The Amazing Spider-Man (1977-79). The Spider Who Loved Me.
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at the short-lived 1977 series starring Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker. You might know his alter-ego: Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man may be a somewhat ironic title but technically, this was actually a hit series in terms of ratings but was cut-short because only kids liked it. Also stars Chip Fields, Robert F Simon, Michael Pataki, and Ellen Bry.
I loved this Spiderman. This was during simpler times when all you needed for a successful TV show was a cool car, good looking women, a great theme tune, or a super hero.
Oh man, how I adored this show. This and the Incredible Hulk TV series was my childhood. Glorious.
LOKI...lol
Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man absolutely should've appeared in "No Way Home".
Absolutely. But Hammond appearing in Tarantino's _Once Upon A Time In Hollywood_ was a nice 2nd place win.
Disagree. No one would have known who we was and it would have been extremely distracting.
@@RighteousBrother Hammond would be perfect as an obscure easter egg. Long-time fans would know of it and bring attention to it, bringing in new fans into the lore. As silly as the tv show may have been, he was the first legitimately backed live-action Spider-Man before Tobey Maguire was one.
As one of those kids that watched it, I agree, that he should have had a cameo
@@RighteousBrother no offense but I let everyone know that Nicklaus Hammond is Peter Parker spiderman even My nieces and nephews and prove it by showing them on RUclips videos search even TheWebOfTheSpider
Nicholas Hammond I'm convinced was the inspiration for the look and tone of Peter Parker in the 90s Spiderman animated series.
Without a doubt
He was actually I remember reading one of the writers of the show talked about it but only because they didn't really had that many Peter Parker inspirations. at that time and even today Hammond played Peter Parker the most and he was charming and very good at the role
Never really noticed how much this shows Peter Parker looks almost identical to the 90’s animated Parker.Even his speech patterns are close to the same
That is because that cartoon character was based on Hammond’s Parker
They used Hammond Peter Parker because it was the most known at the time. he played the role the longest even by today no one played the character as long as he did and to give him credit he was actually very good
I'm an unabashed fan of the show and the star. Nick Hammond moved to Australia back in the 80's and far from trying to distance himself from this, talked about it whenever he was asked. He straight out loves the show.
Shame Sony didn't ask him to appear in no way home. They really should of used him for a cameo
It was a great show and was starting to really pick up in quality with Chinese web before they cancelled it too soon
Loved this Version of Spiderman.
Wish it had more episodes.
So do I too as well okay @queenglamazona8789.
This show is so underrated it's a shame I absolutely loved this as a kid and still do now. We need a blu ray HD release.
Awesome as always... got to see Nicholas Hammond recently at Supanova and his impersonation of Stan Lee is on point
This series was the first spider-man I ever saw. You can criticise it as much as you want (and I know stan Lee did even at the time of its release) but this was a massive part of my childhood
When episodes were webbed together to make movies, I was at the local Odeon, day one. In the Uk that's how we first saw this show - same with Battlestar Galactica. And I can't lie, I kinda loved 'em. So what if the suit was baggier than my nana's tights and the web shooter was obvs reversed. Who cared if the climbing looked hokey and the blue screen didn't help - this was my comic book hero on the big screen - there was nothing else like it. When I played Spiderman, my hands barely made contact with the wall, just like this guy. And when he fought ninjas, he was nimbler than Kwai Chang Caine, Grasshopper! I didn't expect the comic to translate to the screen, how could it? These movies were plenty good enough for me.
Eventually, it came around again, double billed with At the Earths Core... my favourite movies in the days before VHS... if they'd triple billed it with Daleks Invasion Earth 2150, I'd never have left the cinema
I loved this show as a kid…….70’s cheesiness and what a great costume!!!
The cartoon from the 90s sure seemed to pick this version of Peter Parker to emulate. That Peter looks exactly like this one, wardrobe without the suit and tie as well
The writers used Hammond version of Peter Parker because at that time he was most known for the role and even by today played the role the most and is very well liked
One of my most favorite shows from my childhood. ☺️
I was such a big fan this show and his comics when these came out. Such a shame they didn't stand behind it more; I would've loved to have seen a crossover with Bixby/Ferigno or even Reb Brown's Cap. I also think it's a shame they didn't realize the power of having kids as viewers; just gear commercial even slightly towards us and we would-ve nagged our parents into buying anything shown. And count me as one of those annoyed that my Spider-Man/Parker wasn' teven asked to cameo in No Way Home. I hope someone has Hammond as Spider-Man (or even just Parker) show up somewhere (even as a cartoon cameo), done respectfully, soon; none of us are getting younger.
