- 8.0/106 votesLoading...
#1 - Revolt in the Fifth Dimension
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/24/1970
Luck, Suggestion and Determination must guide Spider-man through this trip into the 5th dimension. Spider-man finds himself face to face with The Skeletal Infinata, how can he defeat something that is completely of the mind?
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/10118 votesLoading...
#2 - The Night of the Villains
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/18/1967
Historic villains Blackbeard the Pirate, Jesse James, and the Executioner of Paris are committing robberies in New York City, and Spidey tracks them to their lair- Parafino's Wax Museum, where Spidey's wax-master enemy is scheming to besiege and plunder the city with robotized wax villains.
Director: N/A
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- 7.6/10150 votesLoading...
#3 - The Origin of Spiderman
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1968
Student Peter Parker is labeled a ""bookworm"" by his peers when he declines their offer of a triple-date in favor of viewing a radiology experiment. Bit by a spider, turning into a superhero, his uncle killed by a thief that Peter let go.. fights crime now in Manhattan.
Director: N/A
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- 7.3/103 votesLoading...
#4 - Return of the Flying Dutchman
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/2/1967
Reports of a legendary, flying ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, being sighted near Smuggler's Cove summon Spidey to the area, where his investigation into the phantom ship's appearance leads him to a cave in which he finds his sworn adversary, Mysterio, plotting with a pair of thugs.
Director: N/A
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- 7.3/103 votesLoading...
#5 - The Golden Rhino
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/9/1967
Spiderman's old enemy, the rampaging Rhino, is stealing gold bullion to mold an auric likeness of himself.
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- 7.3/103 votesLoading...
#6 - The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 12/30/1967
Doctor Octopus imposes upon Dr. Smartyr's Nullifier rocket test and steals the ultra-powerful destructor missile, with possession thereof Octopus plans to force all nations to bow to his will.
Director: N/A
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- 7.0/10115 votesLoading...
#7 - Never Step on a Scorpion
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/7/1967
Dr. Stillwell creates the Scorpion on J. Jonah Jameson's behalf to capture Spider-Man. The Scorpion attacks Spider-Man, who escapes. However, the Scorpion's evil nature takes over as his strength increases which causes him to go after Jameson, but Spider-Man captures him and the Scorpion is arrested. However, he breaks out of prison and goes after Jameson again while Spider-Man is searching for him, but Spider-Man arrives in time to fight the Scorpion, who is webbed up and imprisoned again.
Director: N/A
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- 7.0/1098 votesLoading...
#8 - The Peril of Parafino
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/1967
Spider-Man faces off against Parafino, a wax museum owner who plans to make Spider-Man into his latest exhibit. He uses escaped convict Red Dog Melvin as bait for Spider-Man, disguising him as a waxwork. He catches Spider-Man using a wax sculpture of himself and captures Betty Brant when she comes to the museum. However, Spider-Man frees himself and destroys the wax Parafino by increasing the heat. While Betty gets the police, Melvin revives and attacks the real Parafino. Spider-Man webs them both up.
Director: N/A
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- 6.8/10116 votesLoading...
#9 - The Menace of Mysterio
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1967
Spider-Man has been witnessed committing a robbery of the Midtown Museum. Mysterio phones J. Jonah Jameson and makes a deal to defeat and expose Spider-Man in exchange for a large sum of cash. He fights Spider-Man on a bridge. Spider-Man is unable to beat him and dives from the bridge to escape. He finally tracks Mysterio to a film set and records Mysterio's confession that he robbed the museum disguised as Spider-Man. He then beats Mysterio.
Director: N/A
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- 6.8/1075 votesLoading...
#10 - The Evil Sorcerer
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1968
In ancient Egypt, one of the most aggressive of evil magicians, Kotep, the Scarlet Sorcerer, is defeated in battle with an opponent, and his own demons strike him with a cursing ball of fire that puts him in suspended animation, his mummified remains lasting through the passing centuries and becoming an exhibit at a New York university and the object of a professor's obsession.
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1073 votesLoading...
#11 - Cold Storage
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1969
Sophisticated diamond thief Dr. Cool and his henchman have heisted a fortune in diamonds and are at a deserted-before-dawn ice factory, planning to smuggle the gems through international customs by mixing the ""hot ice"" with large quantities of the ordinary variety.
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10100 votesLoading...
#12 - Horn of the Rhino
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/28/1967
Spider-Man is keeping an eye on a train when the Rhino rams into it and steals the first component of a top secret weapon, with Spider-Man getting the blame. Meanwhile, Peter has a cold, and his Aunt May wants him to stay in bed. The Rhino then steals another component from an airport. At May's suggestion, J. Jonah Jameson decides to take his own photos. However, when he tries to enter a military area wearing a disguise, he is stopped by a guard. He complains about this; however, his disguise falls of and he is arrested. The Rhino steals the final component from a submarine. The police put a dragnet out but cannot find the Rhino. Spider-Man finds him hiding in a cave with its entrance in the pool of the rhino exhibit at the zoo and catches him using pepper.
Director: N/A
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- 6.7/10100 votesLoading...
#13 - The One-Eyed Idol
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/4/1967
Someone has sent a one-eyed idol to J. Jonah Jameson. Jameson is hypnotized by the idol to steal his own money. Spider-Man finds the thief, but he escapes with the money. The next day Jameson is again hypnotized to steal more money. Spider-Man attacks the thief, but is knocked out by a boomerang, and finds the mastermind is the hunter Harley Clivendon, who tries to kill Spider-Man using an elevator. However, Spider-Man frees himself and captures both crooks.
