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The Amazing Spider-Man Night of the Clones (1977–1979) Online
1977–1979 Nicholas Hammond Robert F. Simon Chip Fields Fernando Lamas
Original Title :
Night of the Clones
Genre :
TV Episode / Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Year :
1977–1979
Directror :
Fernando Lamas
Cast :
Nicholas Hammond,Robert F. Simon,Chip Fields
Writer :
John W. Bloch
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
1h
Rating :
7.8/10

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The Amazing Spider-Man Night of the Clones (1977–1979) Online

Peter goes and takes photos of a scientist who has perfected the art of cloning, cloning a frog. At the same time, a member of a scientific group who gives scientific awards is killed. And the police get a of description of the person who did it and it's the scientist. But how could have been there when he was at the demonstration. Later another attempt is made on another member of the group but Spiderman saves her, but the woman refuses to implicate the scientist who called her to the meeting. Peter suspects that the motive is that the group refuses to honor the scientist's work. So he goes to see the head of the group who confirms Peter's suspicions that they refuse to honor him because they didn't want the scientist to clone a man which he did; himself. Who in turn after getting a sample of Spiderman's DNA clones him.
Episode cast overview:
Nicholas Hammond Nicholas Hammond - Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Robert F. Simon Robert F. Simon - J. Jonah Jameson
Chip Fields Chip Fields - Rita Conway
Michael Pataki Michael Pataki - Captain Barbera
Lloyd Bochner Lloyd Bochner - Dr. Moon
Morgan Fairchild Morgan Fairchild - Lisa Benson
Rick Traeger Rick Traeger - Dr. Reichman
Irene Tedrow Irene Tedrow - Aunt May
John Finnegan John Finnegan - Male Reporter
Karl Swenson Karl Swenson - Dr. Carl Benson
Vince Howard Vince Howard - Elevator Inspector
Alex Rodine Alex Rodine - Dr. Keyta
Debi Fries Debi Fries - Girl Reporter
Lawrence Levine Lawrence Levine - Desk Clerk (as Larry Levine)

For the first time since the pilot, Aunt May makes an appearance (this time played by a different actress)

The premise for this episode is loosely based on "The Amazing Spider-Man" #149.


User reviews

Reemiel

Reemiel

"Night of the Clones" is the fifth episode of the first season of The Amazing Spiderman.In it,we witness a science convention that is being held in New York City wherein a scientist named Mr. Moon is featured.Apparently,he has found a way to clone human beings.He made ways to eliminate committee members to ensure winning a Science award and managed to clone an evil twin and an evil Spiderman as well.Peter Parker,who was covering the event,tries to solve the mystery behind the events at the science convention.

This was definitely one of the better episodes of the TV show.The themes of genetic science and human cloning will definitely provide lots of interest to viewers today the same way they did back when the show was on air in the late 70's.It was original to see a live action superhero show provide interesting plot elements such as cloned evil counterparts of the superhero which Superman III took a nod from when it was shown in the 80's.Overall,it was a wonderful episode that a fan would surely enjoy.
Garne

Garne

Sadly, these old TV shows will always be compared,unfavourably to the later big screen films. Which is somewhat unfair as they didn't have anything like the big budget the films had, no cgi, no special effects really at all,except for some blue screen work as Spidey climbs or swings across the city.

Also, the stories were a bit bland too,and could have been put into any of the other detective/action character series that were on television at the time,this episode could have as easily been an episode of the A-Team or Bionic Woman,etc. At least in this story,Peter Parker does spend more airtime costumed as Spidey than in others. The actual story is one of the better ones with the then new and weird notion of human cloning,a standard plot device since but it was quite unusual when this was first aired.

Lloyd Bochner as usual is good value as the scientist and also his evil clone, Nicholas Hammond hampered by his share of poor dialogue does his best and as others have pointed out,always gave a sincere performance. This can't be said for Morgan Fairchild,who aside from her good looks is the poorest actor in this by a mile. Although her massive hair style gives even Hammond's large barnet a run for it's money!

More money spent could have made this a great series but as it stands,it's still quite entertaining and about the standard of shows at that period in American television's history.