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19 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 14, 196830 mins
Meek Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and acquires super-powers. He decides to use his new powers to get rich, but when tragedy strikes close to home, he learns a valuable lesson and vows to fight crime instead.
Episode 2
Sat, Sep 21, 196830 mins
Peter Parker overhears talk of a laboratory producing imitation pharmaceuticals, investigation as Spider-Man lead him to find out the whole plot has been engineered by a rotund mobster called the Kingpin.
Episode 3
Sat, Sep 28, 196830 mins
A new nuclear reactor has been built in the heart of Manhattan, and Peter Parker's science class is researching it. Peter is asked by his attractive classmate, Sonya, to help her that night with research about the reactor. As Spidey is making his way to Sonya's home, trouble is brewing. A demented radiation specialist breaks into the new reactor and threatens the city with ransom; unless he is paid $10 million, given amnesty from prosecution, and given permission to build his own reactor, he will use anti-gravity rays on Manhattan to lift it into the sky. When his demands are refused, he does exactly that, and makes a ransom demand of $100-million, along with the other conditions, and unless his demands are met he will deactivate the ray & send Manhattan plummeting back to earth. Spidey must abort his date with Sonya & tunnel into the reactor to stop the madman. The specialist, who has speculated Spidey's powers came from radiation, tries to neutralize them by subjecting Spidey to anti-radiation. Unfortunately for him, Spidey resists the anti-radiation by force of will & kicks the specialist in the face. The stunned specialist fires his gun at Spidey, but misses, and the ray from the gun hits the controls sustaining the anti-gravity ray. As Manhattan starts to drop like a stone, Spidey must neutralize the psychotic specialist quickly...
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 5, 196830 mins
At school, Peter finds himself in competition with the local football jock - Roy Robinson - for the attention of the most attractive girls. Roy is not only a talented football player, but his dad is a brilliant scientist who had created an invisibility chemical for the government, and is extremely wealthy. Peter attempts to get on the football team but is rebuffed, and reluctantly takes on a job as a water boy in hopes of making it as a replacement player. Unfortunately for him, other forces want the invisibility chemical - a psychopathic mastermind known as the Skymaster, who travels over New York in a zeppelin hidden behind artificial clouds. In the middle of the night, the Skymaster kidnaps Roy Robinson from his home and tries to extort the formula from Robinson's dad, using Roy as bait. Roy does not show up at practice the next day, and Peter overhears the conversation between the coach, Roy's dad, and the police officer investigating the kidnapping. Realizing how much is at stake, Peter changes into Spidey to hunt down the Skymaster and rescue Roy. Soon he finds the Skymaster - hidden behind artificial clouds - and breaks into the zeppelin. The Skymaster & his men are stunned to find 'the webbed meddler' on their turf, and even as the formula comes in by radio Spidey overpowers the Skymaster's men. Despite the warnings of his crew, the Skymaster fires a gun at Spidey, who ducks, and the ray from the gun hits the zeppelin's controls, starting a fire & sending the airship out of control. Spidey & Roy must escape the burning airship and make back to the school for the game...but will they?
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 12, 196830 mins
When a city bank mysteriously vanishes into the street, J. Jonah Jameson sends a reporter named Hammond to investigate, while sending Peter to visit a scientist who has recorded voices supposedly from the center of the earth. Peter visits the scientist, and when a recording is played for him, he discovers it is the men - or beasts - who made the bank disappear, and they are plotting another one. Realizing it is only a few minutes until the plot is carried out, Peter becomes Spidey & heads for the bank. Sure enough, the bank disappears into the earth! Spidey follows it down & finds a strange kingdom of creatures - the Mole-Men. When the leader announces a plan to subjugate the people who were in the building when it was taken, Spidey moves into action & overpowers the Mole-Men, and both they & their hostages will be in for a surprise...
Episode 6
Sat, Oct 19, 196830 mins
After years of being dismissed as a bookworm, Peter Parker is trying to win a spot as a relief pitcher on his college baseball team.
