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| "Partners in Danger" | |
|---|---|
| Spider-Man (1994 TV Series) episodes | |
| Episode nos. | Season 4 Episodes 42-52 |
| Written by | John Semper Meg McLaughlin Mark Hoffmeier Virginia Roth |
| Production code | 311-318, 401-403 |
| Original air dates | Part 1: February 1, 1997 Part 2: February 8, 1997 Part 3: February 15, 1997 Part 4: February 22, 1997 Part 5: May 3, 1997 Part 6: May 10, 1997 Part 7: May 17, 1997 Part 8: July 12, 1997 Part 9: July 19, 1997 Part 10: July 26, 1997 Part 11: August 2, 1997 |
"Partners in Danger" was the name of the 11 part episode story arc in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, which consisted of the entire fourth season. During this Partners in Danger story arc, Black Cat is featured as an Anti-Hero, the season ended with Hobie Brown as the Prowler.
Guilty
[edit]Guilty is the first episode of the season, in which originally aired on February 1, 1997. It was the fourth episode to feature Tombstone.
Summary
[edit]When Robbie Robertson is framed for a crime he didn't commit, he is sentenced to fifteen years in the New York State Pen, but Kingpin uses his connections to re-sentence Robbie to Rooker's Island. Spider-Man and Jonah Jameson team up to clear Robbie's name, Spider-Man is able to discover Kingpin's involvement, and soon realises that Rooker's is where Richard Fisk had been issued in previous episodes.
When Robbie arrives in prison, he believes the presence of Richard is a coincidence, and is shocked to meet Tombstone as a second room mate. Jonah has also managed to gather an amount of evidence that proves Robbie's innocence, with Peter's help who proved that Robbie never fired a blaster. It is revealed that Richard had done Tombstone a favour by landing Robbie in jail, but when they plot to escape with Robbie in a helicopter, Spider-Man arrives to save Robbie. At the end of the episode, Tombstone and Fisk are transported back to Rooker's Island, whilst Robbie is released from prison.
Goofs
[edit]- The Blaster Jameson points at Spider-Man is the same one Robbie held in his hand. A few moments later Spider-Man hands Jameson the gun Robbie used and Jameson exclaims 'That's just like the blaster Robbie was holding...'
- There is no discernable way for Spider-Man to determine that the expensive computers in the basement belonged to the Kingpin.
Trivia
[edit]- This is Ned Leeds' first appearance in this show.
- At the end of this episode, Spider-Man states in his mind as he swings that what Robbie had said about Spider-Man being a real hero since he saved him from getting killed when the helicopter crashed would have resolved Spider-Man's inner conflict about Mary Jane's loss. But in the next episode, Spider-Man is still grieving about MJ being gone. Of course, normally, this is how a person should feel when they lost someone.
- This is Glory Grant's second appearance in the show since "Day of the Chameleon" and her last appearance as well.
- This is Tombstone's last appearance on the show.
- This is Randy Robertson and Mrs. Robertson's next appearance in the show since "Tombstone" and their last appearance.
- It is never explained what the thieves the gang Robbie looked like he was leading was doing.
- This is the second and last time Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson teamed up to do something in the series. The first was in The Sting of the Scorpion.
- Alfonso Ribeiro also voiced the Guard who helped Tombstone and Richard Fisk.
- Progeny, the password Spider Man uses is from the Latin word progenies.
- The prison numbers for Richard Fisk, Robbie, and Tombstone are 13171, 17101, and 12331 respectively.
- Rooker's Island is either a play on the real life Riker's Island or the Marvel Universe's Ryker's Island.
The Cat/The Black Cat
[edit]The Cat and The Black Cat is a double episode from the fourth season, it originally aired between February 8 and February 15, 1997.
Summary
[edit]Doctor Octopus and Anastasia Hardy are overheard bargaining by her daugher, Felicia. When Doc Ock threatens the pair, Spider-Man arrives and battles Ock. Kingpin later demands that the scientist capture Felicia in order to bribe her father, who had been kidnapped by the crime lord from his prison, into revealing the super soldier formula that created Captain America. It is revealed that Chameleon and Felicia's father, John Hardesky had been inprisoned in the same prison, S.H.I.E.L.D., managed by Nick Fury.
Dr. Herbert Landon has managed to recreate the super soldier formula. Kingpin uses it to transform Felicia Hardy into the Black Cat, however, John Hardesky breaks into Landon's lab and deletes the formula, infuriating Kingpin. Spider-Man catches the Black Cat robbing a Jewellry store for Kingpin. Black Cat convinces Spider-Man that she is on the right side, but holds his suspicions. S.H.I.E.L.D. organisation attempt to recapture Hardesky and inprison him, but Kingpin continue's to hold him hostage. At the end of the episode, Spider-Man is given the task of transporting John back to prison, as he suggests that because of his knowledge it is the correct decision. This upsets Felicia and her mother.
