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Smallville

January 19, 2023

This article is about the TV series. For the fictional town, see Smallville (comics).

Smallville is an American superhero television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series was produced by Millar/Gough Ink, Tollin/Robbins Productions, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Television. Initially broadcast by the WB, the show premiered on October 16, 2001. After its fifth season, the WB and UPN merged to form The CW, the series' later United States broadcaster until its tenth and final season ended on May 13, 2011.

Smallville
Genre
Based on
Developed by
Starring
Opening theme"Save Me" by Remy Zero
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes217[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Production locationsBritish Columbia, Canada
Cinematography
Editors
  • Ron Spang
  • Andi Armaganian
  • Neil Felder
  • David Ekstrom
  • Debby Germino
  • Vikash Patel
  • Stephen Mark
  • Peter B. Ellis
Running time42 minutes
Production companies
DistributorWarner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
Release
Original network
Original releaseOctober 16, 2001 (2001-10-16) –
May 13, 2011 (2011-05-13)

Smallville follows the coming-of-age adventures of teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) in his fictional hometown of Smallville, Kansas, before he formally becomes the Man of Steel. The first four seasons focus on the high school life of Clark and his friends, his complicated romance with neighbor girl Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), and his friendship with future nemesis Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum). From season five onwards, Smallville ventures into Clark's early adult years, eventually focusing on his career alongside Lois Lane (Erica Durance) at the Daily Planet and introducing other DC comicbook superheroes and villains.

Before the series' production, Bruce Wayne, a drama series chronicling the young protagonist's journey toward Batman, was proposed first. Although that series failed to generate interest, it inspired the idea of a Superman origin story, which later became Smallville. Series developers Gough and Millar pitched their "no tights, no flights" rule to the president of Warner Bros. Television, reducing the Man of Steel to the bare moral essentials and examining what led Clark Kent to become the iconic superhero. After seven seasons with the show, Gough and Millar departed with little explanation. Smallville was primarily filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, with local businesses and buildings substituting for Smallville locations. Most of the music for the first six seasons was composed by Mark Snow, who incorporated elements of John Williams's musical score from the Superman film series. In season seven, Louis Febre (who worked with Snow from the beginning) became the series' primary composer.

Smallville was generally positively received when it began. Former Superman star Christopher Reeve expressed approval for the series, making two guest appearances before his death. The pilot episode set a ratings record for a WB debut, with 8.4 million viewers. Over ten seasons the series averaged about 4.34 million viewers per episode, with season two the highest-rated at 6.3 million. By the end of its run, Smallville passed Stargate SG-1 as the longest-running North American science fiction series by episode count.[2] Since its first season, the series received accolades ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards. Smallville spawned a series of young adult novels, a DC Comics bimonthly comic-book, soundtracks and series-related merchandise. All ten seasons are available on DVD in regions 1, 2 and 4. After the series finale in 2011, the story resumed in comic-book form, with 22 issues of Season 11 from April 2012 to November 2013.

Series overview

Main article: List of Smallville episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
121October 16, 2001 (2001-10-16)May 21, 2002 (2002-05-21)The WB
223September 24, 2002 (2002-09-24)May 20, 2003 (2003-05-20)
322October 1, 2003 (2003-10-01)May 19, 2004 (2004-05-19)
422September 22, 2004 (2004-09-22)May 18, 2005 (2005-05-18)
522September 29, 2005 (2005-09-29)May 11, 2006 (2006-05-11)
622September 28, 2006 (2006-09-28)May 17, 2007 (2007-05-17)The CW
720September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27)May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15)
822September 18, 2008 (2008-09-18)May 14, 2009 (2009-05-14)
921September 25, 2009 (2009-09-25)May 14, 2010 (2010-05-14)
1022September 24, 2010 (2010-09-24)May 13, 2011 (2011-05-13)

The regular cast is introduced in season one, with storylines involving a villain deriving power from kryptonite exposure. The one-episode villains were a plot device developed by Gough and Millar.[3] Smallville's first season primarily dealt with Clark Kent's coming to terms with his alien origin and the revelation that his arrival on Earth was connected to the death of Lana Lang's parents.[4] After the first season the series had fewer villain-of-the-week episodes, focusing instead on individual-character story arcs and exploring Clark's origins.[5] Major storylines include Clark's discovery of his Kryptonian heritage and Lex Luthor's escalating conflict with his father, Lionel.[6] The disembodied voice of Clark's biological father, Jor-El, is introduced; he communicates to Clark through his spaceship, setting the stage for plots involving his role in fulfilling Clark's earthly destiny.[7] In a fourth-season arc Clark, instructed by Jor-El, searches for three Kryptonian stones which contain the knowledge of the universe and form his Fortress of Solitude.[8][9] Clark battles Brainiac in his attempts to release the Kryptonian criminal General Zod,[10] and must capture (or destroy) other escaped Phantom Zone criminals.[11] His cousin Kara arrives,[12] and Lex Luthor discovers Clark's secret.[13] The eighth season introduces Davis Bloome (Smallville's version of Doomsday), and Tess Mercer replaces the departing Lex Luthor. Justin Hartley becomes a series regular as Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) after being a recurring guest in season six.[14] In the ninth season Major Zod (Callum Blue) and other members of Zod's military group are revived (without their Kryptonian powers) by Tess Mercer,[15] and their efforts to regain their powers are the season's central conflict. The final season revolves around Clark's attempts to lose his doubts and fears and become the hero he is meant to be, while confronting his biggest challenges: the coming of Darkseid and the return of Lex Luthor.[16]

Cast

Main article: List of Smallville characters
 
Although Welling initially refused to audition for the role of Clark Kent, he changed his mind after reading the script for the pilot episode.
  • Tom Welling as Clark Kent, a young man with superhuman abilities who tries to find his place in life after discovering that he is an extraterrestrial in origin and uses his powers to help those in danger. Clark's season-one problems include his inability to share his secret and his desire for a normal life. After months of scouting, Welling was cast as Clark.[17] David Nutter had to convince Welling's manager that the role would not hurt the actor's film career in order to get Welling to read the pilot script. After reading the script, Welling agreed to audition for the role of Clark Kent.[3]
  • Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang, the girl next door. Grieving the loss of her parents, she has empathy for everyone and feels connected to Clark.[18] Kreuk was the first to be cast, after Nutter saw an audition tape the actress had sent.[3] Although she left the series after the seventh season,[19] she returned for five episodes in season eight as a special guest star.[20]
  • Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor, a billionaire's son sent to Smallville to run the local fertilizer plant. After Clark saves his life, they become fast friends.[21] As the series progresses, Lex's friendship with Clark crumbles until they consider themselves enemies. The role was difficult to cast;[4] Michael Rosenbaum auditioned twice and, feeling that he did not take his first audition seriously enough, outlined a two-and-a-half-page scene indicating where to be funny, charismatic or menacing.[22] His second audition went so well that he was hired.[4] Rosenbaum left the show after seven seasons,[19][23] reprising his role for the series finale.[24]
  • Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordman, Lana's boyfriend in season one, who becomes mean to Clark and Lana's budding friendship and bullies him.[21] He reconciles with Clark before joining the Marines and going to Afghanistan.[25] Although Whitney was written out of the show in the first-season finale, he made a special appearance in the season-two episode "Visage" (where it is disclosed that he was killed in action) and was also a guest star in the season-four episode "Façade" (during a flashback to Clark's freshman year of high school). Johnson, who auditioned for Lex and Clark before he was cast as Whitney,[26] was pleased that the writers gave his character a hero's exit.[27]
  • Sam Jones III as Pete Ross, another best friend of Clark's and the first person to whom Clark voluntarily tells his secret.[28] Although he is in love with Chloe,[29] he does not admit it because of the Clark-Lana-Chloe love triangle already in place.[30] Ross was written out of the series at the end of season three, but made a guest appearance in season seven. Jones was the last of the series regulars to be cast, with Gough and Millar seeing him four days before they began filming the pilot.[30] In the comics Ross is Caucasian, but the producers chose to cast Jones (who is African-American).[30]
  • Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan, one of Clark's best friends, who is in love with him (although her feelings are not reciprocated).[31] Editor of the school newspaper, her journalistic curiosity and desire to "expose falsehoods" and "know the truth"[32] create tension with her friends (especially when she investigates Clark's past).[33] After learning about Smallville from casting director Dee Dee Bradley, Mack considered auditioning for Lana Lang but auditioned twice for Chloe Sullivan.[32] The character was created just for the series[4] and was intended to have an "ethnic background" before Mack was hired.[32] She has since appeared in the comic book.[34]
  • Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent, Clark's adoptive mother. She and her husband, Jonathan, give Clark wise advice about coping with his increasing abilities. In season five Martha takes a state-senate seat,[35] and in season six she leaves the show.[36] Although Cynthia Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent, during filming everyone (including Ettinger) realized that she was not right for the part.[4] O'Toole was committed to the television series The Huntress when Ettinger filmed the original pilot. Around the time the creators wanted to recast Martha Kent, The Huntress was coincidentally canceled, allowing O'Toole to join the cast.[37] The actress had previously played Lana Lang in Superman III.[38]
  • John Schneider as Jonathan Kent, Clark's adoptive father, who goes to great lengths to protect his son's secret; according to Schneider, Jonathan is "perfectly willing to go to jail, or worse, to protect his son".[39] Schneider was written out of the show in the series' 100th episode, with Jonathan dying of a heart attack on the night of his election victory.[40] Millar and Gough wanted a recognizable face for Smallville; they were happy to cast Schneider as Jonathan because he was known as Bo Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard, which Gough saw as adding to the belief that Schneider could have grown up running a farm.[4]
  • John Glover as Lionel Luthor, Lex's father. Lionel is responsible for the Kents' adoption of Clark without legal ramifications or questions about his origins.[33] Glover tried to make Lionel seem to try to "toughen [Lex] up", and saw the character as a rich, powerful businessman who was disappointed in his son.[41] Lionel was created for Smallville to parallel the Kents and as an "experiment in extreme parenting".[4] A recurring first-season guest, Glover became a series regular from seasons two to seven until Lionel was murdered by Lex near the end of the seventh season.[42] Lionel returns in a parallel-universe version, also portrayed by Glover, during the final season as a special guest star.[43]
  • Jensen Ackles as Jason Teague, Lana's love interest, in season four. He follows Lana to Smallville from Paris, taking a job as the school's assistant football coach,[44] but is fired when their relationship comes to light. By the end of the season, it is disclosed that he was working with his mother to track the three Kryptonian stones of knowledge.[45] Before he was cast as Jason, Ackles was second in line for the role of Clark Kent.[46] Although he received top billing for season four and was contracted for season five, he was written out of the show in the season four finale because of his commitment to Supernatural.[47]
 
Erica Durance was cast as Lois Lane days before fourth-season filming began, and her appearance was initially restricted by the film division of Warner Bros. Studios.
  • Erica Durance as Lois Lane, Chloe's cousin who comes to Smallville to investigate Chloe's supposed death[8] and stays with the Kents. Durance, a recurring guest in season four, became a series regular. The producers wanted to bring Lois Lane to the series, and Chloe's supposed death in the season-three finale provided the opportunity. Durance was cast three days before filming began; although she could initially appear in only four episodes, according to the film division of Warner Bros., after negotiations her character was cleared for more appearances.[48]
  • Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen, Chloe's photographer boyfriend who works at the Daily Planet. Ashmore, a recurring guest in season six, became a regular cast member in season seven. He called his casting a welcome surprise: "I auditioned for [the role] and I put myself on tape. I hadn't heard anything, and a couple of weeks later, all of the sudden (sic), I got the call saying, 'You're going to Vancouver to start shooting Smallville'. It's a dream come true, really".[49] After three seasons on the series (two as a regular), Ashmore's character was killed off. Although Ashmore's Jimmy Olsen was murdered, he said his character was not the "real" Jimmy Olsen, his real name revealed to be Henry James Olsen. Jimmy's younger brother, who appears briefly in the season-eight finale, is intended to be the Jimmy who works with Clark and Lois.[50] Ashmore returns as the younger Jimmy in the series finale.
  • Laura Vandervoort as Kara Zor-El, Clark's Kryptonian cousin. Sent to look after Kal-El (Clark), she was in suspended animation for eighteen years. When the dam confining Kara's ship broke in the season-six finale, "Phantom", she was set free. She has Clark's abilities, including flight.[51] At the end of the seventh season, Kara was trapped in the Phantom Zone. Although Vandervoort did not return regularly for the eighth season,[52] she returned to wrap up her storylines as a guest in season eight's "Bloodline" and as a special guest star in season ten's "Supergirl" and "Prophecy".[53]
  • Cassidy Freeman as Tess Mercer, Lex's handpicked successor as LuthorCorp CEO in season eight.[54] Her name is an homage to two Superman characters, Eve Teschmacher and Mercy Graves.[55] Freeman described her character as "fierce", "fun", and "intelligent", with finding Lex her primary season-eight goal. Tess believes that Clark will be able to help her.[56] In the season-ten episode "Abandoned", it is disclosed that her birth name is Lutessa Lena Luthor and she is Lionel's illegitimate daughter.[57]
  • Samuel Witwer as Davis Bloome, a "charismatic" paramedic struggling with inner darkness,[54] Davis Bloome is Smallville's version of Doomsday (the only character to kill Superman). Davis would come to resemble his comic-book counterpart over the course of the season.[58] Brian Peterson said that with Michael Rosenbaum's departure, the new executive producers were looking for a villain "as great as Lex" and Doomsday fit the bill.[59]
  • Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow, the CEO of Queen Industries and leader of a small group of superheroes known as the Justice League. Hartley, a recurring guest in the sixth and seventh seasons, became a series regular in season eight[14] and was the producers' first choice to play Oliver Queen. He was designed to shake up Clark and Lois in season six and to give Clark an alternate view of how to fight crime.[60]
  • Callum Blue as Zod, an early version of the criminal from Krypton who was sent to the Phantom Zone prison. His character is first mentioned in season five, when Brainiac uses Lex's body as a vessel for Zod's spirit, and he appears in a Kryptonian sphere in the season-eight finale.[61] Smallville's executive producers called this incarnation "Major Zod" (as opposed to the typical "General Zod"), and in season nine "the venomous side of Zod rises because he experiences a few key betrayals with our beloved characters".[62]

Production

Development

Tollin/Robbins Productions originally wanted to do a series about a young Bruce Wayne, but the feature-film division of Warner Bros. decided to develop an origin movie for Batman and did not want to compete with a television series.[4] In 2000, Tollin/Robbins approached Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. Television, about developing a series on a young Superman. That year, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar developed a pilot based on the film Eraser. After watching the pilot, Roth approached Gough and Millar about developing a pilot about a young Superman;[4] the two made a "no tights, no flights" rule that Clark would not fly or wear the Superman suit during the series.[63]

 
Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) was created for the series.

