The Worst Episodes of Spider-Man
Every episode of Spider-Man ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Spider-Man!
Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to fight crime while trying to balance it with the struggles of his personal life.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Spider-Man" is "The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer", rated 6.5/10 from 694 user votes. It was directed by Bob Richardson and written by Doug Booth, Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr.. "The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer" aired on 9/14/1996 and is rated 0.6 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Return of the Spider Slayers (2)".
6.5/10 694 votes#1 - The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1996-09-14
While a gang of jet-pack wearing thieves run by Jackson Weele, an ex-pilot in a rampaging gyro-wheel plunder the city, Peter tries to deal with his alter-ego giving him competition with Felicia. Meanwhile, a good kid with a criminal record, Robert Farrell, tries to help his ailing mother by using his science-savvy and the gang's technology to arm himself as The Rocket Racer. Will the Rocket Racer return to his criminal past, or will he be an ally to Spidey? While Spidey's fighting crime, the mysterious "Jason Phillips" starts to make moves on Felicia...
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Doug Booth, Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr.
7.1/10 988 votes#2 - Return of the Spider Slayers (2)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1995-02-11
With Spencer Smythe dead, his son Alistair turns to the Kingpin to help seek his revenge on Spider-Man and others he deems responsible for his father's death. He captures, Eddie Brock, J. Jonah Jameson, Norman Osborn, and Flash Thompson. He then turns his sights on Spidey and sends three slayers after him. Spidey only manages to hold his ground while fighting them individually. However, he is not so lucky when they combine into a super slayer and carry him off to Smythe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 1,065 votes#3 - The Spider Slayer (1)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1995-02-04
Norman Osborn hires Spencer Smythe to design a machine capable of destroying Spider-Man - the Black Widow Spider Slayer. But when Flash Thompson puts on a Spider-Man costume as a party gag, the deadly machine spots him, and he's carried off in Peter's place.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier
7.3/10 886 votes#4 - Kraven the Hunter
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1995-04-01
Robbie has set Peter up with a job interview with a researcher by the name of Dr. Mariah Crawford. However, when he gets to her lab, he finds her under attack by a monstrous man who deems himself Kraven the Hunter. Spider-Man leads Crawford away from Kraven to the roofs. There, Crawford tells Spider-Man that Kraven was not always that way, that in fact she loved him as Sergei Kravenoff. Crawford tells of an accident years back that would have killed Sergei had she not used a dangerous potion that saved his life and gave him the strength and instinct of an animal, but turned him mad. Meanwhile, while looking for Crawford at her apartment, Kraven learns of her connection to Robbie and kidnaps him. He then threatens to kill Robbie if Spider-Man does not come to him with Crawford.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr., Jan Strnad
7.4/10 606 votes#5 - Partners in Danger: The Return of Kraven
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1997-02-22
When a savage creature begins attacking people in New York, Black Cat tries to convince Spider-Man that he needs her help to stop it. All clues point to the creature being Kraven The Hunter, but sleuthing by Debra Whitman, Flash Thompson, and the Black Cat solves the case. The beast, Calypso, is related to Kraven, but the Hunter wants to capture and cure her.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Meg McLaughlin
7.4/10 589 votes#6 - Partners in Danger: The Vampire Queen (2)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1997-05-17
There's a new Vampire in town, but Morbius is getting all the blame. Just as Spidey, Black Cat, Whistler and Morbius have the Vampire Queen trapped, Blade bursts in and prevents her destruction. His revelation sets the others against him, while the queen attempts to create an army of vampires. Meanwhile, Harry Osborn discovers Peter's spare Spider-Man mask!
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Meg McLaughlin
7.4/10 588 votes#7 - Partners in Danger: The Prowler
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1997-08-02
Upon returning to his new apartment, Peter is confronted by the Prowler. Revealing himself to be Hobie Brown, he tells Peter that he knows about Peter's connection to Spiderman! And what does the Kingpin have to do with it all?
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Terence Taylor
7.5/10 759 votes#8 - Neogenic Nightmare: Hydro-Man
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1995-09-23
Mary Jane is being stalked by her former boyfriend, Morris Bench, who's undergone an accidental metamorphosis and become Hydro-Man. Sweeping Mary Jane off her feet in a wave of water he insists she will love him. Spider-Man is nearly beaten by the semi-liquid culprit but with a little help from Mary Jane puts a stop to this villain by causing him to evaporate once drawn away from the water that feeds him.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: James Krieg, John Semper Jr.
7.5/10 695 votes#9 - Neogenic Nightmare: Tablet of Time
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1996-02-03
Dr. Curt Connors is set to study the Tablet of Time, a recently discovered ancient artifact that is said to restore a person’s youth. Dr. Connors believes that it can cure Spider-Man’s mutagenic transformations with the tablet.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr., Stan Berkowitz
7.5/10 684 votes#10 - Neogenic Nightmare: Ravages of Time
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1996-02-10
With the Tablet of Time, Silvermane's youth is restored, but he continues to grow younger until he finally becomes an infant.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr., Stan Berkowitz
7.5/10 589 votes#11 - Partners in Danger: The Awakening (1)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 1997-05-10
Deborah Whitman has located Morbius, the Living Vampire, and brings him back to ESU to work on a cure. Just before leaving town, Felicia hears of this and uses the trip as an excuse to stay behind as the Black Cat. Together with Spidey and Whistler, she has to take on Herbert Landon and the Shocker in order to save Morbius from himself.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Sean Catherine Derek
7.5/10 598 votes#12 - Six Forgotten Warriors (1)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1997-09-19
After a visit from an "old friend" of the family, Peter travels to Russia to investigate the mystery of his parents disappearance, and runs into some old friends!
