"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" The Return of the Prankster (1995)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Philip Sgriccia

Writers:

Joe Shuster (creator)
Deborah Joy LeVine (developer)

TV Series:

"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993)

Original Air Date:

26 February 1995 (Season 2, Episode 15)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Kyle Griffin (a.k.a The Prankster) escapes from jail using an new weapon that freezes people using a yellow beam of light and resumes harassing Lois. This time he has an added goal, kidnapping the President while he is visiting Metropolis. |

Plot Keywords:

Superman | 1990s | Shrinking | Kryptonite | Superhero

Cast

Dean Cain	...	Clark Kent / Superman
Teri Hatcher	...	Lois Lane
Lane Smith	...	Perry White
Justin Whalin	...	Jimmy Olsen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Barry Ashley	...	Vendor
Cliff De Young	...	Agent Navarro (as Cliff DeYoung)
Harold Gould	...	Edwin Griffin
Allen Lulu	...	Mike Carney
Rick Overton	...	Victor
Bronson Pinchot	...	Kyle Griffin / The Prankster
John Pleshette	...	Dr. Emil Hamilton
Sal Viscuso	...	Bobby Bigmouth

Trivia:

The scene where Griffin's father, played by Harold Gould, pretends to be a painter to gain access to Metropolis Power and Light is a duplication of a scene he played in The Sting (1973) 20 years earlier where he pretends to be a painter to gain access to a telegraph office

Quotes:

Clark Kent: I think the better question, Chief, is why was Griffin here in the first place?
Lois Lane: My continuing degradation comes to mind.
Clark Kent: No, I think that's just a bonus.