Pilot
- Episode aired Oct 16, 2001
- TV-PG
- 50m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
2.6K
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Baby Clark (Kal-El) 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.Baby Clark (Kal-El) 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.Baby Clark (Kal-El) 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.
Sarah-Jane Redmond
- Nell Potter
- (as Sarah Jane Redmond)
Adrian Glynn McMorran
- Jeremy Creek
- (as Adrian McMorran)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode broke The WB's record for number of viewers for a debut series.
- GoofsLana rides up to the cemetery on a horse but later walks home with Clark, leaving the horse behind. However, the cut is actually directly from the cemetery to a scene showing Clark and Lana walking towards Lana's house from the stables. Obviously they walked to the stables, with the horse, and left it there.
- Quotes
Jonathan Kent: Are you okay?
Clark Kent: Can I answer that in about five years?
Jonathan Kent: Yeah.
Clark Kent: Dad I'm glad you and mom are the ones that found me.
Jonathan Kent: We didn't find you, Clark, you found us.
- Alternate versionsScenes deleted from the Pilot which can be viewed on the Season 1 DVD include:
- When Young Lex Luthor is first introduced in the helicopter, his father Lionel Luthor tells him he won't tell the pilot to land the copter until Lex looks out of the window, which he does only to start panicking and uses his inhale.
- There is a scene in which Pete Ross's father, Bill Ross, and uncle, Dale Ross, have a debate on Lionel Luthor's intention for buying the factory from them as they don't know why the "pesticide king of Metropolis" would be interested in a creamed corn plant.
- After they first arrive at school, Clark Kent, Pete Ross, and Chloe Sullivan watch as Whitney Fordman and two other jocks park their trucks (the same ones that Clark piles up at the end of the episode), Chloe refers to them as the "3 ass-keteers".
- Principle Kwan sees Jeremy Creek break into the trophy case. When Kwan, who mistakes Jeremy for a current student at the school, orders him into his office, Jeremy throws Kwan into a display case behind him.
- Gabe Sullivan tells some factory workers to be on the lookout for Lex Luthor, referring to him as "Daddy's little boy", unaware that Lex is behind him. Gabe starts to worry because the plant isn't returning much profit, but Lex assures him that he isn't going to fire any employees at the fertilizer plant.
- Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan are waiting for Clark Kent to show up at the dance. They decide to dance together, but only as friends (even though it's obvious in the scene that Chloe likes Clark and Pete likes Chloe).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Smallville: Lineage (2002)
Featured review
The begining of an epic journey
Im rewatching this show and its an unbelivable good story maybe one of the best hero stories of our time, its not darkish and depressing like the new Man of Steel but more heartwarm and feelgood.
The pilot is absolutly a briliant start to the show with great acting and lots of funny moments. If you dicide to pick up on this show for the first time, you wont regret it, and you will be in for a ride 😀
The pilot is absolutly a briliant start to the show with great acting and lots of funny moments. If you dicide to pick up on this show for the first time, you wont regret it, and you will be in for a ride 😀
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