Smallville: The Top 25 Episodes For a long time, The X-Files and the individual Star Trek series for that honour. With 218 episodes, no one expected the show about a young Clark Kent in his pre-Superman days to last that long. While it had its fair share of downs, there was plenty to make Smallville a good show which honoured the long history of the character and the world he inhabited. For its anniversary, fellow Flickering Myth contributor and Smallville fan James Garcia and I decided to compile a list of Smallville‘s top 25 episodes with each of us explaining our reasons for why they deserved that placement. Read on and take yourself back to