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| ShortSummary = Lois' mother, Ellen ([[Beverly Garland]]) is in Metropolis wanting to help with the wedding plans even though Lois and Clark want a small wedding while an illusionist, known as "Baron Sunday" ([[Cress Williams]]), also arrives in town. Clark starts to have nightmares where someone seems to enclose him in a coffin and at first Lois believes that they are caused due to stress for the wedding. When two other people, who worked with Clark in the past, die due to their own fears, they connect the two deaths with Clark's nightmares and their investigation leads them to Baron who came to Metropolis for revenge. Baron takes Lois planning to kill her and Clark has to face his own fear to be able to save her. When he realizes that what he sees is not a coffin but the moment his parents put him in the capsule to send him to Earth, is not afraid anymore and saves Lois capturing Baron. When the police arrives to arrest Baron they |
| ShortSummary = Lois' mother, Ellen ([[Beverly Garland]]) is in Metropolis wanting to help with the wedding plans even though Lois and Clark want a small wedding while an illusionist, known as "Baron Sunday" ([[Cress Williams]]), also arrives in town. Clark starts to have nightmares where someone seems to enclose him in a coffin and at first Lois believes that they are caused due to stress for the wedding. When two other people, who worked with Clark in the past, die due to their own fears, they connect the two deaths with Clark's nightmares and their investigation leads them to Baron who came to Metropolis for revenge. Baron takes Lois planning to kill her and Clark has to face his own fear to be able to save her. When he realizes that what he sees is not a coffin but the moment his parents put him in the capsule to send him to Earth, is not afraid anymore and saves Lois capturing Baron. When the police arrives to arrest Baron they can't find him since he turned himself into a snake and escaped. |
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| WrittenBy = Chris Ruppenthal |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|2|11}} |
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| ShortSummary = Lois and Clark's wedding is only few days away and Lois worries that something bad will happen. While they are trying to make everything work, Lois asks Perry to give them a story so she can get her mind away for a while. Perry gives them a story about some frogs that have been stolen from a pet shop but as it is revealed soon, this is not just a frog robbery. Their investigation leads them to discover that a scientist named Dr. Isaac Mamba ([[Tony Curtis]]), who used to work for Lex Luthor, replaced the President of the US ([[Fred Willard]]) and one of his Secret Service agents with frog-eating clones that he has created. Lois and Clark solve the mystery and Mamba, along with the clones, get arrested while Lex escapes from prison after an official pardon that was written by the president clone. Lois and Clark get married but at the end of the episode it |
| ShortSummary = Lois and Clark's wedding is only few days away and Lois worries that something bad will happen. While they are trying to make everything work, Lois asks Perry to give them a story so she can get her mind away for a while. Perry gives them a story about some frogs that have been stolen from a pet shop but as it is revealed soon, this is not just a frog robbery. Their investigation leads them to discover that a scientist named Dr. Isaac Mamba ([[Tony Curtis]]), who used to work for Lex Luthor, replaced the President of the US ([[Fred Willard]]) and one of his Secret Service agents with frog-eating clones that he has created. Lois and Clark solve the mystery and Mamba, along with the clones, get arrested while Lex escapes from prison after an official pardon that was written by the president clone. Lois and Clark get married but at the end of the episode it's revealed that the Lois who is with Clark is also a clone as the real Lois was replaced before the wedding. |
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'''Note''':The episode is dedicated to the memory of Superman co-creator [[Jerry Siegel]], who died on January 28, 1996. |
'''Note''':The episode is dedicated to the memory of Superman co-creator [[Jerry Siegel]], who died on January 28, 1996. |
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| DirectedBy = [[Chris Long (director)|Chris Long]] |
| DirectedBy = [[Chris Long (director)|Chris Long]] |
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| WrittenBy = Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner |
| WrittenBy = Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|2|18}} |
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| ShortSummary = Starting from where the previous episode ended, Lois' clone pretends she is tired to avoid having sex with Clark, leaving him confused and disappointed. Clark realizes that Lois is acting weird but he does not know what is going on. At the same time, Lex Luthor ([[John Shea]]) has the real Lois and plans to leave town with her. He also tells her that Clark married the clone and that by the time |
