BW’s Daily Video> Spider-Man Vs. Child Abuse

From the Lost Media Wiki:

Spider-Man Safety Series is a line of direct-to-video animated educational tapes by Coronet/MTI Film & Video that were distributed by The Learning Company. Released in 1990, four separate videotapes were produced: Don’t Hide Abuse, Smart Kids Play it Safe, What To Do About Drugs and Where Do You Go for Help. Created to be ran in an elementary classroom setting, each copy came with a lesson plan for teachers to instruct their students with after watching.

The VHS release has long gone out of print, and due to being sold exclusively to schools, copies are difficult to obtain. Two out of the four episodes, Don’t Hide Abuse and What To Do About Drugs, have been uploaded online. No footage exists of the other two episodes. An official re-release is unlikely, as it would have to be cleared by Disney.

Lost Media Wiki user RogueKnite contacted the publisher of these videos and got this message in return

“We received your letter and did some research. It looks like Phoenix distributed these for a while and then withdrew them. These were produced by LCA as the “Spider-man Safety Series” and most LCA titles, including these, were acquired by FOX which then licensed them back to Phoenix. The FOX contract shows that FOX rights were due to expire in 2005, but since we never heard whether FOX renewed those rights, we don’t know the current status. The contract also shows that all distribution is subject to underlying rights belonging to MARVEL. Your letter stated there were 3 episodes when in fact there were 4. You overlooked “Where Do You Go for Help” We have 6,000+ VHS tapes not all of which are fully documented. That is a project I am working on presently. If I come across these I will let you know however I suggest you try Fox first.”

As of this writing only one other episode in this series, “What To Do About Drugs”, is available while “Smart Kids Play It Safe” and “Where Do You Go For Help” have not. I wonder if one of those lost ones explains how these kids knows Spider-Man well enough to call him for help? I’ll probably use the other found one for a future Daily Video.