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Season 1

Season SummaryEdit

A meteor shower brings a young boy to Smallville, Kansas. At the age of fourteen, he already exhibits invulnerability, super strength and super speed. Season One tells the stories from his first year in high school. Almost every week, he battles a new villain with super powers bestowed from exposure to the meteors. Clark also negotiates his friendships with Lana, Lex, Pete and Chloe. Lex has come to Smallville to manage the fertilizer plant. He is curious about Clark and the meteor shower, but his investigations threaten to expose Clark.

Season One takes place during Clark and his classmates' freshman year at Smallville High School.

Opening CreditsEdit

The Season 1 opening credits for each episode include the following:

		Tom Welling as Clark Kent 21/21 Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang 21/21 Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor 21/21 Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordman 19/21 Sam Jones III as Pete Ross 20/21 Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan 21/21 Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent 21/21 John Schneider as Jonathan Kent 21/21 "Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Developed for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar."

Recurring CharactersEdit

The following Recurring Characters appear in more than one episode this season:

Lionel Luthor - John Glover 9/21 ^[1]
Nell Potter - Sara-Jane Redmond 7/21
Ethan Miller - Mitchell Kosterman 7/21
Principal James Kwan - Hiro Kanagawa 5/21
Roger Nixon - Tom O'Brien 4/21
Victoria Hardwick - Kelly Brook 4/21
Dr. Steven Hamilton - Joe Morton 3/21
Gabe Sullivan - Robert Wisden 3/21
Dominic Sanatori - Jason Connery 2/21
Sam Phelan - Cameron Dye 2/21
Dr. MacIntyre - Julian Christopher 2/21

The following Recurring Characters appear in only one episode this season, but also appear in other seasons:

Young Clark Kent - Malkolm Alburquenque
Young Lex Luthor - Matthew Munn
Young Lana Lang - Jade Unterman
Lewis Lang - Ben Odberg
Laura Lang - Wendy Chmelauskas
Greg Arkin - Chad E. Donella
Tina Greer - Lizzy Caplan ^[2]
Troy Turner - Jesse Hutch
Eric Summers - Shawn Ashmore
Darius - Kwesi Ameyaw
Ryan James - Ryan Kelley
Dr. Harden - Rekha Sharma
Sasha Woodman - Shonda Farr
Betty Fordman - Catherine Barroll

