The Worst Episodes of Spider-Man
Every episode of Spider-Man ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Spider-Man!
Spider-Man was an animated television series that ran from September 9, 1967 to June 14, 1970. It was jointly produced in Canada and the United States and was the first animated adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book series, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. It first aired on the ABC television network in the United States but went into syndication at the start of the third season. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season. Seasons 2 and 3 were crafted by producer Ralph Bakshi in New York City. An internet meme, commonly known as 1960s Spiderman, regarding the series has received an overwhelming amount of popularity. The meme consists of a screenshot taken at a random part of the series and adding inappropriate and/or witty text.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Spider-Man" is "The Fantastic Fakir", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Fantastic Fakir" aired on 11/25/1967 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Farewell Performance".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - The Fantastic Fakir
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1967-11-25
Spiderman battles an Arabian jewel thief, whose magical flute induces animals into attacking Spidey.
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NaN/10 0 votes#2 - Farewell Performance
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1967-12-02
When a Jekyll-and-Hyde poster comes to life at the soon-to-be-demolished Castle Theatre, Spidey visits the theatre and encounters a mischievous Blackwell the Magician, who is trying to attract public attention to the theatre in hope of preventing its demolition.
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NaN/10 0 votes#3 - Blueprint for Crime
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 1967-12-09
A bald-headed mastermind named the Plotter employs two ridiculous criminals, Cowboy and Ox, to steal a blueprint to a missile.
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NaN/10 0 votes#4 - The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 1967-12-16
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 to envelope Spidey.
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NaN/10 0 votes#5 - The Dark Terrors
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 1967-12-23
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.
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NaN/10 0 votes#6 - Magic Malice
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 1967-12-30
While Blackwell the Magician is entertaining at the Castle Theatre, his house is invaded by the Green Goblin, who swipes some of Blackwell's props and peruses Blackwell's book of magic spells and incantations.
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NaN/10 0 votes#7 - Fiddler on the Loose
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 1968-01-06
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.
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NaN/10 0 votes#8 - Double Identity
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 1968-01-13
Art robberies are committed by an old enemy of Spiderman, actor Charles Cameo, who can utilize masks and make-up to usurp any identity, including those of J. Jonah Jameson and Spiderman!
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NaN/10 0 votes#9 - Trick or Treachery
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 1968-01-20
Paroled from prison, the Human Fly Twins rob diamonds from an importing company, and one of them does this deed in a Spiderman costume so that the guard, before being hit on the head from behind by the second twin, believes that Spidey is the culprit.
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NaN/10 0 votes#10 - The Madness of Mysterio
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1970-05-17
Spiderman tussles once more with master-of-illusion Mysterio. This time, Mysterio causes Spidey to think that he has shrunk the web-swinger and placed him in a miniature amusement park.
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4.7/10 3 votes#11 - Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1967-11-25
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.
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4.7/10 66 votes#12 - The Scourge of the Scarf
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1970-04-12
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.
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4.7/10 3 votes#13 - Trip to Tomorrow
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1970-06-14
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".
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4.8/10 67 votes#14 - Knight Must Fall
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1970-04-26
Spidey jousts with a motorcycle-riding knight in armor who is robbing theatre box offices, armored trucks, and museum officials receiving a medieval artifact.
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4.9/10 76 votes#15 - Spiderman Battles the Molemen
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1968-10-26
Mugs Riley, evidently escaped from prison, has duped the Molemen into following him again, even though they angrily deposed him in ""Menace From the Bottom of the World"", and arranges for Spiderman to be attached to a building so that the web-swinger will be brought underground along with the building, to face the revenge of Mugs Riley.
Director: Ralph Bakshi
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5.0/10 3 votes#16 - The Spider and the Fly
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 1967-12-16
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.
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5.0/10 3 votes#17 - Specialists and Slaves
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1970-05-31
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.
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5.0/10 3 votes#18 - Down to Earth
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1970-06-07
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, who have appropriated the meteor and are planning to drop it into a volcano as an offering to their fire god in return for warmth.
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5.1/10 62 votes#19 - The Big Brainwasher
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1970-04-05
The Kingpin's latest scheme to control New York involves a machine that brainwashes city officials into doing as the commands. Peter's girl-friend, Mary Jane, invites Peter to watch her dance on opening night at the Gloom Room A-Go-Go, a night club secretly owned by the Kingpin.
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5.3/10 3 votes#20 - Fountain of Terror
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 1968-01-06
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 Leon, who is intent upon keeping the magical fountain a secret.
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5.3/10 3 votes#21 - To Catch a Spider
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 1968-01-13
Under the guidance of Dr. Noah Boddy, the Green Goblin, Electro, and the Vulture join forces for revenge on Spiderman. In a confrontation with Noah Boddy's three stooges, Spidey practices ventriloquism to cause each of the three miscreants to think that he is being insulted by the others, and the excitable trio of villains begin fighting each other.
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5.3/10 3 votes#22 - Sting of the Scorpion
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 1968-01-20
When the Scorpion, intent on vengeance upon Spiderman and Jameson, escapes prison, he visits the laboratory of his creator, Dr. Stillwell, and drinks a potion that vastly increases his size.
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5.4/10 68 votes#23 - Neptune's Nose Cone
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1968-12-07
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
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5.4/10 68 votes#24 - The Devious Dr. Dumpty
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1970-04-26
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.
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5.5/10 67 votes#25 - Trouble With Snow
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1970-03-29
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.
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