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Imagine Superman had it been done by Rock Hudson and Doris Day and you have some idea of what Lois And Clark was about. It was one of the more enjoyable shows from the last decade of the last century.

Lois And Clark had all the aspects of one of those domestic comedies that were popular back in the day. Dean Cain was a hip Superman and Clark Kent and Teri Hatcher was an ultra modern Lois Lane who had a nose for news. Granted she researched the internet for background instead of wearing out high heels chasing a story, but she knew her job and her suspicions about her colleague even before they got romantically involved.

And of course the accent here was on the budding romance of Lois And Clark. It could only end in super wedded bliss where Clark Kent finally had to let Lois Lane in on the biggest secret since the Manhattan Project.

In the old Superman series with George Reeves they also had an accent on comedy as well that is rarely talked about. Dean Cain modeled a lot of his performance on Reeves who always had an all knowing smile in every episode after he bailed out other cast members.

Technology is creeping up on the classic superhero. Back in the day Clark Kent became a reporter because he could keep track of evil doing with the use of those sources. I daresay today he wouldn't need the job, just good hacking skills. He could sit at home and stay on the internet and be just as informed. I wonder how future incarnations of the Shuster&Siegel hero will deal with that.

But it wouldn't be as fun and we'd sure miss all the Tracy/Hepburn like banter between Lois And Clark.

This is my all time favorite TV show. I first started watching it as a child and even though I didn't get all the plots at the time, I was mesmerized by the superhero in the blue and red suit. As years passed and I watched the show again on reruns, the intensity of the romance between Lois and Clark became what captivated me the most. I believe that this is definitively the best caricature of what would an amorous relationship between Lois and Clark (and not Lois and Superman) be. The idea of Clark being a normal guy (with superpowers, yes, but still trying to pursue a seemingly normal life)and Superman being his cover is a good change. Another good thing is that the show's merit doesn't rely only on the main characters. The supporting characters of Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Martha and Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor and Cat Grant(this one unfortunately only during the first season) added many of the best moments in the show. Unfortunately, and I guess everyone realizes it, during the third season the show started having some really weird plots with no such thing as coherence. It was still fun but there was something lost along the way. Nevertheless, it's still the best TV show I've ever seen. The only that truly caught my eye from the very first moment. To this day I'm still a fan and it's still magical for me to sit in front of the TV screen and watch another episode of this great show. So, thank you very much Deborah Joy Levine and all the others that wrote all the episodes we watched, to Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, John Shea, Michael Landes and Justin Whalin, K Callan, Eddie Jones, Tracy Scoggins and all the other actors who performed such great roles, and at last but not least thanks to rest of the crew for making this Superman fly.

We watched this series when it was on TV during the 90s. I know we liked it but I recently started watching it again on Netflix streaming. Thought I would watch the pilot episode only but I got hooked. It might be that it is more exciting to watch a series when you can watch them one after another on your own schedule without interruptions.

The first two seasons, Teri Hatcher looked fantastic. Her hair and wardrobe were absolutely gorgeous and flattering to her. Season 3 and 4, it is as if they changed the whole staff behind the series. Her haircut looks a little dorky. The wardrobe makes her look too skinny and average instead of stunning as before. The writing isn't even as good as the first two seasons, especially in season 4--stories get sillier and sillier. If the standards of season 1 and 2 had continued throughout the whole series, we might have had season 5 and more.

I think Dean Cain made a great Clark/Superman. Even he looked better in the first couple of seasons. They let his hair hang a little looser as Clark. I don't get this "slicked back short haircut" for Superman. It is similar to George Reeve's Superman but why keep that look when this is an updated retelling?

As a kid and teenager, I bought and collected every Superman, Superboy, Supergirl (and so on) comic book I could get my hands on. As an adult, I have outgrown the comic books but I still enjoy the comic-book influenced stories if they are done well.

Superman steps into the 90's with this updated version of the Classic TV show.

