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Smallville Season 1

Smallville

Season 1

October 16, 2001 21 episodes

Between the boy Clark Kent thought he was and the man he is destined to become lie the compelling stories of Smallville, the popular action series that reimagines the Superman saga from its roots.

All Episodes

Pilot
E1
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E1. Pilot

45m Oct 16, 2001

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 encounters the first in a long line of humans mutated by the strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to Earth.

Metamorphosis
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E2. Metamorphosis

45m Oct 23, 2001

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
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E3. Hothead

44m Oct 30, 2001

An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.

X-Ray
E4
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E4. X-Ray

44m Nov 6, 2001

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 get others in trouble.

Cool
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E5. Cool

43m Nov 13, 2001

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
E6
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E6. Hourglass

44m Nov 20, 2001

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 same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

Craving
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E7. Craving

43m Nov 27, 2001

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
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E8. Jitters

41m Dec 11, 2001

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 transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant.

Rogue
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E9. Rogue

44m Jan 15, 2002

Clark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.

Shimmer
E10
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E10. Shimmer

44m Jan 29, 2002

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 with Lex. Not is all as it seems...

Hug
E11
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E11. Hug

44m Feb 5, 2002

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. Clark befriends a local recluse with secrets of his own.

Leech
E12
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E12. Leech

43m Feb 12, 2002

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 unable to cope with the new powers. Can Clark stop Eric's rampage without his abilities?

Kinetic
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E13. Kinetic

43m Feb 26, 2002

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
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E14. Zero

41m Mar 12, 2002

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 child.

Nicodemus
E15
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E15. Nicodemus

44m Mar 19, 2002

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
E16
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E16. Stray

43m Apr 16, 2002

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. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.

Reaper
E17
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E17. Reaper

44m Apr 23, 2002

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 spar over Lionel's rising success in Smallville.

Drone
E18
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E18. Drone

42m Apr 30, 2002

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
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E19. Crush

43m May 7, 2002

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 see how he's doing and to apologize for leaving him after his mother's death, bringing up some old issues for Lex.

Obscura
E20
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E20. Obscura

43m May 14, 2002

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 that something besides meteors hit Smallville that day.

Tempest
E21
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E21. Tempest

43m May 21, 2002

Lex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.

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