Director: N/A
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- 6.7/10100 votesLoading...
#14 - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/11/1967
Spider-Man saves a boat from Dr. Matto Magneto's attempt to crash it on the rocks by sabotaging a lighthouse. Determined to prove his magnetic power, Dr. Magneto sabotages a railway line, which Spider-Man fixes. Magneto next tries to make the statue of Prometheus fall off of the top of the Empire State Building, but Spider-Man catches it in his web. Dr. Magneto meets Spider-Man at the Hall of Fame and captures him, planning to lift the entire Hall into the air by magnetism and drop it into the ocean with him in it. However, Dr. Magneto is beaten with Spider-Man's anti-magnetic webbing that destroys his weapon.
Director: N/A
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- 6.7/1096 votesLoading...
#15 - Here Comes Trubble
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/18/1967
Miss Trubble, a book dealer obsessed with mythology, is owner of a magical chest from which she summons a succession of mythological figures, from centaurs to the Cyclops to Diana the Hunter-Goddess, to commit robberies of ancient artifacts on her behalf.
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- 6.7/1087 votesLoading...
#16 - Criminals in the Clouds
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1968
Roy Robinson, star football player, campus ladies' man, son of a wealthy chemical industrialist, is envied by Peter, who decides to use his spider-power to play football and outperform Robinson.
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1076 votesLoading...
#17 - To Cage a Spider
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1969
Two robbers dynamite a bank safe and abscond in their car with millions of stolen dollars. Spidey chases them. The villains throw a ""Vibrator"" device at the web-swinger, and it explodes in Spidey's face! Spidey falls more than 20 building stories to strike a Manhattan street's pavement..
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/103 votesLoading...
#18 - Rhino
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/17/1970
In a cheater story comprised of footage from both Rhino episodes from Season 1, the Rhino again steals gold shipments with which to build a 14 karat statue of himself.
Director: N/A
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- 6.6/10142 votesLoading...
#19 - Where Crawls the Lizard
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1967
Peter flies to Florida to find and photograph the Lizard Man. Spider-Man meets Dr. Curtis Connor's family. He is pulled underwater by the Lizard Man, but escapes. In Dr. Connor's lab, Spider-Man finds out about the doctor's research on swamp fever and mixes an antidote for reptilian mutation. He fights the Lizard Man in a ruined Spanish fort and turns him back into Dr. Connor.
Director: N/A
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- 6.6/10109 votesLoading...
#20 - Captured by J. Jonah Jameson
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1967
While Spider-Man is out he is almost caught by a robot. Later an inventor named Henry Smythe reveals his plans to capture Spider-Man with the robot and get paid by J. Jonah Jameson for his efforts. Although skeptical at first, Jameson becomes enthusiastic when the robot is activated and starts zeroing in on its target. Peter makes a hasty retreat from the editor's office, but the robot lumbers after him into the street. Ducking into an alley, the teenager changes to Spider-Man before leading the robot on a frantic chase throughout the city. When the robot catches him Betty enables Spider-Man to escape by pulling out the plug to the controls; however, Jameson sends her out. Spider-Man is finally caught again by the robot after knocking himself unconscious by swinging into a clock tower. However, he breaks into the robot's interior circuits and is able to free himself from the robot's tendrils.
Director: N/A
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- 6.6/1098 votesLoading...
#21 - Fifth Avenue Phantom
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/4/1967
Spider-Man attempts to halt the Phantom's activities only to be set up by him and his robot henchwoman Marie, who is disguised as a shop window mannequin. He discovers the Phantom is using shrinking rays to steal items. However, some of the shrunken items are in a dollhouse in the Daily Bugle. The Phantom gets into the Bugle's offices and escapes with the dollhouse. Spider-Man is finally taken to the Phantom's base and defeats both him and his three robot henchwomen.
Director: N/A
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- 6.6/1077 votesLoading...
#22 - Home
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1968
At a coffee house, Peter meets Carol, a girl with whom he has much in common; he does not realize to what extent that they are alike until he, as Spiderman, catches Carol in the act of robbing electrical equipment and finds that she has powers identical to his!
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/10204 votesLoading...
#23 - The Power of Dr. Octopus
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1967
Teenage photographer Peter Parker is sent by the Daily Bugle to investigate a series of mystery lights in a wooded area outside of the city, when a sudden landslide forces him to swerve off the road and land in a tree.
Director: N/A
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- 6.5/10119 votesLoading...
#24 - Electro, the Human Lightning Bolt
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1967
Spider-Man is set up numerous times by Electro's robberies. Electro first robs J. Jonah Jameson's house and escapes before the police see him, though they see Spider-Man. Peter shows Jameson the photo, but he throws it away. Spider-Man finally tracks Electro to an abandoned amusement park and catches him using a new web. He leaves him hanging outside of Jameson's window.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/10100 votesLoading...
#25 - Diet of Destruction
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/1967
Spider-Man witnesses, and photographs, a giant metal-eating robot in Central Park. It is never explained who built it. The robot sets the park on fire and while Spider-Man stops the fire spreading, it leaves. Spider-Man fights the robot throughout the city and finally causes it to fall into the river.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Spider-Man
Every episode of Spider-Man ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Spider-Man!
The bite of a radioactive spider transforms a teen into a superhero.
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Best Episodes Summary
"Revolt in the Fifth Dimension" is the best rated episode of "Spider-Man". It scored 8/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/24/1970. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Night of the Villains".