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The shorts were narrated by various 'Electric Company' cast members, including the great Morgan Freeman, who starred as the show's character, The Easy Reader.' Instead, young viewers were prompted by word balloons to figure out what was going on. 'The Spidey Super Stories' shorts, like the rest of 'Electric Company' were aimed at getting kids reading.

He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.The first live-action Spider-Man series appeared not in the movies, and not on his own TV series, but as a segment on the PBS children's show 'The Electric Company' in the mid-1970s. 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, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as 'true believers.'

The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company.

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