Gough and Millar wanted to strip Superman to his "bare essence", exploring why Clark Kent became the Man of Steel.[4] They felt that because they were not comic-book fans or familiar with the universe, they would have an unbiased approach to the series. Gough and Millar learned about the characters, researching the comics and choosing what they liked.[4] They pitched their idea to the WB and Fox on the same day.[64] A bidding war between the networks followed, with the WB committing to thirteen episodes.[64]

Although Roth, Gough and Millar knew the show would be action-oriented, they wanted to reach 7th Heaven's "middle America iconography". To create atmosphere, the team decided the meteor shower bringing Clark to Earth would be the ironic foundation of the show. The primary source of his life on Earth and the super-powered beings Clark must fight, it would take away the parents of the girl he loves and start Lex Luthor down a dark path. Roth appreciated Clark's conflict in dealing with the fact that his arrival caused so much pain.[4]

The creators also had to address why Lex Luthor would socialize with young people. They created a loneliness in the character which they felt would drive him to reach out to the teenagers,[4] a loneliness echoed in Clark and Lana.[3] Gough and Millar wanted a parallel to the Kents and created Lionel Luthor, Lex's father, whom they saw as conducting an "experiment in extreme parenting".[4] They wanted a younger Kent couple, to be involved in Clark's life and help him on his journey.[3] Chloe Sullivan (another character created for the series) was considered the "outsider" the show needed to ensure that someone would notice the strange happenings in Smallville[4] rather than a "precursor to Lois Lane".[3]

Smallville has been described by Warner Bros. as a from-the-roots reinterpretation of Superman mythology. Since the November 2004 reacquisition of Superboy by the Siegel family, a copyright infringement dispute has arisen over ownership of the fictional town of Smallville and a claimed similarity between Superboy and Smallville's Clark Kent. According to the Siegel heirs, "Smallville is part of the Superboy copyright" (which they hold).[65]

Crew changes

In April 2008, after seven seasons with the series, Gough and Millar left Smallville. The developers thanked the cast and crew for their work, acknowledging that they never stopped fighting for what they saw as "their vision" of the show. The reason for their departure was not provided.[66] Gough and Millar were replaced as showrunners by Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson. All began writing for the series at the start of the second season, and were executive producers by the seventh season. In 2009, after one season, Swimmer and Slavkin took over the new CW series Melrose Place and did not return for Smallville's ninth season; Souders and Peterson would continue as showrunners.[67] Tom Welling became co-executive producer of the series that July.[68] In March 2010, Millar, Gough and co-producer Tollin/Robins Productions filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and The CW charging that Hollywood's "vertical integration" cost Millar and Gough millions of dollars. The suit claimed that Warner Bros. failed to "maximize profits" in marketing Smallville, misrepresented production costs and sold the show to foreign markets at "well below the value of the series", not specifying the amount of compensation sought by the plaintiffs.[69] The lawsuit ended with an undisclosed settlement in May 2013.[70] Tom Welling was appointed an executive producer for Smallville's tenth season in May 2010.[71]

Filming

The series was filmed at BB Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia. Although production was initially planned for Australia, Vancouver had more of a "Middle America landscape". The city provided a site for the Kent farm, doubled for Metropolis, provided a cheaper shooting location and was in the Los Angeles time zone.[4] Smallville's Main Street is a combination of two locations in the town of Merritt and Cloverdale.[3]

 
Cloverdale welcome sign

Vancouver Technical School doubled as the exterior for Smallville High, since the school had the "mid-American largess" wanted by the filmmakers[3] and was in keeping with Millar's idea that Smallville should be the epitome of "Smalltown, USA".[21] Templeton Secondary School was used for Smallville High's interior.[72] During season one, the production team repainted most of Templeton in Smallville High's red and yellow and distributed large Smallville High Crows logos; so much of the school was painted that it adopted red and yellow as its school colors. The students became accustomed to the film crew (which had to shoot when school was in session), and when a class was dismissed the crew stepped aside so the students could move the equipment to get to their lockers for the next class.[73]

The Kent farm is a working farm in Aldergrove. Owned by the Anderlinis, the crew painted their home yellow for the show.[64] Exterior shots of Luthor Mansion were filmed at Hatley Castle in Victoria.[3] The interiors were filmed at Shannon Mews in Vancouver, also the set for the Dark Angel pilot and the film Along Came a Spider.[3] Clova Cinema, in Cloverdale was used for exteriors of the Talon, Smallville's coffeehouse.[74]

The story is told from Clark's point of view, so color schemes and camera selection illustrate how he interprets his environment. When he is safe at home, the colors are "warm and gentle" earth tones and the camera movement is "very gentle". When Clark is keeping his secret and not in danger, the lighting is more neutral and the camera more mobile. When danger is present, the lighting becomes colder and the camera is handheld to allow for more "extreme angles". In Metropolis "clean, hard-lined architecture" predominates, with blues, purples and reflective metals the dominant scheme. The same concept is used for the characters; Lex usually has a "glass, steel background", and Lionel has a white or "clinical blue" background. Lex typically wears black, grey and "cool tones" (purples and blues). Clark is represented by red, yellow and blue, similar to the traditional Superman costume, and "All-American" red, white and blue.[75] From season two onward, Entity FX produced all of the visual effects for Smallville, including the view of the Metropolis skyline.[76]

Music

Composer Mark Snow worked with producer Ken Horton to create Smallville's score. Snow composed music as he watched the picture, and tweaked his performance when he reviewed his initial recordings. He then sent the music to the producers, who sent it back for recomposition if needed. Individual episodes have their own soundtrack, comprising one (or more) songs. Jennifer Pyken and Madonna Wade-Reed of Daisy Music looked for songs for the soundtrack. Their choices were discussed by the producers, who decided which songs they wanted and secured their rights. Although Snow said it initially seemed odd to combine two types of music on a "typical action-adventure" television show, "the producers seem to like the contrast of the modern songs and the traditional, orchestral approach to the score".[77]

I get a locked picture on a videotape which syncs up with all my gear in the studio. I write the music, finish it up, mix it up, send it through the airwaves on the internet, and the music editor puts it in. They call up usually and say, 'Thank you, well done'. Sometimes they call and say, "Thank you, not so well done—can you change this or that?" I say "Sure", make the changes and send it back.[77]

—Mark Snow, on composing music for each episode.

The main Smallville theme was not composed by Snow, although he composed opening themes for other shows (including The X-Files). The series' opening music is "Save Me" by Remy Zero. Snow composed the closing-credits music, which was intended as Smallville's theme. During the first two seasons, the closing-credits music was a potential theme for the series (before "Save Me" was selected); it was more "heroic" and "in-your-face". Snow was told during season two that the closing credits needed new music, since the show had evolved and the existing music was no longer suitable, and he created a new, toned-down score with a more "melodic" sound.[73] Snow has also reworked music from the previous Superman films. John Williams's musical score for the Krypton sequence in the opening credits of Superman was used in season two's "Rosetta" (which featured a guest appearance by Christopher Reeve) and several times in the season-two finale. To save money Snow recorded his version of Williams's score, since using the original version would have required the team to pay Williams's orchestra.[78]

In an interview with Randall Larson in May 2008, Snow said that he would not be returning to Smallville, citing the joint workload of Smallville and Ghost Whisperer, but would return for the latter. Reminiscing about his work on the show, Snow said that much of the music had not changed during the series and agreed with Larson that it was "more [about] maintaining the heroic concept and the mythology than progressing through specific changes".[79] Louis Febre, who worked closely with Snow from the beginning, became the sole composer for Smallville in season seven. Febre said that since he began composing for Smallville there was a shift to "thematic development" in the score, paralleling the characters' growth: "As Clark grew emotionally and intellectually more complex, I found a need to comment musically on his growth, and as he drew closer to his Superman persona, it became obvious that a 'Superman' theme would be required".[80]

The creative team had a number of opportunities to try different music to enhance an episode's storyline. Pyken and Wade-Reed chose and coordinated music on the show when Snow and Febre's scores were not used.[81] In season three's "Slumber", producer Ken Horton wondered if they could get a band to provide music for the entire episode. During a breakfast meeting with the music department of Warner Bros. R.E.M. was suggested, and Pyken and Wade-Reed immediately saw an opportunity to connect the episode's featured band with its story (which revolved around REM sleep).[82] That season, Al Gough wanted to use Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" for the final scene of "Shattered" (when Lionel Luthor looks at Lex through a one-way mirror at Belle Reve sanitarium) as soon as he read the episode's script. Cash died while Wade-Reed was trying to obtain the rights for the song and his heirs, believing that the song's use in the episode would honor his memory, gave Smallville the rights.[83]

For season three's "Resurrection" and "Memoria", songs were chosen as symbolism for the characters. In "Resurrection", The Rapture's "Infatuation" was used during a scene with Lex and Lana to symbolize the question, "Are we ever going to figure out what these two people think of each other?"[84] For "Memoria" Gough wanted to use Evanescence's "My Immortal" for the episode's final scene, telling Wade-Reed that he saw the song as being about mothers. In that scene Clark tells Martha that his first childhood memory was of his mother, Lara.[85]

Season three's "Velocity" provided the music editors with the opportunity to use hip-hop, rarely used in the series. The episode, similar to The Fast and the Furious, focused on Pete. Wade-Reed heard of British hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal, and was the first person in the United States to secure the rights to Rascal's album.[86] Greg Beeman directs episodes, and sometimes scenes, with particular songs in mind. For "Vortex" in season two, he used Coldplay's "In My Place" for the final scene.[87] In the season-two finale "Exodus", Beeman directed the scene where Lana shows up at the Kent barn before Lex's wedding to Matthew Good's "Weapon". The lyrics speak of an angel and devil "by my side", and Beeman timed specific shots to the song's lyrics.[78]

Broadcasting

Smallville premiered at 9:00 pm on Tuesday,[88] October 16, 2001 on the WB.[89] For the next five seasons the series aired on the WB, moving from Tuesday at 9:00 pm to Wednesday at 8:00 pm and eventually to Thursday at 8:00 pm. In 2006, before the start of Smallville's sixth season, the WB and UPN merged into The CW and the series continued in its lineup.[90] During its seventh season, the series aired in Canada a day earlier than it did in the United States.[91] In May 2009, Smallville's ninth season move to Friday at 8:00 pm, considered the "death slot" for television programs.[92][93] By the end of its tenth season it was the longest-running science-fiction TV show in the United States, breaking the record held by Stargate SG-1.[94] Syndication rights became available in October 2004 when it began airing alongside Gilmore Girls on ABC Family (now Freeform) five nights a week.[95] After the series concluded, TNT began airing episodes on October 3, 2011.[96] Smallville began streaming on Hulu on October 1, 2016.[97]

Reception

Smallville set a WB record as its highest-rated series debut, with 8.4 million viewers tuned in for the pilot.[98] Its premiere set a WB record for adults aged 18–34 and finished first among viewers aged 12–34, with Warner Bros. president Jordan Levin crediting the series with invigorating the network's Tuesday-night lineup. Smallville appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as one of five new shows to watch.[99] After its first season, the series was sixth on the Parents Television Council's 10-best list of broadcast programs.[100] Levin, acknowledging early concerns that Smallville had become a villain of the week series, said that season two would introduce "smaller mini-arcs over three to four episodes" and become less of a "serialized show".[101] According to Gough, although each succeeding season relied more on season-long story arcs, an occasional villain-of-the-week story was necessary. The villain-of-the-week stories were more harshly criticized by fans of the Superman mythology, but Gough wanted to please them and the WB's general audience (teenagers who preferred villain-of-the-week stories over episodes focusing on the Superman mythology).[102]

Christopher Reeve, star of the Superman films, expressed his approval of the show:

I was a little bit skeptical when I heard about [Smallville] at first, but I must say the writing, the acting, and the special effects are quite remarkable. In 1977, a big stunt scene would have taken us a week to film—it's pretty impressive what they are able to do with computers and effects technology today on a weekly TV show. It gives it a lot more production value and inventiveness than I thought I was going to see when I first heard about the series. I think the show is doing a really good job following the mythology, and Tom is doing a good job following the tradition.[103]

According to MTV's Karl Heitmueller, Smallville's Clark Kent was a better representation of the original material and remained "true to the heart of the story" by showing Clark's selflessness and his struggle between his desires and his obligations. However, Heitmueller wrote that the series would have a difficult time addressing why no one in Smallville (including Lex Luthor) recognized Clark when he put on the suit.[104] TV Guide's Michael Schneider called it one of the best examples of a superhero adaptation for television,[105] but Christopher Hooton of Metro wrote that Smallville was a story which did not need to be told: "No-one bothered to follow Bruce Wayne's tedious years spent manufacturing microchips before he became Batman, so why must we endure a decade of flannel shirt-wearing Clark Kent bucking hay?"[106]

Nielsen rankings

The following is a table for the seasonal rankings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode, of Smallville on the WB and The CW. "Rank" refers to how Smallville rated compared to the other television series which aired during primetime hours.

