Spider-Man: Where Crawls the Lizard

"Where Crawls the Lizard" is the title to the first vignette in the second two-story episode from season one of the animated superhero fantasy series Spider-Man. It was directed by Grant Simmons, Clyde Geronimi, Sid Marcus and Ray Patterson and written by Bill Danch, Al Bertino, Phil Babet, Dick Robbins and Dick Cassarino. It first aired on ABC on September 16th, 1967.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode is included on disc one of the Spider-Man: The '67 Collection DVD set.


 * First animated appearance of Doctor Curt Connors, aka, the Lizard.


 * First animated appearance of Martha Connors (referred to as Mrs. Connors in the episode, but identified as Martha in a note that Curt leaves for her). The Lizard appears next in episode 1x18A, "Fountain of Terror".


 * First animated appearance of Billy Connors.


 * This is the first episode of Spider-Man that takes place outside of New York City.


 * The Lizard is referred to as The Lizard Man in this episode. Also, the Connors family are identified by the surname Connor, rather than Connors.

Allusions

 * In Marvel Comics, Curt Connors (The Lizard), Martha Connors and Billy Connors were introduced in Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 1 #6, which was written by Stan Lee with illustrations by Steve Ditko. This episode loosely adapts the "Face-to-Face with... the Lizard!" story from that issue.