| ShortSummary = Starting from where the previous episode ended, Lois' clone pretends she is tired to avoid having sex with Clark, leaving him confused and disappointed. Clark realizes that Lois is acting weird but he does not know what is going on. At the same time, Lex Luthor ([[John Shea]]) has the real Lois and plans to leave town with her. He also tells her that Clark married the clone and that by the time he realises, the two of them will be in Lex' windowless fortress in the Alps where she can shout Superman as much as she wants but it will get boring. The clone discovers that Clark is Superman and decides that she wants to be with him. To be able to do that, she has to kill the real Lois who escapes from Lex but gets hit by a car which causes her to fall and hit her head on a letter box, thus bringing on a bout of amnesia. She believes that she is Wanda Detroit, the main character of a book she was writing and gets a job at a bar as a singer. With the clone searching for her to kill her, Lex offers Clark his help to find the "Real" Lois. When Lex hears where Lois is and that she believes she is Wanda, he pretends to be Kent (a man from the book that Wanda wants but believes she cannot have) and lies to her about who Clark is and what to tell him so the two of them can be together. When Clark finds her, Lois tells him that she never loved him and that she loves Lex and wants to be with him. Clark angrily promises Lex that he will do anything to bring Lois back even if it means going right through Lex to do it, Lex says that this sounds like a threat and that "his" woman doesn't take kindly to threats. Lex and Lois then drive off leaving Clark alone with the clone. |
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| WrittenBy = Pat Hazell and [[Teri Hatcher]] |
| WrittenBy = Pat Hazell and [[Teri Hatcher]] |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|4|28}} |
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| ShortSummary = Lois has to attend her high school reunion and Clark accompanies her as her fiance. There, Lois learns that two (and later a third one) of her former classmates' spouses have disappeared and she decides to investigate those disappearances to find out what happened. While investigating, something strange starts happening to Clark; he is shrinking. Clark goes to Dr. Klein (Kenneth Kimmins) as Superman, who runs some tests to find out what caused this. The clues that Lois finds lead her to one of her former classmates, Annette Westman (Elizabeth Anne Smith). Annette |
| ShortSummary = Lois has to attend her high school reunion and Clark accompanies her as her fiance. There, Lois learns that two (and later a third one) of her former classmates' spouses have disappeared and she decides to investigate those disappearances to find out what happened. While investigating, something strange starts happening to Clark; he is shrinking. Clark goes to Dr. Klein (Kenneth Kimmins) as Superman, who runs some tests to find out what caused this. The clues that Lois finds lead her to one of her former classmates, Annette Westman (Elizabeth Anne Smith). Annette has created a shampoo with a secret formula that causes people and things to shrink into miniatures. She wants revenge on all those who mistreated her in school and enjoys seeing them suffer. When Lois confronts her, Annette tries to shrink Lois too but, with the help of Superman, Lois gets away and Annette accidentally pours the entire formula onto herself, causing her to shrink up her own existance. Dr. Klein finds the antidote and everyone returns to their original size. |
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Revision as of 01:49, 9 April 2019
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | |
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| Season 3 | |
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| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 17, 1995 – May 12, 1996 |
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The third season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman originally aired between September 17, 1995 and May 12, 1996, beginning with "We Have a Lot to Talk About".
The series loosely follows the comic philosophy of writer John Byrne, with Clark Kent as the true personality, and Superman as a secondary disguise. As the show's title suggests, it focuses as much on the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane as on the adventures of Clark's alter-ego.[1] The central characters in season 3 are Dean Cain as Clark Kent/Superman, Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, Lane Smith as Perry White, Eddie Jones as Jonathan Kent, K Callan as Martha Kent, and Justin Whalin as Jimmy Olsen.
Season three would go on to be the most successful season of Lois & Clark in its run. The show averaged at least 15 million viewers per episode, and ranked 44th for the season. In the premiere episode, Lois revealed that she had recently learned Clark's secret identity. Only later in the seventh episode of the season, "Ultra Woman", did Lois finally accept Clark's proposal. The long-anticipated wedding was put off to coincide with the characters' marriage in the comics, which led to many storylines designed to delay and interrupt the wedding on the TV series.
Another controversy erupted when ABC announced that the wedding would actually take place Valentine's Day weekend, even sending out heart-shaped "wedding invitations" to ABC News staff, only to present viewers with a bogus wedding, in which Clark unwittingly married a clone of Lois who was developed by a mad scientist whose creations are required to ingest frogs periodically as nourishment. This started a special five-part story, with Lois being kidnapped by Lex Luthor who had put the clone in her place. And later with Lois suffering amnesia after a sharp hit on the head and needing to regain her memory.