Episode 7
Sat, Oct 26, 196830 mins
The Molemen from "Menace From the Bottom of the World" are stealing buildings again, taking back the sun, wealth and land that they feel should rightfully belong to them.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 2, 196830 mins
One of the enslaved inhabitance from a small Island manages to send a distress call on the same frequency as spider-man's spidersense. He arrives to find the evil Dr Mantra using giant beetles to force the humans to work in the ore mines.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 9, 196830 mins
Thousands of years before the dawn of civilization, evil magicians were fighting for supremacy - and Kotep, the Scarlet Sorcerer, was the most aggressive of these. When he loses a battle with an opponent, his own demons turn against him and place him in a time suspension. Six thousand years later, he is an exhibition at the museum where Peter is taking a course. The professor teaching it has found a spell that can supposedly revive the sorcerer, and when it is tested, Kotep does indeed come back to life - and turns on the professor. When Peter and his fellow students hear a loud crash, they run in to discover Kotep and a demon slave, who come after them. Peter turns into Spidey and goes after Kotep, who sends his demon after him. When Spidey injures the demon, Kotep vanishes from the museum and plans to set a trap using a huge web suspended between skyscrapers. Meanwhile, the injured professor tells his students a secret to stop Kotep - his scepter must be taken away from him, as he is powerless without it. Spidey finds himself trapped in the giant web, but not before his friends Bob and Susan inform him how to stop Kotep. He comes to in Kotep's domain, thousands of years before. Making his way to Kotep's castle, he finds himself trapped by the scarlet sorcerer, who sends a giant spider after him. Remembering what Susan had yelled at him from the street, Spidey gets Kotep's scepter and destroys the spider. He then drops the scepter, which shatters, and Kotep and his legions of demons must go back into the depths of time.
Episode 10
Sat, Nov 16, 196830 mins
Spider-Man comes back again against the new evil villain Vine.
Episode 11
Sat, Nov 23, 196830 mins
In the dead of night, a menacing giant cat is stalking across Manhattan & stealing valuables - furs, jewelry, cash - and bringing it back to a tiny apartment. The cat is the product of a demented sorcerer named Pardo, who is planning a vile scheme - to rob Manhattan's wealthiest citizens and then sap the souls out of their bodies. At a movie theater the following night, Peter attends a premiere of a strange film called 'My...Pet' with his girlfriend, Polly. When the film starts, the giant cat appears, and begins gassing the audience with a noxious gas that puts them into a trance. Peter is the only one who is immune to it, and he immediately changes into Spider-Man to put a stop to it. As Pardo's men drive around the theater robbing patrons, Spidey puts a stop to them, then bursts into the camera room & catches Pardo in the act. The psychotic sorcerer jumps into a chair & flies into the huge eye on the screen, and Spidey follows. Spidey finds himself in a huge water tank, with a giant cat peering down at him. He ducks out of sight, as the cat causes tremendous panic amongst the theater-goers. Spidey emerges from the tank & leads the giant cat across Manhattan, towards a confrontation on the Brooklyn Bridge, where Spidey has a plan to put an end to Pardo's reign of terror.
Episode 12
Sat, Nov 30, 196830 mins
Peter Parker is on assignment in South America with some wealthy businessmen. Their plane crashes in the jungle and their only salvation is a frail boat on the river. However, the river ends as a whirlpool and all are caught in an eerie cave full of bats and unusual creatures. The businessmen are captured by the henchmen of a Conquistador, who uses a fire pit to terrorize and rule over this strange world. It's up to Spider-Man to free the menaced innocents and neutralize this paranoid tyrant.
Episode 13
Sat, Dec 7, 196830 mins
Peter and his friend Penny, trying to solve the mystery of a disappeared space ship, are lost on a flight in the middle of the Ocean and must land on uncharted Island. The Natives catch Penny and wants to sacrifice her in a volcano, along with the nose of a spaceship. Spider-Man must battle some creatures before getting to Penny and save her from a fall to the boiling lava...
Episode 14
Sat, Dec 14, 196830 mins
Spider-Man stumbles upon a robbery perpetrated by a woman with the same spider powers he has. Spider-Man follows her and discovers that she is from a distant civilization that crash landed one Earth long ago.
Episode 15
Sat, Dec 21, 196830 mins
A demented movie producer named Clive has created a device called the Spirit-Scope, which he uses to set his darkest creation, called Blotto - a black, blob-like creature - loose from the screen. Blotto is released into Manhattan's streets, extending a dark tentacle over anything and when the tentacle retracts, the object is gone. Nothing is too small, or big, for him to consume - cars, lamp posts, mailboxes, even buildings. Peter is out driving with a celebrity when his car runs out of gas, just as Blotto moves in. As Blotto eats his car, Peter sprays a web to a nearby building & lifts the celebrity to safety. When the fire department tries to stop Blotto, the water passes right through him & he attacks their vehicles. Spidey soon discovers that Clive is the source of the problem, and tracks him down. Clive tries to use the Spirit-Scope on Spidey, but misses & hits his friend Collin, who had been about to swing a wrench at Spidey. Spidey swings down & kicks Clive in the head, but the stunned producer threatens to throw the master control switch that will kill the power in the city. Spidey drops down to confront Clive again, who aims the Spirit-Scope at him. Clive thinks he has Spidey after the web-slinger does not move, but Spidey suddenly comes to life as Clive gets a bit too close and is punched in the face, knocking him out. Spidey takes the Spirit-Scope and heads into the streets after Blotto, thinking if the device brought him to life, it can kill him, too. As the black menace rears up, Spidey fires the Spirit-Scope, which hits Blotto head-on and turns him into a mountain of paper. Clive is jailed, and New York starts to rebuild.
