The Spectacular Spider-Man

An animated television show that focuses on a sixteen-year-old Peter Parker, and the origins of Spider-Man.

Cast:Josh Keaton , Lacey Chabert , Joshua LeBar , Grey Griffin , Alanna Ubach , Vanessa Marshall , James Arnold Taylor , Clancy Brown , Deborah Strang , Steve Blum , Alan Rachins , Andrew Kishino , Phil LaMarr , Ben Diskin , Daran Norris , John DiMaggio , Peter MacNicol , Kevin Michael Richardson

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Survival of the Fittest

Sat, Mar 1, 2008

Summer is over for Peter Parker and school's ready to start - both literally and in the real world of crime-fighting - as Spider-Man faces his first real challenge, the Enforcers, and his first real super-villain, Vulture.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Interactions

Sat, Mar 8, 2008

Peter Parker attempts to tutor the popular Liz Allan while Spider-Man tries to stop Electro, who will stop at nothing to find a cure for the accident that made him who he is.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Natural Selection

Sat, Mar 15, 2008

Peter Parker and Spider-Man both must learn to own their choices when decisions made by Dr. Curt Connors transform Pete's mentor into the Lizard.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Market Forces

Sat, Mar 22, 2008

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.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Competition

Sat, Mar 29, 2008

According to Mr. Big's plan to divert Spiderman, common Flint Marko, whom he arrested repeatedly, is transformed into a monster, Sandman, who can escape through any hole by transforming himself into sand. Meanwhile Peter risks compromising his cover and break Harry's heart by taking part in the school's American football try-outs, although the jocks aren't exactly welcoming nerds. Gwen just hopes Peter will take her to the formal dance.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Invisible Hand

Sat, Apr 12, 2008

Otto Octavius creates the Rhino in order to occupy Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Aunt May arranges to introduce Peter to Mary Jane Watson.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Catalysts

Sat, Apr 26, 2008

Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson go to the Midtown High Fall Formal. Meanwhile, the mysterious Green Goblin tries to force L. Thompson Lincoln to step down as NYC's Big Man of crime. Will Spider-Man be able to take on this new threat?

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Reaction

Sat, May 3, 2008

Peter Parker and Spider-Man learn that actions have consequences when nebbishy Dr. Otto Octavius becomes the megalomaniacal Doctor Octopus. The cause: Green Goblin; the effect: mayhem!

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Uncertainty Principle

Sat, May 10, 2008

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.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Persona

Sat, May 17, 2008

Dr. Curt Connors is examining organic matter from outer space. Peter is no longer welcome in the lab, but when Spiderman takes a peek he catches almost equally agile burglar Black Cat in the act. In fact he prevents her stealing the goo, but thinks she succeeded as in stealthily melted with his suit. He finds it increases his spider-strength. They team up and discover a jewel robbery in the making. Actually Dr. Curt Connors's place has been taken by Chameleon, a master crook whose team was hired to steal the alien matter.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Group Therapy

Sat, May 31, 2008

Peter was looking forward to a lazy Saturday, but Adrian Toomes manages to free from jail fellow criminal freaks Rhino, Electro, Sandman, Hammerhead and Doctor Octopus. At least the alien goo proves a very practical costume improvement. Yet it come at a price: amnesia, or the suit operates on its own. Meanwhile Pete is ostracized at school for 'selfishly' photographing Spidey instead of preventing the theft.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Intervention

Sat, Jun 7, 2008

Peter realizes he's completely neglecting his friends, influenced by the alien goo 'symbiote'. As it hates vibrations, he tries to get rid of it exposing it to church bells, but it pins him down and evokes memories of how it all started, the trauma of Uncle Ben's murder. However, Ben's memory stays and encourages Peter to resist and wrestle loose. Now he brings the goo back to the lab and thinks he freezes it to death. Eddie is furious his rehabilitation is turned to hopeless. But the symbiote survives, transfers to Eddie and brings Peter's memories along.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Nature vs. Nurture

Sat, Jun 14, 2008

After Peter turns down on offer to turn a blind eye on Mr. Lincoln's crimes, the black goo alien and Eddie eagerly accept, including their 'test': defeat Spiderman! Now aunt May is recovering after a cardiac crisis, Peter feels even more guilty for neglecting his family and friends, who now forgive and support him. Only vindictive Eddie turns on his loved-ones.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Blueprints

Sun, Jan 11, 2009

Peter feels miserable as he can't square his many ambitions and responsibilities, but will suddenly get professional breaks from both newspaper and lab. Spiderman faces a new challenge, Mysterio, who claims to fight the evil effects of technology and seems to perform magic with Latin spells. Spidey finds out neither is quite true, but not who is behind him.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Destructive Testing

