The WORST episodes of Spider-Man (1981)

Every episode of Spider-Man (1981) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Spider-Man (1981)!

Peter Parker battles crime in New York City as Spider-Man while balancing being a university student, working as a photographer for The Daily Bugle.

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The Vulture Has Landed
star
4.80
10 votes

#1 - The Vulture Has Landed

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1982

The Vulture has been kidnapping scientists in an effort to gain control of a NASA space probe. Peter goes to see his friend Harry in his apartment, but he's not home. Vulture mistakes Peter as Harry and kidnaps him.

Writer: Doug Booth
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The Unfathomable Professor Gizmo
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4.89
9 votes

#2 - The Unfathomable Professor Gizmo

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1981

Professor Gizmo seeks to reclaim sunken treasure and requires Spider-Man's help to do so.

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The Web of Nephilia
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5.10
10 votes

#3 - The Web of Nephilia

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1982

A mad scientist named Dr. Bradley Shaw transforms into a mutant spider when trying to gain Spider-Man's powers from his blood sample.

Writer: Christy Marx
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Countdown to Doom
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5.40
10 votes

#4 - Countdown to Doom

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/30/1982

NASA sends a rocket into space, built by Doctor Doom, unaware that he has attached a device to it that will move the Earth out of orbit, sending it into a new ice age, in an effort to force the United Nations to declare him to be the master of the world. During his fight against Spider-Man, Doctor Doom is accidentally destroyed by his own laser cannon.

Writer: Larry Parr
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The Hunter and the Hunted
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5.40
10 votes

#5 - The Hunter and the Hunted

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1981

After being hired by J. Jonah Jameson to look for a mascot for the Daily Bugle, Kraven the Hunter comes to the city as a hero when he captures Zabu, the last surviving sabre-tooth tiger. Ka-Zar comes to the city to liberate his animal companion.

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The Incredible Shrinking Spider-Man
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5.44
9 votes

#6 - The Incredible Shrinking Spider-Man

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1981

A janitor, feeling that his genius is ignored, dons the identity of the Gadgeteer to steal his employer's new device that can shrink anything and uses it to shrink Spider-Man.

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The A-B-C's of D-O-O-M
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5.55
11 votes

#7 - The A-B-C's of D-O-O-M

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1981

Doctor Doom forms a criminal partnership with Goron to pose as humanitarians to gain control of a space craft.

Writer: Larry Parr
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The Capture of Captain America
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5.60
10 votes

#8 - The Capture of Captain America

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1982

Captain America is kidnapped by the Red Skull, who plans to swap minds with him and take over the military. Spider-Man tries to save Captain America.

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The Return of Kingpin
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5.64
11 votes

#9 - The Return of Kingpin

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1982

The Kingpin is able to trick Spider-Man into committing a series of crimes.

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Triangle of Evil
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5.71
14 votes

#10 - Triangle of Evil

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1981

The Triangle of Evil led by Stuntman forces Spider-Man to survive deadly stunts.

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Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man
star
5.80
15 votes

#11 - Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1981

The Black Cat announces that she plans to steal the Maltese Mouse and challenges Spider-Man to try to stop her.

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The Sandman is Coming
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5.81
16 votes

#12 - The Sandman is Coming

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1981

The Sandman steals a soil sample from Mars from NASA and goes on a crime spree.

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Wrath of the Sub-Mariner
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5.82
11 votes

#13 - Wrath of the Sub-Mariner

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1982

Upon calling a truce with crime lords Silvermane, Hammerhead and Caesar Cicero, the Kingpin shows them a powerful acid developed by Dr. Everett to unite the crime lords in a plot to pull off crimes. The subsequent chemical waste from the new chemical is illegally dumping into the water, causing sickness to Sub-Mariner's cousin, Namorita. He takes her to the nearest doctor Dr. Donald Blake, then begins to wreak havoc on the surface world.

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Lizards, Lizards, Everywhere
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5.83
18 votes

#14 - Lizards, Lizards, Everywhere

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1981

The Lizard is plotting to turn New York City into a swampland, filled with reptiles under his control.

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The Sidewinder Strikes!
star
6.08
13 votes

#15 - The Sidewinder Strikes!

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1981

A rodeo show has come to the city, and the Sidewinder tries to steal the gold spurs.

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Arsenic and Aunt May
star
6.10
10 votes

#16 - Arsenic and Aunt May

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1982

Spider-Man catches the relative of the burglar that killed Ben Parker, which leads the Chameleon to discover Spidey's secret identity. He poses as Uncle Ben's spirit and tricks Aunt May into seeing a medium that will give her a necklace that will hypnotize her into trying to kill Spider-Man.

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The Doom Report
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6.10
10 votes

#17 - The Doom Report

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1982

Freedom fighters from Latveria start an underground movement in New York City, while Doctor Doom orders the United Nations to make him ruler of the world or else he will use his weather control device to cause chaos.

Writer: Larry Parr
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When Magneto Speaks... People Listen
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6.12
17 votes

#18 - When Magneto Speaks... People Listen

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1981

Magneto uses a spacecraft to increase his powers and shut off the nation's power supply.

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Carnival of Crime
star
6.13
16 votes

#19 - Carnival of Crime

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1981

The circus has come to town, and the Ringmaster uses a special gas to rob banks, while making people believe that Spider-Man is the thief.

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The Pied Piper of New York Town
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6.14
14 votes

#20 - The Pied Piper of New York Town

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1981

Mysterio opens up a new disco nightclub in town that turns its patrons and anyone else that hears the disco music into his slaves, whom he uses to try to steal a nuclear missile.

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Cannon of Doom
star
6.18
11 votes

#21 - Cannon of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1982

Doctor Doom secretly uses a laser cannon to create a fault line on New York City and then promises to fix the problem, when in fact he plans to use his laser cannon to create more earthquakes.

Writer: Larry Parr
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Dr. Doom, Master of the World
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6.45
22 votes

#22 - Dr. Doom, Master of the World

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1981

Doctor Doom is mind-controlling world leaders so, at the upcoming United Nations meeting, they will declare him the master of the world.

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The Doctor Prescribes Doom
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6.53
15 votes

#23 - The Doctor Prescribes Doom

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1981

Doctor Doom returns to replace the world leaders with robots under his control so they will declare him ruler of the world.

Writer: Larry Parr
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Revenge of the Green Goblin
star
6.71
17 votes

#24 - Revenge of the Green Goblin

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1981

Norman Osborn escapes from a mental institution on Halloween night, but when the train he is riding in crashes and blows up, he remembers that he is the Green Goblin and threatens to reveal to the world who Spider-Man really is, and seeks revenge on Jameson for publishing stories about his chemical plant being unsafe.

Writer: Larry Parr
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Bubble, Bubble, Oil and Trouble
star
6.77
31 votes

#25 - Bubble, Bubble, Oil and Trouble

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1981

Doctor Octopus commits various mysterious crimes in an effort to upgrade his mechanical arms and steal the world's oil supply.

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