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"I'm you, and you're me, and this is a gun." A line as iconic as Citizen Kane's "Rosebud."

I like to think in spiderman no way home this version of peter came to the mcu and a 70 something year old peter parker was just wondering around New York confused

I love the fact that the "stolen plutonium" story only makes it to page 10 of the newspaper

I was 13 in 1977 and watched all these episodes on TV as they were aired, and loved them! Lots of swords and karate because that Kung-fu was all the rage in the late 1970s,. Also, that shot of Spiderman swinging between two buildings was an actual stuntman swinging on a rope between those buildings with no safety net!

This is exactly what I need right now. I've been in a hospital room all night taking care of someone, I'm tired and uncomfortable, and I'm super stressed. Thank you Austin, I'm sure I'll enjoy this greatly.

I saw the last film multiple times when I was a little kid - for some reason, family friends who babysitted me had a copy of it. It honestly feels like a total fever dream. I have very clear memories of Spidey in Hong Kong, but not much else! This was in the UK

“Im you, your me, and this is a gun” 💀

You had me at, *"I'm you, you're me, and this is a gun."*

"A film so laughably bad they tried to erase it from history" I seem to remember someone else doing this with a book.

I will say I love that you not only put a lot of effort into the editing, but to the costume and lighting for your talking head footage. Love your videos man!

I was just the right age to see the TV series that these movies were kitbashed from. Few things: the love interest in the second movie was played by Joanna Cameron, who was very familiar with superhero TV shows, being the lead in the Saturday morning superhero show Isis. If you go to 20:05, the army guy is being played by Ted Danson, who went on to Cheers, The Good Place, etc. And, the love interest in the third movie was played by a very young Rosalind Chao, who's been in many things, not least of which Star Trek (TNG and DS9) as Keiko O'Brien.

Two minutes into the video and i need to watch this movie trilogy IMMEDIATELY

I remember that version of Spiderman. My dad rented it on VHS at our town's video rental store. I liked it as a kid, because I really liked Spider Man back then. I also rented a VHS with episodes of the old animated cartoon show, the one from 1967. I also loved those. If you liked these, you should see the Roger Corman produced version of the Fantastic Four made in 1994

God dammit! I saw these on TV as a kid, my mom had seen them, and I loved them! They were wonderful crap. Exactly what "live action comic" means to me... along with 60s batman. When I tried to bring this show up in college when everyone was excited for the Toby Maguire iteration everyone thought I was nuts! When I asked my mom about it she had forgotten about them by then, so I've felt gaslit about it ever since especially when 5 years ago I tried finding reference online and it took 6 months of occasional scratching to prove to myself they were real, though the scenes I remember were not in the flick I finally found. Thank you for scratching this 35 yr old itch! They may have been made a decade before I saw em but they sure stuck with me!

Home radio devices were a hobby back in the day. There are still leftovers of the licensing industry for it. They actually reused most of the action shots in this. There are many scenes of crawling, swinging, and driving that crop up three or four times

17:22 You forgot to mention the scene, where the lady appears wearing a white bikini. The villain forces her to wear it, because in that way, he makes sure that she doesn´t hide any kind of guns. I love that scene.

These movies really feel like a live action version of the 70s comics, love it.

I totally would watch a multiverse Spider Man film with this Spider Man, Japanese Spider Man, and Italian Spider Man. Somebody please make this happen somehow......

9:10 "You're just gonna watch him do that?" Actually, yes. It's not every day you see a man crawl on the ceiling walls.

Austin's the only person that makes me want to watch the most random / bizarre / cheesy old movies.

I watched this series growing up. I was born in 78, and between this and Wonder Woman and the Hulk. I was a thrilled kid lol.

*Gets to the end* Phew “Don’t worry, the follow up flick is even weirder” Wait we’re half way through 😂

Austin always bringing us quality content on wildly fascinating obscure minutiae, and also holy beans that moustache is on point

I adored this show when I was a kid - we used to go to the local sports club to sit on lawn chairs and watch it. Now I have it on both VHS tape and DVD (I suspect, bootleg DVDs). I just wish Nicholas Hammond had been given a little cameo in the last Spider-Man film, that would have been perfect.