Viewership and ratings per season of Smallville
Season Timeslot (ET) Network Episodes First aired Last aired TV season Viewership
rank		 Avg. viewers
(millions)
Date Viewers
(millions) 		Date Viewers
(millions)
1 Tuesday 9:00 pm The WB 21 October 16, 2001 8.40[107] May 21, 2002 6.00[108] 2001–02 115[109] 5.90[109]
2 23 September 24, 2002 8.70[110] May 20, 2003 7.53[111] 2002–03 113[112] 6.30[112]
3 Wednesday 8:00 pm 22 October 1, 2003 6.82[113] May 19, 2004 5.92[114] 2003–04 141[115] 4.96[115]
4 22 September 22, 2004 6.07[116] May 18, 2005 5.47[117] 2004–05 124[118] 4.40[118]
5 Thursday 8:00 pm 22 September 29, 2005 5.90[119] May 11, 2006 4.85[120] 2005–06 117[121] 4.70[121]
6 The CW 22 September 28, 2006 4.96[122] May 17, 2007 4.14[123] 2006–07 125[124] 4.10[124]
7 20 September 27, 2007 5.18[125] May 15, 2008 3.85[126] 2007–08 175[127] 3.77[127]
8 22 September 18, 2008 4.34[128] May 14, 2009 3.13[129] 2008–09 152[130] 3.74[130]
9 Friday 8:00 pm 21 September 25, 2009 2.58[131] May 14, 2010 2.45[132] 2009–10 129[133] 2.38[133]
10 22 September 24, 2010 2.98[134] May 13, 2011 3.02[135] 2010–11 202[136] 3.19[137]

Accolades

During its ten seasons, Smallville won awards ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for its pilot episode.[138] Four years later, it received an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for the fifth-season episode "Arrival".[139][140] In 2008, Smallville again won an Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series Emmy for season seven's "Bizarro".[141]

Smallville has received a number of Leo Awards. Make-up artist Natalie Cosco won two Leo Awards for Best Make-Up: for her work in the fourth-season episode "Scare"[142] and in the sixth season's "Hypnotic" and "Wither".[143] At the 2006 Leo Awards, Barry Donlevy won Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Series for his work on the fourth-season episode "Spirit" and David Wilson won Best Production Design in a Dramatic Series for "Sacred".[144] Smallville's sixth season won a Best Dramatic Series Leo. James Marshall won Best Direction for "Zod", Caroline Cranstoun won Best Costume Design for her work on "Arrow" and James Philpott won Best Production Design for "Justice".[143] In 2008, Smallville won Leos for Best Dramatic Series and Best Cinematography.[145] The visual-effects team was recognized for its work on the pilot with a 2002 Best Visual Effects Leo,[146] and received 2004 VES Awards for Outstanding Compositing in a Televised Program, Music Video or Commercial for the second season's "Accelerate" and Outstanding Matte Painting in a Televised Program, Music Video, or Commercial for "Insurgence".[147]

In 2002 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored composer Mark Snow and Remy Zero, who provided the opening song "Save Me", for their contributions to the series; the award was given to individuals who wrote the theme (or underscore) for the highest-rated television series in 2001 for their network.[148] The American Society of Cinematographers awarded David Moxness for the sixth season's "Arrow", giving Glen Winter the same award the following year for his work on "Noir".[149] Series regulars have also won awards; in 2001, Michael Rosenbaum won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor,[150] and Tom Welling won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout TV Star — Male in 2002.[151] Allison Mack won the Teen Choice Best Sidekick award in 2006[152] and 2007,[153] and in 2009 Welling received the Choice TV Actor Action Adventure award.[154]

Millar stated that Smallville "visually and aesthetically, was a celebration of Americana", with aspects such as Clark's red, white, and blue apparel. Being an "idyllic portrait of America", he said, helped the show's popularity after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Actors reported that many United States military veterans told them of watching the show as a distraction from combat while serving overseas.[155]

Other media

Smallville has generated other media and spin-offs, from young-adult novels and comic books to Internet-based mini-episodes with characters from the series. It influenced the British TV series, Merlin.[156]

Literature

Two series of novels have been published since Smallville's second season. A series of eight young-adult novels was published by Aspect Publishing from October 2002 to March 2004, and a second series of ten young-adult novels was published by Little, Brown Young Readers from October 2002 to April 2004. A bimonthly comic-book series, which often tied into the series, was also published.

Young adult novels

Three novels were published on October 1, 2002: one by Aspect and two by Little, Brown Young Readers. The Aspect novel (Smallville: Strange Visitors) was written by Roger Stern, with Clark and his friends trying to uncover the truth about two religious con men who set up shop in Smallville and use kryptonite in their spiritual seminars to rob the townspeople.[157] Little, Brown Young Readers first published Arrival by Michael Teitelbaum, chronicling the series' pilot.[158] The second novel (See No Evil, by series writers Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld) follows Dawn Mills, a young actress who wants to attend Juilliard. Dawn, who can become invisible, wants to get revenge on the people who have been talking behind her back but is stopped by Clark.[159] See No Evil was one of the original storylines for season one's "Shimmer".[160]

On November 1, 2002, Aspect published Alan Grant's Smallville: Dragon, about an ex-convict who assumes the abilities and appearance of a dragon after he is exposed to kryptonite in a cave; the mutation drives him to try to kill everyone who testified against him. In the novel, Clark is hypnotized into believing that he is a normal teenager with no special abilities.[161] A month after the publication of Grant's novel Bennett and Gottesfeld wrote Little, Brown Young Readers' Flight, about a young girl (Tia) who Clark discovers has wings. He and his friends believe that Tia is being abused by her father, and teach her to overcome her fear of flying so she can find her mother.[162] Flight (like See No Evil) was a planned episode, but the crew was uncertain that they could get the flying effects right and the idea was scrapped.[163] Nancy Holder wrote the third novel in the Aspect series. Published on January 1, 2003, Hauntings follows Clark and his friends as they investigate a ghostly presence in a Smallville house.[164] Little, Brown Young Readers then published Animal Rage by David and Bobby Weiss, about animal-rights activist Heather Fox (who can change into any animal she touches). Heather uses this ability to harm people who hurt animals until Clark discovers it and stops her.[165] Aspect published Dean Wesley Smith's Whodunit, in which Clark, Chloe, Lana and Pete investigate the murder of a boy and his sister while Lex tries to decide whether to ransom his kidnapped father or try rescuing Lionel himself.[166]

Little, Brown Young Readers published the next two books in April and June 2003. The first, Speed, was written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. The second, Buried Secrets, was written by Suzan Colon. In Speed, a boy uses an hourglass his father gave him for his birthday to stop time and commit hate crimes without being caught. Clark stops him before he disrupts a local multicultural festival.[167] In Buried Secrets Clark and Lex fall in love with a mind-reading substitute Spanish teacher, jeopardizing their friendship.[168]

On September 9, 2004, Aspect published Diana G. Gallagher's Shadows, about a girl and her father who move to Smallville; the father creates murderous monsters. Jonathan Kent assumes that the deaths are related to LuthorCorp, creating tension with his son. Clark discovers the truth to prove Lex's innocence, stopping the creatures before they can kill again.[169] Colon returned to write Runaway, in which Clark runs away to the city and lives with other homeless teenagers; he falls in love with one of the girls before returning home.[170] In Smallville: Silence by Nancy Holder, the characters investigate zombies in town.[171] Little, Brown Young Readers published its eighth book, Greed, by Bennett and Gottesfeld in which Clark and his friends take summer jobs as counselors at a camp for disadvantaged youths. When a boy falls into Crater Lake, he develops the ability to foretell the future and Lionel tries to exploit this. Pete also tries to exploit Clark's abilities by tricking him into playing in a basketball game and betting on the outcome.[172]

Alan Grant returned to write Curse, about a gravedigger who unleashes a 150-year-old curse onto Smallville and Clark's attempts to put things right.[173] On February 1, 2004 Little, Brown Young Readers published Suzan Colon's Temptation, where Clark uses red kryptonite in an attempt to impress Lana and Chloe when they are infatuated with a French exchange student.[174] Aspect published its final novel on March 1, 2004. Written by Devin K. Grayson, City follows Clark and Lex on a trip to Metropolis. In the city, they are caught between the Japanese Yakuza and a secret agent who thinks he has found an alien.[175] In Little, Brown Young Readers' final novel, "Sparks" by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, Chloe is hit by kryptonite sparks from a fireworks display. The sparks make Chloe the desire of every man, but when they wear off an admirer kidnaps her and she is rescued by Clark.[176]

Comic books

Seasonal extensions

Smallville's first venture into comics was "Elemental", a one-off story by Gough and Millar which appeared in TV Guide during the series' first season and set in that period.[177] Before the start of season two, DC Comics published a one-off comic based on the series. Titled Smallville: The Comic, it has two stories. The first, "Raptor" by Mark Verheiden and Roy Martinez, is about an abused boy who mutates into a velociraptor (thanks to kryptonite) and tries to get revenge on the Luthor family. Michael Green and John Paul Leon wrote "Exile and The Kingdom", with insight into why Lex remains in Smallville after his father offers him a position in Metropolis at the end of season one.[178] DC Comics then began publishing a bimonthly comic with stories about Smallville characters. Writer and script coordinator Clint Carpenter called the comic a companion to the series rather than a non-canonical version. According to Carpenter, the series expands on events in the series (such as season-ending cliffhangers) and gives "additional depth" to characters with limited screen time on the series or whose storylines needed additional explanation.[179] Carpenter was not the first person asked to oversee the comic; Mark Verheiden, who co-wrote the one-off comic, was originally intended to be in charge of the bimonthly series. Verheiden's commitment to the TV series kept him from working on the comic books, so he asked Carpenter to take them on. Although the comic book was intended to expand on the TV series, there was an occasional continuity overlap because of differences in production schedule between the comic and the series. In one instance, the comic book showed Clark robbing an ATM and the season-three premiere showed him robbing multiple ATMs.[179] The series tied into the TV series, the Chloe Chronicles webisodes[180] and Smallville-related webpages,[179] with cast and crew interviews and information on the episodes' production.[178][181] The comic series ended in January 2005 with #11, with no comics published until the Season Eleven series debut.

# Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints
1 Smallville DC Comics 2004 ISBN 9781401202040
Collects

The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

  • Smallville: The Comics #1 (November 2002) and Smallville #1–4 (March – November 2003)
 Credits and full notes
Writer(s)
Penciller(s)
  • Thomas Denrenick
  • Tom Derenick
  • Renato Guedes
  • John Paul Leon
  • Kilian Plunkett
  • John Van Fleet

    • Smallville Season Eleven

    The first digital issue of a Smallville Season Eleven comic book was released on April 13, 2012; the first print issue was published on May 2.[182] In the comic book (written by Smallville executive story editor Bryan Q. Miller), set six months after Darkseid's attack, Clark no longer fights crime as "The Blur" but as "Superman". Although Clark is generally accepted by the public, some distrust him (including Lex Luthor, despite his memory loss after his encounter with Tess Mercer),[183] and this worsens when he reveals himself as extraterrestrial. "Detective", a new series of adventures paralleling the TV series and the comic series' second arc, was published digitally on the title's off-week beginning January 4, 2013. A new arc, "Effigy", would feature a team-up of recurring character John Jones and Batman.[184] DC Comics cancelled the series after nineteen issues at the end of the "Olympus" story arc, with the rest of the season-eleven story continuing as miniseries under the Season Eleven banner.[185] In March 2015, DC Comics ended the Smallville Season Eleven with story arc "Continuity", which serves as the finale of the television franchise.[186][187]

    Main series
    # Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints
    1 Guardian DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401238247
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville Season Eleven #1–4 (May 2012 – August 2012) **Digital releases (April 2012 – July 2012)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s) Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
    Six months after Darkseid's defeat, Clark enjoys the general acceptance from the public. Lex Luthor makes plans to destroy Superman, despite having lost all of his memories. In addition, Lex encounters his half-sister, Tess Mercer, and a visitor from a parallel Earth arrives to warn Clark about a "Crisis".
    2 Detective DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401240943
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville Season Eleven #5–8 (September 2012 – December 2012) **Digital releases (August 2012 – November 2012)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s)
    • Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
  • Chris Cross
  • Marc Deering
  • Jamal Igle
  • Mico Suayan
    • Gotham City's heroic duo, Batman and Nightwing, arrive into Metropolis to locate Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer, Joe Chill. They eventually team-up with Clark and his friends to battle against the Intergang, Oswald Loomis, and Victor Fries. Additionally, Chloe reveals a secret to Oliver, and Lex learns why Tess erased his memories.
    3 Haunted DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401242916
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville Season Eleven #9–12 (January 2013 – April 2013) **Digital releases (December 2012 – March 2013)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s)
    • Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
  • Jorge Jimenez
  • Pere Perez
  • Cat Staggs
  • Scott Kolins
    • Bart Allen returns and meets with the Justice Society of America Jay Garrick. Lex is determined to learn Tess's secrets regarding Superman and his allies, and Chloe learns about her deceased parallel universe counterpart. This is chronologically parallel to the interlude story arc Effigy.
    4 Argo DC Comics 2014 ISBN 9781401246372
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville Season Eleven #13–15, Smallville Season Eleven Special #2 (May 2013 – July 2013)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s)
    • Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
  • Daniel HDR
  • Pete Woods
    • Clark and Michael Jon Carter (Booster Gold) travel to the 31st century to team-up with the Legion of Super-Heroes trying to stop war between Earth and an unexpected enemy, Kara. This is chronologically parallel to the interlude story arc Valkyrie.
    5 Olympus DC Comics 2014 ISBN 9781401250768
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville Season Eleven #16–19 (August 2013 – November 2013)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s)
    • Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
  • Jorge Jimenez
  • Cat Staggs
    • Twenty years ago, a young Steve Trevor washed up on the island of Themyscira and met the Amazon princess Diana. Now, Diana and Trevor finds the latter's mother disappears, and their search for her leading them face-to-face with Clark. This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Hollow. The main series ended after #19, and the rest of Season Eleven continues through mini-series.

    Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with "Smallville Season 11: ".

    Interlude series
    # Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints
    1 Effigy DC Comics 2013
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville: Season 11 Special – Chapter 28: Effigy, Part 1 (digital release: January 4, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 Special- Chapter 32: Effigy, Part 2 (digital release: February 1, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 Special- Chapter 36: Effigy, Part 3 (digital release: March 1, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 Special – Chapter 37: Effigy, Part 4 (digital release: March 8, 2013)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s) Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
    • Jorge Jimenez
    • Cat Staggs
    After an attack from a White Martian has left Barbara Gordon injured, John Jones arrives and offers Bruce Wayne his assistance on the investigation. This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Haunted.
    2 Valkyrie DC Comics 2013
    Collects

    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:

    • Smallville: Season 11 – Chapter 41: Valkyrie, Part 1 (digital release: April 5, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 – Chapter 45: Valkyrie, Part 2 (digital release: May 3, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 – Chapter 46: Valkyrie, Part 3 (digital release: May 10, 2013)
    • Smallville: Season 11 – Chapter 50: Valkyrie, Part 4 (digital release: June 7, 2013)
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s) Bryan Q. Miller
    As Clark travels to the 31st century with Michael Carter (Booster Gold) to avert a future war, Lois meets Lana at Cameroon. This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Argo.
    3 Hollow DC Comics 2013
    Collects
    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s) Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
    • Jorge Jimenez
    • Beni Lobel
    Tess finds herself that she must make a choice: should she initiate her revenge on Lex for her death, or to become the hero everyone believe her to be.[188]
    4 Titans DC Comics 2014
    Collects
    The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from:
     Credits and full notes
    Writer(s) Bryan Q. Miller
    Penciller(s)
    • Cat Staggs
    Jay Garrick leads the Teen Titans to against an enemy who is determine to ensure that there won't be a next generation of superheroes. Connor Kent, Mia Dearden, and Jaime Reyes appear in the story.

    Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with "Smallville Season 11 Specials: ".

    Chloe Chronicles

    Allison Mack's character, Chloe Sullivan, has starred in two promotional tie-in series: Smallville: Chloe Chronicles, and Vengeance Chronicles. Two volumes of Chloe Chronicles totaled eleven mini-episodes. In the first volume Chloe investigated events leading to the death of Earl Jenkins, who held Chloe and her friends hostage at the LuthorCorp plant in the first-season episode "Jitters". It aired from April 29 to May 20, 2003 to AOL subscribers.[189] After the first volume received positive responses from viewers, the second volume was created as a continuation with Sam Jones III as Pete Ross. This volume used the Smallville comic books as a secondary tie-in to the series. Viewers could watch Smallville, Chloe's Chronicles and finish with the Smallville comic book, which would provide an "enhanced backstory to the online segments".[190] The later series, Vengeance Chronicles, is a spin-off of the fifth-season episode "Vengeance". In this series Chloe joins a costumed vigilante, whom she calls the "Angel of Vengeance", to expose Lex Luthor's Level 33.1 experiments on meteor-infected people.[191]

    The idea for an online show about Chloe originated with Mark Warshaw, who ran the show's website and was in charge of the DVDs. The series intended to wrap up "unfinished business" from the television show.[192] Although Smallville: Chloe Chronicles began on AOL, it made its way to the United Kingdom's Channel 4 website.[192] According to Lisa Gregorian, senior vice president for television of Warner Bros. Marketing Services, their goal was to create companion programming that offers new and exciting ways to engage the audience, just as music videos did for record promotion.[189] Allison Mack described the show as "very Nancy Drew and mysterious": "I think it's a bit more like The X-Files or NYPD Blue. The Chronicles are like a detective story, with Chloe following clues and interviewing people, going from spot to spot, figuring things out".[192] The scripts were written by Brice Tidwell; Mack was given script approval for the series, allowing her to review and make changes to the script. Warshaw communicated with Gough and Millar to expand Smallville stories in Chloe's Chronicles.[192]

    Promotional tie-ins

    For the season-three premiere, the Smallville producers teamed up with Verizon to enable its registered users to view plot updates (as Daily Planet press releases), quizzes and games related to the show with Verizon product placement.[193] Smallville Legends: The Oliver Queen Chronicles, a six-episode CGI series which chronicled the early life of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, was released in a promotional tie-in with Sprint. According to Warner Bros. Television Group executive vice-president of worldwide marketing Lisa Gregorian, the promotional tie-ins got fans more connected to the show.[194] In April 2007 a tie-in with Toyota promoting the Yaris featured an online comic strip, Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom, as an interstitial program during new Smallville episodes.[195] The interactive comic was based on the "Justice" episode, which follows Oliver Queen, Bart Allen, Victor Stone and Arthur Curry (the initial members of the "Justice League" in Smallville) as they seek to destroy LuthorCorp's secret experimental labs. The online series allowed viewers to investigate with the fictional team to win prizes. Stephan Nilson wrote all five episodes, working with a team of artists on the illustrations. Nilson received the plot for each comic episode as Smallville's production crew was filming its current television episode. Artist Steve Scott drew comic-book panels which were sent to Motherland, a consulting group. Motherland reviewed the drawings, telling Scott which images to draw on a separate overlay; this allowed objects to be moved in and out of a frame.[196]

    In 2008 The CW joined the manufacturers of Stride gum to give viewers an opportunity to create their own Smallville digital comic, Smallville: Visions.[197] The writers and producers developed the comic's beginning and end, allowing viewers to provide the middle. The CW began its tie-in campaign with the March 13, 2008 episode "Hero", where Pete develops superhuman elasticity after chewing kryptonite-infused Stride gum. On The CW's website, viewers voted on one of two options (each adding four pages to the comic) every Tuesday and Thursday until the campaign ended on April 7.[198] In season seven Smallville again worked with Sprint, bringing its customers "mobisodes" titled Smallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton with Clark's cousin Kara.[199][200]

    Spin-offs

    Gough and Millar developed an Aquaman pilot for the WB, with Justin Hartley as Aquaman (Arthur Curry).[201] As work progressed on the Smallville season-five episode "Aqua", although the episode was not intended as a backdoor pilot for an Aquaman spin-off[202] the character was seen as having potential for his own series.[201] Alan Ritchson was not considered for the role in the new series, because Gough and Millar did not consider it a Smallville spin-off. Gough said in November 2005 that the series was to be a different version of the 'Aquaman' legend[201] and suggested a crossover with Smallville at some point.[203] Although the pilot was given a good chance of being picked up, when the WB and UPN merged into The CW the new network passed on the show.[204][205][206]

    During the sixth season there was talk of spinning off the Green Arrow into his own series, but Hartley refused to talk about the possibility of a spin-off because of his role on Smallville. The actor felt it his duty to respect what the show had accomplished in five seasons, and not "steal the spotlight" because there was "talk" of a spin-off after his two appearances. According to Hartley, "talking" was as far as the spin-off idea ever got.[207] Steven DeKnight revealed that a spin-off Justice League series was expected to happen after the episode "Justice", and would continue the story of Oliver and his new team.[208]

    Arrowverse

    Further information: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse)

    Tom Welling and Erica Durance reprised their roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane for the 2019-20 Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths".[209][210] The crossover retroactively establishes the events of Smallville as taking place on Earth-167 and reveals that in the years since the finale, Clark has given up his powers and taken over the Kent farm, where he and Lois raise their two daughters.[211] Michael Rosenbaum was approached about reprising his role of Lex Luthor, but he declined when Warner Bros. did not show him a script, tell him what his character was going to do, nor let him know when he was going to film.[212] Alan Ritchson, who played Arthur Curry / Aquaman on the series, was also approached to reprise his role in the crossover but turned it down due to scheduling commitments with Titans.[213] Despite this, Ritchson did make an uncredited cameo appearance in the crossover as his Titans character, Hank Hall / Hawk, in repurposed footage from that series.[211]

    Possible animated series revival

    In June 2021, Tom Welling announced in a video shared on Cameo that he and Smallville co-star Michael Rosenbaum were developing an animated series revival to the series and hoping to "use as many of the original cast members as possible".[214] Later in October, Welling said that he and Rosenbaum were preparing a pitch of the series for Warner Bros., with original creators Gough and Miller also returning.[215] Rosenbaum and Welling delivered the pitch for the series to Warner Bros. Television in January 2022.[216] In February, Welling shared that he and Michael Rosenbaum would be returning along with John Glover, Sam Jones III, Kristin Kreuk and Erica Durance. Also returning are original series showrunners, Gough and Miller.[217] In that same month, Welling stated that it was unlikely that Mack would return for the series due to sex trafficking charges made against her for which she was convicted and imprisoned.[218] In May, Durance announced that the series was in some stage of pre-production or production, but still alive.[219]

    Home media

    Seasons one through ten have been released on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4. Seasons five and six were also released in the HD DVD format on November 28, 2006[220] and September 18, 2007,[221] respectively. Seasons six, seven, eight, nine and ten have been released for Blu-ray. The DVD releases include deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes and commentary by cast and crew members on selected episodes. The promotional tie-ins Chloe Chronicles and Vengeance Chronicles accompanied the season two, three and five box sets. Other special features include interactive functionality (such as a tour of Smallville), a comic book and DVD-ROM material.[222] On October 16, 2021, for the 20th anniversary, the complete series was released for the first time on Blu-ray.[223]

    Complete Season Release dates
    Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
    1st September 23, 2003[224] October 13, 2003[225] December 3, 2003[226]
    2nd May 18, 2004[227] September 17, 2004[228] January 1, 2005[229]
    3rd November 16, 2004[230] April 18, 2005[231] July 13, 2005[232]
    4th September 13, 2005[233] October 10, 2005[234] November 11, 2006[235]
    5th September 12, 2006[236] August 28, 2006[237] April 4, 2007[238]
    6th September 18, 2007[239] October 22, 2007[240] March 5, 2008[241]
    7th September 9, 2008[242] October 13, 2008[243] March 3, 2009[244]
    8th August 25, 2009[245] October 12, 2009[246] March 31, 2010[247]
    9th September 7, 2010[248] October 25, 2010[249] June 22, 2011[250]
    10th November 29, 2011[251] October 17, 2011[252] April 4, 2012[253]
    Complete series November 29, 2011[1][251] October 17, 2011[254] August 1, 2012[255]
    Season Smallville Blu-ray releases
    Region A Region B
    United States Canada United Kingdom Australia
    6th September 18, 2007[256] October 9, 2007[257] October 13, 2008[258] March 3, 2009[259]
    7th September 9, 2008[260] October 13, 2008[261] March 3, 2009[262]
    8th August 25, 2009[263] October 12, 2009[264] March 31, 2010[265]
    9th September 7, 2010[248] October 25, 2010[266] June 22, 2011[267]
    10th November 29, 2011[251] October 17, 2011[268] April 4, 2012[269]

    Merchandise

    Since Smallville began airing, a variety of merchandise connected with the series has been produced. Two soundtrack albums of songs from the show have been released. Smallville: The Talon Mix, with a group of artists who licensed their music for the show, was issued on February 25, 2003.[270] Smallville: The Metropolis Mix, with another group of artists, was released on November 8, 2005.[271] In addition to the soundtracks, action figures, T-shirts, hats and posters have been produced.[272] In December 2002 autographed Smallville merchandise was listed for auction on eBay, with the proceeds going to charity.[273] In 2003, Titan Magazines began publishing a monthly Smallville magazine with cast and crew interviews, information on Smallville merchandise and photos. The 34th and final issue was published in November 2009.[274]

