Spidey Super Stories

1975-1976

1975 · 17 episodes

Approximately one dozen "Spidey Super Stories" segments were produced during The Electric Company's 1975–1976 season.

Episodes

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   1. The Birthday Bandit

   5 Dec 1975

   The evil Birthday Bandit sneaks into a boy's birthday party setup and steals the cake, ice cream, decorations, and presents while explaining his crimes in rhyme, Dr. Seuss style. Spidey, hearing about the theft on the radio, tracks the Bandit to his next target. At another house, the Birthday Bandit thinks an extra-large celebration cake is phony and Spidey is hiding inside, so he smashes it with a mallet. Spider-Man emerges behind him ("It's my mistake! It IS a cake!"), then wrestles with the Bandit on top of the mashed cake and traps him in his web, saving the birthday party. After Spidey wraps up his mission, he spends the remainder of his day off "in his birthday suit" (a robe) while doing laundry.

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   2. Spidey Meets the Prankster

   9 Jan 1976

   Spidey is visiting the Short Circus at their elementary school when music books are loaded with jumping snake puppets, chocolate cream pies prepared in Home Economics class are replaced with mud, and a model telephone in Secretarial Skills' class is glued. Spidey goes to the office of school principal Mr. Prescott to alert him of the prank wave, and finds snakes, missing chocolate filling and a bottle of paste on his desk, proving he is the prankster. After being caught in Spidey's web, the principal admits that the school's pupils have pranked him every day for years and he intended to give them a taste of their own medicine. The reprimanded students cease their practical jokes, but others will still prank Prescott.

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   3. Spidey Meets the Blowhard

   29 Dec 1975

   Donned in a tuxedo and cape, Luis Avalos poses as the Big Bad Wolf and blows everything down. He plans retaliation on Fargo North, Decoder, after the detective foiled his plot to blow up Trenton, New Jersey. Fargo's buddies surprise him with a birthday celebration, which Blowhard crashes just when Fargo attempts to blow out candles. Paul the Gorilla smashes the birthday cake into the Blowhard's face as he prepares to blow, allowing Spidey to capture him fast. Since Paul stunned the Blowhard with the first dessert, Spidey and Paul get another.

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   4. Who Stole the Show?

   6 Feb 1976

   Winky Goodyshoes, a has-been actress, laments her struggle to find work after having captivated audiences when she was younger. She "steals the show" by stealing props and costumes from a dress rehearsal auditorium as retaliation. Spidey stops Winky from taking the performance off-Broadway. However, the cast recalls the little star and offers her a role as the villain.

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   5. Spidey Meets the Yeti

   25 Nov 1975

   An abominable snowman sits on cold items (frozen treats) to cope with homesickness after leaving the Frozen North. After Spidey traps the Yeti in his web with a line of ten purchased frozen ices, a police officer seeks to arrest the Yeti. After Spidey tells him the Yeti is homesick, he convinces the police officer to let him take the Yeti home. A taxi is arranged to pick up the Yeti.

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   6. Spidey Meets the Mouse

   11 Nov 1975

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   7. Spidey Meets the Sitter

   26 Dec 1975

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   8. Spidey Fixes the Hum

   27 Feb 1976

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   9. Spidey Nabs the Sandman

   23 Dec 1975

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    10. Spidey Meets the Tickler

    11 Mar 1976

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    11. Spidey Gets the Old One-Two

    20 Oct 1975

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    12. Spidey Meets Eye Patch

    1 Mar 1977

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    13. Spidey Meets Silly Willy

    28 Oct 1975

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    14. The Uninvited

    11 Nov 1976

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    15. Spidey After the Fox

    29 Jan 1976

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    16. Spidey Meets the Sack

    13 Jan 1977

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    17. Spidey Meets the Stomper

    11 Apr 1977

    The Stomper shakes the earth whenever hopping on the ground, and crushes anything in his path, such as the flower garden of Terry Terry, cousin of Mary Mary. Spider-Man tracks the villain's footprints to a kid's table picnic, stopping him with his web.