As the title suggests, Lois and Clark focuses more on the relationship between the two main characters rather than Superman himself, although the Man Of Steel does feature heavily in the show.

The series is great because it has some genuinely entertaining stories and while it won't win any prizes for gritty realism it is a fantastic way to just chill out and enjoy some fine quality engaging entertainment.

The cast is largely Superb. Teri Hatcher, while no great shakes as an actress is the best Lois Lane that has ever graced the screen. Her predecessor Margot Kidder of the 80's feature films was all mouth and always had to be rescued, but Hatcher's Lois Lane has the mouth but has the toughness to back it up and is all wrapped up in a pseudo narcissistic ego shell with a soft centre. Special mention must go to Lane Smith as Perry White. His performance as the grizzled editor of the daily planet is a joy to watch being both very emotional and hilariously funny. The decision to make White an Elvis obsessive was risky but a stroke of genius as his King stories are one of the shows highlights. John Shea does a fine job of Lex Luthor. Yes he's not bald but it's a minor oversight as Shea gives a fine bad guy performance. The only issue seems to be that the writers seem to make Luther driven more by profit than power which to me cheapens the character a touch but the performance more than makes up for it.

Although the supporting cast is fantastic, the main star Dean Cain is a mixed bag. His performance as Clark Kent really can't be faulted. Here, Cain plays a much more confident Clark Kent then anyone before, but in this he is engaging, humorous and at times very touching with the chemistry between him and Hatcher being very good indeed. This is unfortunately where the good things stop because as Superman, Cain seems hugely uncomfortable. Cain certainly has the looks but as Superman he looks like he has just stepped out the shower with is wet-look hair and he stands with a hunch and folds his arms with a stiffness that just isn't in character for the man of steel as if he is almost embarrassed to be wearing the famous blue suit. It's pretty obvious that most of the effort from Cain is put into Clark Kent as he doesn't even change his voice for his transformation into the blue one. This is either shallow acting from Cain or a masterful performance to stop the focus being on Superman and more on his alter ego.

Of course the series isn't without it's faults. Some of the plots in the later series were ridiculous and great characters like Tracy Scoggins Cat were dropped after the first season. The series also suffers from awful special effect. The pilot episode had some really great flying effects which is probably the most importing aspect of anything Superman related but the following episodes took a major downfall in that department with most of the flying scenes more akin to the 50's Superman TV show than the 90's. The costume department seems to have not made up their mind with the famous suit going through some pretty horrible changes like a plunging neckline, over-sized 'S' on Cains belly rather than his chest and a cape that is attached to the outside of the suit (A lot of wasted effort as it was perfect in the pilot!)

Don't let any of these flaws put you off though. This is a great series that was as much a part of the 90's as anything else and rightly so.

I got back into watching this show when the DVD's were released. I had taped the show off cable years earlier so I've been able to reacquaint myself with the whole series.

I would hate for others not to want to watch the series because they only think that the first two seasons are the only good ones. True it does start to lose some spark in the middle of the 4th season but I think that was more the network's problem than anything else.

Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher had incredible chemistry throughout the whole series. Dean's portrayal of Clark/Superman is the best as far as I'm concerned. Even though Superman was a superhero he never felt he was above anyone. Clark even came across as a hero in his own right. He was incredibly sweet and romantic, not to mention yummy on a stick.

With a terrific supporting cast, this show is the perfect "chick" series.

People have commented on the fact that they shouldn't have gotten Lois and Clark together when they did, but most of the fans were angry at the network for keeping them apart as long as they did. This was pretty evident when the ratings started dropping during the clone/amnesia/New Krypton arc (which I really liked--there I admit it).

This is a wonderful fantasy-romance-action series that still holds its own 10 years after it left the network.

After reading some of the negative reviews on here, I just have to say that some people really don't get it. This low-rated series wasn't too, too bad as our characters struggle against a system that has perpetuated many falsehoods. I thought this was cute and not bad at all. I suggest you enjoy the first six or so episodes for what they are and let your mind play around with the opportunities there can be to make something interesting. The plots were not as well thought out as they could have been, but, you know what, it still does the cast well. The editing lets the actors breathe and the music lets the atmosphere live. It is very light-hearted and it isn't complex at all.

