The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)
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| The Spectacular Spider-Man | |
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| Format | Animated series |
| Starring | Josh Keaton Peter MacNicol James Arnold Taylor Lacey Chabert Vanessa Marshall Deborah Strang Daran Norris Dee Bradley Baker Benjamin Diskin Cree Summer |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 13 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | The CW (Kids WB!) March 8, 2008 - May 17, 2008 The CW (The CW4Kids) May 24, 2008 - present |
| Original run | March 8, 2008 – present |
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| Preceded by | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series |
The Spectacular Spider-Man (entitled The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series) is the most recent American animated television series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It premiered on March 8, 2008[1] during the Kids' WB! programming block of The CW. It is currently airing on the Kids' WB! successor, The CW4Kids.
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[edit] Premise
The Spectacular Spider-Man is the latest in the line of "Spider-Man" animated programs, which include The Amazing Spider-Man (1967–69), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–3), Spider-Man (1994–8), and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003). The series is based on the original Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Dikto but references many other Spider-Man sources.[2] With Peter Parker starting off as a high school teenager; the new show has aspects of teenage angst in a modern world with modern social tools such as cell phones/text messaging along with pseudo-science to create the various super-villains. The program's tone is an odd combination of cartoon comedy and action cartoon drama. In early episodes, Peter Parker begins rethinking his identity as Spider-Man and takes a dark tone at moments, but quickly switches back to light hearted high school comedy and awkward situations. The genre seems similar to other modern action cartoons targeted at both young, new viewers, as well as an older, more sophisticated audience that enjoyed the original series. Other examples include The Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Transformers: Animated.
[edit] Plot
[edit] Season One
In the first season, it shows Spider-Man in his high school days and where he first gets a job at the Daily Bugle and meets Mary Jane Watson for the first time. He also meets his enemies for the first time ranging from Vulture, the Enforcers, Electro, Lizard, Sandman, Rhino, Hammerhead, Doctor Octopus, Black Cat, and Chameleon. Tombstone seems to serve as the primary villain of the series orchestrating some of the villains to distract Spider-Man from his criminal activities. Montana of the Enforcers becomes this show's version of the Shocker and Harry Osborn becomes the Green Goblin. Spider-Man gains a black suit until it takes control of him resulting in him getting rid of it, but the result causes it to turn Eddie Brock into Venom.
[edit] Production
The Spectacular Spider-Man was announced by Kids' WB Senior Vice President and General Manager Betsy McGowen and Sony Pictures Television Co-President Zack Van Amburg in March 2007. The series is produced by Culver Entertainment. It premiered on March 8, 2008 on Kids' WB on The CW, one week after it was originally scheduled to premiere.
According to writer Greg Weisman the timeline of the original Spider-Man story-arcs, which the series is based on, was condensed in order to move the series forward and include such classic and important characters such as Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, and Harry Osborn. The series is not in the same continuity as the film series. The series is structed in small, loose "arcs" for DVD releases - the first season consists of three such arcs, beginning with a four-episode arc that introduces the threat of the Big Man, a five-episode story centred on Norman Osborn's experiments and the villains they create, and a final four-part adventure featuring Spider-Man's symbiote costume.
The show's creators are striving to go for 65 episodes.
