Smallville: Season 1

2001 · 21 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 1 of Smallville

Season one follows Clark Kent through his first year of high school in Smallville, Kansas. He arrived on Earth during a meteor shower and was raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. At fourteen, he begins to discover extraordinary strength, speed and endurance, but his greatest wish is to live a normal life. Each week he faces a new villain with powers caused by fragments of the meteor. Clark tries to keep his friendships with Lana, Pete and Chloe, while Lex Luthor, newly arrived in town to run the fertilizer plant, investigates everything surrounding the young man and puts his secret at risk.

21episodes

Oct 16, 2001aired

May 21, 2002latest episode

15.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Oct 16, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 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 first in a long line of humans mutated by the strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to Earth.
Directed by David Nutter · Written by Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · Starring John Glover, Miranda Cosgrove, Justin Chatwin, Alvin Sanders
1x02 Metamorphosis
Oct 23, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 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.
Directed by Philip Sgriccia, Michael W. Watkins · Written by Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · Starring Gabrielle Rose, Chad Donella
1x03 Hothead
Oct 30, 2001 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.
Directing: Greg Beeman · Writing: Greg Walker · Starring: John Glover, David Paetkau, Jason Connery, Dan Lauria
1x04 X-Ray
Nov 6, 2001 · 44 min · ★ 7.6
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 others in trouble.
Directed by James Frawley · Written by Mark Verheiden · Starring Lizzy Caplan, Tom O'Brien, Beverley Breuer, Mitchell Kosterman
1x05 Cool
Nov 13, 2001 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directed by James A. Contner · Written by Michael Green · Starring Tania Saulnier, Michael Coristine, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Ted Garcia
1x06 Hourglass
Nov 20, 2001 · 44 min · ★ 8.0
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 folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.
Directed by Chris Long · Written by Doris Egan · Starring Jackie Burroughs, George Murdock, Eric Christian Olsen, Reg Tupper
1x07 Craving
Nov 27, 2001 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directed by Philip Sgriccia · Written by Michael Green · Starring Amy Adams, Malcolm Stewart, Joe Morton, Alejandro Rae
1x08 Jitters
Dec 11, 2001 · 41 min · ★ 8.0
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 transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant.
Directed by Michael W. Watkins · Written by Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld · Starring John Glover, Michael Eklund, Claudine Grant, Michelle Goh
1x09 Rogue
Jan 15, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
Clark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.
Directed by David Carson · Written by Mark Verheiden · Starring Kelly Brook, Cameron Dye, Danny Wattley, Mitchell Kosterman
1x10 Shimmer
Jan 29, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
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 Lex. Not is all as it seems...
Directed by D.J. Caruso · Written by Mark Verheiden, Michael Green · Starring John Glover, Azura Skye, Kelly Brook, Birkett Turton
1x11 Hug
Feb 5, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 8.2
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 befriends a local recluse with secrets of his own.
Directed by Chris Long · Written by Doris Egan · Starring Kelly Brook, Ben Cotton, Rick Peters, R. Nelson Brown
1x12 Leech
Feb 12, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
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 cope with the new powers. Can Clark stop Eric's rampage without his abilities?
Directed by Greg Beeman · Written by Tim Schlattmann · Starring Kelly Brook, William Sanderson, Tom O'Brien, Julian Christopher
1x13 Kinetic
Feb 26, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Robert Singer · Writing: Philip Levens · Starring: David Lovgren, Kavan Smith, Kwesi Ameyaw, Sarah-Jane Redmond
1x14 Zero
Mar 12, 2002 · 41 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directed by Michael Katleman · Written by Mark Verheiden · Starring Corin Nemec, Cameron Dye, Eric Breker, Mitchell Kosterman
1x15 Nicodemus
Mar 19, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 8.3
A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
Directing: James Marshall · Writing: Michael Green · Starring: Nicki Clyne, Julian Christopher, Joe Morton, Bill Mondy
1x16 Stray
Apr 16, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
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 Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.
Directed by Paul Shapiro · Written by Philip Levens · Starring John Glover, Ryan Kelley, Brandy Ledford, Bill Finck
1x17 Reaper
Apr 23, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 7.4
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 over Lionel's rising success in Smallville.
Directed by Terrence O'Hara · Written by Cameron Litvack · Starring John Glover, Sheila Moore, Ralph Alderman, Jason Connery
1x18 Drone
Apr 30, 2002 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Michael Katleman · Writing: Philip Levens, Michael Green · Starring: Marguerite Moreau, Chelan Simmons, Shonda Farr, Simon Wong
1x19 Crush
May 7, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
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 he's doing and to apologize for leaving him after his mother's death, bringing up some old issues for Lex.
Directed by James Marshall · Written by Philip Levens, Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · Starring John Glover, Adam Brody, Serge Houde, Kevan Ohtsji
1x20 Obscura
May 14, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
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 something besides meteors hit Smallville that day.
Directed by Terrence O'Hara · Written by Michael Green, Mark Verheiden · Starring Aaron Douglas, Tom O'Brien, Frank C. Turner, Joe Morton
1x21 Tempest Season Finale
May 21, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
Lex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.
Directed by Greg Beeman · Written by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar · Starring John Glover, Tom O'Brien, Angelika Libera, Robert Wisden