Yeah I watched it too cuz back then since I was a comic book reader. It was really cheaply made and if compared to the 40s serial Batman , I take the later .
Stan Lee "Nothing ever turns out right for me." Time went on and he became an industry legend and a global treasure. R.I.P. - Smile'n Stan. You won't be forgotten.
I came to Sydney from Hong Kong in 1977 as a 4 year old. Didn’t speak a word of English. When Star Wars came out our relatives wanted to take my sister and I to see it. When I got to the Hoyts cinema I saw the big Spider-Man poster and told everyone I wanted to see that movie. Didn’t know who Spider-Man was but somehow knew he was a superhero. Unfortunately it was a Coming Soon poster and we all still saw Staw Wars which wasn’t super interesting as I couldn’t understand what anyone was saying and it would only be a few years later when it was screened on TV and I had lost the Chinese and only spoke English that I loved Star Wars. Also finally saw this Spider-Man show on TV and loved it too.
I find it interesting that Nick Hammond was discovered in the play "The Importance of Being Earnest". That was the play that Peter missed Mary Jane in at the start of Spiderman 2.
I’m another one who did like the theme music. Sure it was very campy 70s-style music, but it had a semi-creepy feel to it in addition to the funky baseline.
I grew up on the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man series. It used to play weekends back to back with Wonder Woman, then SciFi Channel used to play it during Thanksgiving on their Marvel weekend with The Incredible Hulk and the other unsold pilots like Captain America and Doctor Strange. I think thats the last time any of those shows/films were on television.
Virtually every Marvel live-action project of the late 1970s and 1980s has been released on home media (DVD). The only series suspiciously missing is The Amazing Spider-Man movies. They (Disney, Sony who co-own Spider-Man now) may be doing this on purpose or it's a "rights issue." Only a few episodes of the 1970s Amazing Spider-Man TV series were ever released on VHS and laserdisc. ASM never had a release on DVD. The rights for Hulk are split (Universal has a stake in the character) but the TV series is available on DVD. Captain America and Doctor Strange have been out on DVD within the last 10 years but I don't know that these TV films are available now. I know the 1990 Captain America movie IS out of print again. The late 1970s Spider-Man TV/movie series has NEVER been completely available on home video. Half of the animated Spider-Man series have never been released in their entirety on home media in the US including shows that had large followings like Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends which originally ran on NBC and were syndicated for many years. Disney is very funny with animated TV properties. They rarely seem to want to release full runs of their animated TV shows on home video as well as anything they acquire in buyouts of other companies. This was even the case when DVD was at the height of its popularity in the early 2000s.
I absolutely loved Spiderman and His Amazing Friends. I would get up extra early on Saturday mornings to make sure I never missed an episode. With that being said I also loved the live action Nicholas Hammond Spiderman show.
Betty Brant was white in the comics, but Jamieson did have a secretary called Glory or Gloria at one point who was black. Rita could have been based on her.
Captain America and Dr. Strange were never a series. They were pilot movies that weren't picked up. Too many limitations for the genre to be acceptable really. Captain America did have one stunt that I still love. He approached a broken bridge on a motorcycle and didn't have time to stop, so he popped a wheelie and fired off his rockets (He's Captain America, of course his motorcycle has rocket boosters) and jumped the span like a boss.
@@ChargerBullet When Marsha's nose got hit by a football and he was the big man on campus that was suppose to be her date, then something suddenly came up, lol.
All I remember is that Hammond threw the football that hit "Marsha" in the nose on the "Brady Bunch" giving us two memerable lines... "Oh, My nose" and "Something suddenly came up"
I suppose the creators of this show tried their best for the era, but even back then as a kid I was disappointed by the lack of action and other things. I think the best sequence was when Spidey fought 3 middle-aged martial artists in a building, then it escalated to the roof. He was all over the ceiling and walls. I liked the mood, drama and acting of The Incredible Hulk much much more. Thanks for the video!
I enjoyed this show as a kid. Didn't recognize Nicholas Hammond till i saw Sound of Music. I was a bit disappointed that the show featured non of the villians from the comics. Loved most the films. I hope the MCU casts Hammond in future movies
It's funny you mention "Sound of Music." 2 developments with that recently. Christopher Plummer, the father and the male lead in the film, passed away recently. Also, look up "Brown Widow - Venture Bros." You might thank me for that -- IF you can get past where his web shoots from! LOL There's a tossaway reference to both Nicholas Hammond AND "The Sound of Music" in the parody. I was surprised that anybody remembered Nicholas Hammond was both a Von Trapp and Spider-Man!
@@AvengerII Sound of Music was directed by Robert Wise, who directed the original (and far superior) Day The Earth Stood Still, and went on to direct Star Trek the Motion Picture. Years after Wise's death, Plummer starred in Star Trek VI.
Great video. I used to watch this series when I was a little kid in the 70's and loved it, then last summer I looked up and was able to enjoy the series as an adult but when I looked up
I saw this series as a kid in early eighties and it was fun and remember it had cool disco music. I guess if a kid watched it nowadays they would find it a real chuckle with the limited budget and effects.
