Spider-Woman
As a child, Jessica Drew was bitten by a deadly spider. To save her life, her scientist father injects her with an experimental serum. The treatment is successful, but the side effects are extraordinary. Jessica develops the ability to fire concussive "venom blasts," shoot web from her body and her hearing is enhanced. Now as working as editor of Justice Magazine, Jessica Drew also battles crime as Spider-Woman.
- 1979-1980
- 1 season
- ABC
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- TV-Y7
As a child, Jessica Drew was bitten by a deadly spider. To save her life, her scientist father injects her with an experimental serum. The treatment is successful, but the side effects are extraordinary. Jessica develops the ability to fire concussive "venom blasts," shoot web from her body and her hearing is enhanced. Now as working as editor of Justice Magazine, Jessica Drew also battles crime as Spider-Woman.
Season 1 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1979 - 1980
Episode 1
Pyramids of Terror
Sat, Sep 22, 1979 21 mins
Strong winds begin to happen as a new but very strange pyramid rises in Egypt. Spider-Man saves a child from being hurt by the winds by using his spider-web to prevent him from being hurt. He then enters the strange pyramid and fights a somewhat giant mummy. While visiting a museum, Spider-Woman sees some of the events with her Spider-Vision and both her (as Jessica Drew) and Jeff hear a tremendous scream that wakes up a mummy and she has to turn to Spider-Woman to handle the situation. Around the world, a lot of mummies begin to wake up and walk. The Justice magazine team (Jessica, Billy and Jeff) heads towards Egypt to investigate. Inside the pyramid, the mummy reveals Spider-Man that his race are invaders from space that have been in suspended animation and their whole fleet is already on its way. Their plan is to enslave mankind and they have the power to turn everyone into mummies.
Episode 2
Realm of Darkness
Sat, Sep 29, 1979 21 mins
Spider-Woman fights a very powerful demon from another dimension. This demon has a weakness for sunlight so he will make his followers create an artificial "perpetual Solar Eclipse" by striking an Earth's rocket against The Moon during a natural eclipse.
Episode 3
The Amazon Adventure
Fri, Oct 5, 1979 21 mins
A tribe of strong amazon warriors steal the gold from Fort Knox using strange cubes that radiate energy and strange vehicles somewhat similar to flying saucers. Being in the search for Amazon warriors, the "Justice Magazine" reporters decide to travel to the Amazon Jungle in South-America, where a lost Inca City of Gold was supposed to be to investigate. During their stay, they are attacked while they were navigating in the river, Spider-Woman solved the situation but Billy and Jeff were trapped by the Amazons a little later. Spider-Woman later discovers this tribe of women have their own city of gold with their own technology.
Episode 4
The Ghost Vikings
Fri, Oct 12, 1979 21 mins
Spider-woman saves a ship from being sunk by a swirl using her Spider-lines in the waters of Norway, then she investigates what is causing the swirl by diving into the ocean using her Spider-bubble. Then she sees an enormous fracture on the oceanic floor and tries to make its effect smaller by making a big rock fall into it at the time that she sees an old viking ship rising from the depth. Later the whole team of reporters from Justice Magazine arrives to investigate to the coasts of Norway where the unfortunate opening of an old chest lets three vikings with magical powers go free. These vikings' ship can fly and they can throw thunders from their hands, they want to steal the riches of the world, starting with the Queen's Crown Jewels in London, U.K.
Episode 5
The Kingpin Strikes Again
Fri, Oct 19, 1979 21 mins
Angered by a recent Justice Magazine article, the Kingpin steals an experimental invisibility ray and seeks revenge on its editor, Jessica Drew. However, while invisible he witnesses her transform into Spider-Woman and opts for a blackmail plot instead.
Episode 6
The Lost Continent
Fri, Oct 26, 1979 21 mins
Jets from the U.S. Air Force have been disappearing. As the team from Justice Magazine arrive to an Air Force carrier for an interview, Spider-Woman manages to save a Jet in trouble by helping to direct its course, but the Justice Magazine team is asked by the man in charge to leave. While on air, the Justice Magazine hybrid helicopter finds difficulties in controlling its course and it is quickly found flying over some sort of prehistoric island. While exploring the island, Jessica finds difficult to turn into Spider-Woman while they are crossing a bridge and are threatened by one dinosaur at each side.
Episode 7
The Kongo Spider
Fri, Nov 2, 1979 21 mins
Spider-Woman saves two people from the "The Kongo Spider" unknowingly that she was been filmed during the whole rescue as everything is part of the plans of a crazy movie director to make her and the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man appear in his movie, endangering not only the two heroes but a lot of people in the process.
Episode 8
Games of Doom
Fri, Nov 9, 1979 21 mins
Athletes in the World Athletic Games in Moscow are being kidnapped and replaced by android doubles. Jessica Drew goes undercover as a Long Jumper to investigate.
Episode 9
Shuttle to Disaster
Fri, Nov 16, 1979 21 mins
The Justice Magazine team find themselves on a hijacked space shuttle, heading towards the moon, where the villain Steeljaw intends to enslave mankind and put it to work digging for valuable gems.
Episode 10
Dracula's Revenge
Fri, Nov 23, 1979 21 mins
Spider-Woman versus the combined efforts of three powerful horror characters: the vampire Dracula, The Werewolf and the Frankenstein's monster. Cleverly, Spider-Woman decides to make a little research about her enemies in a library before planning her strategy.
Episode 11
The Spider-Woman and the Fly
Fri, Nov 30, 1979 21 mins
Jessica confronts a former research assistant to her father who has been mutated into a human fly after a lab accident. Deducing her secret identity, he creates a formula which will rob Jessica of her spider powers.
Episode 12
Invasion of the Black Hole
Fri, Dec 7, 1979 21 mins
A UFO attempts to swallow the Earth in a black hole, in readiness for an invasion.
Episode 13
The Great Magini
Fri, Dec 14, 1979 21 mins
During an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum where the Justice Magazine's team is present, the "Great Magini" ; a stage illusionist makes a levitation trick with a girl. Later, when an invaluable masterpiece of art is stolen, Jessica sees with her Spider-Vision that it was really the "Great Magini" who took it.
Episode 14
A Crime in Time
Fri, Dec 21, 1979 21 mins
An experimental time machine unleashes an invasion of Wookie-like creatures. Jessica is forced to reveal her secret identity to her fellow magazine crew in order to save mankind.
Episode 15
Return of the Spider Queen
Fri, Dec 28, 1979 21 mins
Spider-Woman is brainwashed by an alien race of human spider creatures who believe she is their long lost queen.
Episode 16
A Deadly Dream
Thu, Jan 3, 1980 21 mins
Nimara, a very dangerous alien who wants to enslave mankind with her sleep-inducing powers has been waken up after a thousand years sleep within the ice inside her spaceship after she was discovered by the military and then defrosted by lack of care.
