Many times, the scene cut to a pre-drawn panel of Spidey using his web-shooters, with the caption "Take that!". He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, rarely used his web-shooters. Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons (having a similar role to Clarabell the Clown of Howdy Doody), in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers."
The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in criminal activities (such as burglary or assault). It premiered during the premiere of The Electric Company's first (1974) episode of the fourth (1974–1975) season, show 391.Ī total of (at least) 29 segments were produced during the final three seasons of The Electric Company. Spider-Man deduces where the Funny Bunny will strike next, and literally hops on a train for D.C.Spidey Super Stories was a live-action and main segment on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company.Įpisodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played (always in costume) by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren (who replaced the recently departed invisible him on The Electric Company in 1974). Trust me, Funny Bunny’s isn’t the dumbest supervillain origin story:īut let’s get back to the Funny Bunny, who’s out ruining Easter for the Electric Company’s cast, who are rather weirdly dressed, even by 1970s standards… The skits had a companion comic book series, and issue 9 featured an Easter-themed villain: The version of Spider-Man they used lived in his costume 24/7, had no life as Peter Parker or Miles Morales, and spoke only in comic book word bubbles, requiring the viewer to read: Click to watch the skit. The Electric Company had an arrangement with Marvel Comics to use the Spider-Man character in skits named Spidey Super Stories that would teach reading. It’s the show that you’d watch after graduating from Sesame Street, and its original cast featured names you might recognize: Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby, and Morgan Freeman: The Electric Company was an educational children’s show that produced 780 shows from 1971 through 1977. There’s no such thing as “too silly” when it comes to comic book villains, and that was the case in 1975 when Spider-Man faced off against the Funny Bunny in issue 9 of Spidey Super Stories.
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