This TV Show sucks ass I mean come on wheres
Green Goblin
Doc Ock
Sandman
Scorpion
Vulture
Shocker
Kingpin
and the other great Spidey villains
And also what the *beep* is with the theme music its 70's porn music I mean its Spider-Porn
Even Stan Lee hated it
*beep* YOU WHO EVER MADE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joker is Wild 2008
Venom is born 2007
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I'll take the TV show over the overblown hollywood Spiderman movies every time.
Hammond's "parker" destroys Tobey's.
"All men are created evil"
Hammond was way to ols at the time for the role.
shareAnd Tobey wasn't? He was already in his mid to late 20s when he was playing a kid who was supposed to be about 17.
sharebut hammond looked about 30.
shareHe was about 28 when he played him, but Hammond was suppose to be a University student not High School one.
I an't afraid of no ghosts!
I used to rent the VHS tapes of this show when I was about six years old. There was just no way yet to make a good Spider-Man live action show. Was it weird and over the top? Yeah, but it was also kind of charming.
I'm going to have to disagree with people implying Tobey wasn't good as Spidey. I thought he was great. Spider-Man 2 was a great movie that gets overlooked due to the massive success of the Dark Knight.
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I am from the UK and when I was a kid my friend and I used to watch this TV show in the early 80's on UK TV which we really loved. I am not a comic book fan at all. I have know idea if this is like the comics but I think it is better than the films that came out a few years ago. Yes this show is very 70's and now a bit dated so watch as a small boy I loved this show.
shareHammond and Maguire were both the same age when they did their first appearances as Spider-Man.
shareWhat's with the 70's porn music? Um. It was the the 70's.
shareThey were more or less taking cues from the Wonder Woman and Incredible Hulk shows at the time. They did what they could with the limited television budget they had.
Also, if they had used those villains, the show would've been alittle too campy. I like it as it was, alittle more realistic of the time.
"Lemme at 'em! I'll splat 'em!"
This is a solid, entertainly nostalgic fun show...from the 70's!!
shareNever mind the villains, could they not even have got a half-decent stuntman? Hell, look at this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZ9bENhfAg
sharePar for the course back then. Remember the old George Reeves Superman series? There were none of Superman's villains in that show either. The 1960s Batman had Batman's comic villains, but the show was also intentionally over-the-top campy.
This was made long before superhero movies became popular, and even before the 1978 Superman movie with Christopher Reeve made people think there might be a general audience for comic book heroes. They likely used mundane "real world" villains for this series for the same reason the 1950s Superman series did: they thought one guy in tights was as much as most adult audiences could swallow, and if they went the whole hog on comic characters, the show wouldn't attract any older viewers at all, which would mean less ad revenue. Also, most TV writers, for better or worse, seem to prefer writing their own stuff to adapting someone else's pre-existing stories. So, out went almost all of Spidey's non-costumed supporting characters as well.
I never liked this show that much either. I know there's only a limited budget but to me that's no excuse for not using the actual origin of the comics where Uncle Ben dies from Peter not catching a thief. Here, Uncle Ben is already dead from some cancer before Peter even gets his spider powers. Then he just gets his powers and uses them for good without any motive. There's also no reason they couldn't have had Robbie Robertson, Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy, Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn, Norman Osborn, or Betty Brant on the show.
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