    Titan Books published companion volumes for each season with cast and crew interviews, episode descriptions and behind-the-scenes photos. On September 1, 2004, the company published its first companion for the series.[275] Written by Paul Simpson, the book has sixteen pages of color photos of the cast.[276] On March 1, 2005 Titan Books published its season-two companion, also written by Simpson,[277] which details the series' special effects.[278] Titan published the third-season companion on September 1,[279] the last written by Simpson. He described the episodes' plots, discussing the neglect of the Martha Kent character and the failure of the Adam Knight storyline.[280] Titan Books released the fourth-season companion by Craig Byrne, who wrote the subsequent companion books, on September 4, 2007.[281] It contains interviews with the cast and crew and color photos of the production.[282] Titan published the season-five companion on December 26, 2007.[283] The season-six companion, with an introduction by Justin Hartley, was published on March 25, 2008.[284] The season-seven companion (Titan's last) has a foreword by Laura Vandervoort, a reflection on the "Smallville phenomenon" and a discussion of Gough and Millar's departure.[285]

    In 2010, the Smallville Roleplaying Game was released by Margaret Weis Productions using its Cortex Plus System. Using the series' season-nine setting, it includes rules for earlier seasons. Two supplements, the High School Yearbook and the Watchtower Report, were produced. Players can play the characters from Smallville, or create their own spin-off of the series.[286] Ultimate Smallville Soundtrack, a five-CD box set with 100 songs from the series' 10 seasons, was released by Vicious Records in May 2013 with all profits benefiting the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.[287]

