Episode guide
Smallville: Season 1
21 episodes · premiered Oct 16, 2001
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.
- Episode 1: Pilot Oct 16, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.8 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…
- Episode 2: Metamorphosis Oct 23, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.3 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.
- Episode 3: Hothead Oct 30, 2001 · 44m · TMDB 7.5 An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.
- Episode 4: X-Ray Nov 6, 2001 · 44m 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…
- Episode 5: Cool Nov 13, 2001 · 43m 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.
- Episode 6: Hourglass Nov 20, 2001 · 44m 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…
- Episode 7: Craving Nov 27, 2001 · 43m 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.
- Episode 8: Jitters Dec 11, 2001 · 41m 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…
- Episode 9: Rogue Jan 15, 2002 · 44m Clark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.
- Episode 10: Shimmer Jan 29, 2002 · 44m 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…
- Episode 11: Hug Feb 5, 2002 · 44m 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…
- Episode 12: Leech Feb 12, 2002 · 43m 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…
- Episode 13: Kinetic Feb 26, 2002 · 43m 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.
- Episode 14: Zero Mar 12, 2002 · 41m 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.
- Episode 15: Nicodemus Mar 19, 2002 · 44m A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
- Episode 16: Stray Apr 16, 2002 · 43m 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…
- Episode 17: Reaper Apr 23, 2002 · 44m 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…
- Episode 18: Drone Apr 30, 2002 · 42m 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.
- Episode 19: Crush May 7, 2002 · 43m 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…
- Episode 20: Obscura May 14, 2002 · 43m 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…
- Episode 21: Tempest May 21, 2002 · 43m Lex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.