THURSDAY, JANUARY 4

BACK-TO-BACK "SMALLVILLE" EPISODES FEATURING CLASSIC CHARACTERS FROM DC COMICS

"SMALLVILLE" - (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)

"Aqua" (TV-PG, V) (HDTV)

AQUAMAN SAVES LOIS AND PROFESSOR FINE DICOVERS LEX'S SECRET - A summer beach party at Crater Lake takes a dramatic turn when Lois (Erica Durance) hits her head while jumping into the lake. Before Clark (Tom Welling) can save her, a mysterious swimmer, Aquaman, a.k.a. AC (Alan Ritchson), comes to her rescue, out-swimming Clark and leaving him baffled. Professor Fine (James Marsters) tells Clark that Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) is behind a covert operation manufacturing weapons. AC attempts to break into the Luthercorp Marine Center in an attempt to destroy one of Lex's torpedoes and is captured by Lex. Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack also star. Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer wrote the episode directed by Bradford May (#2T6404).