![]() ![]() He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly. The show holds a special place for comics fans, of course, because it gave us the cult-fave Marvel series Spidey Super Stories, which was published from 1974 to 1982 outlasting the program’s first run by about five years. 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. 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 petty criminal activities. ![]() 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. A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. ![]()
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