List of The Spectacular Spider-Man Episodes
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The Spectacular Spider-Man is an American animated television series based on the Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man, and developed for television by Greg Weisman and Victor Cook. In terms of tone and style, the series is based principally on the original stories by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a similar balance of action, drama and comedy as well as a high school setting. However, it also tends to utilize material from all eras of the comic's run and other sources such as the film series and the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. The series premiered on March 8, 2008 during the Kids' WB programming block of The CW, and its second season aired on Disney XD in the United States, and ended its run on November 18, 2009. Throughout its run, The Spectacular Spider-Man was acclaimed by both critics and audiences. The entire series was broadcast in Canada on Teletoon.
Following the central theme of "The Education of Peter Parker", the series is broken up into loose arcs, each consisting of three to four episodes that take place nearly a month within the series, with the episode titles in each arc adopting terms from specific fields of study. Both Season One and Two consist of 13 episodes.
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[edit] Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 13 | March 8, 2008 | June 14, 2008 | |
| 2 | 13 | June 22, 2009 | November 18, 2009 | |
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1 (2008)
The first three episodes are named after notions in biology, the next three are named after ones in economics, the following three are terms in chemistry, while the final four are notions in psychology.
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original U.S. air date (Kids' WB/The CW4Kids) | Production Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Victor Cook | Greg Weisman | March 8, 2008 | 101 |
| Summer is ending and Peter Parker's junior year of high school is about to start. His superhero ego, Spider-Man has to face the Enforcers and the Vulture | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Interactions" | Troy Adomitis | Kevin Hopps | March 8, 2008 | 102 |
| Peter Parker attempts to tutor Liz Allan while Spider-Man tries to stop Electro, who will never stop to find a cure to the accident that made him who he is. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Natural Selection" | Dave Bullock | Matt Wayne | March 15, 2008 | 103 |
| Peter Parker and Spider-Man both must learn to own their choices when decisions made by Dr. Curt Connors transform him into the Lizard. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Market Forces" | Dan Fausett | Andrew Robinson | March 22, 2008 | 104 |
| While Peter takes on the responsibility of helping Aunt May pay the bills, Montana, one of the Big Man's Enforcers, becomes the stunning Shocker to fulfill his responsibility: eliminating Spider-Man. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Competition" | Troy Adomitis | Kevin Hopps | March 29, 2008 | 105 |
| As Peter Parker and Harry Osborn try out for the football team, Spider-Man must face convict Flint Marko, newly transformed into the Sandman in order to kill Spider-Man. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Invisible Hand" | Dave Bullock | Matt Wayne | April 12, 2008 | 106 |
| Peter struggles to get a date for the Fall Formal, and to figure out a way to pay for it. Meanwhile, the unstoppable Rhino, the latest of the Big Man's creations, has sworn vengeance on Spider-Man. Spider-Man takes the battle directly to the source of his troubles, the previously invisible hand, who has been secretly conducting his villain-of-the-week attacks. But the Big Man offers a surprising solution to Spider-Man's problems, a tempting offer he doesn't think our hero can afford to refuse. Will Spider-Man do the right thing?. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Catalysts" | Victor Cook | Andrew Robinson | April 26, 2008 | 107 |
| On the night of the Midtown High Fall Formal, Peter's date, Mary Jane Watson, threatens to invert Midtown's social structure. Elsewhere, the mysterious, murderous Green Goblin tries to force L. Thompson Lincoln (a.k.a. Tombstone) to step down as NYC's Big Man of crime and tries to kill Spider-Man. Will Spider-Man be able to take this new threat seriously enough – or will he be so cocky that he loses his big head?. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Reaction" | Jennifer Coyle | Randy Jandt | May 3, 2008 | 108 |
| Peter Parker and Spider-Man learn that actions have consequences when nebbishy Dr. Otto Octavius becomes the megalomaniacal Doctor Octopus. The cause; an accidental explosion; the effect; mayhem!. Now Spider-Man must prevent Doctor Octopus from obtaining an experimental battery pack that can keep his mechanical arms functioning indefinitely. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Uncertainty Principle" | Dave Bullock | Kevin Hopps | May 10, 2008 | 109 |
| While Colonel John Jameson struggles to land his damaged space shuttle, Spider-Man struggles to defeat the Green Goblin, who also threatens Hammerhead and Tombstone in order to become the reigning crime boss in New York and to kill Spider-Man. But Peter Parker's biggest challenge will be facing the truth when he finally learns the Goblin's true identity, all on Halloween. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Persona" | Dan Fausett | Matt Wayne | May 17, 2008 | 110 |
| Spider-Man gains a black costume, courtesy of the alien life form, during an encounter with the Black Cat. Meanwhile, a master of disguise, the Chameleon, starts framing Spider-Man for various robberies, using inventions and effects provided by Quentin Beck and Phineas Mason. Spider-Man is left with no option but to team up with Black Cat to stop his new enemy's crime spree. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Group Therapy" | Dave Bullock and Jennifer Coyle | Andrew Robinson and Greg Weisman | May 31, 2008 | 111 |
| With Electro's help, Doctor Octopus breaks himself, Vulture, Sandman, Rhino and Shocker out of Ryker's Island prison to quench their mutual thirst for revenge. Even with his new black alien suit, Spider-Man finds his old enemies, now called the Sinister Six, are more than he can handle. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Intervention" | Dave Bullock | Greg Weisman | June 7, 2008 | 112 |
| With Aunt May in the hospital and his friendship with Eddie Brock ruined, Peter finally gains enough self-awareness to realize the alien symbiote is starting to affect his personality. The struggle between Peter and the symbiote evolves into a war within Spider-Man's own mind, where Peter is aided by a familiar face. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Nature vs. Nurture" | Victor Cook | Kevin Hopps | June 14, 2008 | 113 |
| Peter is in a celebratory mood as Aunt May is released from the hospital, but Eddie Brock (transformed into the vicious Venom by the alien symbiote) has no intention of letting them have a happy reunion. Can Spider-Man defeat his new arch-nemesis? | ||||||
[edit] Season 2 (2009)
The first four episodes are named after notions from engineering, the next three are named after ones in human development, the following three are terms in criminology, while the final three are drama terminologies.
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original U.S. air date (Disney XD) | Production Code |
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