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The series ending episode, "The Family Hour," raised a question
that, due to the cancellation, the series could never answer. This episode was filmed
before the show's fate was known, and its final scene was, in fact, intended to be a
season-ending cliffhanger. But cancellation left fans with no answer to an intriguing
mystery. Early in the episode, Lois and Clark learned that they could not have children,
and that their prospects for adoption were poor. But the episode ended with Clark's
discovery in the middle of the night of a baby in the couple's Metropolis townhouse. The
episode ended with no explanation of who the baby was or where he came from.
"Lois & Clark" writer Tim Minear graciously helped fans out by answering
some of these questions on IRC following the U.S. broadcast of
"The Family Hour":
"Okay... so about the baby...
"This was the plan...the baby was from the future. I'm sure many have already
figured that out. Season five, or at least the top of season five, was going to be
dedicated to that story line. The baby, a boy, was brought to Lois and Clark from the
future for them to protect. [T]hink 'Terminator.' This baby, an actual blood descendant of
Lois and Clark's, was in danger. If the baby is killed, it would have cut off Superman's
line at a crucial point.
"This answered a question for our heroes -- do they ever actually have their own
biological child? [T]he answer is yes...and this baby is the proof of that.
"One possible direction we were going to take the story...was that the child would
have an accelerated infancy -- and early in season five we would have been dealing with a
'super' teenager. Which, to me, held many interesting possibilities. I always thought it
would be interesting to explore someone, not the 'straight arrow' Clark, with super
powers. And a boy in the throes of puberty would have been a hoot.
"There's not much more I can tell you, as we never got that far, obviously."
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