I remember Spiderman Strikes Back being shown as part of a double feature at the cinema.
Just based on the clips, it seems like he has more chemistry with the secretary than with any of his actual love interests. If they'd been a little more daring, a bit of controversy might have been good for it. (Since onscreen interracial romances were still super rare at this time.)
Spiders not monogymose
There was one other live action Spider-Man in the 70's. The Electric Company on PBS had a series of Spider-Man vignette's.
There was also Japanese Spiderman,Where Spidey would fight Villians who grew Kaiju Sized with the Aid of a Giant Robot.
"Change Leopardon !"
I remember The Electric Company Spider man wouldn't talk but I still liked to see him.
My childhood memories came back to life with this one! This was one of my favorites and I remember being sad that it didn't last long
I grew up watching the Amazing Spider man and yes I loved it as a kid. I loved Wonder Woman and Incredible Hulk. Those were some great times in the 70's and 80's! Gen X here and proud!
The live-action 1970s Spider-Man I fondly remember was the one from skits on "The Electric Company", who only spoke in on-screen speech balloons (to teach viewers to read). He was even lower-budget, and his villains were jokey, absurd one-shots named after random vocabulary words, but I think the costume looked better than this one.
There was a tie-in comic for beginning readers that was a co-production of Marvel and the Children's Television Workshop, which was the source of the ridiculous yellow Thanos-Copter from the memes (recently seen in a cameo on "Loki").
that was my spider man too
Amazing, Stam. It is amazing to me that Larry Tate was replaced by another actor playing the same role, just like Darren Stevens.
Definitely wish this series was on longer I liked it a lot. Thanks for posting
Every 70's TV show needed a good 'hero looks in the mirror and sees a double of themselves behind them' moment. If only for the following seasons credits...
I don't care what anyone says - I love that costume, and want a decent figure release of a Nicholas Hammond Spidey figure! In the UK we had a thing called 'annuals' which were hardback once-a-year comic books with puzzles and photos and comic stuff, and the photographs from the live-action Spidey in the Spiderman annuals (just like with the Hulk annuals) seemed magical in an era which, if you weren't watching TV at _exactly_ the right time - meant you missed the entire TV series. In the UK 2 episodes of the show were edited together twice to make feature-length movies ('Spiderman Strikes Back' / 'Spiderman and the Dragon's Challenge'). On the VHS video of Spiderman Strikes Back, in the scene where he's giving that 'Basically I'm Spiderman' speech to Joanna Cameron and she gives him the 'Basically you're Spiderman' look, at the end of it, he suddenly stands up and answers the phone, problem is, they used a version with no phone ringing! It takes an incredibly dramatic speech from Nicholas Hammond, and then cuts right through it with a ghost phone-call! Talk about Spidey senses...
I’ve got this on a double bill vhs tape still - bargain bin at Woolworths !!! Epic
My reaction to this show as a kid was the same as when I encountered a particularly shit mall Santa Claus...pointing and shouting "That's not the real Spider-Man!" Why I called Santa Claus Spider-Man is a story for another time.
We want this as an official DVD release
Nice to see some of the videos we cleaned up and uploaded included here.
Yay finally a Hammond Spiderman overview.
Yes like you I recall watching this at the Cinema in the UK before it came to TV. which as you say was the trend at the time and repeated for more successful shows such as BSG and then Buck Rodgers.
I loved this show as a kid! I wish they would release this remastered on blu-ray.
Pretty sure it didn't catch on was not just because of his absent villains gallery it's because it didn't have his supporting cast of love interest and friends which made up the stories in the comics.
That logic is always so dumb, unless they were saving on costs. You couldn't do say Ock or Rhino but something with Chameleon, or Kraven or maybe Shocker could hve worked. No Kingpin or Silvermane too, shame
@@JoeChillton the stories in the 70s death of George Stacy death of Gwen Stacy Harry Osborne becoming a drug addiction was what distinguished Spiderman from the rest of the superheroes without it it would have been campy 60s Batman.
Wish they had attempted Kraven the Hunter, Or Electro on this Show. Or even the Lizard. It definitely could've used some Supervillains.
@@rossjones8426 I wouldn't have had Harry almost OD but something could have been adapted like George Stacy and Gwen.