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.5/10 593 votes#13 - Six Forgotten Warriors (2): Unclaimed Legacy
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1997-09-26
Still in Russia, Peter discovers that searching for clues to his family past isn't easy when he has to battle the Insidious Six and Red Skull!
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.6/10 966 votes#14 - The Menace of Mysterio
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1995-02-25
The Master of Illusion, Mysterio has fooled the city and J. Jonah Jameson into thinking Spidey has turned to crime. However Spidey manages to find Mysterio only to be brought to a trap of special effects.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Semper Jr., Stan Berkowitz, Marv Wolfman
7.6/10 939 votes#15 - The Sting of the Scorpion
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1995-03-11
J. Jonah Jameson hires Dr. Farley Stillwell who is a raining genius in genetic engineering, to make a new super hero that can match and defeat Spider-Man. With a willing participant, Mac Gargain, they engineer the DNA of a scorpion and him together to form a new hero, The Scorpion. However, when Mac thinks they have turned him into a freak, hero turns to monster and he goes on a rampage. Spider-Man is then forced to step in to stop creation from killing creator.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Robert N. Skir, John Semper Jr., Marty Isenberg
7.6/10 833 votes#16 - Day of the Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1995-06-11
An international spy and hitman known as the Chameleon plans to assassinate two major diplomats on the brink of signing the peace proposal of the century. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury solicits J. Jonah Jameson's assistance in an effort to prevent the "human shape-shifter" from derailing the proposal signing. But only Spider-Man with his super keen "spider-sense" can discern who is really whom and stop the criminal before it's too late.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.6/10 737 votes#17 - Neogenic Nightmare: Blade the Vampire Hunter
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1995-11-18
The vampire hunter Blade arrives in New York to destroy Morbius, but Spider-Man wants to revert Morbius back into his human form.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr., Stephanie Mathison
7.6/10 713 votes#18 - Neogenic Nightmare: The Immortal Vampire
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1995-11-25
Morbius attempts to use the Neogenic Recombinator to turn everyone else into a vampire. Spider-Man and Blade try to stop him, and Morbius' mutation worsens. Morbius kidnaps Felicia Hardy in order to transform her into a vampire.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Meg McLaughlin
7.6/10 715 votes#19 - The Sins of the Fathers: Doctor Strange
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1996-04-27
Peter discovers that Mary-Jane is working with a mysterious cult. Baron Mordo, head of the cult, wants them to steal the Wand of Watoom to free his master, Dormammu. And when Mordo manages to get his hands on the wand, Spider-Man must team up with Doctor Strange and his sidekick Wong, to stop them!
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Mark Hoffmeier, John Semper Jr.
7.6/10 638 votes#20 - Partners in Danger: Guilty
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1997-02-01
Spider-Man captures a gang of thieves, and it looks like Robbie Robertson is their leader! Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson must team up to try to clear Robbie's name. But while Jameson returns to the skills he had as an Investigative Reporter, Peter must keep him safe from Tombstone. At the bottom of the whole plot is Richard Fisk, but can Spidey find the right clues to clear Robbie in time?
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Meg McLaughlin, Larry Brody
7.6/10 612 votes#21 - Partners in Danger: Partners
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1997-05-03
While settling in to her new role as a hero, the Black Cat is captured by Allistair Smythe, now working for Silvermane, who is trapped in the body of a baby. Smythe delivers Spidey an ultimatum: capture the Scorpion or the Vulture within 24 hours or the Black Cat dies...
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Cynthia Harrison, John Semper Jr., Brooks Wachtel
7.6/10 597 votes#22 - Partners in Danger: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1997-07-19
Mary Jane is back, and has got the lead role in a major film. But when filming starts, all hell breaks lose, and Mary Jane vanishes from the studio. Spidey must fight to ensure that he doesn't lose Mary Jane again, even if it means teaming up with Mysterio. And when it's all over, Peter has a secret to tell...
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: Virginia Roth, John Semper Jr.
7.6/10 599 votes#23 - Partners in Danger: The Lizard King
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1997-07-26
Peter and Mary Jane get engaged! The happy couple goes to ask Dr. Connors if he'll give away the bride, not knowing that he's been fighting against the return of the Lizard. While they are talking to him, three more humanoid lizards attack and kidnap Dr. Connors. With the Lizard taking over and Spider-Man captured, Margaret Connors, Mary Jane Watson, and Debra Whitman will have to save the day!
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr., Gordon Kent
7.6/10 589 votes#24 - Six Forgotten Warriors (3): Secrets of the Six
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1997-10-03
Robbie and Peter encounter an old professor who knows about the Six Forgotten Warriors.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.6/10 592 votes#25 - Six Forgotten Warriors (4): The Six Fight Again
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1997-10-10
Spider-Man and the Warriors join forces to stop the Kingpin from activating the doomsday device.
Director: Bob Richardson
Writer: John Semper Jr.