This series could have lasted easily 5 years had they utilized the actual villains. I watched this as a boy growing up. I then saw it in the 1990's on the syfi network and I don't remember if I had watched it again since. I did watch a few years ago the Doctor Strange movie and never cared for Captain America that was not as good. Of course my number 1 was the incredible Hulk. It's ashame that they didn't do the team up of Hulk and Spider-Man. I never knew about that. I also watched Shazam and Isis as well. Thanks for doing this video it made me feel young again.
The effects to make most of the villains were not available enough to look decently good, especially on a tv show budget. The wall crawling and webs were usually pretty bad effects on their own, though they did keep trying to adapt them to look better. And Hulk did good without using any of his comic villains. They would have needed to try to stick to more realistic villains. So Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and most other villains are out. Shocker or Electro could be done reasonably well. Hammerhead maybe. I think that if they had used any of the other characters too, it would have helped a lot. I remember waiting for Mary Jane to show up. All his love intrerests were original to the show. And the fact they didn't really have much in the way of love interests, which (especially his problems with them) was a big part of the character. They had Aunt May who was very rarely seen or mentioned, and had no impact on the show or character at all, and J.J. Jameson, but he was nothing like the comic, and actually supported Spider-Man.
I hope one day This gets a hd release. I was 5 years old When Spiderman aired. it's a huge part of My childhood... I loved the 2 seasons It was done very well Being in the 70's...
I remember watching and liking this show. It came when there seemed to be mainly police, private detective and doctor shows. Then there were all the sit-coms. Spider-Man was like a breath of freash air. Maybe it wasn't perfect (although not a bad effort for the time), but it was different, exciting and a welcome change, along with Battlestar Galactica. Good TV.
When I was a kid, the Electric Company Spider-Man--my introduction to Marvel in general--scared the bejeezus out of me. He had no face, white eyes, and spoke in warbles. The Hulk, I loved, but I avoided Spidey like the plague until my fourth-grade teacher put on EC every day after lunchtime, and I realized there was nothing scary about the character at all. Started reading comics at that time. I remember being very aware of the Hammond Spidey, but in those days you had to wait for reruns, and these things always had Spidey chasing after some generic jewel thieves or bank robbers instead of any of his rogue's gallery. But for years, Hammond was still the definitive look Peter Parker should have for me, regardless.
Lol, funny how things can seem scary when we were kids. When Batman would air in reruns, I was scared of Riddler's intense eyes, and the episode where King Tut had that statue in the park that would make a creepy noise before speaking...it horrified me. It is all so corny now, but as a kid it was serious business!!
I love Stan, but the web swinging and webs and particularly the shooters was Steve Ditko. It would have been nice to publicly boost Steve's contributions- though he genuinely might not have recalled. He was still a charming and necessary part of Spidey and his vast popularity.
Great video as usual. I was one of the kiddos watching this series when it aired. In fact, I even name-dropped this series with a brief clip in one of my recent videos talking about my childhood memories of 70’s superhero shows. I would love to watch it again.
This was everything to us, the children of the '70s, particularly 1977. What a seminal year with Star Wars, Spiderman and Superman the movie being filmed at the time and in the news.
Disney/Marvel seem hell-bent on distancing themselves from anything that isn't new. This series, the 60's through 80's cartoons, etc. have never been released. Unlike Warner Bros./DC, who has released pretty much every single cartoon and live action version of everything.
@@enyawd1977 not so, Disney+ have all the old cartoons and "legacy" material that they have copyright to, but I assume they couldn't get the rights to the TV show, or the quality of the footage wasn't good enough for streaming.
@@Neil070 It is so. Where are the 60's Cartoons? Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Fantastic Four 1967 and 1978, Incredible Hulk 1982? In addition, as soon as Disney bought Marvel, they shut down their reprint division, canceling Marvel Masterworks, etc. to push NEW comics, despite those reprinted volumes selling extremely well. On top of that, the shows Disney+ does allow are often edited with some episodes completely missing. They refuse to show the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends episode "Quest of the Red Skull" because at one point in the episode there is a carved stone swastika. I don't need Disney policing content for me and deciding what I should or shouldn't watch and/or read. As far as copyrights go...it's freaking Disney. If they have $4 billion to buy Star Wars, surely they can pay for the rights to some old Marvel TV shows that are just sitting around doing nothing. Warner Bros./DC did it with 20th Century Fox's Batman 1966, the 60's Filmation Cartoons, Columbia Superman serial, Filmation live action Shazam, etc. It's ALL available on disc.
I remembering watching this when it aired, I was a really really really little girl. 🤗The lead actor appeared in a lot of tv shows as one shot characters from the late 60’s to the early 80’s. His most famous role was probably that of Marcia Brady’s date to the school dance, Doug Simpson. Marcia accidentally breaks her nose, and Doug dumps her the next day at school.
