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3	''The Amazing Spider-Man'' was the first LiveActionAdaptation of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1977 to 1979, starting with a pilot movie titled simply ''Spider-Man'' and starring Nicholas Hammond as the web-slinger. Two pairs of episode were also released as ''Spider-Man Strikes Back'' in 1978 and ''Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge'' in 1981. Officially, this series takes place on Earth-730911 in the Marvel multiverse.
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5	Peter Parker is a photographer working his way through college, and during a science experiment is accidentally bitten by an irradiated spider. This bite grants him all the same powers as a spider, which he uses to become the crime fighter known as Spider-Man. The series goes for a more realistic route and has Spider-Man tackle ordinary criminals rather than supervillains.
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7	Not to be confused with the [[Series/SpiderManJapan Japanese tv series]] that aired a year after this.
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9	!!''The Amazing Spider-Man'' provides examples of:
10	* AdaptationalBadass: Peter's spider-sense is significantly more powerful here than in the comics, as [[AdaptationalSuperpowerChange instead of simply warning him of danger it now alerts him to any crimes near him and occasionally even several miles away]].
11	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The show features what is probably the happiest portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson ever, as he’s best friends with a Chinese spy.
12	* AdaptationDistillation: Here, Peter created the radioactive spider that gave him powers on his own.
13	* AdaptedOut: The only characters from the comic aside from Spider-Man himself to appear in the series are J. Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, Aunt May, and Farley Stillwell in a cameo role.
14	* AdaptationNameChange: Instead of Ben, Peter's uncle's first name is Max in this series.
15	* AgeLift: Peter was bitten by the spider while as a college student, instead of being a high school student. Robbie is much younger, being closer in age to Peter than Jameson and seems to be in his early 30s.
16	* CompilationMovie: The show's two two-part episodes, "The Deadly Dust" and "The Chinese Web", were both edited into movies, the former into ''Spider-Man Strikes Back'' and the latter into ''Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge''.
17	* ContinuityCameo: The episode "Wolfpack" features an appearance by a scientist with a nametag reading "Stillwell", alluding to Dr. Farley Stillwell, who in the comics was responsible for the creation of the villain Scorpion.
18	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Max Parker is completely absent from Spider-Man's origin story indicating that unlike Ben Parker he died of old age before the series began.
19	* DroppedAfterThePilot: Robbie Robertson makes no appearances outside of the pilot.
20	* {{Expy}}: Rita Conway for Glory Grant, and Doctor Moon for Miles Warren (the Jackal).
21	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: In "Night of the Clones" after Peter breaks his Errol Flynn -costume he was going to take into a costume party, he resorts to using his Spider-Man outfit himself.
22	* {{Leitmotif}}: Spider-Man has his own theme music, which frequently plays while he's spying on and fighting criminals.
23	* PilotMovie: The 1977 television film ''Spider-Man'' served as a pilot for this series.
24	* TrackingDevice: This series has the spider-tracers that Peter designed himself. As it is, Peter makes regular use of them.

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