Spidey Super Stories (1974–1974)
Plot
A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers." Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Spidey Meets the SpoilerOctober 21, 1974—The first "Spidey Super Stories" segment. Spidey links clues to the Spoiler (Skip Hinnant), a mischievous villain who aims to spoil people's
- S01E02A Night at the MoviesOctober 22, 1974—Count Dracula (Morgan Freeman) plans to bite the neck of an unsuspecting moviegoer (Judy Graubart). Spidey is able to foil Dracula's plans.
- S01E03Spider-Man Meets the Evil Dr. FlyOctober 23, 1974—Dr. Fly (Luis Avalos), a mutated half-human, half-fly plans to turn the world's inhabitants into the same type of mutant. He disguises himse
- S01E04Spidey Up Against the WallOctober 24, 1974—At a New York Mets baseball game, a mutated half-human, half-wall creature (Jim Boyd) sneaks up behind outfielder "Gumbo" Grace Ivy (Skip Hi
- S01E05Spider-Man Meets the Can CrusherOctober 28, 1974—Long ago, a young boy visited a soup factory, but lost his pet frog in a vat of tomato soup. As an adult, the Can Crusher (Jim Boyd, sportin
- S01E06Spidey Meets the Funny BunnyOctober 29, 1974—Once an ordinary girl until a bully sat on her Easter basket, a woman dressed in an Easter Bunny costume (Judy Graubart) sets out to steal o
- S01E07Meet Dr. FrightOctober 30, 1974—Dr. Fright (Skip Hinnant) is a monster who has a face so frighteningly ugly that he conceals it beneath an oversized stovepipe hat. He uses
- S01E08Meet Mr. MeaslesOctober 31, 1974—Mr. Measles (Skip Hinnant), armed with a large bag of measles-causing spots, plans to spread a worldwide epidemic. He infects several people
- S01E09Spidey Jumps the ThumperNovember 4, 1974—The Thumper (Hattie Winston) was a spoiled little rich girl who did not get a yellow pony for her birthday. Turning to a life of crime after
- S01E10Spidey and the Queen BeeNovember 5, 1974—A half-human, half-bee mutant named The Queen Bee (Hattie Winston) plots to rule the world. Her underlings are also mutated bee-human creatu
- S01E11Little Miss MuffettNovember 6, 1974—Based on the nursery rhyme. Spidey comes to the rescue of the title character (Hattie Winston) after a large spider terrorizes her. However,
- S01E12The BookwormNovember 7, 1974—Easy Reader (Morgan Freeman) is helping his girlfriend, Valerie (Hattie Winston) sort books at the library, when they notice large holes in
Season02
- S02E01The Birthday Bandit—
- S02E02Spidey Meets the Prankster—
- S02E03Spidey Meets the Blowhard—
- S02E04Who Stole the Show?—
- S02E05Spidey Meets the Yeti—
- S02E06Spidey Meets the Mouse—
- S02E07Spidey Meets the Sitter—
- S02E08Spidey Fixes the Hum—
- S02E09Spidey Nabs the Sandman—
- S02E10Spidey Meets the Tickler—
- S02E11Spidey Gets the Old One-Two—
- S02E12Spidey Meets Eye Patch—
- S02E13Spidey Meets Silly Willy—
- S02E14The Uninvited—
- S02E15Spidey After the Fox—
- S02E16Spidey Meets the Sack—
Season03
- S03E01The Beastly Banana—Jennifer of the Jungle (Judy Graubart) is worried about Paul the Gorilla's recent weird behavior, which she links to tainted bananas—the wor
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