Stars: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Eric Johnson, Annette O'Toole, John Glover, John Schneider

Summary: Clark, as he is later known, is not a 'normal boy'. Found in a field during a meteor shower, he is raised by a childless couple Martha and Jonathan Kent. The couple soon realise that their new boy has special powers. Featuring the first twenty one episodes of the early Superman years: 'The Pilot Episode', 'Metamorphosis', 'Hothead', 'X-Ray', 'Cool', 'Hourglass', 'Craving', 'Jitters', 'Rogue', 'Shimmer', 'Hug', 'Leech', 'Kinetic', 'Zero', 'Nicodemus', 'Stray', 'Reaper', 'Drone', 'Crush', 'Obscura', and 'Tempest'.

The Superman myth has always been magical and heroic, but little has been written about Clark Kent's small-town life as a teenager growing up in Smallville. While he comes to terms with being a high-flying superhero he still has adolescence to contend with and never before has Superman been so cool and hip. Featuring newcomers Tom Welling (in the title role) and Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luther and seasoned actors such as the DUKES OF HAZZARD's John Schneider and Annette O'Toole (SUPERMAN 3) this state-of-the-art special effects packed series satisfies our small screen appetite for comic book heroes. This muscular set contains all 21 episodes from the first season including the pilot episode directed by David Nutter (THE WEST WING, BAND OF BROTHERS).

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The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in the imaginative and engaging TV series Smallville. The premise of the show--Superman as a teenager--takes up just a few pages in Superman's very first comic-book appearance (in Action Comicsback in 1938), but producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar flesh out that period by portraying young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) not as the noble Superman-in-waiting, but as an average teen with some not-so-ordinary supernatural powers, including incredible strength and heat vision (Clark hasn't lifted up, up, and away as of yet). Clark's desire to fit in with his peers and make sense of his extraordinary abilities grounds him in very realistic and identifiable terms for the series' primarily under-25 audience, as does his appealing and tentative romance with Kristen Kreuk as Clark's dreamgirl Lana Lang.

But Smallvillealso strikes gold when it takes a turn towards more comic-book territory, as evidenced by the parade of shape-shifting killers and other outlandish antagonists (many generated, in one of the series' most ingenious notions, by the same devastating meteor shower that brought the infant Clark to Earth) that Clark must harness his powers to face and defeat. Gough and Millar, along with their capable cast (which includes Michael Rosenbaum as a young and already bald-pated Lex Luthor, and Annette O'Toole and John Schneider as the Kents) manage to pull off the precarious high-wire act of combining science fiction with coming-of-age drama to create this highly watchable programme. --Paul Gaita

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Deleted Scenes From The Pilot Episode And Metamorphosis, The Pilot Storyboard Montage, Interactive Smallville Tour, The Pilot And Metamorphosis Commentary
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Romanian, Turkish
Year:	2003
Release Date:	October 13, 2003
Runtime:	889 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 028570
Keywords:	Action, Six, One, First, Box, General, Series, Wide, Screen, Set, Tv, Adventure, Complete, Discs, Smallville
Genre:	Action/Adventure