I grew up with this version of Spider-Man on VHS! For atlessed a Decade! This was MY Spider-Man

JoAnna Cameron was the lady (Gail) from the 2nd film, and she also starred in her own super hero tv series "The Secrets of Isis".

I’m not sure I could watch these films all the way through, but I could watch you talk for a loooong time. That ‘stache is legendary my dude.

5:26 with those top notch vfx they better call him Sliderman instead

Knowing Austin's track record with Spiderman, this guy will definitely be in the new Spiderverse film

Hey, I liked "The Dragon's Challenge" ("The Chinese Web" when it originally aired). I was 10 when the show came out so this was MY live action Spidey. I'm Asian too so it was cool to see on prime time TV. I actually got my mom to watch some of it with me and she never watched any of my weird shows with me.

This is the movie where Uncle Ben dies of disco fever, but it wasn’t. The Green Goblin replaced his heart medication with LSD…

Fun fact: In the first film, J. Jonah Jamison is played by David White, aka Darin's ridiculously insincere boss in the Bewitched TV series. You can cross that one off of your useless information bingo card.

Wasn’t expecting Ted Danson in the 3rd film

I am old enough to have seen this TV show. Fortunately (until today) I was able to block remembering it from my mind. Thanks, Austin! BTW-that music was in just about every late 70's dramatic/adventure show. I think there was some sort of law it had to be used or something.

Not gonna lie, this guy has the mustache of one of those villians you would see in video games.

I remember this one. The web is basically a rope that wound up to any pipes spidey found.

Honestly wild how they managed to have absolutely none of the iconic Spider-Man villains

In the half second before you said "charming niece" my brain flashed the thought "oh don't be that guy's wife"

Oddly enough, I do remember seeing something about this series (aside from the "and this is a gun" clip). A while ago I got a giant book called Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe, and several sections of it are about these old shows. At the time I questioned why it didn't mention the more recent stuff at the time, especially since the date listed for copyright was 2012, but after looking it up, it was originally published in *2001*. They must've updated it a little after because they talk about the 2002 Sam Raimi film and a creative team signing on for the sequel, as well as the short-lived Neil Patrick Harris animated series being in production. It's honestly fascinating to see a book like this that was released at a time before Iron Man, the Fantastic Four films, and even stuff like Daredevil and X2: X-Men United

I think your costume is pretty frikkin rad! And wait -- you're telling me the third movie had no villains with swords?! What a let-down.

Fun facts, Gale in movie two is played by JoAnna Cameron, who is best known for playing the first TV superheroine to headline her own show in the Secrets of Isis, which was produced along with the 1970s Shazam (Captain Marvel) tv series, even did a crossover episode. Also, in movie three Min's niece is played by Rosalind Chao who played Keiko O'Brien in Star Trek TNG and DS9

Austin talking about this random old low budget superhero movie trilogy? YES PLEASE!

Cool video!...I'd never heard of these films or the live action series and I was a kid in the 70s!.....After watching your video I looked up the Wikipedia article about the first movie and it states that in an overseas release, the movie actually earned $9 million at the box office! (which - given what the film looks like - I find really hard to believe). As far as ignoring the movie's existence, I am guessing that Marvel admires these early Spiderman films as much as Lucas admires the "Star Wars Holiday Special".

I had all 3 of these on VHS back in the day. The series was fine for what it was and the era it was made in. I'm amazed that they were never released on DVD!

The entire segment for the second movie I just kept thinking about breaking bad “Mista white”

"Are you on drugs?" Hahahahahaha! Cheesy 70s TV is so much fun. I'm not sure if I saw these back in the day. But the Spidey actor looks vaguely familiar. (I can't believe we're supposed to believe he's a teenager. LOL!)

That's right peter I'm you You're me and this is a gun

The third film looked so much more exciting in stills in a two page spread coverage, in a german Bravo magazine to the young me back in the eighties, yet I've never managed to watch it ... yet. Thank you for putting this review together!

I remember in the late 80s the Spiderman 77 📼 VHS tape were 99 cents in the bargain bin as a child.

