Spider-Man may not have as many TV appearances as, say, Superman, but he has had a strong appearance, primarily in animation with only two live-action appearances, not counting movies. This series is about television intros after all. Notice the TV in the logo. One of those live-action shows was in Japan. The rest have been animated but for this multi-part look we will be including the live-action intros. Live-action doesn’t usually have as cool an intro as an animated show but they should get some acknowledgement when they do something with their clips and actor credits. We also won’t be doing the video games, or the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. The former are not TV shows and the latter is just the logo being pulled off-screen by Spidey’s webbing. That’s kind of weak. So three intros per part and it should take the next three installments.
Remember what makes a good intro to me. It has to give you just enough information to fall into the series. It doesn’t have to spell it outright, like most Filmation intros, but it does have to make it easy to just fall in no matter what episode you start on, and convince you to stay around and check it out, especially on the first episode. We’ve seen a number of ways to do this in past installments. Let’s see what each of the Spider-Man shows did with that, starting with the first three shows, including that one theme songs everybody knows, even if they never watched the 70’s cartoon.
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