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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...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer" is the worst rated episode of "Spider-Man". It scored 6.5/10 based on 723 votes. Directed by Bob Richardson and written by John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Doug Booth, it aired on 9/14/1996. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Return of the Spider Slayers (2)".

  • The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer
    6.5/10723 votes
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    #1 - The Sins of the Fathers: Rocket Racer

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/14/1996

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Doug Booth

  • Return of the Spider Slayers (2)
    7.1/101,031 votes
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    #2 - Return of the Spider Slayers (2)

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1995

    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

  • The Spider Slayer (1)
    7.3/101,112 votes
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    #3 - The Spider Slayer (1)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/1995

    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

  • Kraven the Hunter
    7.3/10928 votes
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    #4 - Kraven the Hunter

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/1/1995

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Jan Strnad

  • Neogenic Nightmare: Tablet of Time
    7.4/10726 votes
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    #5 - Neogenic Nightmare: Tablet of Time

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1996

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Stan Berkowitz

  • Neogenic Nightmare: Ravages of Time
    7.4/10715 votes
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    #6 - Neogenic Nightmare: Ravages of Time

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1996

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Stan Berkowitz

  • Partners in Danger: The Return of Kraven
    7.4/10630 votes
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    #7 - Partners in Danger: The Return of Kraven

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1997

    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

  • Partners in Danger: The Vampire Queen (2)
    7.4/10614 votes
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    #8 - Partners in Danger: The Vampire Queen (2)

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1997

    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

  • Partners in Danger: The Prowler
    7.4/10616 votes
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    #9 - Partners in Danger: The Prowler

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 8/2/1997

    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

  • Neogenic Nightmare: Hydro-Man
    7.5/10795 votes
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    #10 - Neogenic Nightmare: Hydro-Man

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1995

    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: John Semper Jr., James Krieg

  • Partners in Danger: The Awakening (1)
    7.5/10613 votes
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    #11 - Partners in Danger: The Awakening (1)

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/1997

    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

  • Six Forgotten Warriors (1)
    7.5/10620 votes
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    #12 - Six Forgotten Warriors (1)

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1997

    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.

  • Six Forgotten Warriors (2): Unclaimed Legacy
    7.5/10616 votes
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    #13 - Six Forgotten Warriors (2): Unclaimed Legacy

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1997

    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.

  • The Menace of Mysterio
    7.6/101,005 votes
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    #14 - The Menace of Mysterio

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/1995

    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., Marv Wolfman, Stan Berkowitz

  • The Sting of the Scorpion
    7.6/10981 votes
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    #15 - The Sting of the Scorpion

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1995

    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: John Semper Jr., Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg

  • Day of the Chameleon
    7.6/10869 votes
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    #16 - Day of the Chameleon

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/1995

    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.

  • Neogenic Nightmare: Blade the Vampire Hunter
    7.6/10769 votes
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    #17 - Neogenic Nightmare: Blade the Vampire Hunter

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1995

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Stephanie Mathison

  • Neogenic Nightmare: The Immortal Vampire
    7.6/10744 votes
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    #18 - Neogenic Nightmare: The Immortal Vampire

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1995

    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

  • The Sins of the Fathers: Doctor Strange
    7.6/10744 votes
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    #19 - The Sins of the Fathers: Doctor Strange

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/27/1996

    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: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier

  • The Sins of the Fathers: Tombstone
    7.6/10695 votes
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    #20 - The Sins of the Fathers: Tombstone

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/12/1996

    Robbie Robertson is losing his son, Randy, to a gang of thugs lead by Tombstone. When this harder-than-stone hit man tries to use his history with Robbie to kill a story about his new boss, Alicia Silvermane, he runs afoul of Spider-Man. Both discover Robbie's bond with his child and his ethical resolve is mightier.

    Director: Bob Richardson

    Writer: John Semper Jr., Larry Brody, Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg

  • Partners in Danger: Guilty
    7.6/10665 votes
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    #21 - Partners in Danger: Guilty

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1997

    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., Larry Brody, Meg McLaughlin

  • Partners in Danger: Partners
    7.6/10636 votes
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    #22 - Partners in Danger: Partners

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/1997

    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: John Semper Jr., Cynthia Harrison, Brooks Wachtel

  • Partners in Danger: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson
    7.6/10624 votes
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    #23 - Partners in Danger: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 7/19/1997

    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: John Semper Jr., Virginia Roth

  • Partners in Danger: The Lizard King
    7.6/10623 votes
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    #24 - Partners in Danger: The Lizard King

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 7/26/1997

    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

  • Six Forgotten Warriors (3): Secrets of the Six
    7.6/10613 votes
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    #25 - Six Forgotten Warriors (3): Secrets of the Six

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1997

    Robbie and Peter encounter an old professor who knows about the Six Forgotten Warriors.

    Director: Bob Richardson

    Writer: John Semper Jr.