I saw the theatrical release for both 'Spiderman' & 'Spiderman Strikes Back' in '81, but I clearly remember Rosalind Chow being in one of the films we saw at the cinema, which would have been the 3rd film 'Spiderman And The Dragon's Challenge', so perhaps it was a matinee screening all 3. Nicholas Hammond lived in Australia for many years & was in a couple of locally produced telemovies in the mid 80's/early 90's. I had read that The Amazing Spiderman was part of a CBS campaign with one Marvel character selected per month to be aired with the TV specials - Doctor Strange, Captain America, then Spiderman, & finally The Incredible Hulk, which won the ratings as the most successful & was the one made into a TV series?
In South Africa in the very early 80's they used to play this movie at my nursery school on an old spool projector. I remember having to sit in the stuffy school hall trying to see above everyone elses heads. Feels like forever ago now
A few of the pics you used are from the Japanese Spiderman . I watched The Amazing Spiderman as a a child when it originally aired on t.v. I've finally seen the Japanese Spiderman (1978) too with English subs!!! Great video !!! I loved this show, I too wish they had brought the villians from the comic book in it.
I absolutely loved this show when I was a kid and I still love it today! By the way, Chip Fields played Rita Conway, not the other way around. Really enjoyed this video.
I was a kid at the time and I'm so bummed that I didn't watch this on TV at the time -- even though I was a big fan of the Spider-Man stuff on The Electric Company.
Use to watch The Amazing Spiderman TV show series growing up back then in the days and liked the idea of Nicholas playing the role of Peter Parker / Spiderman in the 70s......... Also when they finally decided to actually do a Spiderman movie with Tobey MacQuire in the role who actually did a great job as Spiderman in both films , But yeah the character it's self Spiderman has been very popular over the years and decades 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I use to rent "the deadly dust" on VHS all the time from. Mr. Video in the late 1980s. Never was big into the comics, but I loved this TV show and cartoon series.
I was a 12 when the show came out, and a Spidey comic fan. I remember anticipating the show excitedly, and then being totally let down. I don't think I saw anything beyond the first because -- as Stan Lee pointed out -- the show left out the very things that made me a fan of the comic. Hard to believe it was an expensive show when it looked so cheap even to a kid.
I only saw the series in occasional reruns on cable TV. And I would have to agree that things were taken way too seriously. Particularly in "The Deadly Dust" in which Peter's classmates stole an isotope from the science lab and made an atom bomb in an attempt to prove that radioactive material is just too dangerous for commercial use. In fact, while making the bomb (which would later be stolen by the episode's villain), one of the classmates got cancer and was taken to the hospital.
The George Reeves Superman show from the 1950s had the same problem. None of the bad guys from the comics were ever featured (that I can remember). It was always just gangsters, robbers, and generic mad scientists.
I really loved this show growing up but like you I didn’t like the fact that the show’s time slot changed so damn much. I never knew exactly what time it would come on and so I randomly caught a new episode here and there until the family got TV guides.
In the, two part, story (I believe it was two parts) "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" Daredevil was tied in but he didn't have his devil costume. The same daredevil character was in, at least, one of these Spiderman episodes tying the two series together. I remember watching as a kid and being exited that we, might, see them all together. I was, also, disappointed that Daredevil was not dressed like Daredevil.
They need to release the Amazing Spider-Man Tv show on dvd it’s been long enough and it would complete my Spider-Man collection I own all the movies on dvd and some come with the blu ray plus digital copy and own those in my vudu account.
Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider to gain superhuman strength, while David Banner zaps himself with gamma rays in order to gain said strength. While Parker dons a costume to hide his secret identity, Banner charges into the Hulk whenever he gets angry, reverting back to Banner when he calms down.
It was a great show. I really liked it. Was a little disappointed that no supervillains were in it but liked the idea of having realistic bad guys. I was very disappointed when it ended it was my favorite show at the time. I was 19 when it was on and thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the realism and the fact he was strong. So far all the later movies have not had a very strong Spiderman or Hulk.
I hadn't thought of how the 1st cover had no hyphen. This tv version used to be shown on TBS. I was fascinated by this interpretation of his costume. Stan, none of your examples are ones you wrote lol.
The show was awful, but in the UK Kenny Everett's sketch where he played Spidey climbing in a window, standing in front of a urinal, frantically trying to locate a zip in his costume is a classic.
I loved these Spider-man movies as a kid. Years later I tracked them down on VHS and was very creeped out by Hammond's Parker. I couldn't figure out why anyone would be friends with that guy.
