Spiderman and His Amazing Friends

SPIDERMAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS
Made by: Marvel
Shown on: BBC
Years shown: 1981-86
Theme tune: “Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can/Look out, here comes the Spiderman!”

Based loosely on the original Marvel comics, and the seventies drama series starring Nick ‘Friedrich in The Sound of Music’ Hammond, this eighties kid-friendly cartoon series was a huge hit, and resulted in an army of small children, myself included, running around in red and blue Spiderman outfits. As the old legend goes, ordinary-joe Peter Parker, was bitten by a radioactive spider, and as a result he was able to turn into crime-fighting wunderkind, Spiderman, able to leap and spin webs just like a real arachnid, and defeat various ne’er-do-wells, such as the Green Goblin (not to be confused with the Green Goddess of TVAM fame.) And his wholesome girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson, was none the wiser. But in this eighties twist, Peter lived in a swish loft apartment with a couple of similarly freakish friends: Bobby Drake was a chisel-jawed hunk who turned into the ultra-cool Iceman, able to surf on the trail of ice he created; and Anjelica Jones was the feisty Firestar, who had pyromaniacal capabilities and spent a lot of the time melting the paths that Iceman had laid. Team-work or counter-productivity? It could make flat-sharing very difficult.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 6/10