10 Things You Didn't Know About SpiderMan TV Show 70s

[moviegeek]

Peter parker was only a teenager in the comics for the first 28 issues. He graduated high school in issue 28. By the time the show premiered he had been in college for about a decade. So him being a college student is still accurate to the source material.

[moorebounce]

As a kid we didn't care about the lack of known villains and love interests. We were just happy to see him on TV.

[TheDukeofMadness]

The actor Nicholas Hammond moved to Australia back in the late 1980's. I met him in about 1991 at a pop culture convention and he happily chatted about Spiderman for close to an hour about it with the audience he attracted.

[jaymesEo]

Nicholas Hammond was the obvious model for the 90s animated series and my favorite peter in animated form.

[JRock]

Here are two more facts about Spider-Man that were not mentioned

*Chip Fields, who played Rita, was often shot either sitting behind a desk, or from the chest up. That's because she filmed her scenes while pregnant.

*There were many cases when scenes of Spider-Man were shot on the same lot as Wonder Woman. Fred Waugh was good friends with Jeannie Epper, the primary Wonder Woman stunt double. There were many cases where they visit each other's sets to hang out wearing their respective costumes. Too bad no one could take pictures at the time.

[wstine]

Seeing the Spider-Man stunt double actually walking up the side of the building was great.

[sethkaicer]

Watched it and loved it as a kid. Take me back to 1977

[gusuc]

Nicholas Hammond was the perfect '70s/Bronze-Age of Comics, Spider-Man. He was great as Peter. Smart but not nerdy, shy but not a pathetic loser. That's the way Peter Parker was in the 1970's. Also the infamous cocky, sarcastic, humor of Peter Parker/Spider-Man is there if you listen for it. Parker's struggle with money and trying to do the right thing despite who he might hurt is in the late '70s tv show.

[zeb]

I remember watching them as a kid in the 70's/80's on BBC. Loved them.

[MrDman]

Nicholas Hammond went from playing Spider-Man to a director in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 😄

[travelingjazzman]

I loved how this Spider-Man actually looks like a fully-grown adult man. He never looked like Spider-Boy.

[ladybetty]

OMG!!! Talk about FLASHBACKS!!! As a kid, I used to watch every single show you mentioned in the beginning of this video, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Shazam, and Spider-Man. I even watched the original Batman series with Adam West and another one called "Man From Atlantis" (1977-1978) starring Patrick Duffy. I've always had a love for super hero tv shows and movies. I could never get enough. This recent explosion of super-hero movies from the Marvel universe(s) and DC comics has refueled this love. I STILL can't get enough! This video brought back some amazing memories. Thanks Minty!!!

[chrisbeer]

Absolutely loved this Spider-Man as a kid. I watched them over and over again on VHS. The local video store near my Aunts place in Ballarat had them back in the 80s.

[alilately]

I was born in the 70s and this was my Spiderman. My dad was super into ccmics and that was the best time in the world to have shows AND cartoons. And even though we had them, most of us only had 3 damn channels.

[nihongochopsocky]

Ironically Stan Lee LOVED the Japanese Spiderman which came out in the 70's as well.I remember waiting to see Spidey on Electric Company.

[danw]

I loved watching this show as a kid. I still do now.

[avsiii]

Minty, this is my favorite "10 Things You didn't Know" show as of yet. I love watching the 70s TV show of SpiderMan when I was child. I recall when they were filming the TV show in my neighborhood and right after they finished shooting the scene I've walked up to the actor, Nicolas Hammond, to get his autograph and got it. It was magical when I got that autograph. One of the few good memories of my childhood that I remember.

[kevinhansen]

I felt that the 1990 Flash show suffered similarly. They tried to work the villains in, but changed them to just men in business suits. If memory serves, Mark Hamil, who played the Trickster, was the only one who insisted on wearing the villain suit, and his episode are now, probably the most remembered. On a tv budget, they could have done Kraven, Mysterio, maybe even Chameleon, but sadly, we didn't get that.

[bdso]

Back when Marvel and DC lived in harmony. I miss being a kid in the 70's.

[nimblehealer]

Wow, I'm old because I remember when this show was on