    See also

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This article is about the TV series For the fictional town see Smallville comics Smallville is an American superhero television series developed by writer producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster The series was produced by Millar Gough Ink Tollin Robbins Productions DC Comics and Warner Bros Television Initially broadcast by the WB the show premiered on October 16 2001 After its fifth season the WB and UPN merged to form The CW the series later United States broadcaster until its tenth and final season ended on May 13 2011 SmallvilleGenreAction adventure Coming of age Superhero Teen dramaBased onSupermanby Jerry SiegelJoe ShusterDeveloped byAlfred Gough Miles MillarStarringTom Welling Kristin Kreuk Michael Rosenbaum Eric Johnson Sam Jones III Allison Mack Annette O Toole John Schneider John Glover Jensen Ackles Erica Durance Aaron Ashmore Laura Vandervoort Cassidy Freeman Sam Witwer Justin Hartley Callum BlueOpening theme Save Me by Remy ZeroComposersMark Snow Season 1 6 Louis Febre Season 7 10 Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons10No of episodes217 1 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersDavid Nutter pilot Alfred Gough Miles Millar Michael Tollin Brian Robbins Joe Davola Ken Horton Greg Beeman James Marshall Todd Slavkin Darren Swimmer Kelly Souders Brian Peterson Tom WellingProduction locationsBritish Columbia CanadaCinematographyGlen Winter Barry Donlevy Attila Szalay David Moxness Gordon Verheul Michael Wale Gregory Middleton Randal PlattEditorsRon Spang Andi Armaganian Neil Felder David Ekstrom Debby Germino Vikash Patel Stephen Mark Peter B EllisRunning time42 minutesProduction companiesTollin Robbins Productions Millar Gough Ink DC Comics Warner Bros TelevisionDistributorWarner Bros Domestic Television DistributionReleaseOriginal networkThe WB 2001 06 The CW 2006 11 Original releaseOctober 16 2001 2001 10 16 May 13 2011 2011 05 13 Smallville follows the coming of age adventures of teenage Clark Kent Tom Welling in his fictional hometown of Smallville Kansas before he formally becomes the Man of Steel The first four seasons focus on the high school life of Clark and his friends his complicated romance with neighbor girl Lana Lang Kristin Kreuk and his friendship with future nemesis Lex Luthor Michael Rosenbaum From season five onwards Smallville ventures into Clark s early adult years eventually focusing on his career alongside Lois Lane Erica Durance at the Daily Planet and introducing other DC comicbook superheroes and villains Before the series production Bruce Wayne a drama series chronicling the young protagonist s journey toward Batman was proposed first Although that series failed to generate interest it inspired the idea of a Superman origin story which later became Smallville Series developers Gough and Millar pitched their no tights no flights rule to the president of Warner Bros Television reducing the Man of Steel to the bare moral essentials and examining what led Clark Kent to become the iconic superhero After seven seasons with the show Gough and Millar departed with little explanation Smallville was primarily filmed in and around Vancouver British Columbia with local businesses and buildings substituting for Smallville locations Most of the music for the first six seasons was composed by Mark Snow who incorporated elements of John Williams s musical score from the Superman film series In season seven Louis Febre who worked with Snow from the beginning became the series primary composer Smallville was generally positively received when it began Former Superman star Christopher Reeve expressed approval for the series making two guest appearances before his death The pilot episode set a ratings record for a WB debut with 8 4 million viewers Over ten seasons the series averaged about 4 34 million viewers per episode with season two the highest rated at 6 3 million By the end of its run Smallville passed Stargate SG 1 as the longest running North American science fiction series by episode count 2 Since its first season the series received accolades ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards Smallville spawned a series of young adult novels a DC Comics bimonthly comic book soundtracks and series related merchandise All ten seasons are available on DVD in regions 1 2 and 4 After the series finale in 2011 the story resumed in comic book form with 22 issues of Season 11 from April 2012 to November 2013 Contents 1 Series overview 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Crew changes 3 3 Filming 3 4 Music 4 Broadcasting 4 1 Reception 4 2 Nielsen rankings 4 3 Accolades 5 Other media 5 1 Literature 5 1 1 Young adult novels 5 2 Comic books 5 2 1 Seasonal extensions 5 2 2 Smallville Season Eleven 5 2 2 1 Main series 5 2 2 2 Interlude series 5 3 Chloe Chronicles 5 4 Promotional tie ins 5 5 Spin offs 5 6 Arrowverse 5 7 Possible animated series revival 6 Home media 7 Merchandise 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksSeries overview EditMain article List of Smallville episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedNetwork121October 16 2001 2001 10 16 May 21 2002 2002 05 21 The WB223September 24 2002 2002 09 24 May 20 2003 2003 05 20 322October 1 2003 2003 10 01 May 19 2004 2004 05 19 422September 22 2004 2004 09 22 May 18 2005 2005 05 18 522September 29 2005 2005 09 29 May 11 2006 2006 05 11 622September 28 2006 2006 09 28 May 17 2007 2007 05 17 The CW720September 27 2007 2007 09 27 May 15 2008 2008 05 15 822September 18 2008 2008 09 18 May 14 2009 2009 05 14 921September 25 2009 2009 09 25 May 14 2010 2010 05 14 1022September 24 2010 2010 09 24 May 13 2011 2011 05 13 The regular cast is introduced in season one with storylines involving a villain deriving power from kryptonite exposure The one episode villains were a plot device developed by Gough and Millar 3 Smallville s first season primarily dealt with Clark Kent s coming to terms with his alien origin and the revelation that his arrival on Earth was connected to the death of Lana Lang s parents 4 After the first season the series had fewer villain of the week episodes focusing instead on individual character story arcs and exploring Clark s origins 5 Major storylines include Clark s discovery of his Kryptonian heritage and Lex Luthor s escalating conflict with his father Lionel 6 The disembodied voice of Clark s biological father Jor El is introduced he communicates to Clark through his spaceship setting the stage for plots involving his role in fulfilling Clark s earthly destiny 7 In a fourth season arc Clark instructed by Jor El searches for three Kryptonian stones which contain the knowledge of the universe and form his Fortress of Solitude 8 9 Clark battles Brainiac in his attempts to release the Kryptonian criminal General Zod 10 and must capture or destroy other escaped Phantom Zone criminals 11 His cousin Kara arrives 12 and Lex Luthor discovers Clark s secret 13 The eighth season introduces Davis Bloome Smallville s version of Doomsday and Tess Mercer replaces the departing Lex Luthor Justin Hartley becomes a series regular as Oliver Queen Green Arrow after being a recurring guest in season six 14 In the ninth season Major Zod Callum Blue and other members of Zod s military group are revived without their Kryptonian powers by Tess Mercer 15 and their efforts to regain their powers are the season s central conflict The final season revolves around Clark s attempts to lose his doubts and fears and become the hero he is meant to be while confronting his biggest challenges the coming of Darkseid and the return of Lex Luthor 16 Cast EditMain article List of Smallville characters Although Welling initially refused to audition for the role of Clark Kent he changed his mind after reading the script for the pilot episode Tom Welling as Clark Kent a young man with superhuman abilities who tries to find his place in life after discovering that he is an extraterrestrial in origin and uses his powers to help those in danger Clark s season one problems include his inability to share his secret and his desire for a normal life After months of scouting Welling was cast as Clark 17 David Nutter had to convince Welling s manager that the role would not hurt the actor s film career in order to get Welling to read the pilot script After reading the script Welling agreed to audition for the role of Clark Kent 3 Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang the girl next door Grieving the loss of her parents she has empathy for everyone and feels connected to Clark 18 Kreuk was the first to be cast after Nutter saw an audition tape the actress had sent 3 Although she left the series after the seventh season 19 she returned for five episodes in season eight as a special guest star 20 Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor a billionaire s son sent to Smallville to run the local fertilizer plant After Clark saves his life they become fast friends 21 As the series progresses Lex s friendship with Clark crumbles until they consider themselves enemies The role was difficult to cast 4 Michael Rosenbaum auditioned twice and feeling that he did not take his first audition seriously enough outlined a two and a half page scene indicating where to be funny charismatic or menacing 22 His second audition went so well that he was hired 4 Rosenbaum left the show after seven seasons 19 23 reprising his role for the series finale 24 Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordman Lana s boyfriend in season one who becomes mean to Clark and Lana s budding friendship and bullies him 21 He reconciles with Clark before joining the Marines and going to Afghanistan 25 Although Whitney was written out of the show in the first season finale he made a special appearance in the season two episode Visage where it is disclosed that he was killed in action and was also a guest star in the season four episode Facade during a flashback to Clark s freshman year of high school Johnson who auditioned for Lex and Clark before he was cast as Whitney 26 was pleased that the writers gave his character a hero s exit 27 Sam Jones III as Pete Ross another best friend of Clark s and the first person to whom Clark voluntarily tells his secret 28 Although he is in love with Chloe 29 he does not admit it because of the Clark Lana Chloe love triangle already in place 30 Ross was written out of the series at the end of season three but made a guest appearance in season seven Jones was the last of the series regulars to be cast with Gough and Millar seeing him four days before they began filming the pilot 30 In the comics Ross is Caucasian but the producers chose to cast Jones who is African American 30 Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan one of Clark s best friends who is in love with him although her feelings are not reciprocated 31 Editor of the school newspaper her journalistic curiosity and desire to expose falsehoods and know the truth 32 create tension with her friends especially when she investigates Clark s past 33 After learning about Smallville from casting director Dee Dee Bradley Mack considered auditioning for Lana Lang but auditioned twice for Chloe Sullivan 32 The character was created just for the series 4 and was intended to have an ethnic background before Mack was hired 32 She has since appeared in the comic book 34 Annette O Toole as Martha Kent Clark s adoptive mother She and her husband Jonathan give Clark wise advice about coping with his increasing abilities In season five Martha takes a state senate seat 35 and in season six she leaves the show 36 Although Cynthia Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent during filming everyone including Ettinger realized that she was not right for the part 4 O Toole was committed to the television series The Huntress when Ettinger filmed the original pilot Around the time the creators wanted to recast Martha Kent The Huntress was coincidentally canceled allowing O Toole to join the cast 37 The actress had previously played Lana Lang in Superman III 38 John Schneider as Jonathan Kent Clark s adoptive father who goes to great lengths to protect his son s secret according to Schneider Jonathan is perfectly willing to go to jail or worse to protect his son 39 Schneider was written out of the show in the series 100th episode with Jonathan dying of a heart attack on the night of his election victory 40 Millar and Gough wanted a recognizable face for Smallville they were happy to cast Schneider as Jonathan because he was known as Bo Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard which Gough saw as adding to the belief that Schneider could have grown up running a farm 4 John Glover as Lionel Luthor Lex s father Lionel is responsible for the Kents adoption of Clark without legal ramifications or questions about his origins 33 Glover tried to make Lionel seem to try to toughen Lex up and saw the character as a rich powerful businessman who was disappointed in his son 41 Lionel was created for Smallville to parallel the Kents and as an experiment in extreme parenting 4 A recurring first season guest Glover became a series regular from seasons two to seven until Lionel was murdered by Lex near the end of the seventh season 42 Lionel returns in a parallel universe version also portrayed by Glover during the final season as a special guest star 43 Jensen Ackles as Jason Teague Lana s love interest in season four He follows Lana to Smallville from Paris taking a job as the school s assistant football coach 44 but is fired when their relationship comes to light By the end of the season it is disclosed that he was working with his mother to track the three Kryptonian stones of knowledge 45 Before he was cast as Jason Ackles was second in line for the role of Clark Kent 46 Although he received top billing for season four and was contracted for season five he was written out of the show in the season four finale because of his commitment to Supernatural 47 Erica Durance was cast as Lois Lane days before fourth season filming began and her appearance was initially restricted by the film division of Warner Bros Studios Erica Durance as Lois Lane Chloe s cousin who comes to Smallville to investigate Chloe s supposed death 8 and stays with the Kents Durance a recurring guest in season four became a series regular The producers wanted to bring Lois Lane to the series and Chloe s supposed death in the season three finale provided the opportunity Durance was cast three days before filming began although she could initially appear in only four episodes according to the film division of Warner Bros after negotiations her character was cleared for more appearances 48 Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen Chloe s photographer boyfriend who works at the Daily Planet Ashmore a recurring guest in season six became a regular cast member in season seven He called his casting a welcome surprise I auditioned for the role and I put myself on tape I hadn t heard anything and a couple of weeks later all of the sudden sic I got the call saying You re going to Vancouver to start shooting Smallville It s a dream come true really 49 After three seasons on the series two as a regular Ashmore s character was killed off Although Ashmore s Jimmy Olsen was murdered he said his character was not the real Jimmy Olsen his real name revealed to be Henry James Olsen Jimmy s younger brother who appears briefly in the season eight finale is intended to be the Jimmy who works with Clark and Lois 50 Ashmore returns as the younger Jimmy in the series finale Laura Vandervoort as Kara Zor El Clark s Kryptonian cousin Sent to look after Kal El Clark she was in suspended animation for eighteen years When the dam confining Kara s ship broke in the season six finale Phantom she was set free She has Clark s abilities including flight 51 At the end of the seventh season Kara was trapped in the Phantom Zone Although Vandervoort did not return regularly for the eighth season 52 she returned to wrap up her storylines as a guest in season eight s Bloodline and as a special guest star in season ten s Supergirl and Prophecy 53 Cassidy Freeman as Tess Mercer Lex s handpicked successor as LuthorCorp CEO in season eight 54 Her name is an homage to two Superman characters Eve Teschmacher and Mercy Graves 55 Freeman described her character as fierce fun and intelligent with finding Lex her primary season eight goal Tess believes that Clark will be able to help her 56 In the season ten episode Abandoned it is disclosed that her birth name is Lutessa Lena Luthor and she is Lionel s illegitimate daughter 57 Samuel Witwer as Davis Bloome a charismatic paramedic struggling with inner darkness 54 Davis Bloome is Smallville s version of Doomsday the only character to kill Superman Davis would come to resemble his comic book counterpart over the course of the season 58 Brian Peterson said that with Michael Rosenbaum s departure the new executive producers were looking for a villain as great as Lex and Doomsday fit the bill 59 Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen Green Arrow the CEO of Queen Industries and leader of a small group of superheroes known as the Justice League Hartley a recurring guest in the sixth and seventh seasons became a series regular in season eight 14 and was the producers first choice to play Oliver Queen He was designed to shake up Clark and Lois in season six and to give Clark an alternate view of how to fight crime 60 Callum Blue as Zod an early version of the criminal from Krypton who was sent to the Phantom Zone prison His character is first mentioned in season five when Brainiac uses Lex s body as a vessel for Zod s spirit and he appears in a Kryptonian sphere in the season eight finale 61 Smallville s executive producers called this incarnation Major Zod as opposed to the typical General Zod and in season nine the venomous side of Zod rises because he experiences a few key betrayals with our beloved characters 62 Production EditDevelopment Edit Tollin Robbins Productions originally wanted to do a series about a young Bruce Wayne but the feature film division of Warner Bros decided to develop an origin movie for Batman and did not want to compete with a television series 4 In 2000 Tollin Robbins approached Peter Roth president of Warner Bros Television about developing a series on a young Superman That year Alfred Gough and Miles Millar developed a pilot based on the film Eraser After watching the pilot Roth approached Gough and Millar about developing a pilot about a young Superman 4 the two made a no tights no flights rule that Clark would not fly or wear the Superman suit during the series 63 Chloe Sullivan Allison Mack was created for the series Gough and Millar wanted to strip Superman to his bare essence exploring why Clark Kent became the Man of Steel 4 They felt that because they were not comic book fans or familiar with the universe they would have an unbiased approach to the series Gough and Millar learned about the characters researching the comics and choosing what they liked 4 They pitched their idea to the WB and Fox on the same day 64 A bidding war between the networks followed with the WB committing to thirteen episodes 64 Although Roth Gough and Millar knew the show would be action oriented they wanted to reach 7th Heaven s middle America iconography To create atmosphere the team decided the meteor shower bringing Clark to Earth would be the ironic foundation of the show The primary source of his life on Earth and the super powered beings Clark must fight it would take away the parents of the girl he loves and start Lex Luthor down a dark path Roth appreciated Clark s conflict in dealing with the fact that his arrival caused so much pain 4 The creators also had to address why Lex Luthor would socialize with young people They created a loneliness in the character which they felt would drive him to reach out to the teenagers 4 a loneliness echoed in Clark and Lana 3 Gough and Millar wanted a parallel to the Kents and created Lionel Luthor Lex s father whom they saw as conducting an experiment in extreme parenting 4 They wanted a younger Kent couple to be involved in Clark s life and help him on his journey 3 Chloe Sullivan another character created for the series was considered the outsider the show needed to ensure that someone would notice the strange happenings in Smallville 4 rather than a precursor to Lois Lane 3 Smallville has been described by Warner Bros as a from the roots reinterpretation of Superman mythology Since the November 2004 reacquisition of Superboy by the Siegel family a copyright infringement dispute has arisen over ownership of the fictional town of Smallville and a claimed similarity between Superboy and Smallville s Clark Kent According to the Siegel heirs Smallville is part of the Superboy copyright which they hold 65 Crew changes Edit In April 2008 after seven seasons with the series Gough and Millar left Smallville The developers thanked the cast and crew for their work acknowledging that they never stopped fighting for what they saw as their vision of the show The reason for their departure was not provided 66 Gough and Millar were replaced as showrunners by Todd Slavkin Darren Swimmer Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson All began writing for the series at the start of the second season and were executive producers by the seventh season In 2009 after one season Swimmer and Slavkin took over the new CW series Melrose Place and did not return for Smallville s ninth season Souders and Peterson would continue as showrunners 