Changes: Season 6

Revision as of 14:37, 16 June 2020

The sixth season of Smallville began airing on September 28, 2006 and concluded its initial airing on May 17, 2007 with 22 episodes.

This was the first season to be broadcast on The CW television network after The WB had stopped broadcasting on September 19, 2006.

Summary

This season provided the show's first glimpse into the Phantom Zone. The destinies of Lionel and Lex play out in the aftermath of Lex's possession by Zod and Lionel's adoption as the oracle of Jor-El. Several criminals escape the Phantom Zone with Clark, and DC Comics characters Jimmy Olsen, Oliver Queen and Martian Manhunter are introduced this season, and the first glimpse of the Justice League is seen when Victor Stone, Arthur Curry, and Bart Allen all return to Smallville. Lex's relationship with Clark is completely shattered as his relationship with Lana progresses. Lana soon discovers she is pregnant and decides to accept his proposal of marriage.

Lana and Lex's relationship dissolves when she discovers the truth about her pregnancy while simultaneously discovering Clark's secret. She tries to leave Lex and Smallville with disastrous consequences. As Lex, Clark, and Lionel all search for the missing Phantom Zone escapees, Lex's Level 33.1 project advances dangerously. It becomes personal for Lois when Lex exploits one of her childhood friends and she vows to take him down. Lois and Clark have their first kiss, shadowing their future relationship. Chloe begins a relationship with Jimmy Olsen, but also discovers that she has a mysterious, latent meteor power. Martha Kent moves to Washington, D.C., to represent Kansas in the US Senate.

Opening Credits

Season Six credits include footage from Season Four, Season Five, and the Season Six premiere episode Zod. The opening credits for each episode include the following:

		Tom Welling as Clark Kent 22/22
		Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang 21/22 Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor 22/22
		Erica Durance as Lois Lane 13/22 Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan 22/22
		John Glover as Lionel Luthor 12/22 Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent 18/22
		Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Developed for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar

Recurring Characters

The following Recurring Characters appear in more than one episode this season:

Jimmy Olsen - Aaron Ashmore 10/22
Oliver Queen - Justin Hartley 7/22
Bartlett - Ben Ayres 5/22
Dr. Langston - Fred Henderson 4/22
George - Mike Dopud 3/22
Raya - Pascale Hutton 2/22
Dr. Edward Groll - Bill Mondy 2/22
Martian Manhunter - Phil Morris 2/22
Shelby - Bud 2/22
Wes Keenan - Tahmoh Penikett 2/22
Senator Ed Burke - Alan C. Peterson 2/22
Dr. Donovan Jamison - Gerard Plunkett 2/22

The following Recurring Characters appear in only one episode this season, but also appear in other seasons:

Cameo Roles

While the following recurring characters did appear in these episodes, their faces were not fully shown, nor were their actors credited:

Recurring Locations

Coming soon!