Recurring LocationsEdit

Episode List: 2001-2002Edit

Title	Writer(s)	Director(s)	Airdate	#
Pilot	Writer: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	Director: David Nutter	10/16/01	#1 101
A spaceship crashes in Smallville, Kansas during a meteor shower. A boy emerges from the ship. He is adopted and named Clark. When he is fourteen, he learns where he came from. He has a crush on Lana. He saves Lex's life. Chloe records the strange things that have happened since the meteor shower. The football team makes Clark a scarecrow by tying him to a cross in a cornfield. Jeremy Creek tries to electrocute everyone with his bare hands.
Metamorphosis	Writer: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	Director: Michael Watkins & Philip Sgriccia	10/23/01	#2 102
Greg Arkin has a passion for insects and Lana. When meteor rock infected bugs swarm him, he takes on insectoid characteristics. Clark wakes up to find himself floating above his bed. Lex tries to help Clark woo Lana by giving him her meteor rock necklace. Clark discovers that he can protect himself from its effects with lead. Greg kidnaps Lana, and Clark battles Greg to rescue her.
Hothead	Writer: Greg Walker	Director: Greg Beeman	10/30/01	#3 103
Coach Walt Arnold is obsessed with winning. meteor rocks in his sauna have given him the power to cause object to burst into flame. Clark defies Jonathan and joins the football team. Lana defies expectations, quits cheerleading and waits tables. Lex defies his father in a business plan that saves several people their jobs. The coach attacks the principal, a player, and a journalist before Clark stops him.
X-Ray	Writer: Mark Verheiden	Director: James Frawley	11/06/01	#4 104
Tina Greer's skeleton is laced with meteor rocks. She is able to assume the form of anyone. She assumes the form of Lex to rob a bank. Clark discovers he has x-ray vision. Lana discovers her mother was much more interesting than her aunt ever told her. And Lex turns the tables on Roger Nixon, a journalist turned extortionist, gaining himself an unwilling ally at the Metropolis Inquisitor.
Cool	Writer: Michael Green	Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño	11/13/01	#5 105
When Sean Kelvin falls into an icy, meteor rock-laced lake, he suffers from permanent hypothermia, he is desperate to get warm. He tries fire and electricity, but the best fix is body heat. Clark breaks a date with Lana in order to save Chloe. Clark throws Sean in a pond, which freezes and entombs him. Meanwhile, Jonathan refuses to accept Lex as an investor in the family farm.
Hourglass	Writer: Doris Egan	Director: Chris Long	11/20/01	#6 106
Clark meets Cassandra Carver. She was blinded during the meteor shower and now sees the future. When Harry Volk falls into a pond with meteor rocks, he becomes young and begins killing the descendants of the jury who convicted him of murder 60 years ago. Cassandra provides Clark with some insight into his future, but she dies when she sees a vision of Lex’s future.
Craving	Writer: Michael Green	Director: Philip Sgriccia	11/27/01	#7 107
Jodi Melville begins a diet plan of vegetables shakes. Her vegetables were grown in meteor rock-contaminated soil, and she is losing weight so fast that regular food doesn't fulfill her cravings. She must suck the fat out of others. Meanwhile Lex becomes interested in Chloe's theory that all the weird stuff that happens in Smallville can be traced to the meteor shower. He begins funding the research of Steven Hamilton, a controversial mineralogist.
Jitters	Writer: Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld	Director: Greg Beeman & Michael Watkins	12/11/01	#8 108
Earl Jenkins is suffering from seizures. He was exposed to meteor rocks at LuthorCorp. In an attempt to discover what he was exposed to, he takes hostages inside the plant. Lex trades places with the hostages. Clark finds the mysterious Level 3, but there are no answers there.
Rogue	Writer: Mark Verheiden	Director: David Carson	01/15/02	#9 109
Sam Phelan is a rogue cop who learns Clark's secret, but his attempts to blackmail Clark backfire when he is killed in a shootout during a museum heist. Meanwhile, Chloe is fired as editor of the Smallville Torch, and Lex has an old girlfriend reenter his life with a plan to destroy his father.
Shimmer	Writer: Mark Verheiden & Michael Green	Director: D.J. Caruso	01/29/02	#10 110
Jeff Palmer discovers a strange green rose and extracts its oils to create a cream, which renders him invisible. Jeff uses his power of invisibility to attack Victoria. Meanwhile, Clark considers making a move for Lana while Whitney is distracted by his father's illness.
Hug	Writer: Doris Egan	Director: Chris Long	02/05/02	#11 111
Bob Rickman wants to buy the Kent Farm to build a pesticide plant. He uses a very persuasive handshake to convince Jonathan to sell. His former business partner Kyle Tippet lives in Smallville and threatens to expose him if he doesn't get out of town. Meanwhile, Lana and Clark argue, Chloe kisses Clark, and Lex shoots Clark with an automatic weapon.
Leech	Writer: Tim Schlattmann	Director: Greg Beeman	02/12/02	#12 112
Eric Summers suddenly receives the powers once wielded by Clark, and Clark is left without them. Lex turns the tables on Harry Hardwick. And Lana laments the impending sale of the Talon.
Kinetic	Writer: Philip Levens	Director: Robert Singer	02/26/02	#13 113
After Whitney loses his football scholarship, he falls into a bad crowd with meteor rock tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. They put Chloe in the hospital, blackmail Lex, and threaten to kill Whitney. Meanwhile, Lana convinces Lex to restore the Talon.
Zero	Writer: Mark Verheiden	Director: Michael Katleman	03/12/02	#14 114
Roy Rothman has come to Smallville to terrorize Lex and get vengeance for his sister, who lost her fiancé at Club Zero three years ago. Meanwhile, Chloe researches Clark's adoption, and Lana prepares for the opening of the Talon.
Nicodemus	Writer: Michael Green & Greg Walker	Director: James Marshall	03/19/02	#15 115
Steven Hamilton uses meteor fragments to bring the Nicodemus flower back from extinction. It infects James Beels, Jonathan, Lana and Pete before Lex's doctors find a cure.
Stray	Writer: Philip Levens	Director: Paul Shapiro	04/16/02	#16 116
Ryan James can read minds. In Smallville, he tries to escape his abusive stepparents who use his abilities to help them steal by feigning amnesia. He stays with the Kents, and Clark gets to have a little brother for a few days. Meanwhile, Lex turns down an offer from Lionel to return to Metropolis.
Reaper	Writer: Cameron Litvack	Director: Terrence O'Hara	04/23/02	#17 117
Tyler Randall is resurrected after a piece of meteor rock is embedded in his wrist at the time of death. Everyone he touches turns to ash. He tries to help people by putting them out of their misery. Meanwhile, Lex thwarts Lionel's attempt to audit his books, and Whitney works up the courage to visit his ailing father.
Drone	Writer: Philip Levens & Michael Green	Director: Michael Katleman	04/30/02	#18 118
Sasha Woodman is attacking classmates with a swarm of bees. Clark is running for class president with Pete as his manager. Chloe endorses the other guy. Lana finds a way to save the Talon from going under, and Lex puts a second reporter in his pocket.
Crush	Writer: Philip Levens, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	Director: James Marshall	05/07/02	#19 119
Chloe falls for Justin Gaines, a telekinetic seeking revenge against the surgeon who couldn’t heal him and the driver who hit him. Clark is jealous and counsels with Lana. Lex reconciles with his childhood nanny, and Whitney's father dies.
Obscura	Writer: Mark Verheiden, Michael Green & Greg Walker	Director: Terrence O'Hara	05/14/02	#20 120
Chloe is kidnapped and Lana is having visions of her attacker. Meanwhile, Lex finds a piece of the ship in Miller's Field, and Clark asks Chloe to the spring formal.
Tempest	Writer: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar	Director: Greg Beeman	05/21/02	#21 121
Clark, Chloe and Pete get ready for the spring formal. Lionel closes the plant. Lex plans an employee buyout. Roger Nixon threatens to expose Clark. Whitney leaves for the Marine Corps, and Lana gets swept up in a tornado.

NotesEdit

Clark develops one new super power this year: X-ray vision, (X-Ray).
Clark uses his existing powers as early as the first episode: super speed, super strength and invulnerability.
The exceptions to the freak of the week format include Rogue, Zero, Nicodemus, Stray, Obscura and Tempest.
The Young Adult Novel See No Evil was originally planned as an episode for the season, but eventually changed into the story for Shimmer. ^[3]
Flight was another young adult novel conceived for season one, but dismissed since the writer wasn't sure how they could do the special effects for flying. ^[4]
There are no villains in the main cast this year.
During this season Smallville was a follow-up to Gilmore Girls.

SpoilersEdit

This is the first and only season in which Jor-El is not heard in any episodes.

ReferencesEdit

↑ Includes John Glover's uncredited voiceover in Leech.
↑ Tina was also played by Michael Rosenbaum, Beverly Breuer, Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, and Eric Johnson. Welling, Kreuk, and Johnson all played Tina again in Season 2.
↑ Page 37 of Smallville #10
↑ Page 38 of Smallville #10