Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ended in 1997 on a major cliffhanger, but the creators on the show didn’t intend for the series to conclude that way.
Lois and Clark was popular in the 1990’s, until suddenly the show went off the air after four seasons. As executive producer Eugenie Ross-Leming explained it to Entertainment Weekly, “We didn’t write [the final episode] as a series finale, it was just supposed to be a cliffhanger.”
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The show went off the air after Lois and Clark found a mysterious baby on their front porch wrapped in Superman’s symbol. It’s left fans with questions ever since. As Ross-Leming explained it, “Looking to create obstacles for them, we ended up saying that carrying a baby to term would kill Lois. But as fate — or intergalactic justice — would have it, a baby of Krypton lineage is left at their doorstep.”
As for what a Season 5 would have looked like, the producer had some of the answers, but not all of them. “We would have seen them figuring out how to raise this child, who would have aged rapidly. He would have become a teenager in months.” However, the writing team had not yet figured out who the baby would have been before the show was cancelled.
As for the possibility of a reunion, former Lois Lane Teri Hatcher commented that “I know I have a lot of fans that would like to see the whole show rebooted, so maybe that’ll happen.” She also stated that “Dean [Cain, who played Clark Kent] and I both still have really warm feelings about our whole experience on the show. So who knows!”