I do remember this show and how they combined some series episodes to create the movies and Hammond moved on to a mini series, The Martian Chronicles(the books are better). I was never convinced by his wall crawling, they might have done better in slow motion or like Batman and Robin climbing the building instead of having him hoisted up very fast. He never touched the wall with his sticky hands and feet, at one point a friend swears they saw the guy on the roof pulling him up as he dangled from the harness and rope rig. But at that age, it was still so cool even if we knew it was fake...but NOT as cool as Captain America's bike. Thanks for the jaunt down better memories, blessings to you and the whole fan base🙈🙉🙊❤🎵🎶😻
Nice video Jonny, always appreciate seeing Stan Lee in his prime, I think that was the first time I saw him interviewed without the trademark tinted glasses. As a very young kid in the 70s, this was my first big exposure to Spiderman, until the two very popular Spiderman Cartoons came out in 81 and 83. Definitely not having any of the famous villains hurt the show, CBS really skimped out on the show it seems. I mean, even the cheesy late 60s Batman show had the villains featured all the time.
I remember this show, I liked it as a kid, but I wasn't a big comic reader, so I didn't notice the inconsistencies. I have noticed over the years that many adaptations of comics end up having only the thinnest hint of the original comic in them, almost like some writer is sitting there going, this is great...but I can fix it.
I would have really liked to seen Spider Man and the Incredible Hulk in a 1980s movie. But not black spider man but his red and blue outfit. It's too bad it never happened. Also in the Trial of the incredible Hulk, I would liked to have seen Daredevil join the two of the Heroes and have the same actor who played the Daredevil in it.
I loved this at the time. It may seem crappy by today’s standards, but it’s all we had in those days.
Yep - just like the three networks when TBS came along! It was a breath of fresh air in the face of... well, almost nuthin’. 😀
Yeah I watched it too cuz back then since I was a comic book reader. It was really cheaply made and if compared to the 40s serial Batman , I take the later .
Well, I remember seeing this as a kid and I thought it was crappy even back then. Like Star Wars Holiday Special level of crap.
@@RedSiegfried yes, it was crap even by the standards of the time
Yeah I don’t think people understand that back in the day we kinda had to take what we could get
This is THE Spiderman 1978-1979 i will always love.
I use to watch this back in the day !! LOL - Still a Classic !!!!
Stan Lee "Nothing ever turns out right for me."
Time went on and he became an industry legend and a global treasure.
R.I.P. - Smile'n Stan. You won't be forgotten.
Legend he was but the dude was cheated and abused physically a great deal in last years. It was awful the things he went through in his final years.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV True... But let's think about the good he bought to the world
I came to Sydney from Hong Kong in 1977 as a 4 year old. Didn’t speak a word of English. When Star Wars came out our relatives wanted to take my sister and I to see it. When I got to the Hoyts cinema I saw the big Spider-Man poster and told everyone I wanted to see that movie. Didn’t know who Spider-Man was but somehow knew he was a superhero. Unfortunately it was a Coming Soon poster and we all still saw Staw Wars which wasn’t super interesting as I couldn’t understand what anyone was saying and it would only be a few years later when it was screened on TV and I had lost the Chinese and only spoke English that I loved Star Wars. Also finally saw this Spider-Man show on TV and loved it too.
I find it interesting that Nick Hammond was discovered in the play "The Importance of Being Earnest".
That was the play that Peter missed Mary Jane in at the start of Spiderman 2.
Interesting Easter Egg. Hammond played one of the Von Trapp children in the Robert Wise movie Sound of Music.
@@Neil070 he had a long career, yes. But that was the play he was performing when the producers cast him for this role.
I love this as a kid. The theme tune was outstanding.
It was absolutely abysmal
I’m another one who did like the theme music. Sure it was very campy 70s-style music, but it had a semi-creepy feel to it in addition to the funky baseline.
I remember watching this show as a youth. Too bad the reunion movie fell through, black suit spider man vs the hulk would've been amazing.
I bet how he would’ve acted.
*like his clone in night of the clones*
I grew up on the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man series. It used to play weekends back to back with Wonder Woman, then SciFi Channel used to play it during Thanksgiving on their Marvel weekend with The Incredible Hulk and the other unsold pilots like Captain America and Doctor Strange. I think thats the last time any of those shows/films were on television.
Last year MeTV played Wonder Woman on Saturday evenings.
@@jamiebraswell5520 Its currently on Heroes and Icons I think. Still on weekends.
Virtually every Marvel live-action project of the late 1970s and 1980s has been released on home media (DVD). The only series suspiciously missing is The Amazing Spider-Man movies. They (Disney, Sony who co-own Spider-Man now) may be doing this on purpose or it's a "rights issue." Only a few episodes of the 1970s Amazing Spider-Man TV series were ever released on VHS and laserdisc. ASM never had a release on DVD.
The rights for Hulk are split (Universal has a stake in the character) but the TV series is available on DVD.
Captain America and Doctor Strange have been out on DVD within the last 10 years but I don't know that these TV films are available now. I know the 1990 Captain America movie IS out of print again.
The late 1970s Spider-Man TV/movie series has NEVER been completely available on home video. Half of the animated Spider-Man series have never been released in their entirety on home media in the US including shows that had large followings like Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends which originally ran on NBC and were syndicated for many years.