'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' was one of the better sci-fi shows to come out of the Nineties and it was probably one of the first attempts to give the comic franchises a modern twist.

During the four seasons it aired for, the familiar Superman characters were brought out and given a Nineties touch. While Lois is still very much her tenacious self, Clark Kent was now a confident, well-adjusted guy and was a far cry from the bumbling Clark of the films and comics. His mother Martha is the one who sews his uniform for him while she and husband Jonathan are always on hand to give their adoptive son advice on his love life. Lex Luthor is far more charismatic and he and Lois even have a fling. However, Perry and Jimmy are in usual form and Superman is ever the hero he's always been, fighting for truth, justice and the American way.

Dean Cain made an excellent Clark, portraying the loyalty and strength of the character as well as his uncertainties over Lois and his path as Superman. While Christopher Reeve gave us a very heroic Superman, Cain gave us a hero who was heavily influenced by his Earth upbringing making him very human at times and it does work for this series. Teri Hatcher depicted a beautiful, career-driven Lois who vacillated between arrogance and being insecure, and this softer edge made her a likable character. And John Shea's Lex Luthor was wonderfully evil and intriguing as the almost James Bond-like villain who had fine tastes and minions to do his dirty work.

The story lines were almost always fun and engaging, often capturing a nice balance between drama, action, humour and romance. And unlike the 'Smallville' series, where episodes are very formulaic ((ie, mutant-of-the-week attacks and Clark saves the day so he can get back to his brooding over Lana), this series avoids that plot hole by covering different villains and plots. The only problem, that eventually saw the show's demise, was when Lois and Clark married as this lead to it becoming too soapy and cavity-inducing although it did serve as a lesson to future TV show producers that you should always pair your leads together in the finale, not half-way through the series.

'Lois and Clark' was never meant to be a deep, dark insight into Superman's history but instead just an entertaining show aimed at both young and old, and I think it succeeds. Newcomers to the show should check out the first three seasons to see it at its best.

I've always been a huge Superman fan but never cared for the Superman films because: Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent is always a big goof, Margot Kidder sucked as Lois Lane, and Gene Hackman couldn't do Lex Luthor justice.

Lois and Clark finally does Superman right.

Dean Cain plays a terrific Superman and a very lovable Clark Kent. (Who, unlike in the films is just an ordinary guy with hopes and fears like everyone else.)

Teri Hatcher in my opinion, is the essential Lois Lane. no other actress that has played the role can compete with hers.

Same goes for John Shea's Lex Luthor, Lane Smith's Perry White, and both Jimmy Olsens. In conclusion if you you are a Superman fan watch this show. It's one of the best.

I didn't watch Lois & Clark when it first came out. I've watched over half of them in the past month or so. It's sort of like a comedy/drama/action show, with a good mix of the three. Some episodes are more comedic, some more drama than comedy. Nor does it resemble the original Superman show of the 50's with George Reeves as Superman. For one thing the Reeves show had far less visual effects available, and was definitely geared toward the preteen audience. Lois & Clark is more suited to the teen and young adult audiences.

One thing is very clear from the outset; the Lois & Clark series is soooo much better than the liberal propaganda and political bs being pushed on the current supergirl series being shown on the cw network. There were a few ridiculous episodes, but most of them were fun to watch. Unlike the current supergirl show, where half the city knows her secret identity, the writers kept Clark's secret identity secret. Except from Lois, of course, which I think is the greatest deviation from the comic books. In the comic books Superman didn't reveal his secret identity to Lois, nor did they get married. Unless that happened in the 60's, after I had stopped reading comic books.

L&C is far from being a great tv series, by any stretch of the imagination. But Dean Caine and Teri Hatcher had great chemistry together, and that made the show entertaining and fun to watch.

