Spider-Man: Season 1

1994 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.7

What Season 1 of Spider-Man

Peter Parker studies at Empire State University and, after being bitten by a radioactive spider, discovers he has spider-powers. As Spider-Man, he patrols New York without neglecting his personal life. He has to divide his time between Mary Jane Watson and Felicia Hardy, nurture his friendship with Harry Osborn and keep up his grades in Dr. Curt Connors' class. The press and Kingpin's mob complicate his every move. Among his first enemies is the Lizard, while Doctor Octopus seeks revenge against the Hardy Foundation. The season also faces off against Mysterio, the Scorpion and the Green Goblin.

13episodes

Nov 19, 1994Aired

Jun 11, 1995latest episode

4.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Night of the Lizard
Nov 19, 1994 · 19 min · ★ 7.7
Peter Parker and his college science professor Dr. Curt Conners explore neogenics as a method of limb regeneration. But while experimenting on himself, Connors accidentally becomes the Lizard, a half-man, half-reptile monstrosity that terrorizes Manhattan and subsequently kidnaps his own wife. Spider-Man must stop the Lizard, but his task is doubly difficult because he doesn't want to hurt the good friend he knows is trapped inside.
Writing: John Semper Jr., Gerry Conway, Stan Berkowitz · Starring: Toby Scott Ganger, Ken Chandler, Giselle Loren, Joseph Campanella
1x02 The Spider Slayer (1)
Feb 4, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 7.5
Norman Osborn hires Spencer Smythe to design a machine capable of destroying Spider-Man—the Black Widow Spider Slayer. But when Flash Thompson puts on a Spider-Man costume as a party gag, the deadly machine spots him, and he's carried off in Peter's place.
Writing: Mark Hoffmeier, Stan Berkowitz · Starring: Edward Mulhare, Neil Ross, Patrick Labyorteaux, Hank Azaria
1x03 Return of the Spider Slayers (2)
Feb 11, 1995 · 19 min · ★ 7.4
With Spencer Smythe dead, his son Alistair turns to the Kingpin to help seek his revenge on Spider-Man and others he deems responsible for his father's death. He captures Eddie Brock, J. Jonah Jameson, Norman Osborn, and Flash Thompson. He then turns his sights on Spider-Man and sends three slayers after him. Spider-Man only manages to hold his ground while fighting them individually. However, he is not so lucky when they combine into a super slayer and carry him off to Smythe.
Writing: Mark Hoffmeier · Starring: Taina Maya Bustos Rivera, Neil Ross, Patrick Labyorteaux, Hank Azaria
1x04 Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous
Feb 18, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 7.4
Dr. Otto Octavius becomes the mad Dr. Octopus when his robotic arms become fused to him in a laboratory accident. He then seeks revenge for the humiliation the Hardy Foundation has caused him, so he kidnaps Felicia Hardy and holds her ransom.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: Brooks Wachtel, Cynthia Harrison · Starring: Rue McClanahan, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Steven Polinsky
1x05 The Menace of Mysterio
Feb 25, 1995 · 19 min · ★ 7.6
The Master of Illusion, Mysterio has fooled the city and J. Jonah Jameson into thinking Spider-Man has turned to crime. However, Spider-Man manages to find Mysterio, only to be brought to a trap of special effects.
Writers: John Semper Jr., Marv Wolfman, Stan Berkowitz · Starring: Gregg Berger, Jonathan Michael, Ken Chandler, Dawnn Lewis
1x06 The Sting of the Scorpion
Mar 11, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 7.5
J. Jonah Jameson hires Dr. Farley Stillwell, a genius in genetic engineering, to make a new superhero that can match and defeat Spider-Man. With a willing participant, Mac Gargain, they engineer the DNA of a scorpion and him together to form a new hero, the Scorpion. However, when Gargain thinks they have turned him into a freak, the hero turns into a monster and goes on a rampage. Spider-Man is forced to step in to stop the creation from killing its creator.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writers: John Semper Jr., Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg · Starring: Martin Landau, Michael Rye
1x07 Kraven the Hunter
Apr 1, 1995 · 19 min · ★ 7.2
