Spidey Super Stories
A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers." Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.
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Approximately one dozen "Spidey Super Stories" segments were produced during The Electric Company's 1974–1975 season.
- Ep 1
1.Spidey Meets the Spoiler
21-10-19745mThe first "Spidey Super Stories" segment. Spidey links clues to the Spoiler (Skip Hinnant), a mischievous villain who aims to spoil people's fun. Spidey defeats him, but the victor...
- Ep 2
2.A Night at the Movies
22-10-19745mCount Dracula (Morgan Freeman) plans to bite the neck of an unsuspecting moviegoer (Judy Graubart). Spidey is able to foil Dracula's plans. Count Dracula (based on the Bram Stoker...
- Ep 3
3.Spider-Man Meets the Evil Dr. Fly
23-10-19745mDr. Fly (Luis Avalos), a mutated half-human, half-fly plans to turn the world's inhabitants into the same type of mutant. He disguises himself as a vendor to distribute hot dogs la...
- Ep 4
4.Spidey Up Against the Wall
24-10-19745mAt a New York Mets baseball game, a mutated half-human, half-wall creature (Jim Boyd) sneaks up behind outfielder "Gumbo" Grace Ivy (Skip Hinnant) and causes him to miss a routine...
- Ep 5
5.Spider-Man Meets the Can Crusher
28-10-19745mLong ago, a young boy visited a soup factory, but lost his pet frog in a vat of tomato soup. As an adult, the Can Crusher (Jim Boyd, sporting a Don King-type hairdo, a large red no...
- Ep 6
6.Spidey Meets the Funny Bunny
29-10-19745mOnce an ordinary girl until a bully sat on her Easter basket, a woman dressed in an Easter Bunny costume (Judy Graubart) sets out to steal other children's Easter baskets. She plan...
- Ep 7
7.Meet Dr. Fright
30-10-19745mDr. Fright (Skip Hinnant) is a monster who has a face so frighteningly ugly that he conceals it beneath an oversized stovepipe hat. He uses this to terrify victims, robbing them wh...
- Ep 8
8.Meet Mr. Measles
31-10-19745mMr. Measles (Skip Hinnant), armed with a large bag of measles-causing spots, plans to spread a worldwide epidemic. He infects several people, but Spidey catches him before a large-...
- Ep 9
9.Spidey Jumps the Thumper
04-11-19745mThe Thumper (Hattie Winston) was a spoiled little rich girl who did not get a yellow pony for her birthday. Turning to a life of crime after the cake and ice cream, the Thumper fan...
- Ep 10
10.Spidey and the Queen Bee
05-11-19745mA half-human, half-bee mutant named The Queen Bee (Hattie Winston) plots to rule the world. Her underlings are also mutated bee-human creatures (played by Skip Hinnant and Judy Gra...
- Ep 11
11.Little Miss Muffett
06-11-19745mBased on the nursery rhyme. Spidey comes to the rescue of the title character (Hattie Winston) after a large spider terrorizes her. However, Spidey recognizes the spider (a large p...
- Ep 12
12.The Bookworm
07-11-19745mEasy Reader (Morgan Freeman) is helping his girlfriend, Valerie (Hattie Winston) sort books at the library, when they notice large holes in the books. They try to beat back a large...
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