• Air date: 06 Oct '90 26 episodes
      Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. The Bride of Bizarro (1)

      06 Oct '90
      As Clark and Lana begin their internship at the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters, Bizarro returns from deep space to announce on a talk show that he wants a mate! Lex Luthor makes a deal with Bizarro to create him a mate created by the duplicating machine that made Bizarro on the condition that he steal a supply of kryptonite to power it, and to kill Superboy.
    • 2. The Bride of Bizarro (2)

      13 Oct '90
      After Luthor threatens to create explosive Bizarro duplicates of everyone in the city if Superboy doesn't appear at his lair by midnight, Bizarro once again agrees to kill Superboy in exchange for a Bizarro-bride. When Luthor creates a Bizarro duplicate of Lana Lang, Bizarro is prepared to uphold his end of the bargain, and this time Superboy may not be able to escape.
    • 3. The Lair

      20 Oct '90
      Clark, Lana, and Matt investigate sightings of a creature that was deformed as a result of contaminated water. The creature turns out to be a man that formerly worked for Pat Kenderson (from season 1's Troubled Waters), and is being hunted by his men.
    • 4. Neila

      27 Oct '90
      A superhuman female warrior comes from another world in search of Superboy, testing him for his worthiness to be her husband. She causes destruction in the process, ignoring Superboy's effort to show what it means to care for others.
    • 5. Roads Not Taken (1)

      03 Nov '90
      Luthor steps into an interdimensional portal created by a Dr. Winger and is whisked away to an alternate earth. Darla kidnaps Lana in order to lure Superboy to the lab where Luthor vanished. She tells Superboy that if he doesn't go through the portal to save Lex, Lana will die. Naturally, he goes through and is transported to an alternate earth where his alternate self killed Luthor's alternate years ago. Now the world is in chaos. Lana is homeless, everyone hates Superboy, and ""our"" Luthor, c
    • 6. Roads Not Taken (2)

      10 Nov '90
      Superboy jumps through the portal to escape the kryptonite assault. This time he ends up on a world where his alternate self has taken the name ""Sovereign"" and is the dictator of earth, ruling his people with fear. Superboy encounters the Lana of this world, who is fighting, along with her lover Lex Luthor, to take down the Sovereign. Superboy joins the resistance. Meanwhile, the Sovereign learns of the ""imposter"" who has all of his powers. He sends troops to attack the resistance fighters,
    • 7. The Sons of Icarus

      17 Nov '90
      After a number of flying men are spotted over Capitol City, Matt Ritter learns that the men are part of a group called the "Katia," descendants of African slaves who gained the power to fly. When Matt discovers he is one of them, he quits his job at the Bureau and joins the group. But Clark and Lana find out that there is a connection between the Katia and a series of fires that have broken out throughout the city, and if the Katia aren't stopped, Capitol City could burn to the ground.
    • 8. Carnival

      24 Nov '90
      A carnival arrives into town, and its owner, a man named DeVille, steals the souls of some of the carnival-goers, and targets Superboy to break his moral spirit and steal his soul as well.
    • 9. Test of Time

      01 Dec '90
      Two aliens from another world have come to Earth, and alter time, accelerating Superboy's presence. They test him, observing his reactions and using the results to determine if the entire human race on Earth can be conquered so they'll know how to take over the world and re-establish their race.
    • 10. Mindscape

      08 Dec '90
      When Superboy investigates a rock that was brought into the Bureau, an alien life form jumps out and attaches itself to him, causing him to go unconscious. The alien produces dreams that exploits Superboy's worst fears, and it feeds of the adrenaline the dreams create. With no one able to stop the alien, it might drain Superboy of life.
    • 11. Superboy... Lost

      15 Dec '90
      When Superboy tries to intercept a meteor that is approaching Earth, he is injured, resulting in amnesia. In the forest, a mother and son find him and nurse him back to health, while he rediscovers who he truly is. All the while, the mother and son are in hiding, trying to avoid death, courtesy of the boy's father.
    • 12. Special Effects

      05 Jan '91
      While Clark and Lana investigate a murder by a group of monsters at a production studio, they run into Andy McAlister. Together, they find that a fellow director is actually responsible, and is blackmailing the monsters to commit the murders.
    • 13. Neila and the Beast

      12 Jan '91
      Neila returns to Earth after her race of warriors are destroyed, and summons Superboy to aid her in destroying a creature that is out to kill her. She also gives humans a chance, and asks for Lana's help in finding companionship.
    • 14. The Golem

      19 Jan '91
      When an elderly Jewish man is being harassed by some neo-nazis, he creates a Golem, a creature from folklore. He instructs him to defend him from the neo-nazis but it loses control and is out to kill all neo-nazis.
    • 15. A Day in the Double Life

      26 Jan '91
      Clark chronicles his daily activities for Jackson, rewording his outings as Superboy to cover up his identity. This leads to the conclusion that he leads a rather boring life.
    • 16. Bodyswap

      22 Feb '91
      Superboy saves a vacationing family from disaster as their car heads toward collision with a tree. He then proceeds to steal their car. Needless to say, Superboy is not quite himself. Later, Luthor confronts Lana in a parking building. He claims that he is not really Luthor, but Superboy. He explains that a scientist named Deland lured him to a lab promising information about his past, but instead of that, he found his mind transferred to Luthor's body. Lana doesn't believe him, and escapes ""Lu
    • 17. Rebirth (1)

      09 Feb '91
      Superboy tries to stop a guerilla-style gang, and is then framed for the death of its leader, which was really caused by a member of the gang. Fearing that he did cause the man's death, Superboy retreats to Smallville, where he vows to never use his powers again.
    • 18. Rebirth (2)

      26 Feb '91
      While the gang plans to steal and sell chemical weapons on the black market, Lana sets out to clear Superboy's name, so he can be vindicated of the man's murder.
    • 19. Werewolf

      23 Feb '91
      Clark and company try to help a young woman, who has led them on a goose chase looking for a werewolf that she'd spotted. Meanwhile, she has a secret of her own.
    • 20. People vs. Metallo

      06 Apr '91
      Court is in session for the trial of Metallo, but he turns the tables when kryptonite is smuggled into the courtroom, giving him strength to overtake it, and Superboy. He puts Superboy on trial while on the stand, subdued by the green rock, and it will take the teamwork of everyone in the room to bring Metallo down.
    • 21. Jackson and Hyde

      20 Apr '91
      Jackson takes an elixir that makes him stronger, and transforms his behavior. As a result, he is now being blamed for the beating deaths of two people. Little does anyone know, there's a second person who's also taking the elixir.
    • 22. Mine Games

      21 Apr '91
      After a botched attempt to rescue Lana from Luthor, Superboy and Luthor end up trapped in a lead coated mine with a chunk of kryptonite, and they are forced to put aside their differences to find a way out.
    • 23. Wish for Armageddon

      04 May '91
      Superboy has dreams about being involved in provoking the Russians into warfare, and finds that they are actually real when he sees reports about it on the news. It turns out that Superboy was tricked into signing a contract that places him under the control of a immortal man that is trying to bring about Armaggedon, so he'll be released from a lifelong curse.
    • 24. Standoff

      11 May '91
      Clark, his friends, and innocent bystanders are holed up in a building as hostages, and Clark must find a way to rescue them without revealing his identity.
    • 25. The Road to Hell (1)

      18 May '91
      Superboy is taken to an alternate world where he as a child is living in the jungle and must be saved from being captured. A run-in with an alternate Lex Luthor creates complications.