The character was first portrayed in live-action by Danny Seagren inSpidey Super Stories, anElectric Company segment which ran from 1974 to 1977, with tie-in media seeing Hattie Winston's Valerie the Librarian becomeSpider-Woman.
In 1977, a short-lived live action television series was produced calledThe Amazing Spider-Man, starringNicholas Hammond, one of the actors fromThe Sound of Music, in the title role. Although the series earned good ratings, theCBS Television Network canceled it after just two seasons, along withWonder Woman, to avoid being labeled as "the superhero network."[1] The series was broadcast only sporadically during the second season. Several episodes from this series were turned into full-length motion pictures outside the U.S. Three films were released overseas:Spider-Man in 1977,Spider-Man Strikes Back in 1978, andSpider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge in 1981, all compiling television film edits of multi-part episodes.
In 1978, aSpider-Man live-actiontokusatsu series was produced forJapanese television byToei Company. Due to a request byBandai that the show includegiant robots and vehicles, it was not a faithful adaptation: instead of Peter Parker, Spider-Man isTakuya Yamashiro (山城拓也,Yamashiro Takuya). The show is not related toRyoichi Ikegami's earlier 1970Spider-Man manga. Toei planned to follow the series with a new show starring Captain Japan, a Japanese counterpart ofCaptain America called, but the show was modified and becameBattle Fever J, the first official installment of Toei'sSuper Sentai franchise (barring the retroactive recognition ofHimitsu Sentai Gorenger andJAKQ Dengekitai in later years). Having costumed superheroes pilot giant robots began in thisSpider-Man series, was carried over toBattle Fever J, and became a tradition in theSuper Sentai franchise.
The firstSpider-Man animated series was simply titledSpider-Man, and ran onABC from 1967 to 1970. The show's first season was produced byGrantray-Lawrence Animation, which soon went bankrupt. In 1968,animatorRalph Bakshi took over. Bakshi's episodes, which suffered from extremely low budgets, were stylized and featured dark ominous settings and pervasive background music. One episode reused complete background animation, characters, and storyline from an episode ofRocket Robin Hood. The series is best remembered for itstheme song, having become one of the most identifiable aspects of the series. In the early 2010s, severalinternet memes gained major prominence across various platforms, using the simplistic art style and awkward situation of the series for comedic purposes. Spider-Man was voiced byPaul Soles.[9]
In 1981, with the creation of the animation studioMarvel Productions Ltd., Marvel endeavored to translate more of their comic characters to television. To garner the attention of the major networks, Marvel first created a newsyndicatedSpider-Man series partially based on the 1960s show. The strategy worked, andNBC became interested in having their ownSpider-Man series. Spider-Man was voiced by Ted Schwartz.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was created for NBC and featured the trio of Spider-Man,Iceman of theX-Men, and original characterFirestar. ActorDan Gilvezan gave voice to this incarnation of the wall-crawler. This series also featured a number of Marvel guest stars, and shared many of its character designs with the solo Spider-Man show produced just before it.
The 1994 Spider-Man animated series was made for theFox Network, withChristopher Daniel Barnes voicing Spider-Man.[10] This series had a bigger budget and used a novel system of one large story arc per season, developed byJohn Semper. As a result, each of the individual 65 episodes (starting with season 2) were called "chapters". This was the longest Spider-Man series, with 65 episodes in five seasons, until 2012'sUltimate Spider-Man surpassed it.[11]
In 1999, an animated series namedSpider-Man Unlimited was developed for Fox in which Spider-Man is transported to an animatedCounter-Earth inspired by the one created by the High Evolutionary in early 1970s comics. This series was cancelled after one season. Spider-Man was voiced byRino Romano.[12]
This television series is based on the early Lee/Ditko and Romita eras ofThe Amazing Spider-Man in addition to drawing elements from other eras of the comics, theUltimate Spider-Man comics byBrian Michael Bendis andMark Bagley, andSam Raimi'sSpider-Man film series. Peter Parker is still a teenager living in contemporary New York, as in Bendis' Ultimate version, but many of the cast members borrow from both the early and later years of Spider-Man comics. Many of the original supporting cast, including Flash Thompson, have been translated into modern terms but are still very true to the comics, and some have altered ethnicities:Liz Allan is Hispanic andNed Lee (formerly "Leeds") is Korean. The series follows several plot arcs drawn from the comics. Two seasons of the series were aired, each containing 13 episodes, but originally a total of 65 episodes along with several direct-to-video films were planned. However, the series ended prematurely when Sony Pictures relinquished its rights, which it had licensed from Marvel, to produce animated works using Spider-Man and associated characters. Spider-Man was voiced byJosh Keaton.
