks Troy how good a friend he is to him, that if if he was Superman, would he share his secret identity with him? Troy laughs and says that that is a non-issue since he doesn't understand what Superman is thinking keeping secret, because if he could fly and bend steel, that he would tell every one.

The guy playing Pa Kent is familiar. Feels "Soapy" like the bold and the beautiful or something. I'm surprised that they didn't have him killed off so that Clark could go all dark and level the land developer thugs like when Anikan murdered all those unarmed Tuskan women and children and babies.

 

[Christopher]

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows. Sure, seasons 3 and 4 were overly emotional, but it had Teri Hatcher. Enough said.

I thought that the first season was the best. It went downhill after that when they changed the actor playing Jimmy Olsen and got rid of Lex Luthor.

I somewhat agree (certainly Michael Landes was a vastly better Jimmy than Justin Whalen), but I think the second season is worthwhile because it achieved a better balance of action-adventure to romantic comedy and made better use of Superman's rogues' gallery.

The third and fourth seasons were weak and got progressively more awful over time, because the producers who took over the show from the third season onward treated it as a joke.

 

[RandyS]

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows.

PLEASE tell me this was sarcasm.

No, sarcasm would have been if I was referencing Smallville. And, even THAT had some good stuff in it. I just liked Lois and Clark better.

 

[RandyS]

I watched Lois and Clark. I thought it was okay.

Lois & Clark was the masterpiece of the Superman shows. Sure, seasons 3 and 4 were overly emotional, but it had Teri Hatcher. Enough said.

I thought that the first season was the best. It went downhill after that when they changed the actor playing Jimmy Olsen and got rid of Lex Luthor. Too bad ABC f--ed up and changed way too much of the show. It could've been way better.

I agree, partially. Michael Landes was better than Justin Whalin, and I didn't particularly like the way they just dropped the Jack character without so much as a mention. Same with Cat Grant. And as I said, once Lois and Clark got together, the show became overly emotional, "Oh, I've loved you before I knew you!".

Please.......

Despite this, I thought Lois & Clark was a fine show.

 

[RandyS]

"Troubled Waters"

This is weird. Clark goes home to Smallville, and there's a girl waiting for his bus, and he KISSES HER PASSIONATELY just to say "hello" so I'm thinking why is he whoring it up flirting with that Lana girl if he has a town back on the range waiting for him? Kryptotramp.

Land developers cheating hillbillies.

So Scoobie Doo.

Although, Mumbles who is playing Clark Kent, had a few nice scenes where he's NOT throwing thugs who are trying to force his family to sell up through walls, because he must protect his secret identity... he's all crushing bumpers showing restraint trying not to conquer the world and they keep pushing him.

The father and son stuff was nice.

I actually liked this episode, and in particular liked the character of Ellen Jensen, not to mention the girl who played her. Pretty lady.

I remember being dissapointed that she never appeared again. It was clear that she and Lana had a rivalry going on about Clark. I always thought it was too bad that they didn't add her to the show full time and have that rivalry continue.

 

[Guy Gardener]

She probably started making babies with Pete Ross.

It doesn't matter what universe you're living in, few things say 'I've given up" more profoundly than dating Pete Ross.

Thing you might not remember about Ellen, is that she had an atypical Kasonian accent, almost Fargosian. She was almost a bigger alien to Kansas than Clark, but no, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

I'm off to do some shopping for an early dinner and then I'll finish up seasons one before I tuck myself in for the night.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I watched Lois and Clark. I thought it was okay.

I only enjoyed the first season of it.

That said, it was vastly more successful than The Adventures Of Superboy, and at its worst was smarter.

 

[Guy Gardener]

But Superboy was devised for much stupider people.

Children and drunks mostly.

You'd be amazed though what a drunk child will sit down and watch.

It's the only explanation I have for success of High School Musical.

The Invisible People

Another episode about social injustice.

This time about poverty, homelessness and the insidiousness of exporting exporting American jobs to Korea.

laying it on thick.

The rich guy was Marie Antoinetteing it throwing caviare at seaguls laughing ay a camp of homeless people living 5 feet from his back porch where he was having a bbq and pool party with all his friendsm and he was surprised by the riot, who were surprised they got pulped by private seurity...

Argggh!

"Kryptonite Kills"

So this is the episode where we finally know for sure that Superboy has no idea about his origin. Addis Abbaba. Same as the movie. Cute. But Lex luthor is still running around using his frat brothers as henchgoons. I mean what's the point of needing practically a god to solve these 'crimes' when am I suppposed to beleive that any one less bullet proof would be shot? Recycled Knight Rider Horse hockey.