Trivia
[edit]- Because of Phillip Abbot's death Jack Angel took over the role of Nick Fury. Abbot's voice can still be heard in this episode in a flashback of "Day of the Chameleon".
- Even though this two-part episode introduces The Black Cat, she is not introduced until the next episode.
- This is the first appearance of John Hardesky.
- This is the episode where Felicia Hardy figures out who the Kingpin is.
- This episode introduces Captain America and the Red Skull.
- The Red Skull is first portrayed by David Warner in this episode and in the Skull's following appearances, he is portrayed by Earl Boen.
- The password Felicia enters on the keypad is '867'.
- At the beginning of the episode where the Black Cat attempts to steal the diamonds the clock reads 1:30 (or possibly 6:05).
- This is the last appearance of John Hardesky.
- In the comics, Spider-Man and the Black Cat know each others' secret identities whereas in the series, they never find out who they are. Though, Black Cat did call Spiderman "Parker" at one point in this episode, but it was obviously a mistake since she never hints to knowing of his secret identity after that.
- This episode marks the first appearance of the Black Cat.
- Jameson refers to Parker by his first name which is very unusual. Peter and Robbie both comment on this.
Goofs
[edit]- When Parker is talking to Robbie at the Bugle he says '...called herself the Black Cat.' But during their fight The Black Cat does not mention any name. Although when asked who she was she replied 'Just a stray black cat.'
The Return of Kraven
[edit]The Return of Kraven is the fourth episode of the fourth season, it originally aired on February 22, 1997.
Summary
[edit]Peter Parker is seen sitting in a giant table at Felicia's house, talking to Felicia Hardy and her mother, Anastasia, when they see Sergei Kravinoff breaking in. Peter rushes off and changes into Spider-Man and confronts Kraven. Kravinoff throws a table at Spider-Man and then Kravinoff defeats Spider-Man by wrapping him up in a rope. Kravinoff then leaves through a window. Spider-Man teams up with The Black Cat and as they hear a scream not too far away. They rush to the scene, but before they could confront the creature, he runs into Sergei Kravinoff and the two battle. The Black Cat comes, helping Spider-Man against Kraven. But Kraven gets into a forklift and pins Spider-Man to a pipe. Kraven knocks out Spider-Man with jungle dust. Then Kraven escapes. Time goes by as there have been reports about a monster who tried to attack the citizens. This public tension attracts the attention of Debra Whitman, who is trying to find some proof about the creature. Debra and Flash Thompson travel into the sewers and finds a trace of DNA and a few strands of hair from the monster.
Later Spider-Man confronts Kraven at Prospect Park and wraps him up in super-strong webbing made just for Kraven himself. Now that he has Kraven right where he wants him, the superhero asks the hunter why he is doing all this as the monster. Kraven tells Spider-Man he is strongly mistaken and he is not the monster - but he did create it and it destroyed Dr. Mariah Crawford. Then the Black Cat arrives, telling him that she, Debra Whitman, Flash Thompson and Dr. Curt Connors have looked up on the creature's DNA and it's female, and the monster is Dr. Mariah Crawford. Then Kraven tells them that while he and Dr. Crawford were still in Africa, Crawford was infected by a disease and the doctors told Sergei Kravinoff she couldn't be saved. But Kravinoff used the drug that Crawford used on him while he was hurt, which turned him into Kraven the Hunter. When they returned to New York, Crawford became a Beastial-like monster and was loose in New York. After Kraven explained everything, the three of them agreed to team up to stop Crawford, and Dr. Conners creates a formula to cure her.
When Dr. Crawford's monstrous form arrives at Prospect Park and begins hunting around, Spider-Man, The Black Cat and Kraven all restrain her in a surprise attack and give her the formula, which only gets her right in the middle between human and her monstrous form. Kraven and Crawford are happy to see each other again but Kraven asks Spider-Man and Black Cat if there is a serum which can cure her all the way. Spider-Man guesses the only person who can come up with that answer is Dr. Mariah Crawford herself. But Crawford refuses to become completely human again and wants to stay in her current form with Kraven. Then Kraven and Mariah leave.
Trivia
[edit]- This has been reviewed to have been the best and darkest episode of Season 4, due to Spider-Man's shining against The Black Cat and other disappointing emotions, such as Kraven's blaming himself for the monster's creation, created in Dr. Mariah Crawford.
