Over to Saturday Nights on BBC1 in 1994, and some episodes of The New Adventures of Superman.
There’s a heatwave in Metropolis in the middle of winter, and Mayor Sonny Bono is trying to reassure the sweaty reporters.
Lex Luthor is offering an additional source of power to run the city’s traffic lights and air conditioners.
But Dr Saxon thinks that it’s Superman who’s causing the heatwave because his powers come from the sun.
I spotted Miguel Sandoval as one of the Daily Planet reporters (on the right)
I really like Judge Angela Diggs, played by Rosalind Cash.
Superman agrees to an injunction against using his powers, which he breaks almost immediately, stopping a gunman in the court. So he’s sent to jail.
His mugshots are popular.
Of course, Luthor is behind the heatup, due to a leak in his nuclear power plant.
BBC Genome: BBC One – 5th March 1994 – 18:00
Before the next episode, there’s a bit of Song For Europe Preview as Francis Ruffelle sings two of the songs shortlisted for the 1994 Eurovision song contest. The song here is actually the winner, Lonely Symphony.
Terry is looking comfortable.
There’s a trailer for Men of the World starring David Threlfall and John Simm.
There’s also a trailer for the upcoming Noel’s House Party.
Then, another New Adventures of Superman, called Pheromone, My Lovely.
Morgan Fairchild plays Miranda, researching into using animal pheromone to perfume.
Naturally, the perfume works rather too well, and soon everyone’s throwing themselves at everyone else.
For some reason, Lois dresses up as a belly dancer to entice Clark, who is immune to the perfume. And being Superman, he tells her he won’t take advantage of her.
BBC Genome: BBC One – 12th March 1994 – 17:45
The next episode is Witness. Elliot Gould plays Vincent Winninger. He’s murdered after he tells Lois he has proof that Barbara Trevino, soon to be head of the Rainforest Consortium, will destroy the environment. So Lois becomes a witness and has many attempts on her life.
The man trying to kill her is a master of disguise. At one point he’s disguised as Babu from Seinfeld (Brian George).
BBC Genome: BBC One – 19th March 1994 – 17:45
Next it’s Honeymoon in Metropolis. Lois spends a night in a honeymoon suite, and spots some politicians doing shady deals, so Perry gets Lois and Clark to spend a few nights undercover in the honeymoon suite. Hilarity ensues.
BBC Genome: BBC One – 26th March 1994 – 17:30
The next episode is Illusions of Grandeur. There’s a spate of children being kidnapped. A lead suggests there might be a connection with stage magic. Ben Vereen plays a hypnotist, Andre Novak.
Actual magician Penn Jillette plays an actual magician.
He tells a story of appearing in this episode, his admitted terrible delivery of the line “Superman! The others!” and how he annoyed Dean Cain by getting his line wrong when Cain was carrying him.
Lois gets trapped in a water tank.
BBC Genome: BBC One – 2nd April 1994 – 18:15
After this, recording switches, and there’s a bit of an episode of You Bet with Henry Kelly and Gloria Hunniford. It’s a challenge about a Star Trek expert, Jackie Allen, who says she can name any episode of the classic series, and the stardate it took place on, from a short clip. Which she does successfully, naming all six episodes chosen at random from all 79 in the series (and all clips supposedly played off VHS, although I wonder if that was just a bit of stagecraft, and the clips were played in from the gallery).
The tape ends after this short excerpt.
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