Spider-Man 1967 - Everything There Is To Know (documentary) 

This animated show retains a certain charm. Still worth watching!

❤I don't care what people say about this show, I grew up watching it, i loved it then, I loved it now and will always love Spider-Man because this show ROCKS!!!!

Glad I've Got All 52 Episodes on DVDs.

Rip Paul soles the voice of Spider-Man in this show

You should be mentioning the KPM and JW Production Music underscore that everybody remembers from the cartoon....the music was outstanding.

excellent breakdown of my favorite spider-man series,despite the flaws-still watch it and love till this day at age 53-next year will be the 55th anniversary of the animated 67 series.

As a kid growing up in the sixties I and most of my friends loved this cartoon along with Roger Ramjet and Underdog who often fought Riff Raff while saving Sweet Polly Purebred. Throw in some Deputy Dawg and Tennessee Tuxedo and your Saturday morning was set. For most young boys then Spider Man was the pinnacle of your cartoon viewing especially when you got home from school to watch the Spider Man reruns at 4 pm, wow it just didn't get any better then when the iconic theme song clicked on so you and your buddies could settle in for 30 minutes of cartoon bliss.

Amazingly made video! Needs more views.

Born in 1968. I was 4 when I started watching this. As a child. This was unreal. The Bakshi backgrounds were amazing. I recognised the reuse of everything but this was 1973. It was amazing. I'm 53 now. Still absolutely love the Bakshi stuff. You did the most amazing job I've ever seen. I know you love this show as much as I did and still do. Thank you from Vancouver Canada. Cheers.

Great work, so very enjoyable! I was in grade school when this was in syndication. One of the greatest ways to avoid doing homework!

This is the most accurate recap of the series. Everything mentioned in the video from Spider-Man’s debut in the comics to the tv series that is an icon in its own right, is so well done and well researched. There’s one episode from season 3 that actually recycled a whole episode from season 2. The season 3 episode titled “Rollarama”, has a recycled plot from the season 2 episode called “Vine” whereas in both episodes, Spidey goes through a time travel machine in order to prevent destruction to New York from a much bigger threat or threats which are the gigantic vine plant in “Vine” and a giant boulder in “Rollarama”. They’re both the same episodes just with different dialogues and some of the same animation including some scenes that are way low budget and have less quality. Trust me, I’ve seen both of them.

Growing up, this was my first exposure to Spiderman. He has always been my favorite Marvel character and always had the coolest villains.

Damn dude! You poured your heart into this! Good shit ❤

After Ralph Bakshi headed out to Toronto to help finish some of the last few of Season Two of Rocket Robin Hood episodes, boy, could you notice the improvement of Season Two! The last few episodes were way better than the first half of that season! Like two different production companies.

Great documentary!

Great work, Thanks for making this! I bought the dvd release when in came out in the early 2000's. I was disappointed with the lack of extra features, especially anything about Paul Soles - the voice of Spiderman and Peter Parker. He was still alive and I even heard an interview on the radio with him about the show around the same time the dvd set came out. Surely they could have at least have had him doing an interview or something for the dvd. He seemed quite happy to talk about the show on the radio so I'm sure he would have loved to be interviewed on the dvd. What a missed opportunity. Surely it wouldn't have cost much to add an interview.

this is a really interesting topic. would really love more videos in this style. nice work dude!

Cool vid!🕸🕷

Excellent Video… I remember watching both rocket Robin Hood and Spider-Man in the earlys 70s. In Canada… The flint stones were on at noon and Spider-Man 12:30.Lunch hour was an hour and most days we got grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. We would race back to school and always miss the last 10 minutes of Spider-Man.

I never grew up with this show, but I absolutely love it. Anyway I’m able to just appreciate it for what it is

To a kid, this was the definitive Spider-Man! I most likely watch this in the early 70s in syndication, but I also had the comic books. I don't remember which came first for me, but I think it was the TV show. Loved the soundtrack. The wisecracks and remember fondly the "witching hour" episode as Halloween-ish and spooky... and that last trippy episode I kind of didn't get either. This series made Spiderman my favorite superhero! I didn't appreciate the limited animation at first, but it's part of the shows vibe.

Very well researched.

I loved the music. I wish the current movies had some of it.

I was hoping for a good breakdown of these years after Bakshi's spiderman appeared in another video I really liked and this was super good. NOICE work man!!

Man, i don't care if this show was cheap or badly received these days, Season 1 is awesome, Paul Soles IS Spider-Man's voice in my head and Ralph's stuff is pure art

Great video! It seems really well researched.

holy shit this is amazing!! i wish you had like 100k more subs or something your vid is great

Because of Canadian content laws, this show played a ton when I was a kid in the 80’s.