Disney is very funny with animated TV properties. They rarely seem to want to release full runs of their animated TV shows on home video as well as anything they acquire in buyouts of other companies. This was even the case when DVD was at the height of its popularity in the early 2000s.
I used to watch this but didn’t love it nearly as much as Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends which was my first introduction to superheroes
I absolutely loved Spiderman and His Amazing Friends. I would get up extra early on Saturday mornings to make sure I never missed an episode. With that being said I also loved the live action Nicholas Hammond Spiderman show.
Chip Fields is the name of the actress, not the character. In fact she is the mother of Kim Fields who played Tootie on The facts of Life.
She played Betty Brant. This guy saying the character was left out is entirely wrong. She was just changed a great deal from the Betty in the comics.
@@matthewrosenthal753 Her name was Rita in the show. But same role.
@@marionlawless I am aware. But the guy playing JJ calls her Betty at least once, and the character was definitely a altered version of Betty.
Didn't know that was Kim Field's mother.
Betty Brant was white in the comics, but Jamieson did have a secretary called Glory or Gloria at one point who was black. Rita could have been based on her.
This is still my favourite live action adaptation of Spider-Man. It will always hold a special place in my childhood.
Stoked to see Hammond era getting some coverage! I loved it as a kid.
Captain America and Dr. Strange were never a series. They were pilot movies that weren't picked up. Too many limitations for the genre to be acceptable really.
Captain America did have one stunt that I still love. He approached a broken bridge on a motorcycle and didn't have time to stop, so he popped a wheelie and fired off his rockets (He's Captain America, of course his motorcycle has rocket boosters) and jumped the span like a boss.
I couldn't watch this version of Cap back then or even now.
@@speedracer1945 well I could and did. They sucked but were better than nothing.
@@AndrewDolanABD yeah, I watched Spiderman which was silly.
Mud Wrestles With Lynda Carter and Lindsay Wagner on 'Battle of the Network Stars'? How on Earth did I miss this???
I really loved this show as a kid.I only recently realized a young Hammond played Fredrick in the sound of music.
Oh wow, you are right! Now that makes two of us that just figured it out. Well done.
Did you have the Spider-Man Dynamite issue?
He was also on an episode of The Brady Bunch.
@@ChargerBullet When Marsha's nose got hit by a football and he was the big man on campus that was suppose to be her date, then something suddenly came up, lol.
Yep, I've known that for a long time.
brought back some cheesy memories!
All I remember is that Hammond threw the football that hit "Marsha" in the nose on the "Brady Bunch" giving us two memerable lines... "Oh, My nose" and "Something suddenly came up"
“Now I’ll NEVER be a teen model!”
Hammond's Brady character later got his ass kicked (offscreen) in the same episode by another guy who stood up for Marsha!
I suppose the creators of this show tried their best for the era, but even back then as a kid I was disappointed by the lack of action and other things. I think the best sequence was when Spidey fought 3 middle-aged martial artists in a building, then it escalated to the roof. He was all over the ceiling and walls. I liked the mood, drama and acting of The Incredible Hulk much much more. Thanks for the video!
7:20 just enough time to watch before work!
They used to show this during Thanksgiving when I was a wee lad. Man, I used to love this!
Thinking about now, the live action series was kinda silly however when you’re a 9 year old kid, you’re thinking COOL it’s Spider-Man
I enjoyed this show as a kid. Didn't recognize Nicholas Hammond till i saw Sound of Music. I was a bit disappointed that the show featured non of the villians from the comics. Loved most the films. I hope the MCU casts Hammond in future movies
It's funny you mention "Sound of Music."
2 developments with that recently. Christopher Plummer, the father and the male lead in the film, passed away recently.
Also, look up "Brown Widow - Venture Bros."
You might thank me for that -- IF you can get past where his web shoots from! LOL
There's a tossaway reference to both Nicholas Hammond AND "The Sound of Music" in the parody. I was surprised that anybody remembered Nicholas Hammond was both a Von Trapp and Spider-Man!
@@AvengerII Sound of Music was directed by Robert Wise, who directed the original (and far superior) Day The Earth Stood Still, and went on to direct Star Trek the Motion Picture. Years after Wise's death, Plummer starred in Star Trek VI.
Thanks for the tip. Obvious that Rusty was copied from Hammond. @@AvengerII
When I was a kid and this came on T.V I would run around the house freaking out, thanks for the memory !!!!
Great video. I used to watch this series when I was a little kid in the 70's and loved it, then last summer I looked up and was able to enjoy the series as an adult but when I looked up
I have to say, I was AMAZED to find out that John Holmes used to play Dr Strange on tv outside of his adult film career! What an achievement!
I hope Hammond is in a Spider-Verse film.
It would be a nice touch if he was in a cameo like Lou Feringo in The Hulk
@@pertuk he already made a non speaking cameo in the spider verse movies.
@@MichaelsVlogz yes, apparently he did, it wasn't well publicised at the time
Nicholas Hammond like ezequiel in spiderverse...? Maybe be real.
