Spectacular Spider-man

The Spectacular Spider-man is based on the original Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee andteve Ditko but references many other Spider-Man sources, such as the film trilogy and the Ultimate Spider-man comics/ With Peter Parker starting off as a high school teenager, the new show has aspects of teenage angst in a modern world with modern social tools such as cell phones/text messaging along with pseudo-science to create the various super-villains. The program’s tone is a combination of cartoon action, drama and comedy. In early episodes, Peter Parker begins rethinking his identity as Spider-Man and takes a dark tone at moments, but quickly switches back to light hearted high school comedy and awkward situations. Each season of the series is set during a semester of Peter’s high school year with Season One running from September to Thanksgiving and Season Two from December to March..

 Spectacular Spider-man is currently airing on Disney XD. It is unclear if Disney will pick it up for a third season.

 

Spider-man: The New Animated Series

Spider-man : New Animated Series  is the ninth incarnation of Spider-man on Television. It aired on MTV in 2003 and lasted for one 13 episode season.  Peter has graduated from high school and is attending Empider State Uniiversery. Still burdened with the desire to use his incredible, spider bite-derived powers to do good, he finds it hard balancing his responsibilities of being a superhero with schoolwork and his romance with Mary Jane Watson.
The series was produced by Mainframr Entertainment. and  used computer animation for its primary source of animation. Spider-man: TNAS loosely follows the continuity of the movies., though the series was origiallly intended to be a adaption of the Ultimate Spider-man Comic.

 

Spider-man: The Animated Series

 

Spider-man: The Animaed Series{or Spider-man TAS} aired on Fox Kids from 1994 to 1998. The series ran for five seasons and sixty-five episodes, the seonc longest running Marvel show after X-men The Animated Series{76 episodes}.  Stan Lee and Avi Arad were the executive producers. Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man claimed to check “every premise, every outline, every script, every model sheet, every storyboard, everything to do with putting the show together”. He and producer/story editor John Semper recruited writers who had experience from the comic books to work on scripts, among them was Gerry Conway and Marvv Wolfman. Producer Bob Richardson desired to give the show a “contemporary live-action feel” by merging CGI and traditional animation. One of the obligations of working with Fox was to make the show educational by introducing resolvable, child-appropriate social issues. Semper said he believed Spider-Man to be particularly good for this because the show takes place in real world New York making it able to tackle problems “closer to home.”

In 1994, Fox was using heavy censeorship because certain shows were being banned for excessive violence in some countries. So in a bid to make the Spider-Man animated series as politically correct as possible, the producers of the show were instructed to abide by their extensive list of requirements. Among the notable restrictions were:

