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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Amazing
Spider-Man is the first live-action TV series based on the popular comic
book The Amazing Spider-Man, not counting his appearances on the
educational The Electric Company series, and was shown in the USA
between 1977-1979. It consisted of 13 episodes, which included a pilot
movie in the fall of 1977; five one-hour episodes in the spring of 1978;
six one hour episodes aired in the fall of 1979 and winter of 1979; and
then a final two-hour episode in the summer of 1979. Despite being
produced by Columbia Pictures Television[citation need (and the modern
Spider-Man movies being produced by Columbia Pictures), none of the
episodes are available on DVD but almost all of them have been released
on VHS. Despite the series being set in New York City, it was actually
filmed in Los Angeles.
