The BEST episodes of Spider-Man (1967) season 1
Every episode of Spider-Man (1967) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Spider-Man (1967) season 1!
Marvel Comics' most memorable character, Spider-Man (Spidey for short), got the star treatment in animation in 1967. This cartoon premiered at around the same time as The Fantastic Four and the Marvel Superheroes Hour. The theme song is one of the most memorable television theme songs ever, and has been re-recorded plenty of times. When high school student Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider at a lab demonstration, he finds himself owner of some new powers, namely the proportionate strength, speed, and agility of a natural spider, plus a sixth "spider"-sense that enables him to sense danger, and the ability to climb on walls.
#1 - Double Identity
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 1/13/1968
Art robberies are committed by an old enemy of Spiderman, actor Charles Cameo, who can utilize masks and make-up to usurp any identity, including those of J. Jonah Jameson and Spiderman!
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#2 - To Catch a Spider
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 1/13/1968
Under the guidance of Dr. Noah Boddy, the Green Goblin, Electro, and the Vulture join forces for revenge on Spiderman. In a confrontation with Noah Boddy's three stooges, Spidey practices ventriloquism to cause each of the three miscreants to think that he is being insulted by the others, and the excitable trio of villains begin fighting each other.
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#3 - Where Crawls the Lizard
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1967
Reports of a lizard-man terrorizing the Everglades bring Spiderman to Florida, where he finds that a Doctor Conner, by testing a swamp fever serum upon himself, has changed into an intelligent lizard. The lizard that Conner has become intends to use a beaker containing the serum, which it confiscates from Conner's laboratory, to convert alligators into reptiles that share its level of intelligence, to follow it in conquest of humanity. Spidey applies his knowledge of science to conceive an antidote to the serum and confronts Conner's lizard alter-ego at an old, Spanish fort, webbing the bipedal reptile before it can release the serum into the Florida swamps, and forcing it to drink the antidote that changes it back to Conner, who does not remember any of his acts as the Lizard but is immensely grateful for Spidey's help, as are his wife and son.
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#4 - Never Step on a Scorpion
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/7/1967
Jameson's latest Spiderman-catching scheme involves a genetically mutated humanoid scorpion created by a scientist named Dr. Stillwell, but the Scorpion's allegiances are fickle, the monster soon declares Jameson as his number one enemy, and Spiderman must rescue his newspaper-publishing nemesis from the beast's murderous clutches. Fortunately, the Scorpion is vulnerable to Spidey's webbing, and Spidey captures the Scorpion for police capture, not once but twice, after the Scorpion escapes prison and attempts again to kill Jameson.
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#5 - The Menace of Mysterio
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1967
Spider-man has robbed a bank! But Peter Parker doesn't remember robbing a bank. He figures it must be an impostor. Meanwhile, J Jonah Jameson has being recieving calls from a mysterious Mysterio. He claims that he could defeat Spider-man and bets with Jonah on it. Jonah puts Mysterio's challenge on the front page of the Daily Bugle though Spider-man is in trouble with the law. Spider-man arrives at Mysterio's meeting place (a bridge) and they battle there. Mysterio hits Spider-man into the water and Mysterio thinks he won! When really Spidey survived and swam underwater. Peter Parker was in Jonah's office when Mysterio came, wanting his money. Jonah says they haven't proved Spider-man's dead but will only give half of it. As Mysterio exits the office, Peter puts a Spider-tracter on his cloak. Spidey follows him to a TV studio where he meets him. They battle there and Spider-man managed to make Mysterio confess that the Spider-man that robbed the bank is fake and reveal that he
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#6 - The Power of Dr. Octopus
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1967
Peter Parker is on assignment for J. Jonah Jameson, investigating mystery lights outside of the New York City limits for possible Daily Bugle pictures, when a rock avalanche forces his car off of a road and onto a tree part-way down a cliff. Peter changes to Spiderman and uses webbing to gently bring his car to a landing at the base of the cliff, where he notices light emanating from an opening in the rock, revealing a gadget-filled cave wherein the multi-mechanical-armed Doctor Octopus is scheming to trigger a series of underground explosions in Manhattan. Octopus surprises Spidey by dropping an entangling chain around the super-hero, then confines Spidey behind a descending set of jail cell bars. When Peter is overdue at the Bugle, Betty Brant drives her car to the same location and is also captured by Octopus. With his back turned from Spidey and Brant, Octopus initiates his diabolical plan as proof of his power to devastate New York. Spidey sprays his webbing into the jail cell locks that imprison himself and Betty, the webbing serves as a key, and Betty is free to run for help, while Spidey fights Octopus, shooting webbing at Octopus' glasses and blinding the villain so that he can be webbed to a wooden beam in the cave. The police, summoned to the scene by Betty, arrest Octopus, and Betty is reunited with Peter, who tells to her that he has been looking for a mechanic to repair his car.