Not mentioning “Death”, “Die”, “Kill” or other words with a strong negative meaning. Death was to be avoided, leading Semper to skirt around the issue. “Destroy” and “destruction” were frequently employed as synonyms. For example:
Rather than explicitly stating that Uncle Ben was killed it is only said that he “was shot” and that Peter “let him down.”
It is stated that the Punisher’s family was “caught in a crossfire between rival gangs”, and the same applied to the wife of the Destroyer.
At one point, when the Green Goblin returns after seemingly perishing, Spider-Man says, “You?! But I thought you were-” and the Green Goblin cuts him off with, “I’m not.. but you’ll soon be!” before throwing a Pumpkin Bomb at Spider-Man.
When Hydro-Man was defeated and evaporated, Mary Jane asked “Is he-?” Spider-Man cuts her off by saying “Not necessarily.” He goes on to explain that water that evaporates always eventually returns to the earth in the form of rain.
There were exceptions, such as when Felicia’s mother was attacked by Kraven, and stated “That madman nearly killed you.” or when Mary Jane suggested that Harry was trying to “avenge the death of his father.”
Many realistic guns were not allowed, and no firearms could shoot bullets, so instead they fired lasers complimented by ‘futuristic’ sound effects. This often led to scenes in which ordinary policemen wielded futuristic pistols. However, in Episode 3.09, Robbie Robertson’s son Randy finds a real-looking gun in his father’s desk, though it is never fired on screen, and in Episode 56, when Keane Marlow is telling the story of how he lost his wife, the bank robbers are firing a pistol and a semi-automatic. In “Day of the Chameleon”, the Chameleon is about to pull out a realistic looking pistol from behind his back before Spider-Man stops him. In “Sting of the Scorpion” a flashback shows Jameson’s wife’s killer supposedly using a realistic gun in a drive by shooting. It is worth noting that the team behind the roughly contemporary Batman: The Animated Series portrayed realistic firearms onscreen throughout that show’s run without ever having an episode banned or censored as a result.
Spider-Man was not allowed to hit anyone with his fist, however there were a few exceptions. In Episode 39 (”The Spot”) in which he used his spider-sense to guide a punch through a dimension portal and knock out the Spot. He also punched the Scorpion twice in “The Final Nightmare.”
No crashing glass was allowed. However, in Episode 43, when Spider-Man and Doc Ock were battling in Felicia and Anastasia Hardy’s home, Ock accidentally smashed a glass window with one of his tentacles.
No children in peril, although there was a scene where a teenager was stuck to the bottom of an elevator, about to be crushed until Spider-Man saved him.
No vampires were allowed on the show. This created complications with the use of the characters Mrobius the living vampire and Blade the vampire hunter. Consequently, Morbius only drained victims through suckers on his hands, rather than by biting them in the traditional vampire style on the neck, and rather than blood, his sustenance was referred to only as “plasma.” However, the word “blood” is used regularly in non-vampire episodes. True vampires later appeared anyway, primarily in the form of Blade’s vampire mother, but they are not shown actually biting anyone.
Spider-Man was not allowed to harm any pigeons when he landed on rooftops.
Cletus Kasady a.k.a. Carnage was not a serial killer in the series, he was just a madman. Carnage never actually used his symbiotic blades to harm anyone, he was either stopped or dodged. He also absorbed people’s energy rather than killing them outright. However, he has made a few references to attempts to murder. For instance, when Baron Mordo stated to him that he needed a few more life forces, Carnage said “Only a few? Too bad!”. He also referred to his process of draining life force as “feeding”.
There are, however, notable exceptions to these rules. Examples include:

When Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson confront Hydro-Man in Episode 2.03 for the last time, Hydro-Man vaporizes when he touches hot ground, and never returns.
Due to the unstable DNA structure of the clones of Mary Jane Watson and Hydro-Man, they vaporized and died.
Several other characters, including Mysterio. Jameson’s wife and the Kingpin’s father were implied to have died off-screen.
It should be noted that the restricted words were sometimes mentioned regardless of Fox’s censorship. For example, in “The Insidious Six”, Scorpion states that he’d “kill to work for the Kingpin” (a common exaggeration used by many). Another variation appears in “Hydro Man”, where Liz Allan says the word in pig latin to Mary Jane. When trying to reason with The Spot, Spider-Man said “You’re no killer.” Scorpion even said the word “kill” in his first appearance and the death words were used regularly in the Six Forgotten Warriors five-part episode saga.
After September 11th, ABC Family heavily edited the episode “Day of the Chameleon” to remove the World Trade Center buildings, parts of the New York skyline, and a helicopter crashing into a building, exploding, and falling to the ground below, among other shots. This resulted in the first scene being impossible to comprehend as it was originally intended. Dialogue was re-looped to match the new, shorter version. Some production credits from the episode are missing as well, due to their being on screen during the omitted footage. They also removed the last two episodes of the second season since both of them featured a building burning down. Another noticeable edit can be viewed in season three’s “Enter the Green Goblin” episode. In the original, the Goblin Glider slams into a building with Spider-Man riding on top. In the newly edited version, the scene is cut, and Spider-Man emerges from a hole in the side of the building. Another edit occurs near the end of episode 21, when it is revealed that Kraven and Punisher’s last battle with the “Man-Spider” was in fact inside the parking garage of the World Trade Center, and that Kraven had deduced the location by smelling some webbing left at a previous battle and detecting remnant soot in it from the terriost bombings of the early 1990s. The whole sequence of Punisher finding out where they are and Kraven’s explanation of how he knew where to look for them was cut, though the battle scenes within the garage are left intact, since obviously they could belong to any parking garage until the final revelation.

Spider-man TAS is currently owned by Disney. Reruns can be seen on Toon Disney. There are currently no plans to release the series in complete season sets. Instead, select episodes have been released on DVD.