Thing is though, the Hulk show didn't have any of the comic characters apart from Banner/Hulk and that caught on just fine so I don't see that as being a deal breaker. Unless more people associate Spidey with the villains, and the Hulk's selling point is just Hulk. Maybe, I dunno.
The theme to this song had me entranced as a kid. I'll never forget that saxophone!
Loved being a kid in these days. Got the best of both worlds (television and movie theater). Reading comicbooks and seeing them in live-action. Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, and Superman. S/O to 60s Batman, 70s Shazam, and The Flash 80s TV series.
I loved the show as a kid. It was just ahead of its time.
THIS SERIES...WITH NICHOLAS HAMMOND..IS TRUE JEWEL....OF ALLTIME 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤blessyou from.chile
Late 70s with The Hulk. Wonder Woman and Spider-Man was sooooo exciting as a 6 year old.
Great memories! I loved this show!!!
Hey there Stam. Woo hoo. Fantastic review. Your channel is like a breath of fresh air. It took me a while to recognise the actor and then you showed a shot of the Sound of Music. Who knew that Fredrick grew up to be a TV spiderman. I didn't but I do now. AWESOME. Thanks buddy. Yes I think Aunty's has a major problem for sure.
I remember this as a kid and we all loved watching it
Including my parents
Although I never knew about Aunt May's gambling problems 😀😀
I like the shoddy costume. Imagine something like that in a high budget well written production, that would be pretty sweet and refreshing these days after seeing one fancy costume after another.
It fitted with what a struggling student might actually be able to make, unlike the Stark tech suit he wears in the current movies
I never get how some hate the costume they keep bringing up the spiderman toby Maguire costume which looks way too expensive for a struggling college student to make and imo also had horrible eyes It looked too plastic.
This series is worth releasing in HD from the best available source material. I’ve only seen it in the longer movie versions. I do particularly like the episode with the gorgeous Joanna Cameron and with the bad guy being played by Robert Alda, the father of the actor Alan Alda from MASH fame. The best part of the series is definitely the lead actor and his portrayal of Peter Parker.
Joanna Cameron-Also known as Isis.
@@queenglamazona8789 such a beautiful actress
@@iakona23 Would you trade your wife in for her?
@@endwigast5212 I’m not married, but I find her to be a very appealing type of woman and I wish I knew more women like her in my personal life for sure. I saw her recently in an old episode of Colombo called “Negative Reaction” where she had a small role as the beautiful secretary to the Dick Van Dyke character who was the murderer of the episode. Great episode by the way.
Joanna Cameron also played Isis.
I LOVED THIS, age 3 when I saw it and the reruns. There was NOTHING like it at that time, everyone was amazed how they did what they did with FX back then, no computers, its Amazing, and I heard Nicholas Hammond who was Spidey appeared in the 1st Sam Raime Spider-Man movie in the floats scene I think, Heck, I was the student in it when Uncle Ben got shot. 🙂 Dont forget Spidey premiered in live action in the Electric Company TV shows before! I LOVED the costume, at the time wished he would take off the plastic boots to show the comic styled boots and wanted the white eyes like the comic BUT did like the insect Bug look of the silver eyes, as I got older and saw reruns, I began to LOVE the costume, it was so realistic to my child mind that he needed extra web shooter cartridges to refill or they would run out. I recall my Mom and Dad telling me that in the Spidey cartoon from the 1960s that was in reruns in the 70s and 80s that Peter Parker had a cold just like I did at the time which made me feel better and less alone 🙂 I ran to the TV every weekend hoping they would show a new episode since this was not on the schedule TV programs back in the day. Love it.
I love love love that 70s soundtrack. More of that please
"That's right Peter. I'm you and you're me and this is a gun." Sounds like the TV show predicted events in The Clone Wars and Peter's clone Ben Reilly wielding a gun. Also the subtitles replaced gun with God for some reason.
I'd think that was Kaine
@@JoeChillton I just remember the cover of Scarlet Spider with him blasting with an Uzi. It's like that old cover with Batman using a belt fed machine gun.
[ pointing Spider-Mans meme ]
Wow. I remember this, just barely though. Born in Dec of '75. I think I remember watching this on Saturday mornings when I was like 3 or 4.
I used to love this series as a kid. As an adult, I see the problems with it. It’s still holding place in my heart though. Nicholas Hammond, absolutely the best thing in the whole series and he should’ve been in Spider-Man: no Way home though I still love that movie.
