Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

I thought it was a well done show however my only issue with it is throughout all 4 seasons we never saw any other superheros guest star on the show.

Personally I think the best thing that should have happened is John Wesley Shipp should have been a guest star on the show as The Flash from Central City because he played The Flash on The Flash and it would have been a good idea to connect both shows in the same universe.

Him and Superman could have had a race to see who the fastest man alive is :cool:

I watched Lois & Clark regularly when it first ran. I agree. The first three seasons were quite good. It slipped a little after Clark married Lois. But I wish there had been a fifth season to see them raising the child that was left with them.

I really appreciated them approaching it as a story about Clark. He was the main personality. Superman was his crime fighting persona. It didn’t define and overwhelm him.

I had forgotten about that kid they got at the end. It would have been interesting to have had the kids origins explored but I still the only thing the show lacked was other superheros.

Yeah, well, the kid only showed up the last minute of the final episode, right?

It’s been done . . . and done . . . and done . . . and done . . . and done. . . . and done.

The best thing I remember from the old Flash TV show was that one cop who was convinced his partner was secretly The Flash. Haven’t watched it since it originally aired.

I know that but I’m saying on the show they could have done an episode or two to the story.

I think it’s far better that they did not. It’s on the level of “Who would win in a fight?” a question that is just lazy story writing.

The only episode I ever watched was when they had Phyllis Coates appear as Lois’s mother

That’s a shame, because the episode where HG Wells showed up with a guy from the future was brilliant.

(paraphrasing):
Villain-du-jour “So, the one question everyone has in the future, is ‘just how stupid WAS Lois Lane?’”
(puts on a set of glasses)
“I’m Clark Kent!”
(takes off glasses)
“I’m SUPERMAN!!!”
(puts on glasses)
“Mild mannered reporter!”
(takes off glasses)
“Man of Steel!”
(repeatedly wears & removes glasses)
“I mean…DUH!”

That *would *have been cool, but the fact that L&C was an ABC program and The Flash was on CBS kind of put a damper on that.

Oh I’m sure they could have come to some kind of arrangement :cool:

I thought cross-network crossovers was not totally unheard of. Was it?

The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman were on separate networks for part of their runs, yet retained characters and actors in common. As an example.

I was in middle school when Lois & Clark aired, and big into comics, and I did not like the show at all. I had previously seen The Adventures of Superboy a few years prior and thought it was a pretty good show, serious in tone at times considering it aired Saturday mornings. Lois & Clark on the other hand seemed too light and silly. Louis seemed more like a caricature, like she came in from a sitcom. Even though Dean Cain had the build, he never did seem like Superman or Clark Kent to me.
In fact, that’s what I disliked the most about it. It seemed like, because it was based on a comic book, they had to make the characters like cartoons. I think Perry White says something like “Great Shades of Elvis!”

Having Perry as an Elvis fan was an inside joke. Lane Smith, who played Perry, was from Memphis, Tennessee, where Elvis set up residence in Graceland.

As for the kid who showed up at the end of the series,

[spoiler]He was the child (and heir) of the New Kryptonian princess Zara, who was played by Justine Bateman, who Kal-El was expected to marry. Instead, she married the other Kryptonian male, Lt. Ching. He was placed with Lois and Clark because he was being threatened by the renegade Kryptonians who had earlier attempted to take over the Earth.

This is according to the show’s producers. The story would have kicked off season 5 had L&C been renewed.[/spoiler]

Which brings another question why was there no season 5?

William Klemperer (CBS’s “Hogan’s Heroes”) made a “Bat Climb” appearance on ABC’s
Batman where is is called Colonel, described as an alien and mentions Hogan and escapes

But it was very rare

That’s because both shows started out on ABC. Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers even crossed over between shows. When the show was picked up for the third season on NBC, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks were carried over as Oscar Goldman and Rudy Wells.

Ratings. Lois & Clark fell from 44th place in season 3 to 104th at the end of season 4

Werner Klemperer. William Klemperer is someone else entirely.