 

 Spider-man and His Amazing Friends

Peter Parker (Spider-man), Bobby Drake (Iceman}, and Angelica Jones (Firestar) are all college students at Empide State Universty. After working together to defeat the Beetle and recovering the “Power Booster” he stole from Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) the trio decide to team-up permanently as the “Spider-Friends.” They live together in Peter’s Aunt May home with her and a pet dog, Ms. Lion. Together, the superheroes battle various supervillains.

Produced by Marvel Productions ltd, Spider-man And His Amazing Firends ran first-run original episodes on NBC for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years. In the second season, the show was aired along with a newly produced Hulk animated series as The Incredible Hulk And The Amazing Spider-man. The characters’ names would be reversed in Season 3. It remained that way until the series’ cancellation. Alongside the 1981 Spider-man series, Amazing Friends was later re-aired in the late 1980s as part of the ninety-minute MArvel Action Universe (not to be confused with 1977’s The Marvel Action Universe), a syndicated series that was used as a platform for old and new Marvel-produced animated fare (the newer programming featured Robocop The Animated Series, Dino Riders and on occasion “Pyrde Of The X-men”, which was intended to serve as a pilot for a potential “X-men” animated series).
The makers of the show had originally intended the stars to be Spider-Man, Iceman, and the Human Torch. However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character (which had also plagued Marvel once before for the New Fantastic Four cartoon) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman. Due to Firestar’s popularity with fans, she has since become a part of the mainstream Marvel Universe (see Comics above). In pre-production, Firestar’s codename changed frequently; the unused names include Firefly, Starblaze, and Heatwave. 

 

Spider-man{1981}

 

This Spider-man solo series from 1981 was created to launch Marvel Productions, which had risen from the ashes of DePatie-Freleng. Enterprises, who had previously produced the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series and the 1979 Spider-woman animated series (where Spider-Man made two appearances). The series featured Peter Parker having to balance his alter ego crimefighting with his responsibilities as a university student, a part-time photographer for the Daily Bugle and caring for his elderly Aunt May Parker. The series was not as popular with fans as Spider-man And His Amazing Friends.
The character design for Peter Parker (as well as other supporting characters including Aunt May and J. Jonah Jameson) was also quite faithful to the comic books of the period and hearkened back to the illustrations by John Romita Sr. of the young hero in Spider-Man’s newspaper strip adventures from the 1970s. Due to network constraints and demands from parents, characters such as Spider-Man were not allowed to make a fist to strike an opponent, but the show’s creators managed to conceal these issues with a focus on action and relatively fluid animation. Peter’s mask was connected to his costume at the back of the neck, almost like a hood, which he would pull over his head when he changed into Spider-Man.

 

Spider-man{tokusatsu}

Young motorcycle racer Takuya Yamashiro sees a UFO falling to earth, in fact a combat spacecraft named the “Marveller”. Takuya’s father Dr. Hiroshi Yamashiro, a space archaeologist, investigates the case. The incident also brings the attention of Professor Monster and his evil Iron Cross Army (Tetsu-Jyuuji-Gun), an alien group that plans to rule the universe.
This japanese version of Spider-man was part of a deal that Marvel made with Toei Company Ltd, namely that for a four-year period, Toei could use Marvel’s characters in any way they saw fit.  So in 1978 a Spider-Man tokusatsu series was produced for Japanese television. While Spider-Man’s costume was certainly based on the original, the storyline had nothing to do with the Marvel character. The series had a major impact on other Japanese live-action shows, and in particular the Super Senti series, by popularizing the use of piloted giant robots to destroy giant monsters. This series also introduced the formula of featuring monster battles on two scales in the same episode. In this version of the character, Spider-Man’s costume was not worn under everyday street clothes. Instead, the super suit was released from a wrist device worn by the hero, Takuya. Upon activation, the costume would eject from the bracelet and spring through the air, literally sweep down, and “cover” the young man from the top of his mask down to his feet. The scene would be quickly followed by a close shot of the hero zipping up the costume at the back at the neck, and then taking a heroic pose having transformed into the wall-crawler.

In an interview conducted by Toei, Stan Lee stated that he enjoyed the way Spider-Man was done, especially with Leopardon and the way that it was filmed. He also stated that he was invited by Toei to do a future sequel to Spider-Man with him doing the storyline.

