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"Spidey Super Stories" is a live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series ''The Electric Company''. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played (always in costume) by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. It premiered during the premiere of ''The Electric Company's'' fourth (1974–1975) season, show 391. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities, although sometimes the crooks would commit more serious crimes such as assault or larceny. The cast of ''The Electric Company'' played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. In many of these sketches, in keeping with Stan Lee’s writing style, viewers were addressed as "true believers". Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons (having a similar role to Clarabell the Clown of Howdy Doody), in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker, even so much as when not doing something heroic, such as trying his hand at cooking, he was in costume and remarked "SUPER" at how his meal came out. Given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly. (Many times, the scene cut to a pre-drawn panel of Spidey using his web-shooters, with the caption "Take that!") The theme song that plays at the beginning and end of the shorts was written by Gary William Friedman. The lyrics are as follows: :''Spider-Man, where are you coming from?'' :''Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are!'' :''Spider-Man, you've got that Spidey touch'' :''Spider-Man, you are a web-slinging star!'' ==Episodes== Approximately one dozen "Spidey Super Stories" segments were produced during ''The Electric Company's'' 1974–1975 season, with another twelve or so during the 1975–1976 season, and an undetermined number during the series' final season. A 4-DVD boxed set was released by Shout! Factory and Sony BMG Music Entertainment on February 7, 2006, named ''The Best of Electric Company''. It featured 20 episodes from 1971–1977 (D4D 34121), three of which contained Spidey segments. A second 4-DVD boxed set with 20 shows from 1971–1976 was released on November 14, 2006 (82666-31014). Two of the episodes in this boxed set featured Spidey segments; however, in several of the other episodes, the Spider-Man segments were edited out to minimize the appearance of the character because of rights issues. Episode 60A, from season five, which featured a Spider-Man sketch as the sketch of the day, was altered drastically from the version that originally aired on television. On March 7, 2006, another DVD named ''The Best of the Best of Electric Company'', a truncated version of the volume-one boxed set, was released (DD 31006). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spidey Super Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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