1x01 Pilot - Smallville Episode Guide

Smallville

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 475165
First Aired: Oct. 16, 2001

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot

Summary: A meteor shower rains destruction on the small town of "Smallville", Kansas. Twelve years later, a young Clark Kent learns his true origins from his protective foster parents. As his powers start to emerge, Clark struggles to fit in among his peers. It is up to him to finally learn more about his past and the secret that surrounds him.

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Clip: Clark Kent Arrives in Smallville (3:01)

Clip: Lex Rescues Clark (2:18)

Who appeared in this episode?

Nell Potter	played by Sarah-Jane Redmond
Jeremy Creek	played by Adrian Mcmorran
Young Lana Lang	played by Jade Unterman
Young Clark Kent	played by Malkolm Alburquenque
Young Lex Luthor	played by Matthew Munn
Bill Ross	played by Dee Jay Jackson
Dale Ross	played by Alvin Sanders
Garage Worker	played by Steve Bacic
Teen Jostled by Whitney	played by Justin Chatwin

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Lana Lang: Can you keep a secret? Clark Kent: I'm the Fort Knox of secrets.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Lionel Luthor: This has got to stop. Open your eyes, Lex. Young Lex Luthor: I can't... Lionel Luthor: Luthors are not afraid. We don't have that luxury. We're leaders. You have a destiny, Lex. You're never gonna get anywhere with your eyes closed.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Closeups and wide shots on the Wall of Weird show different things next to each other. Watch the objects surrounding the finger article and the Wall of Fire article in the wide shot on Chloe, then look again at the closeups.
CREW: When Lex spins up to Luthor Corp in his car, as the camera pans over the car to follow him, the cameraman is reflected in the window as he pans over.
CONT: After the meteor shower, the bit of hair that Mr. Luthor finds in the cornfield changes in his hands from stretched straight to curled.
CONT: The hole in the guard rail changes size and shape between the shot of Lex driving off it and another looking up at it from below.
MISC: When Jonathan lectures Clark about the danger of accepting gifts from Luthers, the key he twirls is a GM truck key, not a Ford truck key.

TRIVIA

Lionel Luthor is reading a newspaper which shows a headline about "Queen Industries" which, in the D.C. Comics, is owned by Oliver Queen, a.k.a. the Green Arrow. In the sixth season, Justin Hartley joined the cast as Oliver Queen.
Jeremy Creek/"The Scarecrow" is loosely based on the DC Comics villain Conduit.
This Pilot Movie includes the episodes Pilot & Metamorphisis edited together as a 2 hour movie.
Lex Luthor was 9 years old at the time of the meteor shower (1989), making him 21 as of this episode.
Cynthia Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent. Before the pilot was broadcast, the role was re-cast with 'Annette OToole (I) and her scenes were edited into the existing footage.