I was 10 years old and loved spiderman! It we as cool for the 70s.
I loved watching this as a kid . It kick started my love of Comics 😎👍💯
I don't remember much, but I do remember they had a sort of "clone saga" episode where for some reason all clones came out evil.
I remember watching the "pilot" as a movie in theaters (even had a stamps album about it), then it came to tv and watch it again
The interesting thing about the costume I've noticed even as a kid when watching it is that I believe that the mask that Nicholas Hammond or his stuntman wore had zero "helmet padding", yet still looks effing great despite the fact it didn't have it.
Helmet padding wasn't a thing for Spideys back then.
On her majesty's spider service
Love that show...brings great memories 😀
I saw this when I was a kid. It was difficult back then though, because technically I was the remote (meaning I had to get up and change the channels) I didn't get to choose what we watched.
I enjoyed this show as a kid back them. They also had Reb Brown as Captain AMerica.
with the rebirth/resurgence of Spiderman in recent years, I'm really surprised Nicholas has not taken advantage of the hype by going on podcasts or comic cons??? After all, he was the 1st American to play the role!!!!
This was the only live action Spider-Man that existed and loved watching when I was a kid in the 90s. It's good for its time and I don't mind it now.
It was shite, but I loved it. It actually felt like real world super hero tv and it was awesome. That being said Japanese Spiderman is batshit crazy and fantastic! :)
It's actually the dead bugs getting in my hair; there's a better chance of that happening than the scenario you described. But hey, it's your show - and it's great!
Great video thank you kindly!:)
Nicholas Hammond played a love interest to Marcia Brady. He was Doug Simpson, the Big Man on Campus.
Another good review, thanks Stam
I love seeing that old 70's footage, such a beautiful time in history.
Use to love watching this as a kid in the mid 1980's
Fun fact: In Germany this series aired re-cut into TV movies.
In order to truly enjoy this show, I think one has to readjust for more of a lo-if Spider-Man. It’s rooted in the 70s, but Nicholas Hammond is great, a truly adult Peter Parker. I love it❤
I was one of those disappointed in Nicholas Hammond not appearing in “No Way Home”. However after watching this video I’m a little more miffed that Japanese Spider-Man was not included.
Japanese Spiderman was the Best.
My favorite Character on the Show was Amazoness.
In the UK I remember seeing this in the cinema in the 70's I think it was the pilot , then a second film in the cinema; later on the series aired at least partly on tv
Yes, me too. And Hammond's Spider-Man was a big pin-up on the back of an early issue of Starburst (#2?) in 1978. The second film was something to do with martial artists from Hong Kong. or something.
MY childhood Spider-Man!
(and Hulk!)
That's all we had in those days; a guy in a onesy!
(and a body builder with a can of green paint!)
🤔
OMG, I had no idea he was in The Sound Of Music!
Agreed, I had been commenting about wanting Nick in NWH since when rumors were still flying about whether the 3 modern actors were going to be all in it at once. But on the other hand, because of his advancing age, Nick now looks really like Stan (just add the mustache & shades) & it would be "amazing" seeing Stan Lee alive again doing cameos, except the joke is now that it is actually "Nick doing a cameo of a Stan Lee cameo because Nick never got his cameo & he could be doing all these cameos forever in future MCU for as long as Nick himself is alive, which would make him equally famous as the other 3, back in the limelight & get his dues to be recognized by younger audiences as the first live Peter+Spiderman combo in the US." I would also be up for getting this series upscaled by A.I., remove any film jitter & scratches & change framerate if necessary, as well as clean up the audio.
I remember this from BBC reruns in the late 80s/early 90s. I remember this spider-man doing a lot more karate than web-swinging. I also remember that he never scaled anything taller than four floors because the show was filmed in San Fransisco. I remember him throwing a web net at baddies and him breaking his arm after succumbing to a mind-control badge thingomy.
Love your vids Stam.
Thank you lou ferrigno the best live action hulk and to you Nicholas Hammond Spiderman for the memories I appreciate you both
it seems that both actors chose well bill bixby the role of dr banner was made a lot of how tragic it was to be the hulk and nicolas hammond traced well the personality of peter parker is very similar
Wow I remember this in the 80s. Looks like I caught the reruns. I wouldn't expect something like this to be big budget like Star Wars or Superman. It's the 70s technology wasn't really blowing up yet. The '80s is when things improved.
I love the show and I still watch it today.
