Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 3
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | |
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Season 3 | |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | September 17, 1995 May 12, 1996 | –
Season chronology | |
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