Excellent, well made video. I'm currently reading through all Spider-Man issues and watching the cartoons as they come up. Glad you did the research necessary to make this engaging. It shows. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends next?

I wish that the villains that were created for this TV series and other 'Spider-Man' TV series had been brought into the comics, and fleshed out! The same goes for characters created for other non-mainline-comic-book-universe Marvel material and non-mainline-comic-book-universe DC material. Imagine if villains created for the 1966 live-action 'Batman' TV series had gotten fleshed out and used in more serious DC material, like 'Batman: The Animated Series'!

I was born in 1960, so I'm older than Spidey.

Spiderman 1967 is the best.

Great in depth look into the show. 👍🏻 I dont care about season 2 &3. I just watch season 1. I think part of the reason they kept the personal stuff out of the first season was because they just wanted to focus on Spider-Man and the villains. Which worked out great for me because that's all I cared about as a kid. Wasn't interested in all the personal drama. It made Spider-Man seem older, and more work focused.

The 1967 Spider-Man cartoon turns 55! Debuted 4 years after the comic was published I remember watching the pilot on a 90s cartoon DVD as an extra feature I was instantly hooked, they literally made the comic come to life from the page It had an enormously low budget using stock footage and repeated frames of animation but got Marvel to start on television syndication on ABC along with other characters This cartoon in particular also gave birth to so many memes on the internet that would show up frequently in modern comics and future movies The theme song is still one of the most memorable ever and I'm very happy they used it several times from the 2002 film to Amazing 2 to the MCU version Most of the villains appear from the comic storylines apart from two new ones specifically created The theme song was composed by Paul Francis Webber and Robert Harris, and performed by Canadian musical groups “The Billy Van Singers” and “The Laurie Bower Singers” in Toronto I agree it was sad the studio closed up in 1968 and they filed for bankruptcy so it was handed over to Ralph Bakshi (the guy who did Lord of the Rings animated movie) Plus due to a rising tide of complaints against violent content on childrens television, the three networks each pledged to remove what could be viewed as offending content by the fall of 1969, and ultimately Spider-Man was pulled in August of that year Despite this, the show did return in March of 1970 to run the final season, and then was shipped off to syndication I'm very happy this show has still remained an integral part of tv as well as a big part of the culture of the character

5:18 that’s incredibly terrifying

I only watch the 1967 Spiderman animated series particularly season 1.I thought the music at times was very good at times throughout the series 😎 🎶

Composer Ray Ellis should have been mentioned along with the library music tracks used in seasons 2 and 3.

I wish they had the series reissued on Bluray. Disney is aweful!! And I wish the complete soundtrack music was available on CD in a box set.

2:20 I'm pretty sure that happens because in many anime, the animation is done first, then the voices are recorded.

Always loved the sound effects from the fighting when Spidey would throw a punch get bopped or fall . Noticed that Hannah Barbera (did i spell that right?) would use the same library of sounds i. I wonder how are what made those sounds.

Happy 55th Anniversary to Spider-Man '67!

Well, guess what, Eric: I'm good at doing an impression of 1967 Spider-Man because he's sounding like my daddy; the late Andrew Collyer who died in 2014 due to his deep voice and reminding me of a fun-loving uncle figure who fights off against the villains in his smooth-talking ways wherever he goes around New York City.

groovy

12:42 This is the only smoothest animation we see in the show

The only Spider man to me IS Paul Soles, all the other Spideys are complete *IMPOSTERS* ! *Points to all the other Spideys up to the present day*

😅😅😅well information good show you can 😅😅

This is outstanding. I'm curious, how long does it take to produce this?

Remember the networks` philosophy regarding cartoons at that time: why spend ANY money on material which would be watched once, maybe twice in summer reruns, by little kids at nine o`clock on a Saturday morning ONLY??? Sounds like smart thinking to me. I wouldn`t, if I had been a network boss!! This was before any recording technology.

👍👍👍

MJ said "Snap your map, gents?"

Save him for the specialist?

COULDN'T care less! Not "could care less!" Drives me nuts when people get that wrong.🙄 If you say you could care less, then you're actually saying you care.

Was an avid reader of the Spider-Man comic from 1966 when John Tomiþa took over. Loved the first season of the cartoon show, quickly lost interest in it when Ralph Bakshi took over in the 2nd season.

Yeah radiation,always a good way to get superpowers,plus covering your head with a skin tight sock which can help you breath well….no worries.