- This episode is the last performance of Aunt May by Linda Gary, due to Gary's brain tumor death that happened not too long after her last recording. Gary was replaced by Julie Bennett in the role of Aunt May, starting from "The Return of the Green Goblin" to Aunt May's last appearance in the show, "The Return of Hydro-Man: Part Two."
- At the end of this episode Mariah Crawford's skin is darker then what it was in previous episodes.
Partners
[edit]Partners is the fifth episode of the Partners in Danger story arc, it originally aired on May 3, 1997.
Summary
[edit]Alistair Smythe captures the Black Cat and imprisons her under the behalf of his new employer, Alisha Silver, who needs to restore her father to adulthood, having Silvermane previously been transformed into a infant. Smythe uses Black Cat to bribe Spider-Man into retrieving either the Scorpion or the Vulture, in which could help restore Silvermane to adulthood. When Spider-Man locates Scorpion, who is on a mission to steal money, Smythe imprisones Spider-Man beside Black Cat, and attempts to experiment on Scorpion. Vulture, being an ally of Scorpion's tries to ruin the operation, and Vulture's DNA ends up being traded with Silvermane intead, with Silvermane insisting that he is too old for the experiment. At the end of the episode, Spider-Man and Black Cat break free and escape from the building, along with Alistair, Vulture, Scorpion, Silvermane, Alisha and Spencer Smythe, though Spencer is currently frozen in cryogenic suspension.
Goofs
[edit]- In a bit of a continuity blooper, this is the Vulture's first appearance since the 2nd Season finale, but in addition to his aging and de-aging, he was not shown mutating in and out of the Man-Spider, where he had originally inherited Spider-Man's mutation when he took his youth.
- Towards the end of the episode where Spider-Man wraps his web around Scorpion's tail, The Scorpions tail (void of any webbing)comes in from another angle and cuts Spider-Man's webbing near his wrists. How could Scorpion's tail move if it was tied down by webbing?
Trivia
[edit]- This episode marks Richard Moll's first portrayal of the Scorpion, replacing Martin Landau who played the Scorpion in his first appearances. Moll replaced Landau because Landau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 and was unavailable to play Scorpion in this series. Fans thought that Moll made a more threatening portrayal of the Scorpion than Landau.
- This episode is the first episode with Alistair Smythe not appearing in the same episode with the Kingpin, as Smythe is now working for Silvermane and since Smythe discovered that the Kingpin lied about the fate of Smythe's Father.
- This is the first episode where the Black Cat does not appear in the series as Felicia Hardy, despite the fact that there was a little reference about her real name about when the Cat spotted the fake Hardy truck. The next episodes where the Cat appears as Felicia and the Cat are "The Awakening", "The Wedding", and "The Return of Hydro-Man: Part One" and the Cat appears as herself only in "The Vampire Queen", "The Return of Hydro-Man: Part Two", "The Gauntlet of the Red Skull" and "Doom".
- This episode has no reference of Mary Jane being mentioned, even by Spider-Man (even though this recap of the episode states that Spider-Man is still grieving about her).
Cast
[edit]- Christopher Daniel Barnes — Spider-Man / Peter Parker
- Ed Asner — J. Jonah Jameson
- Roscoe Lee Browne — The Kingpin
- David Warner — Dr. Herbert Landon
- Gary Imhoff — Harry Osborn
- Rodney Saulsberry — Robbie Robertson
- Linda Gary — Aunt May
- Iona Morris — Martha Robertson
- Nick Jameson — Richard Fisk
- Alfonso Ribeiro — Randy Robertson
- Dorian Harewood — Tombstone
- Bob Bergen — Ned Leeds
- Nell Carter — Glory Grant
- Jennifer Hale — Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. — Dr. Octopus
- Jack Angel — Nick Fury
- Rachel Davies — Agent X
- John Phillip Law — The Cat
- Nita Talbot — Anastasia Hardy
- Steven Jay Blum — Brace Huntington
- Gregg Berger — Kraven the Hunter/Sergei Kravinoff
- Matthew Laborteaux — Flash Thompson
- Susan Beaubian — Calypso/Dr. Mariah Crawford
- Liz Georges — Debra Whitman
- Richard Moll — Mac Gargan/Scorpion
- Maxwell Caulfield — Alistair Smythe
- Alan Johnson
Ed Albert — Adrian Toomes - Joseph Campanella — Curt Connors
- Jeff Corey
Cannon Young
Townsend Coleman — Silvermane - Leigh-Allyn Baker — Alisha Silver
- Sandra Bernhard — Sara Baker