Season 1 (Smallville)

Season 1
Information
Network	The WB
Start Date	October 16, 2001
End Date	May 31, 2002
Time Slot	Tuesdays at 9:00 pm
Number of Episodes	21
Chronology
Followed by	Season 2

The first season of Smallville premiered on October 16, 2001, and concluded on May 31, 2002. The season consists of 21 episodes.

Synopsis

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Main Cast

• Tom Welling as Clark Kent (Kal-El)
• Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang
• Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
• Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordman
• Sam Jones III as Pete Ross
• Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan
• Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent
• John Schneider as Jonathan Kent

Episodes

#	Episode Title	Directed by	Story By	Teleplay By	Episode Airdate
1	Pilot (Smallville)	David Nutter	Alfred Gough & Miles Millar		October 16, 2001
Baby Clark arrives on Earth. Teen Clark starts high school, saves Lex's life after a car accident, and finds out about his past and birth parents.
2	Metamorphosis (Smallville)	Michael Watkins & Philip Sgriccia	Alfred Gough & Miles Millar		October 23, 2001
Bug-lover Greg has an accident involving meteor rocks and his own insect collection, giving him creepy insect characteristics and powers. Lana is endangered when Greg decides that she is the perfect mate to start a colony.
3	Hothead	Greg Beeman	Greg Walker		October 30, 2001
When Coach Walt's football legacy is threatened by a cheating scandal, the coach entices Clark onto the team. Kryptonite in the coach's sauna infects him with the ability to generate fire, and his enemies start getting burned.
4	X-Ray	James Frawley	Mark Verheidan		November 6, 2001
Clark discovers that he has X-ray vision, but struggles to use it properly. Meanwhile, shape-shifter Tina Greer robs a bank impersonating Lex Luthor, and then decides that she wants to become Lana Lang - permanently.
5	Cool	Jim Contner	Michael Green		November 13, 2001
Obnoxious athlete Sean Kelvin drowns in an icy, kryptonite-infested lake, and is resurrected with an intense need for body heat. He freezes his old girlfriend to death and sets his sights on Chloe.
6	Hourglass	Chris Long	Doris Egan		November 20, 2001
Lana befriends Harry, an elderly murderer living incognito in a nursing home. He falls into a kryptonite pond and regains his youth. Harry starts killing descendants of the jurors who convicted him, one of whom was Jonathan Kent's father.
7	Craving	Philip Sgriccia	Michael Green		November 27, 2001
Overweight Jodi submits to a diet of meteor-infested vegetables from her father's greenhouse. They magically make her thin, but she has an intense craving for body fat. Anyone in her vicinity is in danger, including her date, Pete.
8	Jitters	Greg Beeman & Michael Watkins	Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld		December 11, 2001
Earl Jenkins claims that his violent shaking disease was a result of illicit experiments on Level 3 of LuthorCorp. Lionel denies that it exists, so Earl takes a plant tour group hostage. Lex offers himself in exchange for the hostages.
9	Rogue	David Carson	Mark Verheiden		January 15, 2002
Corrupt detective Sam Phelan learns about Clark's abilities, and he offers to keep quiet if Clark steals some internal police files. When Clark refuses, Phelan frames Jonathan for murder to extort Clark into stealing from Luther Corp.
10	Shimmer	D.J. Caruso	Mark Verheiden & Michael Green		January 29, 2002
Lex and his girlfriend, Victoria, are attacked by an invisible entity. Suspicion falls upon the Palmer family, who are caretakers at Lex's mansion. Chloe believes that daughter Anna Palmer is responsible because of her jealousy of Victoria.
11	Hug	Chris Long	Doris Egan		February 5, 2002
Bob Rickman is an evil businessman with a supernatural power of persuasion, which he uses to buy the Kent farm despite Jonathan's repeated refusals. Clark recruits Rickman's reclusive former business partner to help undo the damage.
12	Leech	Greg Beeman	Tim Schlattmann		February 12, 2002