I saw this series as a kid in early eighties and it was fun and remember it had cool disco music. I guess if a kid watched it nowadays they would find it a real chuckle with the limited budget and effects.
Cool! I used to watch that when I was a kid. Thanks for putting this together!
1967 animated Spider-Man, Electric Company Spider-Man, Mego Spider-Man figure, the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man = my 70s childhood!
This series could have lasted easily 5 years had they utilized the actual villains. I watched this as a boy growing up. I then saw it in the 1990's on the syfi network and I don't remember if I had watched it again since. I did watch a few years ago the Doctor Strange movie and never cared for Captain America that was not as good. Of course my number 1 was the incredible Hulk. It's ashame that they didn't do the team up of Hulk and Spider-Man. I never knew about that. I also watched Shazam and Isis as well. Thanks for doing this video it made me feel young again.
The effects to make most of the villains were not available enough to look decently good, especially on a tv show budget. The wall crawling and webs were usually pretty bad effects on their own, though they did keep trying to adapt them to look better. And Hulk did good without using any of his comic villains. They would have needed to try to stick to more realistic villains. So Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and most other villains are out. Shocker or Electro could be done reasonably well. Hammerhead maybe. I think that if they had used any of the other characters too, it would have helped a lot. I remember waiting for Mary Jane to show up. All his love intrerests were original to the show. And the fact they didn't really have much in the way of love interests, which (especially his problems with them) was a big part of the character. They had Aunt May who was very rarely seen or mentioned, and had no impact on the show or character at all, and J.J. Jameson, but he was nothing like the comic, and actually supported Spider-Man.
I hope one day
This gets a hd release.
I was 5 years old
When Spiderman aired.
it's a huge part of
My childhood...
I loved the 2 seasons
It was done very well
Being in the 70's...
This Spidey is too cool, he wore sunglasses!
I remember watching and liking this show. It came when there seemed to be mainly police, private detective and doctor shows. Then there were all the sit-coms. Spider-Man was like a breath of freash air. Maybe it wasn't perfect (although not a bad effort for the time), but it was different, exciting and a welcome change, along with Battlestar Galactica. Good TV.
When I was a kid, the Electric Company Spider-Man--my introduction to Marvel in general--scared the bejeezus out of me. He had no face, white eyes, and spoke in warbles. The Hulk, I loved, but I avoided Spidey like the plague until my fourth-grade teacher put on EC every day after lunchtime, and I realized there was nothing scary about the character at all. Started reading comics at that time. I remember being very aware of the Hammond Spidey, but in those days you had to wait for reruns, and these things always had Spidey chasing after some generic jewel thieves or bank robbers instead of any of his rogue's gallery. But for years, Hammond was still the definitive look Peter Parker should have for me, regardless.
Lol, funny how things can seem scary when we were kids. When Batman would air in reruns, I was scared of Riddler's intense eyes, and the episode where King Tut had that statue in the park that would make a creepy noise before speaking...it horrified me. It is all so corny now, but as a kid it was serious business!!
I watched this when I was little, I loved Spidey.. even saw one of the movies at cinema, and yeah, it was amazing.
Thank you for making this episode!
I love Stan, but the web swinging and webs and particularly the shooters was Steve Ditko. It would have been nice to publicly boost Steve's contributions- though he genuinely might not have recalled. He was still a charming and necessary part of Spidey and his vast popularity.
Great video as usual. I was one of the kiddos watching this series when it aired. In fact, I even name-dropped this series with a brief clip in one of my recent videos talking about my childhood memories of 70’s superhero shows. I would love to watch it again.
This was a awesome show which left fans wanting more.
I grew up watching these. Loved them.
This was everything to us, the children of the '70s, particularly 1977. What a seminal year with Star Wars, Spiderman and Superman the movie being filmed at the time and in the news.
I was a kid right there with you!! All you mentioned and don't forget the tv Incredible hulk with Lou Ferrigno pilot tv movie was in 1977
Man, I remember this show, and somehow thought the spidey in The Electric Company and the one in this show were one and the same
I remember this......had forgotten all about it!
I was 10 years old when this premiered. It wasn't like the comics, but I liked it all the same. Thanks for the video Jonathan! Cheers.
Interesting, as a huge spiderman fan I am amazed I have never seen this version.
Wow . . . memories from 1978 ! 😃👍
I went and saw this with the neighbourhood kids, during school holidays at Hoyts Sydney age 11.
Shame this has never been given a proper DVD/Blu ray release
Disney/Marvel seem hell-bent on distancing themselves from anything that isn't new. This series, the 60's through 80's cartoons, etc. have never been released. Unlike Warner Bros./DC, who has released pretty much every single cartoon and live action version of everything.
@@enyawd1977 not so, Disney+ have all the old cartoons and "legacy" material that they have copyright to, but I assume they couldn't get the rights to the TV show, or the quality of the footage wasn't good enough for streaming.
