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"Spider-Man" (1967) More at IMDbPro »TV series 1967-1970

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"Spider-Man" (1967): :  -- US Home Video Trailer from Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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9 September 1967 (USA) more
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A teenage boy with the powers of a spider fights crime as the Webslinging Wonder. full summary
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Probably the most fondly remembered cartoon series of my childhood. more (32 total)

Cast

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Paul Soles ... Spider-Man / ... (77 episodes, 1967-1970)
Peg Dixon ... Betty Brant / ... (77 episodes, 1967-1970)
Paul Kligman ... J. Jonah Jameson / ... (76 episodes, 1967-1970)
Bernard Cowan ... Police officer / ... (72 episodes, 1967-1970)
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Also Known As:
Spiderman (USA) (alternative spelling)
The Amazing Spider-Man (UK) (video box title)
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The Human Fly Twins ("The Spider and the Fly" and "Trick or Treachery") are named "Stan" and "Lee". more
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Continuity: In the opening title sequence of the show, Spider-Man is shown, "in the chill of night", looking out of a window at a jewelry store. The store's sign displays the words "FINE JEWLERY". When Spider-Man swings down and kicks the door open, the sign has become "FINE JEWELRY". more
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Radiation Specialist: [The Specialist has discovered Spidey standing outside the reactor's dome] He's here. And now....
[hits the external power override]
Spider-Man: [standing outside the reactor's dome] Something's going on - my Spider-sense is tingling! I don't like this!
[reappears inside the dome]
Radiation Specialist: [turns around to face Spidey, who is clinging to the dome] Welcome, Spider-Man!
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Referenced in Men Without Jobs (2004) more
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Spider-Man more

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Didn't Bernard Cowan provide the voice of Spider-Man in the first season of the show?
Weren't two episodes directly copied from Rocket Robin Hood?
What comic book villains appeared in the series?
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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Probably the most fondly remembered cartoon series of my childhood., 13 February 2005
Author: Scott LeBrun from Winnipeg, Canada

The wisecracking web-slinger was part of my TV viewing experience for many years; even though I was born after the series went off the air, it has been in syndication for so long that I was able to catch all the episodes years later.

Spider-Man was a cool superhero because he wasn't as, well, infallible as other superhero characters. He was a wise guy and his alter ego, Peter Parker, was constantly beset with personal problems.

I agree with what another reviewer once said: if the second and third seasons had been more like the first season, it might be easier to dismiss it. But then animation legend Ralph Bakshi took over and the writers started with all sorts of weird science-fiction, fantasy, and horror type plots, goofy monsters, and achingly off-the-wall acid trip backgrounds.

It seems to me to be too easy to write off the makers of the show as being monumentally lazy. Sure, they recycled scenes, characters, and in some cases entire episodes too much, but that could have been simply indicative of too small a budget and too little time to develop new shows.

I used to think that it was 'Rocket Robin Hood' that ripped off the 'Spider-Man' episodes, and only learned in recent years that it was the other way around.

Whether watching one of the villains from the comic book, or one of the more out-there villains from the second and third seasons of the series, they were most often very colorful and had interesting gimmicks. I always enjoyed the Vulture a lot because his ego was so immense; he thought that because he had the ability to fly that he was virtually impossible to defeat. I just got a real kick out of that.

People with different sensibilities can gripe all they want about inferior animation, lazy staff, and variations from comic book to series, but for people like me this was a silly but harmless and entertaining diversion to spice up our childhood TV schedules.

7/10

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