Spider-Man in television

The character was first portrayed in live action by Danny Seagren in Spidey Super Stories, an Electric Company segment which ran from 1974 to 1977.

In 1977, a short-lived live action television series was produced called The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Nicholas Hammond, one of the actors from The Sound of Music, in the title role.

Toei planned to follow the series with a new show starring a Japanese counterpart of Captain America called "Captain Japan", which was revamped into Battle Fever J, the first official installment of Toei's Super Sentai franchise (barring the retroactive recognition of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and JAKQ Dengekitai in later years).

The concept of costumed superheroes piloting giant robots introduced in the Japanese Spider-Man was carried over to Battle Fever J, which became a tradition in the Super Sentai franchise.

Bakshi's episodes, which suffered from extremely low budgets, were stylized and featured dark ominous settings and pervasive background music.

In the early 2010s, several internet memes gained major prominence across various platforms, using the simplistic art style and awkward situation of the series for comedic purposes.

This series also featured a number of Marvel guest stars, and shared many of its character designs with the solo Spider-Man show produced just before it.

[13] In 2003, another television series adaptation, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series this time using computer animation was produced by Mainframe Entertainment for Sony Pictures Television and broadcast on MTV; it featured characters and continuity from the 2002 Spider-Man film, as well as Michael Clarke Duncan voicing the Kingpin, reprising his role from the 2003 live action Daredevil film adaptation.

Peter Parker is still a teenager living in contemporary New York, as in Bendis' Ultimate version, but many of the cast members borrow from both the early and later years of Spider-Man comics.

Many of the original supporting cast, including Flash Thompson, have been translated into modern terms but are still very true to the comics, and some have altered ethnicities: Liz Allan is Hispanic and Ned Lee (formerly "Leeds") is Korean.

However, the series ended prematurely when Sony Pictures relinquished its rights, which it had licensed from Marvel, to produce animated works using Spider-Man and associated characters.

[19] Announced in November 2021, Jeff Trammel serves as head writer and executive producer for the series,[19] with the cast as of July 2022[update] featuring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil (reprising his role from previous MCU media) and Paul F. Tompkins as Bentley Wittman.