You know, I really don't get why this TV program's title starts off with Lois's name. I mean, she's certainly not the reason why anyone that I know would be tuning into this show. She's not. No. It's Clark (aka. Superman) that we're all here to see. Right?

And, speaking about Clark/Superman - It really kills me that it's just a pair of eyeglasses and a business suit that's the only distinguishing difference between the appearance of this 2-in-1 character - And, yet, everyone in Metropolis is so thick and in need of an eye-examination that they can't see the obvious.

Anyway - This 1993 TV series was definitely on the disappointing side - Weak and predictable story-lines - Cookie-cutter character types - Lame special effects - Cringe-worthy attempts at humour - And, most disappointing thing of all - Absolutely no chemistry happening between the Clark and Lois characters.

*Trivia note* - Dean Cain is the only actor to ever play the Superman character who was under 6 feet tall.

This version of Superman has always excited me because Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain have such awesome chemistry with each other. Dean Cain makes expert display of Clark Kent's restraints and clumsiness and Superman's authority as a Metropolis savior and his playfulness as the keeper of Lois's affections. We can see his turmoil between being who he has to be and being who he wants to be...with lots of comedy in between. Hatcher, in my opinion, is by far the best Lois to date. She has strength and class and isn't afraid to take chances with her character. She'll sing, she'll dance, she'll turn on the baby-voice...and she gives Lois a persona so stubborn, only Superman can get her to see the truths about herself and the people around her. Add in Lane Smith, who's so ridiculously funny in his Elvis-ized Santa suit and you have pure comedy. Lane Smith is the wise man of the group, fostering Justin Whalen through his mishaps and growth as a photographer and a young man. Justin Whalen's Jimmy Olsen has a certain naiveté' necessary to balance the complex personalities and tensions of Lois and Clark. Michael Landes, who played Season One's Jimmy Olsen, is equally as entertaining...making it difficult to choose who is more deserving of that role. If one invests in such a purchase, it would be hard to be disappointed.

With the DVD release of Lois & Clark I remember why I loved this series so much. It wasn't the best series on television, but it was very entertaining. I really loved to watch it and still do. But the weirdest thing for me is the fact I felt very nostalgic when I put on the DVD with the pilot episode. And I still can't believe the series ended nearly ten years ago already. This was one of the first (if not the first) series I really followed, pilot to finale. And now, ten years later (and 24 y/o), I'm doing it again. And that feels weird. There have been other series released on DVD that I followed, or are older than L&C, but this still was the first. What I liked about the series was how they managed to make it seem like they had a much bigger budget. The special effects are really bad from time to time, but with the focus on something else you really didn't care. There always was something in the show that didn't make you notice. And the fact that the story's of the episodes are simply fun also makes it very good. I don't know how else to put it, the story's weren't that good, but they were fun. And I think that's something that is discarded very easily today. A series or movie has to be really good to receive a high rating. I rather rate how much fun I had when I watched it. So "Lois & Clark, the New Adventures of Superman" receives another full 7 points.

"Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" was doing well during the first two seasons. The episodes were entertaining, the characters of Lois and Clark/Superman were well defined and Lex Luthor was involved. The story lines were quite complex for a show aimed at teenagers. Dean Cain wasn't bad as the superhero and Teri Hatcher was a great Lois Lane. Sadly, the show had outstayed its welcome by the time it finished after four seasons. It wasn't a good move in Lois knowing who Clark really was as the sense of drama had been greatly diluted. The writing had gotten rather lazy as well. I still have fond memories of this series though, seeing as I remember seeing it on a Saturday evening on BBC 2 at about 6:15 p.m.

