On July 8, 2025, Warner Bros. released Lois & Clark: The Complete Series Blu-Ray collection -- all four seasons at a list price of $99.99.
Yay Blu-Ray! Yay high-definition picture! And yet... there are a few issues with this release.
#1 Issue: No episode guide! Not even a scrappy paper insert within to tell you which episodes are on which disc. So let's get that out of the way. Here's a list of discs and their episodes:
*Season 1*
Disc 1: The Pilot, Strange Visitor, Neverending Battle
(+ Pilot Commentary, From Rivals to Romance, Pilot Presentation, Taking Flight)
Disc 2: I'm Looking Through You, Requiem For A Superhero, I've Got A Crush On You, Smart Kids
Disc 3: The Green Green Glow of Home, The Man of Steel Bars, Pheromone My Lovely, Honeymoon In Metropolis
Disc 4: All Shook Up, Witness, Illusions of Grandeur, Ides of Metropolis, The Foundling
Disc 5. The Rival, Vatman, Fly Hard, Barbarians At The Planet, The House Of Luthor
*Season 2*
Disc 6: Madame Ex, Wall of Sound, The Source, The Prankster
(+ Secrets of Season 2 and Marketing Metropolis: The Fans of Lois & Clark*)
Disc 7: Church of Metropolis, Operation: Blackout, That Old Gang of Mine, A Bolt From The Blue
Disc 8: Season's Greedings**, Metallo, Chi of Steel, The Eyes Have It
Disc 9: The Phoenix, Top Copy, Lucky Leon, Resurrection
Disc 10: Tempus Fugitive, Target: Jimmy Olsen, Individual Responsibility, Whine Whine Whine, And The Answer Is...
*Season 3*
Disc 11: We Have A Lot To Talk About, Ordinary People, Contact, When Irish Eyes Are Killing
(+ A History of Romance, The Man of Steel Trivia Challenge)
Disc 12: Just Say Noah, Don't Tug On Superman's Cape, UltraWoman, Chip Off The Old Clark
Disc 13: Supermann, Virtually Destroyed, Home Is Where The Hurt Is, Never On Sunday
Disc 14: The Dad Who Came In From The Cold, Tempus Anyone?, I Now Pronounce You, Double Jeopardy, Seconds
Disc 15: Forget Me Not, Oedipus Wrecks, It's A Small World After All, Through A Glass Darkly, Big Girls Don't Fly
*Season 4*
Disc 16: Lord of the Flies, Battleground Earth, Swear To God This Time We're Not Kidding, Soul Mates
Disc 17: Brutal Youth, The People v. Lois Lane, Dead Lois Walking, Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark
Disc 18: Ghosts, Stop The Presses, 'Twas The Night Before Mxymas, Lethal Weapon
Disc 19: Sex Lies & Videotape, Meet John Doe, Lois and Clarks, AKA Superman, Faster Than A Speeding Vixen
Disc 20: Shadow of a Doubt, A Voice From The Past, I've Got You Under My Skin, Toy Story, The Family Hour
Notes:
*the title within the feature says Marveling Metropolis. Buuut this typo/inconsistency was also on the DVDs.
**Dean Cain's commentary for Season's Greedings is notably absent
#2: Subtitles and audio are only available in English on these Blu-Rays. The DVDs offered French subtitles as well.
#3: Music licensing rights have taken away several key songs. If you've watched the show on streaming services or HBO, you're probably used to this by now, but yes... we've lost 🎵Superman in Tempus Anyone, 🎵Old Man On The Bridge (aka "Heyba Heyba") in Oedipus Wrecks, and 🎵Tightrope in Sex, Lies & Videotape since the DVD days. There are probably more, I just haven't gotten to them.
#4: All 20 discs come in a clamshell case with those DVD holders that I'm convinced are going to cause me to crack a DVD whenever I try to take them in or out. I'll probably end up buying a sleeve book to put them in instead.
#5: There are no bells and whistles. The first two DVD sets (and maybe the third?) had animated menu intros. The Blu-Rays just go straight from the Warner Bros. intro to the disc menu. Then again, simplicity can be nice.
So is this Blu-Ray release everything we hoped for and more? Alas, it is not. The picture is beautiful, but if you have access to the episodes on Streaming or HBO, you've already seen how good it can look.
It doesn't have anything new in the way of special features, and, in fact, eliminated a few of the ones that were on the DVDs.
Several songs have been replaced.
AND YET...
I'm going to keep this set, because I want Warner Bros. to get the message that THIS SHOW HAS FANS. Maybe this release wasn't top-notch, but I'll still take it.
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