A university student bitten by a radioactive spider gets a job photographing himself for a newspaper, and fights crime in a city with a very limited effects budget.
Thirteen episodes across two short seasons on CBS, and the first American live-action Spider-Man of any length. Peter Parker is a graduate student, the Daily Bugle is a real newsroom, and the wall-crawling is done with wires and patience.
It is slow and it is not trying to be a comic book, which is the interesting part: it plays as a detective series in which the detective can climb.
Show detailsWhat the thirteen includes
The count includes the pilot, which was a ninety-minute film. The finale is counted as two episodes that both aired on the same night in July 1979.
The forty-three minute runtime is the median of a stated range and does not describe either the pilot or the finale.
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Facts last checked on Sep 7, 2026
Released: September 14, 1977