Achildren's television series titledSpidey and His Amazing Friends premiered on August 6, 2021 onDisney Junior.[15][16] Peter Parker / Spidey is voiced initially by Benjamin Valic and by Alkaio Thiele from the third season onward.[17]
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Spider-Man guest-starred in theSpider-Woman television series in the episodes "Pyramids of Terror" and "The Kongo Spider", voiced again by Paul Soles.
In an episode of the Marvel Productions-produced animated seriesMuppet Babies, "Comic Capers", Spider-Man appears in a fantasy sequence the characters create that is inspired byThe Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip.
Spider-Man makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in theX-Men: The Animated Series episode "The Phoenix Saga – Part V: Child Of Light".
Spider-Man appears inThe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced again byDrake Bell. Originally,Josh Keaton was intended to reprise his role fromThe Spectacular Spider-Man and had even recorded dialogue for the character, but was ultimately replaced and redubbed by Bell.[24] Tasked as Peter Parker to take pictures for an interview with Captain America, whom he admires, he works with him to save civilians from the Serpent Society. Spider-Man reappears in the episode "New Avengers", as a member of thetitular group. Later, he joins the Avengers as a reserve member. Spider-Man returns in the series finale "Avengers Assemble", aiding the Avengers in a battle againstGalactus.
The 1994 series' iteration of Spider-Man makes non-speaking cameo appearances in theX-Men '97 three-part season finale "Tolerance is Extinction". In Part 1, he is among the witnesses to theelectromagnetic pulse (EMP) wave sent throughout the world byMagneto to depower thePrime Sentinels upon escaping fromBastion's captivity.[28] In Part 3, Parker is at an electronics store watching the news ofAsteroid M's impending collision with Earth alongsideFlash Thompson andMary Jane Watson, who he has brought back to the present timeline.[29]
Spider-Man appears inMarvel Zombies which serves as a continuation for the storyline of theWhat If...? episode "What If... Zombies?!" in which he also appeared in, voiced again by Hudson Thames.
Spider-Man appears inAvengers Assemble, with Drake Bell reprising his role (excluding the episode "Vibranium Curtain" Pt. 2, whereRobbie Daymond reprises the role). In "Hulk's Day Out", he is selling hot dogs. In "Avengers Disassembled", Spider-Man temporarily joins the Avengers as Captain America's replacement, but leaves the team near the end of the episode due to Captain America and Iron Man being unable to work together. In "Avengers Underground", Spider-Man is among the heroes the Squadron Supreme imprison, although in his case, he is occupied with one of their drones. In "Avengers World", Spider-Man appears at the end of the episode on a holographic globe as one of the heroes Iron Man and Captain America consider potential Avengers. Finally in "Vibranium Curtain" Pt. 2, Spider-Man shows up and works with Black Panther to fight Vulture.
InIron Man animated series, when a hacker causesH.O.M.E.R., the Starks' artificial intelligence, to malfunction, he mentions Peter Parker.
A small reference is made to Spider-Man in theX-Men: Evolution episode "On Angel's Wings", whenAngel is seen reading theDaily Bugle, the place Spider-Man/Peter Parker usually works.
Spider-Man is referenced several times in the animated seriesThe Super Hero Squad Show. In the episode "Election of Evil", the Mayor of Superhero City (voiced byStan Lee, one of the character's creators) references Spider-Man by saying that he tried to get superpowers by "getting bitten by a radioactive bug", and his campaign motto is "With great responsibility comes great power... and vice-versa". Spider-Man did not physically appear in the series due toSony Pictures' ownership of the character's animated television rights as it was airing.[33]
InIron Man: Armored Adventures Spider-Man is alluded to. In "Iron Man 2099" aMaggia goon mistakesHawkeye for Spider-Man after Hawkeye uses a web arrow to catch one of his cohorts.
In a flashback during season 1 ofDaredevil to Matt and Foggy's time at Landman & Zack, Foggy mentions having "bumped into Morales", referring toRio Morales, the mother ofMiles Morales.[citation needed] In the 12th episode ofDaredevil season 1, whenBen Urich is taking a drink from his glass and right before he realizesWilson Fisk is there, a photograph ofSpider-Man is visible in the newspaper posted on his pin-board to the far right of the center-top. In the 12th episode ofDaredevil season 3, whenKaren Page is visiting a boxing gym, an old poster behind her advertises a fight between a "Parker" and a "Morales".[34]
Spider-Man guest-starred in theRobot Chicken television series in the episodes "Superheroes Tonight", "Goblin Aerobics", "Kid Venison", "Spider Sense", "Excelsior", "Spidey in the Bathroom", "April's Report on Town Hall", and "J. Jonah Jameson's True Love", voiced by various voice actors.[37]
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