S01E01 Destroy the Defendroids
Lex Luthor's company builds robots called Defendroids to protect Metropolis. His real plan is to make Superman useless. Superman figures out the plan and in an effort to drive Luthor out into the open he...
Superman
S01E02: The Adoption
(Family Album Segment) After Martha and Jonathan Kent discover a baby boy in a crashed spaceship, they take the baby to an orphanage. Unfortunately, there are a number of couples waiting to adopt before the Kents. The baby manages to drive the couples away after a series of pranks. He is then adopted by the Kents.
Overview
Superman is a 1988 animated Saturday morning television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and Warner Bros. Television that aired on CBS featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name. Veteran comic book writer Marv Wolfman was the head story editor, and noted comic book artist Gil Kane provided character designs.
Episodes
S01E02 The Adoption
(Family Album Segment) After Martha and Jonathan Kent discover a baby boy in a crashed spaceship, they take the baby to an orphanage. Unfortunately, there are a number of couples waiting to adopt before the...
S01E03 Fugitive From Space
When STAR labs discovers an alien space ship, they call Lois, Clark, and Jimmy to help document the craft. When they go into the ship they discover two aliens in suspended animation. These aliens, however,...
S01E04 The Supermarket
(Family Album Segment) When Martha Kent takes Clark on his first shopping trip, she must be very careful so that Clark does not reveal his superpowers.
S01E05 By the Skin of the Dragon's Teeth
Lex Luthor buys the Great wall of China and invites Lois, Jimmy, and Clark to China for an exclusive interview. They head to an excavation site beneath the Great Wall. Using explosives, Lex creates a...
S01E06 At the Babysitter's
(Family Album Segment) The Kents leave Clark with a babysitter for the night. The babysitter has her hands full when Clark uses his superpowers in order to stay up late and watch television.
S01E07 Cybron Strikes
When Superman and Lois are celebrating her birthday with a flying trip into the sky, a metal pyramid floats down to them. Inside the pyramid is Cybron a hostile cyborg. Superman takes the pyramid to...
S01E08 The First Day of School
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent goes to his first day of school and meets Lana Lang. Clark gets in trouble when another student blames him for letting the class guinea pig out of the cage.
S01E09 The Big Scoop
Dr. Glozer creates the Chronotron which is a device that lets someone look one hour into the future. Lex Luthor wants the machine and sends his men to kidnap Dr. Glozer and steal the machine....
S01E10 Overnight with the Scouts
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent camps in the woods with his boy scout troop. They tell ghost stories over a campfire. Later the hear noises in the woods, but when the investigate the find nothing...
S01E11 Triple-Play
The Prankster steals the World Series by transporting it to a far away remote island. He forces Superman to play a game of Baseball otherwise his friends will die. The game is unfair because Prankster...
S01E12 The Circus
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent inadvertently becomes part of the circus.
S01E13 The Hunter
Clark Kent goes on a holiday with his parents, but must leave as Superman when General Zod and his Phantom Zone companions create a creature known as the Hunter. The Hunter can transform into any...
S01E14 Little Runaway
(Family Album Segment) Clark is unhappy with the Kents and decides to run away from home. He leaves but after a number of problems he returns after he realizes that home is not worse than...
S01E15 Superman and Wonder Woman vs. The Sorceress of Time
Superman teams up with Wonder Woman to take on an evil Sorceress by the name of Cyrene. The Sorceress uses Black Magic to transport Mythological beasts to the future in order to battle Superman and...
S01E16 The Birthday Party
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent takes his driving test and passes it with flying colors.
S01E17 Bonechill
Lois and Jimmy interview a bookstore owner named Chilton Bone about an ancient medallion named the Talisman of Ola. Bone chases them off and uses the talisman to turn into Bonechill. When Lois, Jimmy, and...
S01E18 The Driver's License
(Family Album Segment) Clark's birthday party gets an unexpected surprise.
S01E19 The Beast Beneath These Streets
Researchers have discovered an old part of Metropolis that has been buried for a hundred years. According to legend, this part of Metropolis was buried a hundred years ago when a doctor named Morpheus made...
S01E20 First Date
(Family Album Segment) Clark takes Lana on a date to a concert. When a number of problems arise, Clark uses his superpowers to get around them.
S01E21 Wildshark
In the Bermuda Triangle, Superman must do battle with a villain known as Wild Shark.
S01E22 To Play or not to Play
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent discovers that he can not play football.
S01E23 Night of the Living Shadows
Lex Luthor develops a suit that allows a person to become a shadow. He uses the suit to rob banks and a jewelry store. Superman can do nothing to stop him. Luthor recruits a gang...
S01E24 Graduation
(Family Album Segment) When Clark heads to his graduation he runs into trouble when his graduation robe gets dirty. He buys a new one which is much too big. Martha stitches it up for him...
S01E25 The Last Time I Saw Earth
An alien bounty hunter named Starock attacks the space shuttle as Lois and Jimmy are flying on it toward a space station. Superman rescues the shuttle but when he attacks Starock's ship he is knocked...
S01E26 It's Superman
(Family Album Segment) Clark Kent leaves Smallville for Metropolis. Before he leaves, his mother gives him his costume which she made from blankets that arrived with him in his spaceship. In Metropolis, Clark tries to...
Cast
Beau Weaver
Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
Mark L. Taylor
Jimmy Olsen (voice)
Michael Bell
Lex Luthor (voice)
Alan Oppenheimer
Jonathan Kent (voice)
Tress MacNeille
Martha Kent (voice)
Lynne Marie Stewart
Jessica Morganberry (voice)
Stanley Ralph Ross
Perry White (voice)