"Revenge of the Alien Part One and Two"

"The Alien".



That's what Luthor always calls Superman in the comics.

but the kendo guy is back driving around Pa Kent and...oh!

Now "the Alien" is inisde Superboy and the actor lad is allowed to prove that he can act for about 30 second as he plays a complete bastard before he's offed by guile and cunning.

I swear it's a miracle if they give Stacy lines or half undress her.

I'd settle for either.

This Pa Kent is so much more loving and sincere than John Shnider.

 

[Guy Gardener]

"Stand Up and Get Knocked Down"

Drugs are bad.

god save me from TJ's comedy at that.


"Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk"

And I thought Smallville were punks for turning this 5th dimensional Sprite into a Russian bookie with a just enough telekinesis to fix football games. That little hat, god save me from that little hat.

But frankly this episode is a 70s comic book. Also, I just started noticing that Carey Bates is a consultant on this project.

"Birdwoman of the Swamps"

It's called peyote. Maybe they were trying for spooky but it just seemed racist.

"War of the Species"

Stupid robot. Seriously, why call the droid a robot when it's just some fat guy in a body sock. Hells bells, half the actors face was exposed. Are we supposed to believe that that was artificial flesh or that he'd been using sheets of human flesh as spare parts?

Someone in wardrobe needs to be spanked.

TJ screwing up and missing his shot of the big fight(s) over and over was almost funny, but the twist at the end where the mad scientist roboticist turns out to be an alien robot himself preparing for a battle beyond the stars... I'm surprised to use a word like "inspired" but then there's an antiwar PSA and it all wraps up into a classy bow.

Barely a last minute save.

"Little Hercules"

So there's this ten year old who dreams about murdering his classmates, wakes up, takes over a nuclear submarine and then starts making out with a 16 year old woman until she consensually commits to a relationship?

AND HE'S THE GOOD GUY!!!!!

The Submarine reading poetry was a gang busters.

"Mutant"

24th century mutants come back to get plutonium to nuke their neighbours.

Words fail me.

"The Phantom of the Third Division"

Another story about a war veteran who thinks it's all still go.

Stalking Pa Kent, who left this guy behind in North Korea.

Pa Kent had some theatrical moments but, but really could you find a more hackney plot to repeat?

"Black Flamingo"

Oh my god.

A good episode.

Who knew?

No spoilers.

"Hollywood"

Okay, what the frakks happening?

This episode was little short of spectacular.

Gave me a nerdgasm.

Two in a row that are not gut wrenchingly puke inducing.

Wow.

Speaking of wow.

A young, 20-something Gail O'Grady.

Mmmmm.

And a young 70 something Doug McClure.



Time travel to 1930s Hollywood.

It ticks all the boxes, and the weird thing was that they gave John newton a string of lines to say all at the same time as he bantered with Doug McClure. Seriously the scripts up to this point have no confidence in this guy, and I'm almost inclined to think it's warranted so.

"Succubus"

Okay so maybe Carey Bates isn't a genius. An immotal woman eating the youth out of her lovers but she bites off more than she can chew and turns into calcified sperm.

The actress was barely pretty enough to be called a cougar but her speech near the end about how she'd dominated men for the last thousand years and how history had got on its hands and knees to kiss her feet was a little impressive.

It felt big.

"Luthor Unleashed"

Last chance to shine.

Superboy saved Luthors life froma lab explosion, and Lana was nice to him and he fell in love with Lana and they were going to live happily ever after and... And, and, and..

Then his hair falls out and shit gets real.

He blames Superboy for his hair and backhands Lana in the jaw like he was Hank Pym or Mel Gibson.

Extra points for the Ninja.

More extra points for lines like "Lex be careful, your death ray is killing our ninja!"

It was the final episode.

The writers went mental.

Season one is over.

I'm sleepy.

 

[PointedEars]

I too have this show on DVD. It's not as great as I remember, but it's still good. This show was produced by the Salkinds, who made the first three Superman movies and Supergirl, which is why it's visually similar to those films. Judging by the quality for Season 1 of Superboy, I have to say that the Salkinds didn't make a good "Super" whatever (Man, Girl, Boy) after they fired Donner on Superman II. Shows you how valuable he was to the movies. Anyway, I think the show improved a little with Season 2 and Gerard Christopher taking over the title role.