67 Tom Welling became co executive producer of the series that July 68 In March 2010 Millar Gough and co producer Tollin Robins Productions filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros and The CW charging that Hollywood s vertical integration cost Millar and Gough millions of dollars The suit claimed that Warner Bros failed to maximize profits in marketing Smallville misrepresented production costs and sold the show to foreign markets at well below the value of the series not specifying the amount of compensation sought by the plaintiffs 69 The lawsuit ended with an undisclosed settlement in May 2013 70 Tom Welling was appointed an executive producer for Smallville s tenth season in May 2010 71 Filming Edit The series was filmed at BB Studios in Burnaby British Columbia Although production was initially planned for Australia Vancouver had more of a Middle America landscape The city provided a site for the Kent farm doubled for Metropolis provided a cheaper shooting location and was in the Los Angeles time zone 4 Smallville s Main Street is a combination of two locations in the town of Merritt and Cloverdale 3 Cloverdale welcome sign Vancouver Technical School doubled as the exterior for Smallville High since the school had the mid American largess wanted by the filmmakers 3 and was in keeping with Millar s idea that Smallville should be the epitome of Smalltown USA 21 Templeton Secondary School was used for Smallville High s interior 72 During season one the production team repainted most of Templeton in Smallville High s red and yellow and distributed large Smallville High Crows logos so much of the school was painted that it adopted red and yellow as its school colors The students became accustomed to the film crew which had to shoot when school was in session and when a class was dismissed the crew stepped aside so the students could move the equipment to get to their lockers for the next class 73 The Kent farm is a working farm in Aldergrove Owned by the Anderlinis the crew painted their home yellow for the show 64 Exterior shots of Luthor Mansion were filmed at Hatley Castle in Victoria 3 The interiors were filmed at Shannon Mews in Vancouver also the set for the Dark Angel pilot and the film Along Came a Spider 3 Clova Cinema in Cloverdale was used for exteriors of the Talon Smallville s coffeehouse 74 The story is told from Clark s point of view so color schemes and camera selection illustrate how he interprets his environment When he is safe at home the colors are warm and gentle earth tones and the camera movement is very gentle When Clark is keeping his secret and not in danger the lighting is more neutral and the camera more mobile When danger is present the lighting becomes colder and the camera is handheld to allow for more extreme angles In Metropolis clean hard lined architecture predominates with blues purples and reflective metals the dominant scheme The same concept is used for the characters Lex usually has a glass steel background and Lionel has a white or clinical blue background Lex typically wears black grey and cool tones purples and blues Clark is represented by red yellow and blue similar to the traditional Superman costume and All American red white and blue 75 From season two onward Entity FX produced all of the visual effects for Smallville including the view of the Metropolis skyline 76 Music Edit Composer Mark Snow worked with producer Ken Horton to create Smallville s score Snow composed music as he watched the picture and tweaked his performance when he reviewed his initial recordings He then sent the music to the producers who sent it back for recomposition if needed Individual episodes have their own soundtrack comprising one or more songs Jennifer Pyken and Madonna Wade Reed of Daisy Music looked for songs for the soundtrack Their choices were discussed by the producers who decided which songs they wanted and secured their rights Although Snow said it initially seemed odd to combine two types of music on a typical action adventure television show the producers seem to like the contrast of the modern songs and the traditional orchestral approach to the score 77 I get a locked picture on a videotape which syncs up with all my gear in the studio I write the music finish it up mix it up send it through the airwaves on the internet and the music editor puts it in They call up usually and say Thank you well done Sometimes they call and say Thank you not so well done can you change this or that I say Sure make the changes and send it back 77 Mark Snow on composing music for each episode The main Smallville theme was not composed by Snow although he composed opening themes for other shows including The X Files The series opening music is Save Me by Remy Zero Snow composed the closing credits music which was intended as Smallville s theme During the first two seasons the closing credits music was a potential theme for the series before Save Me was selected it was more heroic and in your face Snow was told during season two that the closing credits needed new music since the show had evolved and the existing music was no longer suitable and he created a new toned down score with a more melodic sound 73 Snow has also reworked music from the previous Superman films John Williams s musical score for the Krypton sequence in the opening credits of Superman was used in season two s Rosetta which featured a guest appearance by Christopher Reeve and several times in the season two finale To save money Snow recorded his version of Williams s score since using the original version would have required the team to pay Williams s orchestra 78 In an interview with Randall Larson in May 2008 Snow said that he would not be returning to Smallville citing the joint workload of Smallville and Ghost Whisperer but would return for the latter Reminiscing about his work on the show Snow said that much of the music had not changed during the series and agreed with Larson that it was more about maintaining the heroic concept and the mythology than progressing through specific changes 79 Louis Febre who worked closely with Snow from the beginning became the sole composer for Smallville in season seven Febre said that since he began composing for Smallville there was a shift to thematic development in the score paralleling the characters growth As Clark grew emotionally and intellectually more complex I found a need to comment musically on his growth and as he drew closer to his Superman persona it became obvious that a Superman theme would be required 80 The creative team had a number of opportunities to try different music to enhance an episode s storyline Pyken and Wade Reed chose and coordinated music on the show when Snow and Febre s scores were not used 81 In season three s Slumber producer Ken Horton wondered if they could get a band to provide music for the entire episode During a breakfast meeting with the music department of Warner Bros R E M was suggested and Pyken and Wade Reed immediately saw an opportunity to connect the episode s featured band with its story which revolved around REM sleep 82 That season Al Gough wanted to use Johnny Cash s cover of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt for the final scene of Shattered when Lionel Luthor looks at Lex through a one way mirror at Belle Reve sanitarium as soon as he read the episode s script Cash died while Wade Reed was trying to obtain the rights for the song and his heirs believing that the song s use in the episode would honor his memory gave Smallville the rights 83 For season three s Resurrection and Memoria songs were chosen as symbolism for the characters In Resurrection The Rapture s Infatuation was used during a scene with Lex and Lana to symbolize the question Are we ever going to figure out what these two people think of each other 84 For Memoria Gough wanted to use Evanescence s My Immortal for the episode s final scene telling Wade Reed that he saw the song as being about mothers In that scene Clark tells Martha that his first childhood memory was of his mother Lara 85 Season three s Velocity provided the music editors with the opportunity to use hip hop rarely used in the series The episode similar to The Fast and the Furious focused on Pete Wade Reed heard of British hip hop artist Dizzee Rascal and was the first person in the United States to secure the rights to Rascal s album 86 Greg Beeman directs episodes and sometimes scenes with particular songs in mind For Vortex in season two he used Coldplay s In My Place for the final scene 87 In the season two finale Exodus Beeman directed the scene where Lana shows up at the Kent barn before Lex s wedding to Matthew Good s Weapon The lyrics speak of an angel and devil by my side and Beeman timed specific shots to the song s lyrics 78 Broadcasting EditSmallville premiered at 9 00 pm on Tuesday 88 October 16 2001 on the WB 89 For the next five seasons the series aired on the WB moving from Tuesday at 9 00 pm to Wednesday at 8 00 pm and eventually to Thursday at 8 00 pm In 2006 before the start of Smallville s sixth season the WB and UPN merged into The CW and the series continued in its lineup 90 During its seventh season the series aired in Canada a day earlier than it did in the United States 91 In May 2009 Smallville s ninth season move to Friday at 8 00 pm considered the death slot for television programs 92 93 By the end of its tenth season it was the longest running science fiction TV show in the United States breaking the record held by Stargate SG 1 94 Syndication rights became available in October 2004 when it began airing alongside Gilmore Girls on ABC Family now Freeform five nights a week 95 After the series concluded TNT began airing episodes on October 3 2011 96 Smallville began streaming on Hulu on October 1 2016 97 Reception Edit Smallville set a WB record as its highest rated series debut with 8 4 million viewers tuned in for the pilot 98 Its premiere set a WB record for adults aged 18 34 and finished first among viewers aged 12 34 with Warner Bros president Jordan Levin crediting the series with invigorating the network s Tuesday night lineup Smallville appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as one of five new shows to watch 99 After its first season the series was sixth on the Parents Television Council s 10 best list of broadcast programs 100 Levin acknowledging early concerns that Smallville had become a villain of the week series said that season two would introduce smaller mini arcs over three to four episodes and become less of a serialized show 101 According to Gough although each succeeding season relied more on season long story arcs an occasional villain of the week story was necessary The villain of the week stories were more harshly criticized by fans of the Superman mythology but Gough wanted to please them and the WB s general audience teenagers who preferred villain of the week stories over episodes focusing on the Superman mythology 102 Christopher Reeve star of the Superman films expressed his approval of the show I was a little bit skeptical when I heard about Smallville at first but I must say the writing the acting and the special effects are quite remarkable In 1977 a big stunt scene would have taken us a week to film it s pretty impressive what they are able to do with computers and effects technology today on a weekly TV show It gives it a lot more production value and inventiveness than I thought I was going to see when I first heard about the series I think the show is doing a really good job following the mythology and Tom is doing a good job following the tradition 103 According to MTV s Karl Heitmueller Smallville s Clark Kent was a better representation of the original material and remained true to the heart of the story by showing Clark s selflessness and his struggle between his desires and his obligations However Heitmueller wrote that the series would have a difficult time addressing why no one in Smallville including Lex Luthor recognized Clark when he put on the suit 104 TV Guide s Michael Schneider called it one of the best examples of a superhero adaptation for television 105 but Christopher Hooton of Metro wrote that Smallville was a story which did not need to be told No one bothered to follow Bruce Wayne s tedious years spent manufacturing microchips before he became Batman so why must we endure a decade of flannel shirt wearing Clark Kent bucking hay 106 Nielsen rankings Edit The following is a table for the seasonal rankings based on average total estimated viewers per episode of Smallville on the WB and The CW Rank refers to how Smallville rated compared to the other television series which aired during primetime hours Viewership and ratings per season of Smallville Season Timeslot ET Network Episodes First aired Last aired TV season Viewershiprank Avg viewers millions Date Viewers millions Date Viewers millions 1 Tuesday 9 00 pm The WB 21 October 16 2001 8 40 107 May 21 2002 6 00 108 2001 02 115 109 5 90 109 2 23 September 24 2002 8 70 110 May 20 2003 7 53 111 2002 03 113 112 6 30 112 3 Wednesday 8 00 pm 22 October 1 2003 6 82 113 May 19 2004 5 92 114 2003 04 141 115 4 96 115 4 22 September 22 2004 6 07 116 May 18 2005 5 47 117 2004 05 124 118 4 40 118 5 Thursday 8 00 pm 22 September 29 2005 5 90 119 May 11 2006 4 85 120 2005 06 117 121 4 70 121 6 The CW 22 September 28 2006 4 96 122 May 17 2007 4 14 123 2006 07 125 124 4 10 124 7 20 September 27 2007 5 18 125 May 15 2008 3 85 126 2007 08 175 127 3 77 127 8 22 September 18 2008 4 34 128 May 14 2009 3 13 129 2008 09 152 130 3 74 130 9 Friday 8 00 pm 21 September 25 2009 2 58 131 May 14 2010 2 45 132 2009 10 129 133 2 38 133 10 22 September 24 2010 2 98 134 May 13 2011 3 02 135 2010 11 202 136 3 19 137 Accolades Edit During its ten seasons Smallville won awards ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards In 2002 the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for its pilot episode 138 Four years later it received an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for the fifth season episode Arrival 139 140 In 2008 Smallville again won an Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series Emmy for season seven s Bizarro 141 Smallville has received a number of Leo Awards Make up artist Natalie Cosco won two Leo Awards for Best Make Up for her work in the fourth season episode Scare 142 and in the sixth season s Hypnotic and Wither 143 At the 2006 Leo Awards Barry Donlevy won Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Series for his work on the fourth season episode Spirit and David Wilson won Best Production Design in a Dramatic Series for Sacred 144 Smallville s sixth season won a Best Dramatic Series Leo James Marshall won Best Direction for Zod Caroline Cranstoun won Best Costume Design for her work on Arrow and James Philpott won Best Production Design for Justice 143 In 2008 Smallville won Leos for Best Dramatic Series and Best Cinematography 145 The visual effects team was recognized for its work on the pilot with a 2002 Best Visual Effects Leo 146 and received 2004 VES Awards for Outstanding Compositing in a Televised Program Music Video or Commercial for the second season s Accelerate and Outstanding Matte Painting in a Televised Program Music Video or Commercial for Insurgence 147 In 2002 the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers honored composer Mark Snow and Remy Zero who provided the opening song Save Me for their contributions to the series the award was given to individuals who wrote the theme or underscore for the highest rated television series in 2001 for their network 148 The American Society of Cinematographers awarded David Moxness for the sixth season s Arrow giving Glen Winter the same award the following year for his work on Noir 149 Series regulars have also won awards in 2001 Michael Rosenbaum won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 150 and Tom Welling won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout TV Star Male in 2002 151 Allison Mack won the Teen Choice Best Sidekick award in 2006 152 and 2007 153 and in 2009 Welling received the Choice TV Actor Action Adventure award 154 Millar stated that Smallville visually and aesthetically was a celebration of Americana with aspects such as Clark s red white and blue apparel Being an idyllic portrait of America he said helped the show s popularity after the September 11 attacks on the United States Actors reported that many United States military veterans told them of watching the show as a distraction from combat while serving overseas 155 Other media EditSmallville has generated other media and spin offs from young adult novels and comic books to Internet based mini episodes with characters from the series It influenced the British TV series Merlin 156 Literature Edit Two series of novels have been published since Smallville s second season A series of eight young adult novels was published by Aspect Publishing from October 2002 to March 2004 and a second series of ten young adult novels was published by Little Brown Young Readers from October 2002 to April 2004 A bimonthly comic book series which often tied into the series was also published Young adult novels Edit Three novels were published on October 1 2002 one by Aspect and two by Little Brown Young Readers The Aspect novel Smallville Strange Visitors was written by Roger Stern with Clark and his friends trying to uncover the truth about two religious con men who set up shop in Smallville and use kryptonite in their spiritual seminars to rob the townspeople 157 Little Brown Young Readers first published Arrival by Michael Teitelbaum chronicling the series pilot 158 The second novel See No Evil by series writers Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld follows Dawn Mills a young actress who wants to attend Juilliard Dawn who can become invisible wants to get revenge on the people who have been talking behind her back but is stopped by Clark 159 See No Evil was one of the original storylines for season one s Shimmer 160 On November 1 2002 Aspect published Alan Grant s Smallville Dragon about an ex convict who assumes the abilities and appearance of a dragon after he is exposed to kryptonite in a cave the mutation drives him to try to kill everyone who testified against him In the novel Clark is hypnotized into believing that he is a normal teenager with no special abilities 161 A month after the publication of Grant s novel Bennett and Gottesfeld wrote Little Brown Young Readers Flight about a young girl Tia who Clark discovers has wings He and his friends believe that Tia is being abused by her father and teach her to overcome her fear of flying so she can find her mother 162 Flight like See No Evil was a planned episode but the crew was uncertain that they could get the flying effects right and the idea was scrapped 163 Nancy Holder wrote the third novel in the Aspect series Published on January 1 2003 Hauntings follows Clark and his friends as they investigate a ghostly presence in a Smallville house 164 Little Brown Young Readers then published Animal Rage by David and Bobby Weiss about animal rights activist Heather Fox who can change into any animal she touches Heather uses this ability to harm people who hurt animals until Clark discovers it and stops her 165 Aspect published Dean Wesley Smith s Whodunit in which Clark Chloe Lana and Pete investigate the murder of a boy and his sister while Lex tries to decide whether to ransom his kidnapped father or try rescuing Lionel himself 166 Little Brown Young Readers published the next two books in April and June 2003 The first Speed was written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld The second Buried Secrets was written by Suzan Colon In Speed a boy uses an hourglass his father gave him for his birthday to stop time and commit hate crimes without being caught Clark stops him before he disrupts a local multicultural festival 167 In Buried Secrets Clark and Lex fall in love with a mind reading substitute Spanish teacher jeopardizing their friendship 168 On September 9 2004 Aspect published Diana G Gallagher s Shadows about a girl and her father who move to Smallville the father creates murderous monsters Jonathan Kent assumes that the deaths are related to LuthorCorp creating tension with his son Clark discovers the truth to prove Lex s innocence stopping the creatures before they can kill again 169 Colon returned to write Runaway in which Clark runs away to the city and lives with other homeless teenagers he falls in love with one of the girls before returning home 170 In Smallville Silence by Nancy Holder the characters investigate zombies in town 171 Little Brown Young Readers published its eighth book Greed by Bennett and Gottesfeld in which Clark and his friends take summer jobs as counselors at a camp for disadvantaged youths When a boy falls into Crater Lake he develops the ability to foretell the future and Lionel tries to exploit this Pete also tries to exploit Clark s abilities by tricking him into playing in a basketball game and betting on the outcome 172 Alan Grant returned to write Curse about a gravedigger who unleashes a 150 year old curse onto Smallville and Clark s attempts to put things right 173 On February 1 2004 Little Brown Young Readers published Suzan Colon s Temptation where Clark uses red kryptonite in an attempt to impress Lana and Chloe when they are infatuated with a French exchange student 174 Aspect published its final novel on March 1 2004 Written by Devin K Grayson City follows Clark and Lex on a trip to Metropolis In the city they are caught between the Japanese Yakuza and