Clark and classmate Eric Summer are both struck by lightning while Eric is holding Kryptonite, and Clark's powers are transferred to Eric. While Clark experiences normal humanity, the emotionally challenged Eric goes on a rampage.
13	Kinetic	Robert Singer	Philip Levens		February 26, 2002
Depressed from losing his scholarship, Whitney joins a gang of thieves. He gets a kryptonite-laced tattoo and gains the gang's power of phasing through walls. They rob the Luthor mansion and seriously injure Chloe, who is interviewing Lex.
14	Zero	Michael Katleman	Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	Mark Verheiden	March 12, 2002
As Lex helps Lana prepare for the re-opening of the Smallville theater, The Talon, as a coffee shop, a man from Lex's past, named Jude Royce, arrives in town and begins stalking Lex wanting to hold him in conjunction with a shooting death at Club Zero in Metropolis three years ago that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile, Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted child while Martha and Jonathan try to thwart Chloe's moves.
15	Nicodemus	James Marshall	Greg Walker	Michael Green	March 19, 2002
After stealing an experimental flower laced with meteor-rock pollen from Dr. Steven Hamilton, the employee of the Luthor Corp, James Beales has a truck accident on the road and is rescued by Jonathan Kent. However, the flower releases its pollen on Jonathan's face, and he unleashes his innermost repressed desires first with Martha and his anger towards the Luthors. He enters in coma later. Then Lana becomes affected and tries to seduce Clark. Pete also becomes affected by the Nicodemus flower in the same way. While Clark helps Lex track down the source, Lex hides from Clark that Dr. Steven Hamilton is working for him, but they find the cure in an old book.
16	Stray	Paul Shapiro	Philip Levens		April 16, 2002
Martha Kent injures mind-reading Ryan in an auto accident, and he fakes amnesia to get away from his criminal step-parents. His step-parents hatch an elaborate plan to steal him back and use his abilities to rob Lex Luthor.
17	Reaper	Terrence O'Hara	Cameron Litvack		April 23, 2002
Meteor fragments resurrect a young man with the ability to suck the life out of suffering people. He learns about Whitney's sick father and targets him for euthanasia.
18	Drone	Michael Katleman	Philip Levens & Michael Green		April 30, 2002
Along with the dispute of an election of the president in Smallville High School, candidate Paul Chan is severely injured by a swarm of bees. Pete decides to promote Clark Kent as substituted for the spot. When the other aspirant schoolmate, Felice Chandler, is also attacked by bees, Clark believes that last competitor, Sasha Woodman, who has the meteor-rock ability to control bees, is behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor is threatened by an opportunist and ambitious reporter from Metropolis, named Carrie Castle, over some dark secrets of his that she's investigating. Also, The Talon, the thematic coffee shop where Lana works, is completely empty, losing clients to the competition and with the threat of closing the doors, which makes Clark turn to Lex to ask for help to keep it open for Lana's sake.
19	Crush	James Marshall	Philip Levens, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar		June 7, 2002
After Justin Gaines romances Chloe, she learns that he has telekinesis ability. Clark angers Chloe by speculating that Justin is responsible for some mysterious accidents, to get revenge for his own hit-and-run injuries.
20	Obscura	Terrence O'Hara	Greg Walker	Mark Verheiden & Michael Green	June 14, 2002
Lana develops a form of clairvoyance after being injured by an explosion, and she has visions of the activity of a local serial kidnapper and killer. When Chloe is kidnapped, Clark must rely on clues from Lana's visions to save her.
21	Tempest (Smallville)	Greg Beeman	Philip Levens	Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	April 21, 2002
Lex and Lionel engage in a struggle over closing down the fertilizer plant. Reporter Roger Nixon steals Clark's spacecraft and learns his secret. Whitney joins the Marines, and Clark takes Chloe to the prom, while a huge tornado approaches.

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