Superman vs. Supersub

SHOWS: LOIS & CLARK; SEAQUEST DSV

TIME: SUNDAYS, 8 P.M. EDT, ABC, NBC

THE BOTTOM LINE: In the sci-fi battle of the season, a hip Superman is swamped by a band of earnest undersea adventurers.

Network TV doesn't set its sights beyond the living-room couch much these days. But once in a while the cautious medium can get a little reckless. This fall, two expensively produced science-fiction shows have been scheduled, suicidally, opposite each other on Sunday nights. Both, moreover, are trying to topple that comfortable old armchair of a series, Angela Lansbury's Murder, She Wrote. Sounds like a job for...

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