

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. These stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities (such as burglary or assault). Spidey Super Stories premiered during The Electric Company’s fourth season (1974 – 1975).


Spider-Man was played (always in costume) by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children’s Television Workshop free of charge. Spidey Super Stories was a live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children’s television series The Electric Company.
