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Smallville - The Complete Season 01

Smallville

Smallville - The Complete Season 01

Warner Bros. (Oct 16, 2001)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
0085392425525
TV Series | Sci-Fi
USA | English | Color | 15:54

The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in this imaginative and engaging television series from the WB Network, and series fans can celebrate the ratings success of Smallville with a six-disc set that compiles its entire first season. The deluxe package offers a chance to revisit the origins of the characters and their numerous plotlines, as well as view deleted scenes and other bonus features.

The premise of Smallville--Superman as a teenager--takes up just a few pages in Superman's very first comic book appearance (in Action Comics back in 1938), but series producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar flesh out that period by portraying young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) not as the noble Superman-in-waiting, but as an average teen with some not-so-ordinary supernatural powers, including incredible strength and heat vision (Clark hasn't lifted up, up, and away as of yet). Clark's desire to fit in with his peers and make sense of his extraordinary abilities ground him in very realistic and identifiable terms for the series' primarily under-25 audience, as does his appealing and tentative romance with Kristen Kreuk as Clark's dreamgirl Lana Lang. But Smallville also strikes gold when it takes a turn towards more comic book territory, as evidenced by the parade of shape-shifting killers and other outlandish antagonists (many generated, in one of the series' most ingenious notions, by the same devastating meteor shower that brought the infant Clark to Earth) that Clark must harness his powers to face and defeat. Gough and Millar, along with their capable cast (which includes Michael Rosenbaum as a young and already bald-pated Lex Luthor, and Annette O'Toole and John Schneider as the Kents) manage to pull off the precarious high-wire act of combining science fiction with coming-of-age drama to create this highly watchable program.

Smallville: The Complete First Season offers a very complete and attractive DVD package that is rounded out by some highly desirable extras for longtime series fans. The six-disc set offers all 21 episodes of the first season, including the pilot, in widescreen anamorphic format; Gough and Millar are featured on the set's sole commentary track, which appears on the pilot episode. Viewers can also access a number of deleted scenes from various episodes as well as view original pre-production storyboards and WB promotional spots. An interactive "tour" of Smallville rounds out the extras, but DVD-ROM owners can use the discs to access more features via the Smallville web site. --Paul Gaita


Episodes View details

0 Unaired Pilot 60 min

This unaired version of the Pilot episode features the same plot as the aired version, but with a different actress playing Martha Kent.

1 Pilot 50 min | Oct 16, 2001

In 1989, a meteor shower hits Smallville, Kansas and a child in a spaceship is found by the Kents who call him Clark. Twelve years later, teenage Clark Kent discovers he has strange powers and finds out his alien origins.

2 Metamorphosis 45 min | Oct 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 44 min | Oct 30, 2001

When Coach Walt Arnold's football legacy is threatened by a cheating scandal, the coach entices Clark onto the team. Meteor Rocks in the coach's sauna infects him with the ability to generate fire, and his enemies start getting burned.

4 X-Ray 44 min | Nov 06, 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 44 min | Nov 13, 2001

Obnoxious athlete Sean Kelvin drowns in an icy, Meteor Rock-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 44 min | Nov 20, 2001

Lana befriends Harry, an elderly murderer living incognito in a nursing home. He falls into a Meteor Rock 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 43 min | Nov 27, 2001

Overweight teen Jodi submits to a diet of meteor-infected 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 42 min | Dec 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 44 min | Jan 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 44 min | Jan 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 44 min | Feb 05, 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 43 min | Feb 12, 2002

Clark and classmate Eric Summer are both struck by lightning while Eric is holding a meteor rock, and Clark's powers are transferred to Eric. While Clark experiences normal humanity, the emotionally challenged Eric goes on a rampage.

13 Kinetic 43 min | Feb 26, 2002

Depressed from losing his scholarship, Whitney joins a gang of thieves. He gets a meteor rock-laced tattoo and gains the gang's power of phasing through walls. They rob Luthor mansion and seriously injure Chloe, who is interviewing Lex.

14 Zero 41 min | Mar 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 44 min | Mar 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 44 min | Apr 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 44 min | Apr 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 43 min | Apr 30, 2002

Along 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 the substitute 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; with the threat of closing the doors, Clark turns to Lex to ask for help to keep it open for Lana's sake.

19 Crush 43 min | May 07, 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 43 min | May 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 43 min | May 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.

Cast View all

Michael Rosenbaum Lex Luthor
John Schneider Jonathan Kent
Tom Welling Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk Lana Lang
Allison Mack Chloe Sullivan
Eric Johnson Whitney Fordman
Sam Jones III Pete Ross
Annette O'Toole Martha Kent
John Glover Lionel Luthor
Sarah-Jane Redmond Nell Potter
Mitchell Kosterman Deputy Ethan Miller
Hiro Kanagawa Principal H. James Kwan
Adrian McMorran Jeremy Creek
Tom O'Brien Roger Nixon
Kelly Brook Victoria Hardwick
Joe Morton Dr. Steven Hamilton
Robert Wisden Gabe Sullivan
James Ralph Deputy Markowitz
Dee Jay Jackson Bill Ross
Gabrielle Rose Mrs. Arkin
Eric Christian Olsen Harry Volk
Steve Bacic Frank the Garage Worker
Justin Chatwin Teen Jostled by Whitney
Mark Gibbon Deputy Gibbon
Alvin Sanders Dale Ross

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Edition details

Edition REGION 1
Packaging Custom Case
Nr Discs 17
Screen Ratios 1.77:1
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles English | French | Portuguese | Spanish
Distributor Warner Home Video
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Sep 23, 2003
Regions 1

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