Category: Season 2

A high-level State Department official is robbed of a briefcase of top-secret material moments after stepping off of his plane, and the airport is quickly locked down. The Daily Bugle dispatches Peter to the scene, where he and other reporters are fed a cover story. One of Peter’s competitors from another paper, Julie Masters, snaps a photo of police swarming the luggage from the flight, which brings her to to their attention. It quickly becomes apparent that the secret material has left the airport, and the press is sent home without a story, though Peter’s Spidey-sense gives him an edge – and the “policemen” who noticed Julie taking pictures catch up with her to steal her camera, a robbery that Spider-Man is there to foil…and in any case, Julie had already swapped out the film. When her apartment is broken into, Julie and Peter are now more sure than ever that they’ve become part of a much bigger story. So big, in fact, that a visitor from the State Department drops by the Bugle offices to ask J. Jonah Jameson to stop Peter from reporting on it any further…but while Jameson can reassign Peter Parker to another story, he has no control over Spider-Man.

written by Howard Dimsdale
directed by Larry Stewart
music by Dana Kaproff

Cast: Nicholas Hammond (Peter Parker / Spider-Man), Robert F. Simon (J. Jonah Jameson), Chip Fields (Rita Conway), Ellen Bry (Julie Masters), Nicolas Coster (Andre), John Crawford (Evans), James Victor (Lt. Martinez), Michael Santiago (Carl), James Lemp (Henchman), Tony Miller (Jim McGann), John Dewey Carter (Airport Spokesperson), Don Gazzaniga (Police Officer)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Politician James Colbert is released from jail after serving time for violating campaign finance laws, and is greeted by his old friend (and campaign cohort) Rita Conway, who is now J. Jonah Jameson’s assistant at the Daily Bugle. She has managed to talk Jameson into meeting with Colbert, who has emerged from his sentence with a fresh zeal for prison reform, though Jameson is reluctant to give any preferential column space to Colbert’s new agenda. Almost immediately, however, a riot breaks out at the prison, and the convicts gain the upper hand over the guards. Colbert insists on negotiating with the two prisoners behind the riots, Kates and McTieg. He manages to bring the hostage situation to a bloodless end, but only after Spider-Man has already made his first appearance to capture one of the more violent prisoners trying to escape. Peter, assigned to cover the ongoing story, narrowly avoids an exploding bomb planted on the door of his apartment moments after Colbert calls to invite him to cover a concert given by Rita at the prison. Peter proceeds to the prison in the guide of Spider-Man, just in time to see Kates and McTieg escape under the cover of an explosion during the concert. Peter thinks that the escapes convicts and Colbert are plotting something that requires the three of them to be outside the prison walls – and whatever it is, Spider-Man will likely be the one who has to stop it.

teleplay by Gregory S. Dinallo
story by Brian McKay
directed by Tom Blank
music by Dana Kaproff

Cast: Nicholas Hammond (Peter Parker / Spider-Man), Robert F. Simon (J. Jonah Jameson), Chip Fields (Rita Conway), Ellen Bry (Julie Masters), William Smithers (James Colbert), Ramon Bieri (Kates), Andrew Robinson (McTieg), W.T. Zacha (Big Time), Paul Wexler (Prison Guard), Pat Corley (IFMM Receptionist), Fred Downs (Warden Ford)

LogBook entry by Earl Green