I watched this show when it first aired in 1977. But it's probably been at least 40 years since I've seen it. But as I recall, Peter Parker was a college student, possibly a graduate student. He was definitely not in high school. I recall that I liked the 1960s animated series more than this one. The guy who did the voice in the animated series, Paulk Soles, also did Bruce Banner in the animated Hulk series. They gave him a role as Stanley, the pizza guy in The Incredible Hulk. I think it's a shame he never got to cameo in a Spider-Man film before he died in 2021. Nicholas Hammond is still with us (he had a cameo as a director in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). He should get to cameo in Secret Wars or some other Marvel multiverse movie. It's funny, but the role most people will first associate with Nicholas Hammond is The Sound Of Music. But to me, he is, first and foremost, the actor who played the second live-action Spider-Man. The first live-action Spider-Man appeared on the Electric Company (co-starring with Morgan Freeman). But I have no idea who was inside the costume.

Very glad someone finally did a breakdown of these so I don't have to watch them myself lol

I remember the VHS for these at the video store as a kid, they came in larger white plastic boxes and no one ever rented them out

I watched this series on TV in the early 80's. It was awful but compelling. LOL I recognise the girl in the first movie, I don't know where from though. I love the Japanese live action series from the 70's, the effects and the fight scene choreography was spot on. It was practical effects, not camera effects. (it's a shame nearly every episode ended EXACTLY the same, spiderman vs a mecha-monster) I hope you are keeping well, Austin. Great review.

That mustache is awesome! :)

Spider-Queen sounds like a really dope member of your team 👍🏼

dude your videos are always so good dude

The spiderman suit in these movies looks more realistic. If some teenage kid decided to be a superhero, that's exactly how crappy his costume would look

Thanks a lot for this video! I had these movies VHS and watched them on repeat on family holidays, this video was a treat. I definitely dont remember them being this bad though 😂 i remember the students making an atomic bomb remarkably well

It's always a good day when you upload, Austin! Praying for you and your heart today.

I remember watching these when I was little. I had totally forgotten about them until watching this video!

I should call my congressman and ask for a loan of plutonium. My justification will be that the Carter Administration loaned Spiderman's professor plutonium lol 😂

Ok, this is insane. I'm originally from Israel and all my life I had this vague memory of seeing a spider-man live action film when I was like 5 or 6. When the Sam Raimi movie came out I said to my friends that there was another live action spider-man and they all went 'no there wasn't'. Nobody remembered it but me! They all thought I somehow mis-remembered the animated series from the 70s (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends), but I insisted it was live action. Anyway, we had better things to argue about so I just let it go (although I never doubted my memory of it) and I forgot about it for 20 years. Today KZfaq suggested this video and I was screaming at the screen THAT'S IT! THAT'S THE CRAP SPIDER MAN MOVIE I REMEMBER WATHCING AS A KID! None of those friends from 20 years ago is in my life anymore, so if one of them happens to see this comment - fuck you, I knew I was right! 😆

I owned "the dragons challenge" on VHS as a kid, used to watch it constantly, loved it, always wondered why nobody knew about the Spiderman movie that came out before the raimi movies

Well, after seeing Austin in a Spider-Man costume I need a full film of him playing an older Peter Parker!

(Sigh) Yes I'm old and yes THIS is my Spider-Man and all those shows I grew up with, lol. But to us, even though we wanted some actual super-villains, this was actually a cool show. Of course we also sat there in our bell-bottoms next to our lava lamps thinking we were cool, so to each their own. But I gotta say that even though I was doubtful he'd show up, Hammond not being in No Way Home was a big disappointment. Now check out Clutch Cargo.

How could I be so foolish as to think Austin was gonna spit a hot take on the Raimi films!?

This is just the pinnacle of both cinema and television all-together👌👍

Stuntman Fred Waugh had tremendous balls of steel doing that always reused web swinging scene between buildings sans CGI back in the day. His daring stunt in the Dragon's challenge movie also deserves more respect where he is actually scaling that skyscraper dozens of floors up in a flimsy Spidey suit.

Any news on Atlas?

