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The Adventures of Superboy: Mutant

 

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Air Date

Saturday April 22, 1989

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Episode Summary

Clark witnesses the kidnapping of Professor Craig Lipcott a famous nuclear scientist. As Superboy, he follows the kidnappers to a rooftop and sees them enter a strange ship just before he is attacked by a powerful ray that leaves him disoriented. When he looks up the ship is gone. Lipcott awakens inside the ship, which is actually a time machine, with two mutant men and a normal woman, Vora. The mutants want plutonium. They reveal that they are from the 24th century and that they need plutonium to fight their enemies since no more exists in their time. TJ and Clark begin to investigate the kidnapping. TJ is taken by the mutant time travelers. Vora is sent to find Superboy so he can help them break into the installation where the plutonium is stored. Vora reveals to Superboy that she herself is a mutant in her society since everyone else has been mutated by fallout over the years. Superboy agrees to help in order to save TJ and Lipcott. Superboy gets the plutonium and flees with it. When the mutants blast him, he reflects their laser beams back at them and captures them. Vora frees Lipcott and TJ. She then leaves, never to return, since the machine will never have enough power to time travel again.

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  • At the beginning of the episode, Clark is wearing a white button down preppy shirt with a classic collar. Witnessing an emergency, he rushes off and tears at his shirt front to change into Superboy, vanishing into a streak of blue and red that flies up the stairwell to the building roof. But when he's talking to the authorites afterwards as Clark Kent (and for the rest of the episode), he's wearing a different preppy white shirt with a button down collar. Since buttons were visible popping off his shirt front during the first change, actor John Haymes Newton was obviously given a fresh, and slightly different, white shirt for the rest of the episode. []

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