I am a little surprised that this series is remembered by even the relatively-few people it seems to be; as a 12 year-old fan in 1977, I caught what episodes of this series as I could, although I must have missed some due to it being yanked all over the schedule like it was. Of course, kids, we only had TV Guide, and the local newspaper television supplements to help us, you know, in those "prehistoric" days.
I have seen a couple of the television movies made from episodes tacked-together lately, the nostalgia value is still high even if the series' production vales weren't so great. Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker/Spider-Man was really too old for the part, but that said, he was clearly a good-hearted, kind fellow one could accept as a super-hero sort of person. I missed more elements from the comic book like Mary Jane, for example, but they did adapt the clone saga from the mid-1970s era of the title which was nifty. Robert F. Simon did well as J. Jonah Jamison even if he didn't look anything like his comics counterpart.
I think CBS mad another error by not having super-villains to oppose Parker, as this undoubtedly turned off many of us then-young fans. I suppose the fellow with psychic powers in the Curse of Rava was about the nearest thing to one.
All this aside, it wasn't as bad a show as many seem to think, given the limitations of 1970s action/super-hero television effects. I'm not sure if this is out on DVD yet or not, but hope it will be so in time if it isn't.
I have seen a couple of the television movies made from episodes tacked-together lately, the nostalgia value is still high even if the series' production vales weren't so great. Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker/Spider-Man was really too old for the part, but that said, he was clearly a good-hearted, kind fellow one could accept as a super-hero sort of person. I missed more elements from the comic book like Mary Jane, for example, but they did adapt the clone saga from the mid-1970s era of the title which was nifty. Robert F. Simon did well as J. Jonah Jamison even if he didn't look anything like his comics counterpart.
I think CBS mad another error by not having super-villains to oppose Parker, as this undoubtedly turned off many of us then-young fans. I suppose the fellow with psychic powers in the Curse of Rava was about the nearest thing to one.
All this aside, it wasn't as bad a show as many seem to think, given the limitations of 1970s action/super-hero television effects. I'm not sure if this is out on DVD yet or not, but hope it will be so in time if it isn't.