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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 8 - The Scourge of the Scarf
    4.9/10(86 votes)

    #1 - The Scourge of the Scarf

    S3:E8

    From his vantage point atop a building, Spidey watches as crowds form long lines to attend Saturday night Broadway performances. To the panic of the mass of people, the Moon becomes a psychedelic pinwheel that fills the night sky and dizzies and renders everyone- including Spidey- unconscious.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 21 - Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy

    S1:E21

    A scientist, Dr. Noah Boddy, renders himself invisible by means of a machine, then acts to avenge himself upon Jameson, who publically maligned his theory of invisibility.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 19 - Down to Earth
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Down to Earth

    S3:E19

    Jameson orders Peter to fly in an airplane with Daily Bugle pilot Osa Olsen to the North Pole to locate a fallen meteor with bizarre antennae, but a thunder-snowstorm cripples Parker and Olsen's airplane, and it crashes in a wasteland populated by a tribe of savages.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 20 - Trip to Tomorrow
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Trip to Tomorrow

    S3:E20

    A bolt of lightning breaks Spidey's web, causing him to fall into a boxcar at a rail yard. In the boxcar, Spidey meets a young runaway who plans to ride a freight train out of New York City and become "the Caped Protector of Podunk".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 11 - Knight Must Fall
    5.1/10(88 votes)

    #5 - Knight Must Fall

    S3:E11

    Spidey jousts with a motorcycle-riding knight in armor who is robbing theatre box offices, armored trucks, and museum officials receiving a medieval artifact.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 27 - The Spider and the Fly
    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #6 - The Spider and the Fly

    S1:E27

    Spidey chases the culprit in an attempted theft of jewels from a countess and is surprised to find that his opponent, dressed in a black Human Fly costume, also has the ability to scale walls and can cross thin wires between buildings.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 18 - Specialists and Slaves
    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Specialists and Slaves

    S3:E18

    An old enemy of Spidey's, a radiation specialist who once lifted Manhattan into the sky, has been released from jail and promptly revisits Manhattan's nuclear power plant, stuns the outdoor guards with his ray gun, and again commandeers the reactor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 7 - Spiderman Battles the Molemen
    5.3/10(105 votes)

    #8 - Spiderman Battles the Molemen

    S2:E7

    Mugs Riley, evidently escaped from prison, has duped the Molemen into following him again.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 6 - The Big Brainwasher
    5.4/10(82 votes)

    #9 - The Big Brainwasher

    S3:E6

    The Kingpin's latest scheme to control New York involves a machine that brainwashes city officials into doing as the commands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 33 - Fountain of Terror
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Fountain of Terror

    S1:E33

    Dr. Curtis Conner goes missing in the Florida swamps after finding the Fountain of Youth. When Spidey investigates the scientist's disappearance, he discovers a fifteenth century Spanish conquistador, Ponce de León, who is intent upon keeping the magical fountain a secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 37 - Sting of the Scorpion
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Sting of the Scorpion

    S1:E37

    When the Scorpion, intent on vengeance upon Spider-Man and Jameson, escapes prison, he visits the laboratory of his creator, Dr. Stillwell, and drinks a potion that vastly increases his size.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 12 - The Devious Dr. Dumpty
    5.6/10(91 votes)

    #12 - The Devious Dr. Dumpty

    S3:E12

    Dr. Dumpty, a corpulent jewel thief, attacks a parade with knock-out gas released from balloons, and he and his thugs, wearing gas masks, steal the jewels of actress Rachele Wells and abscond in a hot air balloon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 13 - Neptune's Nose Cone
    5.7/10(94 votes)

    #13 - Neptune's Nose Cone

    S2:E13

    On Jameson's orders, Peter, and Daily Bugle pilot, Penny Jones travel by small-engine airplane to the Antarctic Ocean to track a fallen nose cone and crash-land on an island with a superstitious, brutish, native population.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 4 - Spiderman Vs. Desperado
    5.8/10(86 votes)

    #14 - Spiderman Vs. Desperado

    S3:E4

    Desperado, a cowboy criminal, lassos Spidey and begins a crime wave atop his electronic horse.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 7 - The Vanishing Doctor Vespasian
    5.8/10(88 votes)

    #15 - The Vanishing Doctor Vespasian

    S3:E7

    Dr. Vespasian, a green-skinned, wrinkled scientist, concocts a drinkable invisibility formula and uses it on himself and his dog, Brutus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 3 - Trouble With Snow
    5.9/10(91 votes)

    #16 - Trouble With Snow

    S3:E3

    New York City children build a snowman with snow contaminated by trace chemicals from an industrial plant up the Hudson River, and a freak accident involving a broken electrical line hitting the snowman somehow brings the snowman to life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 13 - Up from Nowhere
    5.9/10(91 votes)

    #17 - Up from Nowhere

    S3:E13

    The weird Dr. Atlantian rises out of the ocean near New York City in his hive-like machine, which derives its power from Lunar motion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 22 - The Fantastic Fakir
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Fantastic Fakir

    S1:E22

    Spider-Man battles an Arabian jewel thief, whose magical flute induces animals into attacking Spidey.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 28 - The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick

    S1:E28

    Oil is being stolen in huge quantities by Dr. Von Schlick, a chemist villain garbed in a rubber, non-stick suit and armed with petroleum-based bubbles that he fires from his fingers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 29 - The Vulture's Prey
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Vulture's Prey

    S1:E29

    The nefarious Vulture traps Jameson inside of a tower-clock and uses the well-informed Daily Bugle publisher as a source of information on the whereabouts of a visiting diamond merchant and the testing of military equipment—two prospective heists for the greedy bird-man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 30 - The Dark Terrors
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Dark Terrors

    S1:E30

    Life-like and substantial shadows of beasts are projected in various locations in New York City by the Phantom's new Shadow-Scope glasses to cause panic and enable the Phantom to effect unconstrained bank and jewelry store robberies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 34 - Fiddler on the Loose
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Fiddler on the Loose

    S1:E34

    Because he hates rock-and-roll for its having replaced classical music in the tastes of the masses, a fiddler with a deadly, sonic violin seeks revenge upon pop-music sponsor Cyrus Flintridge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 38 - Trick or Treachery
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Trick or Treachery

    S1:E38

    Paroled from prison, the Human Fly Twins rob diamonds from an importing company, and one of them does this deed in a Spider-Man costume so that the guard, before being hit on the head from behind by the second twin, believes that Spidey is the culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 16 - Thunder Rumble
    6.0/10(94 votes)

    #24 - Thunder Rumble

    S2:E16

    A giant Martian warrior, who throws lightning bolts, comes to Earth to rob the planet of its gold.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 1 - The Winged Thing
    6.0/10(91 votes)

    #25 - The Winged Thing

    S3:E1

    Spidey discovers the bird-man Vulture robbing a millionaire's penthouse safe and unsuccessfully tries to stop the flying fiend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Scourge of the Scarf" is the worst rated episode of "Spider-Man". It scored 4.9/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/12/1970. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy".