Season Guide
Smallville Season 1
Season 1 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 1 of Smallville aired 2001-2002.
Episodes
1
In rural Kansas, teenage Clark Kent saves the life of Lex Luthor after a car accident.
2
A bug-loving teen is infused with superpowers after a bizarre accident, and the boy sets out to steal Lana's heart and dispose of her current boyfriend, an intimidating jock who…
3
The Smallville High School football coach asks Clark to join the squad, something Jonathan fears may jeopardize the teen's secret and the safety of the other players. What Clark doesn't…
4
Clark battles intense headaches as he tries to adjust to his emerging power of X-ray vision, an ability that he cannot control. Also, Lex is framed for an armed robbery…
5
After falling through the ice and nearly drowning, a teen finds that he cannot keep himself warm without extracting heat from an outside source---mainly other people. Meanwhile, Lex persuades Clark…
6
Clark volunteers at a nursing home, where he meets a blind woman who claims that she can see the future---and that someone close to him will die soon. Meanwhile, another…
7
An overweight teen becomes excessively thin after eating vegetables tainted with kryptonite, but she also develops a voracious appetite for food---including human flesh. Meanwhile, Clark ponders what to get Lana…
8
An old Kent family friend, who suffers from uncontrollably violent convulsions after working for Luthor Corp., shows up at the farm after accidentally killing a man in Metropolis. Meanwhile, when…
9
A corrupt Metropolis police detective sees Clark stop an out-of-control bus barreling toward a homeless man, and the cop threatens to expose the teen's secret unless he does what the…
10
A teen whose family lives and works in the Luthor mansion has a crush on Lex, and her jealousy of the tycoon's new girlfriend brings forth vandalism by an invisible…
11
A crooked businessman who can get people to do whatever he wants by touching their hands sets out to buy the Kent farm so he can build an industrial plant…
12
Clark's superpowers are transferred to a fellow student after a bolt of lightning strikes the future Man of Steel while trying to rescue the awkward teen during a class trip.…
13
Chloe is seriously injured during a robbery at Lex's mansion that is perpetrated by three masked young men who can pass through walls. Meanwhile, Whitney's personal problems make him a…
14
An incident from Lex's past returns to haunt him when a man he believed died in a shooting incident returns from the grave to ruin his reputation. Meanwhile, Chloe starts…
15
Dr. Hamilton irradiates an extinct flower with meteor radiation, releasing an infection that causes uninhibited behavior, coma, and death... and Jonathan and Lana are among its victims.
16
The Kents take in a mysterious youngster who can read minds, after he is accidentally struck by their pickup truck while fleeing from a murderous thief. Meanwhile, Lionel Luther offers…
17
A fall from a tall building embeds a kryptonite fragment into a man's arm, and he develops the ability to burn his victims to death with his bare hands. Meanwhile,…
18
Clark decides to run for class president after Pete nominates him, but the teen faces off against a candidate with the secret ability to control a swarm of killer bees.…
19
Clark finally learns that Chloe has a crush on him and he begins to question how he feels about her. But his indecisiveness leads to her interest in another student,…
20
A head injury gives Lana the ability to see through the eyes of a kidnapper who abducts Chloe and keeps her bound and blindfolded in a dark room filled with…
21
Lionel Luthor announces plans to close the LutherCorp plant in Smallville, but Lex won't let his father shut it down without a fight. Meanwhile, Chloe tells Clark that she and…