Robbie has set Peter up with a job interview with a researcher by the name of Dr. Mariah Crawford. However, when he gets to her lab, he finds her under attack by a monstrous man who deems himself Kraven the Hunter. Spider-Man leads Crawford away from Kraven to the roofs. There, Crawford tells Spider-Man that Kraven was not always that way, that in fact she loved him as Sergei Kravenoff. Crawford tells of an accident years back that would have killed Sergei had she not used a dangerous potion that saved his life and gave him the strength and instinct of an animal, but turned him mad. Meanwhile, while looking for Crawford at her apartment, Kraven learns of her connection to Robbie and kidnaps him. He then threatens to kill Robbie if Spider-Man does not come to him with Crawford.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Jan Strnad · Starring: Gregg Berger, Susan Beaubian
1x08 The Alien Costume (1)
Apr 29, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 8.1
A space shuttle piloted by J.J.'s son, John Jameson, crash lands on the Tri-Borough Bridge carrying two strange meteors—one that could provide a new nuclear fuel and one that contains an alien substance. The first is stolen by the Kingpin's henchman, the Rhino, just as Spider-Man arrives to save Jameson and the co-pilots. When the Rhino sends the aircraft off the bridge, Spider-Man emerges from the water with a dark stain covering his costume. Exhausted, he heads for home, only to awaken hanging from a skyscraper, now clothed in a black version of his costume.
Writing: John Semper Jr., Avi Arad, Meg McLaughlin · Starring: Michael Horton, John Beard, Don Stark, Patrick Labyorteaux
1x09 The Alien Costume (2)
May 6, 1995 · 18 min · ★ 8.2
Spider-Man goes after Eddie Brock for libeling him, as he is now being stalked by bounty hunters at every turn. After being reassured by Mary Jane that he has changed, he seeks help from Dr. Curt Connors who discovers that the suit is alive, and Peter is the host organism.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: John Semper Jr., Brynne Chandler Reaves · Starring: Joseph Campanella, Michael Horton, Hank Azaria, Jim Cummings
1x10 The Alien Costume (3)
May 13, 1995 · 18 min · ★ 8.1
The Kingpin is furious at Spider-Man and sends the Shocker and the Rhino out to finish him off with the aid of another new invention of Alistair Smythe. Meanwhile, Eddie Brock, as the symbiote creature Venom, is busy playing cat and mouse with Spider-Man, intruding on Peter's private life and making it clear he knows the web-slinger's secret identity. To make matters worse, Peter soon realizes that the pumped-up Eddie as Venom is stronger than he is.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: John Semper Jr., Mark Hoffmeier, Brynne Stephens · Starring: Michael Horton, Hank Azaria, Jim Cummings, Don Stark
1x11 The Hobgoblin (1)
May 20, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 7.8
Norman Osborn hires the Hobgoblin, a hitman and thief, to take out Osborn's "silent" partner Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. When he fails in the attempt, the Hobgoblin changes sides, kidnapping Norman's son, Harry. Harry just happens to be best friends with Peter Parker.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writers: John Semper Jr., Larry Brody · Starring: John Beard, Neil Ross, Patrick Labyorteaux, Maxwell Caulfield
1x12 The Hobgoblin (2)
May 27, 1995 · 19 min · ★ 8.0
When Aunt May is slightly injured by one of the Hobgoblin's pumpkin bombs during the kidnapping of Harry, Spider-Man enters the fray with a vengeance. After several battles, the trail leads Peter to Oscorp and Harry's own father. For Peter, rescuing his friend is easy compared to explaining to Harry that his own father is involved.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: Stan Berkowitz · Starring: Neil Ross, John Beard, Maxwell Caulfield, Mark Hamill
1x13 Day of the Chameleon Season Finale
Jun 11, 1995 · 20 min · ★ 7.6
An international spy and hitman known as the Chameleon plans to assassinate two major diplomats on the brink of signing the peace proposal of the century. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury solicits J. Jonah Jameson's assistance in an effort to prevent the "human shape-shifter" from derailing the proposal signing. But only Spider-Man with his super keen "spider-sense" can discern who is really whom and stop the criminal before it's too late.
Directing: Bob Richardson · Writing: John Semper Jr. · Starring: Philip Abbott, Rachel Davies, Nell Carter