I recall watching the first movie back in the day, and the only thing that stood out, from memory, was how Jonah suddenly claimed that Spider Man was a menace, for no apparent reason. At least, I think it was that movie. I'd hate to think there was another.

Stan Lee was the one that wanted the tv series buried. He hated the show calling it "Juvenile". I had like 4 episodes of the show on a VHS toe my mom recorded off TV when I was a kid. A few years ago, I stumbled across a bootleg copy of the complete series (burned on to DVRs) at Dallas Fan Expo. It's currently in my collection purely for nostalgia reasons.

This was the first ever Spider-Man I was introduced with by my dad when I was around 4 and it’s actually go this incredibly goofy charm to it that’s a ton of fun, as a spidey fan, I’d love a blu ray or dvd box set of the series, I think u can only get the vhs tapes of the movies in the uk

7:36 its a 2-stroke moped not a string trimmer, remember - this was shot in the 70s...

This man’s mustache is getting out of hand

Spider AUSTIN!!

Commenting to boost the vid, love your stuff, hope everything is going well!

I watched at least one of these when i was little. Thanks for the new episode!

Back then you watched it for free and if you didn't like it you could change the channel. Now nothing is free and you might as well watch it you paid for it.

I'm glad you explained the plot for the last movie because I watched it a few hours ago on KZfaq and still didn't fully understand it lol

I think I saw this on cable back in the 90's. I started to think it was a fever dream.

Peter is supposed to be a college grad student, not a high school student. The show made that very clear.

I was born in 77, i remember these films being shown in the early 80s on sundays in the afternoon right after cartoons ended. These were a big deal for kids and comicbook collectors alike back then

When this tv series aired the local cable companies ditched the show after the first episode. Thanks for covering this one... totally forgot until I saw this. lolz

Wow, how did I sit through this thing when I was a kid? We rented it on VHS back when you could rent the VCR to watch it on. haha.

I’m totally down with Austin’s new niche of spotlighting low-budget trash to piggyback off blockbuster trash.

Oh, my God, this unlocked an ancient memory. I saw at least the first movie on the Sci-Fi Channel in the 90s (while waiting for the much better Incredible Hulk movies to come on), and I've more or less given up trying to convince people with less nerdy childhoods that it happened. If anything, you have undersold the amount of cheese.

As a kid, I distinctly remembered seeing part of at least one of those movies a handful of times but whenever I mentioned or asked about it, literally everybody around me argued that it never existed. SWEET VINDICATION AT LAST!

Nicholas Hammond was my live action Spider-Man when i was a kid:-)

This is maybe the 3rd video I've seen telling me about that 70s series/film, and I literally forget it exists every time; until I see it again. Like I'm not allowed to remember it, lol. Amazing viedeo.

I saw all three on the big screen in Australia and I loved them. Absolutely superb at the time. To this day, it's the only live action Spider-Man that isn't CGI, but an actual stunt man on buildings.

Yelp 1977, I was a 5yr and had the Spiderman 12inch tall doll . It came with the cloth jumpsuit, and red hook and line ( web string ). I'd along with my youg mother and siblings watched Spiderman on TV. It was a movie that came on TV as special. However I seem to recall it coming on television on Saturdays. ...? I still unto this very day remember, my dad bringing me home that Spiderman figure in 1978. I miss my parents, and this video shows you're a true comic book historian . Time stamped 5:24am (6-19-23)💯💙👍

I saw one of these once when I was about six, so when the first Raimi movie came out, all the press around it was about how this was the first ever live-action Spider-Man adaptation, and I was like no, there was another... Or was there? Did I imagine it?

Nice video as always Austin.

We’ve already met spider-punk, now brace yourself for spider-funk! Every time he makes an entrance you hear the music for a short while.

I had Strikes Back and The Dragon's Challenge on VHS. Loved 'em probably my earliest experience with the character.

I had these movies on VHS about 20 years ago and I loved them ! Along with the animates Spider-Man series !

I saw these as a kid early 80's they were brilliant to watch this video brought back fond memories.

I never forgot about this I used to see it on Saturday afternoons when they would show it on TV 📺

I saw these three movies at the cinema when I was little. I still have some old VHS copies. I only saw the tv series in the early 90's.