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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

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Barbarians at the Planet (1)

Episode Number: 21    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday May 1, 1994    Prod Code: 455319
The Daily Planet is financially troubled and Lex buys the newspaper to get closer to Lois. After saving everyone's jobs, he makes some changes : Jack and Jimmy are now working downstairs in the printing room, and hires a young just graduated man named Chip to be Perry's boss. Perry gets really mad and leaves the Planet. Lex plants a bomb in the Planet which explodes. He blames Jack, who gets arrested. Lex proposes to Lois, and Clark tells her he loves her, but she says that loves him too but only as a friend. When Lois asks if she and Superman have a chance to stay together, he says to Lois they can't stay together because she only loves him because he's Superman. Then, Lois accepts Lex's proposal.

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Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine, Daniel Levine
Director: James Bagdonas
Star: K Callan (Martha Kent),  Eddie Jones (Jonathan Kent),  John Shea (Lex Luthor (season 1)),  Tracy Scoggins (Catherine "Cat" Grant (season 1)),  Lane Smith (Perry White),  Teri Hatcher (Lois Lane),  Dean Cain (Clark Kent/Superman),  Michael Landes (Jimmy Olsen (season 1))
Guest Star: Alex Nevil (Chip),  Castulo Guerra (Mr. Devane),  Barbara Beck (Sandra Ellis),  Patrick Kilpatrick (Devane),  Beverly Johnson (Ms. Cox),  Chris Demetral (Jack),  Darby Hinton (firechief)

Notes

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Tracy Scroggins, who plays Cat, does not appear in this episode. (edit)

Quotes

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Jack: (to Luthor) Who died and made you king. (edit)
Lex: Is that Kryptonite in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? (edit)
Jack: Well, I guess it's back to a life of crime for me. (edit)

Trivia

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When Lois calls the clothing catalog company, she gives her home phone number with a 217 area code. This is currently the area code for Springfield, Illinois. (edit)

Allusions

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Barbarians at the Gate usually refers to the Roman Empire and its fall to barbarians. The title is a variant on a book about a corporate take over, "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco." (edit)
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Lex Luthor proposes marriage to Lois, but Lois can't decide because of what it will mean to her friends and carrer. So Lex makes the decision for her by taking both out of the equahion, though his ruthless tactics.
Continue » Posted Jul 19, 2006 4:58 pm PST
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