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#7 - Sub-Zero for Spidey
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1967
A group of giant ice creatures situate in New York Harbor in their damaged, diamond-like spaceship and abduct Dr. Smartyr, a noted scientist. Spidey boards the alien space vessel, passes through a maze of perilous, icy tunnels, and finds the aliens' control room, where Smartyr, an expert in propulsion, is helping the creatures, friendly Plutonians who were forced to land on Earth for repairs to their spaceship. With his new invention, a space warp control device, Smartyr assists the Plutonians to launch their spacecraft out of New York Harbor, leave Earth, and return to Pluto. But neither Smartyr nor Spidey will tell anyone about their encounter with aliens.
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#8 - The Vulture's Prey
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/23/1967
The nefarious Vulture traps Jameson inside of a tower-clock and uses the well-informed Daily Bugle publisher as a source of information on the whereabouts of a visiting diamond merchant and the testing of military equipment- two prospective heists for the greedy bird-man.
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#9 - Electro the Human Lightning Bolt
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1967
Electro, a villain capable of emitting energy bolts from his hands, robs J. Jonah Jameson's wall safe as the beginning of a crime wave which is investigated by Spiderman and ends in a confrontation with Electro in an amusement park. By his reflections, Spidey draws Electro's fire in a hall of mirrors, then startles Electro with an electricity-negating, asbestos-laced webbing dropped from above onto the villain. Spidey gives the webbed Electro to Jameson for the New York Police Department (the NYPD) to apprehend.
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#10 - Sting of the Scorpion
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 1/20/1968
When the Scorpion, intent on vengeance upon Spiderman and Jameson, escapes prison, he visits the laboratory of his creator, Dr. Stillwell, and drinks a potion that vastly increases his size.
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#11 - Fountain of Terror
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/6/1968
Dr. Curtis Conner goes missing in the Florida swamps after finding the Fountain of Youth. When Spidey investigates the scientist's disappearance, he discovers a fifteenth century Spanish conquistador, Ponce de Leon, who is intent upon keeping the magical fountain a secret.
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#12 - The Sky is Falling
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/30/1967
The Vulture, a man-bird villain, possesses an electronic device inducing huge flocks of birds to join him in attacking New York City. Unless the mayor bestows to the Vulture 2 million dollars, the Vulture promises to continue his reign of terror from the sky. Scientifically astute and resourceful Spidey drops a device that disrupts the bird-controlling transmissions, onto the Vulture's head, and provokes the bird-man into giving to the birds the attack signal, which causes the confused birds to attack the Vulture and force the flying criminal to flee, without the 2 million dollars that he tried to extort.
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#13 - The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/30/1967
Doctor Octopus imposes upon Dr. Smartyr's Nullifier rocket test and steals the ultra-powerful destructor missile, with possession thereof Octopus plans to force all nations to bow to his will.
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#14 - Sands of Crime
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/1967
The Sandman, a villain capable of dissolving into a moving heap of sand, slips under the defense mechanisms at a police-guarded exhibit and robs the Goliath Diamond. When the Sandman demands a two million dollar ransom for returning the diamond and specifies a rock quarry as a money-for- diamond transfer point, Spidey arrives there with the money in a suitcase and stickily webs the bottom of the suitcase to a rock, from which the Sandman is thus unable to lift the suitcase. In the ensuing battle, Spidey's makeshift web-shield deflects the boulders falling upon him from a bulldozer controlled by the Sandman. Spidey then spins his webbing into a huge slingshot that deflects the bulldozer's wrecking ball back at the bulldozer, throwing the Sandman from the vehicle and into a vat of water, where the Sandman becomes soggy and weak and drops the diamond. Spidey gives diamond and soggy Sandman to the police.
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#15 - Captured by J. Jonah Jameson
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1967
Jameson employs a brilliant scientist named Henry Smythe in an effort to catch and unmask Spiderman by means of a relentless robot that speaks in Jameson's voice and has an image of Jameson's face in its head. After a lengthy chase that leaves Spidey fatigued, short of breath, and easily captured by the robot, Spidey uses the suction power of his fingers to open the lid to the robot's control centre and removes the spider-detecting circuitry that initially put the robot onto his trail, and when Jameson and Smythe arrive at the place of Spidey's apparent capture, Jameson removes the mask of what he thinks is Spiderman and finds a straw dummy in a Spiderman costume, in the arms of a non- functional robot. The frustrated Jameson never wants to see Smythe or Smythe's robot ever again.
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#16 - The Night of the Villains
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/18/1967
Historic villains Blackbeard the Pirate, Jesse James, and the Executioner of Paris are committing robberies in New York City, and Spidey tracks them to their lair- Parafino's Wax Museum, where Spidey's wax-master enemy is scheming to besiege and plunder the city with robotized wax villains.