 

The Amazing Spider-man{1977}

The Amazing Spider-man was the first live action Spider-man series and ran for two seasons from 1977 to 1979.  The series aired  along with live action television series based on the comic book characters of The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Captain America and Doctor Strange. The Amazing Spider-Man series had solid ratings throughout its run, but CBS was leery about being labeled the “superhero network” and fans were highly critical of the series for the changes made to the comic book storyline and the lack of any real “supervillians”. The only characters besides Peter Parker to regularly appear in both the television series and comics were J Jonah Jameson and Aunt May. Joe “Robbie” Robertson (played by Hilly Hicks) also appeared but only in the pilot. To add insult to injury, Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee disliked the show, and was vocal about his dissatisfaction with it; he once said in an interview that he felt the series was “too juvenile” – a controversial statement given his credit as script consultant on each episode. Despite criticism of the series as far removed from the source material, the show has so far featured the only live-action appearance of Peter Parker’s spider-tracer tracking devices, which are prominently featured in several episodes throughout the series.

In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, two attempts were made to recreate an Amazing Spider-Man live-action television series. The first one would have had the original cast team-up with the cast from the The Incredible Hulk television series. This was part of a plan to have several television movies featuring the Incredible Hulk and various Marvel Comics characters. This attempt finally fell through when Bo;; Bixby died of cancer in 1993. A second attempt would have been an entirely new series that died in preproduction because the networks wanted to make Spider-Man into a mutant.

 

 Spidey Super Stories

Spidey Super Stories was a live-action, recurring skit on thePBS children’s show The Electric Company. Episodes featured Spider-man, which was provided to the Children’s Television Workshop free of charge, and premiered during the season premiere of The Electric Companys fourth (1974–1975) season, show 391. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities (such as burglary or assault). The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator.

Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-man, this version of the web-slinging hero does not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word ballons in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills. This was done because Spider-Man was not drawn with a mouth. He also never appears out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series’ budget limitations, uses his web shooters sparingly.

 

 Spider-man{1967}

This is the first adaption of the Spider-man comic and aired on ABC from 1967 to 1970. The first episode aired on September 9th, 1967 and was titled “The Power of Doctor Octopus”/”Sub-Zero For Spidey”. For the full run of the first season and of the second season, the show was seen at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. ABC’s last Saturday morning broadcast of Spider-Man was on Augest 30, 1969, with 39 half-hour episodes (many with two separate stories) aired. The show went on hiatus until the following March, when a third season began a six-month run, from March 22 to September 6, 1970, on Sunday mornings, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. In 1977, the series was broadcast abroad, airing in several international markets for the first time. In the case of the Spanish and Italian versions, a completely different theme song was used, dubbed over original footage of the introduction. The song was written by composers Erick Bulling & Santiago and performed by Chilean singer El Capitan Nemo. This song was also released as a vinyl LP single. For the Italian version, the show’s title there, L’uomo Ragno, was superimposed in large yellow type over the first two shots of Spider-Man swinging through the city.
The series went into syndication at the start of the first season. After Grantray-Lawrence went bankrupt, the second and third seasons were produced at a dramatically reduced budget by Krantz Films under Ralph Bakshi. This cost cutting is most apparent with two episodes re-using almost the entire footage from two Rocket Robin Hood episodes as well as remaking previous episodes with minimal changes.

The series has also aired on ABC Family, starting in 2002 as part of the network’s Memorial Day weekend-long “Spidey-Mania” marathon, timed to coincide with the release of the feature film. However, it appeared that airings of the show were only limited to said special marathons, as it wouldn’t be seen again until a third “Spidey-Mania” marathon (to coincide with the release of Spider-Man 2) in 2004, the last time it was seen on ABC Family in the US. (The second “Spidey-Mania” marathon, aired in 2003, did not feature this series.) In addition, the show aired on Family in Canada until September 2007 when they took it off to make room for their fall schedule. The show has never aired on the channel since. The network was notorious for heavily editing footage so it could be more suitable for younger audiences; for example, J. Jonah Jameson’s right hand (which usually held the cigar he puffed on) had to be manipulated (and removed altogether in some cases). In one episode, where Jameson originally held his cigar in his hand, he was manipulated to make an “okay” sign.