Sun, Jan 18, 2009

Peter feels great now Liz and Gwen appreciate him more as a tutor. Russian big game hunter, Sergei Kravinoff, who catches wild beasts with his bare hands and has a 'pet' lion, Gulyadkin, fails to overpower Spiderman. At ESU lab, Miles Warren agrees to transform him with leonine mutagen, transforming him into lion-man Kraven.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Reinforcement

Sun, Jan 25, 2009

Sandman and Rhino escape in the Christma season. Kraven frees Electro from Otto's lab. They all rejoin Mysterio's gang with Vulture, and are presented to the Master Planner, who wants them to inaugurate a heyday of crime by eliminating Spiderman. Gwen refuses to be Pete's 'second choice' anymore. Spiderman fight the six under winter conditions and in the mall.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Shear Strength

Sun, Feb 8, 2009

New Year's Eve. Dr. Octopus, who hid in Dr. Osborne's lab, finally pits his master plan in action. He hacks in by satellite to most computers in the city. He kidnaps Gwen to blackmail her dad, police captain George Stacy, into handing him the top-secret national network access codes. Spider-man must liberate her from the monsters' layer before the captain hands Dr. Octopus virtual world control.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ First Steps

Sun, Feb 15, 2009

At his first school day, Peter feels it's too good to be true: he is with Flash's ex Liz; Harry is back, with Gwen and hopefully cured of his Green Goblin mutation. They double-date at Flash's birthday blast. After a museum alarm, Spiderman sees Eddie outside but finds and fights Sandman inside. Hammerhead has a dirtier job for him, attacking an oil tanker. Peter wonders if the symbiote is back.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Growing Pains

Sun, Feb 22, 2009

Editor J. Jonah Jameson's son John, the astronaut, has been infected by space spores. They give him super-powers, so Jonah fit him a hero costume as Colonel Jupiter, who turns on Spiderman because of crimes committed by the black goo's creation Venom. Meanwhile Spiderman must handle Eddie, who transformed into that monster and threatens Peter to keep him silent, while Harry finds glory in school theatre. Police captain George Stacy believes in Spidey's innocence. The spores prove addictive and Venom betrays Peter's secret.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Identity Crisis

Sun, Mar 1, 2009

Editor J. Jonah Jameson's analysis who might be Spiderman indicates Peter, so he sends reporters to question everybody about his whereabouts. Eddie returns to the lab and steals a gene cleanser to rob Spidey of his powers and deals with helpless Peter and his loved ones. Jealous of the media attention, Flash poses in a Spiderman suit. Crooks see his crutches and think Spiderman is at his weakest. Captain Stacy holds a seminar on identity risks.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Accomplices

Sun, Mar 8, 2009

Peter volunteers as photographer for an old Pullitzer winner discarded by Jonah. The discover the underworld's recently release former kingpin Sable Manfredi is auctioning genetic technology to create monsters at will. As Spiderman, he tries to keep it out of the bid-winner's hands, but soon finds that also means taking on sore losers.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Probable Cause

Sun, Mar 15, 2009

The kids grumbled when paired by lot-drawing at a project riding along in cop patrol cars. Peter has to rush between his identities to fight the crime world's new Enforcers, supplied by Norman Osborn's secret new scientist. Meanwhile Flash turns in the Mustangs for winning the cup while Harry was doped.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Gangland

Sun, Mar 22, 2009

On Valentine's day, the youth has gathered for a glamorous dinner in LC's dad's restaurant. The New York crime high life gathers in the Metropolitan Opera. It's unclear who invited the others, but achieves his (Hammerhead's) plan: they start fighting each-other. Peter must leave the table fun of kicking Flash each time he puts his jock foot in his dumb mouth, to 'cover breaking news', an excuse Jonah craves just to leave. As Spiderman, Pete tries to stop the fighting fiends from demolishing the Met.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Subtext

Mon, Mar 16, 2009

Pete's team mate Marcus Allen is addicted to horse races. His bookie, one of the Green Goblin's crime barons, offers him one out of gambling debts: a single injection. Alas, Dr. Curt Connors's potion installs an 'armor' of fire, creating the 'Molten Man', whose glow is controlled by a device the Goblin gets. Spiderman must counter, yet save the uncontrollable arsonist.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Opening Night

Tue, Mar 17, 2009

Editor Jonah roots against Spiderman when he tests if a new Oscorp top-security penitentiary design is escape-proof. Not only does he succeed in tricking the guards, Green Goblin-orchestrated sabotage releases the freak-thugs, so they can chase Spidey while he's trapped inside.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Final Curtain

Wed, Mar 18, 2009

Spiderman has his hands full with unusual crime activity coordinated by the Green Goblin, now his crime lord competitors have been eliminated. As Peter he worries with Norman Osborn about Harry, who finally confesses to them he fears to be transformed by the Globuline he got addicted too. After establishing some crimes chronologically can't be Harry's doing, they discover the complex truth, involving Globuline-creator Donald Menken, who has fled Oscorp.