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#17 - Fifth Avenue Phantom
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/4/1967
The Phantom, a faceless, hooded villain, orchestrates a trio of female robots, all with reducing rays, to steal merchandise from Bennet's Department Store. Intending to catch the Phantom, Spiderman trails the beautiful robots and a stolen doll house containing the shrunken items. He is captured by one of the robots toting a laser gun and brought to the Phantom's headquarters, where the robots restore the merchandise to full size. Spidey springs into action, deactivates the robots, and webs the Phantom. The police return the stolen items to Bennet's.
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#18 - The Peril of Parafino
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/1967
A convict named Red Dog Melvin escapes jail and is granted asylum at Parafino's Wax Museum, where Red Dog is put in suspended animation and coated with wax by fanatical wax artist Parafino, whose advertised exhibit of Red Dog lures Spidey to the museum for a nighttime visit. Planning to turn the web-swinger into a wax-covered exhibit, Parafino throws an ultra-sticky wax at Spidey's hands and feet, pinning Spidey on a pedestal. Betty Brant arrives at the museum in search for Peter, who told to her that he was going to investigate the museum, and Parafino captures her too. However, Spidey uses heat to his advantage, first from a lamp above his pedestal to melt the wax on his hands (thus enabling him to pull his feet free from the wax bonding them to the pedestal), then by hitting with his webbing a wax temperature control that increases heat to cause Parafino to melt! The real Parafino emerges to continue the work of his melted wax self-image, but Red Dog reanimates and grabs Parafino, and Spidey webs them both.
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#19 - Return of the Flying Dutchman
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/2/1967
Reports of a legendary, flying ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, being sighted near Smuggler's Cove summon Spidey to the area, where his investigation into the phantom ship's appearance leads him to a cave in which he finds his sworn adversary, Mysterio, plotting with a pair of thugs.
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#20 - The Sinister Prime Minister
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/11/1967
Spiderman discovers that the visiting Prime Minister of Rutania is an imposter and must by himself battle the identity-usurper, whose cane is a veritable arsenal! The phoney Prime Minister, under the pretense of obtaining a multi-million dollar loan to aid the impoverished people of his country, has duped the American government and J. Jonah Jameson into bestowing upon him a fortune in gold bullion. While battling the imposter Prime Minister aboard an airplane, Spidey uses his webbing to knock the cane out of the imposter's hand and pin it to the fuselage's wall. He webs the imposter and, with armed guards as witnesses, removes the imposter's make-up to reveal actor Charles Cameo. Spidey also releases the real Prime Minister alive from a trunk aboard the airplane.
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#21 - The Witching Hour
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/14/1967
A ghoulish villain, the Green Goblin, plans to conjure demons of the spirit world to do his bidding and to this end uses J. Jonah Jameson as a hypnotized medium to the evil realm. Spidey trails the Goblin and Jameson to a cemetery to battle the green-skinned ghoul. He webs and tips the Goblin's cauldron from which the evil spirits are emerging. The spirits disappear as the cauldron's liquid contents seep into the ground, and Spidey webs the Goblin. The recuperating Jameson has no memory of any of these events.
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#22 - The Spider and the Fly
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/16/1967
Spidey chases the culprit in an attempted theft of jewels from a countess and is surprised to find that his opponent, dressed in a black "Human Fly" costume, also has the ability to scale walls and can cross thin wires between buildings.
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#23 - The One-Eyed Idol
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/4/1967
Australian hunter Harley Clivendon pretends to be secret admirer of J. Jonah Jameson and gives as a "token of (his) esteem" to the cantankerous newspaper publisher a weird, hypnotic idol, which entrances Jameson into robbing his own wall safe and placing the money inside of the idol for Clivendon's aborigine helper to collect. When Spidey discovers Clivendon's scheme, Clivendon throws a boomerang to strike Spidey unconscious and binds Spidey beneath an elevator carriage to be crushed when the carriage reaches ground level, but Spidey breaks his bindings to escape from the descending carriage and confronts Clivendon. After dodging the spears hurled and bullets fired at him by Clivendon, Spidey throws the advancing aborigine at Clivendon and webs them both for police capture- and Jameson has his money back.
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#24 - Trick or Treachery
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/20/1968
Paroled from prison, the Human Fly Twins rob diamonds from an importing company, and one of them does this deed in a Spiderman costume so that the guard, before being hit on the head from behind by the second twin, believes that Spidey is the culprit.
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#25 - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/11/1967
Dr. Magneto, a scientist with a gun capable of magnetizing and demagnetizing various objects, plans revenge upon the world for ridiculing his theories. He causes a rail bridge to collapse, then lifts and drops a statue from high altitude, but Spidey arrives on the scene and prevents Magneto's schemes from causing loss of life. Then, Spidey confronts Magneto in a museum and, with a dense, anti-magnetic webbing, smashes Magneto's magnetizing gun. He then webs Magneto in the usual manner and places the disgraced scientist on a pedestal in the museum for police to apprehend.
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