Smallville: Season 1
Smallville is an American superhero television series that reimagines the Superman saga from its roots. Developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the show is based on the DC Comics character Superman, who was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series explores the origins of the world’s greatest hero, beginning with the arrival of the Krypton refugee Kal-el on Earth. The narrative follows
Season overview
Smallville is an American superhero television series that reimagines the Superman saga from its roots. Developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the show is based on the DC Comics character Superman, who was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series explores the origins of the world’s greatest hero, beginning with the arrival of the Krypton refugee Kal-el on Earth. The narrative follows the character through his tumultuous teen years as Clark Kent, focusing on the period between the boy he thought he was and the man he is destined to become. Set in Kansas, the series depicts Clark Kent as he navigates his still-emerging superpowers. Throughout the first season, Clark balances his efforts to fight crime with the challenges of young love, family drama, and the process of embracing his eventual destiny as the Man of Steel. The show, which is categorized as a science fiction, fantasy, action, adventure, and drama series, originally premiered in 2001 and concluded in 2011. This production serves as a reimagining of the Superman mythos, focusing on the formative experiences that shape the character's journey toward his future role.
Episodes
Pilot
Oct 16, 2001 · 45 min
The first episode tells the story of the meteor shower that hit Smallville and changed life in the Kansas town forever. Clark Kent meets Lex Luthor for the first time and encounter
Metamorphosis
Oct 23, 2001 · 45 min
Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.
Hothead
Oct 30, 2001 · 44 min
An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.
X-Ray
Nov 6, 2001 · 44 min
Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and
Cool
Nov 13, 2001 · 43 min
A jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive.
Hourglass
Nov 20, 2001 · 44 min
An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the s
Craving
Nov 27, 2001 · 43 min
A weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream...but must feed on the fat of others to maintain her enhanced appearance.
Jitters
Dec 11, 2001 · 41 min
An experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his tra
Rogue
Jan 15, 2002 · 44 min
Clark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.
Shimmer
Jan 29, 2002 · 44 min
Lex and Victoria are victims of a suspected household poltergeist. As the disturbances become more violent, suspicion lands on Amy, the daughter of a house servant who is obsessed
Hug
Feb 5, 2002 · 44 min
A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. Clar
Leech
Feb 12, 2002 · 43 min
Clark's powers are transferred into a classmate during a freak juxtaposition of meteor and storm. Clark must deal with being normal for the first time, and his classmate Eric is u
Kinetic
Feb 26, 2002 · 43 min
Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.
Zero
Mar 12, 2002 · 41 min
A man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted c
Nicodemus
Mar 19, 2002 · 44 min
A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
Stray
Apr 16, 2002 · 43 min
A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them.
Reaper
Apr 23, 2002 · 44 min
Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex
Drone
Apr 30, 2002 · 42 min
Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.
Crush
May 7, 2002 · 43 min
Former Smallville High cartoonist Justin returns to Smallville after he loses the use of his hands in a hit and run accident. Meanwhile, Lex's former nanny, Pamela, comes back to s
Obscura
May 14, 2002 · 43 min
After an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer...and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine t
Tempest
May 21, 2002 · 43 min
Lex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.