@@Neil070 It is so. Where are the 60's Cartoons? Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Fantastic Four 1967 and 1978, Incredible Hulk 1982? In addition, as soon as Disney bought Marvel, they shut down their reprint division, canceling Marvel Masterworks, etc. to push NEW comics, despite those reprinted volumes selling extremely well. On top of that, the shows Disney+ does allow are often edited with some episodes completely missing. They refuse to show the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends episode "Quest of the Red Skull" because at one point in the episode there is a carved stone swastika. I don't need Disney policing content for me and deciding what I should or shouldn't watch and/or read. As far as copyrights go...it's freaking Disney. If they have $4 billion to buy Star Wars, surely they can pay for the rights to some old Marvel TV shows that are just sitting around doing nothing. Warner Bros./DC did it with 20th Century Fox's Batman 1966, the 60's Filmation Cartoons, Columbia Superman serial, Filmation live action Shazam, etc. It's ALL available on disc.
I remember renting Spider-man ‘67 on DVD from Netflix at one point years ago.
Don't forget the Japanese TV version of Spiderman around the same time
Was about 18 and into reefer & acid when this was on.
What a trip!
I remembering watching this when it aired, I was a really really really little girl. 🤗The lead actor appeared in a lot of tv shows as one shot characters from the late 60’s to the early 80’s. His most famous role was probably that of Marcia Brady’s date to the school dance, Doug Simpson. Marcia accidentally breaks her nose, and Doug dumps her the next day at school.
I saw the theatrical release for both 'Spiderman' & 'Spiderman Strikes Back' in '81, but I clearly remember Rosalind Chow being in one of the films we saw at the cinema, which would have been the 3rd film 'Spiderman And The Dragon's Challenge', so perhaps it was a matinee screening all 3. Nicholas Hammond lived in Australia for many years & was in a couple of locally produced telemovies in the mid 80's/early 90's. I had read that The Amazing Spiderman was part of a CBS campaign with one Marvel character selected per month to be aired with the TV specials - Doctor Strange, Captain America, then Spiderman, & finally The Incredible Hulk, which won the ratings as the most successful & was the one made into a TV series?
In South Africa in the very early 80's they used to play this movie at my nursery school on an old spool projector. I remember having to sit in the stuffy school hall trying to see above everyone elses heads. Feels like forever ago now
A few of the pics you used are from the Japanese Spiderman . I watched The Amazing Spiderman as a a child when it originally aired on t.v. I've finally seen the Japanese Spiderman (1978) too with English subs!!! Great video !!! I loved this show, I too wish they had brought the villians from the comic book in it.
The Japanese show also debuted while the American version was on. Just to be ckear, the Shazam! and Isis shows were the ones that ended in 1977.
I absolutely loved this show when I was a kid and I still love it today! By the way, Chip Fields played Rita Conway, not the other way around. Really enjoyed this video.
I was a kid at the time and I'm so bummed that I didn't watch this on TV at the time -- even though I was a big fan of the Spider-Man stuff on The Electric Company.
Use to watch The Amazing Spiderman TV show series growing up back then in the days and liked the idea of Nicholas playing the role of Peter Parker / Spiderman in the 70s......... Also when they finally decided to actually do a Spiderman movie with Tobey MacQuire in the role who actually did a great job as Spiderman in both films , But yeah the character it's self Spiderman has been very popular over the years and decades 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I love the superhero Spider-Man
I watched it and enjoyed it for what it was. Nicholas Hammond was just fine.
I can't believe I forgot about this one. This was cool back in the day. I actually thought the special effects were incredible 😅
I use to rent "the deadly dust" on VHS all the time from. Mr. Video in the late 1980s. Never was big into the comics, but I loved this TV show and cartoon series.
Loved this show as a kid
I was a 12 when the show came out, and a Spidey comic fan. I remember anticipating the show excitedly, and then being totally let down. I don't think I saw anything beyond the first because -- as Stan Lee pointed out -- the show left out the very things that made me a fan of the comic. Hard to believe it was an expensive show when it looked so cheap even to a kid.
Yes, it looked crap even at the time
Yeah, I’ve always found it kinda boring
I was born in 85 but still remember renting at ritz/blockbuster when i was young.
I only saw the series in occasional reruns on cable TV. And I would have to agree that things were taken way too seriously. Particularly in "The Deadly Dust" in which Peter's classmates stole an isotope from the science lab and made an atom bomb in an attempt to prove that radioactive material is just too dangerous for commercial use. In fact, while making the bomb (which would later be stolen by the episode's villain), one of the classmates got cancer and was taken to the hospital.
I loved The Amazing Spiderman as a kid. I did have a problem with Spider-man shooting ropes instead of webs.
Hahaha..... Yep, it was ridiculous.
I didn't know tucker Carlson played Spiderman
Remember seeing first reruns of this as a kid in the 80s good times
Best episode: The two-parter "The Deadly Dust".
@OTTO OCTAVIOUS Night Of The Clones
I saw this at the cinema in Scotland as a kid Don't remember it being on UK tv.