a secret agent who thinks he has found an alien 175 In Little Brown Young Readers final novel Sparks by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld Chloe is hit by kryptonite sparks from a fireworks display The sparks make Chloe the desire of every man but when they wear off an admirer kidnaps her and she is rescued by Clark 176 Comic books Edit Seasonal extensions Edit Smallville s first venture into comics was Elemental a one off story by Gough and Millar which appeared in TV Guide during the series first season and set in that period 177 Before the start of season two DC Comics published a one off comic based on the series Titled Smallville The Comic it has two stories The first Raptor by Mark Verheiden and Roy Martinez is about an abused boy who mutates into a velociraptor thanks to kryptonite and tries to get revenge on the Luthor family Michael Green and John Paul Leon wrote Exile and The Kingdom with insight into why Lex remains in Smallville after his father offers him a position in Metropolis at the end of season one 178 DC Comics then began publishing a bimonthly comic with stories about Smallville characters Writer and script coordinator Clint Carpenter called the comic a companion to the series rather than a non canonical version According to Carpenter the series expands on events in the series such as season ending cliffhangers and gives additional depth to characters with limited screen time on the series or whose storylines needed additional explanation 179 Carpenter was not the first person asked to oversee the comic Mark Verheiden who co wrote the one off comic was originally intended to be in charge of the bimonthly series Verheiden s commitment to the TV series kept him from working on the comic books so he asked Carpenter to take them on Although the comic book was intended to expand on the TV series there was an occasional continuity overlap because of differences in production schedule between the comic and the series In one instance the comic book showed Clark robbing an ATM and the season three premiere showed him robbing multiple ATMs 179 The series tied into the TV series the Chloe Chronicles webisodes 180 and Smallville related webpages 179 with cast and crew interviews and information on the episodes production 178 181 The comic series ended in January 2005 with 11 with no comics published until the Season Eleven series debut Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints1 Smallville DC Comics 2004 ISBN 9781401202040 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville The Comics 1 November 2002 and Smallville 1 4 March November 2003 Credits and full notesWriter s Clint Carpenter Michael Green Mark VerheidenPenciller s Thomas Denrenick Tom Derenick Renato Guedes John Paul Leon Kilian Plunkett John Van FleetSmallville Season Eleven Edit The first digital issue of a Smallville Season Eleven comic book was released on April 13 2012 the first print issue was published on May 2 182 In the comic book written by Smallville executive story editor Bryan Q Miller set six months after Darkseid s attack Clark no longer fights crime as The Blur but as Superman Although Clark is generally accepted by the public some distrust him including Lex Luthor despite his memory loss after his encounter with Tess Mercer 183 and this worsens when he reveals himself as extraterrestrial Detective a new series of adventures paralleling the TV series and the comic series second arc was published digitally on the title s off week beginning January 4 2013 A new arc Effigy would feature a team up of recurring character John Jones and Batman 184 DC Comics cancelled the series after nineteen issues at the end of the Olympus story arc with the rest of the season eleven story continuing as miniseries under the Season Eleven banner 185 In March 2015 DC Comics ended the Smallville Season Eleven with story arc Continuity which serves as the finale of the television franchise 186 187 Main series Edit Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints1 Guardian DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401238247 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season Eleven 1 4 May 2012 August 2012 Digital releases April 2012 July 2012 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Pere Perez Ryan Benjamin Gary Frank Cat Staggs Saleem Crawford Joel BenjaminSix months after Darkseid s defeat Clark enjoys the general acceptance from the public Lex Luthor makes plans to destroy Superman despite having lost all of his memories In addition Lex encounters his half sister Tess Mercer and a visitor from a parallel Earth arrives to warn Clark about a Crisis 2 Detective DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401240943 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season Eleven 5 8 September 2012 December 2012 Digital releases August 2012 November 2012 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Chris Cross Marc Deering Jamal Igle Mico SuayanGotham City s heroic duo Batman and Nightwing arrive into Metropolis to locate Thomas and Martha Wayne s killer Joe Chill They eventually team up with Clark and his friends to battle against the Intergang Oswald Loomis and Victor Fries Additionally Chloe reveals a secret to Oliver and Lex learns why Tess erased his memories 3 Haunted DC Comics 2013 ISBN 9781401242916 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season Eleven 9 12 January 2013 April 2013 Digital releases December 2012 March 2013 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Jorge Jimenez Pere Perez Cat Staggs Scott KolinsBart Allen returns and meets with the Justice Society of America Jay Garrick Lex is determined to learn Tess s secrets regarding Superman and his allies and Chloe learns about her deceased parallel universe counterpart This is chronologically parallel to the interlude story arc Effigy 4 Argo DC Comics 2014 ISBN 9781401246372 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season Eleven 13 15 Smallville Season Eleven Special 2 May 2013 July 2013 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Daniel HDR Pete WoodsClark and Michael Jon Carter Booster Gold travel to the 31st century to team up with the Legion of Super Heroes trying to stop war between Earth and an unexpected enemy Kara This is chronologically parallel to the interlude story arc Valkyrie 5 Olympus DC Comics 2014 ISBN 9781401250768 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season Eleven 16 19 August 2013 November 2013 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Jorge Jimenez Cat StaggsTwenty years ago a young Steve Trevor washed up on the island of Themyscira and met the Amazon princess Diana Now Diana and Trevor finds the latter s mother disappears and their search for her leading them face to face with Clark This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Hollow The main series ended after 19 and the rest of Season Eleven continues through mini series Note The full title of all volumes listed here start with Smallville Season 11 Interlude series Edit Title Publisher Year ISBN Reprints1 Effigy DC Comics 2013 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season 11 Special Chapter 28 Effigy Part 1 digital release January 4 2013 Smallville Season 11 Special Chapter 32 Effigy Part 2 digital release February 1 2013 Smallville Season 11 Special Chapter 36 Effigy Part 3 digital release March 1 2013 Smallville Season 11 Special Chapter 37 Effigy Part 4 digital release March 8 2013 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Jorge Jimenez Cat StaggsAfter an attack from a White Martian has left Barbara Gordon injured John Jones arrives and offers Bruce Wayne his assistance on the investigation This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Haunted 2 Valkyrie DC Comics 2013 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Smallville Season 11 Chapter 41 Valkyrie Part 1 digital release April 5 2013 Smallville Season 11 Chapter 45 Valkyrie Part 2 digital release May 3 2013 Smallville Season 11 Chapter 46 Valkyrie Part 3 digital release May 10 2013 Smallville Season 11 Chapter 50 Valkyrie Part 4 digital release June 7 2013 Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerAs Clark travels to the 31st century with Michael Carter Booster Gold to avert a future war Lois meets Lana at Cameroon This is chronologically parallel to the story arc Argo 3 Hollow DC Comics 2013 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Jorge Jimenez Beni LobelTess finds herself that she must make a choice should she initiate her revenge on Lex for her death or to become the hero everyone believe her to be 188 4 Titans DC Comics 2014 CollectsThe reprinted material is in whole or in part from Credits and full notesWriter s Bryan Q MillerPenciller s Cat StaggsJay Garrick leads the Teen Titans to against an enemy who is determine to ensure that there won t be a next generation of superheroes Connor Kent Mia Dearden and Jaime Reyes appear in the story Note The full title of all volumes listed here start with Smallville Season 11 Specials Chloe Chronicles Edit Allison Mack s character Chloe Sullivan has starred in two promotional tie in series Smallville Chloe Chronicles and Vengeance Chronicles Two volumes of Chloe Chronicles totaled eleven mini episodes In the first volume Chloe investigated events leading to the death of Earl Jenkins who held Chloe and her friends hostage at the LuthorCorp plant in the first season episode Jitters It aired from April 29 to May 20 2003 to AOL subscribers 189 After the first volume received positive responses from viewers the second volume was created as a continuation with Sam Jones III as Pete Ross This volume used the Smallville comic books as a secondary tie in to the series Viewers could watch Smallville Chloe s Chronicles and finish with the Smallville comic book which would provide an enhanced backstory to the online segments 190 The later series Vengeance Chronicles is a spin off of the fifth season episode Vengeance In this series Chloe joins a costumed vigilante whom she calls the Angel of Vengeance to expose Lex Luthor s Level 33 1 experiments on meteor infected people 191 The idea for an online show about Chloe originated with Mark Warshaw who ran the show s website and was in charge of the DVDs The series intended to wrap up unfinished business from the television show 192 Although Smallville Chloe Chronicles began on AOL it made its way to the United Kingdom s Channel 4 website 192 According to Lisa Gregorian senior vice president for television of Warner Bros Marketing Services their goal was to create companion programming that offers new and exciting ways to engage the audience just as music videos did for record promotion 189 Allison Mack described the show as very Nancy Drew and mysterious I think it s a bit more like The X Files or NYPD Blue The Chronicles are like a detective story with Chloe following clues and interviewing people going from spot to spot figuring things out 192 The scripts were written by Brice Tidwell Mack was given script approval for the series allowing her to review and make changes to the script Warshaw communicated with Gough and Millar to expand Smallville stories in Chloe s Chronicles 192 Promotional tie ins Edit For the season three premiere the Smallville producers teamed up with Verizon to enable its registered users to view plot updates as Daily Planet press releases quizzes and games related to the show with Verizon product placement 193 Smallville Legends The Oliver Queen Chronicles a six episode CGI series which chronicled the early life of Oliver Queen Green Arrow was released in a promotional tie in with Sprint According to Warner Bros Television Group executive vice president of worldwide marketing Lisa Gregorian the promotional tie ins got fans more connected to the show 194 In April 2007 a tie in with Toyota promoting the Yaris featured an online comic strip Smallville Legends Justice amp Doom as an interstitial program during new Smallville episodes 195 The interactive comic was based on the Justice episode which follows Oliver Queen Bart Allen Victor Stone and Arthur Curry the initial members of the Justice League in Smallville as they seek to destroy LuthorCorp s secret experimental labs The online series allowed viewers to investigate with the fictional team to win prizes Stephan Nilson wrote all five episodes working with a team of artists on the illustrations Nilson received the plot for each comic episode as Smallville s production crew was filming its current television episode Artist Steve Scott drew comic book panels which were sent to Motherland a consulting group Motherland reviewed the drawings telling Scott which images to draw on a separate overlay this allowed objects to be moved in and out of a frame 196 In 2008 The CW joined the manufacturers of Stride gum to give viewers an opportunity to create their own Smallville digital comic Smallville Visions 197 The writers and producers developed the comic s beginning and end allowing viewers to provide the middle The CW began its tie in campaign with the March 13 2008 episode Hero where Pete develops superhuman elasticity after chewing kryptonite infused Stride gum On The CW s website viewers voted on one of two options each adding four pages to the comic every Tuesday and Thursday until the campaign ended on April 7 198 In season seven Smallville again worked with Sprint bringing its customers mobisodes titled Smallville Legends Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton with Clark s cousin Kara 199 200 Spin offs Edit Gough and Millar developed an Aquaman pilot for the WB with Justin Hartley as Aquaman Arthur Curry 201 As work progressed on the Smallville season five episode Aqua although the episode was not intended as a backdoor pilot for an Aquaman spin off 202 the character was seen as having potential for his own series 201 Alan Ritchson was not considered for the role in the new series because Gough and Millar did not consider it a Smallville spin off Gough said in November 2005 that the series was to be a different version of the Aquaman legend 201 and suggested a crossover with Smallville at some point 203 Although the pilot was given a good chance of being picked up when the WB and UPN merged into The CW the new network passed on the show 204 205 206 During the sixth season there was talk of spinning off the Green Arrow into his own series but Hartley refused to talk about the possibility of a spin off because of his role on Smallville The actor felt it his duty to respect what the show had accomplished in five seasons and not steal the spotlight because there was talk of a spin off after his two appearances According to Hartley talking was as far as the spin off idea ever got 207 Steven DeKnight revealed that a spin off Justice League series was expected to happen after the episode Justice and would continue the story of Oliver and his new team 208 Arrowverse Edit Further information Crisis on Infinite Earths Arrowverse Tom Welling and Erica Durance reprised their roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane for the 2019 20 Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths 209 210 The crossover retroactively establishes the events of Smallville as taking place on Earth 167 and reveals that in the years since the finale Clark has given up his powers and taken over the Kent farm where he and Lois raise their two daughters 211 Michael Rosenbaum was approached about reprising his role of Lex Luthor but he declined when Warner Bros did not show him a script tell him what his character was going to do nor let him know when he was going to film 212 Alan Ritchson who played Arthur Curry Aquaman on the series was also approached to reprise his role in the crossover but turned it down due to scheduling commitments with Titans 213 Despite this Ritchson did make an uncredited cameo appearance in the crossover as his Titans character Hank Hall Hawk in repurposed footage from that series 211 Possible animated series revival Edit In June 2021 Tom Welling announced in a video shared on Cameo that he and Smallville co star Michael Rosenbaum were developing an animated series revival to the series and hoping to use as many of the original cast members as possible 214 Later in October Welling said that he and Rosenbaum were preparing a pitch of the series for Warner Bros with original creators Gough and Miller also returning 215 Rosenbaum and Welling delivered the pitch for the series to Warner Bros Television in January 2022 216 In February Welling shared that he and Michael Rosenbaum would be returning along with John Glover Sam Jones III Kristin Kreuk and Erica Durance Also returning are original series showrunners Gough and Miller 217 In that same month Welling stated that it was unlikely that Mack would return for the series due to sex trafficking charges made against her for which she was convicted and imprisoned 218 In May Durance announced that the series was in some stage of pre production or production but still alive 219 Home media EditSeasons one through ten have been released on DVD in Regions 1 2 and 4 Seasons five and six were also released in the HD DVD format on November 28 2006 220 and September 18 2007 221 respectively Seasons six seven eight nine and ten have been released for Blu ray The DVD releases include deleted scenes behind the scenes featurettes and commentary by cast and crew members on selected episodes The promotional tie ins Chloe Chronicles and Vengeance Chronicles accompanied the season two three and five box sets Other special features include interactive functionality such as a tour of Smallville a comic book and DVD ROM material 222 On October 16 2021 for the 20th anniversary the complete series was released for the first time on Blu ray 223 Complete Season Release datesRegion 1 Region 2 Region 41st September 23 2003 224 October 13 2003 225 December 3 2003 226 2nd May 18 2004 227 September 17 2004 228 January 1 2005 229 3rd November 16 2004 230 April 18 2005 231 July 13 2005 232 4th September 13 2005 233 October 10 2005 234 November 11 2006 235 5th September 12 2006 236 August 28 2006 237 April 4 2007 238 6th September 18 2007 239 October 22 2007 240 March 5 2008 241 7th September 9 2008 242 October 13 2008 243 March 3 2009 244 8th August 25 2009 245 October 12 2009 246 March 31 2010 247 9th September 7 2010 248 October 25 2010 249 June 22 2011 250 10th November 29 2011 251 October 17 2011 252 April 4 2012 253 Complete series November 29 2011 1 251 October 17 2011 254 August 1 2012 255 Season Smallville Blu ray releasesRegion A Region BUnited States Canada United Kingdom Australia6th September 18 2007 256 October 9 2007 257 October 13 2008 258 March 3 2009 259 7th September 9 2008 260 October 13 2008 261 March 3 2009 262 8th August 25 2009 263 October 12 2009 264 March 31 2010 265 9th September 7 2010 248 October 25 2010 266 June 22 2011 267 10th November 29 2011 251 October 17 2011 268 April 4 2012 269 Merchandise EditSince Smallville began airing a variety of merchandise connected with the series has been produced Two soundtrack albums of songs from the show have been released Smallville The Talon Mix with a group of artists who licensed their music for the show was issued on February 25 2003 270 Smallville The Metropolis Mix with another group of artists was released on November 8 2005 271 In addition to the soundtracks action figures T shirts hats and posters have been produced 272 In December 2002 autographed Smallville merchandise was listed for auction on eBay with the proceeds going to charity 273 In 2003 Titan Magazines began publishing a monthly Smallville magazine with cast and crew interviews information on Smallville merchandise and photos The 34th and final issue was published in November 2009 274 Titan Books published companion volumes for each season with cast and crew interviews episode descriptions and behind the scenes photos On September 1 2004 the company published its first companion for the series 275 Written by Paul Simpson the book has sixteen pages of color photos of the cast 276 On March 1 2005 Titan Books published its season two companion also written by Simpson 277 which details the series special effects 278 Titan published the third season companion on September 1 279 the last written by Simpson He described the episodes plots discussing the neglect of the Martha Kent character and the failure of the Adam Knight storyline 280 Titan Books released the fourth season companion by Craig Byrne who wrote the subsequent companion books on September 4 2007 281 It contains interviews with the cast and crew and color photos of the production 282 Titan published the season five companion on December 26 2007 283 The season six companion with an introduction by Justin Hartley was published on March 25 2008 284 The season seven companion Titan s last has a foreword by Laura Vandervoort a reflection on the Smallville phenomenon and a discussion of Gough and Millar s departure 285 In 2010 the Smallville Roleplaying Game was released by Margaret Weis Productions using its Cortex Plus System Using the series season nine setting it includes rules for earlier seasons Two supplements the High School Yearbook and the Watchtower Report were produced Players can play the characters from Smallville or create their own spin off of the series 286 Ultimate Smallville Soundtrack a five CD box set with 100 songs from the series 10 seasons was released by Vicious Records in May 2013 with all profits benefiting the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation 287 See also EditGotham TV series Krypton TV 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