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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Season 3
DVD and Blu-ray cover
No. of episodes22
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseSeptember 17, 1995 (1995-09-17) –
May 12, 1996 (1996-05-12)
Season chronology
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Season 2
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Season 4
List of episodes

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 more than 18 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

See also: List of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [2][3]U.S. viewers
(millions)
451"We Have a Lot to Talk About"Philip SgricciaJohn McNamaraSeptember 17, 1995 (1995-09-17)20.8[4][full citation needed]
462"Ordinary People"Michael W. WatkinsEugenie Ross-Leming and Brad BucknerSeptember 24, 1995 (1995-09-24)19.6[5][full citation needed]
473"Contact"Daniel AttiasChris RuppenthalOctober 1, 1995 (1995-10-01)18.7[6][full citation needed]
484"When Irish Eyes Are Killing"Winrich KolbeGrant RosenbergOctober 15, 1995 (1995-10-15)19.7[7][full citation needed]
495"Just Say Noah"David JacksonBrad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-LemingOctober 22, 1995 (1995-10-22)18.4[8][full citation needed]
506"Don't Tug on Superman's Cape"Steven DubinDavid SimkinsNovember 5, 1995 (1995-11-05)18.3[9]
517"Ultra Woman"Mike VejarGene F. O'Neill and Noreen TobinNovember 12, 1995 (1995-11-12)22.3[10][full citation needed]
528"Chip Off the Old Clark"Michael W. WatkinsMichael Jamin and Sivert GlarumNovember 19, 1995 (1995-11-19)21.1[11][full citation needed]
539"Super Mann"James BagdonasChris RuppenthalNovember 26, 1995 (1995-11-26)18.9[12][full citation needed]
5410"Virtually Destroyed"Jim CharlestonDean Cain and Sean BrennanDecember 10, 1995 (1995-12-10)18.9[13]
5511"Home Is Where the Hurt Is"Geoffrey NottageEugenie Ross-Leming and Brad BucknerDecember 17, 1995 (1995-12-17)17.0[14][full citation needed]
5612"Never on Sunday"Michael LangeGrant RosenbergJanuary 7, 1996 (1996-01-07)19.7[15]
5713"The Dad Who Came In From the Cold"Alan J. LeviDavid SimkinsJanuary 14, 1996 (1996-01-14)18.6[16][full citation needed]
5814"Tempus, Anyone?"Winrich KolbeJohn McNamaraJanuary 21, 1996 (1996-01-21)17.3[17][full citation needed]
5915"I Now Pronounce You..."Jim PohlChris RuppenthalFebruary 11, 1996 (1996-02-11)21.2[18][full citation needed]
6016"Double Jeopardy"Chris LongEugenie Ross-Leming and Brad BucknerFebruary 18, 1996 (1996-02-18)19.8[19][full citation needed]
6117"Seconds"Alan J. LeviCorey MillerFebruary 25, 1996 (1996-02-25)19.8[20][full citation needed]
6218"Forget Me Not"James BagdonasGrant RosenbergMarch 10, 1996 (1996-03-10)18.5[21][full citation needed]
6319"Oedipus Wrecks"Kenn FullerDavid SimkinsMarch 24, 1996 (1996-03-24)16.9[22][full citation needed]
6420"It's a Small World After All"Philip SgricciaPat Hazell and Teri HatcherApril 28, 1996 (1996-04-28)15.4[23][full citation needed]
6521"Through a Glass, Darkly"Chris LongChris RuppenthalMay 5, 1996 (1996-05-05)16.1[24][full citation needed]
6622"Big Girls Don't Fly"Philip SgricciaEugenie Ross-Leming and Brad BucknerMay 12, 1996 (1996-05-12)14.8[25][full citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "MSN Episode Guide (page 1)". MSN. Archived from the original on 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
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