I loved this show. I missed it when it debuted but it would come on TV during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in the 80`s.
Nicholas Hammond is by far the best Peter Parker of all time. I loved this series and the main theme. Regargint Spider Man´s costume, it´s simple and cool as it should be.
Spider-man from 1977 will always be my favorite I remembered it first aired on Thanksgiving holiday USA network
I have all the series on Dvd which was released for one time only..Lucky me.
That Peter Clone idea was something of a wasted Chameleon idea they coul have used
As someone who has loved that character for 48 years and learn to read with Spider-Man, Nicholas Hammond is the greatest live action Peter Parker ever, hands-down. He was the John Romita version, brought to life, and his commitment to that part and the quality of his acting still holds up. The show could be very cheesy and is obviously very dated, but stuntman Fred Waugh was actually a guy in a suit, clinging to the side of the Empire State building with a safety line attached to a reel. No blue screens, no special effects… And that is really cool to watch.
Loved this as a child. I'm pretty sure I only got to see a couple of tv movies however, I wasn't aware it ran for two seasons!
Sigh, even as a child I was underwhelmed by the swinging and webs.
I loved this show as a kid. My Dad would rent it for me from the video shop. I was convinced it would be possible to be Spider-Man because the effects were "real".
Me too! My Granny and grandad got a video player quite early (they were the type to try and one up the other folks in the council estate) and oddly the local barber shop rented vids and they had spiderman vids there i rented continually as it was one of the only things they had for kids
I don't think so it would be race mixing propaganda. Which is bad. And white people should only be kissing their own kind. It would be awkward. And unrealistic. Marvel was more of a realistic fantasy. Then DC comics. And it would have upset the ratings since TV programming wasn't as woke as today.
I was 5 when this came out and I was scared to death of Spider-Man. I hid in my room when it came on, lol.
Crazy enough, I loved The Hulk.
I saw the show as a kid, and it was good, cheesy fun! The theme songs were great, and I remember some of the Spider-Man stunt effects being pretty good. Hammond in No Way Home would have been great fun for fans like us!
It was an awesome love action attempt at adaption! I lived it and still do!
Loved this series growing up along with Batman 1960s and wonder woman and hulk 70s tv series they were fun to watch sure they weren't perfect but they had a charm and people forget special effects were not advanced back then but these shows were very popular.
I saw "Spiderman strikes back" in Cinema when i was 8 years old 😃👍
i remember seeing this spiderman in 1981 a the flicks in the uk
Like many of the comments before me , I have to agree that Nicholas Hammond should have a cameo in No Way Home or even any of the earlier Spider-Man films.
I wonder why the used "Rita" instead of Glory Grant, who had the same role in the comics as Jameson's secretary
They may not have known about her. I wouldn't be surprised if the writers had only passing familiarity with the comics.
Ohhh...now, if they'd brought back Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker to meet Christopher Reeves as Clark Kent...I mean who'd NEED to see them as superheroes? *swoon* They did do that in a comic book, one of those LIFE-magazine-sides issues that were released starting in 1976 with Spidey vs. Superman, and both vs. Lex Luthor & Doc Ock.
I have that Comicbook.
That one and the one where Doctor Doom and the Parasite Teamed Up Against Superman and Spiderman.
I love that the comic takes place in a world in which Spider-Man and Superman just both exist, with no need to explain.
Used to watch this back in the day. TV budgets were different back then. They had a stunt guy(s) who didn’t or left out acrobatics; flips, web swinging, heavy lifting, etc. Around the same time Captain America was on a few years before The Incredible Hulk series debuted. Stan Lee didn’t have creative control over Marvel TV series, animation, films and gaming before and after he passed away. Captain America, Dr. Strange and Hulk shows were also different from their comics.
They need to release this again. Loved watching it
Always a pleasure to see the great David White aka Larry Tate, never type cast and a complete new look!
I remember this show, trying to pass LA as NYC 😂. Absolutely ridiculous.
it was memorable this was brilliant spiderman
Sure. Used to watch it when I was a kid without knowing much about Spider-Man beforehand. Didn’t recall the same actor that played Larry Tate on Bewitched as the newspaper boss tough. Cool!😊
My favourite spider Man is Nicolas Hammond
If the show had a bigger budget it could of been just as successful as “ The Incredible Hulk “ series
I was a huge fan of The Incredible Hulk but only vaguely aware of the Spider-Man series. I recognized Nicholas Hammond more from The Martian Chronicles.