This series offers a warmly human interpretation of the relationship between Superman and Lois Lane. The series treats their relationship with warmth and and with a measure of plausibility. It must be remembered that Superman is not human, and that fact alone could have undermined any attempt to humanize the being from another planet. Yet, this series deals with that situation well, helped immeasurably by the wonderful cast, headed up by Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher, who work well together. Their performances alone make this series worth watching. In this series Superman is heroic but not emotionally distant and as Clark Kent is affable and respectable without being overly bumbling. Superman handles his disguise well and as George Reeves did in the original Superman television series, Dean Cain projects a aura of quiet strength and levelheadedness which makes the character even stronger. By the way, in this series Superman often consults his mother, which makes the character even more endearing.

I thought I had seen all the Superman adaptations, then I recently stumbled upon the "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" series. It ran from when I was fourteen until I came of age, a period when superheroes were much more interesting to me than they are now, and I hadn't even heard of it. If I had, I might have liked it more, but from today's perspective, this is just another in a series of mediocre TV shows from the nineties. And it really screams "nineties", it's obvious at first glance.

The creators opted for a slightly different approach to the topic, and the action and Superman's supernatural abilities are not in the foreground, but the story focuses more on his Clark Kent side, wrestling with everyday life and his relationship with Lois Lane. This, at least for me, is a positive thing, which sets the series apart from the sea of superhero action, and brings a breath of freshness to the genre.

But, typical of the nineties, the series is too clichéd and naive and, although very likable and somewhat attention-grabbing, falls into the realm of cheap entertainment. The biggest pluses are its different focus compared to previous Superman adaptations, Teri Hatcher, who is perhaps the best Lois Lane I've ever seen, and Lane Smith in the role of Perry White, chief editor of the "Daily Planet" newspaper. The downsides are naivety and reliance on clichés and lame special effects.

As for Dean Cain as Superman/Clark, I can't decide. I see a lot of people complaining that he's completely wrong for the role and, when I started watching the series, I was of the same opinion. But by the end of the first season, I got used to him, and he became likable and even quite fitting for the role.

All in all, if you're looking for a TV program to turn off your brain and relax after a busy day, highly recommended. But if you have any higher expectations, skip this series.

6/10.

Lois and Clark was a new take on Clark/Superman and Lois Lane's relationship. Some episodes weren't the best but this was the best show of the 90s.

The first and second season were pretty enjoyable. The special effects aren't good at all, but can be overlooked. But seasons 3 and 4 are ridiculous. Very hard to watch. They should have stopped after the second season. They're fun for the most part.

You know, I really did try to cut this 1990s TV series some serious slack - But, with that said - I still thought that "Lois & Clark" was, basically, a grossly inferior misfire on all counts.

Not only did I think that actor, Dean Cain was not at all suited to play the dual-role of Clark Kent/Superman - But, on top of that - I also found that the script-writing for these episodes was oftentimes really weak and limp where the plot-lines were so painfully predictable and contrived (on a regular basis) that this, in turn, made them a real chore for me to watch.

Anyway - (IMO) - I still think that "The Adventures of Superman" from the 1950s (which starred actor, George Reeves) was far superior to "Lois & Clark" in so many ways.

Dean Cain plays an amazing Superman, one of my top favorites. Teri Hatcher is witty, badass, and adorable! The chemistry is some of the best I've seen. Yes, it's more of a rom-com version of Superman, but it does have the villains and occasional fights. I adore this show and it always makes me laugh with the playful banter between Lois and Clark. It is extremely upsetting the show was canceled especially with that cliffhanger.

Nothing against Dean Cain and Terri Hatcher, but I couldn't get into this series for several reasons.

First of all Lois is always on this high horses "I'm better than you" mode, and from the very get go, Clark and Lois are already like husband and wife. There's just no sobriety in the story.

The chemistry between Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher is not bad, but the way everyone and everything combine together lacks for a better word quality. Only thing that happens is this mild bickering between Clark and Lois, and White and Olson are just one tracked in the way they come into the story, and the way they act. They might think this is humorous, but it gets old really quickly.

Compared to the relatively good character development of "Smallville" this program really didn't put any efforts in this area.

The series gets old rather quickly for the above reasons. The producers should have given it a better treatment.