Episode List: 2006-2007

Title	Writer(s)	Director(s)	Airdate	#
Zod	Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: James Marshall	September 28, 2006	#111 601
Clark must escape the Phantom Zone, a Kryptonian prison. Possessing Lex's body, Zod begins his plans to turn Earth into a Krypton-like planet using the alien ship's hard drive. After Lois and Martha's plane crashes near the Fortress of Solitude, Jor-El tells Martha how to kill Zod. Chloe reunites with an old flame, Jimmy Olsen.
Sneeze	Writer: Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer	Director: Paul Shapiro	October 5, 2006	#112 602
Clark catches a cold? Sneezing manifests into a new power ~ super breath! Lois lands a job at The Inquisitor, the local tabloid. Lana moves in with Lex. Lex is abducted after displaying superhuman powers in the public eye. And there's a new visitor in Metropolis called Oliver Queen.
Wither	Writer: Tracy Bellomo	Director: Whitney Ransick	October 12, 2006	#113 603
Lex throws a charity ball. Meanwhile, Clark and Chloe pursue a Zoner who uses male human bodies as potting mix to procreate. The stakes just get higher when Jimmy Olsen gets all tied up by the Plant Lover, while love interests intesify between Oliver and Lois, and Lana and Lex.
Arrow	Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson	Director: Michael Rohl	October 19, 2006	#114 604
Clark unravels the truth about who Oliver Queen really is, just as Oliver discovers Clark's abilities. Green Arrow is on a rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
Reunion	Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Jeannot Szwarc	October 26th, 2006	#115 605
Lex and Oliver's prep school past has come back with a vengeance as Oliver's friends are mysteriously and violently killed. Clark discovers that he's not the only one that escaped the Phantom Zone.
Fallout	Writer: Holly Harold	Director: Glen Winter	November 2, 2006	#116 606
Clark encounters Baern, a Phantom Zone escapee who absorbs various sources of energy to power radioactive strength. Tag-teaming with Raya, Clark realizes that he must fulfill his destiny. Meanwhile, Lex and Lana's relationship entangle deceit and double standards.
Rage	Writer: Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer	Director: Whitney Ransick	November 9, 2006	#117 607
Clark and Chloe discover that Oliver Queen has been taking a special drug that has miraculous healing effects, while causing him to act erratically. Lana makes a shocking discovery.
Static	Writer: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa	Director: James Conway	November 16, 2006	#118 608
Clark confronts the Zoner Aldar, who feasts on bone marrow. Enter Martian Manhunter. Meanwhile, Lex encounters a metahuman seeking revenge for being a lab rat.
Subterranean	Writer: Caroline Dries	Director: Rick Rosenthal	December 7th, 2006	#119 609
Clark discovers that his neighbor, Jed McNally, is holding migrant laborers captive and forcing them to work on his farm. Feeling guilty since he sees himself as the ultimate illegal immigrant, Clark seeks help from Martha to allow a young boy and his mother to stay in the country.
Hydro	Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson	Director: Tom Welling	January 11, 2007	#120 610
Daily Planet gossip columnist Linda Lake has the ability to turn herself into water and uses it to secretly overhear conversations for her column. Meanwhile, Lois begins to suspect Oliver is the Green Arrow and enlists Clark's help to prove it.
Justice	Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Steven S. DeKnight	January 18, 2007	#121 611
The beginings of the Justice League forms, including Impulse, Aquaman, Cyborg, and led by the Green Arrow. Clark discovers what teamwork really is as the Justice League blows the lid off Project 33.1.
Labyrinth	Writer: Al Septien, Turi Meyer	Director: Whitney Ransick	January 25, 2007	#122 612
Clark wakes up in a mental asylum where Dr. Hudson tells him he has been there for five years due to his elaborate fantasy that he has alien superpowers. In this new world, Martha Kent is married to Lionel Luthor, Chloe is deemed insane, and Lana chose Clark over Lex.
Crimson	Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson	Director: Glen Winter	February 1, 2007	#123 613
Lois tries on lipstick made with red kryptonite and becomes overwhelmed with desire for Clark. The two share a kiss and his inhibitions immediately shut down. Fueled by the red rock, Kal crashes Lex and Lana's engagement dinner and kidnaps the bride-to-be.
Trespass	Writer: Tracy Bellomo	Director: Michael Rohl	February 8, 2007	#124 614
Lana is being stalked and decides to hide out at the Kent Farm. Meanwhile, Jimmy breaks up with Chloe because he believes she isn't truly over Clark, but he helps Clark investigate the stalker.
Freak	Writer: Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer	Director: Michael Rosenbaum	February 15, 2007	#125 615
Tobias Rice was blinded in the second meteor shower, but he was left with the ability to sense other metahumans. Chloe is kidnapped and revealed to be meteor-infected.
Promise	Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson	Director: Rick Rosenthal	March 15, 2007	#126 616
On the day of Lex and Lana's wedding, Lex receives a threatening call from Dr. Langston. Lana begins to have second thoughts about marrying Lex and tries to back out, but Lionel Luthor steps in.
Combat	Writer: Turi Meyer, Al Septien	Director: James Marshall	March 22, 2007	#127 617
Clark and Chloe discover Titan, a Zoner, is the star of a secret fight club whose bloody battles to the death are broadcast on the internet. Lois investigates but is captured and forced to participate. Clark reveals his powers so he can fight Titan and save Lois.
Progeny	Writer: Genevieve Sparling	Director: Terrence O'Hara	April 19, 2007	#128 618
Lex develops a drug to wake Chloe's mother Moira from her catatonic state and forces her to control meteor freaks by threatening to kill Chloe. Clark helps Chloe break into the asylum to rescue Moira and finally get to know her mother.
Nemesis	Writer: Caroline Dries	Director: Mairzee Almas	April 26, 2007	#129 619
Jodi Keenan kidnaps Lex and injures Lionel to find out the truth about the death of her husband Wes. They become trapped in collapsing tunnels and Clark sets off to rescue Lex, but is immediately felled by the kryptonite lining the earthen walls. Lex and Clark realize the only way they will make it out alive is by helping each other.
Noir	Writer: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders	Director: Jeannot Szwarc	May 3, 2007	#130 620
Lana is shot at the Daily Planet by a mysterious gunman. Jimmy passes out while studying photographs of the scene and dreams about a 1940s version of Smallville in which Lana is a femme fatale who orchestrated the murder of her tycoon husband Lex and Clark works at the Daily Planet as a reporter. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Chloe discovers why Lana married Lex.
Prototype	Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Mat Beck	May 10, 2007	#131 621
Lois's investigates a senator named Burke, who is attempting to shut down one of Lex's projects. After Burke is murdered, Lois learns that Lex is using her childhood friend Wes as the project main prototype.
Phantom	Writer: Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer	Director: James Marshall	May 17, 2007	#132 622
When Clark discovers Lionel threatened Lana to marry Lex, he goes after Lionel to silence him once and for all. Lana tells Lex she is leaving him, and Martian Manhunter makes a return appearance to help Clark stop Lex, who is trying to find the last wraith in order to use its DNA to power his army of super-soldiers. Meanwhile, Lois goes to Reeves Dam in search of information about Lex's secret lab and is brutally stabbed by a security guard. Chloe's secret power is revealed.

Notes

Clark develops super breath this season in "Sneeze".
Chloe's krypto-power is revealed as empathetic Healing tears that apparently enervated her upon use in "Phantom".
The Smallville version of comic characters are introduced as: Martian Manhunter, Jimmy Olsen, Oliver Queen, the Justice League, and Bizarro.
This is the last season that features Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent as a regular cast member.
This is also the last season to include Sarah-Jane Redmond, Julian Christopher and Rekha Sharma as Nell Potter, Dr. MacIntyre and Dr. Harden ("Promise", "Fallout" and "Reunion").
There is no new main character this season.
This is the first season to have only seven cast members, the second being Season Eight.
Lana married Lex.
Lana discovered Clark's secret.
The inside of the Phantom Zone is seen for the first time while several other aliens are released from it. The ongoing plot throughout the season is for Clark to recapture the escaped prisoners from the Phantom Zone.
John Glover is promoted to Annette O'Toole's 'with' billing as she is promoted to the show's first 'and' billing.