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- From: tcw@kepler.unh.edu (Timothy C Webb)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: OLD Spider-Man
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:13:58 GMT
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- In article <YORK.92Nov16145222@oakland-hills.lucid.com> York@Lucid.COM writes:
- >
- >It is also worth noting that Ralph Bakshi had a role in this series.
-
- Yes, he was the executive producer for the show's first season. For the
- second season, he was dropped (or he left, I'm not sure), so these shows are
- actually pretty different from the first season ones. The second season
- definitely wasn't as wierd, didn't incorporate a lot of fantasy elements, had
- some new music (the music from both seasons is fantastic!), and had slightly
- better animation (although it still used a lot of stock footage)
-
- >I found the show entertaining, but the budgets and production values
- >were quite low. They made lots of use of stock footage (a large
- >fraction of each episode is Spider Man swinging around the appropriate
- >background painting), including using weirdly-cut footage of Spider
- >Man crawling up a building to depict him crawling down a pipe (in the
- >episode where all of Manhattin is levitated, I think).
-
- There was definitely some wierd stuff going on! I wouldn't be surprised if
- the guys who worked on the first season of this show were all wasted when they
- did it!
- Speaking of this particular episode, the show often used basically the same
- concept for two or three episodes, giving them different names and making
- subtle changes in the plot. For example, there are at least three episodes
- with the main villain that appears in this particular one where Manhattan is
- levitated (entitled "Swing City" (appropriately enough, Spidey spends about
- half the episode swinging around as you describe above)). There is another
- episode called "Specialists and Slaves" where many of the same things happen,
- but a subplot is inserted, a few scenes changed, and the villian is given the
- name "The Radiation Specialist" (he has no name in "Swing City"). This was
- an easy way to make lots of shows dirt cheap!
-
- >Also, in one of the most amazing cost-cutting measures in all of
- >animationdom, one entire episode of the series is simply a Rocket
- >Robinhood episode re-worked to put Spider Man in the leading role.
- >Maybe you wondered why a this SF-related stuff didn't seem to make any
- >sense in the Spider Man universe?
-
- Ha! That's an interesting bit of trivia. I imagine a lot of the wierdness
- that went on in the show was Bakshi's doing.
-
- >[I thank which ever low-budget UHF station in Boston it was that used
- >to show all this stuff (chanel 27, maybe?)]
-
- It was on channel 25 many years back (before Fox took it over).
-
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