Hasbro released a toy line of action figures in March 2008.[3]
[edit] Characters
[edit] Crew
- Greg Weisman - Supervising Producer/Story Editor/Writer
- Victor Cook - Producer/Supervising Director
- Diane A Crea - Producer
- Eric Vesbit - Associate Producer
- John Diaz - Production Manager
- Kevin Hopps - Writer
- Matt Wayne - Writer
- Andrew Robinson - Writer
- Randy Jandt - Script Coordinator/Writer's Apprentice/Writer
- Jennifer Coyle - Director
- Sean Galloway - Lead Character Designer/ Character Supervisor
- Jaime Thomason - Voice Director
- Meagan Healy - Production Art Supervisor
- Brian G. Smith - Production Art Supervisor
- Ben Maloney - Production Assistant
- Sherrian Felix - Production Coordinator
- Jennifer L. Anderson - Post Production Assistant
- Sean Herbert - Animation Clerk
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Josh Keaton - Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Lacey Chabert[4] - Gwen Stacy
- James Arnold Taylor[5] - Harry Osborn
- Daran Norris[6] - J. Jonah Jameson, John Jameson
- Vanessa Marshall - Mary Jane Watson
[edit] Supporting cast
- Thom Adcox - Phineas Mason/Tinkerer
- Edward Asner - Uncle Ben
- Dee Bradley Baker[7] - Dr. Curt Connors/Lizard
- Irene Bedard - Jean DeWolff
- Jeff Bennett - Montana/Shocker[8]
- Xander Berkeley[9] - Quentin Beck
- Steven Blum[10] - Green Goblin[11], Chameleon, Dillbert Trilby
- Clancy Brown[12] - Alex O'Hirn/Rhino, Ox, Captain George Stacy
- Max Burkholder - Billy Connors
- Robert Costanzo - Sullivan Edwards
- Jim Cummings - Crusher Hogan
- Benjamin Diskin[13] - Eddie Brock/Venom
- Keith David - The Big Man (Episode one only)
- Grey DeLisle[14] - Sally Avril, Betty Brant[15]
- John DiMaggio - Flint Marko/Sandman, Hammerhead[16][17]
- Robert Englund[18] - Adrian Toomes/Vulture
- Crispin Freeman[19] - Max Dillon/Electro
- Elisa Gabrielli - Ashley Kafka
- Brian George - Aaron Warren
- Dorian Harewood - Doc Bromwell[20]
- Tricia Helfer[21] - Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
- Kelly Hu - Sha Shan Nguyen[22]
- Andrew Kishino[23] - Kenny "King" Kong, Ned Lee[24]
- Phil LaMarr - Robbie Robertson, Randy Robertson [25], Fancy Dan
- Joshua LeBar[26] - Flash Thompson
- Peter MacNicol[27] - Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
- Alan Rachins - Norman Osborn [28]
- Kevin Michael Richardson - L. Thompson Lincoln/Tombstone[29]
- Kath Soucie[30] - Martha Connors, Anna Watson
- Deborah Strang[31] - Aunt May
- Cree Summer - Glory Grant[32]
- James Arnold Taylor - Frederick Foswell
- Alanna Ubach[33] - Liz Allan
- B.J. Ward[34] - Mayor Waters
- Thomas F. Wilson[35] - Stan Carter
[edit] References
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: January 30, 2008
- ^ "The Inside Swing on 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' with producer & Writer Greg Weisman - Part 1": March 7, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Sunday, December 2, 2007
- ^ The Spectacular Spider-Man Movie Hub at Marvel.com - Lacey Chabert, Josh Keaton, Peter MacNicol, Vanessa Marshall, Victor Cook
- ^ animation resume
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Sunday, July 15, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Tuesday, August 14, 2007>
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Friday, February 1, 2008
- ^ Exclusive First Look: Spectacular Green Goblin - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, August 30, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, August 27, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Sunday, August 19, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, February 11, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Friday, August 10, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
- ^ Tricia Helfer Fan • your premier Tricia Helfer pit stop » Blog Archive » Tricia dons voice to CW’s ‘Spider-Man’ character!
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, January 31, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, October 8, 2007
- ^ Spider-Man Crawl Space Podcast
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, January 10, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Tuesday, September 4, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, August 27, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, August 23, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Thursday, September 20, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Saturday, August 18, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, January 7, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, August 13, 2007
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
- ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Monday, February 4, 2008
[edit] External links
- The Spectacular Spider-Man at the Internet Movie Database
- The Spectacular Spider-Man at TV.com
- The Spectacular Spider-Man at Marvel.com
- The Spectacular Spider-Man at Sony Pictures
- The Spectacular Spider-Man @ Marvel Animation Age
