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The Worst Episodes of Spider-Man

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 15 - Blotto
    4.2/10(109 votes)

    #1 - Blotto

    S2:E15

    Clive, an unbalanced movie producer, is determined to avenge himself upon critics and audiences who spurned his claim that the darkest human emotions could be filmed and physically released from a theatre screen.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 17 - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto
    4.8/10(134 votes)

    #2 - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto

    S1:E17

    Spider-Man saves a boat from Dr. Matto Magneto's attempt to crash it on the rocks by sabotaging a lighthouse.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 13 - Neptune's Nose Cone
    4.8/10(100 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 13 - Up from Nowhere
    4.8/10(97 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 19 - The Night of the Villains
    5.0/10(158 votes)

    #5 - The Night of the Villains

    S1:E19

    Historic villains Blackbeard the Pirate, Jesse James, and the Executioner of Paris are committing robberies in New York City.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #6 - 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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  7. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 6 - The Big Brainwasher
    5.0/10(90 votes)

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

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

    #9 - 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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  10. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 6 - The Sky Is Falling
    5.2/10(151 votes)

    #10 - The Sky Is Falling

    S1:E6

    The Vulture uses a sonic device in his head mask to control an army of vultures. After the Vulture beats Spider-Man, he holds the city up for a $2,000,000 ransom and J. Jonah Jameson blames Spider-Man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #11 - 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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  12. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 6 - Diamond Dust
    5.2/10(116 votes)

    #12 - Diamond Dust

    S2:E6

    A baseball diamond and the spherical, baseball-sized Optimo Diamond at the Cosmopolitan Museum are connected in this episode.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 7 - Spiderman Battles the Molemen
    5.2/10(113 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 11 - Knight Must Fall
    5.2/10(95 votes)

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

    #15 - 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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  16. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 15 - The One-Eyed Idol
    5.5/10(132 votes)

    #16 - The One-Eyed Idol

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #18 - 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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  19. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 3 - Swing City
    5.5/10(122 votes)

    #19 - Swing City

    S2:E3

    A twisted radiation specialist gains illicit dominion over Manhattan's new and only nuclear power plant and uses a special ray to lift Manhattan into the clouds.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 1 - The Winged Thing
    5.5/10(98 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 10 - Diet of Destruction
    5.8/10(134 votes)

    #21 - Diet of Destruction

    S1:E10

    Spider-Man witnesses, and photographs, a giant metal-eating robot in Central Park.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 5 - Menace from the Bottom of the World
    5.8/10(119 votes)

    #22 - Menace from the Bottom of the World

    S2:E5

    Investigating the disappearance of banks, Spidey finds a hole that leads to a maze of underground tunnels, through which Spidey undertakes a perilous journey in search of the lost occupants of the submerged banks.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Spider-Man Season 2 Episode 11 - Pardo Presents
    5.8/10(107 votes)

    #23 - Pardo Presents

    S2:E11

    Pardo is a sorcerer with the ability to transform himself into a giant cat with hypnotic eyes. He lures top New York City’s citizens and officials to a theatre with the promise of a spectacular show, then releases his feline alter-ego's power upon the hapless audience, intending to divest them of their wealth and sap the souls out of their bodies.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Spider-Man Season 3 Episode 9 - Super Swami
    5.8/10(95 votes)

    #24 - Super Swami

    S3:E9

    Super Swami, an obese illusionist, seems to make the Brooklyn Bridge disappear piece by piece.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Spider-Man Season 1 Episode 2 - Sub-Zero for Spidey
    6.0/10(193 votes)

    #25 - Sub-Zero for Spidey

    S1:E2

    On a blistering hot afternoon, Peter is walking to the house of a brilliant scientist, Doctor Smartyr, when suddenly he notices that the sidewalk, and most of the neighborhood, is turning to ice. Hearing desperate cries for help from Smartyr's house, Peter changes into Spider-Man and breaks through a laboratory window to find the frightened scientist being menaced by a towering ice creature.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Blotto" is the worst rated episode of "Spider-Man". It scored 4.2/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Ralph Bakshi and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/21/1968. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Revenge of Dr. Magneto".