Episode 16
Sat, Dec 28, 196830 mins
A massive thunderstorm in Manhattan is revealed to have been caused by a Martian fiend named Bolton. Mars, apparently a planet of warriors, is hoping to extend its dominance, and Mars himself personally appoints Bolton to take on the conquest of Earth. Bolton turns himself into a meteor & heads for Earth. While this is happening Spidey interrupts 2 thieves trying to rob a safe, one of whom is known as 'Boomer'. Spidey cuts off the thief during his getaway, and seconds later Bolton appears. The web-slinger brings down Bolton and ties him up with some help from a group of hot-rodders, but Boomer cuts the giant loose. Bolton counterattacks Spidey with a lightning bolt intended to send him into space, then moves off with Boomer to rob a gold depository as the military tries, unsuccessfully, to stop the giant Martian. Spidey escapes Bolton's trap and knocks down the giant again. Enraged, Bolton hurls lightning bolt after lightning bolt at Spidey but misses. The giant then throws an apparently indestructible bolt at the web-slinger, who tricks it into catching Bolton himself & launching the giant into space, back to Mars. Spidey uses Boomer's amazement as a chance to catch him, and knocks the thief unconscious to await the arrival of police.
Episode 17
Sat, Jan 4, 196930 mins
At a banquet, a prominent scientist named Dr. Irivng Caldwell is to receive an award for his newest creation - the Astro-Helmet, which has the ability to levitate the user. But Caldwell vanishes, literally, in a bolt of lightning. A psychopath named Dr. Zap has kidnapped Caldwell to duplicate the Astro-Helmet for his own evil use. Caldwell's son, Jan, is drawn into a trap by Dr. Zap, who orders him to go to Lightning Mountain with the Astro-Helmet. When Peter spots Jan - dubbed 'Skyboy' by the Daily Bugle - he confronts him, and the two of them decide to team up to confront Dr. Zap at Lightning Mountain. Dr. Zap, however, 'zaps' Jan with electricity, and brings him & Spidey into his lair when Spidey goes to help Jan. Jan is reunited with his father, but Spidey is caged inside a plastic bubble. Enraged, Spidey hammers on the glass, which gets Zap's attention. Realizing he still has his camera, Spidey fires the flash at Zap several times, driving him back. The oriental villain backs into his own electrical transformers & short-circuits them. Jan, Dr. Caldwell, and Spidey narrowly escape before a final, huge explosion destroys Dr. Zap and his lair.
Episode 18
Sat, Jan 11, 196930 mins
Two jewel thieves are caught in the act by Spidey after robbing a jewelry store at midnight. They are trying to mix the jewels with ice & then smuggle them out of the country. One of the thieves - known as Dr. Cool - manipulates his trick cane, rendering Spidey unconscious. The henchman ties Spidey up & places him in a deep freeze, then turns the temperature to absolute zero! Spidey is unable to free himself before the cold takes over, and he awakes to find the city in ruins & inhabited by cavemen, who attack him. Fleeing from them, he finds himself attacked by a dinosaur & mastodon as well, but then a noise takes over - the sound of a hammer hitting ice and breaking it away from him. Spidey comes to and discovers a human face staring at him - the cavemen & everything else was a dream! The ice man has stopped by the depot to pick up a load, and discovered Spidey in the freezer. When Spidey asks what time it is, he discovers it's midnight, and anticipates another visit from Dr. Cool. Spidey lies in wait for the thieves and sure enough, they show up. The two men are stunned that Spidey is still alive, and Cool again tries the cane trick. This time it fails, and Spidey stops them by pulling open an ice-filled drawer and sending an avalanche of ice on top of them. Police soon arrive and arrest Dr. Cool & his henchman.
Episode 19
Sat, Jan 18, 196930 mins
Spider-man is in Jail. He agrees to help a group of inmates stage a prison breakout. While escaping things are not going to plan around them and the numbers start to dwindle.