Spider-Man (1977 film)

Spider-Man is a 1977 American made-for-television superhero film directed by E.W. Swackhamer and starring Nicholas Hammond and Thayer David. A television series, known as The Amazing Spider-Man, followed in 1978.

Plot
Peter Parker, a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle, is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has gained superpowers, such as super-strength, agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. When a mysterious Guru places people under mind-control to rob banks and threatens to have 10 New Yorkers commit suicide at his command unless the city pays him $50 million, Peter becomes the costumed hero Spider-Man to stop the crook's fiendish scheme. Things take a bad turn when the villian hypnotizes Peter Parker into being one of the ten people to jump off a building on command.

Cast

 * Nicholas Hammond – Spider-Man/Peter Parker
 * David White – J. Jonah Jameson
 * Michael Pataki – Captain Barbera
 * Hilly Hicks – Joe "Robbie" Robertson
 * Lisa Eilbacher – Judy Tyler
 * Jeff Donnell – Aunt May Parker
 * Robert Hastings – Monahan
 * Ivor Francis – Professor Noah Tyler
 * Thayer David – Edward Byron

Release
The film premiered on CBS on September 14, 1977. It was later shown theatrically overseas. It was then released on VHS in 1980.