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Spidey Super Stories (1974)
Spidey Super Stories (1974)
Overview
A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers." 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, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Viewer Rating
5.5
Overview
A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers." 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, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
This series is purely educational children's content focused on teaching literacy and basic moral lessons through simple superhero narratives. Its subject matter and solutions are entirely apolitical, aiming for broad appeal and fundamental learning.
The series features a visibly diverse cast, including established characters from various backgrounds, without explicitly recasting traditionally white roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral and positive tone, typical for children's programming, avoiding any critical portrayal of traditional identities or explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
Spidey Super Stories, a children's educational segment from the 1970s, does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focus was on basic vocabulary, reading skills, and simple superhero adventures, with no elements related to queer identity.
The series 'Spidey Super Stories' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The content is primarily focused on Spider-Man's adventures within an educational context, with no narrative elements related to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The series adapts established Marvel Comics characters, primarily Spider-Man and his rogues' gallery. All major characters, including Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, and various villains, retain their canonical genders from the source material.
The character of Spider-Man, canonically white in source material, was portrayed by a white actor (Danny Seagren) in this 1974 television series. No characters established as one race were depicted as a different race.
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