Spider-Man - Season 3

First aired: 3/22/1970 20 episodes

Episodes

1. The Winged Thing

Aired: 3/22/1970

Spidey discovers the bird-man Vulture robbing a millionaire's penthouse safe and unsuccessfully tries to stop the flying fiend.

2. Conner's Reptiles

Aired: 3/22/1970

Spidey swings to Florida again to battle a walking, thinking lizard. This time, the lizard is not a transformed Dr. Conner, but a reptile whose intelligence has been augmented in an experiment by Conner gone awry, and who has kidnaped Conner and holds the ill-fated scientist as captive at a Spanish fort.

3. Trouble With Snow

Aired: 3/29/1970

New York City children build a snowman with snow contaminated by trace chemicals from an industrial plant up the Hudson River, and a freak accident involving a broken electrical line hitting the snowman somehow brings the snowman to life.

4. Spiderman Vs. Desperado

Aired: 3/29/1970

Desperado, a cowboy criminal, lassos Spidey and begins a crime wave atop his electronic horse.

5. Sky Harbor

Aired: 4/5/1970

A German Baron utilizes a flying aircraft carrier to launch an attack on New York City with World War One-style fighter airplanes.

6. The Big Brainwasher

Aired: 4/5/1970

The Kingpin's latest scheme to control New York involves a machine that brainwashes city officials into doing as the commands.

7. The Vanishing Doctor Vespasian

Aired: 4/12/1970

Dr. Vespasian, a green-skinned, wrinkled scientist, concocts a drinkable invisibility formula and uses it on himself and his dog, Brutus.

8. The Scourge of the Scarf

Aired: 4/12/1970

From his vantage point atop a building, Spidey watches as crowds form long lines to attend Saturday night Broadway performances. To the panic of the mass of people, the Moon becomes a psychedelic pinwheel that fills the night sky and dizzies and renders everyone- including Spidey- unconscious.

9. Super Swami

Aired: 4/19/1970

Super Swami, an obese illusionist, seems to make the Brooklyn Bridge disappear piece by piece.

10. The Birth of Micro Man

Aired: 4/19/1970

Professor Pretories, the most diabolical mind ever known to science, escapes jail, and Peter unknowingly helps the convict by car-driving him, a hitchhiker, to his secret-laboratory hideout.

11. Knight Must Fall

Aired: 4/26/1970

Spidey jousts with a motorcycle-riding knight in armor who is robbing theatre box offices, armored trucks, and museum officials receiving a medieval artifact.

12. The Devious Dr. Dumpty

Aired: 4/26/1970

Dr. Dumpty, a corpulent jewel thief, attacks a parade with knock-out gas released from balloons, and he and his thugs, wearing gas masks, steal the jewels of actress Rachele Wells and abscond in a hot air balloon.

13. Up from Nowhere

Aired: 5/3/1970

The weird Dr. Atlantian rises out of the ocean near New York City in his hive-like machine, which derives its power from Lunar motion.

14. Rollarama

Aired: 5/10/1970

A remake of Season 2's "Vine", virtually identical in plot; the only difference is that instead of a giant plant threatening New York, the menace is a series of enormous, rolling pods that grow from boxes in a missing scientist's house.

15. Rhino

Aired: 5/17/1970

In a cheater story comprised of footage from both Rhino episodes from Season 1, the Rhino again steals gold shipments with which to build a 14 karat statue of himself.

16. The Madness of Mysterio

Aired: 5/17/1970

Spider-Man tussles once more with master-of-illusion Mysterio. This time, Mysterio causes Spidey to think that he has shrunk the web-swinger and placed him in a miniature amusement park.

17. Revolt in the Fifth Dimension

Aired: 5/24/1970

Luck, Suggestion and Determination must guide Spider-Man through this trip into the 5th dimension. Spider-Man finds himself face to face with The Skeletal Infinata.

18. Specialists and Slaves

Aired: 5/31/1970

An old enemy of Spidey's, a radiation specialist who once lifted Manhattan into the sky, has been released from jail and promptly revisits Manhattan's nuclear power plant, stuns the outdoor guards with his ray gun, and again commandeers the reactor.

19. Down to Earth

Aired: 6/7/1970

Jameson orders Peter to fly in an airplane with Daily Bugle pilot Osa Olsen to the North Pole to locate a fallen meteor with bizarre antennae, but a thunder-snowstorm cripples Parker and Olsen's airplane, and it crashes in a wasteland populated by a tribe of savages.

20. Trip to Tomorrow

Aired: 6/14/1970

A bolt of lightning breaks Spidey's web, causing him to fall into a boxcar at a rail yard. In the boxcar, Spidey meets a young runaway who plans to ride a freight train out of New York City and become "the Caped Protector of Podunk".