The wedding of Lois and Clark was scheduled and prepared by DC's Superman comics team for release during what would have worked out to be the third season of Lois and Clark. The ongoing Superman comics are not affiliated with television or movies and move in their own direction at their own pace. When the comic book wedding became known to the producers of the Lois and Clark television series, they asked the DC Comics team to postpone the wedding issue as they were planning to marry Lois and Clark in their fourth season and it would help them if the comic book wedding were to coincide with their television program. The DC comics team agreed to postpone their wedding issue.
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [2][3] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 45 | 1 | "We Have a Lot to Talk About" | Philip Sgriccia | John McNamara | September 17, 1995 | 20.8[4] |
| 46 | 2 | "Ordinary People" | Michael W. Watkins | Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner | September 24, 1995 | 19.6[5] |
| 47 | 3 | "Contact" | Daniel Attias | Chris Ruppenthal | October 1, 1995 | 18.7[6] |
| 48 | 4 | "When Irish Eyes Are Killing" | Winrich Kolbe | Grant Rosenberg | October 15, 1995 | 19.7[7] |
| 49 | 5 | "Just Say Noah" | David Jackson | Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming | October 22, 1995 | 18.4[8] |
| 50 | 6 | "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape" | Steven Dubin | David Simkins | November 5, 1995 | 18.3[9] |
| 51 | 7 | "Ultra Woman" | Mike Vejar | Gene F. O'Neill and Noreen Tobin | November 12, 1995 | 22.3[10] |
| 52 | 8 | "Chip Off the Old Clark" | Michael W. Watkins | Michael Jamin and Sivert Glarum | November 19, 1995 | 21.1[11] |
| 53 | 9 | "Super Mann" | James Bagdonas | Chris Ruppenthal | November 26, 1995 | 18.9[12] |
| 54 | 10 | "Virtually Destroyed" | Jim Charleston | Dean Cain and Sean Brennan | December 10, 1995 | 18.9[13] |
| 55 | 11 | "Home Is Where the Hurt Is" | Geoffrey Nottage | Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner | December 17, 1995 | 17.0[14] |
| 56 | 12 | "Never on Sunday" | Michael Lange | Grant Rosenberg | January 7, 1996 | 19.7[15] |
| 57 | 13 | "The Dad Who Came In From the Cold" | Alan J. Levi | David Simkins | January 14, 1996 | 18.6[16] |
| 58 | 14 | "Tempus, Anyone?" | Winrich Kolbe | John McNamara | January 21, 1996 | 17.3[17] |
| 59 | 15 | "I Now Pronounce You..." | Jim Pohl | Chris Ruppenthal | February 11, 1996 | 21.2[18] |
| 60 | 16 | "Double Jeopardy" | Chris Long | Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner | February 18, 1996 | 19.8[19] |
| 61 | 17 | "Seconds" | Alan J. Levi | Corey Miller | February 25, 1996 | 19.8[20] |
| 62 | 18 | "Forget Me Not" | James Bagdonas | Grant Rosenberg | March 10, 1996 | 18.5[21] |
| 63 | 19 | "Oedipus Wrecks" | Kenn Fuller | David Simkins | March 24, 1996 | 16.9[22] |
| 64 | 20 | "It's a Small World After All" | Philip Sgriccia | Pat Hazell and Teri Hatcher | April 28, 1996 | 15.4[23] |
| 65 | 21 | "Through a Glass, Darkly" | Chris Long | Chris Ruppenthal | May 5, 1996 | 16.1[24] |
| 66 | 22 | "Big Girls Don't Fly" | Philip Sgriccia | Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner | May 12, 1996 | 14.8[25] |
See also
References
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (April 9, 1995). "TELEVISION VIEW; That Man In a Cape Is Still Flying". The New York Times. p. 33. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
- ^ "MSN Episode Guide (page 1)". MSN. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ "MSN Episode Guide (page 2)". MSN. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Fall 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Winter 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Spring 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Spring 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Spring 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Spring 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "new shows take cues from current hits – Nielsen Ratings" (PDF). USA Today. Spring 1995. p. D3. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
External links
- Season 3 at the Internet Movie Database
- Season 3 at TV.com