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Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
1981 - 1983 7.4 (239 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Animation Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
NBC
Created By
Steve Ditko

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

Overview

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is an American animated television series produced by Marvel Productions starring established Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man and Iceman and an original character, Firestar. As a trio called the Spider-Friends, they fought against various villains.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Dan Gilvezan
Dan Gilvezan

Spider-Man / Peter Parker (voice)

Kathy Garver
Kathy Garver

Firestar / Angelica Jones (voice)

Frank Welker
Frank Welker

Iceman / Bobby Drake (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1981)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Triumph of the Green Goblin
1981-09-12

Norman Osborne's plane crashes, causing him to change once again into the Green Goblin. He decides his new evil plan will be to pollute the resevoir with the same formula used to create him, thereby making an entire city of goblins.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 2: The Crime of All Centuries
1981-09-19

Kraven the Hunter captures Firestar and attempts to unleash a Dinosaur Army.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 3: The Fantastic Mr. Frump!
1981-09-26

Dr. Doom unwittingly enables an old man with powers which he uses to his bidding.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 4: Sunfire
1981-10-03

The team meets the Japanese superhero and battles his evil uncle's fire monster.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 5: Swarm
1981-10-10

When a meteor crashes to Earth mutating the inhabitants of a nearby bee hive, the result is Swarm. A living creature composed entirely of the bodies of thousands of bees, he is bent on turning Earth's entire population into humanoid bees.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 6: 7 Little Superheroes
1981-10-17

Captain America, Shanna the She-Devil, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Dr. Strange, and the Spider Friends face off against The Chameleon on Wolf Island.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 7: Video-Man
1981-10-24

Electro creates a super-villian named Video Man from an arcade game to undo the Spider-Friends.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 8: The Prison Plot
1981-10-31

Magneto holds a prison island hostage and will throw off the Earth's gravitational hold until the prison agrees with Magneto to release the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants even though the Spider-Friends are also his hostage.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 9: Spidey Goes Hollywood
1981-11-07

When unfortunate accidents stop movie-maker Sam Blockbuster from completing his Spider-Man movie, Mysterio is revealed as the source of all the previous mishaps during shooting. Mysterio blackmails Blockbuster into hiring the real Spider-Man to star in his own movie.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 10: The Vengeance of Loki!
1981-11-14

The Spider-Friends team up with Thor to stop Loki and his latest plot to destroy New York City with a defrosted Viking ship and the Viking that came with it.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 11: Knights and Demons
1981-11-21

The Spider-Friends and the Black Knight follow the evil sorcerer Mordred to the Land of Shades.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 12: Pawns of the Kingpin
1981-11-28

Dr. Faustus and The Kingpin use "Psycho-Disks" in order to mind control Captain America and Iceman into doing the Kingpin's bidding.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 13: The Quest of the Red Skull
1981-12-05

The Red Skull captures the Spider-Friends and Hiawatha Smith while trying to start World War 3.

Runtime: N/A min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1983)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Spider-Man Unmasked!
1983-09-17

While The Spider-Friends are vacationing, The Sandman shows up and discovers Spider-Man's true identity, but the Spider-Friends try to convince him that he's wrong.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 2: The Bride of Dracula!
1983-09-24

While at a dance, Angelica is lured outside by a stranger and hypnotized. The stranger takes her aboard his plane and they go to Transylvania, but not without Iceman and Spider-Man right behind them. The stranger is revealed to be Dracula. They get Angelica free, but still have to fight against Frankenstein and a werewolf.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 3: The Education of a Superhero
1983-10-01

The Gamesman has developed a machine that will hypnotize young people through video arcade machines. Through a glitch, caused by Gamesman's machine, in the arcade machine a young, nerdy teenager named Francis Byte was playing, Franis developed the ability to turn himself into a self proclaimed hero called Video Man. Unfortunately he doesn't know how to be a superhero. While battling Thee Gamesman, the Spider-Friends help Video Man out. But in the end, the best help is found at the mansion of Professor Charles Xavier.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 4: Attack of the Arachnoid
1983-10-08

A woman named Monica video taped a successful fight between the Spider-Friends and The Scorpion. Zoltan Amadaeus is collecting data on Spider-Man and plans to retain the powers of Spider-Man and use them for his own gain and framing the real Spider-Man. But problem's arise when the Zoltan's powers change him into a half man/half spider creature called The Arachnoid.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 5: The Origin of the Spider-Friends
1983-10-15

Stan Lee narrates how Spider-Man, Iceman and Firestar first joined forces to battle the Beetle, and become known as the Spider-Friends.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 6: Spidey Meets the Girl from Tomorrow
1983-10-22

Spider-Man meets whom he believes is the love of his life - an alien from the future named Ariel, whose spaceship crash-lands on earth. As Spidey tries to nurture his relationship with Ariel, Doctor Octopus steals the spaceship to carry out a plan to kidnap well-armed criminals from the future.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 7: The X-Men Adventure
1983-10-29

When Spider-Man is trying out the X-Men's Danger Room, things start to go wrong when a strange intruder named Cyberiad shows up. It turns out that he is Firestar's former boyfriend and he blames her for his current state. Since Cyberiad has control of the X-Men's mansion, can the X-Men succeed in defeating him?

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 8: Mission: Save the Guardstar
1983-11-05

The Spider-Friends are hired by the counter-terrorism agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to capture a mutant named Lightwave, who is said to be after the Guarstar satellite. Lightwave who turns out to be Aurora Dante, a half-sister of Iceman/Bobby Drake. The Spider-Friends and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents learn that Lightwave (whose mutant power is to control and manipulate light energy) is being controlled by someone else who is after the Guardstar.

Runtime: 24 min

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