Thank you for the talk show footage. It has to be said: Stan WAS The Man. Kinda a happenin' dude, in his day, this hep 🐈 cat.
Hep? Hepatitis???
The George Reeves Superman show from the 1950s had the same problem. None of the bad guys from the comics were ever featured (that I can remember). It was always just gangsters, robbers, and generic mad scientists.
My biggest complaint was they toned down his strength. How can you call yourself a superhero when you can't even knock down a locked door?
As a kids this show came on so randomly. I would just catch it.
I really loved this show growing up but like you I didn’t like the fact that the show’s time slot changed so damn much. I never knew exactly what time it would come on and so I randomly caught a new episode here and there until the family got TV guides.
In the, two part, story (I believe it was two parts) "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" Daredevil was tied in but he didn't have his devil costume. The same daredevil character was in, at least, one of these Spiderman episodes tying the two series together. I remember watching as a kid and being exited that we, might, see them all together. I was, also, disappointed that Daredevil was not dressed like Daredevil.
It was always a trip watching him climb up the windows of buildings.
Spiderman was massive when I was a kid in the 80s
I loved the tv series. Of course they were very limited by technology.
Carlson Tucker is Spider Man?!
They need to release the Amazing Spider-Man Tv show on dvd it’s been long enough and it would complete my Spider-Man collection I own all the movies on dvd and some come with the blu ray plus digital copy and own those in my vudu account.
I remember the old 80s TV series so we'll when I was a kid.
The Enforcers seem like a natural villain group for this show ...A cowboy Lariat man , A sharp dfessed Jiu-Jitsu guy , and a pn enormous brute
Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider to gain superhuman strength, while David Banner zaps himself with gamma rays in order to gain said strength. While Parker dons a costume to hide his secret identity, Banner charges into the Hulk whenever he gets angry, reverting back to Banner when he calms down.
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To this day whenever something’s up I always say “spider sense is tingling.” 👽
It was a great show. I really liked it. Was a little disappointed that no supervillains were in it but liked the idea of having realistic bad guys. I was very disappointed when it ended it was my favorite show at the time. I was 19 when it was on and thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the realism and the fact he was strong. So far all the later movies have not had a very strong Spiderman or Hulk.
I hadn't thought of how the 1st cover had no hyphen. This tv version used to be shown on TBS. I was fascinated by this interpretation of his costume.
Stan, none of your examples are ones you wrote lol.
Teenagers and students later on young and mature adults, the TV show needs to be updated like Star Trek the original series 2009.
I actually not only watched this on TV but they put a couple of eps together and screened them at the cinema (BSG did the same).
Yeah not really ‘Spider-Man’ but it’s quite a special show to me. Thanks for covering it.
The Spiderman of my childhood
The show was awful, but in the UK Kenny Everett's sketch where he played Spidey climbing in a window, standing in front of a urinal, frantically trying to locate a zip in his costume is a classic.
I loved these Spider-man movies as a kid. Years later I tracked them down on VHS and was very creeped out by Hammond's Parker. I couldn't figure out why anyone would be friends with that guy.
I do remember this show and how they combined some series episodes to create the movies and Hammond moved on to a mini series, The Martian Chronicles(the books are better).
I was never convinced by his wall crawling, they might have done better in slow motion or like Batman and Robin climbing the building instead of having him hoisted up very fast. He never touched the wall with his sticky hands and feet, at one point a friend swears they saw the guy on the roof pulling him up as he dangled from the harness and rope rig. But at that age, it was still so cool even if we knew it was fake...but NOT as cool as Captain America's bike. Thanks for the jaunt down better memories, blessings to you and the whole fan base🙈🙉🙊❤🎵🎶😻
Despite the flaws, I would love to own these on DVD. I Have the Hulk TV series, the 2 Captain America films, and the Dr. Strange one.
Nice video Jonny, always appreciate seeing Stan Lee in his prime, I think that was the first time I saw him interviewed without the trademark tinted glasses. As a very young kid in the 70s, this was my first big exposure to Spiderman, until the two very popular Spiderman Cartoons came out in 81 and 83. Definitely not having any of the famous villains hurt the show, CBS really skimped out on the show it seems. I mean, even the cheesy late 60s Batman show had the villains featured all the time.
The Sci-Fi Channel Series Collection featured that Spider-Man show.
I remember this show, I liked it as a kid, but I wasn't a big comic reader, so I didn't notice the inconsistencies. I have noticed over the years that many adaptations of comics end up having only the thinnest hint of the original comic in them, almost like some writer is sitting there going, this is great...but I can fix it.
I would have really liked to seen Spider Man and the Incredible Hulk in a 1980s movie. But not black spider man but his red and blue outfit. It's too bad it never happened. Also in the Trial of the incredible Hulk, I would liked to have seen Daredevil join the two of the Heroes and have the same actor who played the Daredevil in it.
I wish they could have brought in some of the Spider-Man villains in the show